I just bought a Galaxy S8 online, no apparent damage or even scratches, but it arrived with 0% battery and connecting it to a charger, at first, brought up the charging "ring" with lightning bolt, but no numbers or other indications that it's charging. After about 15-20 seconds it would go black, then back to the same screen. I tried to do a hard reset but that just made it bring up the first boot screen that says "Galaxy" in the middle and "powered by Android" below. This screen is now flashing on for half a second, going black and repeating about a 2-second loop. It also vibrates each time. I think there's supposed to be an LED indicating it's charging, but if so, mine's not coming on
Return or try replacing the battery.
now its not showing anything i think i over charged it gonna take apart now
You can't over charge it. If the battery is dead it will not boot even with the charger; insufficient power.
well it wa stuck on charge and flashing white and now dead to rights no lights or nothing lol
Battery failure if you're lucky.
Return it if possible.
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My wife submerged her 8x. Since there's no way to quickly pull the battery, the phone vibrated until the battery died. After letting it dry out, it is currently "boot looping":
Upon pluging in the power cable, the device vibrates one time, then displays the battery charging symbol and then a solid red led to indicate charging.
After anywhere from 1 to 30 seconds, the phone displays the HTC splash screen and then the T-Mobile splash screen. The led is red and blinking, indicating a low and discharging battery.
The cycle eventually starts over, presumably after the battery dies.
I've tried a hard factory reset. The device shows two moving gears as if it's working and then the cycle starts again.
Is there any thing else I should try? In any case, I'm hoping roms for USA are released so i can try the unbranding procedures, but in the mean time I'm up for just about anything. I have an 8x myself so I may be willing to temporarily swap parts in order to discover the damaged component, but I'm hoping I can find any direct fixes first. Normally I'd just get rid of the thing for parts if I thought the water damage was the actual cause, but since there are so many known boot loop issue, I wonder if the underlying cause is the discharged battery.
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My wife submerged her 8x. Since there's no way to quickly pull the battery, the phone vibrated until the battery died. After letting it dry out, it is currently "boot looping":
Upon pluging in the power cable, the device vibrates one time, then displays the battery charging symbol and then a solid red led to indicate charging.
After anywhere from 1 to 30 seconds, the phone displays the HTC splash screen and then the T-Mobile splash screen. The led is red and blinking, indicating a low and discharging battery.
The cycle eventually starts over, presumably after the battery dies.
I've tried a hard factory reset. The device shows two moving gears as if it's working and then the cycle starts again.
Is there any thing else I should try? In any case, I'm hoping roms for USA are released so i can try the unbranding procedures, but in the mean time I'm up for just about anything. I have an 8x myself so I may be willing to temporarily swap parts in order to discover the damaged component, but I'm hoping I can find any direct fixes first. Normally I'd just get rid of the thing for parts if I thought the water damage was the actual cause, but since there are so many known boot loop issue, I wonder if the underlying cause is the discharged battery.
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I had the same issue with the one i bought. i had to end up taking the rear shell off and disconnect the battery for a minute.
Here's my little story. I dropped my N5 and cracked the screen. It worked, but I wanted it to be pretty again. So I bought a screen/case and proceeded to do the swap. I watched several videos, read guides, etc and followed them step-by-step. After it was done, I was surprised how smoothly everything went. I then went to power it up and got nothing. I checked all the cable connections, reseated them, and still got nothing. I put everything back with the cracked screen. Still nothing. I check the cables carefully, there are no cracks or breaks in them. I left it on the charger all night and the next day, checking periodically, still nothing. I checked the battery connector with a multimeter, and it was getting a reading off it, so the thing must be receiving power, right? Anyway, I gave up for a few days, busy with the rest of life.
I came back to it one day, plugged it into the charger and this time I got the red blinking light. I searched around, and that seems to indicate the battery had lost it's charge completely. Again I charged it overnight, still nothing. I got adventurous and removed the battery and tried powering it with just the power cable plugged in. This time it displayed the charge full battery/lightning icon. Success! I hit power and it starts to boot, displays the Google logo, then shut down after maybe five seconds. So, it must be getting power through the system from the USB port. The mainboard/cpu/screen works, it's able to start booting. It even boots to the bootloader, keys work there.
Again I turned to the problem being the battery. I picked up another, thinking perhaps mine had gone bad somehow even though I never had a bit of trouble out of it (about 1.5 years old). I played with it some more, with either battery inside, it doesn't do anything. Without a battery, it starts to boot but gives up. Hoping I could get something from the bootloader, I plugged it into my PC, but the USB port doesn't seem to provide enough juice to get it back to the bootloader with no battery.
Finally, during one of my tests, I plugged in the battery while it had the charging cable in. Then it popped up the battery charging animation. Exciting! It must be successfully charging, now. Previously, it didn't display anything when I charged it for many hours. Now it's been charging about six hours. The battery animation still shows it filling from the bottom, usually it would blink the animation from like halfway to the top, right? I hold the power button, and the battery animation disappears and it goes dead yet again. I run the same tests, battery in, battery out and get the same results. It boots when there's no battery and the charging cable in, nothing when the battery is in with or without the charging cable.
So, here I am stuck again. Any other ideas? Thanks.
Hey guys,
a few days ago I accidentally dropped an HTC One E8 in water and obviously it doesn't work anymore. Before buying a new one I wanted to ask, if some of our "HTC experts" may have suggestions on what else I could try before giving up.
The situation: I dropped it in water, didn't turn it off (dumb, I know) and it worked for around 10 minutes until it powered off. I left it in rice for a day and it didn't turn on or charge. At this point I nearly gave up.
I left it for in rice (about 48 hours) and - the orange led was flashing while charging. Even the screen turned on and it showed a charging symbol first and after a few seconds it showed a red circle and a white exclamation mark. After some time I could power it on and the touchscreen worked and I could use it, but it still was around 1%/0%. The screen flickered, but it was usable. I wanted to plug it in my computer then to rescue some data, but 5 seconds after I took it off power (to switch from the wall charger to my PC) it died.
Now I tried it to power it on for like 2 days, but with no charger connected nothing happens and when I connect the charger, the orange led is on constantly. I tried power/volume- and power/volume+, but nothing happens. Not even the charging indicator comes up, the screen is completely dead.
Are there any steps to try before giving up? By the way I don't want to disassemble it
Thanks in advance
Hello all,
on friday night my Samsung S6 Duos just died and it seems I'm not able to revive it...
it was running out of charge (was at 5-10% battery)...then suddenly the screen went black and the red led was blinking every second or so...
I thought it was just hung like it happened sometimes, so I tried to reset it pressing vol down+power or home+power buttons, but nothing happened....screen still black and red led flashing....
so I thought it was some kind of battery problem...tried to recharge but nothing changed...no battery icon on screen and red led flashing (not solid as when it is charging...)...
so, since battery cannot be pulled off I waited till complete discharge hoping that would reset it....waited till led was not flashing anymore, then I tried to recharge but nothing is happening....led not becoming red as when it's charing, nor display is showing battery charging....
actually nothing happens, I've tried to leave it charging several hours, both with power cord and with wireless charget, but it just doesn't charge and doesn't power up anymore...also tried to connect it to PC but nothing happens...
do you think that opening it and trying to disconnect and reconnect battery could solve? or maybe changing battery?
or is it probably a fault in the motherboard?
I just want to recover photos and other data saved on its memory but if it's motherborard issue I think everything's lost...right? 'cause memory chips are on it...or am I wrong?
thanks for any hints or suggestions on how to recover if possible...
I just bought a Galaxy S8 online, no apparent damage or even scratches, but it arrived with 0% battery and connecting it to a charger, at first, brought up the charging "ring" with lightning bolt, but no numbers or other indications that it's charging. After about 15-20 seconds it would go black, then back to the same screen. I tried to do a hard reset but that just made it bring up the first boot screen that says "Galaxy" in the middle and "powered by Android" below. This screen is now flashing on for half a second, going black and repeating about a 2-second loop. It also vibrates each time. I think there's supposed to be an LED indicating it's charging, but if so, mine's not coming on
IS it BRIKED i got it from a kid that said it was dead
i hope this is aloud here!
so my s8 + blinks when unplugged and does not turn red to indicate charging when plugged in.only lighting bolt with full ring is this fixable