Hello all,
For some reason, my Galaxy s with froyo does not start anymore since this morning. It stays on the start up window, "GALAXY S, GT-9000 SAMSUNG" all the time. Perhaps it is installing an update. i do not know as i have not downloaded anything.
What are the steps for fixing this if it stays all the time.
Should i do a manufactyre reboot? if so, how to do this?
Thanks for your help
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i take it you are on a stock samsung rom ??
if so boot into recovery menu, Holding volume up button + home button + power button all at the same time
this should bring up a menu with the option to do a factory reset. navigate it using volume up and down. and home button to select
you will lose all your data !! but this might fix the problem.
if not report back and we will consider some other options
this is strange.. 2 days ago my phone started experiencing similar things. I have stock UK rom, unlocked, no rooting, everything official, no damage..
I pulled the battery out, and it did it again. What i did in the end is just leave it there, and it eventually switched on. What could be causing the slowdown?
Still blocked on start up window
i did the rebood
vol up + home + power
wiped the memory and factory reset
and when i restart it still stays on the first window (at least 1 hr now)..
any other suggestions?
thx
Same story here, stock UK rom...no rooting etc. Has happened to me in the past. Luckily the factory reset from recovery mode had worked.
Phone back to normal now, still not very reassuring with others similar stories.
Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm no expert myself.
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I would flash a new custom rom
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No hacks no cracks then its under warranty Samsung Service centre .
If the fault is hardware then custom rom may not help at all .
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Sorry friends, I am a newbee and seems I have done a stupid thing on the first hour I got my phone. [It should be reported to the Guinness World Records!]
I tried to check all the combinations of different keys pressed together. The one that got me stuck was – Volume Up + Volume Down + Power. What happens?
The screen turns all green but doesn't freeze. That means, the phone is not bricked but something happened to the display.
I still hear that it works playing the starting music. When I press power to close it, I try to guess where is the place of "Power Off" on the screen, I press it and the phone plays the "Good Bye" music and closes.
If I remove the battery, put it again and press Power, it enters again into a "greenish display" state.
Somebody can help me with any solution to get out of this situation?
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These are the details of my phone:
Galaxy S 16Gb unlocked branded from Vodafone
PDA: I9000XXJF3
PHONE: I9000XXJF3
CSC: I9000VODJE4
I bought it from a seller through AMAZON UK a month ago shipped to an address of a friend in London and got it only today. So it will be impossible to return it back and difficult to arrange with Samsung UK support the sending of the device to fix it. The warranty is original Samsung Europe for 24 months.
So, I rely only on you!!!
roby5167 said:
Sorry friends, I am a newbee and seems I have done a stupid thing on the first hour I got my phone. [It should be reported to the Guinness World Records!]
I tried to check all the combinations of different keys pressed together. The one that got me stuck was – Volume Up + Volume Down + Power. What happens?
The screen turns all green but doesn't freeze. That means, the phone is not bricked but something happened to the display.
I still hear that it works playing the starting music. When I press power to close it, I try to guess where is the place of "Power Off" on the screen, I press it and the phone plays the "Good Bye" music and closes.
If I remove the battery, put it again and press Power, it enters again into a "greenish display" state.
Somebody can help me with any solution to get out of this situation?
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These are the details of my phone:
Galaxy S 16Gb unlocked branded from Vodafone
PDA: I9000XXJF3
PHONE: I9000XXJF3
CSC: I9000VODJE4
I bought it from a seller through AMAZON UK a month ago shipped to an address of a friend in London and got it only today. So it will be impossible to return it back and difficult to arrange with Samsung UK support the sending of the device to fix it. The warranty is original Samsung Europe for 24 months.
So, I rely only on you!!!
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It seems that it's CHRISTMAS time now..... I will wait till tomorrow, until the last traces of the hangover faded away....
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2011
Roby
Can you get the phone into download mode? (volume down, home + power). If you can you can try reflashing the firmware through odin. You could also try taking the battery out and leaving it awhile, but if I'm honest I have never heard of this problem before so am only suggesting the methods I would try. Otherwise give samsung a call and get them to sort it, I would imagine they'll be ok... Good luck!!
nagrom78 said:
Can you get the phone into download mode? (volume down, home + power). If you can you can try reflashing the firmware through odin. You could also try taking the battery out and leaving it awhile, but if I'm honest I have never heard of this problem before so am only suggesting the methods I would try. Otherwise give samsung a call and get them to sort it, I would imagine they'll be ok... Good luck!!
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Thanks Nagrom78 for your efforts to help me.
I have tried what you have suggested and with no success. I fill in my fingers that it continued to work for a while and seems it is waiting for an input but I don't know the sequel of the keys and which keys I have to press.
I have also tried to do a Factory Reset to resolve the problem. Have you tried to do things blindfolded? It's like working in total "blindness". The phone shows a bright blank green screen and you have to guess what has been written so you could carry out the instructions it gives.
I followed the "Step by Step Instructions to Restore the Galaxy S Factory Setting", as following:
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1.Turn the device off, or if the device is halting, you can remove the battery and put it back again.
2.Simultaneously, hold the volume down button and press the power button.
3.Menu will pop-out containing the option Fastbook, Recovery, Clear Storage, and Simlock.
4.In this case choose Clear Storage by pressing the Volume Down button.
5.Then press and release the power button.
6.Here you need to confirm your decision, to choose YES press Volume Up button or NO by pressing down button.
Choosing YES will erase all data including apps and games installed; if you choose YES then the erasing process will start. After erasing process finish, the phone will automatically reboot and turn back on with default factory setting.
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…. But it didn't does anything. When the phone is supposed to start the process I hear [and fill a vibration] but after waiting more than 20 minutes seeing no reboot, nothing at all, I closed the phone! I suspect they skipped a step in the instructions or I have waited a too short time.
By the way, do you know how long should take the restoring process?
This is the last try before sending back to support
This is my last try before sending the phone back for support.
Somebody has a brilliant suggestion to fix the problem?
Does somebody know the email support address of Samsung UK?
I believe it should be: "[email protected]".
Roby
From what you say I guess you didnt try odin yet.by pressing power+down+home then it should go in download mode and let you do the work with odin.so download odin,open it in the pc,press the buttons on phone and connect the usb.if you see yellow in odin then its connected to the phone.if it connected you can probably fix it...
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tackygr said:
From what you say I guess you didnt try odin yet.by pressing power+down+home then it should go in download mode and let you do the work with odin.so download odin,open it in the pc,press the buttons on phone and connect the usb.if you see yellow in odin then its connected to the phone.if it connected you can probably fix it...
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Read my answer # 4
What you're describing isn't what I've heard of before. Take a video or a photo of what's happening?
What did you do to the phone?
Going into download and flashing the phone should fix it I guess.
Serikiito said:
What you're describing isn't what I've heard of before. Take a video or a photo of what's happening?
What did you do to the phone?
Going into download and flashing the phone should fix it I guess.
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It seems you haven't read all my explanations. Never mind I"ll repeat them shortly, I know you want to help me:
I go into download mode (volume down, home + power). I hear the phone works (the vibration is on) but I don't see anything. I see only a bright blank green screen. It's like been blindfolded! I don't know the sequel of the keys and which keys I have to press to pass all the process (including Odin that I haven't yet installed). I have to guess what instructions I get. I don't even know where in the screen I have to press!
I suspect I have done a short circuit of the screen and I"ll have to send it back to Samsung Support.
Roby
galaxy i9000 on froyo, rooted, one click lag fix.
out of the blue, whilst playing my gameboid emulator, phone started vibrating and rebooted. now i can not get into any of my phones data or files, all i get is a black screen, quick glimpse of my homescreen (correct times and up to date messages being received) more vibrating, then another black screen with more vibrating and a quick glimpse of my homescreen. this process continues in a loop for as long as it wants, or until i take my battery out.
my phone was one of the unfortunate bunch that got dispatched from orange that can't access recovery mode.
don't really want to send it back to orange because its rooted, so just wondering if there is any way of doing a factory reset, or any other solution to the problem would be highly appreciated.
thanks, tom.
please help i really dont want to send it back to orange
I would reinstall the stock firmware. I mean do you have a custom rom in your phone as this is all happening? If so, reinstall that rom. But which ever you have, get into download mode by one of these two methods:
Turn off your phone, hold volume down, home button, and vomlume button all at once and at the same time.
Or
Take your battery out, hold volume down, home button, and power then reinsert the battery.
What you are trying to get is a yellow android that's digging. Once/if you get into download mode, use Odin to flash the stock firmware or any custom rom that is Odin compatiable.
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but he doesnt have the 3 button combo.........
anyway there is a way to fix the 3 button combo, put it in the search bar.
if you wanna do a hard reset and see if that clears the problem type into the dialler *2767*3855#
ah i see. still worth a shot though. my other SGS phone (vibrant) had recovery disabled, but i could get into download mode by taking the battery out and reinserting it while holding volume down, home button, and power button.
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JUST FLASH NEW ROM VIA ODIN YOUR PROBLEM WILL BE short out..........................if I really help u plz click on thanks meter
My phone was working just fine till today morning my phone hung up. As a general response I pressed the power key to lock it. Nothing happened. Nothing. So I waited it out. Soon the phone was back but the power key became totally dead. It wasn't locking the screen. I used the Screen lock app on emanoN rom v4 to lock the phone and it was working. The screen was getting locked. Figuring this must be some freak bug I tool out the battery and restarted the phone. Same problem except now even simply pressing and not long pressing the lock key would prompt the shut down menu. If ignored the phone just casually restarts. This is annoying because if out of reflex i press the power key , my phone will restart. Now, sometimes the power key does do it's job of simply locking and unlocking the phone. But sometimes it just restarts the phone.
I thought this was a problem with the ROM and so i shifted to godell's MORe ROM. Same problem. Now I've shifted to fresh stock 2.3.6 flashed using Odin and I'm still having the same problem. Pressing power does not lock and instead prompts the shut down/restart menu. and Sometimes the phone just restarts at random . Please help me fix this.
I'm going to go for a full downgrade to 2.3.3 [Since my 2.3.6 upgrade just flashed the MODEM*.md5 and CODE*.md5 files]
But before that.. Why is this happening? Is there any fix?
Thanks!
I have completely reflashed to gingerbread 2.3.3 using odin and problem persists.
I do not think this is a hardware issue,because the button's reactivity is just fine. It's just the action that it does after the keyPress.
Your power key problem might be a hardware issue... :| How old is your phone? You might have used it too much. My friends galaxy mini- the volume up button doesnt work because he used it too much.
It's about an year old.. I'd say 10-11 months or so..
I got a captivate, over a year old, never had a problem been through many flashes and custom roms etc....
Well it was actually running stock rom (froyo) for a while and suddenly the power button stopped working and the phone automatically booted when the battery was inserted. I read about the camera trick, took a picture and pressed the button a few times and it started working again. A few days later the button stopped responding and also it boots with the battery automatically again but this time the camera trick doesn't work (tried for a while many times), I did the factory update to gingerbread just to try that for the heck of it and still nothing. any ideas, suggestions, or other advice??
I think you have a problem with motherboard. Even the power button is jammed, it won't turn on the device as soon as you put the battery in.
I had same problem with PC and came out the motherboard had problem.
Same problem as well. Just started yesterday/today
Could it be software?
I'm running hacksung v16/17
I tried doing data/cache/system/dalvik reset and then reinstall, but it hasn't changed anything.
I might do an ODIN restore but I thought it was hardware.
Its hardware..check out mobiletechvideos.com they offer a power button replacement service.
sent mine put for the same issue, got it back in a week, works prefect now.
power button not working
... that's a hardware issue ... or so i read
you can take it apart and clean it you find instructions online
or you can use apps (which allow you to use the volume buttons to wake the screen)
i use MIUI .. it has a built in function (to use the volume buttons to wake the screen)
Time to get a new phone. I wouldn't waste money trying to repair it, something else will break and then what? Take a backup of your apps and data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193057
Have you tried using odin 1 click to restore back to stock? That worked for me.
I just posted my solution here. See if it works for you, too.
I had just installed the latest ics fw on my note previously running gingerbread and never had a problem. After i downloaded the 316mb update( approx size, don't remember the actual size) and installed it the phone was on the packet installation screen with a bar on the bottom. The bar filled up in half an hour and i kept waiting for another hour but nothing happened. After that i shut down my phone and restarted it again. It showed up the galaxy note n-7000 screen and then the android bot with diamond on the screen for a couple of seconds and then the screen turned black. Then i took out the battery and tried to restart the phone again but to no avail. All it shows is the galaxy note screen and then a black screen. I have never modded my phone and it was absolutely stock. What is wrong with this phone, and any chance i could fix it up myself rather than going to the service center because i am out of city for a month and need my phone for work real bad. Thanks in advance for any help provided.
PS : Tried the home button + volume down button and power button trick that does bring me to a caution screen of installing custom OS.
PSS : And now when i start up the phone with charger plugged in it just keep displaying the battery on the screen.
hitanshubhalla said:
I had just installed the latest ics fw on my note previously running gingerbread and never had a problem. After i downloaded the 316mb update( approx size, don't remember the actual size) and installed it the phone was on the packet installation screen with a bar on the bottom. The bar filled up in half an hour and i kept waiting for another hour but nothing happened. After that i shut down my phone and restarted it again. It showed up the galaxy note n-7000 screen and then the android bot with diamond on the screen for a couple of seconds and then the screen turned black. Then i took out the battery and tried to restart the phone again but to no avail. All it shows is the galaxy note screen and then a black screen. I have never modded my phone and it was absolutely stock. What is wrong with this phone, and any chance i could fix it up myself rather than going to the service center because i am out of city for a month and need my phone for work real bad. Thanks in advance for any help provided.
PS : Tried the home button + volume down button and power button trick that does bring me to a caution screen of installing custom OS.
PSS : And now when i start up the phone with charger plugged in it just keep displaying the battery on the screen.
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how u are using three button technique. first press volume up then home button and then power button all one by one as mentioned in the same order then just hold three till u reach boot menu.
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Tried it again thrice again exactly in the same order you asked to but same thing happens. The galaxy note n-7000 screen flashes twice and then the android bot with blue ball/diamond for couple of seconds and the screen goes blank.
Though i can access the download menu by pressing volume down + home button + power button
try instal new rom using odin and download menu.....have u tried the same by removing battery also.
What Rom where you on before this problem happened? Were you rooted?
Best to follow this to the letter
Go into download mode.
Pc odin stock rom from www.sammobile.com for your countries phone with pit file for your phone.
Exact way is in dr Ketans thread in sticky section of development.
Do not do factory reset or wipe data on ICS period
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