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[Q] Possible nuked phone?

So my Galaxy S seems to have **** the bed 7 days to the minute.
Working all fine today, restarted the phone as it seemed a little slower than usual.
Upon restart doesn't go any further than the animated splash screen, problem is my phone is one that doesn't have the 3 button combo. Awesome.
Only things I have done to it is the one click root and one click lag fix, no other flashing.
I've tried taking the battery out for about 10 minutes, starting with no sim, with sim, with charger, withough charger all to the same effect.
Am I SOL and have to send this back or are there any other tricks to try?
I think I'll be sticking with vanilla if I can get it replaced.
E: I should say, after about 10 minutes from sitting at the samsung splash screen, the screen turns off and the two touch sensative buttons light up and don't turn off.

Do you have an external memory card installed? If so remove that and try again.

Hey.
Sorry for your phone dying. I am able to get my phone into recovery and download mode by letting it charge up. The goal is to make it warm to touch. This is the only way I can get it going. I've also used a hairdryer with success. Might as well try everything right?

you can still take it back to the store and claim warranty on it

Tehpriest said:
Do you have an external memory card installed? If so remove that and try again.
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No memory card installed
MomijiTMO said:
Hey.
Sorry for your phone dying. I am able to get my phone into recovery and download mode by letting it charge up. The goal is to make it warm to touch. This is the only way I can get it going. I've also used a hairdryer with success. Might as well try everything right?
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Will give this a go tonight.
AllGamer said:
you can still take it back to the store and claim warranty on it
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Yeah I called my carrier last night. It's only 7 days old, as I upgraded online they are sending out a satchel for me to send it back in.
Back to the old iPhone 3G for the time being. Such a step back.

[Q] USB Port Kaput , Internal SD card recognized as USB Storage, can't root.

Good day folks,
I am in a bucket of hot soup at the moment with my Galaxy S.
Firstly, my Micro USB port has decided to call it a day (I have tried the alcohol cleaning trick and all other "fixes" at this stage I am contemplating getting a new MicroUSB port and installing it) . At the moment the only thing it can do is charge the phone and so perhaps I should be grateful for small mercies.
However, No USB means download mode is now unavailable to me.
This also impacts rooting with a PC. A lack of root means I cannot update my gps.conf, I cannot install a custom recovery and I cannot install custom roms. I also cant back-up or re-install my apps using titanium. I also cant use googletalk 1.3+ wth voice and video calling.
Secondly, my Internal SD card is mounted by the system and recognised as "USB storage". I can still use most apps even though its mounted with the wrong name however certain apps looking for Internal SDcard cannot find my storage. So I need to somehow change that. How do I do that?
For an individual used to running custom roms and tweaking my device any which-way I please, I find my galaxy s very unattractive right now.
I got into this situation when I was coming from Jetpack and I was moving to Simplicity. Simplicity just would not boot. At this point my phone was stuck with no ROM and after sitting and fiddling for about 5 hours with a several micro usb cables and plugging and unplugging my phone odin recognised it for one last flash and i was able to get stock JVT on it. I lost Clockword Mod 3 and so now stuck with stock recovery and thats as good as having no recovery
I really dont want to buy a new phone till I can make a decision between Nexus Prime and Galaxy S3. Im a firm believer in as close as possible to a 2 year phone cycle and my galaxy s has just turned 1 year 3 months.
So if i can root this thing I have now and survive another 6-9 months I'll be a happy man.
Help? Suggestions?
Cheers guys

You say you got stock on it... Any particular reason that you cant give it in for repair? SGS is 2 year warranty as remember...
Also crazy idea, if it is possible, turn cf-root into a update.zip and get it signed LOL. Or check to see if you can use cyanogenmod, and work your way around from there?
Lastly which you should probably do first, another computer?? (or did i miss that?) Oh and check drivers, reinstall them.. (I dont know what fixes you have tried...i just know you've tried)

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You say you got stock on it... Any particular reason that you cant give it in for repair? SGS is 2 year warranty as remember...
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Really didnt know that about the warranty. Not practical for me as the country I bought it in is different to the country in which I reside. And Samsung Here wont support/honour the warranties from There yeah what a pain . When I bought the phone I semi-bricked it and had to ship it back and forth to the other country. At the time it was worth it because the shipping values were less than 25% the value of the phone. However now shipping would be almost 100% of the current value of the phone.
Talon26 said:
Also crazy idea, if it is possible, turn cf-root into a update.zip and get it signed LOL.
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Talon26 said:
Or check to see if you can use cyanogenmod, and work your way around from there?
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Im looking right now.... will let you know how it goes.
Talon26 said:
Lastly which you should probably do first, another computer?? (or did i miss that?) Oh and check drivers, reinstall them.. (I dont know what fixes you have tried...i just know you've tried)
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List of "fixes" include amongst others,
1) Different makes of micro-usb cables.
2) Different computers, 3 to be exact.
3) Cleaning the USB port , alcohol trick , scratching with a wire trick , tissue paper trick.
4) Driver un/re-install on all three machines.
5) Rebooting phone interspersed with varying combinations of cable, computer, cleaning steps all to no avail.
All in all, the ownership of this galaxy has been a bit of a pain because I got it within a week of its release and it turns out it was part of that notorious batch that had no 3BR hence the intial semi-bricking.

wmanyati said:
Talon26 said:
Or check to see if you can use cyanogenmod, and work your way around from there?
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Im looking right now.... will let you know how it goes.
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Nope, no can do, need root and need CWM. Has anyone ever wanted to root so badly in their life ?

Hey, did you find any solutions? I have the same problem and I can't find any answer to it... Please help

Try this method this worked for me once:
1. Remove battery, plug usb cable with other end connected to pc, insert battery and switch on. I expect you've selected the usb debugging
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Monu123 said:
Try this method this worked for me once:
1. Remove battery, plug usb cable with other end connected to pc, insert battery and switch on. I expect you've selected the usb debugging
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Tried that and it didnt work thanks.

Yeah i did some research its probably a moisture problem. Idk why and how it got it. It seems that i can charge but driver failed to install/tried reinstall still fail. Any solutions?
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hellodzulz said:
Yeah i did some research its probably a moisture problem.
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It is definitely a moisture problem. I managed to change the USB port and that didnt make a different but I also noticed that my board is starting to corode.
So i tried to cleaning the coroded bits gently with a piece of cloth soaked in alcohol and I had one last flash and so I finally managed to root and get clockwork mod.
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Idk why and how it got it.
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After doing a lot of research I discovered that this galaxy s is very prone to moisture issues.
1) Its not well put together so moisture does tend to get into it.
2) Moisture from your hands
3) The daily heating and cooling effects of sun. Especially if you live in a humid environment. The moisture condenses internally in the device. I live 100m from the beach.
4) I also use my phone to monitor my regular cycling activies. I ride in the rain etc and although I have what I thought was a splashproof case for the phone, it still has been quite moistened.
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Any solutions?
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Well given that you cant stop the corroding its only a matter of time before the phone eventually fails so I would recommend the following;
1) Stop storing any data on your internal card I now bought a 32GB sd card and I will just use that so if the phone fails I simply bin it and put the card in a new device.
2) Regularly back-up your device
3) Start saving for a new device
4) Get a new motherboard for the device
5) A scum-bag thing to do is hard reset it and sell it to someone who isnt aware of its data storage properties.

Thanks dude i tought it was the driver fault. Quite sad for my dad
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me too!
wmanyati said:
Secondly, my Internal SD card is mounted by the system and recognised as "USB storage". I can still use most apps even though its mounted with the wrong name however certain apps looking for Internal SDcard cannot find my storage. So I need to somehow change that. How do I do that?
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did you resolve this issue?

[Q]Note N7000 freezing even when room temperature is 30°C

Hi guys. My SGN is permanently freezing while booting. Suddenly the red lines appear and phone is stucked. It stucks on boot logo, or boot animation, or after successfull boot into system. It looks like this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61718936/IMAG0003.jpg
Phone becomes quite hot on the back near camera.
I bought phone with stock 2.3.6. It was running for about 2 hours and i made OTA update to 4.0.4. It started to reboot itself while i was using it. So thought, i might use custom ROM to get rid of this freezes and reboots. But no change. Even on 4.2.1. I reverted back to 2.3.6. I noticed, that these red lines changes and moves (or even whole screen becomes red) while i'm twisting or pressing phone on various places. So i think, there is cold solder joint somewhere on motherboard. Maybe on graphic chip, because i didn't notice this problem while in recovery or download mode.
Can anybody help me with this problem, or point me on right place to look at on motherboard? Thanks in advance.

Seems to be defective device. Check with service center.
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If you're able to, run this app to check for errors, I take it you have root. If it crashes mid scan, you've got problems with your emmc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check
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Frozen Note
I hope you will find a solution for your problem.
But I have to admit I had to smile ("grinsen" in German is a much better word for it) when I saw your title:
Freezing even when >30°C

i'm not able to run device anymore but i already tried this app for checking emmc and this is the one with that bug. But it doesn't matter, because i was flashing only safe kernels, and i don't think this emmc is problem. I think the culprit is graphic chip, or CPU, or CfRF (Chip for Random Freezes)
I was not able to find any similar problem. Tomorrow, i will try to put device into download mode, flash any custom safe kernel with CWM, leave device in this recovery, and see if it freezes again. If yes, the only option is to get device warmer for a few degrees (300-350°C with my heat station haha ) and i will see if there was any cold solder joint. If not, device will be dead anyway so i have nothing to lose
ThaiDai: you mean grin?

Tuxxperia said:
i'm not able to run device anymore but i already tried this app for checking emmc and this is the one with that bug. But it doesn't matter, because i was flashing only safe kernels, and i don't think this emmc is problem. I think the culprit is graphic chip, or CPU, or CfRF (Chip for Random Freezes)
I was not able to find any similar problem. Tomorrow, i will try to put device into download mode, flash any custom safe kernel with CWM, leave device in this recovery, and see if it freezes again. If yes, the only option is to get device warmer for a few degrees (300-350°C with my heat station haha ) and i will see if there was any cold solder joint. If not, device will be dead anyway so i have nothing to lose
ThaiDai: you mean grin?
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Hope you find the answer dude, let us know what the outcome is.
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Have the same problem with CM9/10 and PA ROM, freeze and getting hot...
The best ROM closest to stable for me is the RocketROM_ICS_XXLPY_v1
I got reboot problem but it is useable with this ROM
I Cant even install a Stock ROM (GB/ICS)... Stuck in Samsung LOGO, or Force Close in many apps...

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Have the same problem with CM9/10 and PA ROM, freeze and getting hot...
The best ROM closest to stable for me is the RocketROM_ICS_XXLPY_v1
I got reboot problem but it is useable with this ROM
I Cant even install a Stock ROM (GB/ICS)... Stuck in Samsung LOGO, or Force Close in many apps...
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Have you repartitioned?
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guys i've made a small progress. I put a pressure on back side of the phone near camera, and i turned the phone on. It successfully booted to system. When i stopped pushing phones back, red lines appeared immediately and phone freezed. When i start to twist phone in hands, lines were getting bigger or smaller. When i pressed the back cover again, lines disappear (but phone was still frozen).
So now my task is, to find out, which chip is badly soldered.

ThaiDai said:
I hope you will find a solution for your problem.
But I have to admit I had to smile ("grinsen" in German is a much better word for it) when I saw your title:
Freezing even when >30°C
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Lol perfect device for overclocking....
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warfareonly said:
Lol perfect device for overclocking....
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few months ago i had Samsung Omnia i900 only working in fridge or when it was freezed with frost spray

this phone is mystery. When the battery is fully charged, it works like a charm. I can twist the phone as much i want, it won't freeze. I don't understand.

My n7000 has also this same problam pl. any one help me..
Tuxxperia said:
this phone is mystery. When the battery is fully charged, it works like a charm. I can twist the phone as much i want, it won't freeze. I don't understand.
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My galaxy note n7000 has same problem from last 3 days i also not found any solution for this when i use phone without scrow fited on back cover my phone working fine only in 1 % of battey but when i tite scrow in back cover my phone frize at galaxy boot logo or samsung logo with or without red line...pl. any one help me... pl....

You guys started having strange issues with ur notes. Maybe its something like a self destruct programmed on your phones so that after a year or two people will switch their phones. Besides the bigger the phones are getting the more issues they are having.
A phone should be like a device that shouod work flawless, in case of emergency one is needing to make a call and found that the phone freezed.
Sometimes i blame everything to android. Despite years of open development. Its yet not stabilizing, i guess because of it being open source vendors are putting crap in it making it more vulnerable to issues.
I dont rely on android rather i use a cheap phone for calls and text or iphone. Its just good for internet, ebooks, movies, music and camera.
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Try pulling out the battery and then let the phone dry like a pair of wet socks. Clean the contacts and fit any loose thing that there may be.
Check your cable, if is loose or not, this way you could find if there were any unwanted sparks applied on the device.
Notice how it gets hot when is plugged in and you're using it? the battery reaches quickly 55 degrees which is not optimum, wait to cool to below this temperature.
My condolences in this sad event. Take care.

S1 in bootloop after it went swiming

Hi,
I dropped my S1 in water(s*** happpens) and now its stucked in a bootloop.
It just bootes the samsung logo then it reboots.
(And I havent put it in rice ....) But i opened it up and there was no sign of waterdamage.
Its rooted with and cynongen is installed.
I cant get into native recovery mod but i can get to download mod for 2 sec then it reboots again.
I tried to connect it to windows but windows wont show it....
Then i tried to enter download while connected to windows and it showed the phone for to sec but then it reboots again.
i have looke up all diffrent kind of guids but they all require recovery mod...
I have a 4gb sd card lying around , to format it and flash somthin from there thats the thing i havent tried....
thats it if you need more informations tell me ...

Probably the hardware got damaged. I don't have any idea on how to fix.

Remove the battery and leave it several days on dry, warm place, then try again.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo

like i said if the hardware would be damaged it woudnt turn on....
You think the internal storage is damaged ? what ware the signs for that...

I would remove the battery and give it a week of time, it can not do any harm and could just help. If there is a drop of water on wrong place it could totally screw the device now. Unpatience is wrong fellow now. Aftet some drying time, it might work normal again.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo

Boot Looping Note 4?

Long story short: my mom dropped her Note 4 into water and got it out quickly. Her case was so so water tight, no water actually got into the battery compartment as both water damage indicators do not show damage.
Screen comes on, looks normal, but the phone shows the splash screen and just reboots.
I *CAN* reboot into the recovery mode menu. I tried getting a T-mobile Note 4 update file, putting it on a SD Card and trying to update the phone. No luck.
Phone does not show up as a storage device hooked up the computer, nor will Kies detect it.
The only thing she really wants is her contact list.
Any ideas? Is there some sort of file manager I could access through the recovery mode screen to go extract the contacts?
Lastly, no, she does not sync her contact list to Google.
Thanks in advance to any help.

Maybe her contacts are saved to the sim. Not rooted right? The tried and true method seems to give it a couple days in rice and try and boot again. I haven't had to do it(knock on wood) but I assume take everything out and cover off.

Yeah, it didn't help. Ended up using the recovery mode to wipe it. Then fried the chips to prevent recovery since I wasn't able to do my usual device return protocol (encrypt whole device, wipe, encrypt again, download large empty files to fill up space, wipe).

pi1ot said:
Yeah, it didn't help. Ended up using the recovery mode to wipe it. Then fried the chips to prevent recovery since I wasn't able to do my usual device return protocol (encrypt whole device, wipe, encrypt again, download large empty files to fill up space, wipe).
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Is your mom a spy? Bummer it didn't work.

LOL! No, but she had passwords stored as plain text (unencrypted). Not a great idea I know, but I don't think she understands these things.