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phone stuck on galaxy s screen

Alright guys,
Tried installing some battery icon replacement the phone then restarted...then gets stuck on galaxy s screen it plays the startup music in the background but doesnt change...i held the volume up, home and power button to reset the phone but it still freezes on the screen.
I've got no idea how to flash to stock australian rom any help would be most appreacited....

Turn the phone off.
Check then if download mode is working(volume+,home then power).
If this works then use odin to change the firmware.
Search the development section for this.
Hope you fix it.
Cheers
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[Q] Power button

Hi guys... I've been having a couple of problems whith my Captivate...
1.- Power button doesn't work.... Is there a solucion to wake the phone up whith a volume key?? Or any alternative..(?)
2.- When the phone is turned off, it shows the battery status, but it's not conected to the charger and nothing... I just put the battery on the and it shows as if it were charging... And I cannot access to the Recovery Mode to turn the phone on....!!!! I just can acces to the Download Mode, but not to recovery.
I hope you can understand my bad English

1:
this just happened to me. i was running miui at the time. if you can get miui onto your phone it has an option in button settings to use the volume rocker to turn the screen on. then i used the lock button in the notification bar to turn it off. also used a widget on the lockscreen via widgetlocker to turn the screen off so i could just turn it on to check the time/sms/email notifs real fast then turn it right back off. it took a bit getting used to the new process but hey, it worked. i ended up calling att about it and they said i still had 6 days left on my warranty so i went and exchanged it. att gives you 1 year warranty with a new captivate purchase. there may be a mod or something somewhere that allows for button reassignment. button savior maybe.
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not sure about that one

Is your cappy rooted? What ROM are you using? Or is it stock? I had the same problem with my experimental captivate I bought on eBay. I found a way to remap the volume button to wake the phone. This will make it a bit of a hassle to change the volume, but it was not a big deal for me since it was my experimental phone.
Off the top of my head the best way to get into recovery mode with bad buttons would be to flash a kernel or ROM that has an extended power menu.
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Just remembered theres an app in the market called quick boot. It says you can boot into recovery with it but I haven't tried it. There may be other apps that do the same.
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Menu, Home, etc keys aren't lit up anymore

My home, menu, search, etc keys are not lighting up anymore. I tried restarting the phone to see if it would get em lit up agian, but no luck. I can go into Settings > Display > Adjust Brightness, but whenever the phone screen locks they go off again until I do the above again.
They were lit up fine until I tried to enter CWM recovery by holding power and vol down.
Phone is rooted, 2.3.4 update, stock rom.
EDIT: I have no idea what I did to fix it but it's fixed now =/.

sevron said:
My home, menu, search, etc keys are not lighting up anymore. I tried restarting the phone to see if it would get em lit up agian, but no luck. I can go into Settings > Display > Adjust Brightness, but whenever the phone screen locks they go off again until I do the above again.
They were lit up fine until I tried to enter CWM recovery by holding power and vol down.
Phone is rooted, 2.3.4 update, stock rom.
EDIT: I have no idea what I did to fix it but it's fixed now =/.
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its a known bug, usually after charging it will go back to normal. nothing serious.

Hold the phone up to a light while the screen is on. It can be anything from a flashlight to a computer monitor.
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Go to Display. take the check-mark out and reboot. Then put the check-mark back in and reboot again. Hope it works. Its a GB thing!

Haro912 said:
Hold the phone up to a light while the screen is on. It can be anything from a flashlight to a computer monitor.
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This is the best solution I've found for this problem. Flash a light onto the phone censor. Or just hold your phone up to a bright monitor like he mentioned. Fixes it every time. You'll probably have to do this every time you reboot because that's usually when the problem reoccures.

if you add the brightness widget to one of you screen and then use it to adjust brightness, it will light up the buttons

P1010 Bricked....?

Hello everyone!
I have a serious problem with my Wi-Fi Only Galaxy Tab. It came with Froyo out of the box and I tried installing GB via ODIN but in the middle of the process, my computer turned off because of a blackout and my tablet was in download mode with the big "DO NOT TURN OFF" warning. The process wouldn't resume after I got my computer back on and I had to turn off the Tab. The problem is that now it won't turn on, when I press the power button (long enough, about 10 seconds) the LCD turns on in black and if I let go of the power button it goes back off. Tried connecting to the PC but nothing happens, tried charging for more than 4 hours and still got nothing.
HELP PLEASE!
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So to get this straight... you cant go into downloading mode or recovery? Even if it doesnt display it on the tab... try holding power and volume down while odin is open (reinstall the drivers too) If that doesnt work then I believe you sir have a hard brick and have messed up your bootloader. If that's the case i just saw a post about a service that fixes them for 50$ somewhere on the gt7 forums...

Just go to download mode again and reflash. Don't forget about battery.
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[Q] Shorted out/ faulty buttons?

Hello and thank you for your responses in advance.
I am having a very strange issue with my galaxy mini:
During normal usage ( specifically using whatsapp) and a quick burst of the back button my phone started taking screenshots with every button press and also when settled on a table would either flash the menu function ( like the menu button was pressed ) or bring up a google search ( screen was off it turned on and flashed a menu or opened google search ) . The display would not turn on using the home button and also when turned off and then turned back on it would go into recovery mode( like home+ power was pressed) where the home button was unresponsive for selection (reboot/ wipe/ etc) . This was not consistent, sometimes the phone would boo,t work normally for a few minutes then start taking screenshots when fiddled with and also in recovery mode sometimes the home button would work for the menu selection but sometimes the menu key would work for the selection (rarely) . I tried restoring to factory settings, wiping data cache, flashing CM7 , flashing stock, rooting, unrooting, pulling the battery out, i even intentionally soft bricked it ( bad cm7 flash ) just to see if it makes any difference . Nada, phone would either boot normally and start taking screenshots, flashing the " you just pressed the menu button" selection rapidly or simply opening google search when set on a table OR it would boot into recovery where i couldn't select anything and i had to remove the battery and plug it back in several times for me to be able to select reboot now. Phone was a stock 2.3.4 orange Romania rooted for me to be able to read the network unlock code from inside the binaries, no custom rom was flashed prior to this. I was thinking that me using the phone as an mp3 player at the gym (keeping it in my gym shorts) would of enabled sweat to seep through the keypad go under the buttons and short them out over time ? My last trip to the gym was weeks ago so that's strange.

It would be easier to read if you put some space between the line
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lightstar3103 said:
It would be easier to read if you put some space between the line
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Sorry, I was using a phone.

And yeah i guess your cell keyboard doesn't have enter key, right?

I guess this strange behavior is only when u r connect to charger ?
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thousandecibels said:
And yeah i guess your cell keyboard doesn't have enter key, right?
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The cell has menu/home/back and volume up down and the power button. The behavior is present all the time not just when it is conected via usb . As far as i know the home key should be enter in the recovery menu, i've tried all 3 keys but they don't work. But, it's not about the recovery menu, it's the fact that after it boots it's unusable as it starts taking screenshots on any button press and when i set it down it lights up and starts showing the menu like the menu key was pressed

Taori said:
The cell has menu/home/back and volume up down and the power button. The behavior is present all the time not just when it is conected via usb . As far as i know the home key should be enter in the recovery menu, i've tried all 3 keys but they don't work. But, it's not about the recovery menu, it's the fact that after it boots it's unusable as it starts taking screenshots on any button press and when i set it down it lights up and starts showing the menu like the menu key was pressed
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If problem is even without charger then u shud go and claim ur warranty as its hardware problem cannot be helped here and i guess u got a faulty piece
Btw i asked for charger cuz earlier i was using other charger than samsung and my phone was behaving odd like u said then i got samsung charger and everything was fine
Best of luck
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vishal007 said:
If problem is even without charger then u shud go and claim ur warranty as its hardware problem cannot be helped here and i guess u got a faulty piece
Btw i asked for charger cuz earlier i was using other charger than samsung and my phone was behaving odd like u said then i got samsung charger and everything was fine
Best of luck
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It was already sent to a service center, the warranty is shady on the handset so i don't think i can claim it. The estimate came today, it's a faulty motherboard. The phone will be taken out back and shot in the back of the head to end its misery

Does anybody know if a replacement motherboard comes with any bootloader or software and how can I flash firmware once it is installed?