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[Q] Phone completely dead, without doing anything

Last night when I went to bed, the last thing I did was to check if my alarm was set, which is was. The phone was in no weird condition, working as it was supposed to. I left the phone with the charger plugged in over the night.
Then I woke up this morning and couldnt get the screen on. First I just thought it was a SOD, so I removed the battery and tried to reboot it.. but nothing. Phone wont boot neither normally, in recovery or in download mode. Even when I connect the charger there is no activity on the screen, completely dead.
What could have happend? As I said the phone worked just fine last night and noone has touched it over night.
I was running paranoid android 0.3, with the kernel that is delivered with the ROM.
Any toughts? I have ordered a JIG from ebay, and im gonna try and see tomorrow if my friends JIG will work on the note, his JIG is for Galaxy SII.

Any reaction when connection it to a pc?
Or do you have a friend with a Note? Maybe you could try with another battery. I would do that.
/CK

No reaction to a PC, will try with another battery this weekend when I see my brother who also has a Note.
Seems weird tho that the battery would just die like that?

If I don't remember wrong, it's not a good idea to let the battery run dry depending on what rom you use. If it runs dry you cannot turn on the phone and the phone won't react to charger.
I would try with your brothers battery and see if there's any reaction. Or do you have a charger to directly charge the battery?
/CK

The battery was on 10% when I went to bed, with the charger plugged in.
How do you charge the battery directly? I could check at work tomorrow with a voltmeter and see if the battery is drained or not.

I checked my battery at work today with a voltmeter to see if it had any juice in it, turned out to be completely dead. 0 voltage.
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Bolini900 said:
I checked my battery at work today with a voltmeter to see if it had any juice in it, turned out to be completely dead. 0 voltage.
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Buy new battery.

I have ordered one from ebay but delivery will take atleast 2 weeks.
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Hey. I just had this issue today. I thought my phone got bricked without doing anything. I was using it then 10 mins later it won't respond when i took it out of my pocket..
I had about 80% battery when it died this morning. I tried to boot it to recovery or download mode but nothing....
I finally tried using my bro-inlaw's battery but still nothing...
I blew my battery contacts and pins... Removed the sim and sdcard then placed battery back.
Tried turning it on normally... It did! My battery was at 59% when it finally turned on..
I'm on PA v0.4 with white gnote unit.
I think it may have been the unit acting up, not the rom.
Any thoughts?
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I checked with my brothers battery yesterday and the phone started without problems, also plugged in a charger and it was charging as it should.
Must have been my old battery that just went dead?

Bolini900 said:
I checked with my brothers battery yesterday and the phone started without problems, also plugged in a charger and it was charging as it should.
Must have been my old battery that just went dead?
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it could be the cause with your phone, but for me, no, because i'm still using the same original battery that came with the phone. and it's working without issues now.
However, I did a clean install of PAv.4 after it started working again just in case.

Weirdest thing happend, I tried to charge the phone again last night and all the sudden it worked.
So now I have two new batteries traveling to me from China that I no longer need

Note flickering when battery is almost dead

Hi everyone, I've experienced a problem in these last days.
Using google I found a guy who had my same problem, as it appears in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ-hbAClvE&feature=player_embedded
Never happened before I changed battery (I had the one given with the note, but last week I put another one of the two I bought, always by Samsung). One should be actually damaged because it gave me not only this problem, but several messages on screen like "battery disconnected". With the other one I started using today everything was fine until it arrived to 11% - it's not reliable though because I didn't make in time to calibrate the battery - and then it start flickering and shutted down.
Anybody know anything about this?!

I also have the same problem, I've read that should be normal, and it does not occur with some batteries. It should be due to the power supply

AleksZ86 said:
I also have the same problem, I've read that should be normal, and it does not occur with some batteries. It should be due to the power supply
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so there's nothing to worry about? because it happened to me 3 times and twice the Note asked me to change the time, since it was resetted to 1/1/2000... and it didn't sound normal to me :/

I saw this, too, just before my Note had major filesystem corruption. I can't think of any other reason for it. I wrote it all up over in the Q&A section.
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Not adding a solution, just more info for diagnosis: My phone gets this when I'm down to 2% and using a cheapo gold battery off eBay. So maybe battery-quality is something to do with it.
As far as I know, it doesn't happen when I use the official battery.
Scared me the first few times, but it's happened five times and not damaged my Note in any way (although naturally I turn it off, give it a minute, and then start charging it back up).

well, I really hope this has nothing to do with battery quality because I bought them as ORIGINAL batteries! but they could be fake though, that's why it would be interesting to check some kind of serial to let us know if they're official or just fakes. In this case I would ask for the refund and use the old battery...
about the file system corruption, could be the battery the cause of that? because until the day I've used my original battery I haven't experienced any of these issues, so that's why I relate the battery to the problem of flickering... and that's why I don't absolutely want this junk to power my Note!

I didn't had that problem until I switched to Hydracore kernel. Now it flickers violently even under 20 % battery.
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gnotelover97 said:
I didn't had that problem until I switched to Hydracore kernel. Now it flickers violently even under 20 % battery.
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That's when mine flickered, too, and I got my corruption.
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Same here.i bought my galaxy about 2 weeks ago.so its fresh. Most of the time when battry drops to 2 or 1% the screen colors going weird and finally a flashing of screen then boom going off.
Its abviously from battry voltage.
Dont forget the screen is amoled.this behavior might be from this kind of technology.
Anyway nothing wrong here so far....
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Same here. I have two Hyperion batteries and the screen flickers when the battery is about to die. I've noticed it also does this on the OEM battery as well.
Didn't do this on Gingerbread just on ICS.

StefanoDurden said:
Anybody know anything about this?!
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Moved To Q&A​
Its a question, so belongs in the Q&A section.​

Your Note would flicker because it's trying to get more juice out on a a battery that is almost about to ran out...
Moreover, a cheapo replacement battery or an original one that has been wrongly calibrated before would also have this kind of a symptom.

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Moved To Q&A​
Its a question, so belongs in the Q&A section.​
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I'm sorry, you're right... thanks for moving the post, I'll be more careful!

I don't get it:
Yesterday night the phone was in airplane mode with a 60-70% charge.
This morning the phone is dead, and I needed to charge it again; after 10 minutes I switched on the device and... voilà, the battery level is 50%. WTF?!
I think I'll stay a couple of days more with this battery and then go back with my old one, asking the seller for a refund for both batteries.

Flickers on mine too.
I assumed it was normal.

Ye isnt it normal?
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Dude send your note to samsung service. Had the same situation. I send mine and they said that my battery port is grounded. My battery also became bloated. They will channge my motherboard for warranty.. hope i helped
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My N7000 battery just died with the same symptoms. Damn, I hate samsung! :crying:
I can barely hear the sound of PWM charger for 5 seconds, and then just popping sound for about a minute-three! It's a dead cycle

i also experience that problem when i bought a new battery..but after few days it was gone..

suggest getting your note to service center better.

my gnote wont charge please help

yesterday before i go to sleep i plugged in my gnote in the charger it was about 30% or 25% i cant remember and i slept when i woke up i found that its 3% although the charging sign is shown and the device is (supposdly) charging so i took out the battery for 2 mins then out it back it started normally and charged for about half an hour and arrived to 12% but then it dropped to 1% then disconnected and now i try to start it the green battery sign comes and then dissapears right away i tried plugging it to my sister's s2 charger but it wont detect the charger ! any help please ?! i am running stock rom JB and also i have been noticing that recently it my gnote started to take a really long time to charge after it took basically 4 or 5 hours now it takes like 14 or 12 hours ! any help please
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i was trying to reflash the rom myabe it would work but while flashing it the laptop shut off on its on i have no idea why in the middle of flashing the rom the mobile is now stuck at the downloading screen !!! i tried taking of the battery and starting it again it said Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again and when i open download mode it says low battery can't download so i plugged it into the wall charger again and now its completely dead

Charge the battery using external charger or borrow a charged battery for note and try again..
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treacherous_hawk said:
Charge the battery using external charger or borrow a charged battery for note and try again..
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that would be kind of hard any other suggestions ?

i got it back to life using s3 charger but it still says battery low cant download please anyone helppp

lulu2050 said:
i got it back to life using s3 charger but it still says battery low cant download please anyone helppp
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You may try with a new battery, and remember to don't try flashing anything with low battery, it can brick your Note.
Galaxy Note batteries are well known for their poor lifetime.

well take a charged battery and try it again. And DO NOT flash anything when on low battery. Also check if the charger plugs are properly inserted in the socket and the USB contact terminal is properly connected.

Usb port problem. Better replace it..
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Mobile recharging itself with charger unplugged

Im facing an issue on Dmod v5 mobile gets hot on carging moreover after unplugging from charger it shows charging unless i switch off my phone..kindly help me its freakin me hell a lot
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Salahuddin91 said:
Im facing an issue on Dmod v5 mobile gets hot on carging moreover after unplugging from charger it shows charging unless i switch off my phone..kindly help me its freakin me hell a lot
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Try factory resetting then reflashing dmod.

serophia said:
Try factory resetting then reflashing dmod.
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Thanks re flashing helped me out but will find what was the bug that caused it

Salahuddin91 said:
Thanks re flashing helped me out but will find what was the bug that caused it
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nice man:good:

It happened again
After re flashing it worked for few hours and happened again.Now its getting repaired waiting there are no spare parts available here in Pakistan. All of them said that usb charging port is not OK.But if its not OK how its getting charged easily with charger plugged in.Freaked out :crying:

Try to calibrate your battery?
Can help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867

The USB port problem seems frequent on this model and on Samsung phones in general - mine is 5 months old and hasn't had this issue so far (knock on wood!). Goes to show just how "good quality" Samsung phones are... not buying again.

metalboy94 said:
The USB port problem seems frequent on this model and on Samsung phones in general - mine is 5 months old and hasn't had this issue so far (knock on wood!). Goes to show just how "good quality" Samsung phones are... not buying again.
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Me too.I wont buy Samsung again.My phone isn't getting repaired here in Pakistan.Waiting for dead motherboard.

similar problem
Salahuddin91 said:
Im facing an issue on Dmod v5 mobile gets hot on carging moreover after unplugging from charger it shows charging unless i switch off my phone..kindly help me its freakin me hell a lot
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My problem with my phone started after I bought a cheap car charger. I must have ruined the mini usb port. Now when I unplug my phone from the charger it keeps showing that it is charging and will not stop till I remove the battery and put it back in. Also if I had just kept it without removing the battery and wanted to recharge it plugging it to the charger will not do anything. Removing the battery and put it back will allow it to charge. I just hope the cover will not disintegrate with all the opening and closing. Before this phone I had the Nokia N97 and in the middle of a long distance call the battery died. I stopped at the first cell shop and bought a car charger that ruined that phone too. I should have learned no to use hardware that is not original even if the guy said it is good.

[Q] Is my Xperia Z dead?

I know there's many threads on the sleep of death and red led of death etc but just wanted to confirm what has happened to mine. The phone started getting very hot with rapid battery level drops. Also, if I turned it off and back on, the battery level would go from like 80% to 20%. The next day, I tried to turn it on and nothing hapened. I've tried charging it for a good 16 hours, tried volume up, volume down, Sony repair, flash mode with flashtool, nothing. The led lights solid red when plugged in and goes straight out when unplugged. Is there anything else I can try or is it well and truly bricked? The phone is unlocked and was running cyanogen mod 10.2 for a couple of months without any trouble....

Based on the symptoms you have provided, it seems to a hardware issue,
I suspect primary the Battery is draining out the juice and taking hours to charge.
secondly it could be a Motherboard failure.
If you goto sony service center and if they identify the problem with the motherboard then they will charge you 50% of the value of the phone and you will get a replacement handset (same color) .

The problem I have is I've already sent my phone to Sony under warranty for a different fault but had it returned unrepaired due to the fact there was evidence I had rooted the phone, therefore my warranty will now be invalidated. Since then I've also unlocked the bootloader so I don't expect any assistance from Sony.
Is there anything I can do myself - would replacing the battery help? How easy is this? I have no problem removing the back panel (I did it before when Sony refused to repair it).
Thanks.
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One solution can be that you clean with something the micro usb slot, but with something dry and the charger and usb cabel too

Can anyone confirm if changing the battery is likely to sort my problem as I don't see what other option I have?
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elfrider said:
Can anyone confirm if changing the battery is likely to sort my problem as I don't see what other option I have?
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Reboot your phone.
If it is still not work, replace the battery.
If it is still not work, then it is the motherboard problem. It hard to repair by yourself.

Try a charging dock, the phone boots the kernel to allow the phone to charge via USB if battery is to low this won't happen, with a dock it is direct tappings to the battery to allow it to charge
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Turns out the battery was the problem, I connected a new battery (with the old one still in position) and it fired up first time. However, the old battery was stuck in really well and took some force to remove - when I fitted the new one, the phone turns on but the screen has loads of thin lines in both directions and is totally unreadable. I thought maybe I'd damaged something when removing the old battery, but I can't see any damage the ribbon cables or anything else. Anything I can check or is the screen knackered now? I've pretty much had it with this phone now!
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I got that wrong, it wasn't the battery, the new one is now doing the same as the old one. I'll buy a new motherboard and hope that sorts both the power fault and screen fault.
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