[Q] Dead Note because of broken bios battery? - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is it possible that the phone is not able to boot (even with JIG) and can't be discovered by computer, because of broken "bios" battery? I'm just an amateur but for me it looks like there is some kind of leak. In Samsung service center they told me that my mobo needs to be changed, but I don't belive them and I'm not gonna pay $350 because they are to lazy and money hungry to check what is really wrong with my phone.

After watching the service manual, it looks to be a backup capacitor.
The part # is: 2409-001186
The value is 33000 µF @ 3,3 volts operating voltage.
This should very cheap.
Almost sure that it's only for RTC backup, you should try to remove it to see if your phone boots up.

lionelia said:
have you tryed with another battery ?
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If you mean normal big flat battery from Samsung, then the answer is yes. But I'm not really sure if this what is on my pictures is a battery or a capacitor. Can't really move this thing. Either way it doesn't look good to me, but maybe it suppose to be like this.

squicky said:
If you mean normal big flat battery from Samsung, then the answer is yes. But I'm not really sure if this what is on my pictures is a battery or a capacitor. Can't really move this thing. Either way it doesn't look good to me, but maybe it suppose to be like this.
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It's oxyded. absolutely abnormal
Have a look post # 2

lionelia said:
Almost sure that it's only for RTC backup, you should try to remove it to see if your phone boots up.
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You mean I should remove it and try to boot the phone without it or I should remove it, put a new one and then try to boot?

squicky said:
You mean I should remove it and try to boot the phone without it or I should remove it, put a new one and then try to boot?
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Just lift the minus connection (easiest pad) and check if the phone boots up.
If it boots, then buy a new one and change it.

lionelia said:
Just lift the minus connection (easiest pad) and check if the phone boots up.
If it boots, then buy a new one and change it.
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Did it but nothing new. Phone is still dead - no download mode, no discovery in windows, only warm when connected to charger or when battery is in. But thanks for help.

So you should download the service manual and follow the repair procedure.

I will look into this but without proper equipement I don't think that I would be able to do anything.

Have you tried another battery?
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MikeyCriggz said:
Have you tried another battery?
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I've tried only changing battery that you put in your Note, not this little one on my pictures.

lionelia said:
After watching the service manual, it looks to be a backup capacitor.
The part # is: 2409-001186
The value is 33000 µF @ 3,3 volts operating voltage.
This should very cheap.
Almost sure that it's only for RTC backup, you should try to remove it to see if your phone boots up.
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Thanks for this information, it was very difficult to find anything at all on this topic!
Although I didn't try it on an N7000, I can confirm that removing the RTC-battery (someone in another forum stated that it actually is a capacitor) on a previously unbootable i9100 did allow me to boot up the device normally again. Would be interesting to know if leaving it out completely has any adverse effects...

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How To Completly Brick Your Vogue

anybody know how to perminatley brick a vogue gotta send it back and no stock radio,so i came up with this senario,so they cant turn it on to see the radio version.Any advice is appreciated
Maybe put it in the microwave? That would completely destroy what's on the nand, no?
faethon said:
Maybe put it in the microwave? That would completely destroy what's on the nand, no?
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that actually a good idea the best 1 so far
yes, this will work ensure you remove li-ion battery(very nasty) and only 1-2 seconds very low wattage otherwise you will crack the LCD then have even bigger problems, worked on iphone
HTC_GLOW said:
yes, this will work ensure you remove li-ion battery(very nasty) and only 1-2 seconds very low wattage otherwise you will crack the LCD then have even bigger problems, worked on iphone
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thank u just wanna make sure they cant detect it
Don't mean to be mean... but why ask this in the Diamond forum?
pedmond said:
Don't mean to be mean... but why ask this in the Diamond forum?
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came up that way i hit htc my bad

If my phone randomly shuts off/reboots, this means...?

Bad Kernel? Bad Radio? What?
I've used quite a few different ROMs. (Enom, Kang [CM], MIUI, and most recently, Rodriguezstyle's miui.)
But, the problem keeps happening, despite wiping between each ROM.
is it the radio? or the kernel? I think it might be, but I'm fairly certain I have the right kernel...and I upgraded my radio when I went to Froyo...
Gah.
I dunno about the kernel, but from what I've heard, if you have the wrong radio your n1 will be bricked. So I guess it's not the radio.
It's not a problem, I've been living with it. It's just rather annoying...
Maybe it's an app I have installed? Or things aren't...done right? Augh idk.
Change the Kernel and that will fix it, pershoot's worked the best for me.
Do you have to pull the battery when it reboots?
cmarti said:
Change the Kernel and that will fix it, pershoot's worked the best for me.
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I've changed it to many kernels. Right now i'm using this one:
2.6.35.4-950mV-BFS-SVS-AIX-720p-Monks-082710
rickytenzer said:
Do you have to pull the battery when it reboots?
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No. I will be chilling on the phone, and then I will randomly see the boot image.
if your nexus is still less than a year old, get a new replacement device
watch the logcat output (adb logcat), and also kernel messages http://bootloader.wikidot.com/linux:android:kmsg
khanh1289 said:
if your nexus is still less than a year old, get a new replacement device
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I don't have insurance, I don't think...idk. I bought it outright from the google store...what would I have to do? Also, its unlocked, obviously...
hollywooder said:
I don't have insurance, I don't think...idk. I bought it outright from the google store...what would I have to do? Also, its unlocked, obviously...
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Are you overclocked?
SiNJiN76 said:
Are you overclocked?
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Not that I'm aware of. I don't even have setcpu installed anymore.
So unless the roms themselves overclock, then no. I upgraded my
kernel, but it has done a random shut off once since then. But it's
not that often. Not as often as it was at least.
Do you have more than one battery to try? My phone locked up or randomly rebooted several times a day when I was using Cyanogen 6rc1, but it only did it with one battery and ran fine with the other. The problem went away after I updated CM though.
My theory is that my "bad" battery is damaged slightly enough that it conflicted with something particular in that rom (also happened with 3-4 different kernels). I don't know anything about batteries, but if that's accurate, I don't see why a battery couldn't be damaged enough to conflict with all roms.
It doesn't sound like your problem exactly, but might be one of the simpler things to try, especially if you have a spare or could borrow one or something.
Try to extract the SD-card and Power ON the phone without it. If the phone works
well in that condition, problem solved.
Something like this happens to me one time, all I do was to format the entire SD-card
in my iMac with the Disk Utility, filling all the space with zeros (0) for be sure all the
data was erased correctly. Then I make the partitions again, flash a ROM and all
is fine now.
Good luck!
I had the same problem. Phone would reboot during many tasks. This would happen with any ROM even stock. I sent the phone to htc and they changed the motherboard under warranty. I noticed it first started to happen with robo defense and then other apps such as YouTube or browsing the net. I wasn't able to use the phone while it was charging or it would reboot.
wsrider said:
I had the same problem. Phone would reboot during many tasks. This would happen with any ROM even stock. I sent the phone to htc and they changed the motherboard under warranty. I noticed it first started to happen with robo defense and then other apps such as YouTube or browsing the net. I wasn't able to use the phone while it was charging or it would reboot.
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My phone isn't that bad, and no luck with the sd card thing.
hollywooder said:
My phone isn't that bad, and no luck with the sd card thing.
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I bought my nexus one in may. It got worse over time and i had it repaired in september
If you buy it off from google store, it comes with a 1 year manufacture warranty, call HTC and get a replacement device
khanh1289 said:
If you buy it off from google store, it comes with a 1 year manufacture warranty, call HTC and get a replacement device
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I don't believe I ever filled out the warranty, can I still get it replaced?
Sorry for the double post, but I'm really curious...about the warranty thing.
sergioalvarezmac said:
Try to extract the SD-card and Power ON the phone without it. If the phone works
well in that condition, problem solved.
Something like this happens to me one time, all I do was to format the entire SD-card
in my iMac with the Disk Utility, filling all the space with zeros (0) for be sure all the
data was erased correctly. Then I make the partitions again, flash a ROM and all
is fine now.
Good luck!
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This is my suggestion as well. A friend of mine had this problem. There was a corrupt video on his sd card that caused the entire issue.

[q] help please

Ok i know there is probably something already out there but im REALLY FREAKING OUT. I updated to 1.8 and throughout the day it killed my battery and i got home and was gonna flash back to 1.5 and while RSD was flashing it failed. I then realized i forgot one of the most important steps... To have a full battery.. i think my phone died while flashing... is it bricked? If so im f************cked... please respond.
If i did brick it, is there anyway i can contact moto support and get a new device?
Edit: I unplugged it from my pc and pulled the battery and plugged it back in. My pc recognizes it as a USB Mass storage device... is there still hope for me?
Ok so after sitting here for a while my phone booted back up i did notice that RSD lite managed to create a image thing? Idk what that is so im just guessing that maybe thats what saved me cause i could have sworn i read that it would for sure brick your device. Run on sentence. Spare me grammar Nazis. Anyways the phone is back up and running and you can be damn sure im going to charge this all the way before i try anything like that again. thanks for the quick responses and sorry for making a new thread for this... feel like i spazzed out if a mod could remove this thread?
INSM Sin said:
If i did brick it, is there anyway i can contact moto support and get a new device?
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I cant answer the other question because I dont know, but if you have insurance or whatever its called on your phone if it really does turn out to be bricked then you could have it replaced using that... (from what I heard if you do have that you only get like 1 or 2 replaces before they wont let you do it again for the year just an fyi)
and I mean insurance through AT&T not moto
GloriousDJ said:
I cant answer the other question because I dont know, but if you have insurance or whatever its called on your phone if it really does turn out to be bricked then you could have it replaced using that... (from what I heard if you do have that you only get like 1 or 2 replaces before they wont let you do it again for the year just an fyi)
and I mean insurance through AT&T not moto
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Thanks, i didn't buy the insurance for my phone... Is there anyway i might be able to tell a little white lie?
Only one way to tell...
Charge the battery fully and turn it on. Try reflashing the sbf and see what happens.
INSM Sin said:
Edit: I unplugged it from my pc and pulled the battery and plugged it back in. My pc recognizes it as a USB Mass storage device... is there still hope for me?
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if it can see that, can you get it into the RSD mode by holding down the + volume button?
Have you tried letting it charge on mains for a while? Might get charge and be able to flash.
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INSM Sin said:
Thanks, i didn't buy the insurance for my phone... Is there anyway i might be able to tell a little white lie?
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I would first try and re-flash it... but if it does not work then I leave that up to you and your conscious about getting insurance for it after its already messed up and stuff... but I would suggest even if you do get it to work, you may want to invest in that if you plan on doing a lot of developing on it or anything like that, which gives you a chance to brick your phone.

Bionic is Not Turning On.

It's not rooted and doesn't have anything on it. Pretty much stock. Sent a text msg this morning and checked my email from it. Came back to it abt 20 minutes later and it won't even turn on. Tried charging it. Won't turn on. Tried swapping with my regular battery (which was fully charged when I put it away. It could be dead by now.). Nothing. Tried removing the battery, waiting, replacing the battery. Nothing. I did briefly get the M Dual Core icon and then all went blank.
Suggestions?
Back to VZW. Sounds like a faulty handset.
Good Luck,
RMD
rduckwor said:
Back to VZW. Sounds like a faulty handset.
Good Luck,
RMD
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I second this.
Without going through the pain of returning it, would you be able to connect it to your computer, and reflash the (is it TRZ?) file through the new RSD Lite through the stock bootloader? Definitely worth a try.
BFirebird101 said:
Without going through the pain of returning it, would you be able to connect it to your computer, and reflash the (is it TRZ?) file through the new RSD Lite through the stock bootloader? Definitely worth a try.
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idefiler6 said:
I second this.
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rduckwor said:
Back to VZW. Sounds like a faulty handset.
Good Luck,
RMD
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Thanks, all.. Hauled my cookies 30 minutes over to Verizon. The sales rep assumed I hadn't bothered to charge my phone. When he realized it wasn't the battery, he was extremely helpful and replaced the phone on the spot. He said he'd never seen that before and with a phone less than 1 month old, I shouldn't have those kinds of issues. Kudos to Verizon for a pleasant experience. I've had some bad experiences in the past, but this gentleman was helpful and didn't try to sell me any accessories! ;p (They always try to sell me something when I'm there.)
BFirebird101 said:
Without going through the pain of returning it, would you be able to connect it to your computer, and reflash the (is it TRZ?) file through the new RSD Lite through the stock bootloader? Definitely worth a try.
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This is referencing what one would do if the software had an issue, if it does this will fix it but kinda sounds like hardware. I have returned my Bionic to stock twice its fairly easy, computer does almost everything. Here is this to get you going if you wanna do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262540
Just remember, phone has to be in fastboot mode to be detected by RSD Lite and once its detected and the file starts flashing, if it seems like its not making progress while saying otherwise, dont unplug it just wait
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BFirebird101 said:
Without going through the pain of returning it, would you be able to connect it to your computer, and reflash the (is it TRZ?) file through the new RSD Lite through the stock bootloader? Definitely worth a try.
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One would need the ability to turn the phone on in the first place for this to be attempted. That's why no one was mentioning the FXZ.
The phone booted to the dual core M logo, which with myself that happens to be as far as mine would go when i successfully flashed my FXZ. The phone needs to boot to the fastboot screen which can be done on many occasions that the phone can get to the first logo, as long as there is battery left.
....
But congrats on the new replacement i just saw that after i posted
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It hasn't happened to me but I have to pull the battery on my wifes Bionic at least once a week and twice in one day. It would just go away suddenly and act like it was dead. I may return it for a replacement.
if anyone has exchanged their Bionic for a replacement because of the BSOD defect, will you please provide feedback in this thread? thanks
hi all:
just bought a bionic off ebay for cheap ($20 + free ship) but it has problems
it was being sold as "battery with water damage but phone is not but wont power on"
he said one night he left it in his drawer and when he woke up it didn't work anymore he tried removing battery and all that.
to my understanding the battery was previously water damaged and he could still use it and then got the wont power on later on.
anyhow to my question
the phone comes today with just the phone, water damaged battery and wall charger.
should I cut the end off the charger and do the wires to the battery and insert battery into phone and plug usb cord from laptop to the phone?
isn't this the correct way for bsod and a non water damaged battery?
is there anyway to test the waterdamaged battery to see if it could still be good?
I have a multimeter

[Q] Galaxy Note no power, dead

Hi everybody this is my first post, greetiings from Croatia.
I Have a Galaxy Note rooted and custom rom about a month,everyting was good and smooth.Yesterday i turn off my phone and try power again and nothing happened, my note does not want to turn on, i can belive....Does not respond to Recovery mode or Download mode, combo of keys not working, like a dead screen, i bought a USB jig and joined to Note but nothing happened...My note is not showing a some life!!! i have custom rom about a month and everyting good...I turned it a few days ago and normal working.....but now...i am confused.. Help if you can!thanx
djnakica said:
Hi everybody this is my first post, greetiings from Croatia.
I Have a Galaxy Note rooted and custom rom about a month,everyting was good and smooth.Yesterday i turn off my phone and try power again and nothing happened, my note does not want to turn on, i can belive....Does not respond to Recovery mode or Download mode, combo of keys not working, like a dead screen, i bought a USB jig and joined to Note but nothing happened...My note is not showing a some life!!! i have custom rom about a month and everyting good...I turned it a few days ago and normal working.....but now...i am confused.. Help if you can!thanx
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What ROM and kernel were you on? Are you absolutely sure there were no changes made to the phone prior to it shutting off and not coming back on again?
eug3n91 said:
What ROM and kernel were you on? Are you absolutely sure there were no changes made to the phone prior to it shutting off and not coming back on again?
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Criskelo's ROM my note is on this rom like a month...good rom..everything seems good...i do nothing with phone before i shut it down
djnakica said:
Criskelo's ROM my note is on this rom like a month...good rom..everything seems good...i do nothing with phone before i shut it down
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Wow...this is indeed a bit worrying if it just died like that...
I'm not really that experienced, to be honest, I usually managed to fix things by putting it into download or recovery. I'm afraid that if even the JIG fails, then your only possible next step would be the Samsung service...hoping that the repairs cost less than a new actual device.
You can tell them something went wrong while updating through Kies, as I heard other people suggest, though I don't really know how well that would hold upon closer inspection...
Do you have an externel wall charger jsu tto make sure its not the battery not charging properly
eug3n91 said:
Wow...this is indeed a bit worrying if it just died like that...
I'm not really that experienced, to be honest, I usually managed to fix things by putting it into download or recovery. I'm afraid that if even the JIG fails, then your only possible next step would be the Samsung service...hoping that the repairs cost less than a new actual device.
You can tell them something went wrong while updating through Kies, as I heard other people suggest, though I don't really know how well that would hold upon closer inspection...
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thx for the answers, i will wait about 2 day...maybee wake up ....then i go to the service
OK just heads up hope you haven't got any counter or yellow triangle cause they might be a charge for the repair
brockyneo said:
Do you have an externel wall charger jsu tto make sure its not the battery not charging properly
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i bought a new battery today...but nothing
djnakica said:
i bought a new battery today...but nothing
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Ah sorry to hear that it doesn't sound promising just play daft make out you was updating rom via kias or something and it just died
brockyneo said:
Ah sorry to hear that it doesn't sound promising just play daft make out you was updating rom via kias or something and it just died
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I'm afraid it's Sammy service center for your phone, sorry,
chasmodo said:
I'm afraid it's Sammy service center for your phone, sorry,
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Lol who me
chasmodo said:
I'm afraid it's Sammy service center for your phone, sorry,
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Sssoorry to keep this thing going, but...I'm really curious about what on Earth could've happened *just like that*? I'm at my 3rd Android phone, had custom ROMs on everyone of them (now on imilka's CM9) and...I always figured that if they work now, they'll always work as long as I don't do anything stupid like flash an S2 firmware. Never imagined that the phone would simply refuse to turn on at one point...
Obviously, I think there had to be something in either the file system or partition system or...I don't know that changed and messed things up. Had some tricky situations with my Ace and with my Note as well, but got out of them with either recovery, or, at worst, download mode...
Maybe someone with a lot more knowledge about developing and ROMs might help me understand how/why things could go wrong like that
brockyneo said:
Lol who me
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Force of habit, sorry Brocky.
Hi! me again, my Note was on charger all night and morning i said I'm going try to power him, still nothing....BUT i press combo to download mode....it say Low Battery to Downlad Mode(red letters)....hmmm....is a sign that is not completly destroyed? thx
djnakica said:
Hi! me again, my Note was on charger all night and morning i said I'm going try to power him, still nothing....BUT i press combo to download mode....it say Low Battery to Downlad Mode(red letters)....hmmm....is a sign that is not completly destroyed? thx
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You need to charge the battery up from a extremely wall charger I did the same when bricked had it on charge and nothing but red letters so charged battery with externel wall charger and whala it worked
brockyneo said:
You need to charge the battery up from a extremely wall charger I did the same when bricked had it on charge and nothing but red letters so charged battery with externel wall charger and whala it worked
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charger like this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...ccessories&hash=item2c64a8253c#ht_2222wt_1110
if the problem still unsolved
And you checked battrey and usb cable then
check your screen
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djnakica said:
charger like this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...ccessories&hash=item2c64a8253c#ht_2222wt_1110
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Yes, that's the one.
djnakica said:
charger like this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...ccessories&hash=item2c64a8253c#ht_2222wt_1110
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chasmodo said:
Yes, that's the one.
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Yes the one chasmodo said
hi guys my note is send to the samsung service....But before that i was go to local service center and he said to me that the motherboard is problem ,that the Samsung should replace it and that certainly can not figure out if the phone is rooted

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