Dead phone, not charging (via multiple chargers and usb), no battery symbol. Not detected via compute, currently charging battery via external charger and still no luck.
Hello, so here is what happened.
Running PA 1.6a (the most recent CM9-based release), stock kernel.
Tried setting up multiple programs to make a swap partition work.
Had class10 microsd and wanted to try a swap disc (stupid idea I know)
Used swapper 2 and formatted mmcblk03/ according to instructions elsewhere
Found out that error message "this feature is not implemented" meant that the stock kernel didn't support swap.
mmcblk03 was formatted a few times since the "format each time" feature was enabled.
A swap file was created/removed a few times.
So I proceeded to un-install swapper 2.
Then held power button, clicked "turn off", then "boot into recovery". Battery was at 9% according to display.
Phone did not turn back on.
Stupidest portion right here- phone was at 15% battery, drained to 9 during process- I knew better and deserve the brick if it happened.
Now phone is not booting (great).
If it matters, I had some apps which bind SD card directories running, mainly to remount the sd card under sdcard/external_sd so play music would recognize my music.
But now the note isn't booting, or charging, no detection via comp. Tried multiple adapters, tried charging via computer.I have not yet tried adb, Currently charging up the battery via external charger, but have had the battery in there for about an hour so far and still no luck (hoping it will give the battery enough 'juice' to charge via another charger.
I was using an anker battery, and I have had a somewhat similar situation before- battery drains 100% and then phone will not charge, need to use external charger.
Really upset right now, especially since I ordered a 150 dollar display to attempt to fix a crack in the screen a week ago. Any advice? I know JTAG is possible but I wonder if this is a true hard brick or something else (since the CM9 kernel supposedly does not suffer from the emmc_cap_erase bug). I know for sure I selected ext3 for formatting and created that partition using CWM recovery when I formatted the SD card (for clarity this was previously, when I first got the card).
Do you guys think this may be a physical issue with the power button or something else? The phone was working quite well before that for the entire day. Thoughts?
Bump- charged battery via external charger. still no response. a bit upset about all of this...
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I just wanted to get root access and Auto-Nooter 2.12.25 for v1.0.1 seemed to be the way to go, right? Well, after I purchased the last Nook Color from Best Buy yesterday and brought it home, I charged it to 100%, played with it loaded up and ran Auto-Nooter from a Sandisk mSD card. When I plugged in the cable to boot, it came up with the battery low-wait 15min screen. (Battery was at 100%) Tried again, same thing. Re-wrote Auto-Nooter to mSD card and tried again, black screen. Nothing. Bricked. What I do get is a black screen with a flash of backlight every 40 seconds or so. I re-created the boot SD Auto-Nooter (using Win32DiskImager) and boot, nothing.
Today same story, just wasted 5 hours trying: Auto-Nooter, Clockwork Recovery image (2gb & 1gb versions on different cards) with complete restore-1.0.1 and repartition-boot-with-stock.zip, Nookie-Froyo.......nothing brings up any life in the NC.
I did follow RileyGrant's "Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699 to no avail. I do not believe it is a partition issue. If it were, the mSD would at least try to boot to some screen and perhaps hang then. But CWR is not providing a spark at all.
I do believe it is in a boot loop of some sort, trying to boot, screen flashes, turns off, repeat continuously if plugged in. (It does stop the cycle after a while when not plugged in.)
Is that enough information? Ideas??
When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
RileyGrant said:
When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
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No. It boots to nothing. Plug in, wait 10 seconds, a white screen flash (less than a second) then black. Repeats in about 40 seconds. I can tell that the backlight is on for about 30 seconds, back lighting a black screen, then it turns off. A few seconds later the screen flashes white and it is what seems to be a boot loop of not booting.
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Fixter said:
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
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Have done all this. Will not go into recovery. Ideas? (PM sent)
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
khaytsus said:
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
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I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
IMO you just have a dead battery, plug into the wall and leave overnight. The Nooks ability to boot into sdcard first is built into the hardware, nothing you did could of messed this ability up. If you truly can't boot into clockwork from sdcard it can only really be a hardware failure.
carmicp said:
I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
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make sure as well you are creating the SD correctly. WinImage can be a pain at times at times. If the bootable SD isnt created just right it wont boot. Im putting up a post in a few minutes to an IMG you might like to try to recover your NC.
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11321261#post11321261
Its how I have been rooting my devices, as well, I will be adding the prerooted 1.1 to my IMG soon to simplify things for everyone.
forsakenexile, I appreciate this and am downloading the file now overnight. Perhaps this will solve problems of my NC not booting up ANY rom/recovery solutions from SD, despite all the documented methods known to the community so far.
One thing I noticed under Win7 was to get an image to work properly I had to run winimage as administrator. Not sure if this is just an oddity with my computer or common knowledge I had to discover for myself.
I threw in the rowel
I charged the nook over night with the genuine nook charger and genuine nook cable and no difference this morning. I took it back to BestBuy and waked out with a new one. I charged it, powered up, logged in, powered down, inserted a monster root pack 7 uSD and booted no problem!
Thanks to all for the help in troubleshooting.
Note to self: Nook can be a brick!
Hey guys.
My month old One just formatted its sdcard (internal storage partition) itself last night.
This morning I woke up, got ready to leave my home. I plugged my headphones on the way and hit play button. I got "this file could not be played" error on every file so so restarted my phone. It had nothing in the sdcard after the restart.
Yesterday night I connected it to my computer which I plugged some virus-wise suspicious usb-drives earlier (i know the viruses don't work in android but they may have erased the data (or hide it) in my phone while it's connected to the pc)
My battery was depleted once yesterday, some people are saying this formatted their sdcard on their One and some other devices.
Also I left it on the charger yesterday night, a voltage fluctuation might have done it.
What might be happened? I appreciate any help. If you think the data can be restored, please tell me how. Thanks.
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I leave my phone on the charger overnight almost every night and this never happens to me, and when I have a depleted battery it doesn't happen either. The only time my sdcard partition got formatted was when I flashed some firmware. I don't think that it is possible to recover deleted files on Android unless it is a removable SD Card, however I could be wrong. Hope you find out what went wrong!
I just got home and tried to copy some music to the phone and I get an error saying I can't copy the files, no information is given at all. It could be faulty sdcard or this could be caused by software problems. I'll try to restore factory settings first then flash another RUU (I haven't flashed anything at all since now) then I'll contact with the service.
Insanity133 said:
I leave my phone on the charger overnight almost every night and this never happens to me, and when I have a depleted battery it doesn't happen either. The only time my sdcard partition got formatted was when I flashed some firmware. I don't think that it is possible to recover deleted files on Android unless it is a removable SD Card, however I could be wrong. Hope you find out what went wrong!
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Thanks for your answer. I haven't flashed anything like you so that's not relevant to this case I guess. I even thought of dismantling the phone and replacing the sd card (maybe I'll do it in the future)
I received a B&N Nook HD+ for Christmas last year, we put Clockwork Mod on it using the SD Card method. I lost the original B&N charge cable maybe 6 months ago and haven't used it since, so I removed the SD Card, backed up everything on it, and re-used it for my phone. When I purchased a 3rd party cable last week(every B&N I've been to is out of stock, could not order online either), I realized that the device was not charging or booting up. Here are the steps I've taken so far this week:
G: Green light
A: Amber light
O: light turned off
Charging:
Use 3rd party cable with Nook original wall adapter (GAO) (overnight charge)
Use 3rd party cable with PC USB port (GAO) (6 hour charge)
Attempt to turn on using normal hold, then 30 second hold, then holding power then N button, unsuccessful
Replace (windows formatted) SD Card with backed up file system into Nook (G intermittent A flash G) and repeat above charge steps
SD Formatting 2:
Format SD Card with SD Formatter v4
Create .img of backed up file system and applied to SD card using Win32img (data corrupt/damaged)
Format again with SD Formatter v4
Use EaseUs Partition Master 10.2 to set partition to active, copy backed up files to SD card, replace in Nook, GAGAO light sequence
I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I've got it charging through the 3rd party usb cable at the moment with the stock nook wall adapter, but I couldn't find any solid information at what the light sequences mean on the B&N forums. I read here about it potentially being the controller for charging. Not really a fan of that solution. Other responses to that thread imply that it's pretty much a crapshoot as to what is going to work if the cable you have is defective. My warranty ran out days before I went to B&N to get a replacement cable, and when I tried to buy one from them they were out of stock, and I was told to try to order one online. Proceeded to attempt that from my phone in store and their only option for the charge cable is to pickup in store (lol).
Not sure if the problem is hardware or software related, no one else mentioned their device having CWM on it, and I need to be told to what extent I'm being stupid about the issue, not having the SD Card with CWM on it in the device when I initially tried to turn it on. Could that have caused issues?
I'm not worried about losing anything because it's all backed up on the PC, so a fresh wipe would be no problem, but I can't even get the darn thing to turn on to start any of that nonsense. Is there hope or all lost to the ether?
Either way, any insight, solutions, or requests for more information welcome. Willing to try anything at this point.
I'm not sure what version of CWM we were using, but there are two archives in the backup that we have (01/07/14):
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13)
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13)
Steps taken since posting:
Reformat using SD Formatter v4, apply new .img of CWM (6028 for stock), attempt charge using wall adapter - in progress
Hi,
I will have your thread moved to your device section.
Good luck!
Thanks. Overnight charge unsuccessful. Going to try a PC USB charge next. If that doesn't fail, going to try to get it down to B&N. Still looking for other solutions.
I am not aware of any 3rd-party cable that can be used to charge a Nook HD+.
digixmax said:
I am not aware of any 3rd-party cable that can be used to charge a Nook HD+.
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The HD/HD+ accessories forum had this link:
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/121503836833?_mwBanner=1
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I got it to charge and boot. Having the SD Card in it was what was causing it not to boot/charge it seems. Also, it doesn't like to charge when wi-fi is on, but sometimes it does. Definitely not when the battery is above a certain unknown percentage.
Hi all,
After years of reliable service, I decided to root my Xperia Z1 to be able to drop apps onto the SD card to create some more space.
This was working fine for a week, but yesterday I was in the forest using a GPS app called My Tracks which I'd moved to the SD card. My phone turned off once, Then a second time and wouldn't reboot until I plugged it into the charger, which I might be wrong, but I think the phone wasn't happy using the app from the sd card.
The battery was still at 83%. It charged back up to 100%. It turned off again and would only turn on again once plugged into the charger.
Phone was okay on the charger, then someone rang me so I unplugged it and it died instantly.
After that it's been dead with the red light flashing on the charger and the usb cable.
None of the recovery options work, and I even have the back removed now with endless failed attempts at disconnecting battery and using the testpoint and paperclip to try and get various computer software to see it. It's unresponsive.
Ideally I wanted to get some notes off it which are saved in the simple Notes app on the phone. Everything else was saved to the sd card. If anyone knows how to recover those from a dead phone it'd be great, but I don't think it's possible.
So my main question is. If I buy a cheap donor Z1 off ebay which is fine except a smashed digitising screen etc... Can I basically do a straight swap with the motherboard and/or battery (being a bit hopeful it's only the battery) and my phone will work again? Albeit with whatever is on the new mother board?
I've never replaced internal hardware on phones so I don't know if I need to do anything extra.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy SIII LTE GT-I9305
Problem: It doesn't turn on or charge, absolutely no reaction
ROM: Stock KitKat 4.4.4
The phone had the stock KitKat 4.4.4 flashed by me in 2016. For about 4 years everything was ok, it only occasionally hanged up so it needed to be restarted by removing battery or holding volup+power. Also at the end the charging port sometimes caused little problems so it was a lil fussy about the cable. Half a year ago the phone was replaced by a new one, so it was shutted off and put 'as is' into the locker without removing the battery (was fully charged before). Few days ago, when I needed it as a backup phone it doesn't boot up or charge the battery - there is absolutely no reaction. The battery measured by micrometer showed 3.87V - I've fully charged it in an external charger. I also cleaned the charging port and folded back the pins in it. Checked with the multimeter the contracts looks good, the current is able to flow. Anyway the phone is not charging and nothing happens when I'm pressing the power or even the mode combinations volumeup/down key + home + power for more than 30 seconds. It looks like there is flowing a 0.11A current and a battery voltage drops about 0.06V when it's connected to charger and I'm pressing the power button. The power button itself is ok, I've tested it with a multimeter. Nothing changes when I'm connecting the charger directly for the pins for battery.
So I've checked on the web that there is a common problem in that models called "sudden death" so the memory gets damaged after some time if using the stock old kernel. It had the symptoms (hangs, restarts) but I even didn't know about that problem, and I only know that it had a stock KitKat, don't know anything about the bootloader or kernel versions. But is it possible that the phone which was turned off and only laid with battery inserted in a locker for half a year get damaged?
I've tried connecting the usb jig, the "debrick.img" sdcard method (I've created the image by myself with the stock ROM file using a tutorial), the uart connection with both 150K and 560K resistors and NOTHING seems to work. Is there anything else that I could possibly try doing by myself to get it back to work? I'm afraid that the only way is replacing the memory or trying to re-flash it in an external programmer. The phone has MHL and LTE so would be good as an multimedia and web player for an old TV so I would like to save it. But anyway, at this moment it's a hard brick. Please help.
Mmmh i think its memory is dead, my s3 dead same u s3, and no response from anything, I change s3 motherboard with lte version.
Yea, it looks like the most probable cause is damaged eMMC chip on board. I only wonder why it got damaged just lying switched off in the locker, the battery was in unfortunately so maybe that matters. Probably replacing only the eMMC memory with a new, programmed one would fix the problem. Anyway, because it's nothing to be quite sure about, UART doesn't work to make sure about it and the current value of the used working phone is close to the eMMC chip it's not worth it and it's probably time to just toss it out or sell as an parts donor. So sad, that Samsung didn't send any notification about that problem directly to the phone via the notification channel, I had no idea about that problem before. Fortunately I've migrated all the crucial data to the new phone before so it's not a big loose at all. Thanks anyway.
ah Mathey, when my default smartphone was s3 i usually was turn off it when i going to sleep and one day without signal my phone not want turning on when i woke up that morning, i have a charger that do a little beep when a device is conneted to it and s3 was do it but not turn on.
So maybe half a year ago when I was doing data transfer to a new phone it was the last time when the memory was in good condition, sth caused damage and the next boot was not possible, but the time I tried to do that was the few days ago. Fortunately I've moved everything crucial, so it's not a big lost. We could only wonder if leaving the phone with the battery inside can cause the problem or that's something what happens only when the phone is on and after a reboot there is no guarantee it will start up. Someone told me that GT-I9300 with the same problem could be bringed back to life just by USB, but the GT-I9305 have a different memory chip and that's not possible. Only the external programming. Sad but true :|