[Q] Cellphone restarting like nuts - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, i've got today an S3 MINI here with a strange issue, the cellphone when using it normally from all sudden it reboots and starts a weird scenario that doesn't boots up until a charger is plugged, when this happens shows an 75% 80% battery level (aprox) and the device works for a few hours normally and then it drops again.
Tried FACTORY RESET, no go... What's the next step on the issue??
Thanks!

lincer556 said:
Hello, i've got today an S3 MINI here with a strange issue, the cellphone when using it normally from all sudden it reboots and starts a weird scenario that doesn't boots up until a charger is plugged, when this happens shows an 75% 80% battery level (aprox) and the device works for a few hours normally and then it drops again.
Tried FACTORY RESET, no go... What's the next step on the issue??
Thanks!
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I think the battery is damaged

You have a bad battery. The same thing happend to me last month. If you pull out battery, you'll probably notice it's inflated a bit.
like this
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...d9IMyLc/w1191-h520-no/IMG_20130811_184759.jpg

zvorkapic.os said:
You have a bad battery. The same thing happend to me last month. If you pull out battery, you'll probably notice it's inflated a bit.
like this
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...d9IMyLc/w1191-h520-no/IMG_20130811_184759.jpg
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Ah, I have the exact same issue as the OP Mind you I don't see any inflation.
What would you recommend to order as a replacement?

AtomicKoala said:
Ah, I have the exact same issue as the OP Mind you I don't see any inflation.
What would you recommend to order as a replacement?
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Look closer or try to feel it with your fingers. Mine is barely visible
Or something else died in your battery. but if it can't hold charge, chargest fast and discharges even faster, restarts.. time to change the battery. They're not expensive luckaly

zvorkapic.os said:
Look closer or try to feel it with your fingers. Mine is barely visible
Or something else died in your battery. but if it can't hold charge, chargest fast and discharges even faster, restarts.. time to change the battery. They're not expensive luckaly
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What did you order as a replacement? I feel like I may as well buy some extra capacity.
Thanks for your quick reply

AtomicKoala said:
What did you order as a replacement? I feel like I may as well buy some extra capacity.
Thanks for your quick reply
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Got the original samsung battery. Same as the one the devices shipped with. Paied about 15€

AtomicKoala said:
What did you order as a replacement? I feel like I may as well buy some extra capacity.
Thanks for your quick reply
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I ordered this : http://www.ebay.com/itm/3600mah-Ext...axy-S-3-III-S3-Mini-i8190-Black-/360674611167

Was the battery indeed, Samsung took care over it, but makes me wonder... How bad is assembling Samsung it's phones...

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Can anyone help?

I have a g1 and it is rooted. I had everything going great then my wife took it over and now it will not show the battery. Its shows 0% even though the battery is charged. I have tried several batteries. I have since went from danger spl to regular. I have changed to several different roms I was going to try to unroot but it will not let me flash DREAIMG due to it says the power sources not sufficient. I also wiped the battery stats from the recovery and nothing. I can get it to stay on when plugged up but as soon as I take it off the charge it dies. I am out of ideas. If anyone has any idea I can try I am willing. So feel free to send ideas.
sdrewh said:
I have a g1 and it is rooted. I had everything going great then my wife took it over and now it will not show the battery. Its shows 0% even though the battery is charged. I have tried several batteries. I have since went from danger spl to regular. I have changed to several different roms I was going to try to unroot but it will not let me flash DREAIMG due to it says the power sources not sufficient. I also wiped the battery stats from the recovery and nothing. I can get it to stay on when plugged up but as soon as I take it off the charge it dies. I am out of ideas. If anyone has any idea I can try I am willing. So feel free to send ideas.
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It sounds like your battery is bad, call HTC and ask them to send you a new one.
JAguirre1231 said:
It sounds like your battery is bad, call HTC and ask them to send you a new one.
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Both batteries are good. Both have been tested in other G1s and work great.
sdrewh said:
Both batteries are good. Both have been tested in other G1s and work great.
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Then something is bad on your phones hardawre side, have you ever dropped it, gotten it wet, etc.?
Does you lady/you take it in the bathroom with you when you take a shower? When you wiped the battery stats, was it a full battery or empty battery in the phone?
JAguirre1231 said:
Then something is bad on your phones hardawre side, have you ever dropped it, gotten it wet, etc.?
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Not that I am aware of. I know that I never dropped it. She says that she didn't do anything just went dead on her like this.
pjcforpres said:
Does you lady/you take it in the bathroom with you when you take a shower? When you wiped the battery stats, was it a full battery or empty battery in the phone?
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The first time I did it it was full charge. but to no avail. I tried that then leaving it on with the charger in thinking it would eventually reset itself but that didn't work either.
Do other batteries work in your phone?
sdrewh said:
The first time I did it it was full charge. but to no avail. I tried that then leaving it on with the charger in thinking it would eventually reset itself but that didn't work either.
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Does the phone get taken into the bathroom when a shower or bath is being taken? Was it left in the car for an extended period, ie longer than an hour?
Check the battery connections, they have been known to go bad.
cloverdale said:
Check the battery connections, they have been known to go bad.
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Anymore info on this? if it went bad would it cause it to work plugged in but not on battery?
Thanks for the ideas everyone!
JAguirre1231 said:
Do other batteries work in your phone?
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No... They do not.
sdrewh said:
No... They do not.
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Then it is your phones battery connectors. As to answer your question, when plugged in the phone switches to ac power instead of battery, this can be seen when you take out the battery, plug your phone in, and turn it on.
JAguirre1231 said:
Then it is your phones battery connectors. As to answer your question, when plugged in the phone switches to ac power instead of battery, this can be seen when you take out the battery, plug your phone in, and turn it on.
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do you know where I can find a diagram or anything on what I am looking for?

Fried battery?

I was using a wifi tether on my phone running PCForce's CM7 and my phone restarted (it was connected to my PC via USB) and when it came back on it said "Charging 0%" and whenever I unplug it it switches off, never seen this before but it seems, to me, like the battery has been fried anyone think the same.
I also have a spare battery that works fine, which also tells me that it is some problem with the battery, and running a wifi tether can heat things up a bit which brought me to that conclusion.
Anyone wanna throw any ideas on if its possible to fix it, I am now using the battery that came with the phone but it has a crack near the contacts which doesn't fill me with confidence.
delsus said:
I was using a wifi tether on my phone running PCForce's CM7 and my phone restarted (it was connected to my PC via USB) and when it came back on it said "Charging 0%" and whenever I unplug it it switches off, never seen this before but it seems, to me, like the battery has been fried anyone think the same.
I also have a spare battery that works fine, which also tells me that it is some problem with the battery, and running a wifi tether can heat things up a bit which brought me to that conclusion.
Anyone wanna throw any ideas on if its possible to fix it, I am now using the battery that came with the phone but it has a crack near the contacts which doesn't fill me with confidence.
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try with 600 mHz it solved the problem for me
With mobile data and Wifi tethering enabled, my phone can get up to 52 degrees celsius in some cases without charging. I usually turn the phone off and take out the battery for a few minutes for it to cool down. I guess a temperature that high is caused by overclocking. I'm not sure if its damaging or not but I do prevent progression of operations in that temperature.
I also have a crack on the battery. Had it for a few months now and no problems so far
How 'cracked' is it?
jhonnyx1000 said:
With mobile data and Wifi tethering enabled, my phone can get up to 52 degrees celsius in some cases without charging. I usually turn the phone off and take out the battery for a few minutes for it to cool down. I guess a temperature that high is caused by overclocking. I'm not sure if its damaging or not but I do prevent progression of operations in that temperature.
I also have a crack on the battery. Had it for a few months now and no problems so far
How 'cracked' is it?
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Its only about half a centemeter long, and it only seems to be affecting the case, but got a replacement last year (was the repacement that got fried)
Havent tried it with andreas's advice yet but I will
delsus said:
Its only about half a centemeter long, and it only seems to be affecting the case, but got a replacement last year (was the repacement that got fried)
Havent tried it with andreas's advice yet but I will
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I don't think the crack will be that much of a problem. If you want, you could take it to someone experienced just to be sure.
jhonnyx1000 said:
I don't think the crack will be that much of a problem. If you want, you could take it to someone experienced just to be sure.
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It shouldnt, but I like to be sure lol.
Also setting to 600MHz didn't help, guess i'm stuck with my stock one for now.
wow, good job. Yep, mine charges up to 100% before the crack. After that battery hardly charges up to 97-98%.
I have crack to, but battery go to 100. Btw, i glue mine with tape.
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my battery didnt passed 99% but i do wipe battey and solved the problem
delsus said:
I was using a wifi tether on my phone running PCForce's CM7 and my phone restarted (it was connected to my PC via USB) and when it came back on it said "Charging 0%" and whenever I unplug it it switches off, never seen this before but it seems, to me, like the battery has been fried anyone think the same.
I also have a spare battery that works fine, which also tells me that it is some problem with the battery, and running a wifi tether can heat things up a bit which brought me to that conclusion.
Anyone wanna throw any ideas on if its possible to fix it, I am now using the battery that came with the phone but it has a crack near the contacts which doesn't fill me with confidence.
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I have 4 gt540 and all the batteries cracked the same way also another lg phone w550 cracked the same way this batteries with the hard plastic sucks all of them crack cause the cheap plastic cover
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wow 4 gt540s? O_O lol i left mine to charge over night at 40% and in the morning its 30% O_O the phone shows that it dint charge at all WTF but im sure it was before i turned in for the night >_> after that the batt levels jumped around the whole day before dying during school (damn) now im at home charging the phone and i think it has problems again... not chargers fault my bro just used it...
bs828 said:
wow 4 gt540s? O_O lol i left mine to charge over night at 40% and in the morning its 30% O_O the phone shows that it dint charge at all WTF but im sure it was before i turned in for the night >_> after that the batt levels jumped around the whole day before dying during school (damn) now im at home charging the phone and i think it has problems again... not chargers fault my bro just used it...
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Erase batt stats. That also hapends to me. Charged batt. All nite and shows 50% but if i reboot it will show 100%
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na its really that much. reboot and still same as good as no charge at all :/ but now its ok after rom change >_>
In 2 batteries that i have they also made the same crack in the same place.. :/
oyanezg said:
Erase batt stats. That also hapends to me. Charged batt. All nite and shows 50% but if i reboot it will show 100%
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda premium
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well it's look like the rom's fault,change rom maybe work
My battery cracked as well, but it has been dropped a few times...
It is a real shame because my previous LG phone was the LG Viewty and that was an amazingly well built phone. Cost ~£100 and came with an amazing camera and 3G front facing camera too. Shame it didn't have android. So I don't know why LG decided to go really cheap on the build qualities - you'd think having cracked batteries would have come up in their design tests but they probably didn't care...
I got the same trouble...
Papu Singh, sent via lg gt 540
my battery drop very fast :crying:
My batery works about 1 day with deep sleep and oc 744mhz ;d

Does not boot. Only showing Battery in a loop

Hi, I have a funny problem since today morning. I came home yesterday and plugged the N7000 on the official loader. It flashed up as it ever does and I went to bed. Today I went to my phone and the only thing it does is showing the Battery with a non rotating circle in there. The same thing happening when the battery is fully dead, but before it continues to boot further the screen starts to flicker like if the battery is fully dead and powers down. Then it does the same thing again and again and again. I cant intervene with any button combination at all as it seems.
One thing to note, I had the NX Kernel flashed and increased the USB charge power from 450 mAh to 600 mAh meaning the same power level as it uses on a real PSU. In theory this should not even make any problem here then.
What could I do? Any way to make it STFU and just charge the Battery to a useful level before it boots and seems like to use too much power to make charging of any use?
And the most important question? What could be the problem? The Battery is just a year old and a official one.
Replace the battery. Sorry mate :/
Sent from hyperspace
Formhault said:
Replace the battery. Sorry mate :/
Sent from hyperspace
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So you dont think its a hardware problem? Would be cool, but I really wonder why the half filled battery from yesterday does suddently die...
emuandco said:
So you dont think its a hardware problem? Would be cool, but I really wonder why the half filled battery from yesterday does suddently die...
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Because it's old and dying out, perhaps.
Sent from hyperspace
Or because of the USB. I dont know if it was the problem, but some twisting of the plug in the connector and some time lying around in the sun and it lives again ^^

Wont boot up?

Hi guys,
I'm having issues with my Mi mix where it just shut down by its self and will no longer boot up anymore, it will load the Mix logo for a few seconds (after the initial Mi one) before shutting down. I can access the recovery, and have tried flashing a new rom, as well as fastbooted the original rom on. Is there any way to fix this?
Also, when plugging in the charge cable it will show charging, but stuck on 67%, it doesnt go above that with overnight charging.
Cheers,
Sumperium said:
Hi guys,
I'm having issues with my Mi mix where it just shut down by its self and will no longer boot up anymore, it will load the Mix logo for a few seconds (after the initial Mi one) before shutting down. I can access the recovery, and have tried flashing a new rom, as well as fastbooted the original rom on. Is there any way to fix this?
Also, when plugging in the charge cable it will show charging, but stuck on 67%, it doesnt go above that with overnight charging.
Cheers,
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Well maybe unplugging battery for a while may sort it, watch a teardown before attempting, I suspect the battery is actually flat and needs charging but it's stuck in some weird situation. You didn't say wether it was rooted with TWRP.
james1089 said:
Well maybe unplugging battery for a while may sort it, watch a teardown before attempting, I suspect the battery is actually flat and needs charging but it's stuck in some weird situation. You didn't say wether it was rooted with TWRP.
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Thanks for the reply, I've unplugged it and tried rebooting, which it still wouldnt do. I have ordered a replacement battery just in case. And yeah it was rooted with TWRP running EpicRom when the shut down occured.
Cheers,
Sumperium said:
Thanks for the reply, I've unplugged it and tried rebooting, which it still wouldnt do. I have ordered a replacement battery just in case. And yeah it was rooted with TWRP running EpicRom when the shut down occured.
Cheers,
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Did it still say same percentage
james1089 said:
Did it still say same percentage
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its now stuck on 50% haha. hoping the battery replacement will do the trick
Sumperium said:
its now stuck on 50% haha. hoping the battery replacement will do the trick
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Leave it overnight unplugged, them replacement batteries are ****e, that's all of them, it could be a motherboard fault, not sounding like battery problem
james1089 said:
Leave it overnight unplugged, them replacement batteries are ****e, that's all of them, it could be a motherboard fault, not sounding like battery problem
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Alright, I'll leave it unplugged tonight and will report back in the morning. Really hoping its not the motherboard though.
Cheers
james1089 said:
Leave it overnight unplugged, them replacement batteries are ****e, that's all of them, it could be a motherboard fault, not sounding like battery problem
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I've unplugged it and left it over night, and upon replugging it back in, it wont power on at all, no recovery or the bootloader.
Sumperium said:
I've unplugged it and left it over night, and upon replugging it back in, it wont power on at all, no recovery or the bootloader.
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Leave it charging for 12 hours, it does sound like the battery was flat and giving false reading, hopefully leaving it on charge overnight will bring it back to life.
Which replacement battery have you purchased. You sure you connected the battery correctly
james1089 said:
Leave it charging for 12 hours, it does sound like the battery was flat and giving false reading, hopefully leaving it on charge overnight will bring it back to life.
Which replacement battery have you purchased. You sure you connected the battery correctly
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Wow, it came back to life. I purchased one from aliexpress with some decent reviews. but it seems to run fine on the original at the moment. Thank you very much man!
Sumperium said:
Wow, it came back to life. I purchased one from aliexpress with some decent reviews. but it seems to run fine on the original at the moment. Thank you very much man!
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Yea don't use that replacement 1 the connector is slightly different and chews the motherboard connection up
james1089 said:
Yea don't use that replacement 1 the connector is slightly different and chews the motherboard connection up
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Okay will do. Thanks for you help man.

Battery Drain Issue

My Note 8 has been great, I bought it last year brand spankers. But, since one week, after it drops to 15 percent, it just turns off. I have been using a genuine charger and rarely charge beyond 91-95... sometimes to a 100.
I know this issue has been addressed before but I have tried a cache wipe, a battery caliberation and a system wipe. it keeps doing this. I don't want to have a battery replacement since it would void warranty... anything I am missing out?
any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks everyone.
the biggest damage to batteries occurs precisely when going very low or completely depleted, not when going up to 100%
Have you tried taking your device to a Samsung Service Centre?
iceepyon said:
Have you tried taking your device to a Samsung Service Centre?
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Not exactly. I am at a different location where they're not entertaining my request. I spoke to them regarding this
winol said:
the biggest damage to batteries occurs precisely when going very low or completely depleted, not when going up to 100%
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But that does not answer my question.
jafferkhan said:
My Note 8 has been great, I bought it last year brand spankers. But, since one week, after it drops to 15 percent, it just turns off.
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Your battery is dead.
Get a new one at a Samsung Service Center or change it by yourself (Void Warranty).
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But that does not answer my question.
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the answer is implied, you tried to take care of your battery by not charging to 100%, but in fact you neglected the real reason why batteries fail prematurely, which is deep discharging or worst, totally depleting it, so the answer is, no way to fix your "battery drain" , only way to go is a new battery

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