Hi all.
So my girlfriends S3 started something weird this morning.
Last night the battery ran flat, so obviously it was put on to charge. The phone was off while charging, but, instead of the constant icon of a battery charging, the icon would come up and disappear, and reappear, and never become fuller.
When we tried to start it up this morning, the Samsung GT-I9305 screen would come on, and then just disappear and reappear, same as the battery icon.
The phone has not been rooted, no custom roms have ever been attempted, it is as stock as the day we opened the box.
First we tried leaving the battery out for about 30 mins, same would still happen.
Then I removed toe sd and sim card, removed the battery, and tried starting with and without the sim card. The sd card has not been put back. Same thing would still happen.
After some searching, I tried getting into recovery mode by pressing and holding power, volume up and the home key. This worked once, where I chose the restart device option first, but since then I cannot get the recovery mode back again.
I read something about a 'safe mode' by pressing power, home and volume down. This gets me to a screen where I am asked if I want to continue, by pressing the volume up key, but no matter what I press, the device just goes back to the GT-I9305 screen looping.
I wonder if maybe trying a different battery would help?
Any other suggestions on how I could factory reset the device?
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Yesterday I followed all posted procedures in this and other forums without any luck. BUT this morning...
1. I removed the battery.. Removed SIM and SD cards, then placed the battery back in.
2. Pressed on the ON/OFF and the OK opposite side button at the same time. 3. Pressed on OK button by itself.
4. Removed battery.
5. Pressed on the OK button by itself. ( Battery is out)
6. Placed battery back in.
7. Pressed OK again. Kept on clicking it five times.
8. Pressed the soft reset once followed by another, second soft reset press I held the stylus in for 5 seconds.
8. Pressed On/Off and phone green LED light is on.
9. Phone turns on and two pop ups, the first one was telling me it was booting in "Safe Mode". The 2nd was after booting was complete that says No SIM inserted.
10. I turned the phone off using the Off button.
11. Placed the SIM and the SD card in and turned phone back on.
I have a working phone, however the Safe Mode error MSG appeared, then it said Booting In Normal Mode.
Did a soft reset and the Booting In Safe Mode Error MSG did NOT appear again.
Whatever I did in the steps mentioned above might not be of significance, however I must have prompted the phone to boot in Safe mode to clear the safety shut down RLOD.
We need someone to expand on "Booting in Safe Mode" procedure. This will fix your RLOD issue guaranteed.
Linking to a thread that resolved many RLOD issues, including mine. If the above doesn't work for you, consider this alternate solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2023559#post2023559
OMG My phone is working again.
Skyfire drained my battery dead. THen i got the red light. then after searching and searching I found out about the rapid remove of the battery in and out and it works . I use my GPS all day long i need my phone. so releaved. WTF is this .
OMG I did the same thing, but left the battery out after doing the method described above...
My phone now works.. wtf?
Edit: It seems now that my radio will not connect though...
I don't think I have yet to read of anyone having the RLOD who gets their phone functioning properly ever again.. either the battery drains really fast or random things don't work.
Don't work for me....i've green led but no safe mode... :s
not working for me either, my phone is on charge the thing goes red.
This don't worked for me, i can't boot on safe mode my elfin. But i boght a new battery to dealextreme, and when i put in my elfin and sitched on it just came back to life!!!!.
For some one that dind't help this method can try to change to a new battery.
See you.
Hello All
I did search the forum and still not answer for the stranger reboot loop.
I got a phone call, and answered it. The reception was crappy and hear no voice. I then looked at the phone to see if call had dropped and it was frozed on the incoming call screen. I then pulled the battery and pressed the power button to turn on the phone and It would not power on. After multiple battery pulls and many many power button presses, still nothing. It was like it was out of battery. It was stitting on the home charger before i left the house. Prior to this the phone worked fine. Over the past week or two I had to do a battery pull may be 3 times.
I got to my car and plugged it into the charger and the orange charge led came on, on the front of the device. I then pressed the power button and it vibrate once as normal and then went to the multi-colored nexus "X." he screen went black and then vibrated once again and and was back at the mulit-colored "X." Then the loop starts.
In between the restarts I try to get it to boot into the bootloader by using the "vol down and power" and the "trackball and power button" and the white screen for the boot loader flashed for a milisecond the goes to black. As long as I hold the "vol down" button the while bootloeader or recovery screen flashes every 4-5 sec for a milisecond. As soon as I let go of one of those button, it automatically goes to the full reboot loop.
THis all happens when it is plugged into a power source. As soon as i unplug it, it goes back to the power button not responding. Again it acts as if it has no battery power. But it is in the 90%.
So i am unable to do any other step as in reflashing, and or doing a recovery.
ANY IDEAS any one.
I was running Cyanogen RC3. the latest rom with amon RA 1 7 1, korean radio 5.0.8
It was running perfectly up till today. when it went into its loop.
ANY HELP WOULD BE AWESOME
THanks in advance
DD
Plug it in to the USB, adb reboot recovery, reflash rom. Or even wipe and reflash if needed.
Sounds like it could be hardware the way you have to hold the keys down and you said it wasn't responding to the power button press.
ok thanks, ill give it a try.
here is my only issue. I am not using my original computer Mac. I just sent it out to apple for repair. So i am using my companies computer. I need to set up the AndroidSDK to be able to talk to the nexus. Since the phone will not turn on i can not load the drivers. and ive tried every way and it has not installed and i cant check because it wont stay on. it just goes to the loop. and it wont turn on if its not plugged to a power source.
Any ideas or suggestion.
SOrry I am an noob, so could you please be specific in your instructions.
I as of right now have insalled the Android SDK and i am unable to see the serial number (working on an old dell, running XP sp3) because it wont turn on.
It cant manually install the drivers because I cant turn the phone on to specify the drivers.
and
I using USBDeview, the phone also has to be on to erase all HTC previously installed drivers. i think. but there were none in the usb log...i think becuase they didnt install...agains because it would not power on...:-(
any ideas...please
DD
Also
Sorry excuse me if its a sort of a duhhh question...
even if i am able to load the device bridge, if the phone will not boot can i still flash another rom, or do a recovery. The phone is not getting past the Multi-colored "X" ???
DD
It should still read the commands when it's trying to boot. You don't need to turn the phone on at all to be able to install the ADB drivers, they are independent of each other.
As strange as it started, is a strange as it went.
This morning open the phone to pull the sd and the sim to put it in a throw down phone. I replaced the battery and cover and just hit the power button. The phone does a full boot and it appears to be working properly. the sd card and sim are fine. I the odd thing is i did this multiple times yesterday and last night. I pulled both sim and sd, replaced the battery and tried to boot with the same issues as named above with nothing different.
I left the phone on charge last night and it was charging for close to 8 hours and it was still showing the orange charging light.
So after it booted this morning, and i checked everything. It showed the same amount of charge as yesterday, right before it froze, which was 75%. So that is another strange occurance.
I plan on reflashing the rom and seeing how things go.
I thank you for your assistance and time.
appericate you helping out a clueless noob.
DD
Build date 1007 - in service August 2010.
I've been running Pinnacle 1.2 (been on it since v1.0).
Just moments ago I've found the power button to be unresponsive. This happened after I rebooted into recovery, sticking me there for a while.
I was stuck in a recovery loop- pull batt, reinstall batt, automatic boot back into recovery.
Somewhere in the process of trying different combinations of battery pulls with cable installs and volume up/down holds (trying for download mode) I ended up finally launching the ROM, but w/o a power button all I can do is pull the battery, and the moment I do, the phone automatically wakes w/o even touching the power button (which is totally new to me).
Any input would certainly be appreciated.
My first order of business is to flash to stock (JF6, bootloaders and all if all else failed) but being that it automatically boots when the battery is installed I don't think even a jig would help...or is the beer steering me wrong?
I am confused. You can go back to stock or no?
I cannot get into download mode. The only way to power the phone off is via battery pull.
I cant flash anything from recovery because it says the power button is disabled (it is).
As I put the battery back in the phone boots immediately...I mean the at&t screen lights up my palm before I put the cover on or even flip the phone over.
Use an app from market to enter download mode? system toolbox free is one
Used Odin to go back to stock KF1 and still no power button. Now System Toolbox won't work w/o root/busybox. lol
Once my phone falls asleep I can't wake it back up.
It may seem obvious that the power button is physically broken but I don't know why the phone boots up as soon as the battery is installed...that was never the case before this issue came up.
watsa? Anyone?
Can anyone else shed some light on what would make the phone boot when the battery is inserted (happened at the same time the power button became unresponsive), essentially denying me the opportunity to get to download mode.
beyond this point I am consfused myself. I initially blamed Pinnacle and thought going back to stock might fix it which obviosly didn't happen.. It seems like your power button is always "pushed" so as soon as you pop your battery in phone reboots..
watsa said:
beyond this point I am consfused myself. I initially blamed Pinnacle and thought going back to stock might fix it which obviosly didn't happen.. It seems like your power button is always "pushed" so as soon as you pop your battery in phone reboots..
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On a second thought if it was the case then power button should have messed up functioning of your phone even after powering on. So I am consfused more. Need a hardware expert here
I'm preparing myself to deal with my beloved phone finally letting me down after all the success we've had...it's just really bad timing as I'm currently unemployed, broke and only 13ish months into a 48 month contract.
Ok, so after a physical tear down it seems to be in the external plastic of the button itself?
After removing the outer case and reinserting the battery I noticed it did not automatically boot up. I pressed the actual power switch/button that is connected to the board and the phone then powered up. I let it finish booting and held the power button down and the power options menu popped up. I clicked Power Off and it shut down fine.
This means it certainly isn't Pinnacle ROM (never thought it was, personally), or software related at all. Now to figure out what is going on between the plastic external power button and the power switch on the board.
Edit: Nothing was there? I blew out the dust reassembled the phone and now it works fine. Weird.
My phone went low on battery and switched off and when I charged it back on, I am not able to restart my phone.
It goes till "Media Scanner running" then has 1 soft vibrate followed by 3 soft vibrates and it just reboots (screen switches off and the same thing repeats, it does not reboot with AT&T logo and stuff)
1. I am on AT&T stock ROM with the Froyo update
2. I do not have any external SD card on the phone.
3. I tried removing the SIM card and switching it on, still its the same issue.
4. I charged the phone with the standard charger
5. I have tried removing battery and SIM and then putting them back on.
This is so frustrating... I am out of warranty.
Can someone please help.
Pull the battery. Reinsert battery. Boot into recovery, do a factory reset. Bad news is you will need to reinstall your apps, reset your settings, and set up any accounts you have.
Is that the only available option? I dont think I have saved my contacts. I have a very old contacts file
By booting into recovery do you mean having the volume up & down buttons pressed while powering the device on?
No when the device is off press Vol up+ Vol down + power
madhu.bg said:
My phone went low on battery and switched off and when I charged it back on, I am not able to restart my phone.
It goes till "Media Scanner running" then has 1 soft vibrate followed by 3 soft vibrates and it just reboots (screen switches off and the same thing repeats, it does not reboot with AT&T logo and stuff)
1. I am on AT&T stock ROM with the Froyo update
2. I do not have any external SD card on the phone.
3. I tried removing the SIM card and switching it on, still its the same issue.
4. I charged the phone with the standard charger
5. I have tried removing battery and SIM and then putting them back on.
This is so frustrating... I am out of warranty.
Can someone please help.
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My phone does the 1+3 vibrate thing any time an app force closes. Once in a while when it happens, the phone dies and will not turn back on, requiring a battery pull (which is why I will never buy a phone that doesn't have a removable battery).
If yours is doing this on every boot, either something got corrupted or an app you installed is causing a conflict in the OS. I agree that a factory reset is probably your only option (unless you flash a custom ROM).
And I would highly recommend putting your contacts into Google. It will save you a ton of time in the future as you get new phones. Sorry, I know that doesn't help you now, but you'll be better off in the long run.
Because you're out of warranty, you should check to see if you qualify for an upgrade. You can get a good trade-in on your captivate and get a new phone.
Sorry for my bad English
Hello friends of the forum, I present my problem. I was given to repair a S3 LTE really is driving me crazy. We'll explain: the owner did filth with ROM to the point to make it unusable. Turns on, but after a while it stops and turns itself off. I tried to flash the stock, wipe system etc .. from recovery and put back the stock, but every time I turn on the phone and get to the Initial Setup (the one that says Samsung GALAXY which allows choosing the language) crashes and off. Also known that the recovery is very very slow (both TWRP that stock that cwm). I managed to flash rom 2 including Cyanogenmod but this crashes. Sometimes the poor cell can not even start that hangs on and off. I tried to replace the battery with one that I already had and the situation does not change. I wanted to try to do an update of the bootloader because I think the problem is the. Further inform you that when it crashes but is charging if I remove the battery on the phone stays on but completely locked and I can not even press the power button for 3 seconds, because it is completely freezed. Another observation I have noticed is that if I leave him in charge when switched off the led solid red, the screen shows no signs of life and if the detachment micro usb LED remains lit sign that is completely blocked even when it is charging (WHILE TURNED OFF!). I hope you can help. I tried everything
Maybe it's power button problem.Check the power On/Off .