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Hey everyone.
My Galaxy i9000 is 4 months old, download mode works and basically everything worked pretty well. I have been using DarkyRom and always followed instructions. Almost a month ago I updated to the Gingerbread version of Darkyrom, and the phone functioned very well until last week it ran out of juice (charge)
I was out of a charger and tried to purchase a new charger, which means I had to try several different chargers before I was eventually given a Samsung adapter. My battery was at 0 so I took it as it worked, and when I got home I tried charging the phone overnight (with the USB pc cable), but all I saw was the white LED lights all night.
Now, I figured something is wrong with either the hardware or the software. My best bet was to reset the phone to stock condition through ODIN, however even Download mode does not get detected anymore. I dont see anything on the PC at all, and I have done this several times before.
I have no clue how to use ADB, so didn't give it a shot. My neighbor has the same phone, I took her full charged battery and my phone works 100% fine except for USB. I tried using her charger and her USB cable, without any success.
Finally I went to Samsung service in Mumbai (Hi Life mall, Santacruz (W)), where they took the phone for diagnosis. They called me today and told me they are unable to get through after changing/cleaning the USB port, and even some other method they use is not working (I am not sure if this is the "jig")
I am not even sure what a "Jig" really is, my technical knowledge is fairly basic. If it is used only to put phone in download mode, then I can already do that (with a charged battery), but I cannot do anything after that.
The Samsung guys seemed fairly amateur to me, and it felt like they have almost no experience with dealing with such problems. The only thing they can do is replace the whole motherboard which will cost me about 200$, which I really dont fully appreciate.
Please suggest me my next course of action. I can also send the phone to Singapore if that helps, but I cannot ship to Korea because of customs issues on the way back.
PS: Recovery mode works too. I tried wiping cache, dalvic cache, and factory reset as well without any result. I'll be really grateful if anyone could help me out of this. I'm a student so I cant really afford a 200$ brick.
Bump. Can no body suggest anything ?
Nobody ? :/
Hey guys...seriously need your help,
I just got the note a month ago and i'm pretty amazed by it's capabilities. this is my first android phone and i'm kind of new to it. I hope i didn't make something dumb, yet i flashed my note with a .tar file just to add arabic language to it as it's not in by default. I follow the instructions explained on the webpage literally using Odin3. I got a passed flash and then disconnected the note as explained. since then it doesn't turn on. I tried almost everything using all kinds of button combinations to get to either download or recovery mode but nothing came out of the screen it's simply dead.....very disappointed, wish anyone could help me please....Thank you.
seems you have bricked your phone, if it does absolutely nothing it is bricked
Tried yanking out the battery and reseating?
Try getting Download mode with JIG
You may get JIG from market, or manually make with this guide
http://droidangel.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-make-samsung-galaxy-s-download.html
If the phone wants to start,you can do something. If absolutely no,then it is bad.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA App
My Galaxy Note won't turn on too. The problem came after I was downloading a magazine from Zinio using the Reader's Hub app. Before I started the download, my battery level was almost empty. In the middle of the download, the phone died before I could get the chance to plug it in to charge it. Unfortunately when I tried to recharge it using the stock USB cable, the phone wouldn't turn on anymore. I plugged it in my computer but it did not recognize any USB device being plugged into it. It's as if I didn't plugged in the device at all. I've tried every button combination to reset the device as well as try other batteries and then tried the button combinations again to no avail. There was absolutely no response from the phone.
It was pretty obvious at that point that my Note was bricked. It's been only 2 weeks since I bought it and I'm really frustrated that this happened, especially now that I'm already hooked with Android coming from IOS devices for a while.
I decided to send it back to a Samsung Service Center for their evaluation. The front line technicians couldn't get my device to turn on as well. The attendee told me that they will have to keep the unit for further evaluation and told me that I have to wait for 3 business days before informing me of the results. I'm hoping that they would just replace my device with a new one.
wolfmanx said:
My Galaxy Note won't turn on too. The problem came after I was downloading a magazine from Zinio using the Reader's Hub app. Before I started the download, my battery level was almost empty. In the middle of the download, the phone died before I could get the chance to plug it in to charge it. Unfortunately when I tried to recharge it using the stock USB cable, the phone wouldn't turn on anymore. I plugged it in my computer but it did not recognize any USB device being plugged into it. It's as if I didn't plugged in the device at all. I've tried every button combination to reset the device as well as try other batteries and then tried the button combinations again to no avail. There was absolutely no response from the phone.
It was pretty obvious at that point that my Note was bricked. It's been only 2 weeks since I bought it and I'm really frustrated that this happened, especially now that I'm already hooked with Android coming from IOS devices for a while.
I decided to send it back to a Samsung Service Center for their evaluation. The front line technicians couldn't get my device to turn on as well. The attendee told me that they will have to keep the unit for further evaluation and told me that I have to wait for 3 business days before informing me of the results. I'm hoping that they would just replace my device with a new one.
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daaaaaaaang, i would cry... good luck!
mkoger said:
daaaaaaaang, i would cry... good luck!
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Thanks. Yep, I sobbed for a bit after the attendee told me they need to keep it for further evaluation and no service unit was available.
My hunch on what happened to my Note was that it was writing to the flash when the power went out and did not get the chance to finish the write cycle. Thus, the unit was left out with a corrupted flash. I'm thinking that the OS should have prevented this from happening since it should know that the battery is about to die out. Moreover, even if the main flash got corrupted, there should have been a different controller (MCU, FPGA or similar) apart from the main processor which contain a boot loader code of some sort that would kick in to enable recovery of the device even if the main flash is corrupted.
I've been browsing through other threads under the SGN forum pertaining to units that won't respond to key presses to reset the device or to enter into downloading mode. I'm now lead to believe that there is no redundant system inside the Note that will ensure device recovery. Can anybody here who knows the hardware on the Note confirm or debunk this? Anybody from Samsung here?
I've been working with IOS devices (different iPhones) for a while now and had, on a number of occasions, made mistakes in jailbreaking the device but I would always be able to trust that I could re-enter DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode with some key press combinations and be able to recover the device completely. I think this is absent on the Note.
I was hoping that the Note had this feature.
anybody here who encountered a similar problem?
I have the same problem. At the morning a tried to turn on my SGN, but no response. All th simptoms the same: no charging, no reactions to buttons combinations, no PC detection.
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I have the same problem. At the morning a tried to turn on my SGN, but no response. All th simptoms the same: no charging, no reactions to buttons combinations, no PC detection.
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Can you describe what exactly happened before you bricked your SGN? Have you done any further evaluations so far or have you sent your unit to the service center too?
I'm just curious, where did you get your SGN from? I'm from the Philippines and got mine from Abenson's.
I'll keep you posted as soon as I get additional information from the service center.
Good luck to us.
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I'm not sure if our problem is somehow related to this as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422781
This is regarding a faulty USB interface. Could it be a weak USB interface circuit design or a weak bootloader implementation? The root cause will certainly be useful so that we can take extra precautions in the future as we work with the SGN.
same problem
I have the note, just a week old.
was reading a book when the display went all bizzare.
I had to remove the battery to shut it down.
Never got it to boot so far..
PC does not detect it and it doesn't charge either..
I am taking it to the service center in the morning, will update everyone on what they say.
wolfmanx said:
Can you describe what exactly happened before you bricked your SGN? Have you done any further evaluations so far or have you sent your unit to the service center too?
I'm just curious, where did you get your SGN from? I'm from the Philippines and got mine from Abenson's.
I'll keep you posted as soon as I get additional information from the service center.
Good luck to us.
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I'm not sure if our problem is somehow related to this as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422781
This is regarding a faulty USB interface. Could it be a weak USB interface circuit design or a weak bootloader implementation? The root cause will certainly be useful so that we can take extra precautions in the future as we work with the SGN.
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I traveled at the train on vacation and connected my SGN to this device for charging and it became charging. At the morning I tried to power on SGN but it was bricked. I'm from Russia but now I'm in Ukrain and can't send my SGN to service center.
After the visit to the service center.
sunnysurya said:
I have the note, just a week old.
was reading a book when the display went all bizzare.
I had to remove the battery to shut it down.
Never got it to boot so far..
PC does not detect it and it doesn't charge either..
I am taking it to the service center in the morning, will update everyone on what they say.
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Hey guys,
updating as promised.
the service center tried to "upgrade" software: I guess that's code for flashed new ROM.
After which they told me that the "Motherboard" is being replaced and that I have to wait till tomorrow noon.
So there you are guys, Motherboard
Will update further once I have more details.
I called-up the local Samsung service center today to follow-up on my unit and informed me that they will be replacing the motherboard as well. They said that they already ordered the replacement board from Korea and should arrive within the next 3 days. Darn.
Although I'm happy that I will have my unit repaired, I'm still a bit worried that until the root cause is determined, I may end up with bricking my Note again given the same circumstances.
What part of the motherboard is responsible for bricking the device then? We need to get to the bottom of this in order to avoid the same thing from happening again or determine whether this is really because of a faulty hardware design.
I agree..
wolfmanx said:
I called-up the local Samsung service center today to follow-up on my unit and informed me that they will be replacing the motherboard as well. They said that they already ordered the replacement board from Korea and should arrive within the next 3 days. Darn.
Although I'm happy that I will have my unit repaired, I'm still a bit worried that until the root cause is determined, I may end up with bricking my Note again given the same circumstances.
What part of the motherboard is responsible for bricking the device then? We need to get to the bottom of this in order to avoid the same thing from happening again or determine whether this is really because of a faulty hardware design.
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I agree Wolfmanx, I have asked for a detailed report on how this happened. Now that I know more people are facing the same issue, I will ask them for more details.
Cheers!
Almost same issue
I just got my phone delivered by Fedex. I unboxed it, slapped in the battery, charged it and tried to turn it on. The only thing that happened was the boot up chime. The screen never turned on and still won't light up. I can hear the sound all right, so I know the machine is not completely bricked, but the screen never activates and the 2 capacitive buttons never light up either.
It's really frustrating since I took the day off to play with it. Such a fine piece of hardware, but it seems to be very fragile and prone to problems.
Hey guys. Not a regular user of the Note but my brother bought one about a week ago and got into the same issue some of you guys have had. Basically the Note was left uncharged (he plugged the Micro USB into the phone but forgot to plug the other end into a power source) overnight. When he woke up in the morning the phone was off, wouldn't turn on and didn't respond to any button combo. It also wouldn't charge even after trying with several different cables and leaving the cable in for several minutes.
Anyway we bought the phone back to the AIS (a carrier in Thailand) shop. Got to talk with a rather condescending salesperson who insisted that we had to take the phone to a Samsung customer service centre. Pretty frustrating experience but that's another story.
When we finally got to the Samsung repair centre, some technicians looked at the phone and determined that the battery has run flat out. This is not the normal "complete discharge" you would see in normal operation of a battery where there will be some voltage left in the battery. The battery was discharged completely in such a way that there was no voltage left which means that the charging mechanism on the phone doesn't detect any battery being inside the compartment.
Anyway the technician "jump-started" the battery by putting a bit of charge in it and after that the phone would charge and turn on fine. We were told that if the problem happens again leaving the phone in the charger for a while would fix the problem, and if that fails you can take the battery to a technician to jump-start it. Basically we can just avoid the problem by not draining the battery completely in the first place.
The customer service lady also claimed that this is a common problem for all Samsung phones, which is a bold-faced lie since I've owned several Samsung phones and never had any problem like this. Any decent electronic device should be designed to cut down the power before the battery has a chance to completely deplete in the first place anyway. It had been a long day by then so we didn't have the energy to call them out on this. We also didn't want to replace or repair the phone, since we are going abroad tomorrow and they don't have any new Galaxy Note in stock for immediate replacement.
So the root of the problem seems to be some sort of hardware or software problem that would cause the battery to occasionally completely drain. Not sure if this problem would affect all Galaxy Notes or just certain units. Since my brother will be keeping the same phone I will keep you guys updated if this problem happens again.
tl;dr, it's a problem with battery charging
Chrono_Tata said:
Hey guys. Not a regular user of the Note but my brother bought one about a week ago and got into the same issue some of you guys have had. Basically the Note was left uncharged (he plugged the Micro USB into the phone but forgot to plug the other end into a power source) overnight. When he woke up in the morning the phone was off, wouldn't turn on and didn't respond to any button combo. It also wouldn't charge even after trying with several different cables and leaving the cable in for several minutes.
Anyway we bought the phone back to the AIS (a carrier in Thailand) shop. Got to talk with a rather condescending salesperson who insisted that we had to take the phone to a Samsung customer service centre. Pretty frustrating experience but that's another story.
When we finally got to the Samsung repair centre, some technicians looked at the phone and determined that the battery has run flat out. This is not the normal "complete discharge" you would see in normal operation of a battery where there will be some voltage left in the battery. The battery was discharged completely in such a way that there was no voltage left which means that the charging mechanism on the phone doesn't detect any battery being inside the compartment.
Anyway the technician "jump-started" the battery by putting a bit of charge in it and after that the phone would charge and turn on fine. We were told that if the problem happens again leaving the phone in the charger for a while would fix the problem, and if that fails you can take the battery to a technician to jump-start it. Basically we can just avoid the problem by not draining the battery completely in the first place.
The customer service lady also claimed that this is a common problem for all Samsung phones, which is a bold-faced lie since I've owned several Samsung phones and never had any problem like this. Any decent electronic device should be designed to cut down the power before the battery has a chance to completely deplete in the first place anyway. It had been a long day by then so we didn't have the energy to call them out on this. We also didn't want to replace or repair the phone, since we are going abroad tomorrow and they don't have any new Galaxy Note in stock for immediate replacement.
So the root of the problem seems to be some sort of hardware or software problem that would cause the battery to occasionally completely drain. Not sure if this problem would affect all Galaxy Notes or just certain units. Since my brother will be keeping the same phone I will keep you guys updated if this problem happens again.
tl;dr, it's a problem with battery charging
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Actually, this is what happens to all rechargeable devices when completely drained and left that way for a long time. That's why I try to avoid calibrating batteries unless it's really necessary. But the technician is right, sometimes you only need to leave it plugged in to revive the battery. I've tried this a lot and I still get nervous every time.
Had that problem with my Evo, left it charging over night and the battery came back to life
Hi XDA folks,
I request your help because something weird happened to my Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), and I need your suggestions for a repair.
What happened :
The phone seems hard-bricked, it doesn't turn on anymore.
No access to download and recovery mod. No charge icon anymore.
It is not the battery, direct charging didn't work.
How :
That's the problem : I don't know : it's a sudden death.
Last evening, I charged it up to 100%, removed the cable, sent some sms, then shut down the screen and went to sleep. At the next morning, the phone was dead.
The phone never fall, nor try to be a submarine.
The phone is almost 2 years-old, but only used those last 4 months.
The phone was never rooted and was under ICS (last samsung update in Belgium).
Request :
Does anyone have an idea about what happened ?
Any suggestion ? Any test to try ?
Is it a known bug fixable ? - or - Can I start sparing for a new phone ?
Thank you very much in advance,
Stefouch
Im the 2 today just a minute ago mine is dead 2.
Have to do a lot of reading here and when i succeed i will let it know.
First of all: test with a different and fully loaded battery.
stefouch said:
Hi XDA folks,
I request your help because something weird happened to my Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), and I need your suggestions for a repair.
What happened :
The phone seems hard-bricked, it doesn't turn on anymore.
No access to download and recovery mod. No charge icon anymore.
It is not the battery, direct charging didn't work.
How :
That's the problem : I don't know : it's a sudden death.
Last evening, I charged it up to 100%, removed the cable, sent some sms, then shut down the screen and went to sleep. At the next morning, the phone was dead.
The phone never fall, nor try to be a submarine.
The phone is almost 2 years-old, but only used those last 4 months.
The phone was never rooted and was under ICS (last samsung update in Belgium).
Request :
Does anyone have an idea about what happened ?
Any suggestion ? Any test to try ?
Is it a known bug fixable ? - or - Can I start sparing for a new phone ?
Thank you very much in advance,
Stefouch
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Like ThaiDai mentioned, try with a different battery. You could be having the same problems that I had.
My battery was swollen. (Due to excessive charging, this reduces battery life like crazy, 70% jumped to 1% in a second.
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The circuit board of the my charging board is burnt so adb and direct charging doesn't work.
Cost me about $100 to fix them. $50 for each component. Ouch..
If your phone works after using another battery works, you might wanna look into the two problems I mentioned.
To Stefouch ,
Is your phone still dead?
I did not read your first post that good and saw later you cant get to download mode any more.
At first it looked I could not get into download mode , but I had to press those buttons for a longer time ( 30 sec + ).
After all I get my phone working again with a firmware and flash with Odin.
If want to try again to get into download mode by holding the buttons for a longer time I post again.
ThaiDai said:
First of all: test with a different and fully loaded battery.
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Already done, still dead.
x33eraser said:
Like ThaiDai mentioned, try with a different battery. You could be having the same problems that I had.
My battery was swollen. (Due to excessive charging, this reduces battery life like crazy, 70% jumped to 1% in a second.
PLUS
The circuit board of the my charging board is burnt so adb and direct charging doesn't work.
Cost me about $100 to fix them. $50 for each component. Ouch..
If your phone works after using another battery works, you might wanna look into the two problems I mentioned.
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As mentioned previously, I tried direct charging on the battery connectors but it changes nothing. The battery is not involved.
I also changed the circuit board in a repair shop, unfortunately it didn't reanimate my samsung.
The tech said he can't do anymore unless putting a new Note mother board, but that's almost 300 bucks.
annoniem said:
To Stefouch,
Is your phone still dead?
I did not read your first post that good and saw later you cant get to download mode any more.
At first it looked I could not get into download mode , but I had to press those buttons for a longer time ( 30 sec + ).
After all I get my phone working again with a firmware and flash with Odin.
If want to try again to get into download mode by holding the buttons for a longer time I post again.
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I didn't try to press longer, I will try this one this evening and keep you informed.
Thanks all for your help,
Regards,
Stefouch if you do not get it running others cant even.
Take it to the shop where you got it from , there is a 2 year warranty on your phone.
And you have nothing to loose its dead now.
Yesterday I went to my bathroom and light still working , today its not.
Did not do anything wrong , its how electronics works
eMMC brickbug Micro USB module Note N7000 hot
stefouch said:
Hi XDA folks,
I request your help because something weird happened to my Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), and I need your suggestions for a repair.
What happened :
The phone seems hard-bricked, it doesn't turn on anymore.
No access to download and recovery mod. No charge icon anymore.
It is not the battery, direct charging didn't work.
How :
That's the problem : I don't know : it's a sudden death.
Last evening, I charged it up to 100%, removed the cable, sent some sms, then shut down the screen and went to sleep. At the next morning, the phone was dead.
The phone never fall, nor try to be a submarine.
The phone is almost 2 years-old, but only used those last 4 months.
The phone was never rooted and was under ICS (last samsung update in Belgium).
Request :
Does anyone have an idea about what happened ?
Any suggestion ? Any test to try ?
Is it a known bug fixable ? - or - Can I start sparing for a new phone ?
Thank you very much in advance,
Stefouch
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Got like the same problem with N7000. Phone in use for about 11 months. Dropped it more then once but not last few months, find it hard to believe you didn't ever drop in in almost 700 days, but ow well you must be that one in a million guy, hèhè. Anywhooo... Phone was fully charged overnight. It had been of charger for only few hours. Got a call from friend, but I was buzzy, so ignored it. When I wanted to call him back an hour later phone didn't respond in any way. Went to store, they said it wasn't battery but most likely the power-grid or something like it he said. Spoke about changing a module. But as there are signs of damage on the outside they said warranty is no longer valid. He to said the micro USB did not go well in the port of the phone, which he connected to the failure of the phone. To my disappointment I can say, this flaw was present when I got the phone (new!). I figured getting it in difficultly was normal cause I had nothing to compare it to. But feel pretty screwed by my provider. So now I think about changing that specific module, but the guy from the store spoke about billing me around 90 euros (like $130) for the repair. So now feel double screwed by Vodaphone because: The module itself is for sale online between 23,95-32,95 euro, so they wanted to charge me 60 euro for 5 minutes work. I'm totally broke right now so can't tell you if this is gonna work. And with a week waiting till my pay-check is gonna make me whole again, I got the opportunity to learn from other peoples experience. So perhaps this is something for you to try?
I know for sure I got this eMMC Brickbug (tested it with the app) and I'm not sure I updated my Note the right way last year.
So...
Is it possible a new (automatic) update screwed me over and most of all: screwed the hardware?
Other QUESTIONS:
Could it be the Micro-USB module?
I used the phone much for online gaming, so it got pretty hot at the back sometimes. Did you have the same? Can anyone else relate to this?
annoniem said:
Stefouch if you do not get it running others cant even.
Take it to the shop where you got it from , there is a 2 year warranty on your phone.
And you have nothing to loose its dead now.
Yesterday I went to my bathroom and light still working , today its not.
Did not do anything wrong , its how electronics works
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If you take a light bulb connect it to power and shake it, the inside wiring will reconnect when it makes contact and work again. So changing the bulb is mostly because we THINK it's not fixable or being lazy. Most things we can fix ourselves or with a little help from our fellow users.
If there is still warranty left you should indeed try to take advantage of that. But please ask the guy that fixed it what was wrong and what was replaced and share it with us.
Hope you too will be able to fix it cheap.
Thanks all in advance!
hi guys, straight to the point i want to ask something
my phone is Samsung Galaxy Note N7000, my old battery is damaged, so i decided to buy a new n700 battery in samsung outlet.
when i plugged this new battery, my phone won't start, or charge. can you help me guys? i searched similar problems in google or in this forum, but all the problem i founded, it's because wrong flashing or custom ROM installation. but i did not flashing or install custom ROM.
When my old battery condition get worst, i decided to turn my device off, because my back case can't close properly (my old battery is getting fat).
about 3-4 days later i decided to buy a new battery, and turn my device on, it's nothing happened.
can you help me guys? i really need the solution
*sorry for my bad english
Hello,
Have you already tried to plug the old battery and start the phone?
Is there a battery charging animation with phone turned off when you plug the cable to AC power? (both old and new battery)
If you know someone with a N7000, can you borrow the battery to try to turn on your phone?
We have to pinpoint whether the issue is in the battery, in the phone memory, or else...
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 :|