I was in File Expert this morning, about to back up my apps, and my screen locked up (I was just checking apps to BU, had not started it yet). The only button that works is the on/off, but it only turns the screen on and off. No power down, no back, no settings, nothing. SPG5, so can't do a battery pull (what was Samsung thinking?). I thought maybe my battery went to zero, but I have it on a charger now, still just screen on or off. Is there a reboot sequence?
HELP!
edit: Sorry for the panic. I discovered that if I looooooooong press the power button, it finally rebooted. Not like a typical power off, a hold for 5 seconds; this took a hold of at least 30 seconds. Screen did nothing for a while, then turned on, then turned off and rebooted. All is back to were it was...
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So I used my nook tablet all day yesterday and this morning. I put it down to goto lunch.. came back and noticed my wifi was not on.. I checked settings and it showed "Wifi turning off" and it was grayed out and just stuck.
I've seen this before with other android devices so no biggie. I powered the unit off.
Now it won't turn back on. Holding the power button now for about 20 secs and nothing.
The battery is at like 80% and I even plugged it in to see if it helped but no good.
I did root it at 1.4.0 and used the Block OTA method with titanium backup but nobody else seems to have a problem.
Is there a way to boot in recovery or something ? Perhaps a trip back to B&N will be needed.
Ok.. holding vol down + power for around 8 secs got it back on. Weird
i have noticed this a few times. Not sure why but never lost anything
DssTrainer said:
Ok.. holding vol down + power for around 8 secs got it back on. Weird
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His happened to me once and I don't know what I did to get it back on. Glad that I now know, thanks.
Sent from my rooted Nook Tablet.
DssTrainer said:
Ok.. holding vol down + power for around 8 secs got it back on. Weird
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I had a similar problem. I couldn't get the tablet to turn on. I discovered in a Kindle Fire forum that you could get the Fire to start when stuck in the off position by holding down the power button for 20 seconds. I tried that with my Nook and it started right up.
Thank! That worked! I was having the same issue. Said Wifi was turning off and all went blank and couldn't reboot. You gave me the answer.
Cheers.
I have had the wifi "turning off" issue. Rather than turn off the nook, I used the menu that you get with a long press of the power button when you install either ROM manager or titanium backup, can't remember which. It has rebooted every time without issue.
The Wifi issue is a known problem. You can set the wifi to stay awake when on the charger and this problem wont happen. Add the power widget so that you can turn the wifi off when not connectwd to the charger. This combo fixes the wifi issue. When your Nook experiences a kernel error it will appear as if it is off but if you hold it at angle, you will notice backlight is on. Just hold nook button and power and it will turn off...then power to reboot rom.
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The Wifi issue is a known problem. You can set the wifi to stay awake when on the charger and this problem wont happen. Add the power widget so that you can turn the wifi off when not connectwd to the charger. This combo fixes the wifi issue. When your Nook experiences a kernel error it will appear as if it is off but if you hold it at angle, you will notice backlight is on. Just hold nook button and power and it will turn off...then power to reboot rom.
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Actually, it's happened to me twice while I had WiFi set to never sleep when charging.
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I rooted my Nook Tablet and it worked fine yesterday. Now it won't turn on and isn't recognized by my PC. I hear the windows alert when a usb device is connected but when I try to do anything via adb I always get 'error: device not found'.
I tried doing adb get-state and all I got was 'unknown'
I tried booting into recovery via holding the power button + n for various amounts of time, but nothing happened.
Does anyone have any ideas? It was working fine yesterday and I haven't changed anything on it since I used it last.
Hold the power button down for about 10 seconds. let it sit for a minute, then hold the power button for another 5 seconds or so and release. It should boot up. (assuming your battery is charged)
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Hold the power button down for about 10 seconds. let it sit for a minute, then hold the power button for another 5 seconds or so and release. It should boot up. (assuming your battery is charged)
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I had to do a reset (power button + Home) twice so far. Each time it happened after I left the tablet to recharge overnight. It did not turn on as it normally does when you unplug the charger.
I must admit that the (power button + Home) reset does not seem to be cut & dry. The routine quoted above worked the first time. The second time, I tried it several times then finally I tried the pwr button by itself and it went on.
Mine just did this Power and vol down got it running again.
So I bought an S6 Edge today. Updated it OTA to 5.1.1
Fully charged it up.
Got off a 1 hour call, the entire UI was very unresponsive
Tried rebooting, it was stuck at the boot screen.
I can only get it to reboot by holding down vol+home+power, to the 'custom OS' screen.. and then pressing down to reboot
When it boots, it says 0% battery.. and turns off
Has anyone experienced this. When I hung up the call, I had 95% battery
Can I add this is the third phone I have received from Amazon
1st one - Wifi didn't work
2nd one - 4g didn't work
3rd one - Seemed fine, now this is happening!
So the phone is off and charging.
I got the battery to come up, it says 83%
But when I turn it on (hold vol down, power and home, press cancel).. it says 0% battery, and turns off after a few seconds
I can't even enter recovery normally (vol up, power and home, held down until the android appears)
I have to use the custom OS shortcut, click cancel, and then hold vol up, power and home
I decided to try a new charger. After a few seconds I get this:
http://i.imgur.com/eFejVLY.jpg
It said 98% a minute ago!
Could this be related to the issue?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/help/battery-resets-to-0-reboot-t3143657
Can't use that app as I don't have root..
you tried just holding down the power button and volume down button for 10 seconds to soft reset it?
Mine didnt boot up at all yesterday died at 80% battery, did the above and been fine since
Hello,
Since rooting the phone it will not restart without pulling the battery.
If in Xposed "soft reboot" or "reboot" both turn the phone off and it will not respond to button input to re-start
If pressing power until power off menu comes up and I press reboot, it shuts down and will not re-start until I pull the battery.
If I plug in the power while it is in this state it will not charge or start
Once I pull the battery, it will:
Charge without starting when plugged in
Start with power button press
All else acts normal.
Any ideas? I just hate taking the stupid case off and pulling the battery any time I have to re-start!
I haven't narrowed down what causes it, but I've eliminated a lot of things:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/rebooted-140-times-attempt-to-narrow-t3251949
Just for clarity, it more than likely isn't actually "off", it's rebooting and getting frozen with a black screen. Besides pulling the battery you can also long press the power button (10 seconds?) to force it to turn off, then turn it back on again. I usually just pull the battery too because it's quicker.
Yeah, no the long press doesn't do anything no matter if I leave it pressed for 5 seconds or even 45 seconds (Tried that several times)
Leaving it alone for an hour doesn't do anything. If anything I'm doubting that it turns all the way off rather than gets stuck rebooting. It is absolutely frozen until I pull the battery.
Here are the only things I have found which works to avoid taking the phone apart:
From Quickboot: Power Off (do not reboot, do not soft boot, etc, just power off) (quickly powers down, almost instant)
or
Press and hold power button for menu: Power Off (longer time to power down)
From either of those, the power button turns the phone back on no problem.
No rebooting works.
My HTC 816 turns off / shuts down after screen time out. After time out if you let it ideal for 5-7 seconds and then try to wake it up by pressing the power button, you will have to long press the button and the phone will boot.
I also noticed it turns of completely about 80% times and 20% times it restarts.
Other interesting thing i noticed is that if the phone is plugged into a power source it wont turnoff/restart, it will behave as it should.
Also if you are on a call, and the screen times out it wont turnoff / restart.
I guess the problem comes when the phone is left idle.
I have tried factory reset, clearing cache, booting in safe mode, nothing works.
Battery is in very good condition, no fluctuations gives very good backup.
My HTC 816 turns off / shuts down after screen time out. After time out if you let it ideal for 5-7 seconds and then try to wake it up by pressing the power button, you will have to long press the button and the phone will boot.
I also noticed it turns of completely about 80% times and 20% times it restarts.
Other interesting thing i noticed is that if the phone is plugged into a power source it wont turnoff/restart, it will behave as it should.
Also if you are on a call, and the screen times out it wont turnoff / restart.
I guess the problem comes when the phone is left idle.
I have tried factory reset, clearing cache, booting in safe mode, nothing works.
Battery is in very good condition, no fluctuations gives very good backup.