Device wont turn on, except when plugged in - Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0

Ok so for some reason now my SGP 5.0 USA will not turn on right. Whenever I press the power button it shows the loading circle then the battery icon. Now I know what your thinking its dead. But it is not! The battery is always charged. Right now it is at 85 percent and doing this. Only way to get it on is to plug it into the outlet and hold on until finally(after many of the battery reboots as mentioned above) it boots up.
Also it will not stay on. As soon as I unplug the charger the device turns right off. It only seems to start up properly when it is above 95 percent battery. If it is anything under I am forced to have it in the charger. I am on PAC-Rom with Sultan Kernel R5b2. I do not have fast charge enabled.
This is really weird, anyone know whats going on? Is the battery just shot?

Yeah, it happens to me on CM 10.1. I don't think there's anything you can do about it, and if you're worried about it not turning on, why not just charge it whilst it's on? It also seems that both ROMs don't have a charging animation. I'm not even sure if I understood your question, lol.

TheKryptonite said:
Yeah, it happens to me on CM 10.1. I don't think there's anything you can do about it, and if you're worried about it not turning on, why not just charge it whilst it's on? It also seems that both ROMs don't have a charging animation. I'm not even sure if I understood your question, lol.
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It does not matter if its on. I plug the charger in and taking it out will turn the device off. If I try to turn it on it wont turn on it just shows the battery icon then turns off no samsung logo nothing. Im just trying to wonder why its happening. It has never been a problem before been using cm 10.1 since they first released it for the SGP 5.0 and this has not started happening until a week or so ago.

lazepr said:
It does not matter if its on. I plug the charger in and taking it out will turn the device off. If I try to turn it on it wont turn on it just shows the battery icon then turns off no samsung logo nothing. Im just trying to wonder why its happening. It has never been a problem before been using cm 10.1 since they first released it for the SGP 5.0 and this has not started happening until a week or so ago.
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Do you try to turn it on when it's plugged in? It's probably the ROM that's causing the problem.

Yes have to hold power button for a good 30 seconds it will do the whole battery icon several times on third one it finally goes to system completely bypassing Samsung logo which is weird.
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lazepr said:
Yes have to hold power button for a good 30 seconds it will do the whole battery icon several times on third one it finally goes to system completely bypassing Samsung logo which is weird.
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Did you try draining the battery completely (boot to download mode and let it sit)? That has fixed it for other people.

Can clearing the battery stats by recovery work?
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hanjosep said:
Can clearing the battery stats by recovery work?
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That doesn't affect anything but the usage info in the settings app, so no.

Mevordel said:
Did you try draining the battery completely (boot to download mode and let it sit)? That has fixed it for other people.
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I have just tried this with no luck. This really sucks Its hard to install nightlies and turn it off during the night like I like when I can't even turn it back on or have it reboot into recovery. Think I should try flashing stock then cm9 then cm 10.1 in order see if that helps cause like I said been on cm 10 since it first came out never had a problem until a week ago.
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Bricked

So, I did S-Off yesterday, flashed the SU binary yesterday. Did NAND backup for good measure. All great and all.
Today, I wake up and phone is off. Realized I forgot to charge it. Plugged into charger, and orange light comes on, turns off for about 2 seconds, turns on again. 10 minutes plugged in, Pune won't turn on. Took out and licked the battery terminals. It has juice.
Noticed that now the light doing quick flash of orange quick flash of green. None of buttons do anything.
Any ideas?
Leave it charge for about 1 hour, then try to boot up. If you have a battery dock use that, if not just plug in and let it sit.
edit.....i just seen another thread where the phone doesnt charge while off, what recovery are you using? I have the twrp (TeamWin Recovery) and it is charging while phone is off.
cordell12 said:
Leave it charge for about 1 hour, then try to boot up. If you have a battery dock use that, if not just plug in and let it sit.
edit.....i just seen another thread where the phone doesnt charge while off, what recovery are you using?
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The team win recovery. I did a crude battery test (licking terminals) and it should have sufficient juice to boot up
Unplug it and turn it on, its not bricked. But it wont turn on as long as its plugged in.
Konfuzion said:
Unplug it and turn it on, its not bricked. But it wont turn on as long as its plugged in.
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Weird, did turn on, but power button was weird. Had to push it few times. Booted up, shows about 50% battery
Meanee said:
Weird, did turn on, but power button was weird. Had to push it few times. Booted up, shows about 50% battery
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But unplugging it did the trick right?
Konfuzion said:
But unplugging it did the trick right?
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Yes. Took few tries to turn it on.
Meanee said:
Yes. Took few tries to turn it on.
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Cool glad you got it working.
cordell12 said:
Leave it charge for about 1 hour, then try to boot up. If you have a battery dock use that, if not just plug in and let it sit.
edit.....i just seen another thread where the phone doesnt charge while off, what recovery are you using? I have the twrp (TeamWin Recovery) and it is charging while phone is off.
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that would be my thread.
It was suggested on that thread that I use a different recovery (using CWM at the moment), but I see that the person who is having this same problem is using TeamWin recovery and has the same issue, so I'm guessing that it's not the recovery itself but some other reason.
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I can confirm this happened to me last night and I almost **** a brick......the charging light would turn on then offf right away.....after 15 min of holding the power button, it turned on with the charging light on...
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I think it has something to do with turning off fast boot. I checked it back, and it worked like it did before.
Meanee said:
So, I did S-Off yesterday, flashed the SU binary yesterday. Did NAND backup for good measure. All great and all.
Today, I wake up and phone is off. Realized I forgot to charge it. Plugged into charger, and orange light comes on, turns off for about 2 seconds, turns on again. 10 minutes plugged in, Pune won't turn on. Took out and licked the battery terminals. It has juice.
Noticed that now the light doing quick flash of orange quick flash of green. None of buttons do anything.
Any ideas?
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I bricked a 3vo before we had s-off and trust me you would know, when you plug into usb, ac, have a charged battery, or anything you get no indicator lights whatsoever lol glad its all good and working though
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Now my phone all of a sudden won't boot into hboot. Yesterday it did but today it hasn't. And I have no system data so it just hangs at the splash.
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It's because HTC won't allow charging with the phone off (trickle charge) due to the fact it kills battery cells fast and HTC doesn't like replacing batteries. Keep fastboot on in power menu and you will be able to charge with "phone off"...because it truly isn't off.....
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kpkimmel said:
It's because HTC won't allow charging with the phone off (trickle charge) due to the fact it kills battery cells fast and HTC doesn't like replacing batteries. Keep fastboot on in power menu and you will be able to charge with "phone off"...because it truly isn't off.....
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Hmm, interesting. My phone charger while having fastboot under power settings unchecked, with my phone powered off...
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Issues

Since today I've had issues with my photon got extremely hot but the weird thing is that I wasn't using it and I had my data turned off as I always do at work to save battery. Battery was dying SUPER FAST like it lasted bout 6 hours cut off I got home was charging it downloading seanz's latest 2.2 deblur build and next thing u know it just blanked out and now it wont cut bak on all I get is an indicator light when I hook it up to a CPU. Its been about 4hrs and still nothing anyone else experience something like this
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snoopy1e11 said:
Since today I've had issues with my photon got extremely hot but the weird thing is that I wasn't using it and I had my data turned off as I always do at work to save battery. Battery was dying SUPER FAST like it lasted bout 6 hours cut off I got home was charging it downloading seanz's latest 2.2 deblur build and next thing u know it just blanked out and now it wont cut bak on all I get is an indicator light when I hook it up to a CPU. Its been about 4hrs and still nothing anyone else experience something like this
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Try your OEM A/C charger. Some people have reported the phone will only recognize that when the battery is fully drained.
Yeah.....return that! That is not normal at all.
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beartrap said:
Try your OEM A/C charger. Some people have reported the phone will only recognize that when the battery is fully drained.
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The only time the indicator light comes on is when its connected to CPU if I hit power button light goes off and nothing else I got it sitting on OEM charger now still nothing
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snoopy1e11 said:
The only time the indicator light comes on is when its connected to CPU if I hit power button light goes off and nothing else I got it sitting on OEM charger now still nothing
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Once I had my phone drain so low it died (not just turned itself off) and when I hooked up the charger, it took several minutes for the indicator light to come on and go into charging mode. Have you left it on the OEM charger for several minutes?
beartrap said:
Once I had my phone drain so low it died (not just turned itself off) and when I hooked up the charger, it took several minutes for the indicator light to come on and go into charging mode. Have you left it on the OEM charger for several minutes?
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I'm actually experiencing this right now. It has been on the charger for about 10 minutes and still wont boot. I had a white light, now it is green. Going to give it a little more time and see how it plays out.
my2cents said:
I'm actually experiencing this right now. It has been on the charger for about 10 minutes and still wont boot. I had a white light, now it is green. Going to give it a little more time and see how it plays out.
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Yep, mine also started as white and evidently that means a completely drained battery. It changed to green and started charging soon after.
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Yep, mine also started as white and evidently that means a completely drained battery. It changed to green and started charging soon after.
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After about 15-20 minutes the phone booted up on its own. Just an FYI for anyone who thinks there phone is not working after it dies.
I've had this problem too. I just figured, it's a SMARTphone, it'll figure itself out This has easily happened to me over 5 times, and phone still works fine and holds over a day charge.

[q] htc amaze bricked?

was running quicksense from about january dont know exactly which version.
phone completely died on me,
connected it to the charger and it turned on to the green "htc" logo,
but then it turns off..
so i tried booting to recover; holding volume down + power, with no luck.
tried it via connected to computer, no luck.
with & without batter still nothing..
weird thing is, SOMETIMES the charging light will keep blinking.
also SOMETIMES, the screen stays off, and the vibration feedback when pressing the home, menu, back, and search keys, virbates..
do i have the first bricked amaze or what?
--the search key "restarts the phone"
i can tell because the keys no longer make the phone vibrate when pressed after pressing the search key.
I'm betting my money on you having a earlier recovery installed that doesn't allow proper boot if the battery is dead... crappy part about that? it doesn't let the battery charge either... Find someone with an Amaze, or Sensation, charge your battery in their phone for 30 minutes, then try your phone again. Also, after your phone is charged, you probably want to reflash your recovery to a new one that doesn't exhibit this problem.
*just a wild guess, but it makes sense, it's happened to me*
*note, you could just have unrelated catastrophic hardware failure, lol*
As long as you have s - off you can't brick it.
jimczyz said:
As long as you DON'T have s - off you can't brick it.
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S-Off isn't possible right now, S-On-Unlocked is safe. although having the recovery that doesn't support charging is like a temp-brick. You just need to charge your battery in another phone.
Or splice the battery directly to the wires for half an hour. That's how I charged when my charging port was the broked
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Can you at least get into adb? You could try accessing it and then using adb to reboot into bootloader/recovery via "abd reboot recovery" or "adb reboot bootloader"
Did this get resolved? Just wanted to know if my hunch was right.
It sounds like a dead battery. The blinking light means (from my experience) that its charging but not enough juice to use yet. Once my phone died and it blinked for a couple of minutes. I tried turning on, but battery wasn't juiced enough. After a few minutes, the light turned solid and was charging and had enough power to turn on.
I would try a new battery. Good news is you're not bricked, and most likely, not even soft bricked
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What version of CWM are you using?
thank you guys for all your replies,
i let it charge for about 30 minutes and then it finally turned on
tombeach22 said:
Or splice the battery directly to the wires for half an hour. That's how I charged when my charging port was the broked
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How exactly did you do this lol?
glacierguy said:
It sounds like a dead battery. The blinking light means (from my experience) that its charging but not enough juice to use yet. Once my phone died and it blinked for a couple of minutes. I tried turning on, but battery wasn't juiced enough. After a few minutes, the light turned solid and was charging and had enough power to turn on.
I would try a new battery. Good news is you're not bricked, and most likely, not even soft bricked
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superrskillz said:
thank you guys for all your replies,
i let it charge for about 30 minutes and then it finally turned on
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Thought that was the issue. Splice the battery or flash a new recovery? Lol let's cut off his hand to cure the mosquito bite lol
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i have the same issue i could get into hboot and recovery but i cant get passed bootload and i charge it for like an hour but it wont stop flashing what can i do is it the battery?
Amazing Brick
I've had a very similar issue to those mentioned here. I have the latest cwm recovery installed (five point something). After wiping battery stats my amaze went into a cycle of booting up normally then automatically restarting after about 30 seconds. Now it shows the amber light while charging, but will not boot at all, not even into recovery. adb says device not recognized, and the amber light flashes periodically and shuts off if i press the power button... should I trash this phone and get a galaxy s II ?
Throatchopper said:
I've had a very similar issue to those mentioned here. I have the latest cwm recovery installed (five point something). After wiping battery stats my amaze went into a cycle of booting up normally then automatically restarting after about 30 seconds. Now it shows the amber light while charging, but will not boot at all, not even into recovery. adb says device not recognized, and the amber light flashes periodically and shuts off if i press the power button... should I trash this phone and get a galaxy s II ?
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Yes, trash the phone. Ill give u my address and u can send me th trash, ill even gove u $10 for it
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Throatchopper said:
I've had a very similar issue to those mentioned here. I have the latest cwm recovery installed (five point something). After wiping battery stats my amaze went into a cycle of booting up normally then automatically restarting after about 30 seconds. Now it shows the amber light while charging, but will not boot at all, not even into recovery. adb says device not recognized, and the amber light flashes periodically and shuts off if i press the power button... should I trash this phone and get a galaxy s II ?
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Charge it for 30-60 minutes. Unplug it and do a battery pull. Put battery back on and reboot your phone
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superrskillz said:
was running quicksense from about january dont know exactly which version.
phone completely died on me,
connected it to the charger and it turned on to the green "htc" logo,
but then it turns off..
so i tried booting to recover; holding volume down + power, with no luck.
tried it via connected to computer, no luck.
with & without batter still nothing..
weird thing is, SOMETIMES the charging light will keep blinking.
also SOMETIMES, the screen stays off, and the vibration feedback when pressing the home, menu, back, and search keys, virbates..
do i have the first bricked amaze or what?
--the search key "restarts the phone"
i can tell because the keys no longer make the phone vibrate when pressed after pressing the search key.
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Did you resolve your issue?
It was a hardware issue so I Just did a warranty replacement on the defective phone. I now have the galaxy s2 and the wife uses the replaced amaze thanks all
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HTC Amaze won't turn on
Hi guys.
I'm having problem with my HTC won't turn on at all. I tried swapping out the battery with the new one but still won't work. And of course I can't get into adb to do reboot thru that so now i'm stuck. I'm running out of option and trying to turn on the phone. Please help if you can
thanks
darknight26 said:
Hi guys.
I'm having problem with my HTC won't turn on at all. I tried swapping out the battery with the new one but still won't work. And of course I can't get into adb to do reboot thru that so now i'm stuck. I'm running out of option and trying to turn on the phone. Please help if you can
thanks
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Does the phone charge when you plug it in?

[Q] Phone dead!!!

My SII wont turn on. i tried everything from reseating the battery, charging overnight, holding vol down + power button but stilll nothing. please help.
I've had this problem happen to me once lasted a whole day fixed itself though after I decided to try hooking it up to my car charger. Battery wasn't dead either just a weird bug I guess. Forgot what rom I was on but I dont use it anymore anyway.
It happened to me when i was running unnamed i tried odin it didnt work but i just called att and got another one
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Its been 2 days since it has been dead. but still nothing.
U gave no one any useful information to help resolve the issue. What ROM were u using. What kernel. Stock charging cable? Stock or aftermarket battery? What were u doing when this occurred? Did u let it die and then try to charge it or did it stop working while charging?
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pratikjac said:
My SII wont turn on. i tried everything from reseating the battery, charging overnight, holding vol down + power button but stilll nothing. please help.
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Have you removed the battery first?
Mine turns on just fine w/o the battery installed but won't work the other way around
Not sure what happened and why happened. But all of a sudden the phone turned on and started to work after being dead for 2 days. Its all good now.
Thanks guys.

[Q] Bricked and cant get into recovery or bootloader

So I have a verizon s4 (rooted) and it is bricked. If I take the battery out and put it back in the screen shows "Samsung" and then goes black and nothing else happens. I cant get it to start in bootloader or recovery mode either.
I am not sure if or how this is relevant, but I have been having issues with the power button, meaning that it wouldnt work when pressed except sometimes if I held it down long enough the "shut down/reboot" option showed up. In short I am not so convinced that it is working properly or maybe even at all.
Any help would be appreciated
Were you doing anything when it happened? Trying to install a rom, recovery etc?
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riker147 said:
Were you doing anything when it happened? Trying to install a rom, recovery etc?
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no, I was having an issue with my internet and I took out the battery hoping to restart it and then this happened
pie are squared said:
no, I was having an issue with my internet and I took out the battery hoping to restart it and then this happened
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Stupid suggestion, but try plugging the phone in to charge. I had some odd things happen to my phone where it would try to boot and continue to shut down. I knew I had charge on the battery, but when i plugged in the phone to the wall adapter, it acted like the battery did not have any power left. Once charged enough to boot, the phone would work fine.
Skeetch79 said:
Stupid suggestion, but try plugging the phone in to charge. I had some odd things happen to my phone where it would try to boot and continue to shut down. I knew I had charge on the battery, but when i plugged in the phone to the wall adapter, it acted like the battery did not have any power left. Once charged enough to boot, the phone would work fine.
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Just tried that, didnt help
I guess what I am looking for is a way to take over the phone via a computer and somehow force it to behave
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Stupid suggestion, but try plugging the phone in to charge. I had some odd things happen to my phone where it would try to boot and continue to shut down. I knew I had charge on the battery, but when i plugged in the phone to the wall adapter, it acted like the battery did not have any power left. Once charged enough to boot, the phone would work fine.
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Additionally, when I did plug it in it made no indication of being plugged in (the light didnt go on, the cahrging battery picture didnt show up, nothing)
pie are squared said:
Additionally, when I did plug it in it made no indication of being plugged in (the light didnt go on, the cahrging battery picture didnt show up, nothing)
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Maybe your battery is hosed or this is worth a call to Samsung and maybe they can perform a repair if need be
Skeetch79 said:
Maybe your battery is hosed or this is worth a call to Samsung and maybe they can perform a repair if need be
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I guess I can try someone elses battery and see what happens, otherwise I dont know if my warranty will cover it cause its rooted and it turns on long enough to show the open lock and "custom"
Ok, I tried using someone elses battery still no luck...
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install adb shell and see if you can boot into recovery or bootloader from there
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Ok, I tried using someone elses battery still no luck...
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looks like your S4 is toast most likely
52brandon said:
install adb shell and see if you can boot into recovery or bootloader from there
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How do I do that?
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pie are squared said:
So I have a verizon s4 (rooted) and it is bricked. If I take the battery out and put it back in the screen shows "Samsung" and then goes black and nothing else happens. I cant get it to start in bootloader or recovery mode either.
I am not sure if or how this is relevant, but I have been having issues with the power button, meaning that it wouldnt work when pressed except sometimes if I held it down long enough the "shut down/reboot" option showed up. In short I am not so convinced that it is working properly or maybe even at all.
Any help would be appreciated
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I am having the same issue - http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/help/gs4-shuts-startup-t2823928
Any luck yet?

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