Ok guys, first post here. My galaxy tab model GT-P5113TS is having an issue that I can't seem to find on any site including this one.
Little background, this problem first started several months ago. My wife ran the battery completely dead on the tab, we didn't have a "samsung" charger and couldn't get it to charge up. Bought new charger, got it charged, and ever since then, the screen will work for anywhere from 15-20 seconds to 3 or 4 minutes, then just stops working. Hitting the power button will turn the screen off, hitting it again brings up the lock screen, but the screen will still not recognize any touches. The side buttons still work, just not the touch screen.
Letting the tab sit for a couple hours is the ONLY thing that lets the touch screen work again. But it will only work for a minute or two again before it stops working. I tried a soft reset several times to no avail. Kind of forgot about the tab, left it for a while. Picked it up today after charging it and still no different than a couple months ago. I tried the factory reset several times and it made no difference. Usually the screen won't stay responsive long enough to make it through the whole set up process.
I'm pretty new to digging into these things. I'm not afraid to give it a shot, since the thing is useless in its current state. But most of the lingo and abbreviations are new to me. If anyone can point me towards a solution, I'd be VERY grateful! I'll do my best to answer any questions to help as well.
PS, we bought it used off ebay, so no warranty
Bump for some help!!
gr8shot said:
Bump for some help!!
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Well, you're in the wrong forum. This is the forum for the gt p7500/7501/7510/7511 or the galaxy tab 10.1 number 1 if you will.
So we can't help you, even if we wanted too (unless someone in this forum also owns a tab 2).
I suggest you take a look in the correct forum, I'm sure you'll have better luck there.
Sent from my Nexus 7 2013
Olivier V said:
Well, you're in the wrong forum. This is the forum for the gt p7500/7501/7510/7511 or the galaxy tab 10.1 number 1 if you will.
So we can't help you, even if we wanted too (unless someone in this forum also owns a tab 2).
I suggest you take a look in the correct forum, I'm sure you'll have better luck there.
Sent from my Nexus 7 2013
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Thanks, didn't realize that. I'll repost in the right section
gr8shot said:
Thanks, didn't realize that. I'll repost in the right section
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XDA is a big place and it's sometimes a bit complicated to get where you want to go so no worries, we've all been there at one point ?
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Lately my tab has been turning off by itself and it takes me a long time to turn it back on by holding the power button. Has a fix been found for this problem yet? I'm a little worried that one day the thing won't turn on again. Sometimes the tab is charged when it turns off, and I'm never using the thing when it does, so battery isn't really the issue. Any suggestions?
Gja88 said:
Lately my tab has been turning off by itself and it takes me a long time to turn it back on by holding the power button. Has a fix been found for this problem yet? I'm a little worried that one day the thing won't turn on again. Sometimes the tab is charged when it turns off, and I'm never using the thing when it does, so battery isn't really the issue. Any suggestions?
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Are you rooted? Running a custom ROM? Running any extra mods at all?
No, I'm fully stock,never been rooted. Willing to root if the problem can be fixed though through a rom or something
i've made good strides in combating this.
But, you must have CWM installed in order to flash.
When you are ready to do this, then head over to the dev section, kernel thread.
In the meantime, set wifi to never sleep, and see if that cures some of it.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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To be honest if you have a completely stock machine I would call samsung and get them to check it, it sounds faulty. I work for a large computer retailler and haven't seen a single one behaving like yours out of hundreds.
Brian
Brian-UK said:
To be honest if you have a completely stock machine I would call samsung and get them to check it, it sounds faulty. I work for a large computer retailler and haven't seen a single one behaving like yours out of hundreds.
Brian
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Mine also does and I have seen posts in other forums of others complaining of smae thing.
Ian
Hello
Yes yes i know i'm a noob, and i'm hated.. and i hate myself :/ lol but right now I need help! I've searched EVERYWHERE and was unable to find the solution soo...
I got my Samsung Galasy S II GT-I900G about a month ago, I've been turning it off every night so that It can charge. Like a week ago for some reason I didnt and in the middle of the next day the RAM got to about 560MB/0.91GB and then after a while it got stuck while i was sending an SMS. I had to take the battery out and and turn it on for it to start working again. I'm not that much of a hardcore gamer or phone user. I dont know why my phone would do this. I have deleted all my apps and still the same problem so its definetly not a leaky app. It gets stuck and then i have to take the battery out !
My phone has 2.3.4 android version
If you need any other information, let me know and i'll post it... But PLEASE help me.
I'm desperate here
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Awesomenessof96 said:
Hello
Yes yes i know i'm a noob, and i'm hated.. and i hate myself :/ lol but right now I need help! I've searched EVERYWHERE and was unable to find the solution soo...
I got my Samsung Galasy S II GT-I900G about a month ago, I've been turning it off every night so that It can charge. Like a week ago for some reason I didnt and in the middle of the next day the RAM got to about 560MB/0.91GB and then after a while it got stuck while i was sending an SMS. I had to take the battery out and and turn it on for it to start working again. I'm not that much of a hardcore gamer or phone user. I dont know why my phone would do this. I have deleted all my apps and still the same problem so its definetly not a leaky app. It gets stuck and then i have to take the battery out !
My phone has 2.3.4 android version
If you need any other information, let me know and i'll post it... But PLEASE help me.
I'm desperate here
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Which ROM and Kernel are you using?
Android is like Linux, so low ram=wasted resources. High ram is natural. Likely it is your rom or kernel that is to blame. You could also do a factory reset to see if it fixes it. Also, if you hold the power button for 10 seconds, it is the same as a battery pull, so you don't need to take the back (or case if you have one) off.
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I have the US version of galaxy s3, but it won't let me post in any of the US version's forums for some reason. Anyway, on to the problem.
When i turn my phone on, it boots, i unlock lock screen, and touchwiz home repeatedly force closes about every 5 seconds, along with contacts. I was rooted, but haven't flashed anything. haven't done anything other than root the phone, and it has been about 2-3 weeks since that was done, and have not had a problem until tonight. The problem was completely random, i pulled the phone out of my pocket and turned the screen on and it rebooted. I have the logcat in my dropbox if anyone can look at it and see what might have happened? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91650856/LogCat_Default_Sat0728_05326.txt
Help please!
Better start a thread in the US forum, this forum is for the International S3.
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I have the US version of galaxy s3, but it won't let me post in any of the US version's forums for some reason. Anyway, on to the problem.
When i turn my phone on, it boots, i unlock lock screen, and touchwiz home repeatedly force closes about every 5 seconds, along with contacts. I was rooted, but haven't flashed anything. haven't done anything other than root the phone, and it has been about 2-3 weeks since that was done, and have not had a problem until tonight. The problem was completely random, i pulled the phone out of my pocket and turned the screen on and it rebooted. I have the logcat in my dropbox if anyone can look at it and see what might have happened? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91650856/LogCat_Default_Sat0728_05326.txt
Help please!
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Factory reset .
jje
gee2012 said:
Better start a thread in the US forum, this forum is for the International S3.
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MattO said:
I have the US version of galaxy s3, but it won't let me post in any of the US version's forums for some reason. Anyway, on to the problem.
When i turn my phone on, it boots, i unlock lock screen, and touchwiz home repeatedly force closes about every 5 seconds, along with contacts. I was rooted, but haven't flashed anything. haven't done anything other than root the phone, and it has been about 2-3 weeks since that was done, and have not had a problem until tonight. The problem was completely random, i pulled the phone out of my pocket and turned the screen on and it rebooted. I have the logcat in my dropbox if anyone can look at it and see what might have happened? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91650856/LogCat_Default_Sat0728_05326.txt
Help please!
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i was able to ODIN the phone back to stock i was just curious what might have went wrong.
MattO said:
i was able to ODIN the phone back to stock i was just curious what might have went wrong.
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Sometimes things just don't write properly. Installation of software is always a game of chance, it just usually comes out correctly!
Hi everyone. Thank you for reading.
I am posting for help with a friend's phone. I, personally, have an S3 on Sprint and haven't had much experience with T-Mobile phones. He has rooted his S5 (T-Mobile, obviously) using galaxys5root.com (I'm now not fond of that site due to his bad experiences that consistently happen) and has not put a new ROM on yet. It has been successfully rooted for several weeks, but today he went to text someone a response and the screen went black, and the blue notification light breathes. It also does a light vibrate, like when you are turning it on. He's getting a replacement anyway, but we want to unroot it before sending in the defective device. I'm wondering (and to my knowledge it seems like) if it's a boot loop. Nothing shows up on the screen at all, not even the back light is coming on. I have yet to connect it to Odin to see if anything comes up. I'm just seeing if this has happened to anyone else and if they have figured out a way to resolve it. My suspicion is that there's a problem with either the boot sector or the recovery sector, as it does not go into recovery.
Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks again!
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today he went to text someone a response and the screen went black, and the blue notification light breathes. It also does a light vibrate, like when you are turning it on.
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It sounds like the LCD display has gone bad if the vibration and blue light function normally but you cannot see anything ever.
When they get the new device you might want to suggest that they follow the rooting instruction in this forum on XDA instead of going to a website to do it. Just my opinion.
We are thinking the LCD is bad as well, it just feels like a boot loop because the light vibration keeps happening (I forgot to mention that). Sometimes the blue light will go out and the phone will vibrate lightly and then the blue other starts breathing. It's just repeating that non-stop. I had to pull the battery.
As for him rooting through here, I told him to with his S4 and S5 but he didn't listen. The S4 took a crap, and now the S5 took a crap. I told him I think it's that site. The method is correct but who knows where those flash files come from... I've never had any issues rooting through here, just an occasional reset here and there, nothing as major as this.
caderyn19 said:
We are thinking the LCD is bad as well, it just feels like a boot loop because the light vibration keeps happening (I forgot to mention that). Sometimes the blue light will go out and the phone will vibrate lightly and then the blue other starts breathing. It's just repeating that non-stop. I had to pull the battery.
As for him rooting through here, I told him to with his S4 and S5 but he didn't listen. The S4 took a crap, and now the S5 took a crap. I told him I think it's that site. The method is correct but who knows where those flash files come from... I've never had any issues rooting through here, just an occasional reset here and there, nothing as major as this.
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Normally, even in a boot loop you see the initial Galaxy splash screen when it first starts booting. Then you see it over and over again. If you see nothing, it normally means the LCD is bad and unfortunately it's the most expensive part of the phone.
Good Luck with it.
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That's what I figured... Thanks for your help! (I hit the button )
caderyn19 said:
That's what I figured... Thanks for your help! (I hit the button )
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Wouldn't surprise me if the device is rebooting itself trying to fix a hardware fault. Might be detecting the LCD has stopped forcing itself to reboot.
But yeah, stick to XDA from now on We are good people here Welcome to the family!
Lol I've been part of the family for years now... I've always come here first for any android help, and have always found just what I'm looking for!
caderyn19 said:
Lol I've been part of the family for years now... I've always come here first for any android help, and have always found just what I'm looking for!
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Well get your friend over here too!
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Rom- s5 sensations version 7
I was using my phone for the past two weeks with no problem, all of a sudden today it would not unlock, I held down the power button then a screen with all these different colours came up
It eventually went away and the screen went black again
Now nothing works it ill not power on and LED wont come on when charging
Can the phone have been hard bricked after 2 weeks of installing the custom rom? :/
Thanks in advance
XDA Visitor said:
Rom- s5 sensations version 7
I was using my phone for the past two weeks with no problem, all of a sudden today it would not unlock, I held down the power button then a screen with all these different colours came up
It eventually went away and the screen went black again
Now nothing works it ill not power on and LED wont come on when charging
Can the phone have been hard bricked after 2 weeks of installing the custom rom? :/
Thanks in advance
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Hi! This herna from XDA Assist.
Well, normally if you did not touch any deeper thing in your ROM you should have no problem if you have been using it for as much time. Anyway this question should be done in the above thread, so I will move it there so you can get a better reply from people using the same device or even the same ROM than you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help
I will move it to the original place where it should be, and wish you to get the answer you are waiting for.
Try usb jig to force download mode, if that doesn't work then it sounds like a brick -sorry.
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Try usb jig to force download mode, if that doesn't work then it sounds like a brick -sorry.
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I just dont understand how it could be bricked after being perfectly fine for 2 weeks and i had been using it like 5 minutes before no problem :/
Blame the emmc chip, it is very fragile and can go pop at any moment.
Try reading the dead boot recovery thread in general forum.