Hello guys. I would like to know if there are any chances o recovering my Chromecast 2 device. It suddenly stopped working 2 years ago approx, when I connect it to the power source it instantly turns on an orange led light, and after 0,25sec approx, it turns into a white solid color, and I have no image on any tv.
Google website for Chromecast says that the white solid led means that the device is ready to use, but it just doesn't work. I remember back on that time when it happened, it was the same. The led was solid white but my phone wouldn't find it on my local network.
I've been trying on random periods of time, for months sometimes, to see if it suddenly started working, and one day pressing the reset button just at the moment of connecting the power source, I achieved booting to an error screen! it just says something like chromecast.com/startup-issues, I don't remember. After a couple of attempts, it started recovering itself, applying an update I think (I don't remember, this was 1 year ago), but it was rebooting very frequently and then, suddenly died and couldn't access to that mode again. Only white solid led until right now!
I wonder if there is any way to fix this, it would be amazing to have the Chromecast back!
thank you for your time
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Dear All,
I would like to tell you quiet a scary story that happened to me today involving my View.
I was surfing on my View (while it was charging, probably about 30%-40% at the time) when suddenly without any slow-down/crash/other sign the screen goes dark and the View won't turn on. Nothing works, hard reset, unplugging, trying different outlets, chargers, connecting via USB to my desktop, laptop each for a few minutes- nothing. The only thing showing that there might be still some life inside my View was occasionally blinking orange/red light that caused me a little concern as it apparently often means that battery was overheating. That was certainly not a case as I've used the View in my pretty cold apartment in CT- the device felt pretty cold in my hands.
1 hour of hectic, trying everything to revive the tablet. Eventually even the red light stopped blinking. Like a doctor who's about to loose a patient I plugged it to the computer and typed some random commands through fastboot (of course the tablet wasn't even in a fastboot- but at that point I was in a full panic mode and for my sanity I felt I had to try everything). Eventually I stopped and was just holding the tablet in my hands, still plugged in my computer and thinking- wow, I rooted/unlocked/flashed 5 different android devices so many times so far and often with crazy, long and complicated processes. Somehow I've never bricked any and now my tablet just completely died on me when I was reading a wikipedia page on it at my desk. I was about to put it down and go look for the warranty when suddenly the screen goes on and the htc logo appears. And then it booted right to the OS. And for the last few hours it works like nothing ever happened.
Anybody got a similar story? Any idea what could've happened?
Really hope someone can help me here.
I rooted, and put CM10.2 on my phone a month or two ago (don't play that much with ROMs, etc), but fancied a change from stock.
Anyways, it's been fine (although battery life not quite as great as before, but hey ho), this evening just got a WhatsApp message, dropped the notification bar down, clicked on it to open Whats App, and the phone rebooted... And then continued to just reboot over and over after 2-3 seconds (showing the i9300 Samsung logo with the red ! in the top left).
Removing battery stops this obviously, but weirdly when I put the battery back in boots straight away, and continues to just loop like that. Holding power, home, vol up/down makes no difference (been playing with this for about an hour now, and searching other peoples solutions, someone said 5 times wait, and release). Just can't get anything other than this loop, just weird that I can't actually turn it off either.
Suggestions please?
Thanks Gunja
Booting as soon as battery is inserted indicates power button sorted out, try wiggling it or seek a repair.
Yes I believe thats the case, as I have actually got it into the "Accept different OS" mode, stays there for 2 seconds and reboots. Nothing seems physically weird about the power button.
It did the sudden die thing a few months back, and I returned it to Sammy UK and they fixed it (due to 2 year warranty) in 2 days. It's still under 2 years old, so will give them a call. Was rooted before, but didn't show the red ! in the left left. Hope that they don't mind that, as this does seem to genuinely be a physical hardware problem not software.
If you just hold the power button on the S3 when it's booted, just it just turn off eventually? How annoying, 2nd problem with it in the last 4-5 months, wonder if will get another sammy when upgrades due in a couple of months. Lets see how their support is again this time round!
Today, when I turned my tablet on, I immediately noticed two things. One, the battery was critically low. Two, my homepage looked strange. Everything was not only fuzzy, but it also had a "thermal camera" effect, where everything was either bright yellow, red, green, or blue.
I had to board a plane at the time so I was like, "Fudge. I'll deal with this later" and shoved it back in my purse.
When I got to my hotel, after having charged the tablet for several hours, I tried to boot it up but it wouldn't work.
I restarted the device but that didn't fix the problem either. Now it just stays on a lit up blank black screen. Occasionally static horizontal lines will flicker across the screen but mainly it remains as the lit up blank black screen of death.
Please help! I am not computer or tech savvy. I also did try holding down the power and volume keys simultaneously as others suggested but that didn't work either. Please help. Thanks guys.
This may be important info: I felt my tablet get really hot two days ago.
lovelyrwwr said:
Today, when I turned my tablet on, I immediately noticed two things. One, the battery was critically low. Two, my homepage looked strange. Everything was not only fuzzy, but it also had a "thermal camera" effect, where everything was either bright yellow, red, green, or blue.
I had to board a plane at the time so I was like, "Fudge. I'll deal with this later" and shoved it back in my purse.
When I got to my hotel, after having charged the tablet for several hours, I tried to boot it up but it wouldn't work.
I restarted the device but that didn't fix the problem either. Now it just stays on a lit up blank black screen. Occasionally static horizontal lines will flicker across the screen but mainly it remains as the lit up blank black screen of death.
Please help! I am not computer or tech savvy. I also did try holding down the power and volume keys simultaneously as others suggested but that didn't work either. Please help. Thanks guys.
This may be important info: I felt my tablet get really hot two days ago.
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I'm not really sure but this sounds like a busted digitizer. And that's hardware. If your computer can still read from your tab while it's booted up and connected now would be a really good time to save all your data. You could take it to a repair shop. If it's not too expensive to fix do it otherwise I would be looking at a new tab.
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Press briefly on Power button while it's charging. If you don't see the battery charging icon I'm afraid it's a hardware issue.
My brother has a Nabi 2, and it was running fine for a while, but now everything's gone weird. It woun't boot up, and the screen only stays black, with nothing else on it. So first, we found that the Nabi was indicating that we needed a new charger, so he bought one. But it's been charging for a really long time, and there is still a black screen when you try to turn it on. I had rooted it, and I haven't messed with anything since. It has been stable for a couple months before this happened. If you go to turn it on while it's plugged in, the charging LED will change to green for a second, then switch back to red. The weird part is, this only happens if you hold down the power for 10 seconds or so, as if you are turning it off. I realize this isn't a common tablet, but I'm hoping there's something that anyone knows that will help my little brother.
Random Crashing
I am experiencing random crashes where the phone stops and the LED flashes a few times before rebooting. At first I thought it was overheating, as the phone was quite warm the first few times, but it has just done it when cold. It has happened mostly whilst in the play store. It's crashed about 15 times in 4 hours.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is there anyway to access the logs without root?
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This must just be a dud device. I did a factory reset last night and it crashed rebooting. Will take back to shop and hopefully exchange for a new one.
Did u tried to repair it via PC Companion?
It comes from a bad battery voltage. I had One m7 and after 1 year this problem begin. They change the battery and battery conector and it comes to work good.
This happened after 5 minutes, it's been sent back to the shop now for repair / replacement. Shame, as it was a nice phone when it wasn't crashing!
I had kind of the same experience with my device I bought yesterday. Turned it on, worked for about half an hour before flashing the red LED a few times and shutting down. After that it turned on once again, booted halfway up, the red LED flashed again and it shut down again. Then it did not react to anything anymore.
Plugging it into the charger did not yield any reaction at all. Pressing On and the Vol+ button made it vibrate three times as its supposed to do, but afterwards even that did not work anymore. As a last resort I pressed the hard reset button in the SIM slot, which also made it vibrate three times without any other reaction.
So I concluded it was dead and returned it to the store this morning to get my money back. I think I will hold of of buying a replacement until all the errors that currently pop up are sorted out.
Also noteworthy is, that while booting up and in the time it was usable the screen had a red tint sometimes and touch was working rather flakily.
They sent me a brand new phone, so was def a dud. No crashes so far, finger crossed