Galaxy S black screen - Galaxy S I9000 General

Hi all, I have a galaxy s and was going to install a new rom. I saved the rom to the sd card and pressed the power button to go into recovery mode, the screen went black as usual but never rebooted and the screen stayed black. I connect it to the pc and it tried to load some driver something to do with "test driver" but anyway the screen stays black and the phone does nothing. Any ideas how to fix this without sending back to Samsung. Thanks for any ideas. Wayne.

Does the phone show the samsung logo at the beggining or is it just dead black?
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the same problem with me today blank screen, no vibration, no download/recovery mode, anything. The only sign of life is when I connect it to my PC, it detects a new device named SEC S5PC110 Test B/D , request a driver

You should send it back to Samsung. I'm thinking that its more than a software (ROM) problem when even download/recovery mode isn't working.

Same happened to me, try to get your phone back in restore mode with the three button trick. Amd reinstall the image again... it will work..

mine is just black does nothing except request a driver when i connect it to a pc. SEC S5PC110 TEST B/D. thats all it will do.

It is probably the deep sleep coma bug (I've had it ever since I flashed to 2.3.4).
Hold the power button down for 10 seconds and it should reboot the phone.

Remove the battery, leave the phone disconnected from the PC and get the phone in restore mode. Then when that succeedes, connect the phone to the PC.

I heard this problem in other forums when users flash a wrong rom or firmware. Only samsung can repair your device.

Try to access download mode: vole down button + home button + power button if you can access this let me know
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help i9000 after flash, doing loop of at&t logo, can not enter download mode,

help i9000 after flash, doing loop of at&t logo, can not enter download mode,
when plugged in screen goes black.
!! if anyone can help please do not hesitate, mostly appreciated.
Try to hold the Down+Menu+Power combination while INSERTING the battery into the device.
i try that seem to have no response and when unplugged from usb it loop at&t logo
or plugged in usb screen goes black and no response seem from pressing buttons
I had a similar problem as most phones in Canada seem to have Download/Recovery mode disabled, and here is what worked for me.
Grab something like One Click Un Root (all models), and click one click un root (obviously phone has to be on and plugged into the computer).
This should automatically reboot you into Recovery Mode!
All you have to do is "wipe data/factory default" or something like that (should be the third option).
As it states, you will loose all your data, but at least you will have a functionning phone!
did it work?
Hi. I have similar problem. Can anybody give instruction what can I do?
I have this problem too. Please help somebody
Add me to the list. Bell Galaxy S, went to unlock my phone the screen went black. Now it will not boot into the OS, the galaxy S splash screen displays then nothing. The menu and back button light up, thats all. ****[email protected]@
I have not rooted or anything.
Of course my download mode does not work.. Going to try this one click root thing if I can find it.
NOT HAPPY
This is not working. Probably because the phone is not in USB debugging mode as I can't change it... Is there any other way to get the phone into recovery mode?
**** me
i had the same thing happen to me the other day with my bell galaxy s and my phone wont do the 3 button combo trick. i left my phone plugged in to a wall charger for a while until the back of the phone became a little warm. i pulled the battery and then left the power cord plugged in and put the battery back in. i held the volume down and enter button until the battery charging indicator showed up, then i also pressed and held the power button until the boot animation started (this is the blue moving swirl and music, not the galaxy s splash scree) and then i let go of the power button. it took a few attempts at this before it actually worked, but eventually it will go into download mode at which time you can open the odin app, then plug in the usb cable and flash your phone that way. it did seem to make a difference if the back of the phone (around the camera area) was warm. if i let go of the power button while the music was playing and the phone did not enter download mode i would keep all 3 buttons pressed until it shut down again, then i would only let go of the power button while the phone initiated the charging screen, then once the battery logo was displayed i would hold the 3 buttons again and would just keep doing this until it went into download mode. i have flashed it at least 5 times today and i have been able to do this each time.
i also had an issue where odin would not recognize my phone was plugged in and windows would show a message saying the usb device was not recognized. i left the phone plugged in and while in download mode i pressed the volume up, enter button and power button until the phone went blank and when the galaxy s logo showed up i let go of the power button and the phone would go into recovery mode and then the usb drivers would be installed. i would then do the 3 button combo for download mode and odin would work fine. it took several attempts but it does work. i hope this helps you guys
If I hold all three buttons the splash screen does not come on, it just keeps looping the Galaxy S logo until I let go of the power button....
xZeDgEx said:
If I hold all three buttons the splash screen does not come on, it just keeps looping the Galaxy S logo until I let go of the power button....
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That's what mine did too, several times in a row and then it worked. For some reason it only works after the battery is charging for a bit and the back becomes warm. then it works at will
No luck. I am probably screwed getting it exchanged now too as I am passed the 14 days from Best Buy.
the on click thing doesn't work, if your phone is already bricked.
also it is not the phone's fault for not working, the phone was working properly before you tried the hacks.
whenever you do these kind of things you know you are entering into the "not supported" "not covered by warranty" zone.
in the worse case scenario, if you can no enter download mode to recover your phone, it'll be to take the phone back to bell and claim warranty on it, and prentent you don't know what happened to it.
xZeDgEx said:
Add me to the list. Bell Galaxy S, went to unlock my phone the screen went black. Now it will not boot into the OS, the galaxy S splash screen displays then nothing. The menu and back button light up, thats all. [email protected]@
I have not rooted or anything.
Of course my download mode does not work.. Going to try this one click root thing if I can find it.
NOT HAPPY
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AllGamer said:
the on click thing doesn't work, if your phone is already bricked.
also it is not the phone's fault for not working, the phone was working properly before you tried the hacks.
whenever you do these kind of things you know you are entering into the "not supported" "not covered by warranty" zone.
in the worse case scenario, if you can no enter download mode to recover your phone, it'll be to take the phone back to bell and claim warranty on it, and prentent you don't know what happened to it.
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Its my fault??
I did not hack my phone. Its not rooted, I did nothing to it.
By "unlock" I meant exactly that, unlock as in swiping the screen to unlock it.
The more I search the net the more posts I find of Galaxy S phones randomly bricking...
on the original message sounded more like you went to Unlock the phone, as in SIM unlock the phone using any of the tools available out there, and there has been already several people which had the same problem.
if you go back to Bell for an exchange, you better not use the word "unlock" rather use Swipe
as the message on the phone "swipe the screen to unlock"
there are no known issue about this causing the phone to brick.
if that is what happened to you, you should have started a new topic for people to help you, instead of hijacking the topic from the OP, as your issue is different from OP, the OP actually screwed up because he/she flashed the wrong ROM to the i9000
... anyways, Does it work if you reboot the phone?
I have rebooted the phone about 100 times. The phone crashed when I unlocked it to check a text I received. (not hacked). Has not booted up properly since. I have found many others with the same issue who have also not hacked/rooted/unlocked/ their phones.
Waiting on Best Buy to call me back. I am so pissed right now, I have been bragging to my friends and co-workers how awesome this phone is, one has already picked one up, I hope his doesn't brick too. Not recommending it to anyone anymore..
did you load a lot of MP3 to the phone?
can you boot into Recovery Mode?
in the recovery mode you can wipe the Cache and wipe the data
that should make your phone work normal again
it'll be best to open a topic to help you trouble shoot your interesting issue, as it's the first i've hear that you get a black screen after Swiping out of the lock screen
I can't get into recovery mode. I have tried every button combination I have found. I had about 2 GB of music on the phone. I also installed the Android SDK to try ADB, but since the phone is not in USB debugging mode it does not see it.
xZeDgEx said:
I can't get into recovery mode. I have tried every button combination I have found. I had about 2 GB of music on the phone. I also installed the Android SDK to try ADB, but since the phone is not in USB debugging mode it does not see it.
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on the other topics relating to the 3 button not working.
have you tried the heating up method?
or the plugging the battery in, when all 3 buttons are pressed? (of course for this one you will need help from a friend, unless you are very skilled at keeping the 3 button on hold meanwhile able to slide in the battery in with out a 3rd hand)

[SOLUTION] Enabled 3-button Recovery mode by just connecting the phone with the PC

Hi to all.
Not even a week passed since I received back my "repaired" Samsung Galaxy S after a failed firmware upgrade through kies. My phone didn't have the 3-button recovery mode so I was forced to sent it for service. The service told me that they had replaced the main board with a new one so I had high hopes that the 3-button recovery mode was now working but, as you have guessed, no matter how many times I've tried... it didn't work.
So, to cut the story sort, today I stumbled across a thread in an australian forum, while surfing with my phone, where someone post that had the same problem like me but he (or she) discovered that he could boot in recovery mode if the phone was connected to the charger. Well, I've tried something similar and it worked. The strange thing is that it is working now even if the phone is not connected at all with a power source
This is the way I've done it:
-First I connected my phone with the PC using my usb cable. Kies was already loaded and I waited until Kies was connected to my phone (in Kies mode).
-I pressed the Home button of my phone, the phone disconnected from Kies and then I shutdown the phone.
- I've waited until I show the battery charging icon (with the green bar inside the battery which indicates the battery level) on my phone's display and then by pressing and holding down the Volume Up and the Home buttons I pressed and hold the Power button until I saw the Samsung black and white logo. I immediately free the power button while still holding down the other two and... after a few seconds I was in recovery mode.
After that I tried it again and again and it works even if the phone is not connected through USB with anything (PC or Power Source). Now also works the Vol Down + Home + Power combination which boots my phone in the Download Mode.
I don't know if this "solution" really enabled the recovery mode on my phone. Maybe I was doing something wrong all this time and now by chance learned to get it right. No matter what I thought it's a good thing to report it here in order to test it by others...
this method does not function for me...
generally i think something is wrong, i have no chance (anymore) connecting my galaxy s to my pc.
tried different usb-options and even the debugging mode.
3-button recovery mode while connected on USB
milro1970 said:
Hi to all.
Not even a week passed since I received back my "repaired" Samsung Galaxy S after a failed firmware upgrade through kies. My phone didn't have the 3-button recovery mode so I was forced to sent it for service. The service told me that they had replaced the main board with a new one so I had high hopes that the 3-button recovery mode was now working but, as you have guessed, no matter how many times I've tried... it didn't work.
So, to cut the story sort, today I stumbled across a thread in an australian forum, while surfing with my phone, where someone post that had the same problem like me but he (or she) discovered that he could boot in recovery mode if the phone was connected to the charger. Well, I've tried something similar and it worked. The strange thing is that it is working now even if the phone is not connected at all with a power source
This is the way I've done it:
-First I connected my phone with the PC using my usb cable. Kies was already loaded and I waited until Kies was connected to my phone (in Kies mode).
-I pressed the Home button of my phone, the phone disconnected from Kies and then I shutdown the phone.
- I've waited until I show the battery charging icon (with the green bar inside the battery which indicates the battery level) on my phone's display and then by pressing and holding down the Volume Up and the Home buttons I pressed and hold the Power button until I saw the Samsung black and white logo. I immediately free the power button while still holding down the other two and... after a few seconds I was in recovery mode.
After that I tried it again and again and it works even if the phone is not connected through USB with anything (PC or Power Source). Now also works the Vol Down + Home + Power combination which boots my phone in the Download Mode.
I don't know if this "solution" really enabled the recovery mode on my phone. Maybe I was doing something wrong all this time and now by chance learned to get it right. No matter what I thought it's a good thing to report it here in order to test it by others...
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This worked for me. Did not require Kies to be connected though. Just the USB connection was sufficient.
It doesn't work on mine. What version is your phone? I got mine from VHA/vodafone and running the official VHA froyo rom.
For Savs...
You've said it worked for you. Does now works even without the usb connection?
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Incredible, it worked as I wrote but now it doesn't again. Blind me... This phone is the most unpredictable phone owned by me in a long time. It's an awesome beast but needs to feel some serious love from samsung. I have not seen a single official announcement about the problems so many users faced with the phone, and by the way where is my official froyo upgrade. It is still not available for my phone
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I get the 3 button recovery/download mode better when I have my phone connected to charger for some reason, discovered this once I had the phone charging and made a test and the recovery mode come up straight away same with download mode, then I tried without charger I got it some time but not all the times maybe 1/10 tries. when I had in charching I get the 3combo every time...strange but tru..
Some people had success by just warming with a hairdryer the back of the phone. Maybe this is the same reason you had success enabling the combo. You see by charging the phone you warming it up and if you warm it enough... bang, you have the 3 button recovery working. It is not a joke, it's true but still pretty ridiculous. Why is samsung not fixing this? My phone returned from the service (and they had it for service for a whole month) repaired after I bricked it upgrading it with kies. The 3 button combo did not work before the service and does not work now after the service... And they told me they replaced the main board of the phone with a new one. Bravo samsung! Job well done
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It doesn't work for me, I don't know how to enter in recovery mode. Please help me. I have unbranded phone.
Check this thread....
Hi.
Just go to this thread and read carefully the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785201
You will need to download Odin 1.3 (search in XDA and will find it). The rest are there. Follow the instructions by the letter and you will be ok.
It worked for me as well, i have a phone with the : download mode and recovery mode disabled , and i just plug the charger in to the phone, and now i can enter in to recovery mode and download mode , without the cable pluged in, strange, but now is working.

Stuck at Omnia7 Logo

Hi,
Omnia 7 had been working fine up until now, steps leading up to the event:
* Debranded registry using chevron tool to install a regedit app.
* received pre nodo update and installed
* Used vpn workaround to install nodo update
* Phone worked fine for a month then when the 'walsh tool' was released I ran that. Went through OK and phone was still useable.
* A few hours later I was browsing the market place and phone rebooted itself and was stuck at the Omnia7 logo. Started phone in USB mode and connected to Zune to restore - got to 34% and errored saying "phone not responding".
* Power cycled again into usb mode and connected to PC but now the device is not recognised at all in Windows (nothing showing in device manager)
* restore mode is disabled but I have ordered a 'jig' tool.
My concern is that if USB mode is no longer picked up in Windows, that restore mode won't be picked up either. I should have the 'jig' in the next day or so.
I had the same problem about a week after I got my Omnia 7 in October last year.
Obviously I hadn’t used any tools for debranding or anything then, It seems like a fault with the phone to begin with, not due to anything you done.
I rang Orange and they sent me a brand new phone the next day. So try ringing your provider.
I tried connecting the phone again tonight and zune picks it up, gets to 99% complete on restore then stops. Seems the USB is being detected again - I did have the battery out of it overnight.
I have the same exact problem but without any jailbreaking
please I you find any solution just tell me
beacuse I don't have warranty I bought it via Ebay
Using the "jig" tool, I was able to enter download mode and reflash the device. I now have a "Welcome to your Samsung Omnia7" screen.
So I can confirm this method works.
Hi
In the Microsoft answer forum someone wrote that the problem was form the battery. So, I will go first with this one.
Regarding the download mode I have problem as well. When I hold pressing the volume up, camera and the power button it display the USB connection logo same as the one in the update. I don't know why!!!
Abd654 said:
Hi
In the Microsoft answer forum someone wrote that the problem was form the battery. So, I will go first with this one.
Regarding the download mode I have problem as well. When I hold pressing the volume up, camera and the power button it display the USB connection logo same as the one in the update. I don't know why!!!
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That is because your bootloader does not support the Download Mode and enters the Zune Recovery Mode instead.
Hi! try with this
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_...spx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Did you try Hard reset?
1. Press and hold down the Power button + Volume down button + Camera button all at the same time until the device vibrates, then let go of the Power button while continuing to hold down the Volume down button and the Camera button.
2. Shortly you should see the message displaying "Are you sure you want to format?", you can now release the Volume down button + Camera button.
I just formated and same problem appear again and again
I don't what to do
please help
in addition to that I don't have the download mode
You will have to get the jig tool to enter download mode to reflash, or send away for repair.
My phone is still playing up, random crashes then stuck at Omia logo. To get it started again I have to reinsert the battery and even then sometimes it gets stuck at the Windows Phone logo. I will try one more flash and if I still have problems I will be raising a warranty claim.
This happened to my phone this morning. Tried to open Beezz, but it wouldn't start (went right back to home screen).
I obviously tried a reboot, but it got stuck at the Samsung Omnia 7 -screen.
So far I have:
(no difference between the steps)
Installed the samsung update patch\fix
Hard reset
Reflash via download mode to KB2
Hard reset
Reflash via download mode to JK1
No success so far. At the moment I'm letting it stay turned on, and every minute or so it flashes black, but returns to the logo screen.
Any help would be appreciated :d
Mine seems to work for a day or so after a reflash, then starts playing up again. Sometimes stuck at logo until I take the battery out and then put back in. I had a problem opening the messaging app, would get the tile animation then back to homescreen. I have arranged to have my Omnia sent back under warranty so will see what they find.
After a power surge, my Omnia hanged then when I rebooted, its now stuck at that Logo Screen. Did everything possible (hard reset, flash rom, go into recovery mode which gets stuck after zune reboots the phone....)
Used the windows support tool and I get this message: The phone is not in the 'Connect to PC' state. Please, make sure that you follow the instructions and your phone shows the 'Connect To PC' image
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Sounds like you have tried everything I would have already. I would send it for repair / warranty.
Turns out my phone WAS faulty and it has been replaced - should receive replacememnt today (Has taken over a month)

[Q] Need some help

Hey people's
my girlfriend has got a samsung galaxy y s5363 anrdoid phone, and all of a sudden one day while in her bag, the screen went black.
so i presumed something was wrong with the screen, so i ordered a replacement lcd screen and installed that only to find the phone still had the same problem (black screen, everything else works)
whilst looking online to try to find a solution, i installed kies and it tells me that i need to upgrade the firmware, so im thinking ok maybe thats why it went black, so i tried to update through kies and it fails at the end.
so with my continued looking around, ive downloaded the firmware i need and i decided to flash it myself with odin, but for the life of me i cannot get the phone into download mode so i can use odin, ive even tried "adb reboot download" and the phone just reboots like normal (i can still hear everything)(but cant see anything due to a black screen)
ive also tried all the different button combinations to get it into download mode but without joy
im now wondering if i can flash the firmware through adb commands?
or if there is a better way to get the phone to boot into download mode? (with a black screen) (cant see what im doing, just hoping)
To force download mode
remove everything from phone (battery sim card sd card)
Connect phone to pc
open odin
on phone hold volume down home button & power button at same time
Whilst holding these buttons reinsert the battery
if there's no other problem with phone it will enter download mode
marcussmith2626 said:
To force download mode
remove everything from phone (battery sim card sd card)
Connect phone to pc
open odin
on phone hold volume down home button & power button at same time
Whilst holding these buttons reinsert the battery
if there's no other problem with phone it will enter download mode
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ok im trying that now, how long should i hold them in for?? do i have to press vol + to enter download mode after doing that?
EDIT: tried that, nothing happened, windows didnt even detect it
Daethlok said:
ok im trying that now, how long should i hold them in for?? do i have to press vol + to enter download mode after doing that?
EDIT: tried that, nothing happened, windows didnt even detect it
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Take it to service centre then if you can't see screen & it's not being detected - worst place for a phone is a woman's bag - it can get crushed & water damaged easy
Nothing else to suggest if you can't see anything
marcussmith2626 said:
Take it to service centre then if you can't see screen & it's not being detected - worst place for a phone is a woman's bag - it can get crushed & water damaged easy
Nothing else to suggest if you can't see anything
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i purchased a download mode jig from amazon, just waiting for it to come in the post, will see if that does the trick

Galaxy S5 won't turn on

Hi,
unfortunately I have a problem with my Galaxy S5 running CM.
Some days ago, the power button got stuck in the case so that it was pressed for quite a long time. When I tried to turn the phone back on it only showed the logo for a while, vibrated and rebooted.
I tried to boot the phone in safe mode which didn't help and then in 'transfer mode' (sorry, I don't know the right term. I think it's the mode where I transfer a custom ROM). The latter without connecting to a computer so it said something like 'transfering, don't turn off' for a while. Eventually, I had to turn off the phone cause nothing happened.
Now, when I try to boot the phone it just vibrates and stays black. Not even a LED flashes. When I connect it to my PC it vibrates and the PC recognizes something but doesn't show any connected hardware. It just installs a driver.
People at a repair store said the screen is dead but I don't really believe it because there was no physical damage of any sort.
Is there a way to repair my phone?
If you turned it off mid flash you have no ROM. There's nothing to boot. Use volume up, power and home while booting. Load recovery. Flash the ROM and don't stop it. If it doesn't work get a different ROM and try again

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