Is My Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 SM-T285 Bricked or Broken??? - Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers

This happened to me 3 months ago I was watching youtube on my tab and suddenly it went black ( I heard a weird noise too ). At first i think it was hardbricked because I can turn it on but its stuck on the booting screen, i tried to charge it but it was stuck on the battery logo ( I charged it for more than 4 hours ) also tried to do the download thing but also didnt work. i dont know how to fix it anymore (i searched every method i could find) so i told my dad to bring it to the mechanic. still not fixed, and it got even worse! i couldnt turn the thing on and its like this for months now, i dunno if its hardbricked+ or something becase i only know soft and hard brick .
is my samsung broken? if not then any advice on how to fix it is appreicated!!
(image taken from website because i cant take photo of my tab but it looks exactly like tihs)

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so my Galaxy s4 i9505 screen is totaly black,i had a rom on there i forget which one now,anyways an update option came up30 meg or something,i did that rebooted then another for 40 meg,did that rebooted then my phone started getting laggy and the sound vanished,of course i didnt know the sound had gone till i woke up at 11am coz the aarm didnt og off lol,anyway ive been using it blind the last f days trying to flash a rom,tonight i managed to get Stock rom on by going into download mode,bearing in mind i cant see anything,and suddenly the sound Works again,i can unlock it press buttons and stuff,but still cannot see any thing on the screen,i havnt dropped it or anything,wondered if anyones got any ideas,culd the screem be dead?

Galaxy S7 Edge died

Hello XDA comunity
I need you help. Something strange has happened to my device. Today I noticed that my S7E was freezing with garbeled pixels on the screen and reebooting by itself. I tried to go to the recovery and do a factory reset and the thing is, the device froze in it too! So I actually managed to boot into it and backup everything. After that, I did a factory reset and everything seemed fine. So I went into recovery to test out if the phone would repeat the same freeze, and after I entered, the phone turned off and didnt turn on again. So now It wont even give out any sign of life, not even with the charger. I tried the power + volume down but it wont turn on. So now I am stuck with a dead device :/
Can someone help me?
Regards
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Going to Leave this here in case someone gets it too.
If for some reason your SGS7E is freezing with artifacts on its screen and then reebooting, you have a corrupted firmware. If for some reason, it shuts off and dosent turn off, or it wont respond to the power + volume down combo, check if it feels warm to the touch (not warm like 40º ou 30º more like, warm for your surroundings) if it does, that means that somehow it got stuck and wont power off. Just wait for it to drain completly and try again.
Go to SAMSUNG STORE / SERVICES REPAIRS ; ))
re: dead phone
Shadeftw said:
Hello XDA comunity
I need you help. Something strange has happened to my device. Today I noticed that my S7E was freezing with garbeled pixels on the screen and reebooting by itself. I tried to go to the recovery and do a factory reset and the thing is, the device froze in it too! So I actually managed to boot into it and backup everything. After that, I did a factory reset and everything seemed fine. So I went into recovery to test out if the phone would repeat the same freeze, and after I entered, the phone turned off and didnt turn on again. So now It wont even give out any sign of life, not even with the charger. I tried the power + volume down but it wont turn on. So now I am stuck with a dead device :/
Can someone help me?
Regards
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Have you tried leave the phone on it's original charger
for at least an hour or more and then see if you can
get into either download mode or recovery?
I have seen many phones which have very similar
problems like your phone has and charging for at
least an hour on it's original battery charger will
usually allow booting into either recovery mode
and or into download mode.
If your phone can be booted into recovery or download
mode after charging and still has problems then simply
download the official samsung S7 Edge Nougat 7 or
Marshmallow 6.02 firmware and flash it with Odin3,
doing that will get your phone working properly just like
when you first purchased it.
Good luck,
Have a great day!
Shadeftw said:
Hello XDA comunity
I need you help. Something strange has happened to my device. Today I noticed that my S7E was freezing with garbeled pixels on the screen and reebooting by itself. I tried to go to the recovery and do a factory reset and the thing is, the device froze in it too! So I actually managed to boot into it and backup everything. After that, I did a factory reset and everything seemed fine. So I went into recovery to test out if the phone would repeat the same freeze, and after I entered, the phone turned off and didnt turn on again. So now It wont even give out any sign of life, not even with the charger. I tried the power + volume down but it wont turn on. So now I am stuck with a dead device :/
Can someone help me?
Regards
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Misterjunky said:
Have you tried leave the phone on it's original charger
for at least an hour or more and then see if you can
get into either download mode or recovery?
I have seen many phones which have very similar
problems like your phone has and charging for at
least an hour on it's original battery charger will
usually allow booting into either recovery mode
and or into download mode.
If your phone can be booted into recovery or download
mode after charging and still has problems then simply
download the official samsung S7 Edge Nougat 7 or
Marshmallow 6.02 firmware and flash it with Odin3,
doing that will get your phone working properly just like
when you first purchased it.
Good luck,
Have a great day!
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Hello, thanks for taking your time to help me. I'm on another account right now so dont be suprised about it since I forgot my password ahah.
Well, I'm testing the one hour charge and will reportback asap. The thing is, the device dosent turn on no matter what I do. I have a kill-a-watt so I can mesure its voltage and its showing 1.2 volts so I guess its doing something. I will report back asap.
UPDATE: Still not turning on :/
Kshade said:
UPDATE: Still not turning on :/
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As one mentioned above: in that case: no boot, no Recovery, you have only one option, and the procedure is:
1. Pack your phone carefully, preventing it from further damage;
2. Using your laptop/tablet, PC, go online;
3. Open search engine, in search field place your town and "Samsung repair centre" then push enter
4. Remember the address and deliver your phone there. It may be handy to give them a call first
Sadly, this is only one option you have now.
Another Update
So after geting frustrated and wanting to trow the smartphone to a wall, to my surprise, I felt that the device was warm to the touch and decided to put it on its box while I went to sleep. I've just woken up and decided to try it, and it went stright up to the download mode. A few secounds later it turned itself off again, but I decided to insist and I managed to do it again while I connected it to the computer. I managed then to flash an original nougat firmware to it. After that I could finally turn the device on. So I'm just charging it right now so I can turn it on again and see if it can boot. I suspect that in some way, my firmware got corrupted.
TLDR: If your device feels a bit warm, just let it drain the rest of the battery and resist the urge to do the damn power reset and try again.
UPTADE 2: YAY It worked! Its Working!
keep using it and see if doesn't give same simptome after some hours, there are people that reported some strange issues lile yours on this model, and if don't have warranty is bad
matthew2man said:
keep using it and see if doesn't give same simptome after some hours, there are people that reported some strange issues lile yours on this model, and if don't have warranty is bad
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Will experiment it. For now it seems to be stable. So, can you tell me what kind of strange issues it is?
Thx everybody for all the help
Shadeftw said:
Will experiment it. For now it seems to be stable. So, can you tell me what kind of strange issues it is?
Thx everybody for all the help
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Phone freezing, rebooting, black screen, not powering on till next day, it might be an issue on motherboard for some series
matthew2man said:
Phone freezing, rebooting, black screen, not powering on till next day, it might be an issue on motherboard for some series
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The thing is, it has only started doing this yesterday. Up until now it was fine. But thanks for the warning, I will be carefull with it, and, if it keeps doing this I will take it to samsung.
Dead Phone and no life at all
Im suffering the same damn problem with my 4 month old S7 edge.
Im in the UK but i bought the phone brand new boxed from Dubai, it is the international sm-g935f.
Box was sealed and brand new and bought from a major official retailer, i actually bought 2, one for me and one for wife, her one has been perfectly fine.
Long story short, last few months starting getting the screen freeze with blurred pixels, screen would stay frozen exactly as it was and then eventually phone would black screen and tried to reboot...
blue notification light would constantly stay on and it would NOT turn on and just loop with the s7 edge powered by Android logo unless i did vol+power down a few times, it would then turn on and proceeed to the flashing samsung logo before it would load up...
problem got worse by worse day by day,
i did everything from full wipe and factory restore etc safe mode etc, but it kept doing this and got worst over last few days...
now i could never get it start unless i actually tired the hard reboot power + vol down about 5 or 6 times and failing that i would try recovery mode then hard reboot again,
once turned on would be slow and laggy and glitchy at first then slowly get back up to speed and work again, only to die at some point or other when i would go to use it, unused it would stay on all day and recieve calls etc.
but last night i think i got the black screen of death... black screen with blue notification light soild blue and permanently on, no matter what i tried i could not shake the blue light, i got the s7 edge logo a few times before finally absolutely nothing,
light stayed on for about 5 to 6 hours i thought just to let the battery die.
this morning its all dead, no light no power no nothing. no matter what i try and any combination of keys i cant get it to even flinch, put charger cable on and nothing, no lights, no power or boot combination works
Have spoke to samsung here in UK, they say its under warranty but they wont touch it with a barge pole as Samsung EU Europe warranty only covers handsets bought in the UK or europe and this is a an international middle east handset according to serial and imei number and that for me to make a claim it needs to go back to retailer in Dubai and make claim with Samsung warranty there..
I was hoping it was just a software issue and thus have put up with it for so long as i have no way of sending it back to Dubai,
Does anyone know how i can just get it back up to life again, just to get my messages, some photos and media from it and possibly delete my google account on it as all whatsapp and insta and snapchat etc wud still be running on it if somehow i could get it to Dubai, as i had not password or pin protected it at all, its all open, so if someone did power it up, they wud have easy access to full contents
any help or any guidance would be so much appreciated, as im just sitting with a £450 brick at the moment and its very disheartening that usually an expert with samsungs just cant get this to work.
Im appalled at Samsungs attitude here in the UK, that the latest S7 edge flagship model is dying like this and many others round the world too, so its a common problem and they wont help at all, i mean u would think they would cover the warranty internationally as people travel all over world with thier phones and its the exact same handset they are selling at their official Samsung stores in the all the Dubai malls, in Duty free airport etc, its absolutely appalling, having been a samsung pro person from the first galaxy s phones, and owning and spending a large chunk of my money over last 10 years on samsung products in my household and family and friends and endorsing them wherever i go, its the first time i feel ever so let down by them.
hi guys.....
did anyone have a read of my post?
any help or ideas guys?
update....left it plugged in to see if it would charge....but still nothing, no warm up feel or doesn't even look like its taking any charge.
so how long should it leave it unplugged to see if maybe it needs completely draining?
still cant get it to power using any key combination at all
Shadeftw said:
Hello XDA comunity
I need you help. Something strange has happened to my device. Today I noticed that my S7E was freezing with garbeled pixels on the screen and reebooting by itself. I tried to go to the recovery and do a factory reset and the thing is, the device froze in it too! So I actually managed to boot into it and backup everything. After that, I did a factory reset and everything seemed fine. So I went into recovery to test out if the phone would repeat the same freeze, and after I entered, the phone turned off and didnt turn on again. So now It wont even give out any sign of life, not even with the charger. I tried the power + volume down but it wont turn on. So now I am stuck with a dead device :/
Can someone help me?
Regards
---------------SOLVED--------------
Going to Leave this here in case someone gets it too.
If for some reason your SGS7E is freezing with artifacts on its screen and then reebooting, you have a corrupted firmware. If for some reason, it shuts off and dosent turn off, or it wont respond to the power + volume down combo, check if it feels warm to the touch (not warm like 40º ou 30º more like, warm for your surroundings) if it does, that means that somehow it got stuck and wont power off. Just wait for it to drain completly and try again.
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this problem happened after debrand or flash with odin?
how you solved? You have flash again with odin?or what?
mago988 said:
this problem happened after debrand or flash with odin?
how you solved? You have flash again with odin?or what?
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I flashed with oddin. Fun fact, my phone is from Dubai too.
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icecoolpsyco said:
hi guys.....
did anyone have a read of my post?
any help or ideas guys?
update....left it plugged in to see if it would charge....but still nothing, no warm up feel or doesn't even look like its taking any charge.
so how long should it leave it unplugged to see if maybe it needs completely draining?
still cant get it to power using any key combination at all
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I left mine over two hours off charge. Same simptoms. I guess it depends on the amount of charge left
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Im at work right now. Will responde in a more complete manner later.
Okay I'm back now
icecoolpsyco said:
Dead Phone and no life at all
Im suffering the same damn problem with my 4 month old S7 edge.
Im in the UK but i bought the phone brand new boxed from Dubai, it is the international sm-g935f.
Box was sealed and brand new and bought from a major official retailer, i actually bought 2, one for me and one for wife, her one has been perfectly fine.
Long story short, last few months starting getting the screen freeze with blurred pixels, screen would stay frozen exactly as it was and then eventually phone would black screen and tried to reboot...
blue notification light would constantly stay on and it would NOT turn on and just loop with the s7 edge powered by Android logo unless i did vol+power down a few times, it would then turn on and proceeed to the flashing samsung logo before it would load up...
problem got worse by worse day by day,
i did everything from full wipe and factory restore etc safe mode etc, but it kept doing this and got worst over last few days...
now i could never get it start unless i actually tired the hard reboot power + vol down about 5 or 6 times and failing that i would try recovery mode then hard reboot again,
once turned on would be slow and laggy and glitchy at first then slowly get back up to speed and work again, only to die at some point or other when i would go to use it, unused it would stay on all day and recieve calls etc.
but last night i think i got the black screen of death... black screen with blue notification light soild blue and permanently on, no matter what i tried i could not shake the blue light, i got the s7 edge logo a few times before finally absolutely nothing,
light stayed on for about 5 to 6 hours i thought just to let the battery die.
this morning its all dead, no light no power no nothing. no matter what i try and any combination of keys i cant get it to even flinch, put charger cable on and nothing, no lights, no power or boot combination works
Have spoke to samsung here in UK, they say its under warranty but they wont touch it with a barge pole as Samsung EU Europe warranty only covers handsets bought in the UK or europe and this is a an international middle east handset according to serial and imei number and that for me to make a claim it needs to go back to retailer in Dubai and make claim with Samsung warranty there..
I was hoping it was just a software issue and thus have put up with it for so long as i have no way of sending it back to Dubai,
Does anyone know how i can just get it back up to life again, just to get my messages, some photos and media from it and possibly delete my google account on it as all whatsapp and insta and snapchat etc wud still be running on it if somehow i could get it to Dubai, as i had not password or pin protected it at all, its all open, so if someone did power it up, they wud have easy access to full contents
any help or any guidance would be so much appreciated, as im just sitting with a £450 brick at the moment and its very disheartening that usually an expert with samsungs just cant get this to work.
Im appalled at Samsungs attitude here in the UK, that the latest S7 edge flagship model is dying like this and many others round the world too, so its a common problem and they wont help at all, i mean u would think they would cover the warranty internationally as people travel all over world with thier phones and its the exact same handset they are selling at their official Samsung stores in the all the Dubai malls, in Duty free airport etc, its absolutely appalling, having been a samsung pro person from the first galaxy s phones, and owning and spending a large chunk of my money over last 10 years on samsung products in my household and family and friends and endorsing them wherever i go, its the first time i feel ever so let down by them.
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Hello friend
I know that feeling. I had the same feeling after I saw my phone going dead on me. Well, this will sound crazy but, for now just leave it on your desk over a night, dont try to charge it, dont try to reset it, just leave it for at least 12 hours. My phone died like that, it started to loop each time I got the artifacts on the screen. Worse, it even did the same on the recovery menu. I bought mine with dubai firmware. The only diferent thing I did, was to flash 7.0 BTU rom directly on it since I live in portugal and the phone had a ton of apps that were in arabic. I used odin to flash it and for a week or so, the device worked flawless, only missing some important apps from the system wich I found to be odd. Now, for the good news, after hours of research at the time I actually learned that samsung build in a switch in case of inconsistent booting or kernel panic errors, that make your phone simply turn off to avoid a battery explosion (Like the note 7). This means that the phone wont charge or turn on if this switch is on. So I felt that my phone was not hot, but just warm to the touch when everything arout it was at 2º celcius. That meant that it was stuck with the screen turned off. I just let it sit for 2 hours while I took a nap and after that, I actually didnt use the charger right away, I tried the download mode key combo and it turned on. But since it was without battery, it turned of instantly. So I tried again and after it went straight to download mode, I connected to the computer and flashed the 7.0 btu firmware again. After this ordeal, I actually learned that the first flash actually didnt install a ton of system apps or functions that in turn, made the cellphone freeze. You can flash an original firmware in your phone, it wont brake the warraty or touch the knox 0x0 warranty.
There is a high chance that when you update or flash the firmware, something can go wrong (in my case it was a corrupted firmware doing to the internet connection). This will be the same with OTA's I guess. So dont despair, just let it sit for a while and tri again after that. With no battery the device will turn the switch off and you can use it afterwards again. The faul its at the software.
mago988 said:
this problem happened after debrand or flash with odin?
how you solved? You have flash again with odin?or what?
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I debranded from dubai firmware to android 7.0 UK BTU ROM. I redownloaded and flashed again when I got the chance to do it, and so far I have 0 problems with freezes or artifacts. Check if the firmware is properly downloaded before doing anything to avoid a stuck screen of death that may take a long time to discharge the battery.
For both of you guys, I'm sorry if my english sucks
If you guys need anything else, just PM me or respond here on this tread and I will try to help you as mucha s I can.
Regards
shadeFTW
Any way i can get it to turn on or somehow power back up again?
Any manual or computer way?
Have tried charging it and then leaving it for few days and then tried powering back up, but still nothing.
Usually when it used to freeze and black screen trying the power and vol down a few times would re boot it...
But right now it just seems like its died for good...
Please help anyone?
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Shadeftw said:
Okay I'm back now
Hello friend
I know that feeling. I had the same feeling after I saw my phone going dead on me. Well, this will sound crazy but, for now just leave it on your desk over a night, dont try to charge it, dont try to reset it, just leave it for at least 12 hours. My phone died like that, it started to loop each time I got the artifacts on the screen. Worse, it even did the same on the recovery menu. I bought mine with dubai firmware. The only diferent thing I did, was to flash 7.0 BTU rom directly on it since I live in portugal and the phone had a ton of apps that were in arabic. I used odin to flash it and for a week or so, the device worked flawless, only missing some important apps from the system wich I found to be odd. Now, for the good news, after hours of research at the time I actually learned that samsung build in a switch in case of inconsistent booting or kernel panic errors, that make your phone simply turn off to avoid a battery explosion (Like the note 7). This means that the phone wont charge or turn on if this switch is on. So I felt that my phone was not hot, but just warm to the touch when everything arout it was at 2º celcius. That meant that it was stuck with the screen turned off. I just let it sit for 2 hours while I took a nap and after that, I actually didnt use the charger right away, I tried the download mode key combo and it turned on. But since it was without battery, it turned of instantly. So I tried again and after it went straight to download mode, I connected to the computer and flashed the 7.0 btu firmware again. After this ordeal, I actually learned that the first flash actually didnt install a ton of system apps or functions that in turn, made the cellphone freeze. You can flash an original firmware in your phone, it wont brake the warraty or touch the knox 0x0 warranty.
There is a high chance that when you update or flash the firmware, something can go wrong (in my case it was a corrupted firmware doing to the internet connection). This will be the same with OTA's I guess. So dont despair, just let it sit for a while and tri again after that. With no battery the device will turn the switch off and you can use it afterwards again. The faul its at the software.
I debranded from dubai firmware to android 7.0 UK BTU ROM. I redownloaded and flashed again when I got the chance to do it, and so far I have 0 problems with freezes or artifacts. Check if the firmware is properly downloaded before doing anything to avoid a stuck screen of death that may take a long time to discharge the battery.
For both of you guys, I'm sorry if my english sucks
If you guys need anything else, just PM me or respond here on this tread and I will try to help you as mucha s I can.
Regards
shadeFTW
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Yes i would love to be able to flash it again or even wipe/factory data reset... Im very familiar on how to to that using stock roms or custom roms, but I can't even get it into download mode...
If I could just get it to power and into download or recovery mode then I would at least be able to do something with it.
But it seems your right like it is stuck on the black screen.
I left it in charge last night...
So now im. Thinking just to leave it without charging at all again...
But how long to wait till I know if it's properly battery dead and discharged?
If I do that then surely if battery is completely drained and discharged then it wont even have enough power to go into download or recovery mode?
Then do I attempt to try charge it again?
Risk is not knowing how or when of the battery is will be completely dead...
If it is stuck/frozen in black screen then charging it again will just prolong it again?
Uurrggghh its driving me crazy
icecoolpsyco said:
Any way i can get it to turn on or somehow power back up again?
Any manual or computer way?
Have tried charging it and then leaving it for few days and then tried powering back up, but still nothing.
Usually when it used to freeze and black screen trying the power and vol down a few times would re boot it...
But right now it just seems like its died for good...
Please help anyone?
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Yes i would love to be able to flash it again or even wipe/factory data reset... Im very familiar on how to to that using stock roms or custom roms, but I can't even get it into download mode...
If I could just get it to power and into download or recovery mode then I would at least be able to do something with it.
But it seems your right like it is stuck on the black screen.
I left it in charge last night...
So now im. Thinking just to leave it without charging at all again...
But how long to wait till I know if it's properly battery dead and discharged?
If I do that then surely if battery is completely drained and discharged then it wont even have enough power to go into download or recovery mode?
Then do I attempt to try charge it again?
Risk is not knowing how or when of the battery is will be completely dead...
If it is stuck/frozen in black screen then charging it again will just prolong it again?
Uurrggghh its driving me crazy
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In my opinion, you sould get a kill-a-watt to plug into a wall plug and to the charger to see the voltage thats going trough. If its 1,4v then the device is turned on but with a black screen (At least thats what it was showing to me, and its 1,4 because is just suppling energy, not charging).
The time it takes to discharge depens on why is stuck on that black screen. Mine was stuck at the recovery screen and took like 2 hours to discharge completly.
Unfortunally I'm having artifacts again :/ so this time I will downgrade my phone to 6.0.1. The simptoms I have when it does this, are overheating and extreme lag whithout doing nothing. Another suspicion I have is, it seems that the device does this when it wakes up.
I will take it directly to sammy next week anyway for them to analise it. Will report back asap. Meawhile I will test out other stuff too see what can be causing this.
Should I just talk to Samsung in Dubai?
And im thinking that possibly just send it back to them directly and let them deal with it under warranty?
I'm wondering if they will even let me do this?
I have the original receipt or both the phones from where it was bought in dubai.
The worst thing is the phone is only 4 months old when I bought it brand new and the one I bought for my wife is fine...
Her one is running a absolutely perfect and all latest updates etc, never ever crashed or ever frozen once, and she does a lot of photo and video editing on Instagram as a food blogger so her photo and video apps really push the phone.
icecoolpsyco said:
Should I just talk to Samsung in Dubai?
And im thinking that possibly just send it back to them directly and let them deal with it under warranty?
I'm wondering if they will even let me do this?
I have the original receipt or both the phones from where it was bought in dubai.
The worst thing is the phone is only 4 months old when I bought it brand new and the one I bought for my wife is fine...
Her one is running a absolutely perfect and all latest updates etc, never ever crashed or ever frozen once, and she does a lot of photo and video editing on Instagram as a food blogger so her photo and video apps really push the phone.
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Well, like someone said a few posts above, it seems that there are some units that have a sort of defect in the motherboard related to power states. I suspect that I have the same defect on my device. Samsung has a global warranty http://www.samsung.com/sec/support/guarantee/InternationalWarranty/ so I dont know if this could help you. I'm lucky in that department since the company that sold it to me aquired it from dubai but the reciept is from my country so I can solve this problem here.
As a last resort you should sent it to dubai since its worth the money IMHO
Shadeftw said:
Well, like someone said a few posts above, it seems that there are some units that have a sort of defect in the motherboard related to power states. I suspect that I have the same defect on my device. Samsung has a global warranty http://www.samsung.com/sec/support/guarantee/InternationalWarranty/ so I dont know if this could help you. I'm lucky in that department since the company that sold it to me aquired it from dubai but the reciept is from my country so I can solve this problem here.
As a last resort you should sent it to dubai since its worth the money IMHO
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That global warranty is only for Laptops, trust me I know from previous experience and it was excellent how they replaced and fixed my laptop even when i was abroad and once they sent me out a new battery whilst I was abroad to my hotel address.
butthey do not do global or international warranty on mobile phones.
The phone has to go back to samsung repair centre in the country of origin of the phone and they can tell just from the serial number.
So UK/Europe handsets can be repaired under warranty in country in Europe at samsung repair centres but they wont touch non UK/EU handsets. My Dubai/Gulf S7 edge can go back to any repair centre in gulf states or country.
Its ridiculous really as the phone is exact same hardware and even same model number as uk/eu S7 edge SM-G935F with the only difference being the regional stock firmwares.
I just laughed at the UK repair centre customer sevices guy as tried to convince me that the phones were different because they carried different software..... And thats why they cant touch a dubai phone as it according to him setup differently, just couldnt be bothered to argue or explain to him that I could make a uk phone look exactly like a dubai phone with the flashing of the correct regional firmware.
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If I could just get the damn phone to power up im any mode again im sure incould try and fix it again with the proper latest 7.0 nougat stock firmware...
But i am suspecting like many others and lots of samsung warranty repairs being done here UK/USA and abroad all over the world that some particular version of these handsets definite motherboard problem and all being replaced by samsung under warranty and problems fixed after motherboard replacement....
Arrggghhh
Teaches me right for going for the titanium silver model...
Lol i should have just got the same as my wife and bought 2 gold handsets.... She wanted the gold and i wanted to have a different one to hers and preferred the silver...
So now another headache....
How the hell do i send this back to Samsung in dubai and havr them return ot back to me without facing any customs and duty tax issues in dubai, and also if and when they send the phone back here in UK i think I will face customs and duty tax issues here again.
Anyone know any info about this?

[HELP] Cant unbrick yureka plus no matter what

Hello developers and my fellow xda members i would like to ask for your help on this matter my yureka plus has been hard bricked since 20 days now and no matter what i try it wont get unbricked.
how did it happen??
well even i dont know actually i had recently flashed an 8.1.0 oreo rom known as nitrogen os and it ran well for like a week till one fateful thursday i have a habit of cleaning my device with clean master and restarting it every week and i did that and the next thing i know my device wont boot up later on i found out for the very first time my device had hardbriccked with no mistake of mine.
link to the rom i used :: https://forum.xda-developers.com/yureka/development/rom-nitrogenos-t3701962
what solutions did you try??
well, many actually since this is the only device i have and i have been using it for a well over 2 years now i did the good ol google search accompanied by a youtube search to find out how to get my beloved device back.
these r all the methods that i used which ended up "successful" but my device refuses to boot up even though i have followed every one of these tutorials to revive my device perfectly even repeating the process 2-3 times thinking i did something wrong but to no avail the device still refuses to get unbricked.
links to the methods i tried :: https://forum.xda-developers.com/yureka/help/guide-unbrick-hard-bricked-yureka-t3303112 (claims to have unbricked his device 3 times didnt work for me though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n1qTpVvOZ0 (claims to have helped 10 other people get thier device back with this same method again didnt work for me)
what r the devices symptoms ??
well, let me see there r many although i have scoured the internet for the past couple of weeks i havent found a single person with the same symptoms as mine.
when the sd card (on which the emmc is still burned on) is out of the device no matter how long you press the power button the device will not show any signs just nothing.
when put on charging or connected to the laptop (without the sd card) though it just shows that dreaded little red notification light and thats all.
with the sd card in and emmc burned onto it the device when holding the power button will just flash the screen with nothing but just a black screen no text no logo just a plain black flashing screen until i let go of the power button.
when plugged in to a laptop or a charger with the emmc in though the device vibrates goes into the "fastboot mode" with all the lines automatically without me doing nothing just plugging it in and it doesnt stop there it keeps repeating the cycle of vibrating going into the fastboot mode then going off till i take the cable off.
but the laptop doesnt detect it as anything not as "qhusb bulk" not as "qloader 9008" not even as an unknown device even though i have installed all the drivers neccessary and more.
the device has been in this state since well over 20 days now and i cannot for the life of me am able to revive it so i ask for everyones help for i will b forever grateful if u help me get this device back.
also, i refuse to believe its any hardware problem since the device has never fell off from my hand ever since i bought it over 2 years ago.
I was having a similar problem what is ur model name was it android one or cyanogen one.
If it was android one then flash this file with ydgp tool
If it doesn't start then to try to boot using charger connected
If the booting process starts or it show yu logo after yureka plus logo that means it's your battery problem

Please help

So I recently got back into my s7 edge because my s8 plus screen broke and I had to order a new one. This is my issue:
I stopped using my s7 edge like 8 months ago because the battery got inflated and the cover came off. I bought a new battery today and replaced it myself. But when I conected my s7 to the charger it just shows a small blue message on the upper left corner "Recovery Booting" It flashes. I can get no commands to work. Ive tried them all. Hard reset, download mode, etc none work. I never did nothing risky on my device. I just used it for whatsapp, messenger, and youtube. My pc doesnt recognizes the phone and It wont power on. Not even to the samsung display logo. It doesnt even show the green battery charging animation (when the phone is off, and charging).
Really hope someone can help me. I really need to fix this ASAP cause of my work.
After some researching I think I might have a hard bricked s7 . I will buy a jig tomorrow. Hopefully that will help
You should think about changing the thread title.
Most people wont open a thread with "Please help" as the title...

Alcatel one touch pop c7 7041x bricked I think

Hello there!
I haved a long time ago this phone, Alcatel one touch pop c7 7041x. Well it was a good phone. 2 years ago I dropped it in snow. I didn't know that I needed to turn it off and put it in rice.. After I dropped I put it to charge because the phone was turning off randomly.. And when I restarted it, at that logo "Alcatel one touch pop c7" appeared some red horizontal lines. After that the phone didn't turn on ever again. 2 years later, right now I am thinking how to revive it. I searched on this site a lot but I think my problem is worse because when I plug it in my pc or socket there appears that logo(sometimes), LED glowing and nothing else...not even that baterry low image. When it is plugged in my pc, windows makes that conecting and disconecting sound over and over again and it's not showing in my pc as a drive either. I think is hard bricked because It dosen't get past that logo. And I haved some photos on it.. These are now unrecovarable..I think..What's the problem? It is something really bad? Can I revive it? Software is corrupted? Maybe battery or charging port doesn't work? The memory chip is nearly dead? Display not working properly? I really want to recover the photos and restore the phone how it was a long time ago but I am afraid that I might brick it further. If someone responds to this thread and help me in reviving the phone and recovering the photos I will be very very happy!
I have the 7041x - B021405 version if this detail is needed. If you find a solution is fantastic!

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