Help is it beyond repair

ukaluk · Mar 5, 2014

last night picked up my phone and the screen was just showing
a black screen showing

Samsung
GALAXY S 111
GT-19300

its a phone that's never been upgraded the battery is fully charged

ive tried removing thre battery left it out over night still the same after replacing it .

holding power switch with home and volume up key and all that happens is the display goes off then comes back on a few seconds later

tried the same as above but holding volume down button and it goes to a screen saying WARNING a custom os can cause critical problems . so I pressed cancel and back to the Samsung screen

Any ideas

Rukbat · Mar 5, 2014

Bring the phone to your carrier's store. Ask if that store does repairs or, if not, where the nearest one that does is located.

Go to the repair facility (if it's reasonable - driving 10 hours isn't) and see if they can try a reflash on your phone. That may be all it needs. (BTW, however it's fixed, you're almost certain to lose all the data not on the external card.) If the phone isn't under warranty (an S3 almost certainly isn't), they may - not definitely, but may - charge you something to reflash the phone.

Does it pay to fix the phone if that doesn't fix it? Get an estimate, then you'll be able to decide. It could be something simple (and cheap), it could need a new motherboard (in which case it may not pay - that would be your decision).

At worst, contact Samsung and ask if you can send it to them for an estimate, or where near you there's an authorized repair center that will give you an estimate.

BTW, what you did with the keys didn't cause any problem. Volume up put it in recovery mode but it sounds like your timing was wrong, so the phone just turned on. Volume down put it in download mode. Canceling that just turns the phone on. (But don't mention any of that when you bring or send the phone in. It was working, then you picked the phone up and it wasn't working. Period.)

funkylogik · Mar 5, 2014

Just to add to what Rukbat says, if youre in Europe then you still have warranty (2years).
Try again to get into recovery mode and do a factory reset :thumbup:

ukaluk · Mar 5, 2014

thanks guys I've took it in and they said exactly what you said and very much doubt that I will keep anything that's on the phones memory which is what I'm bothered about and will cost 85 quid to repair a phone I'm upgrading once the s5 is out so not going to bother.

so bought myself a 40 quid Samsung galaxy Y to see me thru until the s5 comes out and going from a S3 to a Y is like going from a jaguar to a Austin allegro. but hay ho . next time I'm getting a decent memory card to back every thing up .

but thanks for the replies and due to this unfortunate accident I've found this place and educated myself on a few things which will be handy for the future

funkylogik · Mar 6, 2014

Lol my wife had a Y for a while. I feel your pain :beer::beer:

ukaluk · Mar 6, 2014

funkylogik said:
Lol my wife had a Y for a while. I feel your pain :beer::beer:

and boy is it painful haha s5 can not come quick enough

funkylogik · Mar 6, 2014

I dont think it even has a decent developer community to get it rooted and running a custom rom/kernel to squeeze a bit of life out of it :thumbdown:

ukaluk · Mar 6, 2014

funkylogik said:
I dont think it even has a decent developer community to get it rooted and running a custom rom/kernel to squeeze a bit of life out of it :thumbdown:

please excuse my ignorance . but what is rooting and what are the advantages of routing a phone . ive never messed with a phone after buying one and how hard is it to do

?

funkylogik · Mar 6, 2014

Samsungs are generally easy. Basically rooting gives you (and apps) access to parts of the phone that are blocked from the normal user (like on a pc you can access everything)
It doesnt sound that exciting but it allows apps to do a lot more.
Also you can uninstall those annoying pre-installed apps (bloatware)
Flashing a custom rom means swapping the whole operating system for one made by a 3rd party.
For example android kitkat (4.4.2) isnt out for the s3 yet but im running a kitkat rom with none of the samsung stuff on it (so its very fast)

Even without a custom rom, if you root a phone you can use apps to change the whole look of it.
The downside is that with that extra freedom youre free to really mess your phone up lol

ukaluk · Mar 6, 2014

interesting stuff . will defiantly look into it as just from the hour or so 'ive been browsing on here it seems I could of got so much more out of my phone thanks so the short no BS version of rooting

funkylogik · Mar 6, 2014

Yeah it really opens up android to limitless customisation. My s3 still feels like a flagship.
Theres a great new thing called Xposed Framework that you install on a rooted phone then add apps called "modules" to add thousands of modifications that before you had to use a custom rom to get. You can even make samsungs touchwiz look sexy lol

ukaluk · Mar 6, 2014

can you recommend where to download odin3 from

funkylogik · Mar 6, 2014

Nah no idea bro sorry. I remember having a mission trying to find a decent download site to get it to root the wife's Ace 2

ukaluk · Mar 6, 2014

no worries

elbeeuk · Mar 9, 2014

Try here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539

Hth

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