My wifes phone is pictured below. When she lets the battery completely drain and plugs it in she gets this screen. If you let it charge for a while, say 1hr or more, you can boot it by holding a the power button down for a few seconds (I dont know exactly how long but at least 5 and maybe 10 or more).



If I unplug it/restart it/etc before that 1hr it comes back to this screen. This will also happen if the battery is low - not dead - and while charging you try to restart. I have the same phone and if my phone goes dead I plug it in and see the battery charging and can start the phone normally at any time. So not sure what is going on. System wise, stock system upgraded to JB a couple months ago. Problem existed before and after that. Not a huge issue but slightly irritating.

 

Not rooted. New from t-mobile last year.

 

I have been playing around with it. If the USB is plugged into the phone, regardless of battery life, it will go to that screen if you try to shutdown or to restart. I don't think it has anything to do with amount of battery life anymore as I have been testing it at all different levels the last few days. And the volume buttons otherwise work fine and are not depressed when restarting. Also I did it with the USB plugged into the phone but not the outlet or comp etc - so the phone was not charging or connected to anything and it did the same.

I may try just a reset to see if that helps.

 

Ok - The problem was solved. Our charger had the original Samsung/Tmobile wall charger but for some reason we were using the USB cable from an old USB LG Ally phone. Using the original USB that came with the phone and all is well.

Kudos to tech support at Tmobile. It was his suggestion to check the charger/cable.