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Verizon Galaxy S5-mine is 1 month old and Samsung wants me to send it in to "investigate"; they say around 5-7 days.........ae you kidding me?
Tried all of the above to no avail
Tried all of the above to no avail
Two people experienced the problem in the thread. And it was fixed by a simple reboot by holding down the home and power button. The op couldn't do it because the power button was broken. That leaves one person with a problem on an iPhone 5C. COMPARED to this thread it is nothing.
Mine has been doing this about every 24 hours. I factory reset twice. I had a bunch of Tasker profiles set up and I had hoped that that was the problem, but it happened again this morning without Tasker running. I have a Verizon S5. I'm curious to hear if this is happening on all variants of the phone. I've been running with the fingerprint lock on and I'm going to see if using no lock makes any difference.
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Man I have a Verizon S5 and I'm having the EXACT SAME ISSUE. Let me start by saying all my smart phones have been Samsung since the 1st Epic on Sprint. S1 (Sprint), S2 (Sprint), Note 2 & 3 (Sprint), and I regret to say that the S5 is the worst Sammy I've ever owned! I'm a Samsung fan boy but this S5 issue has me wanting to get rid of it and get a G3! Between my screen going completely black when I try to wake it up, or the keyboard taking forever and a day to pop up (not to mention sometimes the keyboard freezes and won't type anything for about 5 seconds, then it'll spit everything out), I'm EXTREMELY dissapointed. My rooted Note 3 which is still on Sprint has NEVER had this issue, even when it was stock! Never had to change animations scales or anything, IT JUST WORKS! Definitely looking to trade for a G3. So dissapointed. Also I actually worked for Sprint as a technician so I know all the resets and all that, its a software issue. Touchwiz is a poison man...and of course Sammy won't fix it, they just add more **** we don't need further clogging up space. Time for a change. I'll still upgrade to the Note 4 in October but on Verizon I wanna explore, just not iphone ! lol
Been tired with the black screen problem and exchanged it with Note 3. Wow, couldn't be happier! This device is awesome on every things! I don't care about finger prints feature, water resistant or heart rate sensor on S5. The Note 3 i got is working smoothly and seamlessly...and i love the s-pen also.
I shattered my screen a month ago after it flew out of a golf cart. I tried the local repair places and they were all either too expensive ($300) or didn't have parts yet.I dropped my phone yesterday (after having dropped a few times before that) and suddenly the screen went black. No matter what I do, the display won't show up. I've tried turning it off and back on, removing the battery and replacing it (several times), pushing the volume, home, and power buttons at the same time, and still nothing happens on the screen. The window and back buttons are lighting up, I can see my indicator light flashing to show I've gotten a text or email or something, and I can even hear my notification ringtone going off, but still the screen is black.
I've had my S5 for 3 and a half weeks, and a third of the screen was already cracked, with several small sections shattered, so I think this is a hardware, not a software issue.
Any suggestions for fist steps? Should I take it into a store to get the screen/the phone replaced?
Also does anyone know if I can take my phone to a Sprint store if I have Credo Mobile?
To whom it may concern....
I've had this issue since April when I bought this contract free Galaxy S5 and follow all the tips on this forum... At one point I even had the idea that I solved it by tweaking some settings, but without any luck.
So I called Samsung Netherlands again, strangely enough they never heard of this problem?!?!! The tech guy told me to go to a Samsung premium server center to reload the initial software, I told them that I already this a factory reset using Kies 3. But it seams that in a Samsung service center they can reload the initial software which is not possible with Kies 3. So on friday I did this and within 20 minutes the initial software was reloaded, and cross my fingers, since 3 days no issues at all.... So maybe the initial batch got some bare software when they left the factory and the newer models where loaded with the issue fixed.
So I don't know if this is useful for anybody, but you never now, for now i'm a happy camper!