So Bricked S2 8" tab. Need help from the tech gods here.

[pointbob]

I'm so bricked. I'll try to be brief.

I successfully rooted a 2 month old sm-t713 a few weeks ago. I was out flying my drone with the tablet attached to the remote control. The tablet was discharging battery life to the remote. I placed the tablet down for a minute to check on the drone that just landed and when I checked the tablet...well it was off. I tried power on immediately...I then tried hard reset. Nothing.

At home I tried multiple reset attempts and nothing. Also the tablet refused to charge when plugged in. I finally opened the back cover and disconnected the battery. I left it for an hour and then tried again.

Now it gets weird.

The tablet turned on and started to load the os... nougat. It got about 2 mins into the Android loading screen and then died.

I retried turning it on. Nothing happened. I plugged it in overnight and still nothing. I tried unplugging the battery again from the motherboard of the tablet for a few mins. When I retried powering it on again I got a 5 second glimpse of the Samsung tablet logo screen and dead again.

Now it's really really dead. I tried multiple attempts at reset and download mode and no life. The unplugging battery trick does not work anymore.

In desperation I bought a new battery and plugged it in but the tablet did NOT respond to that either.

So now I'm at a total loss. It's only a few months old and doubt Samsung will fix it under warranty.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened? And any way to fix it myself?

Help really appreciated. Thanks. I feel like a dolt.

 

[ashyx]

I'm so bricked. I'll try to be brief.

I successfully rooted a 2 month old sm-t713 a few weeks ago. I was out flying my drone with the tablet attached to the remote control. The tablet was discharging battery life to the remote. I placed the tablet down for a minute to check on the drone that just landed and when I checked the tablet...well it was off. I tried power on immediately...I then tried hard reset. Nothing.

At home I tried multiple reset attempts and nothing. Also the tablet refused to charge when plugged in. I finally opened the back cover and disconnected the battery. I left it for an hour and then tried again.

Now it gets weird.

The tablet turned on and started to load the os... nougat. It got about 2 mins into the Android loading screen and then died.

I retried turning it on. Nothing happened. I plugged it in overnight and still nothing. I tried unplugging the battery again from the motherboard of the tablet for a few mins. When I retried powering it on again I got a 5 second glimpse of the Samsung tablet logo screen and dead again.

Now it's really really dead. I tried multiple attempts at reset and download mode and no life. The unplugging battery trick does not work anymore.

In desperation I bought a new battery and plugged it in but the tablet did NOT respond to that either.

So now I'm at a total loss. It's only a few months old and doubt Samsung will fix it under warranty.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened? And any way to fix it myself?

Help really appreciated. Thanks. I feel like a dolt.

It's obvious, but have you tried different chargers and cables?
When you put the new battery in was there any life at all?
The only reason I think the battery trick worked is because unplugging it allowed it to re-energize somewhat so it could power on when reconnected.

Now it's completely drained there's no power at all in it.
Same goes for plugging into the mains, no power getting to the board.
I suspect a possible faulty USB port.

 

[pointbob]

Thank you for responding.

I did try the oem charger, my car charger, a 3d party wall charger and a 20000 mAh portable charger. Also multiple cables. I think the charging port is working because the portable charger flashes when actually charging a battery. It does not flash at all if plugged into a full battery. Somehow the tablet is being blocked from turning on.

Plus just today I did use a fully charged replacement battery to test the tablet though...my coworker has the same tablet and allowed me to remove his functioning one today...and that failed when i connected it to the Samsung. I even connected the battery from faulty Samsung to his tablet and his turned on immediately.

Argh.

 

[Alpha1BA]

try a "Samsung Jig" you can get them off ebay for about a quid!