[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] RBalber:
Ok, this may turn into a long question but here it goes. I the a TMO Samsung Galaxy S4, been running fine now for over 1 year, 3 weeks ago, I flashed one of Dan's 12/12 builds of GPE 5.0. Around the 20th of December, I woke up with my phone underneath me and I must have fallen asleep with it while it. (Problem isn't associated with ROM, just giving you guys everything leading to issue) I went to turn on phone and battery was pretty much dead. Ok, so I go to plug on charger and but the battery icon just keeps recycling. I decide to to pull the battery inspect everything and all is good. I cannot get the device to charge or boot! I figure it's a dead battery, bad charging cable or USB port on phone is broken.... So I take my wife's battery (she has same phone) BOOM phone boots up, I put my battery in her phone and it charges normally.

So I connect everything to the computer because I originally thought, maybe something is either wrong with the recovery, ROM or firmware. Well... USB works perfectly fine for connecting data, I'm able to transfer files to SD card without a problem. So I tried to download the newest build at them time which was 12/24. I downloaded the GPE 5.0 12/24 build then installed with success. I rebooted and literally the second it hit the homescreen setup, the phone said "powering down - shutting down" I couldn't get past that screen. I tried this a few times, same results. I thought it was a bad download, tried alternate mirrors, same result. As a last ditch resort, I downloaded the Newest firmware that was out (yes I understand it has knox, but at this point I didn't care) installed a factory IMG and rebooted into ROM. Ok.... It let me in, BUT!!!! Almost immediately I get a message saying, "device/battery overheating - closing all 2 applications......." literally could only use phone and that was it!

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At this point, I'm pretty stumped on what is going on, I think ok.... Battery is good, works perfectly fine in my wife's phone, it's not the battery. So I try charing again, the red light is blinking, error states there's a problem charging your device and the battery icon is also blinking. At this point, I'm not positive it's the USB board here's why. I cannot install any newer ROM without getting an overheating message that pops up. I also tried downloading the 12/25 build of Dan's GPE 5.0 ROM and I had the same results as the 12/24 build. The phone will boot and immediately shut down.

Here's the weird part... I can install and boot the 8/30 GPE build which is last kitkat built from Dan, I can't charge it, I get the same blinking light, but it works. My question is.... 1. Does anyone know what my issue is? 2. Are there any further troubleshooting steps I can take? 3. I would love to install one of the newer builds, but I can't what's different from 8/30 GPE to the newer 12/25 build that shuts the phone down. I'm guessing it is a safety measure because it says the phone is getting to hot.