[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] McGyver9:
Verizon

Haven't taken an update since the last kitkat one.

(No root)

Had been running crappy for about 2 months.....last thing I installed was Viber. I un installed it weeks ago.

No change though.

I've also experienced the thing smoking through battery.

Bought 2 batteries with an external charger. Think it was mostly the original battery was bad....

Still....Isn't/wasn't charging over night with the stock charger/mini usb...have been rotating the 2 batteries I bought, charged externally. But they don't last a whole day.

I'm 50 years old. I don't game or watch videos all day. Just text phone and some surfing/Facebook occasionally listen to music/I heart radio.

So, I've been putting off the inevitable hard reset, by running it in safe mode for the last few weeks.

Slightly better battery life, but, pretty useless in that mode.

Also, the wifi and blue tooth turn off on their own. Never leaving the house/range.

It wouldn't turn back on.

I don't have any of that stuff set up, to ever shut it off.

The only thing that fixes it is the 3 or 4 hits on my knee. I found that here somewhere. Honest. It worked. (Why would something that's Solid State respond to being struck?)

Up to this point the phone was never dropped on anything harder than carpet a couple times, wearing a protective case

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So, I was going to download helium to back it up........so I rebooted it. To get it out of safe mode, for the trip to the play store.

It WAS working. ...had just used the phone. Was on wifi, reading about helium.

That was it......She's dead Jim.......

It has never made so much as a red light for the charger being plugged in. Nothing.

I didn't download anything. Haven't messed with trying to get the lollipop OS...

So........

Removed battery, sd card, sim card., charger port clean as a whistle, used with w/out different chargers, (the one from my samsung tab 10) held power 30 seconds, let off for 2, push again. (Some secret trick I found reading? ).... , held every button for minutes with battery out. ?..

Battery tested with multimeter. It's charged. Both of them are. Have tried both.

Not so much as a blink/flash/vibrate. ..

So from my extensive reading here, it might be my charging board? Something about a cap being bad?

Plugged into the computer I don't get anything. No charge, no acknowledgement it's plugged in by the computer (Win7, , get the sound and an installing driver/what do you want to do Window. Nothing).

I've got Kies installed. Been a long time since I used it though. But again, the computer doesn't recognize it's plugged in.

I only posted my experience because I have not found any others with ALL of these symptoms.

Sorry if anyone thinks it's a repeat.

I've been on here reading for 2 days now.

Pulling my hair out. Would like to salvage this thing. Don't want to get stuck in another contract.

So, , obviously,I'd like to get it running so I can at least back it up, and do a reset. And hopefully get it back to normal.

Also, is there a fix for this wifi/bluetooth thing, or am I going to go around pounding it on my knee every day? Pretty annoying.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts. (Sources for parts)

Chris