Without power, your Samsung Galaxy S5 will become an expensive paperweight on your table. We received a lot of emails from S5 owners seeking assistance because their device won’t turn on or won’t respond when they press the Power key. The thing about this issue is that there is no easy way to determine what
Hello guys. Welcome to the pilot episode of our Samsung Galaxy S5 Problems series. Just like the previous models, we will be supporting this device and provide appropriate solutions and troubleshooting steps to every reported problem, error, glitch, bug and whatnot. As usual, we have a dedicated inbox for concerns and problems so feel free
I will look into a problem involving a Samsung Galaxy S5 (#Samsung #GalaxyS5) that pops up an error message saying “SD card blank or have some unsupported filesystem.” Obviously, this is a microSD card issue but the word “blank” could mean a couple of things; either corrupted (unreadable) or damaged. Just because the error says
“Unfortunately, com.sec.imsservice has stopped.” It’s one of the most annoying error messages Samsung Galaxy S5 owners encountered after updating their devices to the Android 5 Lollipop. We received several emails from our readers who have experienced seeing this error and while it’s not as common as other problems or errors, we find it necessary to
In this post, I will answer four of the screen-related problems with the Samsung Galaxy S5. The issues I included here are from our readers. The first one is about the blank screen that started after the phone fell and hit the floor. Common sense would tell us the drop may have messed up the
There’s this one common problem with the Samsung Galaxy S5 that occurs after the lollipop update. It involves your contacts disappearing with the notice “Updating contact list” when you open the Contacts app. There are different ways to address this problem depending on where the contacts are saved. As you know, contacts can be saved
A phone as powerful as the Samsung Galaxy S5 is most likely to heat up after a prolonged use. It is because the battery, processor, RAM and display will accumulate heat. However, the amount of heat these components produce isn’t enough to turn the phone from being warm to hot. Samsung engineers already spent hundreds
We already received a lot of emails about the Samsung Galaxy S5 that won’t charge. In fact, we already written and published several troubleshooting guides for this very specific issue. However, I find it necessary to address this one email from our reader because it’s not really a charging issue per se but a more
I will address two general issues with Samsung Galaxy S5 that gets its service from T-Mobile. The first problem is about internet connectivity. Our reader said the phone is having trouble staying connected to the internet, which is clear enough for us, but what I’m actually looking for is the information as to when and
Hello guys. Welcome to the 67th part of our popular Galaxy S5 Troubleshooting series. We’ve already addressed hundreds of emails and problems sent by our readers but we’re still getting a lot of email each day seeking for help. So, we will continue publishing support articles like this. If you get errors or currently experiencing
Hey guys! Welcome to the 61st part of our Samsung Galaxy S5 Troubleshooting series. We cite, at least, ten problems for every post, so it means we already addressed more than 600 issues reported by our readers. And judging from the number of unaddressed emails (and those that come in every day), it is safe
About a couple of days ago, Sprint rolled out another lollipop update for its Galaxy S5 to fix some bugs and issues encountered by its customers. So, if you are prompted to download the update, please take time to do so especially if you are currently bugged by an issue or two. In this post,
Hello guys! This is the 3rd part of our Galaxy S5 Troubleshooting series for Verizon subscribers who contacted us about their problems. There’s about a dozen of problems I addressed in this post so if you emailed us before or currently bugged by a problem or two, try to skim through it to see if
Hello dear readers. Welcome to the second part of our Verizon Galaxy S5 Troubleshooting series. While we already have a lot of S5 support articles, we find it necessary to publish posts like this for our readers who explicitly mentioned they have Verizon-branded phones. But all troubleshooting procedures and solutions cited here may still work