Suddenly, I cannot charge my XDA I. I've tried the cradle and the car charger but neither works. I've tried soft resets but nothing! There is no light on at all. When I go to charging screen, the bar isn't moving.
Any ideas what might be wrong?
I've only got about 50% charge left....Need help quickly.
I have had this exact same problem occur twice in the past year. In both instances a "hard" reset fixed the problem. Don't forget to perform a backup of all your data first, then restore after the "hard" reset.
I went a step further. I removed my battery and put it in the freezer for about 20 minutes. Then I reinstalled it. During this process a hard reset was
obviosuly done. When I reassembled it, it seemed to charge up.
I should have tried the hard rest first but I've read that the freezer can sometimes bring rechargeable batteries back to life.
Thanks for your help whip
Hmm....I will have to remember the freezer trick...I am sure I will have to revive my battery someday. Thanks
It's been 4 months and my XDA is still going strong.
The freezer trick really brought my battery back to life! :shock:
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My XDA is not charging.
In fact, when I plug the
external power unit, or in the cradle the battery doesn't charge and the software doesn't detect anything and no orange light on the top.....
The charger has been tested and it's OK....
I tried soft reset...
What do you think about it?
Let me know...
Francesco
I had this problem yesterday!
When I attached my GPS it was working correctly only it didn't charge.
When I put it in my cradle it was syncing with my PC correctly, but it didn't charge either. Even when I placed my charger direct on my XDA it still wouldn't charge.
I did a soft reset and still had no luck just like you. So then I made a backup to my SD card, did a hard reset and voila! My XDA is charging! So I put back my backup and my XDA was where it was 15 minutes ago, except that it is charging now correctly! :lol:
I hope this solves your problem! Good luck.
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yes...
After posting also I tried with a hard reset....and all is now ok...
is it an overcharging...?
A software bug...?
What do you think?
Can it happen again?
Thank you for posting...
Francesco
This happened to my XDA too, but i've done a hard reset and it still wont work Anyone have any ideas? I did that same thing as others have done, i plugged it into my mates in-car ipaq charger bcos they have the same connector. My XDA is on critical battery, cant do much with it
FYI, I've had the opposite problem today... Phone always thought that it was charging. Even when disconnected from cradle / charger, the charge indicator light (both LEDs solid) would stay lit and Settings->System->Power indicated "Charging". After a while it became clear that it wasn't really charging itself byt drawing energy out of the air. Soft resets did not help. I backed up to SD, did a hard reset, and everything's fine now. I guess the charging system doesn't get "reset" when a soft reset happens, and so if something goes wrong there a hard reset is required.
Folks,
Numerous searches later I still can't find a thread I thought I read here a month ago. My topic id is to help anyone else find this info. if they need it.
Anyway, I recently hard-reset my Wallaby pw10b1 and it never came back!
I've hard-reset it consistently for the last few months, no problems. This time it went out and stayed out.
Any thoughts on getting it powered back on?
I tried getting into Bootloader but there is no response, no life whatsoever.
There are 3 contact points under a rubber gasket on the back are these Battery tests? How do you cross them to get the battery to reset?
Thanks
had a similar problem, I've removed the battery for 5-10 minutes and when I reinserted it the device powered up as if after a hard reset.
Totally dead
new_to_imate said:
had a similar problem, I've removed the battery for 5-10 minutes and when I reinserted it the device powered up as if after a hard reset.
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I have a similar problem. I tried to charge the battary it is completely dead with a red color on the charging led. I read in the manual removing the battary must done by survice. Is there anyproblem I should be aware of with removing the battary and reinserting it as you did? Thanks.
May someone please help me?
This morning I tried to turn on my device (at night I turn the radio off) but it was dead, no way to wake it up... So I put it on charge in the craddle but all that changed was a fix red light on the left.
I tried to remove the battery bat it didnt have any effect.
I tried to hard reset, but nothing.
This is the end of a horrible week, in fact I've had also had huge problems with battery duration, device hot burning and loosing all charge in two hours, so yesterday I had to hard reset and restore all data with Sprite Backup. Everything seemed to work fine until this morning.
I have to say that the last application I installed before having all these troubles was SpriteBackup! Might it be the point?
Please help me.
Wow, after removing battery once, twice... testing, charging-recharging the device woke up.
the battery is 0% and now charging, but I'm afraid the problem might come back.
I read some threads about issues in restoring data (also causing several hard resets): does it happen only with windows backup application or even with spritebackup? It should be a chance, but it's after installing spritebackup that my device (before working fine) started having charge issues and hard boiling temperatures (as it it was hard working in background all the time).
thanks to all who will help me understand solve these doubts.
Now it's charging but the divice is very hot... I never noticed it before :?:
Well, went to a PDA shop this morning and got a feedback that there are few cases of hard reset problems.
I know i have them.....
1 tip... don't charge you XDAII overnight.
I really dunno the theory behind it but just
Try it and feedback :wink:
I don't agree. Since I bought my xda2 in Nov till now, it's on charger every night w/o fail.
I also disagree, i recharge over night, from 9 PM to 6 AM. never reset
Take off wisbar or any other application that tends to hang, and keep your startup to a minimum to avoid hard resets.
i also charge overnight not had one hard reset yet
Err...i actually meant this topic for those with those are facing hard reset problem every now and then....
If you dun face them then cheers...but if you do face this problem.....no harm trying.
My XDAII hard reset itself twice in three days. Day 1 it was fully loaded with softwares, but it suddenly hard reset at abt 5:30pm, I didn't load any software after that (all factory default) and it did the same thing on the third day at abt the same time.
I know its hard to think abt anything relevent regarding this tip...well, those with hard resets problem should try it out. If it doesn't work out, well, what can i say and what you gotta loose? :lol:
Hi azbro, I'm with you on this one, if you are unlucky to experience frequent hard resets, it is worth checking out all options, to try and get to the root cause, there are so many different supposed reasons, battery, radio, software conflicts and so on, maybe these devices are not all the same, and the cause for hard reset could be different for each of us.
Hard Resets
I believe unwanted hard resets have a lot to do with the battery.
AFAIK softwares do also contribute sometimes but mainly due to overloading of memory causing leaks thus unrecoverable by operating systems.
Back to the battery.
Based on lots of owners complaints the Xda I/II battery has a nack of self-draining its own power. Suspect the contacts of the charger seems to cross when not inserted straight-down properly. Sometimes the battery doesn't get charged at all.
Check out this thread.
:arrow: TekGuru
Battery charging...
Hi!
Here is my piece of experience.
I had hard-reset problem when I was using standard Power plug & AC Adapter. But when I migrated to charge my device via USB & Cradle, the problem disappeared!
Maybe it happened because of our high voltage lines (220V). And one more, every time I was taking off my device from the charger I got static electrical shock
BTW, who is still experience this issue try my Restorator utility to save your time on restoring your soft & everything on each unexpected hard-reset! It's FREE!
Cheers
Can I have a link to your restorer utility?
Restorator Utility
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Can I have a link to your restorer utility?
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Follow this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=9333
Looking forward to your feedback!
Battery Drain Induced Hard Reset?
Don't think I can simulate it again as I myself dunno what caused it.
Routine sync and charge via cradle today I happened to notice the battery power was depleting slowly.
Waited for awhile to monitor and the battery power indicator still was not turning. Today battery plugins all indicate charging but power keeps on draining.
Switched view to Start-Settings-System-Power in the Control Panel displays same result.
Removed unit from cradle and recharge now the power turned.
What was that all about?!
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Dr.Stein]Don't think I can simulate it again as I myself dunno what caused it.
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Here are my tips:
If your problem with charging via cradle occurred more than once, then there is a cradle or battery problem.
Try to disconnect your power cord from cradle and use only USB connection when charging
Also, try to play with your battery. Fully discharge it & leave it for at least 3 hours, then charge it via cradle auxiliary charging slot
Finally, borrow one battery from your friend and check your system stability with the new one
So I rooted my EVO 3D using the HTC method. Then I installed CWR and SU. Installed Titanium backup and took a couple of backups. Everything was fine. Then I had this bright idea of installing ROM Manager. I run ROM Manager and I see this option for backing up existing ROM. I click on it and it asks me to install a boot loader or something. I install it. Then click backup again. BAM ! Phone reboots and goes blank. Now the red LED is consistently blinking every short while and the phone wont start.
Tried removing the battery and holding power to drain the cap. Then tried holding power. No dice. Tried holding power + Volume - no dice. The phone simply wont boot.
How do I fix it ? Is it bricked for good ? Anyone else have this problem ?
Try unplugging and then turning it on. Shouldn't be bricked either way. Hope this helps.
Try running the HTC method again
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If the suggestions already given do not work try hooking it up to your
PC and seeing if adb works? Them try to boot into fastboot, then fastboot recovery.
If not, try hooking into sync and seeing if you can initiate an Ruu. The Ruu will more than likely not be successful because you are unlocked and would need to lock first, but some communication between your phone and pc is a great sign.
also there is a thread here (I think sticky) that says "think you broke your phone, look here". Check that thread out to see if any suggestions.
Edit: added link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1281729
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To try all of that it needs to power on and the screen needs to show something. It simplywont power on. Red led keeps blinking. Tried charging it, connecting it to my Mac. A DB reboot. A DB reboot recovery. Says device not cnected.
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To try all of that it needs to power on and the screen needs to show something. It simplywont power on. Red led keeps blinking. Tried charging it, connecting it to my Mac. A DB reboot. A DB reboot recovery. Says device not cnected.
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Well if the red light is blinking I highly doubt it is bricked.
If Adb doesn't work, try running an Ruu through sync. Even if it says there is no device connected to sync, run the Ruu anyhow. I can tell you that I had an issue Once where I hooked it up to sync and it said there was no device connected. I tried to run Ruu anyhow and it initiated. It didn't complete because I was still locked, but at least it was a sign of life. And after it did it's partial run, I was able to but back into hboot.
Try it. You've got nothing to lose. Me though....I'm losing sleep and have to get up early tomorrow so I'm going to bed. I'll subscribe to this thread to try to keep up with it in the morning to see where you are at. Good luck.
oh. And sleep on it too if you find yourself getting frustrated. Sometimes I find that a night to sleep on it really clears my head to and let's me look at it with a fresh perspective the next morning.
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All suggested up is what I'd recommend. I wish you best of luck.
remove power from the thing for 10 minutes - this means take the battery out, do not have it plugged in... then try again... sometimes they freak the f out over nothing...
Wife's stock EVO has done that when an app tried to reboot the thing.
Try typing fastboot oem boot in terminal with your phone connected obvs
Sounds like a dead battery. Try leaving it plugged in overnight or switch out the battery with a good one.
wrong section btw
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thanx all for your responses. I appreciate them all. The only thing I haven't tried from suggestions above is keeping the battery out for extended period of time. Trying that now. Also since I am a complete noob what is ruu and is I avaliabe or Mac.
I had this issue with the 1.0.x versions on twrp
charge the battery externally if you can. then put it back in and try to turn it back on
do you have insurance? if nothing works take it to sprint service and act all dumb
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remove power from the thing for 10 minutes - this means take the battery out, do not have it plugged in... then try again... sometimes they freak the f out over nothing...
Wife's stock EVO has done that when an app tried to reboot the thing.
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This was the fix that worked. Removed the battery for 2 hrs. Phone was fine after that. Posting from phone !
I had a the exact same thing happend to mine.
Repeated battery pulls did not help and it would just blink.
Took it to a sprint keosk at a mall and they just pulled the batter and replaced it with another battery and it booted fine, and then they put my battery back in and it was fine after that, although the battery needed to be charged.
Yeah that happened to my og evo I was all flippin out over a dead battery hahaha
Yep, dead battery. Freaked me out the first time this happened also.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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This is not a dead battery issue but more accurately a "You phone thinks the battery is dead when its actually not" issue. I charged the battery for a long time using usb cable and my Mac and then using the stock charger and even that did not help. Repeated battery pulls also did not help. Only when the battery was taken out and left for a extended period was it fixed.
Here is my theory. All EVOs have a powerful capacitor inside them somewhere where they store the "Battery is almost dead" info and this capacitor takes some time to discharge. Every time you pull the battery and put it back in again the capacitor is not fully discharged and retains the "battery is almost dead" flag and never updates it even after repeated charging. The only solution is to pull the battery and leave it out for some time ( I left it out for 2 hours, someone here suggested 15+ minutes is good enough) and let the capacitor fully discharge at which point it will loose its "Battery is almost dead" flag. Then plug in the battery and everything is fine.
This explanation is a complete assumption but it is based on my observations and expriments. I have seen a lot of people post the same problem however no clear solution and tried solution as the one above so I hope this post helps others like me.
nimkar said:
This is not a dead battery issue but more accurately a "You phone thinks the battery is dead when its actually not" issue. I charged the battery for a long time using usb cable and my Mac and then using the stock charger and even that did not help. Repeated battery pulls also did not help. Only when the battery was taken out and left for a extended period was it fixed.
Here is my theory. All EVOs have a powerful capacitor inside them somewhere where they store the "Battery is almost dead" info and this capacitor takes some time to discharge. Every time you pull the battery and put it back in again the capacitor is not fully discharged and retains the "battery is almost dead" flag and never updates it even after repeated charging. The only solution is to pull the battery and leave it out for some time ( I left it out for 2 hours, someone here suggested 15+ minutes is good enough) and let the capacitor fully discharge at which point it will loose its "Battery is almost dead" flag. Then plug in the battery and everything is fine.
This explanation is a complete assumption but it is based on my observations and expriments. I have seen a lot of people post the same problem however no clear solution and tried solution as the one above so I hope this post helps others like me.
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Glad you got it working.
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