I have a Prophet G4 and I had always have problems with it. I always sent it to the customer service and they fixed it, but it's way too expensive.
Well, the problem now is that it is absolutely dead! it doesn't turn on, it doesn't enter into bootload, it doesn't makes hard resets and when I plug it to charge, it doesn't turn the orange light that turns on when charging. I don't really know if it is really charging but the light doesn't turn on.
I'v tryed everything! Taking out the battery, soft reset, hard reset, bootload, and it doesn't respond to nothing! It is absolutely DEAD!
I did nothing to it internally...I did not update the ROM...I didn't touch the registry...I didn't drop it..I don't remember doing anything for it to do this to me!! :'(
Can someone help me please, this really annoys me!
Try replacing the battery... maybe it resolves the problem dunno.
Same problem for me.
I've left my XDA Neo on the table when i went to sleep, and in the morning I realised, it's not turning on, and the same problems listed above! Battery was around 50%!
Help me! :'(
You need the original charger to awake it.
Just let it plugged in for some time (at least 30min) an maybe replug 1 or 2 times.
Then the red light will appear again and you can boot.
Maybe it's about the battery~~~
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I am sure it is the battery..Bay a new battery, and make sure not to run it dry..
http://www.batterikungen.se/batteri/pda-batterier.html
very good Battery Link
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The problem is that a HTC device needs power to switch on loading. If the battery is completely drained it doesn't work anymore. To fix it you can do the following. Take care, overloading may cause your battery to explode. So you will do this on your own risc.
Take a 5 Volt source and connect it to the + and - of the battery for arround 30 seconds. From this moment take care of the temperature of the battery. It should not get so warmer as 30 celcius. Put the battery back in the HTC and it picks up loading again.
I rescued a number of HTC devices this way.
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The problem is that a HTC device needs power to switch on loading. If the battery is completely drained it doesn't work anymore. To fix it you can do the following. Take care, overloading may cause your battery to explode. So you will do this on your own risc.
Take a 5 Volt source and connect it to the + and - of the battery for arround 30 seconds. From this moment take care of the temperature of the battery. It should not get so warmer as 30 celcius. Put the battery back in the HTC and it picks up loading again.
I rescued a number of HTC devices this way.
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Failing that dont try and charge it from your USB it wont work. You must as pointed out use the original charger. The above does work but like Jaddie says be carefull!
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Hi there,
I have a special question to my G4 witch i do not get in operation anymore: The Problem is, that the device does not turn on, independent any keys. Either the ON-Button, Soft-Reset, Hard-Reset i do not get any of the "normal" screens. The display does not light.
Additional, the red power-charge-LED does not light when i plug in the USB-poer-supply. The same, if i disassemble the battery and plug the G4 to the power-supply...
The device has not been used for a couple of months. The last action a Upgrade to WM6.5 that worked definitively fine for a while.
Has anybody an idea? Or happend before?
Thanks in advance
Ernie
i think it`s easy
hey .. i doubt you have a problem with your g4 phone, i think you have a problem with the battery. since you left the batter inside the phone for alot of months and you didn`t use it, i think the battery is super dead, so dead, that the g4 cant power off and go to charge mode. 1 : you could try letting it charge more, like .. 1 hr plugged in , orrr , you could find an universal charger, which charges the battery by touching it`s + and - with it`s pins and putting electricity in it. (sorry for the bad explanation but i`m from romania). I think one of them two should work, if you know some other friend who has a working g4 just try with his battery. Good luck ! ^_^
Thanks for your reply.
But it happens without (!) the battery: If disassemble the battery and connect afterwards the power cable, the red LED does not flash, and no key has a function. As Soft-Reset "switch" and Hard-Reset (2-button on the left plus Soft-Reset-Switch)
First i mentioned the same as you thought...
Has anybody an idea what can be done here?
Thanks in advance.
Ernie
I'm encountering this same problem. I let the device charge over night with no luck. It will not power on at all. The battery was working fine last week. its completely dead
My Universal turn on the red LED for a seconds and after that do not charge and do not turn on. Have you find any solutions?
Thanks
exactly the same problem here on touch 3g
i got my touch 3g in Jan 2009 in Shanghai,China. Now i'm in singapore.... it's bricked, i didn't do anything wrong, it's not dropped on the ground or into the water, yesterday it was fine, but this morning i just found that it's power off. plugging in the power cable , and i won't see the orange power led. it's completely dead, soft reset and hard reset can not be initiated, because it refuses to power on.
i'm going to htc care center at harbourFront next weekend ...
JeromeMorrow said:
My Universal turn on the red LED for a seconds and after that do not charge and do not turn on. Have you find any solutions?
Thanks
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oglop said:
i got my touch 3g in Jan 2009 in Shanghai,China. Now i'm in singapore.... it's bricked, i didn't do anything wrong, it's not dropped on the ground or into the water, yesterday it was fine, but this morning i just found that it's power off. plugging in the power cable , and i won't see the orange power led. it's completely dead, soft reset and hard reset can not be initiated, because it refuses to power on.
i'm going to htc care center at harbourFront next weekend ...
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You’re in the wrong section this is the Wizard forum.
I use a universal charger. Its one which takes the battery not one which plugs into the phone ...
whenever I let my phone run flat I leave the battery in the charger for a couple of hours then put it back in the phone and connect the phone charger. Once there are enough electrons whizzing around in the battery there's enough power to drive the IC that manages the charging in the phone ...
if the battery is too flat it won't even open the gates for you ...
I was flashing a new rom. And after it said 100% on the phone it turned black and never lit up again. I waited i didnt pull out the usb. 15 min later i checked it again still black. i pulled the usb out. hit the power button and nothing happend. i did a hard reset and still the phone wount power on. The phone's charging led light wount even come on when i plug it up. So i assume i have bricked me phone ?
I have HSPL3
miri19v
froyostone 3.1v
is there any way to bring it back to life or do i toss it in the trash?
thanks for the help
i have also tried to go into boot loader and NIL!
from your use of the word 'trash' can i assume you have a tmous hd2? if so, what did you flash? was it a non tmous stock rom (meaning a bad radio)?
(oh, first job tho, check for bent battery pins)
the pins are fine. yeah i was actually flashing a stock tmou rom.
got the full filename for the rom you downloaded please? (just checking you havent downloaded a t mobile rom that isnt tmous)
the reason im pushing that line of enquiry is that the symptoms you describe are consistent with either
wrong radio (from the wrong stock rom)
bent battery pin
over discharged battery
to test the over discharged battery you can take it out, plug usb in with wall charger, then put battery in. this lets it charge without trying to turn on the phone. the light may not come one for some time, so leave it a good hour or two.
Hey Sam,
I'm having this issue too. I am relatively positive it's from an over-discharged battery. The phone conked out a few nights ago, and later when trying to charge it I got nothing - until yanking the battery for a bit, plugging in the charger, then popping in the battery. Now, every time the battery drains I have to do this.
Is the battery "damaged" now, or do you have any suggestions to fix the prob? I see this posted a bit but no one has any solutions that I've found.
Thanks!
Ryan
well i know the principals of these batteries, but not really the mechanics, so yes id guess the battery is defective, (but it could be the phones internal battery control circuits too, again just guessing) but no i dont know if there is a cure, other than try another battery, and if it cures it, ok, but if not then it would be a warranty issue.
are you using android? cos from what ive read it discharges quickly under android or something? (never used it so cant tell)
Hey...
My Mozart seems to have stopped working. The battery run out this morning when I was in university and ive just got home and plugged it in to find that the red led is flashing up the top! Its flashes for a while and HTC comes onto the screen, it then shows an image of a battery on the screen then nothing, no lights, no charging, no booting.
Help!
i see well that happened to me, you seem to have drained the battery. the best solution is..
keep it charged for a while..
if it does not work.. remove the battery for a while then bring it back and charge again,
just let it charge until the battery regains enough power to boot the phone.
never let the battery fully down /!\
the smartphone Have to be charged before the battery nearly 30% otherwise u Will deteriorate the lifetime of u'r battery
Hi, I would like to know if the problem was the battery or hardware related? I am having this same problem and Im about to go to the phone shop to get this looked at... after being on the phone to someone who speaks the worst broken english for 20 minutes!
Thanks.
Hi to all,
Recently, my rooted Evo 3d's battery died twice (by died I mean the phone shut down and I couldn't put it to charge at least in 5 hours) but when I try to charge the phone as usual, it wouldn't charge. The orange light would light for a few seconds than go off. Therefore phone wouldn't boot up.
I must admit as both were agonizing, the fist one was thrilling. I thought I had bricked my phone whatsoever but started to search for the answers throughout the web. The first time was luck but I guess I have solved the problem in the second time.
First of all the problem is caused by clockworkmod. However, it doesn't charge the phone when it isn't in hibernation. To overcome the problem, I have tried to;
- Take out my sd card and charge or boot
- Charge it for the overnight - even though it said it wasn't charging - which is the case.
- Take the battery out and try to boot or charge. - no luck I must have tried it for 100's of times.
- Leave the battery for 10 mins. and try to charge again.
- all the combinations.
But the solution was simple;
SOLUTION: Connect the phone to your computer. You will hear that usb is connected. The orange light will go out but don't bother. Let it charge for 15 mins. than disconnect, take the battery out, then put it in and boot. Voila!! When the phone is up, charge it with your desired charger.
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Hi to all,
Recently, my rooted Evo 3d's battery died twice (by died I mean the phone shut down and I couldn't put it to charge at least in 5 hours) but when I try to charge the phone as usual, it wouldn't charge. The orange light would light for a few seconds than go off. Therefore phone wouldn't boot up.
I must admit as both were agonizing, the fist one was thrilling. I thought I had bricked my phone whatsoever but started to search for the answers throughout the web. The first time was luck but I guess I have solved the problem in the second time.
First of all the problem is caused by clockworkmod. However, it doesn't charge the phone when it isn't in hibernation. To overcome the problem, I have tried to;
- Take out my sd card and charge or boot
- Charge it for the overnight - even though it said it wasn't charging - which is the case.
- Take the battery out and try to boot or charge. - no luck I must have tried it for 100's of times.
- Leave the battery for 10 mins. and try to charge again.
- all the combinations.
But the solution was simple;
SOLUTION: Connect the phone to your computer. You will hear that usb is connected. The orange light will go out but don't bother. Let it charge for 15 mins. than disconnect, take the battery out, then put it in and boot. Voila!! When the phone is up, charge it with your desired charger.
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Good to know you solved your problem!
It really sounds like there is something wrong with the phone.....unless I'm mistaken ,you should she able to charge from any source ....usb or wall ...at anytime.....
I have read a considerable amount of people who have changed the phone over this. But if you have a rooted 3d with clockworkmod, it is free to try. Just after shutting it down, take your battery and wait for few seconds - just to make sure it isn't in hibernation, - than put it in and try to charge without booting. Will it??
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Good to know you solved your problem!
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Thank you!!
Hello,
I just bot an evo 3d with cwm already installed. It has the same issue with not being able to charge when powered off.
Is there a cwm version that doesn't have this issue? My other friends modded evo 3d doesn't have this charging issue...
Hello all. It's been a long time since I've been to this section of XDA, glad to see it's still got some life left.
I'm trying to get my old i777 working so a friend of mine can borrow it. If I remember correctly, it was running an AOKP rom when I stored it well over a year ago, and it was fine. Today I went to turn it on, nothing. I started charging it, let it go for a few hours. It still won't turn on; instead it's acting a bit strange. Every few seconds the screen flashes either the gray battery charging logo, an instant dim flash of the entire screen (a slight gray, nothing bright), or the home/back/etc buttons flash for an instant. When the charge logo appears, the screen brightens just before it goes off. All buttons are unresponsive, my computer does not recognize it. I've been unsuccessful in finding any real help with Google and searching XDA. The only advice I found was to plug it in without the battery, then put the battery in. This did not help. Any feedback would be appreciated - this little phone has a lot of sentimental value to me. It's been through hell and back, it survived my ex (who managed to break a Nokia 3310 and Nokia 920). If I have to put it to rest, I guess it's earned it, but I'd like to keep it going for just a while longer.
Did you store it away with the battery in the phone? If so, in a year, the battery could be completely drained and in some cases, that can cause a problem with charging, as in will not charge. Possibilities to test, use a fully charged battery by charging the existing battery with an external charger, or by using another battery. This would be the first thing I would try.
I am also having such a problem from time to time, when my battery is complitely drained. I am using such a device to bring the battery back to life. Always helps.
I usually plug mine into a higher powered charger like my s6 one and that gets it out of the loop.