Last night I ran my battery down until it turned the phone off. I was listening to music/playing games. When I plugged the phone into the wall charger I got the usual battery icon with white dots below it but this time I also got a yellow triangle with exclamation point next to it.
Why would I get the exclamation point? What would cause that? Anyone?
thank you for your time.
AJ
Are you rooted. If so that is why.
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No root here sir. Running stock.
asjdwf said:
Last night I ran my battery down until it turned the phone off. I was listening to music/playing games. When I plugged the phone into the wall charger I got the usual battery icon with white dots below it but this time I also got a yellow triangle with exclamation point next to it.
Why would I get the exclamation point? What would cause that? Anyone?
thank you for your time.
AJ
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Might be a "your battery is extremely low and you can't boot until the device is charged a bit" warning.
i had the same icon. I think you need to leave it charging for a bit before turning it back on.
So do I not need to troubleshoot or anything? I'm still in my 30 day period.
i dont think there's anything wrong
nyydynasty said:
i had the same icon. I think you need to leave it charging for a bit before turning it back on.
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Exactly, same here. It's just saying that the battery it's too low to turn on.
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It also means what you did (running battery that low) is doing real harm the battery.
foxbat121 said:
It also means what you did (running battery that low) is doing real harm the battery.
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I always thought doing that once in awhile is good to recalibrate the battery?
OK so I'm just not worrying about it. On a side note, if I accidentally picked set wallpaper as lockscreen how do I set it back so when I set a new wallpaper itdoesnt change my lockscreen?
Dranakin said:
I always thought doing that once in awhile is good to recalibrate the battery?
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On HTCs, maybe. On our devices - if anyone tells you to recalibrate the battery, they don't fully understand our device's fuel gauge.
Just like with first-gen GalaxyS devices, the recalibration procedure for the fuel gauge chip is simple:
Pull battery
Reinsert
That's it. Our fuel gauge's driver has no provisions for loading statistics on boot, only for resetting it - but a battery pull resets it too.
This may eventually change with kernel upgrades, but it'll likely stay that way in Gingerbread.
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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.
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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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[Q] Phone stopped reaching a status of "Charged". It never goes past "Charging".
I'm running CM7 Weekly 4, and all of a sudden, the phone won't ever reach a state of "charged". In the past, this was not a problem. But now, no matter how long I leave it plugged in, it doesn't go any further than "Charging (94%)".
Note that this is NOT a complaint that the percentage doesn't go higher. The issue is that the status never reaches "Charged" anymore.
Does anyone know why this happened and how I can fix it?
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I'm running CM7 Weekly 4, and all of a sudden, the phone won't ever reach a state of "charged". In the past, this was not a problem. But now, no matter how long I leave it plugged in, it doesn't go any further than "Charging (94%)".
Note that this is NOT a complaint that the percentage doesn't go higher. The issue is that the status never reaches "Charged" anymore.
Does anyone know why this happened and how I can fix it?
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Have you tried reflashing the ROM to see if that worked. I do that one myself. You can also try an xda search for battery calibration techniques because there are quite a few out there. I would try that before you flash the ROM over.
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I haven't tried reflashing - this was a small enough issue that I was hoping to avoid that.
As for the battery recalibration, didn't we have an official explanation that showed that to be bogus?
It doesn't hurt to try right? Some of calibration techniques worked for me.
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calibrate
i get the same problem on cm9. I've heard its a problem with some roms. Maybe you could try this
1. charge until it goes no further
2. take off charging
3. turn off the phone and take out battery
4. plug into charger until question mark shows
5. insert battery boot into android
After i do these steps mine shows 100% charged.
giqbal said:
i get the same problem on cm9. I've heard its a problem with some roms. Maybe you could try this
1. charge until it goes no further
2. take off charging
3. turn off the phone and take out battery
4. plug into charger until question mark shows
5. insert battery boot into android
After i do these steps mine shows 100% charged.
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That fixed it perfectly! Thanks! The only question now is how long it will last before happening again.
Okay, the second question is - is this procedure harmful to the battery or phone in any way. A little late to ask, but there it is.
Try read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600859
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bimasakti85 said:
Try read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600859
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Thank you for that. The problem it describes isn't exactly what was going on with me, but the next time this problem occurs, I'll give that a shot.
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Thank you for that. The problem it describes isn't exactly what was going on with me, but the next time this problem occurs, I'll give that a shot.
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Well I think your problem is the same as in that thread, coz you"re stuck at 94% and never see 100% or fully charged.
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Hi,
I am very new to the Android world. Got a SGH-i777 from AT&T in US in February 2012 and had to move back to India in June. I got the unlock code from AT&T and used the device for 2 months without issues here on the local network.
Yesterday, the phone showed me a critically low battery message all of a sudden (I had fully charged it the night before) and turned off. When connected to the charger, I get the image of the battery with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark in it.
Thinking it may be a battery issue, I took it to a local Samsung repair center and he tried using a working battery in it, but still got the same image. He suggested that it may be a motherboard isssue.
Please help !!! I am still in the AT&T contract.
It happened also with my I9100 but i just continue to charge the phone and it disappeared.. try it
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Just a thought. There are a lot of non-nfc batteries around. Are you sure the person at the repair center used the proper battery. The I777 must have an nfc battery. Worth checking out. May still just be the battery failing.
I guess you continue charging it. Are you on a stock rom?
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r_k236 said:
It happened also with my I9100 but i just continue to charge the phone and it disappeared.. try it
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I will certainly try it out. I will charge the phone for the entire night and check it out in the morning. Thanks for your reply. BTW< how long did you charge your I9100 when you faced this problem?
bubuty said:
I guess you continue charging it. Are you on a stock rom?
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Sorry, I am still not up to speed with the Andriod lingo,so didn't fully understand the word "stock rom" but I have not rooted the device if that's what you are asking. I will continue charging it and check after some hours. Fingers crossed..:angel:
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Just a thought. There are a lot of non-nfc batteries around. Are you sure the person at the repair center used the proper battery. The I777 must have an nfc battery. Worth checking out. May still just be the battery failing.
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Hmmm, I am not sure which battery he used. Will try a long continuous charge first and if it doesn't work will take it back to the repair center and check if he has an NFC battery. I hope it is just a battery problem and nothing more serious. Thanks for your reply.
An update: I charged the battery for the entire night and got a 100% charged indication in the morning. But when I disconnected the charger and tried to turn on the phone, I have the same issue. I still get the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark.
But this time around, I was able to enter the recovery mode by pressing the Volup+VolDwn+power key and I rebooted the phone from the recovery screen and it worked fine. I am able to run the downloaded apps, make calls etc.
Now, I notice 2 new things:
1) Every time I turn the phone off or when it turns off automatically (which it does very frequently since today), it doesnt restart normally. I have to enter the recovery mode to reboot the phone and make it operational
2) When the phone is turned on and when I charge it, no matter how long I charge, the charge percentage shows 78% always.I guess the only time I get a full 100% charge indication is when the phone is turned off and then charged.
All this is leading me to believe that there might be a problem in the battery. If the phone operates properly from the recovery mode, I guess there is no issue with the mother board. Any ideas?? Please suggest.
I can make some observations. Please bear in mind that anything I say is speculation, basically guess work.
From your description, it sounds like a problem with the battery charging circuitry. It doesn't sound like just the battery itself, but that is the easiest thing to test, by getting a new or at least different battery and trying it.
As far as the battery circuitry, it could be either a hardware failure problem, or a firmware problem. Are you still running stock firmware or have you customized the phone? And which firmware version does it have? If I had the phone, I would reflash the stock firmware to see if the charging issue clears up. If that didn't fix the issue, then I would suspect some form of hardware failure.
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Just a thought. There are a lot of non-nfc batteries around. Are you sure the person at the repair center used the proper battery. The I777 must have an nfc battery. Worth checking out. May still just be the battery failing.
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Is that something common? I have had an extended battery for about a week with no issues. As far as I know, it does not have intergrated NFC antenna (or chip...seems a subject of debate whether or not stock batter contains just the antenna or chip too). Anyway, I bought the batterny knowing the feature wasn't there. Unless by some fluke a tthe time of order I happened to get an updated version of the battery, but I seriously doubt it as there is not any indication on the battery itself that it does, aside from having 4 prongs. Which leads me to believe with the right materials I can create my own antenna and slap it on there....assuming people are wring with the whole chip thing. Just thought I'd mention since I don't have NFC and don't have that problem...and now curious as to why you suspect it for affect battery charge and the sort.
My S2 recently started acting up, charging super fast and dying quickly as well. It's like the overvolt regulation doesnt work properly, it gets very very hot and then it just says fully charged, remove cord (even when it's unplugged), or it just hangs and suddenly I'm at 0% battery again.
I've tried several different batteries and chargers, I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with them. Anyone experienced something similar?
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My S2 recently started acting up, charging super fast and dying quickly as well. It's like the overvolt regulation doesnt work properly, it gets very very hot and then it just says fully charged, remove cord (even when it's unplugged), or it just hangs and suddenly I'm at 0% battery again.
I've tried several different batteries and chargers, I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with them. Anyone experienced something similar?
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I have not but i can tell you that your phone is staying awake while on charge which will explain why its getting hot... have you tried installing Better Battery Stats to see whats staying awake all the time... Also what rom/kernel are you using all this information will go long way to helpping explain whats going on?? good luck
gaosphappy said:
I have not but i can tell you that your phone is staying awake while on charge which will explain why its getting hot... have you tried installing Better Battery Stats to see whats staying awake all the time... Also what rom/kernel are you using all this information will go long way to helpping explain whats going on?? good luck
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I'm just using normal 4.1.2 ICS. The warmth is not part of the problem, it's just a strange symptom, like for example if I turn it completely off, sometimes it gets very hot while off and the battery dies completely, even if it was full when I turned it off.
lordrogue said:
I'm just using normal 4.1.2 ICS. The warmth is not part of the problem, it's just a strange symptom, like for example if I turn it completely off, sometimes it gets very hot while off and the battery dies completely, even if it was full when I turned it off.
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normal 4.1.2 ics trust me the warmth is being caused by the problem... either your usb charger board has gone/all the batteries you've tried are beyond wonky or you have WAKELOCKS giving your phone a proper beating. tap that graph shown in your screen shot see whats running. have you tried taking battery out of phone for few minutes (5) popping back in charging to full (while off) and then turning on? good luck
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normal 4.1.2 ics trust me the warmth is being caused by the problem... either your usb charger board has gone/all the batteries you've tried are beyond wonky or you have WAKELOCKS giving your phone a proper beating. tap that graph shown in your screen shot see whats running. have you tried taking battery out of phone for few minutes (5) popping back in charging to full (while off) and then turning on? good luck
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I think it must be a problem with the internal USB port or the board. I've tried cleaning it out a little, but it doesn't seem to help.
Should I order that part? USB Flex cable+circuit board? Are they easy to replace or do i need to solder?
Easy to replace, lots of threads on here about it recently (This seems to be happening to a lot of people). You just need to make sure you order the right part (It's cheap & easy to find; search for those recent threads).
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I have not but i can tell you that your phone is staying awake while on charge which will explain why its getting hot...
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They all do that. I forget the name if the wakelock now, but that is the reason certain 3rd party mains or car chargers don't work properly. Anyway, just the fact the phone is awake whilst charging is nothing to worry about, until you get a BBS log and see if anything other than charging is keeping it awake.
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MistahBungle said:
Easy to replace, lots of threads on here about it recently (This seems to be happening to a lot of people). You just need to make sure you order the right part (It's cheap & easy to find; search for those recent threads).
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So I replaced the board, and it was like you guys said pretty easy. It works just like normal now. However my speaker stopped working after replacing it, no idea why though as it's in the top of the mobile (?).
so my amaze 4g has been having battery problems for a few days (this is the 2nd battery for it, first died after 13 months), and tonight i went to check a text message and i had about 45% battery left,i swipe to unlock the phone and then 1 sec later it just goes black.
i have tried everything, but the LED wont even turn on when plugged into charger/pc. in device manger i see "qhsusb_dload" , but everything Ive goggled about this issue seems to be related to modified phones, not bone stock.
any help?
haxxo said:
so my amaze 4g has been having battery problems for a few days (this is the 2nd battery for it, first died after 13 months), and tonight i went to check a text message and i had about 45% battery left,i swipe to unlock the phone and then 1 sec later it just goes black.
i have tried everything, but the LED wont even turn on when plugged into charger/pc. in device manger i see "qhsusb_dload" , but everything Ive goggled about this issue seems to be related to modified phones, not bone stock.
any help?
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Unlucky! Your phone is dead,the only hope for you here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627882
This happens when your battery is really dead. You might have to leave the charger plugged in for a few hours before the LED comes back on.
However, this is a temporary fix, and it is likely that it will happen again.
I'd recommend you to get a new battery, even if plugging it for a few hours solves your problem. HTC Amazes are notorious for killing batteries. If you look around, you'll see threads talking about horrible battery life, similar random shutdowns, and such that can only be fixed with a new battery.
SuperAfnan said:
Are you kidding me, why did you have to post this in the development section. This is for ROMs, Kernels, Mods, and development stuff only.
Please read the forum rules next time because you could get an infraction or get scolded. I am not rude so I don't do that stuff usually. Be warned!
Can someone call a moderator to move the thread, or lock it. I can't call a mod from the app.
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i thought i was posting in the Q&A section, i tried to delete the thread right after i saw my mistake, but it wont let me delete.
eadrang said:
Unlucky! Your phone is dead,the only hope for you here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627882
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wow, great quality phone HTC.
Keylogger_0 said:
This happens when your battery is really dead. You might have to leave the charger plugged in for a few hours before the LED comes back on.
However, this is a temporary fix, and it is likely that it will happen again.
I'd recommend you to get a new battery, even if plugging it for a few hours solves your problem. HTC Amazes are notorious for killing batteries. If you look around, you'll see threads talking about horrible battery life, similar random shutdowns, and such that can only be fixed with a new battery.
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i tested my battery voltage and it was 3.850, how can it be really dead when its rated at 3.8v? i have had the battery issue before, but it never bricked my phone.
It's not bricked. (It shouldn't be)
Remove the battery, press the power button several times to dissipate any remaining charge in the phone, and then insert a fully charged battery. I'd recommend you using a different phone (if available) to charge the said battery.
After that, it should boot up normally.
And if I recall, voltage is supposed to be consistent, regardless of the charge level (unless it's totally dead, then maybe it's different, I don't know)
It's the current you want to look for.
Keylogger_0 said:
It's not bricked. (It shouldn't be)
Remove the battery, press the power button several times to dissipate any remaining charge in the phone, and then insert a fully charged battery. I'd recommend you using a different phone (if available) to charge the said battery.
After that, it should boot up normally.
And if I recall, voltage is supposed to be consistent, regardless of the charge level (unless it's totally dead, then maybe it's different, I don't know)
It's the current you want to look for.
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thanks for the advice, i dont have any other phone to change this battery with. ill go and see if i can set up seomthing to test amperage, otherwise ill let it charge and heopfully it works.
EDIT: you sir are correct about the battery, i tested the amperage and a normal AA cell had 4.8A the phone battery had 0.002A lol.
haxxo said:
thanks for the advice, i dont have any other phone to change this battery with. ill go and see if i can set up seomthing to test amperage, otherwise ill let it charge and heopfully it works.
EDIT: you sir are correct about the battery, i tested the amperage and a normal AA cell had 4.8A the phone battery had 0.002A lol.
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Yeah that's not normal. You could try charging it, but it's likely that the battery is fried already. You can buy a new battery on Amazon or some similar site. Many people (including me) recommend Anker batteries.
If you have no luck with the battery this HTC unbricking project for the amaze is definetly for you
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sportsstar89 said:
If you have no luck with the battery this HTC unbricking project for the amaze is definetly for you
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got a new anker battery from someone local, i saw the battery working on an amaze4g, doesn't work on mine. so the phone is the issue, are u sure the unbricking project is for me? it seems to be pointed to ppl who switched S-on
Well i tired to unbrick it, couldn't even get past the first step. linux detects the qualcomm device as bus 001 device 003 but brickdetect does not pick it up.
dead mobo?