Curious, I don't have a razr myself, but looks like a nice phone.
Anyway, my huge concern with this phone is when it comes to the flashing game. Since you can't remove your battery, does that mean bricking your Razr is game over? Is there a way to cut power to this phone at all short of leaving it on until the battery dies?
Wow, that's something that hasn't crossed my mind yet, lol
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UnBricking RAZR
Hooray! I've bricked my RAZR yesterday! Because of low battery - dumb mistake I've made. ALWAYS check your battery is charged 75%+
So I was in a situation, where I can't load OS, and stuck at fastboot mode with failed flash error. The most ugly here is I can't charge my phone, I can't pull out the battery so I could charge it somewhere else...
Thanks to [TSON] at xda to suggest try motorola factory cable that is used to program motorola phones without battery installed. Buying factory cable is not a good option since I would like to have a phone now! (you can buy it here: http://shop.teamblackhat.info/Factory-style-programming-cable-for-Motorola-FactCable.htm)
But there is an option to create one at home:
1) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077414
2) http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
1) I've bought Motorola MiniUSB <-> MicroUSB adapter (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=090HEB54X9MZWHDS3PF4)
2) Cutted this adapter and found that there is no 5 cables here - dissapointed
3) cutted adapter's microUSB connector and found there is 5pin available to solding.
4) lame ugly soldering using schemas provided on forums
5) fingers crossed - connecting: great, phone is in a fastboot mode and it says that the Battery is OK!
6) Flashing fastboot leaked image using RSDLite - done
7) Happy dancing!
Mine appears bricked as its stuck in a boot loop when powered on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1367040
Please help if you can. Thanks.
amace04 said:
Curious, I don't have a razr myself, but looks like a nice phone.
Anyway, my huge concern with this phone is when it comes to the flashing game. Since you can't remove your battery, does that mean bricking your Razr is game over? Is there a way to cut power to this phone at all short of leaving it on until the battery dies?
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Holding down the volume buttons and the power key at the same time for like 6 seconds resets the phone. On my EVO 3D this method worked in the place of a battery pull most of the time but not always...I'm a little nervous this might happen at some point with my razr and I'm not looking forward to it...
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Holding vol DOWN and power for 10 seconds ALWAYS powers down your device, no matter what. RAZRs don't have zombie motherboards, they can't operate without power
Not sure if this will help but there's a method for restarting in safe mode.
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=50079
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bikercr said:
Not sure if this will help but there's a method for restarting in safe mode.
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=50079
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For any reason...this is good info regardless.
bikercr said:
Not sure if this will help but there's a method for restarting in safe mode.
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=50079
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Except that once you brick the phone, most of the time you can't get into Safe Mode.
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Except that once you brick the phone, most of the time you can't get into Safe Mode.
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If it's bricked....hopefully not.
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I have a droid razr that I rooted back in october when I first came out. It has worked perfectly fine up until last night when out of no where is just powered down and restarted. Once it restarted I realized it wasn't making it past the splash screen(if that's what it is called) and then reboots. It does this over and over. I downloaded Gingerbread 2.3.5 CDMA Droid Razr XT912 Verizon USA [Fastboot Files] and RSDlite so I could get my phone back to stock. Well before I was able to get into the fastboot loader my phone's battery ended up dieing. I plug it in to charge and it shows an empty battery with a question mark in the middle of it. Some please help cause I don't know if my battery is even taking a charge or if there is a better method to getting this fixed.
How long have you let it sit on the charger? You need a factory cable from team black hat. Google it. Not sure if they have any left out of this batch though.
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You can also make a charging cable if your so inclined, instructions are around here somewhere.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077414
I was able to get a charge on it but when i get to the fastboot flash mode screen down below it says device is LOCKED. Not sure if that effects anything but when I tried to flash my phone using rsd lite it didn't work. It failed
Same thing happened to me when in RSDLite. I just restarted the computer and phone and it worked.
I tried rebooting and I still get the failed message in the rsdlite 5.6
dsmith093 said:
I was able to get a charge on it but when i get to the fastboot flash mode screen down below it says device is LOCKED. Not sure if that effects anything but when I tried to flash my phone using rsd lite it didn't work. It failed
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I think there are 2 fast boot menus. Get to that screen again and hit volume down until you see "AP Fast boot" or something like that. Then hit volume up. Try RSD again.
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mistawolfe said:
How long have you let it sit on the charger? You need a factory cable from team black hat. Google it. Not sure if they have any left out of this batch though.
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By factory cable do you mean the one that came with the phone or another?
jtsativa420 said:
By factory cable do you mean the one that came with the phone or another?
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No, you can purchase the cable from "Team Black Hat". The factory cable allows you to flash on RSD Lite without requiring your phone to have battery charge.
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eowyn0821 said:
No, you can purchase the cable from "Team Black Hat". The factory cable allows you to flash on RSD Lite without requiring your phone to have battery charge.
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Thanks a million!! Searching for team black hats cable now!
other booloop power or charge battery option
i dont know if it really charges because i dont feel the battery gets hot but try this :
1 . conect the usb cable normaly to the pc and phone
2 press the power button and the vol - botton for a while till the phone restarts
2 right away press the 2 vol +and- toghether
3 the white battery light comes on and its suposingly charging
if it doesnt go on and the menue comes on, got to fastboot and then hit the power botton
5 when the phone is off disconect and conect the usb cable and the white light should be on now
Symptoms:
1. Hitting power does nothing
2. Power + down volume does nothing
3. Plugging into AC power = no green light
4. Plugging into USB (computer) power = green light (which stays on after unplugging)
I have:
1. Tried battery and SD card pull while plugged in and not plugged in
2. A friends BH5X battery
3. Leaving the battery out for an hour
4. Leaving it charge via the Motorola AC adapter over night
I am out of ideas. Something else that may help... when the phone died I plugged it in (AC) and it rebooted to the recovery menu. I hit reboot, and since then it will not power on... or charge apparently.
Even with a charged battery it wouldn't boot?
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CadenH said:
Even with a charged battery it wouldn't boot?
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Had a coworker charge my battery in his Droid X to 80% before he had to leave. I don't know what his battery was charged to in his phone, but I tried his as well with the same results. Does it have to be charged to 100%?
Xeno62277 said:
Had a coworker charge my battery in his Droid X to 80% before he had to leave. I don't know what his battery was charged to in his phone, but I tried his as well with the same results. Does it have to be charged to 100%?
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I wouldnt think so.
So the battery just simply died and wont boot up now? You werent doing anything else to it?
jsgraphicart said:
I wouldnt think so.
So the battery just simply died and wont boot up now? You werent doing anything else to it?
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My battery will boot my coworkers Droid X. When it died it shutdown due to low battery. I plugged it into AC power... it booted up to recovery, and I hit reboot from the menu... after that it is completely unresponsive.
Xeno62277 said:
My battery will boot my coworkers Droid X. When it died it shutdown due to low battery. I plugged it into AC power... it booted up to recovery, and I hit reboot from the menu... after that it is completely unresponsive.
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If the battery worked on your coworkers droid X then its not your battery. Which means its hardware or software related. Were you running any roms or anything or were you completely stock?
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If the battery worked on your coworkers droid X then its not your battery. Which means its hardware or software related. Were you running any roms or anything or were you completely stock?
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I've been running Eclipse 2.1 for a while now with no issues... even if I was having a ROM issue... wouldn't still at least boot to the M logo or stock recovery?
Xeno62277 said:
I've been running Eclipse 2.1 for a while now with no issues... even if I was having a ROM issue... wouldn't still at least boot to the M logo or stock recovery?
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Yes, it should. Or if you had bootstrap on there (which you should if you flashed stuff) it would boot into that if you turned the phone on when the phone was plugged in. Its really hard to say what it is when your phone simply died of low battery and now wont boot. I'm just as stumped as you right now since you pretty much tried everything I would have.
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Yes, it should. Or if you had bootstrap on there (which you should if you flashed stuff) it would boot into that if you turned the phone on when the phone was plugged in. Its really hard to say what it is when your phone simply died of low battery and now wont boot. I'm just as stumped as you right now since you pretty much tried everything I would have.
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Yeah when I said it booted to recovery I meant the bootstrap recovery. Since it won't boot I guess I don't have to worry about VZW finding out it was rooted... lol. Maybe I can get them to replace it.
Xeno62277 said:
Yeah when I said it booted to recovery I meant the bootstrap recovery. Since it won't boot I guess I don't have to worry about VZW finding out it was rooted... lol. Maybe I can get them to replace it.
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Yeah, maybe you can get a replacement before they even know its rooted. lol. Just keep trying to boot it though. Maybe you'll get lucky.
Does your computer recognize the phone when you plug it in? You said the light comes on when its connected to your pc. If you can get adb running you can try to reboot the phone using adb.
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Does your computer recognize the phone when you plug it in? You said the light comes on when its connected to your pc. If you can get adb running you can try to reboot the phone using adb.
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No, and it will not power on... just green light... which stays on even after disconnecting it from the usb.
I did some more googling and reading. Then came across the Factory style programming cable.
So you flashed your phone and now it thinks the battery is dead (even though it's not) and it won't let you flash it again to fix it? Or, your battery really is dead and you don't have a way to charge it because your phone is soft-bricked and won't charge the battery. What do you do?
With this cable you don't even need a battery in your phone. This is our clone of what is generally referred to as a Motorola "Factory Cable".
Unlike a normal USB cable these cables are wired in a way that compatible Motorola phones recognize as a "factory" programming cable. This allows the phone to power up and be flashed without having a battery in the phone. Depending upon the model of the phone, it may also boot up differently than it does with a normal USB cable.
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Sounds like my problem exactly (minus the flashing part... which I did over a month ago). I went ahead and ordered it
Xeno62277 said:
I did some more googling and reading. Then came across the Factory style programming cable.
Sounds like my problem exactly (minus the flashing part... which I did over a month ago). I went ahead and ordered it
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Cool. I hope this works out for you.
Xeno62277 said:
I did some more googling and reading. Then came across the Factory style programming cable.
Sounds like my problem exactly (minus the flashing part... which I did over a month ago). I went ahead and ordered it
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Please let us know just for informational purposes. .
cyanogenmod
If you can get to bootstrap why not just use a card reader throw eclipse or some rom on your micro which should have come with an sd adaptor and just reflash from bootstrap?
Perpetual Void said:
If you can get to bootstrap why not just use a card reader throw eclipse or some rom on your micro which should have come with an sd adaptor and just reflash from bootstrap?
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It won't power on at all... that's why I need the factory cable... it doesn't require a battery.
Well, I finally got that factory programming cable. That didn't power the phone on either... it did power on my fiancee's droid 2 with no battery in it though. I figured the phone was completely hosed (also noticed the battery bulging a bit), so I got a warranty replacement. Since I couldn't even get it to boot with the programming cable I have no doubt VZW will not waste any time trying to repair it... at least I hope that's what they will do.
If a lithium ion battery begins to bulge it can be dangerous if not replaced. This is rare but with these batteries if one were defective it could reach 1.5V per cell during use. This would render the battery unchangeable and its discharge would cause the copper plating to create a short circuit in the cellphone.
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S3AL3DF4T3 said:
If a lithium ion battery begins to bulge it can be dangerous if not replaced. This is rare but with these batteries if one were defective it could reach 1.5V per cell during use. This would render the battery unchangeable and its discharge would cause the copper plating to create a short circuit in the cellphone.
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Yeah I chucked that battery and got a new one. Thinking that's what killed my old phone.
I bought this phone when i was in usa about 2 months ago,i lost the charger that came with this phone , phone was running just fine till yesterday , till it ran out of battery and switched off by itself , now when i connect the wall charger (the samsung one) it does,nt switches on or take charge , i tried to hard reset but no go, it ,does,nt responses on any button combo i found on this forum , only when i connect it with the usb data cable (the samsung one) it flashes white led light .... car charger did,nt work either ( its the chinese one )...
I have seen some people have this problem before when they let it completely discharge. Just plug it into whichever charger showed the white led and let it set for a little while (not really sure how long) and it will get a good enough charge to turn back on.
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klabit87 said:
I have seen some people have this problem before when they let it completely discharge. Just plug it into whichever charger showed the white led and let it set for a little while (not really sure how long) and it will get a good enough charge to turn back on.
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i put it on charge with the samsung charger for 6 hour but still no go btw phones back (kevlar area) smells little not to much but little weird battery smell is coming out of thr is it normal ?
The only thing i know you could do now is RMA it.
Send it back. That's what i would do.
klabit87 said:
The only thing i know you could do now is RMA it.
Send it back. That's what i would do.
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it is not possible for now as i lost the verizon slip , btw will buying this cable can help ? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330778351680 ....
That cable would allow you to turn it on a long as it is plugged in. It actually bypasses thebattery with that cable. Butit will not charge it.
Try asking around at droidrzr.com
You may need to get an OEM charger.
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klabit87 said:
That cable would allow you to turn it on a long as it is plugged in. It actually bypasses thebattery with that cable. Butit will not charge it.
Try asking around at droidrzr.com
You may need to get an OEM charger.
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will buying this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorola-Un...835480?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item20c9dfb7d8 one will help btw the samsung chargers(the one which i m using) output is 5v 0.7a , which is very close to oem charger,s output (5.1v , 750ma)
I'm not really sure. I am only passing along info that I have seen others come up with, with similar problems.
Ask around at droidrzr.com
The community is a little more active over there. And they are a brilliant bunch of guys
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my xt910 died
When my razr died. Nothing could turn it back on once. I had to call warranty. They said a eletronic component was replaced. But never informed which one. I suggest you to try any other moto charger, not the vehicle model, to see if there's a chance it work. And at last, try all the combination with the power and volumes buttons.
Best Regards,
Mauro.
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I'm not really sure. I am only passing along info that I have seen others come up with, with similar problems.
Ask around at droidrzr.com
The community is a little more active over there. And they are a brilliant bunch of guys
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http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/4336-help-required-motorola-droid-razr-xt912-doesnt-turn-on/
The basic story is simple, my ROM is corrupted, my battery has died. I can get into bootloader, not recovery, but fastboot.
I would simply use RSDlite and SBF but...
no battery.
I have tried hotwiring up the battery to the wires of a charger.
Making a motorola factory cable.
Spent a couple hours at Verizon attempting to use a powerful 2 AMP charger.
I finally have a computer, I don't know what options I have left. ADB? What?
Tomorrow I exchange my RAZR to my father for his backup Droid X while I'm down here in Oregon for the weekend.
Any help is appreciated.
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..Could you elaborate?
Have you tried connecting the phone to a wall charger while pressing the power and volume buttons?
Have you tried this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1549625
Olao99 said:
Have you tried connecting the phone to a wall charger while pressing the power and volume buttons?
Have you tried this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1549625
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I have seen methods like this. I will try it now.
Lucky for you, I have been in the same situation. Power off your device. Plug in a WALL CHARGER while holding the volume up and down keys. Let go and you will see the black screen with white text. Use the volume down key and select BP Tools. There! Your Razr should be charging with the battery icon on the screen. I hope this helped.
I have searched all over and tried all of the power + vol, +/- , usb, pc chargers etc...I get the solid white light when plugged in. The PC recognizes the phone I assume because the computer makes connection noises and moto drivers popup to install. It is stock, unrooted running JB and has been rebooting and not turning back on right away for a few weeks now until last night where it was on the charger all night and now is 100% dead. Any options? I cant seem to find a final working answer? Will it come down to needing to get a factory usb cable to enter fastboot, even which, what to do from that point?
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I have searched all over and tried all of the power + vol, +/- , usb, pc chargers etc...I get the solid white light when plugged in. The PC recognizes the phone I assume because the computer makes connection noises and moto drivers popup to install. It is stock, unrooted running JB and has been rebooting and not turning back on right away for a few weeks now until last night where it was on the charger all night and now is 100% dead. Any options? I cant seem to find a final working answer? Will it come down to needing to get a factory usb cable to enter fastboot, even which, what to do from that point?
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OK here is how to make your stock cable into a factory cable http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2075647
Now that will let you flash it without it being charged. I would recommended flashing a stock sbf for your phone model and provider also make sure you use the jb one ics won't work. Also I recommend using rsd for the flashing process
OK thanks I'll soldier one up tonight and try it out. Can someone send me a link to the sbf files? Which version of rsd is recommended?
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OK thanks I'll soldier one up tonight and try it out. Can someone send me a link to the sbf files? Which version of rsd is recommended?
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What phone do you have? What version of Android are you on/ and what service provider?
Xt912, Verizon on the latest jb ota
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Xt912, Verizon on the latest jb ota
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Here you go! http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_spyder/list.php
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Here you go! http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_spyder/list.php
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Thanks for your help. I tried the cable but my iron is too big to complete the job and I pulled out the wires by mistake. I spent the $10 shipped on eBay instead. It should be here by Friday and I'll sbf. Haven't done so since my droid 2/x days lol
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after many tries of plugging in usb, it finally went into fastboot where RSD was able to recognized it. I SBF'd, it completed then said it needed to reboot. It wouldn't reboot on its on probably because I had the program factory usb cable attached. Still got nothing after that, power button, hold vol down, hold both, wall charger, pc charger etc...I still get a white blinking light then solid then off when in the wall charger. The computer just makes the connect and disconnect noise for like 4 minutes then it does nothing. I'm still having trouble trying to get it back into fastboot with factory cable, its totally random when it decides to accept it. I'm out of ideas?
Do you have a multimeter? And if so, have you ever removed the back of your phone?
If you're willing to, (at your own risk, as this will void a warranty), you can remove the back of the phone, and check the voltage/amps on your battery and charging contacts. Unscrew the contacts (using a very, very small torx driver), and check the voltage on the battery (3.8~ I believe), and voltage/amps on the phone contacts with the charger plugged in (and battery disconnected). If there is current, then the battery is being charged. Watch the behavior of the phone and LED as you're doing this, as it could tell you if and when you current is steady. I may be wrong, but a flashing LED means charging, and steady means charged/not charging (for various reasons). There may be a physical problem with the USB port on your phone, causing intermittent connection problems, leading to the flashing and power-up issues altogether.
In reference to the connect/ disconnect on the computer, in Control Panel>Device Manager>USB Controllers, I uninstalled (not disabled) both my Root Hubs and Host Controllers, and Windows being Windows, it automatically reinstalled the proper drivers. Voila, my phone was once again recognized. (Done with my SGS3, though device type is moot with this idea.)
Good luck!
I've spent too much wasted time messing with it. To the graveyard drawer with the droid 1, HTC rezound and now the RAZR it goes
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