New Prime, out of the box. The red light on the power button comes on when charging, and flashes when pressed, but I just get a blank screen...
Any thoughts, or just a defective unit?
Battery most likely dead. As most primes shipped like that LR very low. Try holding the power down for 15-20 secs. If nothing then battery needs to be charged for at least a few hrs or so. Instruction manual says it should be charged for 8hrs. After you take it out the box.
yes its dead batt, don't worry.
make sure you charge with given wall charger and click in the socket properly. min 1 hr charge before power on.
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Just got my prime, plug it in to the wall charger, and it flashed on for a second and showed a red battery icon and then the screen turned off.
I've had it charging for close to an hour now, and it won't turn on.
When plugged in to the wall, i have an amber light on the power button. Tapping power, or holding it down for 10,20,30 seconds doesn't do much, but the amber light will blink a few time.
If unplugged from wall, nothing at all. No light or power.
Am I just being too anxious and it needs to charge for 8 hours before it will even boot up or what?
I plan on letting it charge for 8 hr, but figured I could turn it on and check it out while attached to the power outlet.
What has/was your experience?
Thanks!
jwigginton said:
Just got my prime, plug it in to the wall charger, and it flashed on for a second and showed a red battery icon and then the screen turned off.
I've had it charging for close to an hour now, and it won't turn on.
When plugged in to the wall, i have an amber light on the power button. Tapping power, or holding it down for 10,20,30 seconds doesn't do much, but the amber light will blink a few time.
If unplugged from wall, nothing at all. No light or power.
Am I just being too anxious and it needs to charge for 8 hours before it will even boot up or what?
I plan on letting it charge for 8 hr, but figured I could turn it on and check it out while attached to the power outlet.
What has/was your experience?
Thanks!
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Mine turned right on by it had about 30% battery out of the box.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using xda premium
That's normal.just leave it plugged in for an hour or two then try again.
Thanks - was able to get it to power on - just showed the battery screen again and shut off. So I just need to chill and let it charge.
jwigginton said:
Thanks - was able to get it to power on - just showed the battery screen again and shut off. So I just need to chill and let it charge.
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Mine came completely dead so just have to wait a little while
hi, i'm unable to start my phone. all of a sudden it turned off while being on charger.
The LED now lights dim red (if on charger) and does nothing. Pressing any side buttons do nothing, just the led still lights dim red. Plugging off charger cable doesn't make any difference just the LED turns off.
Can this be due to battery not charging? It has power off shortly ago due full discharge. I plugged in charger, phone turned on for a while indicating charging by LED bright red. Phone was awake about several minutes, then this sudden die.
Any help is highly apreciated.
have you already long pressed the power button until the phone vibrates?
It was solved! The phone kicked in 30 minutes after, now behaves normal.
Anyway curious why the phone didn't start so long. Tho discharged it had power supply.
I replaced battery recently, so maybe a bad contact or the cord dropped out?
Hi Everyone,
My Archos 80 g9 tablet wont stay on. Firstly it hasnt used for months. (1 .I put it to charge and green light started blinking, after some minutes it stopped and remains steady then it powers on. When just on Android, charging lvl says : Charged,...then in a sec,....connect charger. then starts shutting down and displays an message "CAUTION: Device wont charge if powered off"==>Powers off, Green light is off .1) . When i remove and plug in charger again does the same thing in (1).................THANK YOU.
This is from the online user manual : Note the over discharged paragraph. Hope this helps ! After the charging indicator's blinking, let your tablet charging for few hours.
IMPORTANT: When the battery is completely empty and you plug in your device,
- The charging indicator light will turn on then start to blink within few seconds. The indicator light blinking rapidly means that the device is charging but does not yet have enough power to start. This charging when off may take some time. Once the device has charged enough to start, it will switch on and display the ARCHOS boot logo. You can use the device whilst charging.
- If the charging indicator does not blink after few seconds, it could mean that the battery is over discharged.
1. Plug out the power supply.
2. Press 10 seconds on the On/Off button for a hardware reset.
3. Plug in the tablet to the power supply.
After a certain period (few minutes or one hour), the charging indicator starts blinking.
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BlackGunZ said:
This is from the online user manual : Note the over discharged paragraph. Hope this helps ! After the charging indicator's blinking, let your tablet charging for few hours.
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I have tried to let it charge for more than 1 hour and it does the same loop, again and again, like :charge for 2mins , power on, powers off, and recharges again and again. Also I have tried the 10sec reset too.
Thank You
Long story short. Another Z compact down. This time it's my Z5C.
Unrooted Z5C E5823. I flashed some marshmallow from xperifirm (build 32.2.A.5.11) some 8 months ago...
Description of events:
Just finished texting. Turned screen off. I go to turn it on again but the phone turned off, because pressing the power button doesn't do jack. Long press it and doesn't turn on.
... great.
Volume down + power button and it turns on after 3 vibrates. Battery level plummeted from ~70% to 20%. So I just put it on a wall charger and wait.
Some 20 minutes later, I'm surprised to see that the phone is still at 20%. So at this point I'm sure something is very wrong and I start browsing for solutions. Nothing worked.
The only thing I didn't do is a factory reset. But I seriously doubt it's a software problem.
So I say "screw it" and I unplug it from the charger and start using it normally. At some point the phone turns off on itself so I have to do the volume down + power button combo again. But this time, alas, it doesn't work either. So I try the little yellow "off" button on the SD bay + holding power button. This time the phone vibrates 3 times. Then I turn he phone on again. But this time it turns off after some 40 seconds. Then it began a short power on/off cycle and then remained off. Won't turn on. Like if it was hard bricked. I fiddled with the yellow off button while plugged in on the charger and it turned on again but still won't go past or below 20%. Ever.
I remove it from the charger and go home from work. Phone is unresponsive. PC doesn't recognize it. No key combination works. Charger and key combinations don't do jack. But THEN out of the blue, I sense 3 very faint vibrations (i just kept trying to power it on, I wasn't giving up ) and now the phone is on again. Battery at 20%, obviously. Service menu doesn't have a battery test anymore. How convenient... Battery usage menu is always the same when I turn it on. PAst history is gone, app % use are all the same ratios.
I'm trying to backup my data now. But at the meantime. Phone is on and still stuck at 20%.
So, is the battery dead? Wth is going on?
i have smailer problem
my phone wont pass the 90% . also after factory rest (stock rom\kernel\no root\lockedBT)
still, im not sure 100% is my batt i think is started from android 6 (now im at 7)
also my phone wont pass some voltage also (4.300) was 4.350 when the phone was new with 5.1.1
but in QC2 quick charger its 4.308volt max with 92% so i dont know whats goin on:|
hi,
I had same problem somes weeks ago.
try flash new rom, phone stuck at 20% but seems to have same battery's autonomy .
after a week I changed the battery, now all works fine
I think this is the lithium controller that is dead not the battery itself .
Battery and turn off problem
My Device have charge (50,60,70 or more), unnexpected it show 0% and turn off.
Hardware problem maybe ???
Hi,
I had a Sony Z5 compact in a drawer for about 2 years, where the battery already was weak. I'd like to use it as a smarthome button panel where the bad battery won't matter, but I can't get it to turn on anymore.
When I first plugged it, the status LED switched to constant red. I unplugged it a couple hours later, just to find, that the LED stayed on even when unplugged. The device still was cold, so I don't think, that it really charged.
Since there was no reaction on the power button, I tried the "OFF"-button in the SIM slot. After reading on the internet, I held that button for 2 minutes. The phone vibrated every 15s, so it seemed alive. I then plugged in the charger, again the status LED turned constant red. This time the device got warm, seemingly charging.
After a couple of hours I tried starting it, but still, theres no reaction on the Power button. I again tried the OFF button, with no reaction whatsoever, not even vibrating anymore. Also the status LED shows no more reaction on plugging it in.
Is the device dead now? Anything I can try to get it working again? I don't need the battery anymore, Its supposed to spend its second life permanently plugged in.
best regards,
RockNLol
The usual advice is to make sure it is off (Hold power and vol-downup until it vibrates 3x / if really dead, just wait ~20s), and then leave it on a charger for a few hours. If that doesn't do it, your battery is toast.
Even if it is revivable, there is a chance that it is so weak that it will make the phone crash - the battery is used like a buffer even when on the charger, and if the phone needs high peak current, it will try to take it from the battery. If the battery is too weak, voltage will drop and the phone will crash.
In any way, I would not want a battery that is potentially damaged to be at the charger 24/7. If you deep-discharge a battery, it can form tiny little short circuits, and if you charge it, it can become a fire hazard. As in, burn your house down and release lots of toxic fumes while doing so.
If you are familiar with soldering, the best solution would be to open the phone, remove the battery, and replace it with a fake battery circuit. Obviously, don't do this if you aren't comfortable doing this kind of stuff, and always have a plan for what to do if the battery decides to light on fire.
For that, after you removed the battery, try to pry off the yellow tape on it, and get to the battery protection PCB near the connector. Carefully cut the leads to the actual battery and remove it (this is the most dangerous part). Then, solder a large capacitor across the battery leads and a connector for a power supply that can provide around 4V at, idk, 2-3A. There aren't many 4V power supplies, but a 5V one and a (silicon) diode in series work well (make sure the diode can survive a couple amps). Then, plug the fake battery back into the mainboard, fix everything in place using tape or glue, and see if it boots.
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The usual advice is to make sure it is off (Hold power and vol-down until it vibrates 3x / if really dead, just wait ~20s),
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Power and Volume-Up?
Sure, one of the two
Power + Volume-down starts TWRP when the device is not running.
When the device is running, it takes a screenshot.