The best advice for motorola photon root user. - Motorola Photon 4G

Don't let your phone uncharged if you got 5% that's a warning sing you need to plug the charged the soon as possible i have so much problem with new photon because now. hopefully it save somebody time.

I have a rooted Photon that I let totally die one day by accident.
No problem - plugged in charger for awhile and it booted fine.

Jasonfnts1 said:
Don't let your phone uncharged if you got 5% that's a warning sing you need to plug the charged the soon as possible i have so much problem with new photon because now. hopefully it save somebody time.
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Ive let that happen to me twice and no problems. Even to the point where it won't turn on till its plugged.
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Hummm I have let my photon completely discharge for 2 or 3 times cause I had to calibrate my battery, never had a problem for doing it.

Never has a problem here either...
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Jasonfnts1 said:
Don't let your phone uncharged if you got 5% that's a warning sing you need to plug the charged the soon as possible i have so much problem with new photon because now. hopefully it save somebody time.
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I can confirm this i let it die out the other day and now it doesn't charge from wall outlet i have to plug it in the computer which sucks now im probably going to call Sprint
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Has to be more to the story because many times mine has been drained to the point it shuts off and it's fine.
My first thought is something to do with if you've used the bootstrap recovery. That hijacks part of the boot process and wont allow the phone to be turned off and charge from a wall outlet but a USB outlet will work fine.
That's my 2 pennies ...

KSmithInNY said:
Has to be more to the story because many times mine has been drained to the point it shuts off and it's fine.
My first thought is something to do with if you've used the bootstrap recovery. That hijacks part of the boot process and wont allow the phone to be turned off and charge from a wall outlet but a USB outlet will work fine.
That's my 2 pennies ...
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I used bootstrap a while ago maybe start of Dec but this just happened out of the blue any fix
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RockoDev said:
I used bootstrap a while ago maybe start of Dec but this just happened out of the blue any fix
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Nah, hell i don't even know if that has anything to do with anything ... i was just making a suggestion to help spark discussion

I remember readying something to where you have to jump start the phone. It had something to do with connecting to neg and pos on the battery posts on the phone. Try looking around for it. I too have drained my battery serveral times till it turns off and no problems.

BHermes21 said:
I remember readying something to where you have to jump start the phone. It had something to do with connecting to neg and pos on the battery posts on the phone. Try looking around for it. I too have drained my battery serveral times till it turns off and no problems.
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Oh do it to the phone because ive had to that with the battery to charge it a lil
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Jasonfnts1 said:
Don't let your phone uncharged if you got 5% that's a warning sing you need to plug the charged the soon as possible i have so much problem with new photon because now. hopefully it save somebody time.
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i have had my mopho die quite a few times...alsmost every few days with no probs. not sure what happened with yours, but it is deff not and should not be an issue.

Yeah, I can't even count how many times I've used my phone till it turns off, and on a few occasions after having it turn off on its own I've turned it on again still without plugging in to try and kill it just a little more, for calibration ideas I had run across and was trying. Still wall charged and powered up without issue though.
Maybe you have a bad battery?
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never happened to me, i've let it discharge completely quite a few times that has never happened?

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problem powering on after dead battery

so, ive discussed IMO a very nasty thing about this phone I dont like. Of course my goal is to not let my battery die. But it has happened to me a few times. Im finding that after the battery dies, It takes me about 20 minutes to get the phone powered back on. Even if it is plugged into a power outlet. It simply does nothing for about 20 minutes after it is plugged in. Doesnt respond to power button, battery pull, etc.
So..I thought, maybe its a measure like blackberries where they wont power the radio back on until the battery reaches "x" percent. Doesnt seem to be the case either.
Ive had many HTC devices including the OG Evo, never seen anything like this...any ideas?
It's a mystery to me as well. It's happened a couple times to me. The only way I could power it on is by letting it sit on the charger for several minutes.
I think it might have to do with the way we rooted them. The developer mentioned an issue with letting the power go dead. It may not be a problem if you are in fast boot mode.
Hmmm...............
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Mine has a problem powering on while it is charging. I'll have to take out the battery and unplug it to get it to turn on.
im finding out that people who are using cwm have a problem charging with power off. Im using twrp so Im sure this doesnt pertain to me..but its got to be something kernel or recovery related. im gonna ask over in vipers thread and see what kind of answers I get
Happens to me often as well. When I plug mines in, its usually good to go about 2 minutes after the red light stops blinking.
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Alchem!st said:
Happens to me often as well. When I plug mines in, its usually good to go about 2 minutes after the red light stops blinking.
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dude it took me 23 minutes to get my phone back on yesterday
Success100 said:
dude it took me 23 minutes to get my phone back on yesterday
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Damn, that sucks. I'm using TWRP I also suspect it may have something to do with clockwork. Although it could just be that the battery needs to charge to a certain point for the phone to kick in. Who knows.. LOL
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I just ended up trading mine in for a refund. I found the 3d offered very little over the original Evo, and mine had worse reception and call quality than the original. I am now using a nexus s until a better phone comes out.

Uh, Don't let your battery completely drain... Face - to - Palm.

If this device has gets completely drained, it is painful to recover. You will have to try possibly 100 times various chargers, removing the battery etc.
The screen stayed black with an occasional light, but wouldn't power on at all.
It finally worked but you really have to be tenacious.
2 batteries 1 smirk.
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i'd still be messed in this case, unless one also had the standalone charger...
now i'm terrified of letting the battery drain!
Knock on wood...but I've never had this problem.
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u just have to let the led blinking light turn solid then give it a go and it should be good to go
Yeah I never had this problem and my phone has died several times. I just let the blinking light go solid and turn it back on. I did notice that my old LG chargers are a bit finicky with this phone though.
i though this happened to mine too. my phone died, i plugged my charger in but nothing happened. eventually the orange light came on, it just takes a while.
Thank you for something we already have threads on...search is your best friend...
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I have a standalone charger but it only charges to 97%. I hope it's not messing up my batteries.
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Just let it sit on the charger for a few minutes.
The light will blink for a while, but it will still charge. If after 10 minutes the LED is still blinking, unplug the charger and plug it back in.
Run mine dead at least once a week. Which should be common practice. Never a problem. You should definitely let it charge a while before expecting it to fire back up.
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Thank you for something we already have threads on...search is your best friend...
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Don't be "that guy".
I exchanged my one-week-old phone yesterday because of this: my phone went dead overnight, so I plugged it in in the morning and got nothing (no lights or anything). I left it charging for about 20 minutes while I got ready for work and still got nothing. When I got to work, I stuck it on the charger again for about 3 hours, and still got nothing. I went to the nearest Verizon store to see what they could do about it, and they didn't even look at the phone, just replaced it.
Works for me, I guess.
Have had this happen twice now (with oem batteries). My problem was though, left them on the charger all day, then they wouldnt turn on or do anything.
sometimes i wonder if the people who said their phones never came back on, actually just freaked because it didn't turn RIGHT back on and frantically started plugging it into tons of chargers thinking all sorts of things could be wrong, when really nothing was.
I have never had a phone NOT come back on, and this is with 2 years of HTC phones (at least 2 dozen phones when you consider all the replacements for various things here and there) and not a single one has failed to charge back up.
not saying anyone is lying, but when something happens that were unfamiliar with, its easy to start getting freaked out.
Think about it, would a manufacturer make a device that has a high tendency to fully discharge, "break" should it actually discharge? Sounds a bit silly...
Ran mine sead before and recharged no problem. You just have to plug it in and wait. It's not gonna turn on immediately. Let it charge.
lithium630 said:
Don't be "that guy".
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Someone has to be that Guy...we don't need 30 threads on the same topic cause people are to lazy to see if someone figuired something out before them.
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nosympathy said:
Someone has to be that Guy...we don't need 30 threads on the same topic cause people are to lazy to see if someone figuired something out before them.
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In almost every thread on here, someone has to complain and tell the OP to search. There are thousands of threads to go through. Even after narrowing it down with a search they could still miss the answer to their question.
No, this is a problem I've had as well, twice in fact.
The first time my battery ran down from 99% to dead because I was unaware that it lost and was searching for a signal. I couldn't get it to turn on after hours and hours of charging. I finally took it into a Verizon store, and they used a different charger to get it turned back on.
It happened again last night. I was downloading something, the signal was lost, and the battery died prematurely. I used the stock charger to charge it overnight, but when I woke up this morning, the phone refused to turn on. I charged it with my HP Touchpad charger, and it came on about five minutes later.
The stock charger failed to revive the battery BOTH times.
So my solutions are, 1. don't let the battery die. But things happen and sometimes it's unavoidable. 2. If the battery dies and you can't get it charged after hours, try using a compatible charging cord from a different device to get it moving.
Things that are unavoidable happen, but I make darn sure my battery never dies 100% after something that happened with my Droid Charge.
It was custom ROMed and all tweaked out etc and I fell asleep one night when it only had about 10% left. It ran all night and was off in the morning.
When I plugged It in and started it up, every single app started force closing on me. This had never happened before and it was so bad the thing was totally unusable.
Luckily, I had made a nandroid BU the day before and restoring it fixed it.
No idea how true this is, but I've read a few other posts with people having this issue and they found that if you pop the back, pop the battery, plug in, insert battery and replace back. Then you let it sit for 20 or so minutes and it should start up again. Love to know if this resolves the issue for those having it though.

phone is charging REALLY SLOW

I plugged in my phone last night and made sure it was charging, so i wake up this morning and i unplug it and it was at 20%?!? So i plugged it in rougly an hour ago and it only went up 20%, could it be that i left the desk clock thing on all night it just used more than it could keep up with and my battery is just super dead? I have also used different chargers and nothing worked.
It never goes past twenty? If that's the case, i'm thinking it may be a battery issue. If you call Samsung and tell them the problem, you should be able to get another one for free.
Ph0n3D0rk said:
It never goes past twenty? If that's the case, i'm thinking it may be a battery issue. If you call Samsung and tell them the problem, you should be able to get another one for free.
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Sorry my sentence was a little hard to understand, when i woke up it was at 20%, but its SLOWLY charging, like 1% every 10 minutes, its up to 45% now, but i just dont understand it.
thegoob said:
Sorry my sentence was a little hard to understand, when i woke up it was at 20%, but its SLOWLY charging, like 1% every 10 minutes, its up to 45% now, but i just dont understand it.
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Are you using the Samsung Charger that came with the phone?
If yes do what he said ^ and call [email protected] and tell them. They will most likely send u a new battery.
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NightHawkUndead said:
Are you using the Samsung Charger that came with the phone?
If yes do what he said ^ and call [email protected] and tell them. They will most likely send u a new battery.
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Yes i am, and this just started happening...should i unroot to just call?
thegoob said:
Yes i am, and this just started happening...should i unroot to just call?
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You don't Gotta unroot
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thegoob said:
Yes i am, and this just started happening...should i unroot to just call?
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Try a differrnt micro usb setting or clear battery data in cwm
"Since God created man, and man created the Galaxy Note, the Galaxy Note are like a gift from God, Randal!"
Verify how much current the phone is drawing (CurrentWidget from app store or a shell script). Even with the factory charger I have seend where the phone will draw less than 400mA (which is less than from a USB port on a computer) due to the cable being used - I threw out that cable. The "Battery Info" showed AC but the phone was only drawing 389mA.
Mine does 1% every 2 minutes with stock charger.
Jim Dead said:
Verify how much current the phone is drawing (CurrentWidget from app store or a shell script). Even with the factory charger I have seend where the phone will draw less than 400mA (which is less than from a USB port on a computer) due to the cable being used - I threw out that cable. The "Battery Info" showed AC but the phone was only drawing 389mA.
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its drawing 6130, but the phone is back to charging normally now, idk what it was but it was strange needless to say...
Had the same problem
I had the same problem of super slow charging a few days ago.
Fixed it by rebooting into recovery --> advanced --> wipe battery stats --> then reboot. Phone then charged as normal.
In case anyone has this trouble down the road...
For CurrentWidget you'll need to set the operation type to divide (/) and the operation value to 10. That will show you the correct charging current.
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Try charging phone while it turned off. If it is the same it might be battery problem. And use stock wall charger with stock usb cable. Note draws 1A so generic microusb charger takes twice more time I guess.
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[Q] Rezound spontaneously bricked itself?

I was running a CM9 build, and my battery got low. Out of nowhere it shut off(rather than powering down) when I still had 10-15% battery left. I figured no big deal, I'd just pop my other battery in. Nothing. Plugged it in to charge(with both batteries), nothing. Can't get to Hboot or recovery as of now. Anything? Anyone?
Crisis averted. I have no idea what the hell happened, but I popped the full battery back out and back in a few times, and then it randomly worked. That was scary as hell. I've never seen it do anything like that before.
Wow that's certainly strange.. Glad you didn't brick though
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Squirrel1620 said:
Wow that's certainly strange.. Glad you didn't brick though
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As do I. I was going DEFCON 1 for a little bit. Hope to never have that happen again.
Same thing happened to me on clean ROM 4.5. A couple times, I have also seen the problem here before. The phone doesn't like to go dead for some reason but it always came back on after awhile with a new battery or starts charging after sitting plugged in awhile. I have just been switching batteries as soon as its low.
Kane5581 said:
Same thing happened to me on clean ROM 4.5. A couple times, I have also seen the problem here before. The phone doesn't like to go dead for some reason but it always came back on after awhile with a new battery or starts charging after sitting plugged in awhile. I have just been switching batteries as soon as its low.
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I don't understand why putting a new battery in though doesn't immediately solve it though. I had heard of people having charging issues after it died, but not with a new battery in. Lesson learned though. Ha.
Note to self: do not let phone die. It will get even by causing you to have a mini stroke
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This also happened to me once nearly had an breakdown lol
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I believe it has something to do with the the board holding a charge without a battery. I have had it happen to me a couple of times. If you wait 5 to 10 minutes, if begins charging. It scared me the first time it happened to me.
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Obaterista93 said:
I was running a CM9 build, and my battery got low. Out of nowhere it shut off(rather than powering down) when I still had 10-15% battery left. I figured no big deal, I'd just pop my other battery in. Nothing. Plugged it in to charge(with both batteries), nothing. Can't get to Hboot or recovery as of now. Anything? Anyone?
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this happened to me a couple of months ago. phone randomly turned off and wouldnt boot at all. let it stew on the charger for an hour tried to boot it an it froze at the splash screen. i had to ruu the whole thing. i didnt do anything to it. :/
synisterwolf said:
this happened to me a couple of months ago. phone randomly turned off and wouldnt boot at all. let it stew on the charger for an hour tried to boot it an it froze at the splash screen. i had to ruu the whole thing. i didnt do anything to it. :/
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I remember that. It wouldn't do crap, actually showed syn how to ruu via fastboot.
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Snuzzo said:
I remember that. It wouldn't do crap, actually showed syn how to ruu via fastboot.
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Luckily it randomly decided to work. I think what may have caused it is that I used my extended battery(only 1980 mAh) for the first time in a while, so the battery was misreading the percentage, and actually fully discharged. Still doesn't explain why a fully charged battery wouldn't boot it though. *shrugs*

Phone dead after fast-charging.

Me:
Hey guys!
Some of you may know me from i9001 forums.I stopped developing roms there because i don't have the phone anymore.
You:
Bla bla.I don't care.Tell me what your problem is.
Me:
Ok.I was trying to port PA 3.15 and do a liltle testing.It worked but almost nothig was working,so i returned to CM 10.Everything went fine.
That night i plugged the phone in my laptop (with fast charge enabled) and let it charge all night.
Next morning i plugged out the phone from my laptop (i didn't look at the phone,just plugged it out) and went to watch tv for about 30 minutes .
When i came back in my room my phone was a little hot (arround 40 degrees).
I tried to open it,nothing.
Tried to reset it,nothing.
Connect to pc,nothing,
Connect to wall charger,nothing.
Even the little red led won't blink.The phone is dead.
I left the phone connected to the wall charger for about 10 mins.Still nothing.Any ideeas?
EDIT:I read something about fast-charge mod.This somehow disables the auto-shutdown when the phone run out of battery.This puts it into "super-critical" low battery mode.
I don't know if this is real,i will let my phone charge for 2 hours or so.
EDIT2:I saw now that i posted this in general section.Sorry for that..Any admin please move it in the Q&A.
:crying: any news? did you manage to get it up and running?
No.The phone is getting hot if i plug in a power source.I don't know what to do....
UPDATE: The phone is okay.I managed to get it running.
Don't leave us hanging like that. What did you do to fix your phone?
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Costinutz32 said:
No.The phone is getting hot if i plug in a power source.I don't know what to do....
UPDATE: The phone is okay.I managed to get it running.
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How did you do it? I have the same problem...
Mysthique said:
How did you do it? I have the same problem...
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Leave the phone connected to the wall charger for 2 days without touching it.
Then try to start it in bootloader.
Next time charge it while its in a freezer. BAM it won't get hot.
sixcarnage said:
Next time charge it while its in a freezer. BAM it won't get hot.
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That's not a good idea, your phone will be "wet" !
TRoPiiiC said:
That's not a good idea, your phone will be "wet" !
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Not if you set it on a towel.
Lol...
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