Hi guys.
Before sleeping I left the TP on the touchstone to charge and the clock appeared so I knew that touchstone was charging as it should .
Then I turned off the power button (when it was on ICS ) and when I woke up the TP was completely dead.
I tried every hard reset combination .....not working. I tried every charging method* for some minutes...not working.
I know that my original charger is working because my HP Pre3 is charging perfectly on connect and I suppose that touchstone is working as TP is getting warm on the back .
My TP is running the cm-9-20120623-NIGHTLY-tenderloin version.
I presume that is a drained problem as resets are not working. Not even the plug mark is appeared...(could it be something else apart energy drain ? )
What should I do ? I am completely lost now....
* car charger, original charger with cable, original charger with touchstone, pre3's charger even if it's not the right voltage.
When you connect the charger, do you see the home button LEDs flash/alternate? When it fully drains it takes a while before the plug symbol shows up... then again, I had a friend whose touchpad went bad and wouldn't power at all (bad battery?).
mountaindewmi said:
When you connect the charger, do you see the home button LEDs flash/alternate? When it fully drains it takes a while before the plug symbol shows up... then again, I had a friend whose touchpad went bad and wouldn't power at all (bad battery?).
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No....Not at all.
The home button never flashed even once.
But I found out today the solution.
This is the way that revived my so dead TP :
I charged for at least 15 hours the TP with a handsfree mini USB charger at 5v, 0.7mA (instead for the original TP charger of 2mA).
Then I holded the power button and pushed rapidly 15-20 times the home button.
I did the opposite holding the home button and pushed rapidly 15-20 times the power button.
I really do not know which one of these two combinations make the TP wake up.
After two-three minutes after my attempts the plug icon appeared on the screen and I rapidly connected with the original TP charger via cable. Home button was glowing for first time after days.
After half an hour moboot menu appeared and I choosed fast to boot on the webos. That's it !!
It now is charging on webos nice and easy. To be sure that I am not going to live this situation again I choosed to boot on Webos by default instead of ICS through Cyboot.
Till these wonderfull guys stabilize the ICS for the TP use cyboot to avoid such problems.
Same exact issue and rom here ... thank u so much for this thread sir....I am attempting ur fix riiiiight now ....cross fingers for me !!!!
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I've tried all these suggestions and mine still won't turn on :/
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Try to not let the touchpad's battery get drained cause I got 2 that died because it was drained too often had to call for rma twice process is quite simple if yours turns on it's a good sign just leave it on the charger
After recovering from this problem once in the past, I am currently fighting it again with less success. I've had a good year run with my Touchpad and I have no intention of sending it back or trying to fight with HP. Can anyone point me to posts where anyone has had any success removing and recharging the battery directly? I intend to keep fighting this to the end, so any suggestions on that will be appreciated.
duykhang524 said:
Try to not let the touchpad's battery get drained cause I got 2 that died because it was drained too often had to call for rma twice process is quite simple if yours turns on it's a good sign just leave it on the charger
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I have had this problem only once and don't want it again. The only way I could bring it back to life was by placing on my touchstone charger and it booted and continued to charge after a couple of hours , all thanks to REVERAND Kyle.
I have had this happen too frequently. Use the steps suggested by others. Home power button slow charge. Usually the minute I get a little juice to boot I go straight to webos for the rest of charge. I wish there was an app/option to boot to webos instead off powering off or hen attached to charger. If I knew how to dev I would try it.
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Finally got my TP to turn on and charge after pressing both buttons over and over for a min or so, then dropping it on the touchstone. Sheesh!
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I have had this happen too frequently. Use the steps suggested by others. Home power button slow charge. Usually the minute I get a little juice to boot I go straight to webos for the rest of charge. I wish there was an app/option to boot to webos instead off powering off or hen attached to charger. If I knew how to dev I would try it.
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There is an app it's called Cyboot and can be downloaded from preware in Webos it allows you to decide what you wish to boot into and to change the delay time which I haven't decreased as Android is my start option and if I make it to low I won't be able to get back into Webos when I need to.
Hope this helps.
Running CM9 nightly's my TP has died sitting unused from a full charge after a couple hours. This is twice now... f***!
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-SGA- said:
Running CM9 nightly's my TP has died sitting unused from a full charge after a couple hours. This is twice now... f***!
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This may help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC_opzuO5W4
Which is video about Jcsullins new patch on goo.im for USB wakelock http://goo.im/devs/jcsullins/cmtouch...1208061300.zip
I also use an app called llama available free from Google play store. This allows me to set an automatic shutdown when the battery reaches any level you choose ( I use 10% )
Hope this helps.
just hold down both the power and home Button for about 15 seconds while connecting the original adapter.
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I use a battery app that protects from this no SOD since its called easy battery and its free
My wife's 16 gb TP was not used for a week and it kept it alive with 1% battery
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icwx said:
just hold down both the power and home Button for about 15 seconds while connecting the original adapter.
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This just worked for mine.
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thats funny, my girls touchpad was doing the same thing. (though my guess its drained all the way dead for who knows how long.) But put it on the wall charger for a half hour. Pressed home button and power button for like 15 sec. and the held the power button till I saw the battery icon charging. Now its back to life.
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As per the title, I let my battery run so low that the touchpad turned itself off. Not a big deal I thought, whack it on the charger give it some time and away we go ! WRONG, after several hours on the charger my TP remained dead.
Long story short, I resolved the issue by pressing and holding down the button on the front and the power button simultaneously for ages (10~20 secs), at which point the screen lit up and showed me a very large depleted battery symbol.
The touchpad still would not turn on but I left it with the big symbol on the screen, after 10~15 mins it turned it self on and showed it was 1% charged.
I guess for all the hours it was plugged in, it was doing nothing.
Anyway all sorted now, I do like a happy ending
PS it is a 32GB touchpad on ver 3.02 firmware
Just curiosity... but was your TP stock or modded?
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completely stock apart from logging set to minimal, this was the first time it was turned off since the 3.02 update, it is also the first time I have let it die completely since it was purchased.
I wonder if my minimal logs caught anything, I will have to work out how to read them
I used to own a Pre that did the same thing when it was drained all the way. Kinda sucks! It always took a while before I could turn it back on. My suggestion, don't let it die.
Had the exact same issue first day on my TP... a quick Google search revealed the same fix
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thats quite odd. I had something close to that happen. I resolved it by holding down the Silver Screen Lock Button at the top and the home button for like 15 seconds and then it started to charge.
try using a new charging cable, maybe use the one from your phone, a lot of the OEM cables are defective. I had same promlem and a new cable resolved the issue
it definitely wasn't the cable
thanks!
that recovered my touchpad
just got this fancy thing yesterday
cool, I'm glad it worked for you too.
The same thing happened to me last night. XDA is first place I came because I knew I wasn't the only one with this problem and I was right.
Turned out my battery wasn't completely drained, but it still appeared to be dead. holding down the power and home button brought it back to life.
btw, first impressions on android are extremely positive (other than battery drain). So far, everything that i've needed\wanted has worked. I've even side loaded a few apps I couldn't find on the market and so far everything works, no FC.
If this is the alpha, the beta should be stable and worry free. Kudos to the CM crew.
Hi all,
I opened my brand new SGS2, put in the battery and plugged in the charger to the phone and started charging. First i was confused (coming from a nokia) because there was no indication of charging.
The indication appeared some 10 minutes later in the form of a flashing battery icon that disappeared after some time.
Now it has been a couple of hours and the battery icon is gone and nothing happens when i press the power button - i.e my brand new Samsung Galaxy S2 is not even starting!!
Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how to fix it? Does it just need a good long charge? Frankly, im quite terrified after having sunk in a lot of money for this phone.
(i hope my phone (or battery) is not a lemon and i'm just being a mega-noob )
Please, please, please help!!!
Thanks in advance
There're surely something not working correctly.
Don't know if it's the phone itself, the battery or the charger.
Try removing the battery and putting it back again and check it is placed correctly as well as the cable, charger and wall plug.
Normally the big battery icon should appear few seconds after you plug the phone into the charger.
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gabrielex said:
There're surely something not working correctly.
Don't know if it's the phone itself, the battery or the charger.
Try removing the battery and putting it back again and check it is placed correctly as well as the cable, charger and wall plug.
Normally the big battery icon should appear few seconds after you plug the phone into the charger.
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removed the battery thrice and tried - nothing happened. Battery, charger and wall-plug - everything proper.
I did see the icon, but now its gone and the phone is not starting.
My only hope is to keep it on charge overnight and hope for a miracle by tomorrow :|
Guess will take the phone to the service center tomorrow. Nightmare this is
Thanks anyways, man
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Hi all,
I opened my brand new SGS2, put in the battery and plugged in the charger to the phone and started charging. First i was confused (coming from a nokia) because there was no indication of charging.
The indication appeared some 10 minutes later in the form of a flashing battery icon that disappeared after some time.
Now it has been a couple of hours and the battery icon is gone and nothing happens when i press the power button - i.e my brand new Samsung Galaxy S2 is not even starting!!
Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how to fix it? Does it just need a good long charge? Frankly, im quite terrified after having sunk in a lot of money for this phone.
(i hope my phone (or battery) is not a lemon and i'm just being a mega-noob )
Please, please, please help!!!
Thanks in advance
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Carry it back where you bought it from, after all you just bought it
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Carry it back where you bought it from, after all you just bought it
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I know that is something stupid to say but have you tried charging another phone with the same charger, or check if you have power in your wall?
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Just wondering. Did you long press the power button when trying to boot the phone? A quick tap on the power button won't boot it. You have to hold it for just a second or two to register.
donalgodon said:
Just wondering. Did you long press the power button when trying to boot the phone? A quick tap on the power button won't boot it. You have to hold it for just a second or two to register.
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This. When I got mine I just gave the power button a quick press as this worked fine on my Nexus One, but the S2 seems to need a long press to boot.
may be a software probs !!! try flashing with anyother ROm !
To see the battery charging icon you should press home button on the bottom.
To power on you should press power button on the right for about 3 seconds.
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Mine is a ***** to turn on with charger plugged in.
Try taking charger out. Then hold power till you see logo. Only a few seconds.
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will have to do that only, i guess
Turn the phone off and remove the battery for about a minute and then try.
Hollow.Droid said:
This. When I got mine I just gave the power button a quick press as this worked fine on my Nexus One, but the S2 seems to need a long press to boot.
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i did it for 3 seconds, then 5 seconds and 10 seconds too. Nothing. Yesterday it was showing the flashing battery icon for quite some time. I went to sleep thinking, finally it is charging but then when i woke up it is dead.
I read somewhere that the battery charging icon is actually discharging the phone?
Dont fiddle with it anymore. Just exchange it from where you bought it.
Yeah, with charger plugged mine usually decides it likes to stay asleep then powering up.
And w/o anything attached I usually have to "beg" (=hold power button) for like 10 to 15 seconds sometimes until I see the bootsplashlogo.
Nothing that's bothering me, one just have to know it takes a while.
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Yeah, with charger plugged mine usually decides it likes to stay asleep then powering up.
And w/o anything attached I usually have to "beg" (=hold power button) for like 10 to 15 seconds sometimes until I see the bootsplashlogo.
Nothing that's bothering me, one just have to know it takes a while.
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finally got it to start - don't know what all i did - i think removing the battery and putting it back on did it
thanks all you guys!
Hi Everyone,
About 20 mins ago, my Touchpad running CM7 Alpha 2 suddenley stopped responding (the touchscreen that is), so i held down the power button to turn it off.
However, it wont turn back on! I have tried Home + Power + Vol Up for more than 30 seconds about 3 times and nothing. I am charging atm and nothing on screen. I have also tried holding the power button for about 10 seconds. Nothing!
Any suggestions?
mouseym~
Home + Power button for around 20 seconds should bring it back to life.
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gaz31 said:
Home + Power button for around 20 seconds should bring it back to life.
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Hmm, that sort of worked, i got the glowing HP symbol and it turned off again, repeating does the same thing too!
Thanks,
mouseym~
mouseym said:
Hmm, that sort of worked, i got the glowing HP symbol and it turned off again, repeating does the same thing too!
Thanks,
mouseym~
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Sounds like your moboot has some problems when you forced shutdown it, try go to the webos recovery statue (the statue when you install CM7 into your TP), connect TP to your PC and reinstall moboot, or the whole CM7 if that doesn't work.
Good luck
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Hi Everyone,
About 20 mins ago, my Touchpad running CM7 Alpha 2 suddenley stopped responding (the touchscreen that is), so i held down the power button to turn it off.
However, it wont turn back on! I have tried Home + Power + Vol Up for more than 30 seconds about 3 times and nothing. I am charging atm and nothing on screen. I have also tried holding the power button for about 10 seconds. Nothing!
Any suggestions?
mouseym~
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Same problem! Did you find a solution yet? I'm trying to figure out how to follow tigerdavid's advice.
Ok follow-up on this - I can't even get the TP to be recognized by my computer. What now?
How long did you leave it plugged in i had to leave mine plugged in for a couple of hours into the wall outlet before it would show the batter charging icon then turned on shortly after that
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hi，when your tp is in the off statue，try holding both the power and the volume up botton， and then you can see a usb icon on your screen, that is the webos recovery mode.
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Ok follow-up on this - I can't even get the TP to be recognized by my computer. What now?
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When you are in the webos recovery statue, the one I said in the last post (there is a usb icon on the screen), you can connect it to the computer, and neglect windows' response as it cannot recognize it, because it is actually a false warning. Then try following the steps for installing CM7.
had the same problem yesterday. just held power+home til it said to release the buttons.(previously i released as soon as the hp globe came up and it turned back off) hope this helps
When all else fails try this:
Hold power, Volume Down, and Home until the HP logo appears. May take up to 30 seconds or longer. Release all three buttons and the Touchpad should then boot. Worked for me the one and only time I've had to use it.
I charged Touchpad's battery full and turned it off about a month ago. Now I tried to turn it back on, nothing happens.
I plugged in usb charger, button under display started blinking. After 10mins, tried to turn it on, display turned on and it said attach own charger to get best results... blaablaa.. and then turned back off
Now it has been on own charger over an hour, in the beginning button blinked again for a while. Now it's all black and nothing happens. Tried power, pwr+front btn, pwr+vol up, pwr+front btn+vol down. Nothing.
Maybe I just haven't given enough light treatment?? I'm getting worried..
edit: overnight at charger, no change... battery dead? This sucks.
veepee78 said:
I charged Touchpad's battery full and turned it off about a month ago. Now I tried to turn it back on, nothing happens.
I plugged in usb charger, button under display started blinking. After 10mins, tried to turn it on, display turned on and it said attach own charger to get best results... blaablaa.. and then turned back off
Now it has been on own charger over an hour, in the beginning button blinked again for a while. Now it's all black and nothing happens. Tried power, pwr+front btn, pwr+vol up, pwr+front btn+vol down. Nothing.
Maybe I just haven't given enough light treatment?? I'm getting worried..
edit: overnight at charger, no change... battery dead? This sucks.
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Bummer. I don't think it's good to let a Li-Ion battery fully discharge. I've had bluetooth headsets and older spare laptop batteries die because they were sitting in a drawer for months. It sounds like this is what may have happened to your Touchpad. You should have left it plugged in somewhere!
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Bummer. I don't think it's good to let a Li-Ion battery fully discharge. I've had bluetooth headsets and older spare laptop batteries die because they were sitting in a drawer for months. It sounds like this is what may have happened to your Touchpad. You should have left it plugged in somewhere!
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Yeah, that's what seems to have happened. I just dont digest the idea that it died in 3 to 4 weeks. In standby, yes, but in off state.. if this happened after months, but we are talking only few weeks.
Any idea where to get a spare battery? Ebay show zero results.
Swyped from sgs2
It isn't likely its the battery, probably some kind of internal failure, but even if the battery is stone cold dead you should still be able to plug it in and run it that way.
You can change another microusb cable to re-charge again, b'cas the original cable quality is not good. Led blinking shows that battery is in low capacity, TP will bootup after charging to minimum battery voltage.
HP Back in life..
Got it working...
I let it be a week without any trying. Then plugged it's own charger on and the home started blinking again and after a while battery image came up! So it was in some sort of hang situation and needed to drain the battery again.
I did that also first time but at that time it just stopped blinking home and did nothing after that.
Now few hours later it's turned on and charging, 45%..
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Got it working...
I let it be a week without any trying. Then plugged it's own charger on and the home started blinking again and after a while battery image came up! So it was in some sort of hang situation and needed to drain the battery again.
I did that also first time but at that time it just stopped blinking home and did nothing after that.
Now few hours later it's turned on and charging, 45%..
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Help!
Had my Note a couple of months no problems. This morning I forgot to get it out of my bag to sit on the desk. When I remembered it had got very hot and had a blank screen. I now can't get it to turn on.
I have already:
- let it cool down and taken the battery out and put back.
- Pressed the power button for upto 30 seconds
- Pressed combinations of power+menu+vol up, power+menu for 10 seconds or more
- Tried the above with the SIM card removed
What can I do? Is my phone bricked? There is not sign of response, no vibration etc to indicate the phone is on.
did you try plugging it in? Maybe you fried the battery.
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did you try plugging it in? Maybe you fried the battery.
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I agree, it may very well have lost its charge. Connect to charger and see if it works again. You may have to replace battery if it happens again.
That happened to me once, let the battery die out completely and couldn't turn it on... make sure you plug it in to the wall charger and not a computer or laptop, you'll be there for days trying to charge it.
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For some reason, If my phone is powered down I can not turn it on while it's plugged in. Frickin weird, but who knows. So when my battery died this weekend I had to charge it for about 15 minutes, unplug, turn on, once I saw samsung on screen I plugged back in and was good to go. It just started doing that recently, no idea why. So yea, I would suggest charging that joker for a good 20 minutes, unplug, hold button (should vibrate once or thrice), and see if that helps. Batteries don't like heat and tend to lose a large bit of their capacity when hot (not perm). My laptop works for a good 3-4 hours under heavy use, but when I go to afghan it dropps to half that under comperable load, then back home it works well again. Batteries are a fickle thing.
Ok here is the issue...I have been having random reboots for a while( 3-6 months) thought it was just a dirty flash. I did a clean install of AOKP as suggested and the problem persisted. I thought well maybe the ROM just does't like my phone so I tried ShoStock, CM10, SlimBean, Xylon, and straight up stock...Well none of these helped, the more I researched my problem on XDA, Rootzwiki, and Google the more I saw that it was probably a power button malfunction. I sent the phone into mobiletechvideos.com to get the power button replaced, they probably did a great job from all the reviews and testimonials I've got from my other dev team (Team Passion FTW:]) but now every time I plug it into a charger it flashes the charging battery symbol two or three times and then stops. The phone won't turn on and I can't get to download mode/ recovery/ any mode... The phone acts as though it's just dead. ANY help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks XDA community, you've helped me in the past let us figure this out together!!
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Ok here is the issue...I have been having random reboots for a while( 3-6 months) thought it was just a dirty flash. I did a clean install of AOKP as suggested and the problem persisted. I thought well maybe the ROM just does't like my phone so I tried ShoStock, CM10, SlimBean, Xylon, and straight up stock...Well none of these helped, the more I researched my problem on XDA, Rootzwiki, and Google the more I saw that it was probably a power button malfunction. I sent the phone into mobiletechvideos.com to get the power button replaced, they probably did a great job from all the reviews and testimonials I've got from my other dev team (Team Passion FTW:]) but now every time I plug it into a charger it flashes the charging battery symbol two or three times and then stops. The phone won't turn on and I can't get to download mode/ recovery/ any mode... The phone acts as though it's just dead. ANY help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks XDA community, you've helped me in the past let us figure this out together!!
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Did you let the bettery die? Have you tried a spare battery yet?
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Did you let the bettery die? Have you tried a spare battery yet?
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I did let the battery die...I hadn't used the phone in over a month so the battery was drained, you really think the battery is dead enough to not hold a charge at all??
P.S. I don't have an extra battery on hand, is there a way to check without a battery to see if the phone is really dead??
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it is a known issue that the phone won't charge or turn on if you let the battery completely die. I've had it happen to me, but I luckily had a spare battery laying around.
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I've heard of this method but I have not tried it myself. You take a piece or two of tape and cover the data pins on the battery. They would be the first and third pins from the left (the ones without the + & -).
Once taped, you put the battery back in the phone and charge it. The screen should do nothing. After about 15-30 minutes, remove the tape and plug in normally. Your battery should now have enough juice to operate normally.
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I've heard of this method but I have not tried it myself. You take a piece or two of tape and cover the data pins on the battery. They would be the first and third pins from the left (the ones without the + & -).
Once taped, you put the battery back in the phone and charge it. The screen should do nothing. After about 15-30 minutes, remove the tape and plug in normally. Your battery should now have enough juice to operate normally.
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Ok so I have determined it was the battery after using a battery of a friends phone. I have tried to cover up pins one and three but every time I plug the phone in it keeps flashing the battery sign and then shutting down.. I'm just wondering if this isn't going to work or if I should try the other pins?? I already ordered a new battery but I'm curious now how this is supposed to work.
I think the theory is that the phone is trying to read the battery but the battery doesn't have enough juice to provide the info. You block the data pins so only the positive and negative terminals make contact and you trickle charge it.
I've also heard of using a 9v battery to jump the battery. You just connect positive to positive negative to negative and pray neither one becomes a bomb in your face.
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My phone is doing the same exact thing. The power button started acting up on my phone and then stopped working altogether. The battery died and now it won't turn or or charge, it just flashes the battery icon briefly then shuts off. I ordered a cheapo charger so I can see if charging the battery to full at least lets me turn it on. Please let me know if replacing the battery fixes things. I had this same problem with the battery about a year ago and it seemed to resolve itself after a few hours but that doesnt seem to be the case anymore after a few days it still won't work.
Yeh the battery's for these phones are odd. Some people can let their battery die completely and nothing negative will happen. Some let it die once and it never works again.
I've had this problem before. I wouldnt turn on completely, but if you plugged the phone in and powered it on in COMPLETE darkness, you can just see the backlight flickering on an off.
My way of fixing this was to plug the phone in the wall charger (without the battery) and then press and hold the vol down + power buttons (this is how you enter Download Mode) and then insert the battery while holding those buttons. It should power up into download mode. You just have to use something like Odin to return it to stock.
Now I know you ordered a battery already, but try this out to see if it works for you since you don't have the battery yet.
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press and hold the vol up + down + power buttons (this is how you enter Download Mode)
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This button combination will put the SGH-I777 into recovery mode, not download mode. I'd like to be nice about it if possible, but please be sure you are posting correct information. Otherwise, it can be very confusing for those who don't know the phone real well.
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I've had this problem before. I wouldnt turn on completely, but if you plugged the phone in and powered it on in COMPLETE darkness, you can just see the backlight flickering on an off.
My way of fixing this was to plug the phone in the wall charger (without the battery) and then press and hold the vol up + down + power buttons (this is how you enter Download Mode) and then insert the battery while holding those buttons. It should power up into download mode. You just have to use something like Odin to return it to stock.
Now I know you ordered a battery already, but try this out to see if it works for you since you don't have the battery yet.
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This is what is happening to me. If I plug it in I can see the the touch buttons on the bottom briefly flash and the screen flicker. It's as if its trying to start up but doesn't have enough juice. Unfortunately it does the same thing with the battery out and I am unable to get into download or recovery. Hopefully its just the battery.
Not sure if the OP made any progress but I was having the same problem and I bought a cheapo stand alone battery charger off of amazon and charged the battery for a couple hours and now the phone turns right on. Seems the other people in this thread are right about the phone being picky if the battery is completely drained. Here's a link to charger if anyone is interested. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0081KRLMQ/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1