Ok, so i had some errors with the ROM i was using, so i had to go and reinstall everything. I went to wipe the necessary things and recover to the the ROM i backed up. It was successful, but i didn't notice that my battery was at 55%, so i went back to recovery and restored some of my data and settings that i backed up, while it was recovering the data i fell a sleep accidentaly and left the phone working.. When i woke up the phone was shut down, couldn't power it back up, i inserted the recharger but the light only glowed once for approximately 3 seconds and no more. I left it recharging for the whole day, but when i came back same result. I think that i have might bricked it, but when i plug it into my pc it shows me that it's connected.
Could anyone be kind enough to suggest me what i should do? If you need any further information feel free to leave a reply
Raychov said:
Ok, so i had some errors with the ROM i was using, so i had to go and reinstall everything. I went to wipe the necessary things and recover to the the ROM i backed up. It was successful, but i didn't notice that my battery was at 55%, so i went back to recovery and restored some of my data and settings that i backed up, while it was recovering the data i fell a sleep accidentaly and left the phone working.. When i woke up the phone was shut down, couldn't power it back up, i inserted the recharger but the light only glowed once for approximately 3 seconds and no more. I left it recharging for the whole day, but when i came back same result. I think that i have might bricked it, but when i plug it into my pc it shows me that it's connected.
Could anyone be kind enough to suggest me what i should do? If you need any further information feel free to leave a reply
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Try to enter fastboot (VolDown+Power)..If that doesn't work
1. Maybe it is problem with USB connector..In that case, take universal charger and charge your battery that way (charger is cca. 5$)..If that doesn't work
2. Check your battery voltage..If it is really low..less then 3.6 V (3.6 - 3.7 V is nominal value, 4.1 - 4.2 V is max - it depends on battery quality)..connect battery directly on 220V for a short time (couple of seconds) then check your voltage again..repeat that until it reaches somewhere between 3.7 V and 4.2 V..(if you don't have equipment, give it to someone who has) and then try to charge it via universal charger (This might help if it is REALLY DRAINED..and it can kill your battery)
3. If that doesn't work, take another battery, charge it via universal charger (or some other way) and try..
4. If nothing above works..take your phone and give it to service for examination..
Good luck..
Btw, this is standard voltage regulator (or something like that )
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Raychov said:
Ok, so i had some errors with the ROM i was using, so i had to go and reinstall everything. I went to wipe the necessary things and recover to the the ROM i backed up. It was successful, but i didn't notice that my battery was at 55%, so i went back to recovery and restored some of my data and settings that i backed up, while it was recovering the data i fell a sleep accidentaly and left the phone working.. When i woke up the phone was shut down, couldn't power it back up, i inserted the recharger but the light only glowed once for approximately 3 seconds and no more. I left it recharging for the whole day, but when i came back same result. I think that i have might bricked it, but when i plug it into my pc it shows me that it's connected.
Could anyone be kind enough to suggest me what i should do? If you need any further information feel free to leave a reply
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What recovery are you using? If you're using cwm that's probably your problem. PROleev was correct in suggesting that your battery is probably below the min threshold... however connecting a DC battery with electronics inside it to an AC power source is just asking for trouble...
What I would suggest is either charging the battery using an external charger or flashing either TWRP or 4EXT as they should both allow the phone to charge.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the "adb reboot bootloader" command can work even when battery is below the min threshold but I'm not 100% on that.
dessolator666 said:
What recovery are you using? If you're using cwm that's probably your problem. PROleev was correct in suggesting that your battery is probably below the min threshold... however connecting a DC battery with electronics inside it to an AC power source is just asking for trouble...
What I would suggest is either charging the battery using an external charger or flashing either TWRP or 4EXT as they should both allow the phone to charge.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the "adb reboot bootloader" command can work even when battery is below the min threshold but I'm not 100% on that.
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Thanks for the advice! Yes, i use cwm, going to try flashing the other recoveries and see the results.
Raychov said:
Thanks for the advice! Yes, i use cwm, going to try flashing the other recoveries and see the results.
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If that doesn't work, pull the battery out and leave it out for a bit.
My battery did the same thing last night, I put it on the windowsill to cool down since it's about 4 degrees outside. Once it was cold, I put it in the phone and it charged normally; even booted normally.
Try that out.
220 volts, can I come to your funeral, Amps kill you anything over 8 milliamps will stop your heart :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
( Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh! )
flashallthetime said:
220 volts, can I come to your funeral, Amps kill you anything over 8 milliamps will stop your heart :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
( Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh! )
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Mate, I didn't tell him to use his body as a conductor xD. Beside, you know that voltage is not connected directly with "funeral" . Volts only push Amps through body, so you can touch 1.000.000 volts, but if there is no enough of Amps, it can't kill you. Anyway, don't touch electricity if you don't know what are you doing, because that one we use in our houses can cause a lot of damage, and death in some circumstances . Btw, 9V battery can cause death in slecific cases..
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Yes, but people on xda are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, most household 220 vac is 30 amps which will kill you, like I said anything over 8 milliamps will stop your heart, I would never advise anyone to put voltage to a battery or anything for that matter
(Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh!
)
flashallthetime said:
Yes, but people on xda are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, most household 220 vac is 30 amps which will kill you, like I said anything over 8 milliamps will stop your heart, I would never advise anyone to put voltage to a battery or anything for that matter
(Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh!
)
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Unless you really don't like them and want to 'peacefully' see them go.
all jokes aside...
220v AC WILL turn the battery into toast in a matter of seconds, if even that.. household outlets are anywhere between 50 and 60 Hz depending on your location... This means that the current changes direction 50 or 60 times PER SECOND... there's a good reason why batteries have a side labeled + and one labeled - (it's because they're not meant to be swapped, which is exactly what AC does)... not to mention that the current intensity and voltage are several times what the battery is supposed to take...
Bottom line: suggesting to someone to connect a DC battery to an AC power source without having any clue what you're talking about is at best irresponsible if not idiotic...
Thanks to to everyone for their support, i managed to fix it thanks to dessolator666. It seems all i had to to is fastboot the phone through command promt and flash a different recovery than cwm.
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Hello,
a few days ago my HD2 just froze and I had to press the red restart button. I thought it was just a random freeze but my HD2 wouldn't start up anymore. So I pressed the reset button a few more times, tried taking the battery out several times and then eventually it would work again. I was able to start my HD2 and use it for 4-5 hours. Then I had the same situation occur again - it froze and didn't start up. I was able to start it once again but it froze after 20-30 mins this time. Now I can't seem to start it at all.
I've tried pressing the hang-up-button and the volume button at the same time, but it won't work.
When I plug my HD2 into the charger, the red light also doesn't come. It just stays dark.
If I try a hard-reset this message won't appear on my HD2:
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Anyone? I'm desperate!
Please help me.
It's possible that your battery has died. Do you know if it had any charge on it last time it worked?
johncmolyneux said:
It's possible that your battery has died. Do you know if it had any charge on it last time it worked?
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I'm almost certain it did charge last time it worked.
Also, I was on vacation in a very hot place and my cellphone was in the car for some time. Is it possible that the high temperatures broke my battery?
willthisnamefit?yes! said:
Hello,
a few days ago my HD2 just froze and I had to press the red restart button. I thought it was just a random freeze but my HD2 wouldn't start up anymore. So I pressed the reset button a few more times, tried taking the battery out several times and then eventually it would work again. I was able to start my HD2 and use it for 4-5 hours. Then I had the same situation occur again - it froze and didn't start up. I was able to start it once again but it froze after 20-30 mins this time. Now I can't seem to start it at all.
I've tried pressing the hang-up-button and the volume button at the same time, but it won't work.
When I plug my HD2 into the charger, the red light also doesn't come. It just stays dark.
If I try a hard-reset this message won't appear on my HD2:
Please help me.
What can I do?
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oops... Sorry. May be the battery dead. Was it a original stock battery or some china made brand? If it is original one then you can go for warranty claim if your phone is under warranty. I don't think battery may dead so early but if it is not original (as some china made type) then we can expect that. Don't use those batteries as they hold the explosion risk too.
I use the original battery.
hd support
Call HTC support. Do you have their #?
willthisnamefit?yes! said:
I use the original battery.
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Does your Phone not respond in any way?
Have you tried this?:
Plug in Charger and then put the battery in, normally the phone turn on with this method.
Does that also not work?!
Take a Look if you charger and the cable is broken. Use another cable (if you have a Logitech Performance MX try the cable from this mouse).
Try to measure if the battery is dead. You can also use your tongue to test that.
ATTENTION: You should do that only on low voltage parts!!! Like batteries until 9V for e.g.. DO NOT LICK ON A ELECTRICAL OUTLET!!! You would be suprised, beleive me (no I don't try this )
Plug your USB Cable to a Computer if you are not sure if you charger works.
The HD2 vibrates -> TWO <- times before it starts.
One really light and short vibration and one you could not miss^^
Does you phone vibrate when you try to turn it on?
Okay, so I bought a new battery, but my HD2 still won't work.
It's absolutely the same problem.
wife had this problem too was solved when we noticed the pins inside the phone were bent for the battery. fixing them got rid of the problem.
no seems to have mentioned that yet so take a look, they wont be bent much but that is for us.
sniff15 said:
wife had this problem too was solved when we noticed the pins inside the phone were bent for the battery. fixing them got rid of the problem.
no seems to have mentioned that yet so take a look, they wont be bent much but that is for us.
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I think this could be the solution. I recall bending them a little now that you say it.
How exactly did you bend them right again?
Thanks.
I tried to bend them right again and when I tried to boot my phone again, it didn't work.
Same issue.
Can anyone please help me?
is the battery that you got now at least 50% charged? if not try to find anyone
with a hd2 and use their well charged battery then . .
enter bootloader
(press and hold volume down then briefly press the power button)
jigners said:
is the battery that you got now at least 50% charged? if not try to find anyone
with a hd2 and use their well charged battery then . .
enter bootloader
(press and hold volume down then briefly press the power button)
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I'm like 90% sure my first battery was nearly fully charged and I assume the new one I bought usually should be fully charge too, right?
is the bottom of the back of the phone warm?
If it is then, i suspect that your motherboard is overheating.
Mine has frequent lock ups and sticking it in the fridge for 15mins (seriously) helps with the boot up.
Also install Battclock so you can see what the CPU % is, as mine would always lock up at 100%, perpetuating the overheating issue.
Let me know if the fridge helps your boot ups.
Mine will be going in for service soon, its only 6 months old.
GLO said:
is the bottom of the back of the phone warm?
If it is then, i suspect that your motherboard is overheating.
Mine has frequent lock ups and sticking it in the fridge for 15mins (seriously) helps with the boot up.
Also install Battclock so you can see what the CPU % is, as mine would always lock up at 100%, perpetuating the overheating issue.
Let me know if the fridge helps your boot ups.
Mine will be going in for service soon, its only 6 months old.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not help.
I left it in the fridge for 15 mins and started to boot it but it just didn't react.
I haven't been able to boot my HD2 for a few days now.
I'm desperate, please help me!
OK,
Can you get into the tri colour screen?
i think at this point your goal is to get it working.
You may have to sacrifice your data on the hd2 though.
Pull out the SD card. then remove the battery.
Hold the vol button down and power on,
Try to get to the tri colour screen and tray to flash a new radio to it.
Failing that, perform a Task29, and try to boot.
10 mins in the fridge wont hurt it at all.
Try to boot.
GLO said:
OK,
Can you get into the tri colour screen?
i think at this point your goal is to get it working.
You may have to sacrifice your data on the hd2 though.
Pull out the SD card. then remove the battery.
Hold the vol button down and power on,
Try to get to the tri colour screen and tray to flash a new radio to it.
Failing that, perform a Task29, and try to boot.
10 mins in the fridge wont hurt it at all.
Try to boot.
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I'd lose to sacrifei my data if my HD2 would work again, but I can not get into the tri colour screen.
It may be the battery. You can try to get a replacement on amazon for $9 or you could take the battery from your phone and put the 3 pin to your tip of your tong and see if it has any current. If it has current then ignore the steps below as it is your phone that has the problem If you have no warranty, or cash at the moment do the following.
DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! The only thing that can get damage is your battery.
Most likely your battery is dead, so plugging in a power supply to your phone won't do any good since the phone can't detect it if I'm right. But you try to can jump charge it giving it power to see if its the battery or your hd 2 that has the problem
If you are good with electronics and wires do the following in a safe environment. (Low Fire risk)
1.Take a spare wall adapter that came with a sell phone or mp3 player.
2.Look at the back make sure its rated no more than 5V
3.Cut the cable at the tip and expose the 2 wires inside they most likely will be red and black. RED = + Black = -
If both wires are black then look closely one of them should have a WHITE strip
The wire with the white stripe is the + and the other is the -
4.Make sure you cut the wire so the golden tips are exposed
make sure that they are neat and in place
5.Take the battery and notice on the back there are a + and a - take the wire and carefully match + with + and the - with - for 1min. It is very important that you do not make the wires touch because it will smoke
6.After 1 min remove the wires and put the battery in your HD 2. If it does not power on then your phone needs repair.
I wish you the best.
Dimension2035 said:
It may be the battery. You can try to get a replacement on amazon for $9 or you could take the battery from your phone and put the 3 pin to your tip of your tong and see if it has any current. If it has current then ignore the steps below as it is your phone that has the problem If you have no warranty, or cash at the moment do the following.
DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! The only thing that can get damage is your battery.
Most likely your battery is dead, so plugging in a power supply to your phone won't do any good since the phone can't detect it if I'm right. But you try to can jump charge it giving it power to see if its the battery or your hd 2 that has the problem
I wish you the best.
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He did buy a new battery see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8847940&postcount=9
Are you saying that it wont turn on at all, nothing!
So you have tried holding the volume button up and down, and power on!
Hi,
While charging my X10, the red light is flashing every second or so, then eventually stops blinking.
The led that is blinking red is directly under the USB / charging port.
Also, when i try to power it on it give a little vibration and nothing happens?
Sometimes i get the triple flashing red light?
What does this all mean????
thanks,
Alex
I'm having the same problem, can someone please help...thanks!
alex4659 said:
Hi,
While charging my X10, the red light is flashing every second or so, then eventually stops blinking.
The led that is blinking red is directly under the USB / charging port.
Also, when i try to power it on it give a little vibration and nothing happens?
Sometimes i get the triple flashing red light?
What does this all mean????
thanks,
Alex
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it means that your battery is totally/completely empty.. plug in your charger and leave your phone for about 2 hours, it will be back to normal.. DO NOT TURN IT ON..DO NOT TOUCH IT... be patient and leave it as it is( charger plugged in) for 2 hrs..
HIT THANKS BUTTON IF HELPED..!!
Or to simplify, if thqt dpesnt work, u'll have to buy a new battery on ebay or something.
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problem solved
Long story short, it was both the phone and the battery. So I got a replacment of both.
Thank you everybody for all the support.
Alex
Do you mind going in to detail as to what exactly was wrong with your phone? I'm having the same problem, and I want to know what to get fixed.
Thanks
OMG my phone did this five minutes ago!! O_O i was so scared xDD
now it is charging the battery, i will never let the battery drain like that again
same thnig happened to my arc a few mins ago and now its charging ok
Old thread, I know. But I'd like to shed some more light on this particular problem.
No need to panic just yet. The battery might be just fine.
I had this problem myself recently, and on top of that that with brand new batteries.
After some investigation and troubleshooting, I figured out that many batteries does drain to a level very close to what is the lowest "safe" voltage for a lithium-polymer battery. Batteries are fine and within tolerances.
However, the X10i in my case, and other Xperia devices in other cases, are extremely fastidious about what is considered a safe "drained" level.
Just as mentioned earlier, one just need to leave it charging for an hour or two. It'll kick back into normal charging cycle.
But if one can't wait for this slow process, one can use an external battery charger for lithium-polymer batteries.
There are several universal lithium-polymer-chargers designed for cell/camera/pad/mp3 -batteries out there.
Even a good quality lithium-ion charger works fine with lithium-polymer batteries, as they're using the same charging voltages and timings.
The practical "difference" with polymer batteries is that they're slightly more sensitive to voltages and , thus I want to emphasise "Good quality lithium ion charger".
There is another, slightly more dangerous, trick:
...slightly more dangerous... dangerous... yes... that's right... dangerous.
Are you sure? Did you read the "dangerous" part above?
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Okay then... It's your pants...
Find a stable 5 volt DC supply, and make sure you know the + and - terminals on both the battery and the power supply. Any 5 volt USB power will do just fine.
First:
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SHORT CIRCUIT THE BATTERY, EVEN BRIEFLY. IT MIGHT GO *BOOM* AND YOUR FACE WILL MELT OFF.
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Very well then, onwards:
Remove back cover on the phone and remove the battery.
Connect the ( + ) wire from the power supply to the ( + ) terminal on the battery. Hold it there.
Now, for about 10 seconds, connect the ( - )wire to the ( - ) terminal.
Once you counted 10 seconds, disconnect all wires from the battery and disconnect the power supply.
If the battery has become warm by this procedure, place it somewhere away from any flammable materials and let it cool down. The warmer the battery is, the greater is the risk for the battery to catch fire and/or explode.
Bath tube or the kitchen sink is a good place to let it cool down. No water thou.
Reinsert the cooled down battery into the device and connect the charger. Device should enter a normal charging cycle.
If the 5 steps above didn't kick it into life, repeat the steps in order. But do not try this for more than 2 -3 times. If it doesn't work after the third time, the battery is very likely dead and should be replaced. (...or you did something very wrong )
I have problem with charging Sony Ericsson xperia x10
Today I bought Sony Ericsson xperia x10 (white). I began to charge battery. After it is started charging, the lamp has begun lighting without blinking. On the screen the indicator [in black] goes to grow up (from left to right) but it is not still finishing during 8 hours. What does it mean? is it normal?
aww,.. same thing happened with me, right now.even i have plugged in charger too... do not know what to do :/
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Its because battery drained completely . Thanks to Allah, now its up and start charging..
hope this helps
Having the same problem.
let your phone charge for a couple of hours as the slow flashing red light while charging means that your battery is completly dead.
then take off charge.
to reboot, first hold down the power button and whille holding it, press and hold down the volume up button until you feel 1 short sharp vibration. release both buttons and as soon as you do, it should reboot.
reboot wont work if you get to 3 vibrationsits which comes after the one short sharp vibation.
the reboot should turn your phone on using safe mode..... im still working on how to get it out of safe mode....
very important to remember to hold the power button first, and while holding it, press and hold down the volume up button.
dont press and hold down the power button and the volume up button simultaneously, the reboot wont work.
I install a wifi kill app.
It was apparently shutting down wifi? What wifi I have no idea. It was stuck and non responsive for around 4/5 minutes so I thought a battery pull and a restart would get me out of the app.
And now the phone will not respond to me pressing the power button?! Nor will it charge. It's not responsive to being plugged in.
Help...
First time anything like this has happened to me. I am stuck without a phone and worried. Any help is appreciated?! I best not have screwed up the device.
Its a GSM evo, had a high battery charge. Running a custom rom with s off.
Even plugging it in gives no response. :crying:
It has been charged all night. seemed to indicate it was full. This morning it was down to 80% and I left it on charge some more, now this.
I opened up my comand prompt then typed "fastboot reboot-bootloader" and I just get < waiting for device >
I've been through this thread and non of this helps. (link below)
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My solution.
Button presses were having no effect I left my phone connected to the mains and re tried the buttons and adb commands with no luck.
Although my battery was reading at around or above 80% before the problems I was sure it wasn't the battery.
I couldn't see how it was appearing to be bricked and unresponsive. I installed an app, it hung and I pulled the battery. So I presumed something had gone wrong with the app.....
I took a chance that the battery had drained fully somehow and the ROM was somehow supplying some dodgy readings.
The battery and wire trick was what I tried. A jump start was needed.
I should have licked the battery first to feel for any charge. But it was the last thing I was thinking about. (I don't have a voltage tester any more around the house)
I set off for a 9 volt battery. Using my trusty tongue again the one in my alarm was out of juice. Thankfully I got a new one though which was laying around.
So if it wasn't going to work I knew this battery wasn't going to be part of a problem.
Striping metal food ties I connected positive to the one positive contact and used another metal strip to tap each of the three negatives, obviously connected to the negative of the battery.
I kept the touches quick barely a second and kept running through all three. Went well, there was no heat from the battery. I did that for about a minute.
Be careful, don't damage your battery! Do not blame anyone else if you do... Make sure not to have your connections touch one another or its game over too.
I used my trusty method of licking the phone battery and bam, it was charged and I knew about it!
Placed it into the phone. Took a bit of time to say my prayers.... Connected the USB and the computer acknowledged that it was working a red light flashed,
My prayers were answered! I powered on the phone and its back to normal.
Strangely telling me the battery is at around 75% plus ...
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I didn't have a wall charger or a spare battery as you can tell. I got there in the end.
Have you tried booting into recovery?
Try pulling the battery for a few. Then press and hold the camera button and click power on. No idea where i remember this from but it may work.
spirithandler said:
Have you tried booting into recovery?
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It is not responsive. It wont boot let alone bootloader.
NineInchNails said:
Try pulling the battery for a few. Then press and hold the camera button and click power on. No idea where i remember this from but it may work.
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Tried this too. Even with volume combinations as suggested in other threads I have looked up. My battery appeared to be charged to at least 80%. I'm hoping its something that hasn't bricked my phone and there is a simple fix. Maybe the battery level has been wrong?
I've left it on charge for now and I will give the buttons another go. At the minute it doesn't appear to be charging.
Can the battery pull cause any damage?
*Anyone else having trouble check this thread ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408374 I've tried all these tips here and non are working for me so far. They keep mentioning cwm 5 may cause problems ? I think I was running it because when I s-offed it came with it. Not sure which version it was?
The battery pull wont do any damage but this doesnt sound too good. If you cant boot to recovery or the bootloader your pretty much screwed.
Does the led light up when you charge it? If so it may not be completely bricked. But we need to see if you can power it up at all.
NineInchNails said:
The battery pull wont do any damage but this doesnt sound too good. If you cant boot to recovery or the bootloader your pretty much screwed.
Does the led light up when you charge it? If so it may not be completely bricked. But we need to see if you can power it up at all.
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No, no light so I was worried. Good news is it's not bricked. I have another problem though.... I will post back in a minute, I will post the fix that worked for me to the top of the thread.
My battery seems to indicate it has charge that's what it appears to be reading at once I booted the phone up I took that picture. But it indicates its been on a while? ? ?
And now ky battery is draining like crazy. Is it just a bad battery? Or one that needs calibration?
Seems strange as only people with a low battery come across this problem. What could have caused it. I'd rather not have it happen again.
Any clues?
Oh wow! Awesome man. My next round of questions were going to be if you had access to a different battery or a friends phone to test it before we claimed it as a brick. Huge props for going above and beyond. Now stay away from the app that caused it but it also couldve been the battery failing and its coincedence.
Was gonna order a wall charger and a spare battery. But would have had to wait until Tuesday with shipping.
Battery level seems a bit all over the place. Why is there a second gap ?
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I install a wifi kill app.
It was apparently shutting down wifi? What wifi I have no idea. It was stuck and non responsive for around 4/5 minutes so I thought a battery pull and a restart would get me out of the app.
And now the phone will not respond to me pressing the power button?! Nor will it charge. It's not responsive to being plugged in.
Help...
First time anything like this has happened to me. I am stuck without a phone and worried. Any help is appreciated?! I best not have screwed up the device.
Its a GSM evo, had a high battery charge. Running a custom rom with s off.
Even plugging it in gives no response. :crying:
It has been charged all night. seemed to indicate it was full. This morning it was down to 80% and I left it on charge some more, now this.
I opened up my comand prompt then typed "fastboot reboot-bootloader" and I just get < waiting for device >
I've been through this thread and non of this helps. (link below)
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My solution. Button presses were having no effect I left my phone connected to the mains and re tried the buttons and adb commands with no luck. Although my battery was reading at around or above 80% before the problems I was sure it wasn't the battery. I couldn't see how it was appearing to be bricked and unresponsive. I installed an app, it hung and I pulled the battery. So I presumed something had gone wrong with the app.....
I took a chance that the battery had drained fully somehow and the ROM was somehow supplying some dodgy readings.
The battery and wire trick was what I tried. I jump start was needed.
I should have licked the battery first to feel for any charge. But it was the last thing I was thinking about. (I don't have a voltage tester any more around the house)
I set off for a 9 volt battery. Using my trusty tongue again the one in my alarm was out of juice. Thankfully I got a new one though which was laying around.
So if it wasn't going to work I knew this battery wasn't going to be part of a problem.
Striping metal food ties I connected positive to the one positive contact and used another metal strip to tap each of the three negatives, obviously connected to the negative of the battery. I kept the touches quick barely a second and kept running through all three. Went well, there was no heat from the battery. I did that for about a minute.
Be careful, don't damage your battery! Do not blame anyone else if you do... Make sure not to have your connections touch one another or its game over too.
I used my trusty method of licking the phone battery and bam, it was charged and I knew about it!
Placed it into the phone. Took a bit of time to say my prayers.... Connected the USB and the computer acknowledged that it was working a red light flashed. I powered on the phone and its back to normal. Strangely telling me its at around 75% plus ...
I didn't have a wall charger or a spare battery as you can tell. I got there in the end.
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WOW where did you come up with using a battery to charge your phone?
My bet the battery needs to be trained again. Let it die then charge it back to full. The fact the battery failed like that might mean its still going bad so if it were me.. id get a new battery when you could. Trickle charging all the time probably isnt the best either but you do what you have to for a charge.
I just wanted to thank the OP (which I did using the button) for actually posting his solution so future searchers will not just come across the question.
Same thing is happening mine now. I can get into fastboot but from searching everywhere it seems the phone will not charge when its in fastboot. I may aswell go find a square battery somewhere around my house and give this a shot.
I found by searching that there is a fastboot charging script but that seems to be in the One X forum , I tried it anyways and my phone just keeps rebooting into fastboot. Im sickened because a girl I was with on friday night said to me on facebook that she sent me some good pictures but I cant get phone on to look at them ha ha . ill try whats in the first post here now and see how I go. Thanks.
Man my phone is old. Good to know this thread helped a few people.
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Hi everyone, i have just spent the whole day searching about this problem and i have not found solution, and things that worked for some people, won't work for me.
Hope you guys can help.
I'm going to tell you the events before i had this issue so you can get a lot of info about what posibbly happened:
1. I was tired of my phone being slow and some apps didn't worked for it because it had Android 2.2.2 Froyo and was never updated.
2. I decided to update installing Neutrino 2.9 by Notorius : Thread .
3. When i was trying to install the custom recovery i did something wrong and had to flash a Stock rom using RSDLite.
4. The rom that i installed was a Stock rom from Personal Argentina 2.3.6 Gingerbread.
5. After flashing this rom, the battery won't charge over 93% or something like that.
6. I wanted the phone to reach more battery % so i did something that read here at xda.
7. While the phone was off and charging, i removed the battery and once it showed the "?" symbol, i put back the battery, so it showed 5% and i panicked!!! because the tutorial said i had to install some zips from the recovery and when i tried to get into the recovery (i had already installed CMW) it didn't loaded the recovery. I pulled off the battery and try many times to get in the recovery but i couldn't so i powered on the phone an let it charge for hours but it didn't worked.
8. I was getting crazy so i tried to calm down and do some research here at xda, i was reading for hours until i found This thread , the guy said the the only thing that i had to do was waiting for the app to show approximately 4200mV and hit fix, it should fix the problem:
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in my case, percentage shown was 8% and when i hit the fix, it raised 2 or 3 points (remember this numbers) i guess, but didn't fixed it at all (100%) so i started hitting fix every 10 minutes after being sure that the voltage was 4200 or above.
9. While doing this fix thing every while, i saw that every time it raised 3 or 2 points at the percentage shown, (the whole process was done with the phone plugged into the wall charger). I sttoped when the percentage shown was 97% because i was afraid it would cross to some 100%+ percentage, and 97% was nice for me.
10. After fixing the battery indicator issue, i decided to follow carefully a tutorial too install Neutrino rom 2.9 EE that i mentioned before.
11. The whole process was great and i successfully installed the Neutrino Rom i was happy and everything was fine.
12. When i was looking around the features of the new rom, the phone freezed and rebooted i thougt that maybe i was touching so many settings that it became unstable,although i didn't touch anything about processor speed , so i power on again and after a while another reboot , and another and another, i started to get mad at this and tried to find out what was causing this reboots.
13. Suddenly i had an idea and pulled off the microsd card, after this, the phone was like 9-10 hours without any rebooting and i was playing and installing several apps, and checking some tweets and facebook and everything was fine.
14 After like 11 hours since the last reboot, the phone rebooted again and this made me mad again.
15. I turned on the phone again and i saw it had like 40% of battery left, so i plugged it and let it for an hour, when i checked back the battery level, it was at 92%, so i let it for about half an hour more and it had again 92% of battery.
16. So i thougth, well during the flashing process the battery indicator got miscalibrated again, so... (pay attention to this) i run the app that fixed my problem at (see step 8 and 9 above) , it was at 92% and remember i saw that it "jumped" like 2 or 3% off battery shown, but instead, it jumped to 100% and battery shown jumped from 92% to 177% i panicked!! (again), and unplugged the phone.
17. I continued using the phone normally and before going to bed i plugged the phone.
18. After like 2 hours charging, i went to check the phone back and it was DEAD
So i tried this:
1. Plug the phone to the wall charger ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
2. Plug the phone to the wall charger without battery ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
3. Plug the phone to the PC via usb with battery ---> RESULT: green led turns on for 1 seconds and then goes off
4. Plug the phone to the PC via usb without battery ---> RESULT: green led turns on and stays turned on, until i put back the battery
5. Plug the phone to the wall charger (samsung galaxy s3 1mA) ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
6. Plug the phone to the wall charger without battery (samsung galaxy s3 1mA) ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
I hope some of you can help with this, i've read a lot of posts but they are from 2011 or 2012, i'm making this one because non of those gave any help. Thank you very much for your atenttion.
That's very strange...
But the random reboots you are having an neutrino are not your fault, I had those two... I think sometimes it just hang on the deep sleep and wouldn't turn on so I'd have to pull battery and then boot up again. Maybe that's your problem, too, try pulling battery.
If this doesn't fix it, does long press on power do anything?
In the end you could still charge the battery externally though you'd have to look what voltage you need and which pins you need to connect.
As far as the 100+ percentage goes, that is reasonably normal. It happens to everyone sooner or later (me included), and mostly happens if you choose to restart the service instead of rebooting the device. A reboot should help (always does for me). But even if it doesn't, there's no reason to panic - it's just a number. It does not mean your battery is being severely overcharged lol.
I see you're using an older version of the app. You should try upgrading. Not to say a newer version will make any kind of difference, but hey, newer is better, right?
SimplicityApks said:
That's very strange...
But the random reboots you are having an neutrino are not your fault, I had those two... I think sometimes it just hang on the deep sleep and wouldn't turn on so I'd have to pull battery and then boot up again. Maybe that's your problem, too, try pulling battery.
If this doesn't fix it, does long press on power do anything?
In the end you could still charge the battery externally though you'd have to look what voltage you need and which pins you need to connect.
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1. I already pulled the battery but it didn't helped me.
2. Long press on power does nothing.
3. I'm looking for someone who can tell me if the battery is ok using a multimeter
but i think it's very strange, because even without battery the phone should turn on screen when plugged to the wall charger.
4. Thank you.
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As far as the 100+ percentage goes, that is reasonably normal. It happens to everyone sooner or later (me included), and mostly happens if you choose to restart the service instead of rebooting the device. A reboot should help (always does for me). But even if it doesn't, there's no reason to panic - it's just a number. It does not mean your battery is being severely overcharged lol.
I see you're using an older version of the app. You should try upgrading. Not to say a newer version will make any kind of difference, but hey, newer is better, right?
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1. Thank you for clarifying about the percentage shown thing.
2. The screenshot that i posted is from the app thread, my phone doesn't turn on .
3. I had installed 0.40 version.
4. Thank you
SERCASER1 said:
1. I already pulled the battery but it didn't helped me.
2. Long press on power does nothing.
3. I'm looking for someone who can tell me if the battery is ok using a multimeter
but i think it's very strange, because even without battery the phone should turn on screen when plugged to the wall charger.
4. Thank you.
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1. Oops didn't realize that you connected your phone to pc without battery, Sorry
2. Ok, was just a theory
3. It should be alright, (if you know which pins to connect ) but you can read through this guide.
4. You're welcome (but the thanks button is a lot easier...)
I hope you can get your phone to work again, but if charging via multimeter doesn't help, you'd have to send it in I think
It's alive!!!
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
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I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
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leaving it in a box? what does it means?
diegofdg said:
leaving it in a box? what does it means?
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Meaning he left it alone
SERCASER1 said:
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
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Are you sure that your battery didn't get wet? maybe it is on short-circuit, if I was you I would change it.
Feche said:
Are you sure that your battery didn't get wet? maybe it is on short-circuit, if I was you I would change it.
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I'm pretty sure that it didn't get any wet, I still don't know what happened but it is working perfectly. Thanks for your help!
Hey guys, last night something happened to my good old S2, i had problems about it's battery before so when it's battery suddenly dropped down from %20 to %0, i wasn't surprised. So i went and put it to charge (i don't use the original charger, i found a huawei charger and it gets the job done) and after a moment it showed that it is at %50 battery (like i said my battery has some problems), so i tried to turn on my phone. Then it went in a boot loop on the Samsung logo, i was going to turn off the phone so i can clear the cache partition so i unplugged the charger cable and it suddenly went dark, no power, no nothing. I tried to put it on charger again but it didn't help. I let it charge there overnight but it didn't help either. Then i borrowed my friend's S2 battery and it didn't work while my battery powered up his phone so i think problem is not on the battery. What do you think, is my phone bricked/fried? I had a photo archive in my usb storage(not in the SD storage) so i really wantt to recover it if its possible in anyway. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks..
Thats wierd , try with another charger and the original battery and let us know how it went.
PS:That phone is a though piece of hardware mine is still runing (of course after a lot of repairings and software changes) after 5 years , finally swtiched for lg g3 used from ebay , best deal ever
ThatLatinGuy said:
Thats wierd , try with another charger and the original battery and let us know how it went.
PS:That phone is a though piece of hardware mine is still runing (of course after a lot of repairings and software changes) after 5 years , finally swtiched for lg g3 used from ebay , best deal ever
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I tried another charger adapter (not original, my original charger is not working properly) with different cables and it didn't work. And for the battery, i have an original battery and it didn't work, then i used my friend's non-original battery and it didn't work either like i said before. But my messed up battery turned on his S2. So the problem is probably not on the battery.
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I tried another charger adapter (not original, my original charger is not working properly) with different cables and it didn't work. And for the battery, i have an original battery and it didn't work, then i used my friend's non-original battery and it didn't work either like i said before. But my messed up battery turned on his S2. So the problem is probably not on the battery.
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What about usb , does the pc at least make the device connected sound ?
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What about usb , does the pc at least make the device connected sound ?
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No, pc doesn't indicate anything that my phone is connected nor the phone shows "charging" indicator.
Cunerg said:
No, pc doesn't indicate anything that my phone is connected nor the phone shows "charging" indicator.
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Dead motherboard maybe?
Stachura5 said:
Dead motherboard maybe?
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Most likely
Stachura5 said:
Dead motherboard maybe?
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Is there a way i can be sure it is a dead motherboard? And even if it's dead is there a chance i can recover my photos?
Cunerg said:
Is there a way i can be sure it is a dead motherboard? And even if it's dead is there a chance i can recover my photos?
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Hi there. I has a similar problem, the phone was working but even with the orginal charger plugged in was not charging at all (connection to PC didn't help either).
There is a procedure to "retrigger" a stuck charger IC.. I lost a link to it and I'm looking.
Had something to do like:
_ remove battery
_ plug phone to charger
_ insert battery
_ turn on
After that I'm not sure anymore.. maybe again "remove battery" step. After that put everything to rest, insert battery and then the charger and see if it works.
I'm googling, someone made a post on XDA with the full instructions.
camp0s said:
Hi there. I has a similar problem, the phone was working but even with the orginal charger plugged in was not charging at all (connection to PC didn't help either).
There is a procedure to "retrigger" a stuck charger IC.. I lost a link to it and I'm looking.
Had something to do like:
_ remove battery
_ plug phone to charger
_ insert battery
_ turn on
After that I'm not sure anymore.. maybe again "remove battery" step. After that put everything to rest, insert battery and then the charger and see if it works.
I'm googling, someone made a post on XDA with the full instructions.
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Ok thanks please let me know if you find the full procedure and I'll try it
Hi, I found the procedue, it's exacly how I described the 4 steps above (the source it's on a external forum, I'm not sure if I can link it here - I'll send you a PM if you like).
SO, if the phone was stuck just like mine, working until the battery discharged even if plugged-in, that will solve it quickly (mine did precisely).
Otherwise.. there could be several reasons why the phone is not recognized anymore, some point out a faulty cap around the charging IC (if the phone is totally dead):
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This cap, if faulty, is actively shorting "Vbat - Gnd" line thus prventing any operation of the phone. Could be water damage o defective charger. It depends how much you want to dig to repair your phone (there could be 1000s other reasons - this is the most HW one).
From what you described the problem in your post.. this defective Cap would/could explain many things.
How are your soldering skills? First thing I'll do is to open the phone and inspect, possibily with the help of a multimeter, next desolder the cap and power the phone back with a charged battery (don't connect the external charger, there might be burned pcb traces - but that's anohter story).
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Hi, I found the procedue, it's exacly how I described the 4 steps above (the source it's on a external forum, I'm not sure if I can link it here - I'll send you a PM if you like).
SO, if the phone was stuck just like mine, working until the battery discharged even if plugged-in, that will solve it quickly (mine did precisely).
Otherwise.. there could be several reasons why the phone is not recognized anymore, some point out a faulty cap around the charging IC (if the phone is totally dead):
This cap, if faulty, is actively shorting "Vbat - Gnd" line thus prventing any operation of the phone. Could be water damage o defective charger. It depends how much you want to dig to repair your phone (there could be 1000s other reasons - this is the most HW one).
From what you described the problem in your post.. this defective Cap would/could explain many things.
How are your soldering skills? First thing I'll do is to open the phone and inspect, possibily with the help of a multimeter, next desolder the cap and power the phone back with a charged battery (don't connect the external charger, there might be burned pcb traces - but that's anohter story).
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Sadly the first procedure didn't work. My soldering skills are not that good but i might know someone who can open up the phone and do things properly Do you know any detailed instructions for the second method you mentioned? Thanks..
I've no other details other that the picture. Before tearing the phone apart, you should try to test "continuity" beteween the "+" and "-" metal contacts of the battery holder. If you have a friends with a multimeter he will know how/what to look for (tell him about the short).
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I've no other details other that the picture. Before tearing the phone apart, you should try to test "continuity" beteween the "+" and "-" metal contacts of the battery holder. If you have a friends with a multimeter he will know how/what to look for (tell him about the short).
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Ok, thanks anyways. I'll update you if I do it.