My photon was on 5% about an hour ago... then it turned itself off. I plugged it in to the charger and a "white/faint yellow" LED comes on. Normally the photon doesn't have a charge LED so this certainly struck me as odd.
It has been sitting for almost an hour and still won't turn on.
I took the battery out and reconnected the charger and the white/faint yellow LED comes back on, even with the battery pulled out.
What is happening here? Has anyone seen this?
I've see green/orange/red LED flashes for diff things but never white.
Well I found this thread: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-photon/107931-led-not-working.html#post1147045
Looks like white means very low battery and charging. Now the white light has gone off while plugged in... But it still will not turn on
Turns out, I was plugging it into a PC usb that didn't have the drivers installed. The phone won't charge if the moto drivers are not installed, regardless of the light
I plugged it into a wall charger and viola... its back and running.
False alarm!
Lol, exact same thing happened to me! I totally freaked out, but plugged it in a wall and started working.
same thing happened to me yesterday. I plugged into the wall, NOTHING. I started freaking out, until I pulled the battery and re installed it. LED charge light then came on and all was good. Weird.
Can someone help me i have a photon also but when i plug it up it says failed to boot 2 starting rsd mode battery too low to flash and it wont boot up when plugged up to a computer. also when i plug it into the wall it just boot to the m sign
rodre12 said:
Can someone help me i have a photon also but when i plug it up it says failed to boot 2 starting rsd mode battery too low to flash and it wont boot up when plugged up to a computer. also when i plug it into the wall it just boot to the m sign
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- Pull battery
- Put it back in so it's off
- Keep it plugged into the wall to charge it
- Once charged, power into RSD mode (power+vol up)
- Plug into computer and start RSD and flash 154_5 SBF to get back to stock
- then flash 198_7 SBF for good measure.
- Reboot
When i try that nothing works, it just stays on the white led light
I just bought mine from best buy and it did the same thing..they exchanged the phone since it was defective..
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Photon won't turn on anymore. White LED when plugged in
i have a refurbished replacement photon from best buy geek squad that i got last month. within a few days it was acting strange and randomly/often turning itself off. the battery was fully charged yet the unit would often times power down. this happened a lot the first few weeks. then last week the issue seemed to stop and it stayed on 24/7 as i charged it frequently. all was well until yesterday.
i dropped my phone from about 2 feet. the phone turned off and only the "m" boot up screen appeared after i powered on, then it went black. i had a fully charged battery in the unit when this happened. i plugged the charging cable into the phone and it kept booting up to this static "m" screen then turning off. the LED notification light went red and after numerous times powering on and off and resetting the battery (and sim card) i finally got a "5%" battery screen. a few seconds later it showed 100% battery then kept rebooting to the static "m" screen and shutting off again. then i started getting a "?" screen for the battery a few times and back to the 5% and it changed to 80%/100% very quickly and back to the blank screen. i left it plugged in overnight.
now the LED notification light turned white and the phone cannot be powered on. i tried another battery without any success so that shouldn't be the issue.
any ideas what to try next?
same thing happened to me.
thevaporz said:
i have a refurbished replacement photon from best buy geek squad that i got last month. within a few days it was acting strange and randomly/often turning itself off. the battery was fully charged yet the unit would often times power down. this happened a lot the first few weeks. then last week the issue seemed to stop and it stayed on 24/7 as i charged it frequently. all was well until yesterday.
i dropped my phone from about 2 feet. the phone turned off and only the "m" boot up screen appeared after i powered on, then it went black. i had a fully charged battery in the unit when this happened. i plugged the charging cable into the phone and it kept booting up to this static "m" screen then turning off. the LED notification light went red and after numerous times powering on and off and resetting the battery (and sim card) i finally got a "5%" battery screen. a few seconds later it showed 100% battery then kept rebooting to the static "m" screen and shutting off again. then i started getting a "?" screen for the battery a few times and back to the 5% and it changed to 80%/100% very quickly and back to the blank screen. i left it plugged in overnight.
now the LED notification light turned white and the phone cannot be powered on. i tried another battery without any success so that shouldn't be the issue.
any ideas what to try next?
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Try to fully charge your battery using portable battery charger.
When battery full charge, try to entering recovery mode. From off condition, press both power and volume down, press down until you find android recovery and press volume up button. After you see exclamation logos, press both volume up and down. Then select wipe data. Hope fully you can still entering recovery mode.
If you cannot enter recovery mode, try to enter RSD protocol.
step is, connect your photon to PC using cable data, press both volume up and power, wait until it show RSD Protocol, than flash it again.
How to flash using RSDLite is in development section, you can read there.
Hopefully its can work
DssTrainer said:
Turns out, I was plugging it into a PC usb that didn't have the drivers installed. The phone won't charge if the moto drivers are not installed, regardless of the light
I plugged it into a wall charger and viola... its back and running.
False alarm!
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I just had a mini-anxiety attack until I found your post. Thank you!
I just switched to an i9100 and gave my wife my old i777. I restored this phone back to stock rooted. The problem at first the phone would reboot when trying to turn it off, also when putting the battery back in it would automatically turn on. Now i pulled the wifes phone off the charger, it was fully charged and had the full charge notification. After the phone had been unplugged from the charger for 10mn the full charge notification was still in the status bar. I tried turning the phone off and it would not even reboot this time, just this weird loop, see vid http://youtu.be/PKyYhXhu4zY
I haven't applied the OTA update, so my phone's on the stock ROM that came before the new one. I have rooted the phone, but it worked fine until today. It died last night and I put it on the charger, but this morning it wouldn't turn on. Now that I have it plugged in, the front LED blinks steadily, and when I hold down the power button or power+volume down buttons, the lower LED bar blinks, but the phone won't turn on. Could something have gone wrong if it tried to automatically install the OTA update while I wasn't using it? Or is there another way to fix this? The problem occurs whether the phone is plugged in or charging wirelessly.
Edit: Solved. The phone booted when I tried again. I still have no idea why it wouldn't work though; I left it on the wireless charger all night, so it should have charged then, but it could have moved off of it. Today it took a solid 10 minutes plugged in to the computer to charge enough to boot. Is that normal? Shouldn't it just use the charging energy to boot?
One night, i plugged in my phone to charge it. The next day, it wouldnt turn on. When i try to power it on, it shows the samsung logo but doesnt do anything after that. When i plug it into the charger, and then turn it on, it shows the battery bar but with nothing in it for a few seconds even though i charged it for the whole night. My phone was fine before this. I did not download or flash anything recently. the only thing i ever did was upgrade it and root a year ago. please help me.
Hello everyone,
I have an HTC One m7 that's been working perfectly, yesterday i charged it in my car with a normal car charger, after 20 minutes i came back home & plugged it with the wall charger, so it just didn't charge, i tried to connect it with my Mac, still the phone didn't recognize any usb data cable has been connected, changed the charger & cable, same issue, so i turned off the phone, then it started charging in a weird way, a red led with a battery notification appeared, after around 3 seconds it goes off then a dull orange led with a percentage battery appears, then it just goes off with nothing on the screen, & again same thing each time every around 10 to 12 second. So i backed up all my data via WiFi data transfer app after i left it to charge as is overnight, & then i hard reset my HTC One, after it's been formatted, it didn't charge, but even worse, it stopped even charging when it's turned off.
Please help me with some advise
Thx in advance