I was given a RAZR today. I Was told it reboots sometimes (which I have yet to see) but it won't charge past 80%. Anyone ever seen something like this?? I'm totally new to this phone. Any help/insight would awesome!!
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Actually I just fixed its issues. I dont what was up with the charging, but after just charging and turning the power back on and off it reached 100%. It was very strange, started at 60 turned the phone on it said 70 turned it off, let charge stayed at 80 turned back on its said fully charged. Took it of the charger played around on it for a while and the whole charging process seems to have evened out when off or on now.
Also figured out the random shut offs he was experiencing, dropped it on the carpet (luckily) accidentally. It shut off. Started to test how much impact was needed to get it to do it again. Smacked it up against my hand, it shut off. Tested that a few times, every time I was pretty much successful lol. Took the phone apart messed with the battery connection a little. Put it back together, gave it a few extra hard smacks against my hand no random shut offs anymore lol.
Now I got a fully working RAZR for free lol. Gonna rock this instead of my galaxy nexus for a little while now I think. I've never owned a Motorola android before.
One plus, I've already noticed is the sound quality is dramatically better than my gnexus.
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Lucky fella!
Sound quality of all Nexuses suck.
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I had the phone on and in my hand when it just flickered off. I was in a 3d game but had only been running it for a couple minutes. The battery was reading about 90% before I fired up the game and it was plugged in to a factory samsung charger at the time. The game sort of stuttered a second or so before it shut down, then blank screen and it looked dead. It was slightly warm at the time, but nothing near overheating.
I held down the power button, nothing.
Tried power/volume combinations with no result.
Pried it out of the otterbox case it has been in since I got it and pulled the battery and put it back in, still nothing.
Pulled MicroSD and sim card.
Tried both volumes and plugging it in to USB with and without a battery, nada.
Left it alone and researched online for a bit, battery back in and nothing.
Plugged into a different charger and still nothing.
Seems no matter what I try, no response at all.
Both the phone and battery are cooled off at this point.
Could this be dead battery? Am I going about trying to force it to at least light up without a battery correctly?
At this point I'm at a loss. I can check the local AT&T store and see if they can at least let me test a different battery.
Last night I did flash the latest SHOstock 5.4 ROM, up from his 5.2. The phone ran fine afterward and I shut it down once since the flash without issues. This phone has been rock solid since day one, never dropped, no water damage, always in a case, pristine condition physically. Nothing to cause any trauma. Never even overclocked, but did have it running .25v undervolted at all speeds for a while.
I bought this last November, so it is less than a year old. Insurance is being paid but it is also within one year of purchase. So warranty should still be in effect? However, if it is this dead I can't flash it back to stock for warranty return, so what are my options there? Call it in as a warranty claim and hope for the best?
Edit: just tested the battery with a voltmeter. It is reading 4.1V, not sure if that is too high for a battery that is rated 3.7V or not. I'd guess no, so bad battery theory is likely out, unless it cooked the phone.
<edit> and I'm so frazzled from my beloved phone dying that I posted this to general instead of Q&A. argh.
I wouldn't rule out battery failure. Batteries don't power devices with voltage, and that voltage will only be discernible as an indicator for a very short period of time before it actually dies. You'll need a battery tester to check its actual amperage output, and I'd recommend looking up what it should be, along with its amp hour rating. Wish I had more to offer, but I work with dc backup powered systems, and they're a pain in the ass to catch with a voltmeter.
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Yeah I know what you mean. I once had a car battery fail, read about 12V just fine but didn't put out enough miliamps to power even the dome light.
Taking lunch right now and headed to the retail store in town to see if they have a battery I can swap to test. More worried that I can't return to stock, really can't afford a $400 bill to replace this sucker if they catch that I've flashed it.
Had to drive an hour to the AT&T Device Support Center but its replaced now. I think the tech there was a bit surprised at how dead it was. He was figuring to just run his recovery tools and fix it right up, but got nothing.
Oh well, at least I'm not stuck on my old Tilt 2 running WinMo anymore. Though I do miss my keyboard a little bit.
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Why has this been happening to the S2's a lot? It seems like it anyway. Mine went through something crazy a couple of days ago where it wouldn't turn on and it was soft bricked.
I really miss my old Tilt2.
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I really miss my old Tilt2.
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I don't, man with stock software that thing was ****, I needed 5 different replacements all for different problems. The keyboard was amazing though.
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After I got EnergyROM on my Tokyo the software worked as well as could be expected for WinMo. I also had a pretty much fully functional Froyo Android running off the SD card. The microphone finally died on it though, and the cost to replace out of warranty was more than I spent on the GS2.
I forgot how nice having a keyboard was though. Faster and more accurate typing plus you can still see the whole screen. Maybe that captivate glide wouldn't be so bad after all... Lol
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Well I didn't have my for long. I guess 2 ro 3 months. Went to jumpstart a car & had it charging. It killed the screen. Never do that. I loved the keypad. It was awesome.
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I plugged my phone in the car charger earlier and noted I had 49% battery left. I drove an hour and when I took the phone off the charger it was turned off. I'm not rooted or anything. This is my first Android phone. Would Android be considered less stable than ios?(which is what I've used for years)
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Mine did the same! But it only happened once for me
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I plugged my phone in the car charger earlier and noted I had 49% battery left. I drove an hour and when I took the phone off the charger it was turned off. I'm not rooted or anything. This is my first Android phone. Would Android be considered less stable than ios?(which is what I've used for years)
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That same problems happens to me when i unplug it or even just wake it up from sleep. It doesnt do it too often like it did when i first got it but im sure it will be fixed with a software update. All you gotta do is restart the phone hold down the power and down button ( on the volume rocker)
Just happened again. Plugged in car charger and it powered down. WTF is this?
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I used to have a samsung captivate that did the same thing, generally it is a thing you just have to deal with! It sucks, I know but sorry!
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I turned it back on, kept driving, and then it turned off again. This is ridiculous. It never did this before.
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I've had mine for three weeks and done all kinds of hackerization to it and have never seen this issue. Defective device, swap it out.
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I think the problem may be with the app HD Widgets. I installed it last night and the problem started today. According to one review I read, it was causing some guy to have random reboots. The developer responded that it is a bug in Android OS, BUT they released a fix in today's update anyway. Hopefully it is fixed now.
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I've had it happen twice to me. I got the feeling it was a software conflict type issue.
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I think it is hd widget too. I had that on my nexus 7 and it randomly shut off. I deleted it and it hasn't happened again.
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I won't pretend to know what the actual problem is but I'm assuming it's software related, but this thing does strange things when connected to a car charger.
Same thing happened to me twice while it was sitting in my pocket.
Pulled it out and it was off. It would not turn back on unless I held the down volume button and power button. My phone is completely stock and I do not have HD widgets.
Twice for me. I'm rooted and unlocked.
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I'm on The Base .7.1 and i've had my phone reboot on it's own a few times (on .5 and .7 it did this as well). it doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing...i can be taking a phone call or answering a text, it can be sitting in my pocket or playing chess.
the only thing that is constant is that AFTER the reboot, some application or other has updated itself via Google Play. perhaps there is some conflict occurring when application updates are presented to the Google Play app? could just be coincidence, but it has self-rebooted many times now and every time it comes back up there is a newly applied update to some installed application.
Had a Samsung Captivate that did that, called "sleep death" and was frequent. ATT swapped it out saying there was a bad batch and it never happened again.
My LGOG did it once the other night; well it did a full reboot by itself. If it becomes an issue I'll take it up w/ ATT again.
Had it happen twice in the past 2 days just in my pocket. Starting to get a bit frustrated with this phone.
Had this happen to me at least twice. Funny thing is the phone died in the same general geographic area each time.
Both times I had over 65 or 75% battery left and I was driving a few hundred miles across areas with bad cell reception. on the way back from my trip I actually chanced to look at the phone because I half expected it to be off due to having experienced the unintended power down before. Phone was NOT plugged into a charger. In the past, driving through these areas would put certain phones into power saving mode where cell function shuts down or phone. I think it's related to driving without reception or just no reception.
Normally I can leave this phone sitting and it stays on and wakes up without a fight.
Called AT&T, they are trying to run me through the whole hard reset/phone swap process.
Wanting something a bit stronger, I got LG's number. They said I was the first person to report the issue.
Both companies suggested turning the device off and charging to 100%, although they were both general suggestions (still, I hadn't tried that). The LG tech actually suggested that I take the battery out and... Well I didn't let that go any further.
LG said I could send my device to them instead of AT&T, if I wanted. They don't presend phones so you'll be SOL for "5-7 days" but I feel better that they would actually look at it instead of just throwing it in a "refurb" pile when the screen turns on.
Anyway, call them! Press 1 for English, 1 for Mobiles, I got an answer in 3 seconds. At least help put this on their radar. 800-793-8896.
of those of us who are experiencing random reboots...
are you rooted/unlocked?
are you on the Stock ROM or on The Base?
if The Base, which version? .5 or .73
i am rooted/unlocked running .73
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of those of us who are experiencing random reboots...
are you rooted/unlocked?
are you on the Stock ROM or on The Base?
if The Base, which version? .5 or .73
i am rooted/unlocked running .73
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Stock.
Anyone know if the LG WCP-700 Charging pad was recalled? I called Verizon about the charging issue I'm having, (starting them stopping randomly) I have tried every different position and nothing seems to help, When I talked to verizon the told me they no longer carry it.
I think they are ramping down/stopping production of it, but its not being recalled.
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Anyone know if the LG WCP-700 Charging pad was recalled? I called Verizon about the charging issue I'm having, (starting them stopping randomly) I have tried every different position and nothing seems to help, When I talked to verizon the told me they no longer carry it.
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A little off topic but you might try another charging pad to see if it is your phone. Some are losing wireless charging capabilty altogether and phones are getting replaced.
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Anyone know if the LG WCP-700 Charging pad was recalled? I called Verizon about the charging issue I'm having, (starting them stopping randomly) I have tried every different position and nothing seems to help, When I talked to verizon the told me they no longer carry it.
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I haven't heard of a recall, but I can tell you I am aware of 2 incidents where this charger severely overheated phones. When I returned mine to get the Nokia charger, they said they have gotten a lot of them returned.
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buy it on amazon
I just bought one recently on amazon (2 day prime shipping). It came in perfect condition and works awesome with the nexus 4. It gets a little warm but thats what happens in the induction process. The rubberized texture is perfect for the crazy slippery glass back.
I dont see any issues with it.
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Anyone know if the LG WCP-700 Charging pad was recalled? I called Verizon about the charging issue I'm having, (starting them stopping randomly) I have tried every different position and nothing seems to help, When I talked to verizon the told me they no longer carry it.
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It was a problem for me. It would take about 5 hours to charge the phone to 99% and just slightly warm, then the temp goes up and up and up till phone kicked out at 130 degrees and turned off red hot. Never would hit 100% and kick out. I took it back and Verizon rep said they are all coming back when using with DNA. I don't think its compatible with DNA, but everyone on here argues that it is. Bottom line. Doesn't work properly and will severly shorten phone and battery life.
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Try the nokia fatboy.
Charges the phone fast!
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Charged completely (slight warmth)
Does take about 3-4 hours to charge (haven't really paid close attention on exact time)
It appears they are phasing it out, since folks are having a hard time locating them to purchase. I have the LG WCP-700 and it works fine with my DNA. Every night I charge it up and it is full in the morning with normal temperature...~80°. I can place it anywhere on the plate and it will detect and start to charge. No complaints here.
I'm starting to have issues with my phone. My fat boy charges for about 30 secs then drops off. I then tried my jbl power up speaker and same problem it's my dna. I might have to put in for a replacement.
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I just picked up the Nokia wireless charging pad... it's pretty sweet.
My plan was to just keep it on my desk at my office and put it on it whenever i'm not using the phone. Is this bad for either the pad or the phone? Realistically there are times where I would be picking it up and putting it down several times in under one minute.
Obviously I could make a habit of leaving it off the pad for the times where i'll be picking it up and putting it down but I wasn't sure if there's any need for that.
Let me know what you guys think... thanks
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I just picked up the Nokia wireless charging pad... it's pretty sweet.
My plan was to just keep it on my desk at my office and put it on it whenever i'm not using the phone. Is this bad for either the pad or the phone? Realistically there are times where I would be picking it up and putting it down several times in under one minute.
Obviously I could make a habit of leaving it off the pad for the times where i'll be picking it up and putting it down but I wasn't sure if there's any need for that.
Let me know what you guys think... thanks
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I did that with my nexus 4 and had no issues.. so go for it!!
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Keep in mind that keeping the phone fully charged all the time is bad for the battery.
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Keep in mind that keeping the phone fully charged all the time is bad for the battery.
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I second this. I just bought a Nokia charging pad too, and noticed that if I left it on the pad more than just over night the phone got very hot. I usually run my battery down to the 20% range over the course of the day, plop it on the charger at night and wake up to a phone that is no warmer than with the traditional USB charger. I would just keep an eye on the charge light, if the phone flicks to green, take it off. That's the beauty of wireless, no muss, no fuss.
Hey all , got a question for the tbolt community. My cousin told me her grandson was playing with her phone and it got wet apparently, afterwards her phone would power on but no screen , so I took a look at it and checked by holding down the power button and I felt the vibration and the soft keys light up but no screen, so as I started to hook it up to my laptop I for the hell of it opened the battey cover and to my surprise ... No battery , hadent been in the phone since it hit water a few days ago . I thought I was going crazy like it didn't happen so I figured I'd ask you guys . what do you think ?
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Hey all , got a question for the tbolt community. My cousin told me her grandson was playing with her phone and it got wet apparently, afterwards her phone would power on but no screen , so I took a look at it and checked by holding down the power button and I felt the vibration and the soft keys light up but no screen, so as I started to hook it up to my laptop I for the hell of it opened the battey cover and to my surprise ... No battery , hadent been in the phone since it hit water a few days ago . I thought I was going crazy like it didn't happen so I figured I'd ask you guys . what do you think ?
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She may want to hold onto it for her protection because it can be no other than a live Transformer.
Nah, just kidding.
Holding the certain keys can have the phone do a "hard reset" type thing.
Or, at least, I've read that somewhere.
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I'm pretty sure that if its plugged into USB and you do that it will do the vibrate and light the soft keys up even without a battery in. Won't get any further though. Put the phone in a Ziploc bag of dry brown rice for a couple of days. It will dry up any moisture left in the phone. If you powered it up before it is completely dry it is going to fry. I know it sounds silly but I actually keep a bag of this with me in my truck while I'm working because I have dropped so many of my work phones in water.
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Thanks for the replies . especially to a kinda silly question lol , but I've had a few android phones and never ran across this .but her phone works and she's happy to have it back after I gave her my inc2 as a loaner . just a weird anomaly I guess
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