Hello,
I woke up this morning, went to take my EVO off the charger (and there was no light), and started it up. It didn't do anything. I tested if it was the outlet. The outlet worked just fine, as my iPad worked when it was plugged in. So I tried the charger. The charger worked fine with my Nexus 7. So I took my phone to my computer, took out the battery, put it back in, and plugged it in through USB. NOTHING AT ALL.
This is my second EVO. It's not even rooted. Please help!
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I just noticed something else.
When I hold a finger at the bottom left edge of the camera, on the side with the SD card slot, and I plug the phone in, it gets really hot... So hot that my finger feels burned after touching it about 10 minutes ago.
I would take the battery out now.
Buy a new one, and hope for the best
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I had the same after flashing with plugged-in charger. I charged my accumulator in another phone, installed stock rom and locked bootloader. After than - again s-off and I installed custom firmware. Since that time everything have been working fine.
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cburk01 said:
I just noticed something else.
When I hold a finger at the bottom left edge of the camera, on the side with the SD card slot, and I plug the phone in, it gets really hot... So hot that my finger feels burned after touching it about 10 minutes ago.
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This sounds like fried motherboard to me.
You've got to be careful with those aftermarket batteries. I got one that performed extremely well, and I really didn't have any issues with it until I noticed a strange plastic burning smell coming from my car console. The USB/car jack I was using for my HTC Evo 3D was super hot! I was like, WTF? To make a long story short, I discovered that it's the battery. It was pulling much more power than it should for the recharge. So I put in my backup battery and it was fine. I put the questionable battery in my backup Evo 3D and tried to charge it in the car--same thing, the plug got molten hot. Definitely the battery and not the phone. Anyway, if I'd left it going, who knows if the phone would have ended up damaged.
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Here is my problem. Yesterday, when I plug the HTC charger with HTC USB cord into the EVO 3D, it was hit or miss. Sometimes the phone charged, sometimes the red light blinks on and off, sometime the red light doesn't come on at all. The HTC USB cord is pretty tight in there, yet for some reason it doesn't seem to work all the time. Fast forward to now. First I kept thinking something was burning in my house, and I couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. I smelt the phone and it had a burnt smell and I had my wife check it and she said she smell the burnt smell. The phone was on, but not plugged into the charger. I plugged the phone into the charger (I tried plugging into different sockets, same results) the red light would come on for a few seconds, shut off for a few seconds then turn on again and it would stay on. I think it may be time to take it back to Sprint. Should I call Sprint Tech support first in the morning and see what they say, then take it to the store.
Is the phone acting normal or do I have a bad processor, port or even a bad charger, or all of the above?
What do you think I should do? I got this EVO 3D on Friday, June 24.
The sad thing about this is that the EVO 3D seems to running great, with no problems, except the charging and the burnt smell.
dfine1966 said:
Here is my problem. Yesterday, when I plug the HTC charger with HTC USB cord into the EVO 3D, it was hit or miss. Sometimes the phone charged, sometimes the red light blinks on and off, sometime the red light doesn't come on at all. The HTC USB cord is pretty tight in there, yet for some reason it doesn't seem to work all the time. Fast forward to now. First I kept thinking something was burning in my house, and I couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. I smelt the phone and it had a burnt smell and I had my wife check it and she said she smell the burnt smell. The phone was on, but not plugged into the charger. I plugged the phone into the charger (I tried plugging into different sockets, same results) the red light would come on for a few seconds, shut off for a few seconds then turn on again and it would stay on. I think it may be time to take it back to Sprint. Should I call Sprint Tech support first in the morning and see what they say, then take it to the store.
Is the phone acting normal or do I have a bad processor, port or even a bad charger, or all of the above?
What do you think I should do? I got this EVO 3D on Friday, June 24.
The sad thing about this is that the EVO 3D seems to running great, with no problems, except the charging and the burnt smell.
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WHAT?!?!? HURRY UP....THROW IT IN THE TOILET!! J/K
Two words "common sense"
That's one HOT phone you've got there...
dfine1966 said:
Here is my problem. Yesterday, when I plug the HTC charger with HTC USB cord into the EVO 3D, it was hit or miss. Sometimes the phone charged, sometimes the red light blinks on and off, sometime the red light doesn't come on at all. The HTC USB cord is pretty tight in there, yet for some reason it doesn't seem to work all the time. Fast forward to now. First I kept thinking something was burning in my house, and I couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. I smelt the phone and it had a burnt smell and I had my wife check it and she said she smell the burnt smell. The phone was on, but not plugged into the charger. I plugged the phone into the charger (I tried plugging into different sockets, same results) the red light would come on for a few seconds, shut off for a few seconds then turn on again and it would stay on. I think it may be time to take it back to Sprint. Should I call Sprint Tech support first in the morning and see what they say, then take it to the store.
Is the phone acting normal or do I have a bad processor, port or even a bad charger, or all of the above?
What do you think I should do? I got this EVO 3D on Friday, June 24.
The sad thing about this is that the EVO 3D seems to running great, with no problems, except the charging and the burnt smell.
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sounds like there is a short somewhere in the phone or its grounding out do not leave it plugged in take battery out or a fire may start man. I would take it to Sprint ASAP whatever u do do not leave it plugged in.
reaper24 said:
sounds like there is a short somewhere in the phone or its grounding out do not leave it plugged in take battery out or a fire may start man. I would take it to Sprint ASAP whatever u do do not leave it plugged in.
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I did unplug the phone. I am going right now to take the batter out of the phone. So, it most likely is a faulty port?
OMG I'm having nearly identical issues. The charging was working intermittently and I too smelled burnt plastic from the adapter. However, I was having charging issues with the my car adapter as well, so I'm guessing a problem with the phone.
My 3D has seemed to be working fine except that the battery icon would turn gray and an exclamation point would appear over the battery. This would happen randomly and would go away after a few minutes.
Evo is really seeming like quality control isn't great
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Evo is really seeming like quality control isn't great
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Yeah if two of us on here are having this issue this quickly, who knows how many people that aren't part of XDA that are or will be experiencing this.
reaper24 said:
sounds like there is a short somewhere in the phone or its grounding out do not leave it plugged in take battery out or a fire may start man. I would take it to Sprint ASAP whatever u do do not leave it plugged in.
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I wouldn't take the battery out of the phone. Lithium batteries commonly have a chip in them to prevent overcharging. It's possible that chip has failed and the battery is over charged. It could explode. If you leave it inside the phone, at least you'll be less likely to get hit by the shrapnel. So, put it somewhere where no one coulld get hurt by it. Take it back to Sprint first thing in the morning. Don't bother to call them. Let the techs at the store open your and the other poster's phones, if they dare. Good luck.
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Yeah if two of us on here are having this issue this quickly, who knows how many people that aren't part of XDA that are or will be experiencing this.
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You two need to take it to sprint and get a new phone before the 30 day period write HTC and tell them.of the issue
damn that's not good to hear. If the battery icon grayed out and showed the exclamation point, then there is certainly an issue. I don't like seeing all of these problems going on.
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k2buckley said:
damn that's not good to hear. If the battery icon grayed out and showed the exclamation point, then there is certainly an issue. I don't like seeing all of these problems going on.
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I wonder if they were using a after market charger mine is fine no issues had since Friday charged usb on laptop to full charge twice and wall 3 times no heat no burn . So I have no idea why they had issues. Also mine is fine and sexy .
The burning smell was with the included official HTC wall outlet to USB adapter.
Already contacted HTC and Wirefly of the problem.
blix1337 said:
The burning smell was with the included official HTC wall outlet to USB adapter.
Already contacted HTC and Wirefly of the problem.
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Sweet I ordered mine from sprint online no issues yet just wondering about the after market chargers some people due have issue with cheap chargers dickin there phones up.
This was an issue with the charger included with the OG EVO as well, so it's not a surprise if there are some bad chargers/cables (they look very similar). Best problem solving is to see if the problem persists with a different cable.
Its a evo 3d and it waas rooted when i bought it. i got a new samsung so i stopped using the 3d and like after 1 week it won't start now. its got a orange/red light that turn on and off with like 10 second intervals. and i tried a few chargers, and battery pulls and vol down + power button and nothing. i hooked it to the computer and doesn't recognize it what could be wrong with it
It takes a while for the battery to go from completely depleted to charged enough to power the phone.
If after 15 minutes of being connected to an AC outlet it doesn't stop the flashing, then maybe something else is happening.
This happened to the EVO 4G a lot. I've never let my phone get drained enough for this to happen, but it sounds familiar.
Leave the battery out overnight, then in the morning, put the battery back in and put it on the charger and leave it there. You'll be fine.
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Ok i'll try that bro! how easy is it to Unroot this phone????? just curious
Well kinda...
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When my phone is plugged into the wall there is no charging light or anything. No white light in any senario. Last night my default battery was at about 9% so I pulled it and used my 2nd battery. No problem. Then I went home, charged the second in the phone went to put the first battery in and nothing. No matter what I do the 1st battery is completely unresponsive. I then go to put the fully charged second battery in the phone AND STILL NOTHING! Left the phone on the charger with battery 1 over night. Neither battery is working again this morning.
Both batteries should be able to boot the phone but I got nothing. Any ideas?
I was about to try the USB cable trick to prime a dead battery, but why? I have a full second battery that still isn't working
GRRRR
Are the battery contacts on the phone clean and in good condition? Could try cleaning the connector with rubbing alcohol. I really don't know what to suggest besides that. Figured I'd reply since this thread as almost 200 views but still no replies.
Hope you can get this figured out but it seems asking a question is kind of pointless now. Unless you are complaining about no ICS you won't get much of a response anymore it appears.
Does it charge if it pluged in to a computer?
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Well some how I had it working for the last month but its back to this again.
Last time it just started working randomly. this time, no dice. I even tried the USB splice charge thing and its not working.
I only get a white light on my photon when plugged into my computer. Nothing from the wall, and there is no way to turn it on. I'm outside of the warranty and sprint didn't have anything to help me at their store.
its been like this for two days. I'm really frustrated.
The only thing I can suggest is to find an external battery charger, and give that a shot.
This works for me.
Strip open the usb cable on your micro usb cable. Connect the positive (red) usb wire to the data neg. (white) wire.
This will be a charge only cable.
This also allows bootstrap from computer usb port.
(on my Photon)
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well, took it to a repair shop and they fully recharged my battery with an external charger... and...
STILL NOTHING.
no lights, no response, no boot, nothing. Its totally dead.
Any ideas? I mean, this thing Is beyond bricked apparently. It wont even start!?!
well.. anyone know of a decent source to get off contract phones? I'm looking for something like a Samsung nexus s 4g for like $100 or so?
Craigslist, or maybe Swappa
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Thanks for all the help guys, I did find a Sprint Samsung nexus S 4g off amazon for about $120. Everything seems to be working alright, sold my photon back for a measly $63 to sprint...
That said, the past few days with the nexus having android 4.1 have been great. It really makes me wish that motorola wouldn't have screwed us all over. The stability and speed of stock 4.1 on a single core SOC makes me pretty sad we couldn't have this on the photon, it would have been a beast. A few other things I enjoy more are the non-pentile screen (the AMOLED looks fantastically warmer and more saturated than my gfs bionic- the same screen as the photon) and build quality (yeah, its a plastic-y samsung and I like the build quality, that says something about the poor photon IMO) I would also recommend you put NFC on your future phones "wish-list" as well, I think it'll come in handy and I've already used it at my local walgreens.
Goodbye forever moto. I'll enjoy watching your company be liquidated at the hands of google.
rbeavers said:
This works for me.
Strip open the usb cable on your micro usb cable. Connect the positive (red) usb wire to the data neg. (white) wire.
This will be a charge only cable.
This also allows bootstrap from computer usb port.
(on my Photon)
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Oh yes, I had to do that recently when my MoPho wouldn't survive long enough to boot up. Of course the wife thought I was a little crazy scavenging for a USB cable no longer needed and cutting it up, but a good feeling when she looks at me thinking "wow."
i got the nokia wireless charger for xmas, it worked fine for a couple days now whenever i put the phone on the charger it wont charge unless i press down hard on the phone, but as soon as i let go it will stop charging. at first i thought it was the charger so i took my phone to verizon and tried it on the charger they have on display and same thing happend. any one ever heard of this? or got any tips? only thing i can think is charging it on the charger has warped the back since it gets hot, but thats just my opinion.
Could be a case or cover on your phone?
If you got ur phone hot enough to warp the back, you'd know it, lol.
I had a phone that was intermittently working on the wireless charger, and VZW replaced it promptly, no more trouble.
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Wireless charging stopped working on my phone after 3 weeks of working beautifully. Sent in for replacement. New phone good so far but wondering if this problem will happen again.
slvrdrgn123 said:
Could be a case or cover on your phone?
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no case or cover on phone
i guess i can go return the phone to verizon but its such a hassle to transfer everything to a new phone, i might just return the charger didnt really like it too much anyways
Might be the charger.... Have you tried using another charger...
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Itzvik said:
Might be the charger.... Have you tried using another charger...
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He stated the same thing happened to the Verizon store
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hmm, same problem ish for me....I have an otterbox case, and it detects charging just fine. Though I can go to sleep and wake up with it at less than I put it on..yet again, it shows it's charging.....Could it just be getting too hot and stopping the charge?
My phone stopped charging from my Nokia pad also. Took it into Verizon and tried to charge in a known good charging pad and it still wouldn't charge. They issued me a replacement phone and no trouble since
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jas1784 said:
My phone stopped charging from my Nokia pad also. Took it into Verizon and tried to charge in a known good charging pad and it still wouldn't charge. They issued me a replacement phone and no trouble since
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That would be a royal pain....I'm bootloader unlocked.
Wireless charging is considerably slower than charging via a wall outlet and maybe slightly slower than charging from PC via USB.
The closer the phone is to the pad, the stronger the charging should be. Putting large cases on the phone may possibly cause it to charge slower.
If its charging slower than the phone drains the battery you should make sure the phone makes as close contact to the pad as possible (thin or no case at all) and make sure you don't have overclocked settings or tons of apps that constantly run in the background. You might also consider leaving the screen brightness on automatic so when you charge it at night and the screen comes on it doesn't use full brightness.
Try these things and report back if the situation doesn't improve.
been using wireless charging since i got my DNA on my energizer. as soon as i got my new case (trident) it stopped working THAT night, no prior problems. I thought maybe the case was too thick. tried with my old Verizon TPU which worked fine and without a case, and now it wont stay charging for more than 5-10 minutes MAX, and usually not for more than half a minute... if i push down as well, generally it starts to charge. I really don't want to get a new replacement. I don't see how this feature could break as it did! i would only imagine it would just happen again..
i am glad i am not the only person who has ran into problems with the nokia pads, i tried the pillow and just the plate and it would never charge longer than 30 - 45 seconds, weird thing is that my lg pad charges fine.
i am using the energizer pad. I can only hope its the pad and not the phone! the nokia pad looks nice. hell i guess ill stop in a Verizon store and see if it works there! cant believe it would only last a month. even more odd is that it stopped working when i got my case. i wonder if having the case caused it? i went to sleep with it charging and it seemed fine, woke up to 22% charge. second night with case off the phone was dead when i woke up. previously my phone would be 100% ready to go and cooled off by the AM!
And again I wake up to my phone not being charged even though the charging light was on....seriously?
Random too...some nights it works. Some it doesn't...
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I had charging stop last night on me, Took the phone off, put it back on and charged to 100 after that.
Had this happen to 2 DNA's! I think it has to do with the phone getting too hot which results in a hardware failure on the device itself. I honestly gave up on wireless charging.
Hello,
I am so f*%#ing tired of HTC right now.
Earlier this week, my EVO 3D died after being plugged in once I went to bed. I woke up, and the phone wouldn't start, and gave no sign of life.
I borrowed my brother's old EVO 4G LTE.
Just a night or two ago, I plugged the phone in after it died from low battery. When I plugged it in, the notification led was flashing red/orange, and I kinda dismissed it, and unplugged the phone.
Later that night, I plugged the phone back in.
When I woke up the next morning, the 4G LTE gave no sign of life. It died too, like my 3VO. This is really fuggin annoying.
Im using a stock HTC charger, nothing done to it. Totally original.
Please, xda, I'm begging you for help. What is going on with my phones/charger? :crying:
-cburk01
Have you tried a different charger?
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FinZ28 said:
Have you tried a different charger?
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No, I haven't. But, when I plugged the phones into a USB port on my computer, they did absolutely nothing. No light. Nothing.
I'll try another charger, but I don't think it'll work.
Also, the 3VO. When I plug that into the charger, it gets scorching hot right by the lower left corner of the camera/right side of the SD slot.
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No, I haven't. But, when I plugged the phones into a USB port on my computer, they did absolutely nothing. No light. Nothing.
I'll try another charger, but I don't think it'll work.
Also, the 3VO. When I plug that into the charger, it gets scorching hot right by the lower left corner of the camera/right side of the SD slot.
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Get a voltage monitor and watch what's happening. Maybe getting too much current? I'm not well educated on the subject though, so just throwing it out.
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The charger can go bad if the outlet is unstable, it's pretty common for outlets to fluctuate. It can screw up pretty much anything that requires a certain range
It's alive!
Hello again!
I just used my brother's HTC charger, and the phone's red light came on again! After holding the power button on the EVO 4G LTE for a little while, it came back on. Turns out his phone just does that when it's really low on battery. (aka 0%)
The 4G LTE is on charge, but when I plugged in my 3VO, the red light came on, too! My phones are alive!
Thank you all so much. :angel::victory:
-cburk01
Chargers have a step-down transformer in them. When one half or the other goes, you get fluctuations in current. With regard to outlets, you will either receive 110-120v, or nothing. Nothing below or under, as it's fed directly from the breaker box via a rated breaker.
I guess I would have tried a different charger from the get-go.
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