The Home button on my P9000 has always been somewhat unresponsive when my phone is charging. When I unplug it, it is fine, and as it charges so fast, I rarely use it plugged in. So it's not something I think about very often, but it is annoying when I do need to, and half the time I just unplug it, do what I need to do and then plug it back in again.
I assume it is EMI being caused by charging that is affecting the Home button capacitance, especially condidering they are on top of each other.
Is this a design flaw that all of you face, or is there a shielding problem with my phone?
It is just bugging me right now (despite having dealt with it for almost a year now), so I thought I would ask your opinion.
I have no idea what the issue maybe, but mines always kind of done it but as I dont really use it while charging it hasn't bothered me. If I do need to use the phone I just unplug it. But yes, mine does the same thing too
For me its allways been working well, butbthen again, i dontnuse it very much when its charging, just to see the hours or some simple apps
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I've always been a huge sucker for good-looking phones, and the Luster White Xperia X10 has a great, unique look that isn't really matched or surpassed by any of the new Xperias, or any new phone at that.
So I got one... going by the eBay listing description, the USB charging wouldn't work because the USB port is messed up (which I prepared for by buying a AC charger)... but that aside it was supposed to work flawlessly.
Thing is, it doesn't.
As soon as I put a freshly charged battery in, I held down power and it vibrated like it was gonna turn on... and never did. Screen stayed black and I ultimately never got it to a functioning state. Been trying all kinds of desperate measures such as trial and error with USB insert angles to see if it was just "touchy"... and even trying to see if I could just get SOME form of response via recovery mode. And nothing worked so far. Sometimes trying to power it on makes it vibrate for a half second before it does nothing, and sometimes trying to power it on will just make it start vibrating endlessly unless I yank out the battery... but not once have I seen this damn thing power on normally.
The seller says he's quite surprised at this because, even when the USB charging officially stopped working, he was able to power it on and make a test call before the battery died (he did dodge my question about how long ago this was, which seemed a bit mysterious). The closest thing I can get to this phone showing "life" is that the LED indicator does blink red when the battery is completely depleted.
At any rate... he's offering me a refund... but I kinda just want to see this work.
What do you guys think? Any more tricks I could try to do to make this respond/test it, or should I just abandon all hope?
I would disassemlethe phone, unsolder the damaged portfirst -it might cause some power shortcut or even in betterlight ofbiewit takes the phone into some strange mode (eg. some resistance between pins can do this).
Or in the best way use the logic analyser connected on data links,but expectyou dont have one
I left my tablet in my car, in my backpack, away from the sun. It still managed to get some heat over a few hours and when I turned it back on it turned off after a second. After cooling it and connecting my charger it started working again.
Here is where it starts getting weird. It won’t charge. It says that it isn’t charging though I know it knows there is a charger connected. Every time I insert the charger it gets out of sleep, but no charge! What is even weirder is that the dock won’t charge now either. The tablet still recognizes the dock as well and I can type but it’s not very useful if I can’t get it to charge.
The charger was not in the car so there was no damage to that. I don’t want any feedback about what I should have done as I can’t afford another one so that would be utterly useless. I know that I shouldn’t have left it in the car in the first place, no need to mention it.
The Prime might have become totally discharged. I'd suggest trying to charge them for 24 hours...Plug them in and leave it alone and see if that solves the problem. Just to be sure there are no interaction problems, I'd suggest that each be charged individually.
Good luck,
Bob
Hey all,
So, I've encountered multiple issues with my Archos 80 g9 lately.
Since I've had it for 2 years now, I know it has it's charming defects from time to time, but all of those were easy to fix.. until now.
Somehow, there is a dysfunction at the charger entry: My tablet only charges if the charger is slightly 'bent' to the left, which isn't so much of a problem on its own, but every time I want to use the device while its charging it keeps 'connecting' and 'disconnecting' the charger. I noticed that if this happens five or six times in a row, the device completely freezes, or just becomes extremely slow. I just don't want to open it up until I'm sure what is wrong.
Also, when I turned of the device last week, like a million times before (it was about 80% charged, btw) it just didn't want to turn on the day after. While I was pretty sure its battery wasn't drained I still tried to charge it: the green led turns on, and that's it.
No other sign of life, no reboot possible, the screen doesnt turn on and as soon as I remove the charger the led turns off and still nothing happens.
Any thoughts on this?
Regards,
mielman
It has been said before that the charger ports on these are not the best thought out. Apparently only held in place by the solder of the pins and nothing else. What it sounds like to me is that the solder joints on yours is starting to become undone. I've heard they are not the easiest to resolder for a DIY repair unless you're really good at it.
As far as the not waking up.. Are you sure the tablet is turning off all the way? I'm using a custom rom on my 101 g9 turbo and I notice that every so often the tablet won't turn off all the way... ie the power LED is still on even though the screen is blank. I have to hold in the power button to force it to turn off.
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It has been said before that the charger ports on these are not the best thought out. Apparently only held in place by the solder of the pins and nothing else. What it sounds like to me is that the solder joints on yours is starting to become undone. I've heard they are not the easiest to resolder for a DIY repair unless you're really good at it.
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Then opening up the device it is.
As far as the not waking up.. Are you sure the tablet is turning off all the way? I'm using a custom rom on my 101 g9 turbo and I notice that every so often the tablet won't turn off all the way... ie the power LED is still on even though the screen is blank. I have to hold in the power button to force it to turn off.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is, since even holding the power butting for approximately 20 seconds doesnt change a thing.
I just ran into the same issue, what have you managed to do ?
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I just ran into the same issue, what have you managed to do ?
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Sorry, kinda killed the thread since I forgot to check for any replies.
So far I haven't really been trying to fix the problem, but since I've just bought a new phone charger I thought I might as well give it a try to charge the Archos with it.
I'll check for any changes in a few hours, if nothing changed, I might aswell disassemble it, then I'll notify you what the problem is.
Hi there, XDA folks!
Mario here with some phone problems..
I have a CDMA Evo 3D running on the stock ROM.
The phone's charging cable was shorting out ever since I bought it (got it 2nd hand). I had to wiggle it in order to get the phone charging.
I gave it to my girlfriend to use it for taking pictures n whatnot while outside of town. She returned it kinda Rambo-ish; the front of the phone basically fell apart.. the front metal grill surrounding it, at least.
Phone worked fine, except for the cable shorting out even more. My laptop shut down every time that happened, so I'm quite sure that's not what caused the problem I'll be explaining later on in this thread.
So let's get to the point, shall we?
My phone was really low on battery, something within the range of 2-5%. I tried charging it, but the wires shorted out again and the laptop died on me.. again, and again, and again..
I couldn't really bother with fiddling around with it until it starts, so I just unplugged it and left it that way.
The phone sat for a few days, my (main) laptop broke, so I decided to give the good ol' Facebook Messenger a go.. sadly, the phone would not turn on or start charging.
I removed the shrink-like wrap around the wires of the USB cable, cut the bad parts and twisted the color-matching wires in order. Sadly, the phone would still not charge.
I tried with another (self-made) USB cable... no luck whatsoever. Just to clarify; the blue wire on the one the phone comes with is ground, right? If not that could of caused the problem, since I connected the blue wire on the mini-usb to the black one on a standard USB plug.
I tried juicing the phone up a tad bit by running 5V on the battery for 15 minutes or so.. didn't really bother going for more, since it's kinda hard to keep 2 wires pressed against the battery for more than that. The phone powered up, but the display did not. There was the low battery sound, volume keys were functional, vibrating feedback was okay.. hell, the phone even took a screenshot when I pressed power button + volume down!
Sadly, that didn't solve anything.. even turned on, it would not charge. The 15-minute charge is good for a minute of red blinking light and fancy glowing buttons, nothing more.
Is the phone dead, or should I give it a hour charge directly and see how that goes?
Thanks in advance to everyone who replies!
i think it'll be good if you buy a universal battery charger for phone. so you can charge your battery without plugged to the phone
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i think it'll be good if you buy a universal battery charger for phone. so you can charge your battery without plugged to the phone
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I am looking for more opinions before I spend cash I don't have on chargers that may not work.
If you or someone else is positive about the display not working because of not enough battery juice, then I'll manually charge the battery for an hour, even though it's uncomfortable as hell to hold 2 wires on the pins for that long.
What's bugging me is that it's not charging once it has just enough juice to power up everything, no display either. I'd like to know if it's doing that, because the battery is too dead to actually start charging up via the phone and whether the display just doesn't work or there's not enough juice for it.
Edit; I bought a chinese charger that charges the battery directly (2pins). The display still does not work and the phone will still not charge via the cable. Could it be a bad cable (and a dead display..)? It seems like the phone itself is responsive - I unlock it, press the "search" button and when I type on the keyboard (that I don't see), it vibrates with every pressed key.
Also, I can hear it taking a screenshot and the volume down/up buttons seem to be working fine.
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Edit; I bought a chinese charger that charges the battery directly (2pins). The display still does not work and the phone will still not charge via the cable. Could it be a bad cable (and a dead display..)? It seems like the phone itself is responsive - I unlock it, press the "search" button and when I type on the keyboard (that I don't see), it vibrates with every pressed key.
Also, I can hear it taking a screenshot and the volume down/up buttons seem to be working fine.
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this is exactly what's been going on with my phone as of a few days ago.
checked the time while it was plugged in, unplugged it...screen froze.
hasn't turned back on since.
the buttons on bottom light up, though.
i can take calls, use my unlock pattern (it takes me a few tries now that i can't see anything) and press the search key for google now.
for all intents and purposes...phone's fully functional...except i can't see anything going on.
i brought my phone into a sprint corp store, they changed the top housing for me screen and all for free.
it was really nice.
but, that didn't change anything.
screen still doesn't change anything.
they said the board probably shorted on screen lead.
have you figured anything out?
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this is exactly what's been going on with my phone as of a few days ago.
checked the time while it was plugged in, unplugged it...screen froze.
hasn't turned back on since.
the buttons on bottom light up, though.
i can take calls, use my unlock pattern (it takes me a few tries now that i can't see anything) and press the search key for google now.
for all intents and purposes...phone's fully functional...except i can't see anything going on.
i brought my phone into a sprint corp store, they changed the top housing for me screen and all for free.
it was really nice.
but, that didn't change anything.
screen still doesn't change anything.
they said the board probably shorted on screen lead.
have you figured anything out?
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Nope, I'm still in the same situation.
Does yours charge?
My phone isn't recognized by my laptop at all, so I'm guessing something is indeed fried. I don't have the appropriate screwdrivers to open it up and inspect the board, otherwise I'd open it up and check it out.
If you have Torx T5 & T3 screwdrivers you should give it a go - post some decent-res pics over here and I'll at least visually inspect it.
I genuinely don't feel like spending more money for tools n whatnot for a phone that may be permanently dead.. planning on getting a second-hand S4 anyways. Waiting on a student loan and smashing this phone to pieces as soon as I get the cash for a new one. Can try and help out for yours if you manage to open it, though. Could be something as simple as a dead resistor that shouldn't be too hard to replace.
I tried the hillbilly method and hit my phone a few times against a wooden bench, that didn't seem to fix it. Pretty positive something's fried, but I'm also guessing it isn't a viable component, having in mind the phone functions normally, even though the display & usb port don't work.. hell, my phone woke me up at 3AM today, 'cause the alarm went off, lol!
So my phones battery discharged from almost full to completely empty last night while plugged in. It seems to be charging fine right now however but I did fiddle around with it a bit. Even if it wasn't plugged in it discharged way too fast for regular standby and non of the "use since last full charge" look odd. Anyone else had anything like this happen?
So it turns out a least part of the problem was that my charge cable is damaged, it only works when plugged in in one direction. I still don't know why it was apparently running flat out all night though.
I wouldn't worry about it; there's no telling what a bad cable can or cannot do with your software. For all we know the software was unable to go to sleep because it constantly started charging, then stopped, then started again... Cut your losses, buy a decent cable and forget about the issue
One thing I tend to do to keep my phone behaving: I reboot it every so often (at least once a week).