Hi all, So the phone does not turn on or show any sign of life while unplugged, not even the notification led lights up.
- When i plug it in, the "mi" logo appears for a second and then it turns off.
- When i try booting it into recovery mode (while plugged in), the "mi" logo appears, phone vibrates and then it turns off.
- When i try entering fastboot while plugged into the outlet, fastboot appears for a second, screen goes black but the notification led keeps blinking.
- When i try entering fastboot while connected to the PC, fastboot screen appears for at least 30 seconds, USB malfunctions and the device is not recognized (Trying MiFlash tool latest version.)
- I also tried using several other chargers and a power bank, It usually draws power for a minute or so as though it's charging and then it stops.
The cause of this issue is most likely water damage (The phone is in a pristine condition, never been dropped or mechanically damaged).
So what could be wrong with the phone and what could i do to fix it?
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
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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!
For the first time I am actually afraid I really managed to brick my phone :-/
I recently flashed ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.7.3-20160822 but had some problems with the camera, hence I tried flashing gapps and google camera again, resulting in a boot loop, without the rom on internal storage. since resurrection came with CM recovery which couldnt access the sdcard storage there seemed to be no other way than to flash twrp recovery. After trying fastboot with a successful flash but still only going to cm recovery I flashed a zip with adb sideload containing twrp+stock kernel but possibly for a different device.
NOW my z ultra does not turn on anymore when pressing power, no reboot with vol down + power, no charging led when connected to charger, no fastboot with vol up and plug in and not even flashmode vol down plug in to reflash ftf.
The only thing I can make it do is hold power and volume up to make it vibrate 3 times.
I am really stumped, is this an actual brick or is there something else I can do?
please please please help me
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tried pressing the red button on the inside as well, same behaviour as vol up + power. I have it connected to the wall charger it came with and the usb cable from my shield tablet (which I consider reliable) and hopefully charging.
ok so I let it charge over night and was presented with a continous red LED in the morning. When I connect it to my computer in any way (vol up down does not make a difference)
and flashtool shows repeatedly this:
02/033/2016 13:33:26 - INFO - Device disconnected
02/033/2016 13:33:53 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off
02/033/2016 13:33:53 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode
02/034/2016 13:34:01 - INFO - Device disconnected
Rebooted the computer, put the phone back on charger, two hours later I don't get a connection to the computer anymore. Right after plugging the phone in there is no charging LED indication whatsoever. I suppose when the battery is "full" it changes to constant red.
Maybe the battery is just dead, although I don't understand how that would have been possible. It did charge via usb now for +12h. Still in only red Led stage. when unplugging the LED blinks 3 times indicating a low battery which seems unlikely. I have switched to the magnet charger now, maybe this might do something, but it might just as well being similar symptoms from an entirely different problem.
I could replace the battery but I wont order one without anyone confirming that it might be the right move
tried reconnecting the battery like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ7nYfN_4eE
in fact with the disconnected battery I get red flashes but on reconnecting the phone does not boot up.
ordered a new battery..
installed new battery
plugged it into the wall charger, no charging LED
volume up + power gives me the force shutdown 3x vibrate pattern
screen does not turn on
connecting it to the pc with vol up, vol down, nothing pressed does nothing
help me please, I don't know what else to try?
Have you tried the original Sony flashing tool, maybe it works at a lower level before recovery kicks in?
Sorry for the English, is google translate.
Hi, I need your help, recently my m4 stopped recognizing the battery, it marks me that it has 0% and when I connect it to the power, it does not turn on the led nor does it mark me that it is charging, if I turn it on while it is off, Lights a few seconds together with the sony logo screen and then goes off and starts an endless cycle until the battery is fully discharged, once it is completely discharged, I disconnect it to reconnect it and it shows me on the screen that the battery is low And the led stays on. Once the battery has enough charge to turn on the phone, it does the same, the computer turns on the sony logo and goes off, however, when I disconnect the charger and turn on the computer, I can use it normally even if it indicates that The battery has 0%, the battery charges with the phone on, but it does not recognize me that it is charging, it does not turn on the led ...
In the pc, it allows me to start the computer in fastboot mode, already use pc companion and flashtool, but still the same, I would like to know that this problem is due, thanks ...
Hold volume down and power button for 15 seconds
Hi, 2 weeks ago I plugged a faulty charger into the phone (while off) and after that it did not turn on anymore, no LED, no recovery, no download mode. It did not charge too. I thought it was a battery problem, I replaced it with a new one and now when I push the power key I have a stable white LED (it turns on some seconds later than normally), a black screen and CPU is overheating a lot (it's hot in a minute only) . I tried to boot it in recovery mode and download mode again, with no different result.
I think some components damaged when I plugged the faulty charger, and now the phone is not able to boot anymore.
Do you agree? Any idea? Any suggestions?
Thank you
Or you can try with this dr.fone - Repair for Samsung Galaxy Android phones, fix the 'Black screen of death', 'Stuck in boot loop' and more.
https://youtu.be/zXSHe3oorIM
So I picked my Umidigi phone up with bleach covered gloves and a bit must have got inside.
The phone now, when the battery has charge, repeatedly shows the boot screen (the logo) for a couple of seconds, and then goes dark for about 5 seconds. This repeats until the battery is completely dead.
When I plug it in to charge, the red light comes on - and then into the same boot loop.
If I play with the volume controls while this is going on, I can get the boot selection screen to appear - normal/bootloader/something else - I can even choose different options on there, but then the phone goes off again.
If I plug into my Pc, it connects and disconnects repeatedly - the connection doesn't last long enough (2 secs) for the Pc to identify the device.
So, I'm not interested in saving the phone, just the data - the camera was broken anyway. I've taken the back off (no easy feat) and left it in rice for several days - made no difference.
Any suggestions on what I can try next?