I'm at a bit of a loss here..
Instead of powering on, the battery light goes *blink* *blink* *LongPause* ..
I have a (3 day old) Archos 101 and updated to the most recent software when it I first powered up the device. I probably drained my battery yesterday when I put it in the night stand drawer while Aldiko was trying to import a fresh ePub file..
When I turned it on this morning, it blinked once and stopped. When I plugged in the charger (figuring the battery was drained) the "blink blink longpause" started. Long pressing the power button stops the blinking. If the power is connected, the power light burns, so I figure its charging. If its not on power, the power light doesnt burn. I tried the "Hold + while powering up" to boot into recovery but that doesnt change anything.
The Archos FAQ said something about charging the battery, but its been charging for about 9 hours now and the device still wont turn on.. (Green light still burns continuously while charging, not when disconnected) My XDA forums search didnt turn up any results..
Anyone got a clue what this means, what I can do or whatever? Tnx
Maybe the screen froze. Try resetting it by holding down the power button for ten seconds or so. If you're charging it at the same time, it should boot right back up after the reset is complete.
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Yes, I tried that :/ That's what I meant by long pressing the power button. It changes the blinking pattern to just the burning power led..
Thanks for the tip though!
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Give it another shot. Disconnect the plug. Hold down the power button for a little over 10 seconds. I would do like 15 in my head. Wait a few seconds after that and press the power button quickly once. If you get the steady green light just wait. Dont keep pressing it. You should eventually see the Archos splashscreen. I have had this happen on several occassions when the system has been idle for a while with the screen off. Hope it works.
Ok; I did that.
Except that when I push the power button that last time to have it boot up; the power light just flashes once. I didnt touch it to be sure and it doesnt start.
When I plugged in the power supply after that, the *blink blink longpause* resumed.
When I hold down the power btn now, it reverts to continuous burning green power led.
Its been charging for more than 24 hours now.
This sounds like what happened to mine. it happened after about 3 days, too. I finally got my replacement the Tuesday before Christmas.
If you get it powered up, get your stuff off & clean up your personal info (something I wasn't able to do.
From my post on AchosFans Forum:
For several days my Archos wouldn't take a charge. I didn't think anything about it the first day...stuff happens. After using it the next time, not really thinking there was a problem I plugged it in (and of course it turned itself on again). So this morning it only had 8%. I messed around a few minutes before work resetting it & such - checked setting>about>battery stats and it said "charging" and 0% battery. When I came home this evening it still said "charging" & 0% battery. It then shut down (with a not-normal screen flicker) the first time I unplugged it (hoping to cycle it or get lucky) and it is now a brick. When I plug it in now the charging light did a fast-double-blink and it it remained dead.
I called Archos & they told me to send it back. She didn't ask for much info before telling me to send it, which I took to mean that it is a known issue.
Same happened to me
The same has happened to me after the archos 101 drained its battery fully. I think the firmware has a flaw where it lets the archos drain its battery too far. In that state, hooking it up to the charger wont make it start charging all the time.
I had the blink-blink-blink problem also, even after it had been on the charger for hours. Finally it started working (and charging! )again after lots of 15-second Powerbutton presses, some in combination with Volume Up or Volume Down, and some with and some without the charger connected. Suddenly it turned on (showing 0% charge in the Settings, Information panel indicating it had fully drained and hadn't been charging in the previous hours) . I advice you to keep trying pressing the Power button 15 seconds with the charger connected, and experiment with pressing it in combination with the volume button, followed by a short Power press to boor the Archos.
In the mean time (till a new firmware comes), i make a habit of not fully draining the Archos (i will install Tasker to let it shutdown at 10%) , and checking if the green led comes on after plugging in the charger. Only when the green led is on, it's really charging. And it should start blinking after a few hours to indicate its full.
My wife has a chinese android iPad clone (a Flytouch II) and guess what? It's also picky at charging and turning on.
The Gravity reply had me scared (tnx though) but I'm glad to report that pwhooftman's post helped!
I plugged it in, put a movie on and started trying to reset/start it. It happened reasonably quickly after that.. I pressed the power button while it was off power, the power led flashed once as before. I plugged in the power. The green light lighted up. I pushed the power and + for 15 seconds, and pressed the power button once shortly. Unlike the other times, the blinking pattern didnt start and the green light kept burning. Hopeful, I put it down and waited - as the FAQ said it would start when it d charged more. Finally after a while, I pressed the power button and it booted. Not exactly exact science, but Im just happy that it works again :/
I guess the "blink blink longpause" means something like "I know I've got power but I cant seem to load my battery" - Archos should have this info in their manuals.
Thanks guys
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The Gravity reply had me scared (tnx though) but I'm glad to report that pwhooftman's post helped!
Thanks guys
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Nice to know I can scare people...and it isn't Halloween!
I tried everything I could think of to get it to take a charge, with no luck. The problem I had with mine was the times it wouldn't take a charge BEFORE I had drained it - that is why it got drained in the first place.
I hope it was only mine!
He s at it again. Drained to 3% and now it wont charge anymore. *sigh*
except he wont even do the blinking anymore now.
Seems to be a fairly common issue with these tablets :/
Same thing was happening to me too. Dunno if this will work for people, but here is how I fixed mine.
Hold your finger on the power button for 10 seconds while the blinky light is on. This should stop the light completely.
Then plug the charger in. This gave me a continuous light rather than a blinky light. Leave it like that for a couple of hours and then try powering it on again.
Hope this works for others.
Had this happen to me once so far. Seems to have to do with it going into a sleep state or something. If I leave it for long and the screen turns off. Sometimes it won't come back up without first holding down the power to shut it down (even though I can't see anything on the screen) and then waiting to boot back up. I had to plug it in, get the steady light and then power on and it worked.
OK, I know this sounds weird...
But what's the temperature of the A101 like?
I had an identical problem a short while ago, and a forum post suggested that the tablet could be too cold. I thought it was a total shot in the dark, but I wrapped the Archos in a quilt for a few minutes, and amazingly enough, it popped back into life with the charger plugged in, and has been pretty fine since then.
To be fair, it could be one of three things: (i) temperature is the issue, (ii) coincidence, (iii) a bad connection in the pins/socket of the adapter input on the Archos 101 which just needs 'jiggling.'
I have also noticed that if I charge the Archos while it is in standby, I never get more than 92-94% battery. If I shut it down, plug in, then shut it down again when it restarts on power supply insertion, I can usually get 98% battery, at the least, sometimes 100% battery.
I agree, we shouldn't have 'quirky' devices, or have to wait for firmware to fix them, but other device makers have had similar problems in the past with battery reporting, until appropriate firmware fixes.
it happened to me last night frustrated the heck out of me couldn't get it to turn on no matter what i did, so i took it back to pc world and the guy said
"what would you like to do, out of curiosity do you like it?" I replied no and he said "then ill refund you"
i then paid the extra on a galaxy tab and not looking back the archos was a complete pile of sh!te! I almost cried when i turned it on and spent the next two months convincing myself i actually liked it.
its woefully made, cheap and tacky, screen is pathetic and the memory appalling.
i know its cheaper than tab and iphone but for 270 it should still be fit for purpose and this is not it's the worst gadget ive ever owned by a long long shot, i didn't even show it off at work because i was so embarrassed at how bad it was.
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He s at it again. Drained to 3% and now it wont charge anymore. *sigh*
except he wont even do the blinking anymore now.
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So, how did the story end?!? Did it survive?
Ok...
I kid you not, i've tried warming the archos up with a hot water bottle for several seconds and that did the trick appearently...
Had the same problem.
TheTen said:
OK, I know this sounds weird...
But what's the temperature of the A101 like?
I had an identical problem a short while ago, and a forum post suggested that the tablet could be too cold. I thought it was a total shot in the dark, but I wrapped the Archos in a quilt for a few minutes, and amazingly enough, it popped back into life with the charger plugged in, and has been pretty fine since then.
To be fair, it could be one of three things: (i) temperature is the issue, (ii) coincidence, (iii) a bad connection in the pins/socket of the adapter input on the Archos 101 which just needs 'jiggling.'
I have also noticed that if I charge the Archos while it is in standby, I never get more than 92-94% battery. If I shut it down, plug in, then shut it down again when it restarts on power supply insertion, I can usually get 98% battery, at the least, sometimes 100% battery.
I agree, we shouldn't have 'quirky' devices, or have to wait for firmware to fix them, but other device makers have had similar problems in the past with battery reporting, until appropriate firmware fixes.
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I'm at a bit of a loss here..
Instead of powering on, the battery light goes *blink* *blink* *LongPause* ..
I have a (3 day old) Archos 101 and updated to the most recent software when it I first powered up the device. I probably drained my battery yesterday when I put it in the night stand drawer while Aldiko was trying to import a fresh ePub file..
When I turned it on this morning, it blinked once and stopped. When I plugged in the charger (figuring the battery was drained) the "blink blink longpause" started. Long pressing the power button stops the blinking. If the power is connected, the power light burns, so I figure its charging. If its not on power, the power light doesnt burn. I tried the "Hold + while powering up" to boot into recovery but that doesnt change anything.
The Archos FAQ said something about charging the battery, but its been charging for about 9 hours now and the device still wont turn on.. (Green light still burns continuously while charging, not when disconnected) My XDA forums search didnt turn up any results..
Anyone got a clue what this means, what I can do or whatever? Tnx
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HERE is the FIX ! I am on my second A-70/250 - my wife has the 8gb version, and I thought the 250gb one was simply defective - evidently, this IS a known issue, but it can be fixed, and I sent back my other one without reason
Anyways, no more pity party for me, here is the fix - if you have the flashy-power light dealio going on, plug your Archos into the power adapter, plug the adapter into the wall, and plug in the USB CABLE to the Archos, and to your PC - the Archos WILL pwoer up, when it does, it asks if you wish to mount the USB to copy files, select, "YES" and let it sit and charge ! Now - the REASON it does this is VERY simple, and it kills me to admit that I was killing my tablet all by myself ! Disable the "never off" screen thingy - set it for 10 minutes - (settings - display - screen timeout). Go into your power settings as well - (settings - power management) and make sure there is a checkmark in the deep sleep area ! THAT IS IT ! You are fixed ! Dang... I REALLY wish I would have found all this out before I returned the other one - I had SO much stuff loaded on it ! GAH !! - SenKat !
I got the same problem yesterday, it kept blink blink and could not turn on. After 5 hour charging, I warmed it up by hair dryer and suddenly it's on. Crazy amazing! Hahahahahuahuahuahua.
Temperature is main problem. Try with your hair dryer!!! Heheheheheh
Its sounds unbelievable, but low temperatures are indeed a cause.
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my a70 had this same problem, left it rest a whole night, then plugged it in to usb and power (usb 1st) and it booted up, hope this helped
Hi guys,
I've had me evo3d from the first day it came out here, august 6th. Never had any problems at all. Until now. Srry about the novel... I've highlighted the most important parts for your convenience.
About 2 weeks ago, i dropped my phone from about 60cm, but with no apparent damage. Later that night, my battery went completely empty (not unexpected, it was a long day). Plugged it into the charger when i got home, led flashed to indicate a completely empty battery then stayed on to indicate charging, no problem. Then it stopped charging after a little while and didn't resume.
I took the phone apart so see if maybe some wire had come loose from falling. None had, but after putting it together again, it did charge again for a moment (also showed flashing leds again), and then it stopped again.
A friend of mine suggested it might be that battery's contacts, so he scratched them with a screwdriver. This actually seemed to help and everything was fine for about a week and a half.
Now trouble has started again. Taking the battery out and blowing on the contacts (NES cartridge style) worked at first, giving me about 10 minutes until it died again. But it seems to be getting worse, and by now it will only turn on or even just charge sporadically. Always flashing the led, indicating the battery is completely empty.
additional info:
It's not the rom that's faulty, as i hoped at first (re-installed an old rom after trying some ICS-goodness the day before all this started), because it also crashed in Recovery at least once. And i've already installed a diffrent rom without any success.
When it crashes, it doesn't just die instantly. Instead, it freezes for about 1/3 of a second. When it crashed in Recovery, during this freeze the text got a weird yellowish background-color and a different font color as well.. but the parts of the screen without text retained their original looks.
What else could i try to fix this? I don't know anyone with a shooter, but i've heard pyramids battery works as well, is this true? Can i try one of those to see if it's just the battery that's tripping?
Let me know if you need any more info.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance!
I didnt had the same problem, but I had something similiar.
Try this:
1. Unplug from charger
2. Get battery out
3. Wait a bit, and put battery in
4. Press Volume Down + Power button
or
4. (better solution) Press Power + Volume Up + Volume Down + Camera button
5. Phone will start
6. Just plug it in
It's known as "Chargning bug" when you flash some roms
It's the charging bug due to flashing clockwork recovery-- search the forum there are many similar threads and solutions
Hi,
Thanks for your responses. But that's not what's happening. In fact, i have an old clockworkmod that's never been a problem at all and i never updated it.
I tried your solution, though, but it only allowed my phone about 15 minutes of charging before it died again.
If it charges, it charges just fine while the phone is off.
Just like to write my experience here:
Phone:
Nokia Lumia 800, unlocked
Firmware: 1750.0805.8773.12220
Problem symptoms:
Unsually no display
Can not switch ON
Has vibrate feedback while switching on
Will not connect to PC for long (only about 2 Seconds, as HID device)
May respond to charger connect with a vibrate
Does get warm while charging
SOMETIMES will have display, but usually not for long
I noticed:
have display and charging are not related.
Longer charging does not make it more likely to have display
After putting the phone in the fridge for 15 Minutes it starts right away!
Conclusion:
There is a relationship between heat and malfunctioning.
Action taken:
1. I put the phone in the fridge for 30 Minutes
2. Then put it between two milk tetrapacks (cold and closed of course!)
3. Connect it to Zune
4. Did a backup
5. Installed the latest firmware in the hope that it works better
The whole update process takes about 1 hours.
Version after update: 1750.0823.8852.12430
Sobering, the start and display problem is still there. The hope that this was fixed with software did not materialize.
Update:
The last few days the phone was totally dead. No response to nothing. I thought maybe the LCD was bad (I know, stupid, because it should still vibrate) and I brought it with to one of that cell phone heaves were you can buy every single part for every phone produced in the last 15 years.
To find Lumia 800/N900 LCDs were no problem. There were plenty. I changed the LCD (takes me now 2 Minutes) against another, and another - no change. Dead.
Then the dude had an open Lumia 800 (or N900 - they look the same) - I tried my LCD there - no problem. Then we swapped batteries - still my phone stayed bad. At that point the dude talked about bad main board.... but I was running out of time and had to break up. I finally excepted that the phone is bad.
Well, today, 3 days later, I plugged it in to my PC - suddenly LCD came up and it works normally. For now, but I doubt for long. (just had the USB cable disconnected and the battery level dropped from 12% to 6% within a Seconds)
Same, same, but I got workaround
Hi
minidisco said:
Has vibrate feedback while switching on
Will not connect to PC for long (only about 2 Seconds, as HID device)
May respond to charger connect with a vibrate
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I have the same problems with my L800.
When my batterys are completly empty. The phone is not starting, after plugging it to a charger.
Everytime it runs in a restartloop. Like Buzzzzzzzzzzz ...... buzz ..... Buzzzzzzzz ... buzzz ... and so on.
Workaround:
I let it charge (or loop) for about 1 hour. Then I disconnect the charger. After 2 minutes I start the phone. And as far, as the bootscreen appears I plug it to the charger. (Remark that the battery is still completely empty). Now the charge proceed correctly and everything is fine again and no loops.
I hope I could help. My L800 is on the way to cutomer care.
minidisco said:
Just like to write my experience here:
Phone:
Nokia Lumia 800, unlocked
Firmware: 1750.0805.8773.12220
Problem symptoms:
Unsually no display
Can not switch ON
Has vibrate feedback while switching on
Will not connect to PC for long (only about 2 Seconds, as HID device)
May respond to charger connect with a vibrate
Does get warm while charging
SOMETIMES will have display, but usually not for long
I noticed:
have display and charging are not related.
Longer charging does not make it more likely to have display
After putting the phone in the fridge for 15 Minutes it starts right away!
Conclusion:
There is a relationship between heat and malfunctioning.
Action taken:
1. I put the phone in the fridge for 30 Minutes
2. Then put it between two milk tetrapacks (cold and closed of course!)
3. Connect it to Zune
4. Did a backup
5. Installed the latest firmware in the hope that it works better
The whole update process takes about 1 hours.
Version after update: 1750.0823.8852.12430
Sobering, the start and display problem is still there. The hope that this was fixed with software did not materialize.
Update:
The last few days the phone was totally dead. No response to nothing. I thought maybe the LCD was bad (I know, stupid, because it should still vibrate) and I brought it with to one of that cell phone heaves were you can buy every single part for every phone produced in the last 15 years.
To find Lumia 800/N900 LCDs were no problem. There were plenty. I changed the LCD (takes me now 2 Minutes) against another, and another - no change. Dead.
Then the dude had an open Lumia 800 (or N900 - they look the same) - I tried my LCD there - no problem. Then we swapped batteries - still my phone stayed bad. At that point the dude talked about bad main board.... but I was running out of time and had to break up. I finally excepted that the phone is bad.
Well, today, 3 days later, I plugged it in to my PC - suddenly LCD came up and it works normally. For now, but I doubt for long. (just had the USB cable disconnected and the battery level dropped from 12% to 6% within a Seconds)
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gorxx said:
Hi
I have the same problems with my L800.
When my batterys are completly empty. The phone is not starting, after plugging it to a charger.
Everytime it runs in a restartloop. Like Buzzzzzzzzzzz ...... buzz ..... Buzzzzzzzz ... buzzz ... and so on.
Workaround:
I let it charge (or loop) for about 1 hour. Then I disconnect the charger. After 2 minutes I start the phone. And as far, as the bootscreen appears I plug it to the charger. (Remark that the battery is still completely empty). Now the charge proceed correctly and everything is fine again and no loops.
I hope I could help. My L800 is on the way to cutomer care.
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im having the same issue, is there a solution for this?
I have no positive update. Sometimes the phone works perfectly for a few days, then it's dead for a few days. When I cool it then it charges better and I do get display.
So this morning I went to the Nokia Care center, I charged the phone in the car, and fixed it to an A/C outlet. It worked fine, but when in the shop it was warm again and didn't work (means no display, it had touch feedback). The girl connected it, but seems there was no response. They want $50 just for looking at it - and in case it's the main board - that would be $260 (The Lumia 620 sells for about $200 official price).
I gave up on the Lumia 800 !
If I buy a sparepart there is a chance that still something else is broken. Pity, I love the OS and the form factor.
minidisco said:
I gave up on the Lumia 800 !
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I didn't touch it for a few month. So yesterday I charged connected it again to the PC. No display. Sometimes it connects, and disconnects to the PC (the PC makes it sounds then, still no display).
When I switched off the PC the phone made a sound - that made me curious!
So I switched on the phone and to my surprise got the low battery logo on the screen. Even though the phone was plugged to the PC all day and got warm too.
Anyway, after a 2nd start button press it booted to WP. I connected immideately back to power and it stayed fully functional most of the time. Battery was about 6% first, and it continued to charge. It's >90% now.
Just now it crashed for no reason and restarted. Sometimes I get a cracky yellowish screen and the system crashed (have to add that my screen is not original).
Now my question: is there any tool that lets me check the hardware ?
Has someone suddenly turned off the Xperia 1 IV? Thank you
Not sure what you are asking??
My phone turned off automatically
It s normal? has happened to someone?
shouldn`t happen, from my 2 Xepria 1 IV`s I have had, I have never had this issue.
had mine since end of june, that never happened.
Agree cannot happen easily, but possible if the volume and power buttons were pressed together for few seconds or your phone had a processor failure that results in a reboot rather than a shutdown
...or maybe when you got the notification that you hadn't rebooted in a while and ignored the notification, it decided to shutdown to teach you a lesson - Sony Rulez! Just joking, no something must have gone wrong somewhere for that to happen.
This has happened to me once only.
I narrowed it down to overheating seeing as the most obvious answer.
Otherwise I've noticed some battery related irregularities like 10% but upon powering on I see 2x% battery.
(Or 13% battery remaining however it shuts down showing 4-5% and other times living to its full potential lmao).
My 1 IV got the problem yester day.
When I was watching TV on Chrome app , it suddenly turned off , I can't turn on by hold the power button or power + volume up/down .
Then I put the charger on the phone wake up again and the battery showing 28% , it was 36% before it turned off
i have had this issue on 2 Xperia 1 IV, first one i could return for exchange as it happened within 30 days
the replacement did not have issues until after about 2 months so I am stuck with it.
did anyone narrow down the issue or managed to get it repaired?
I spoke to sony repair centre and they told me if they cant find the issue as its random, they will just return it as it is.
Yeah min 12 times in the month. And yesterday I drove home used Android Car and was by a call. Suddenly the phone shuts down.
This is so poor from Sony. This phone is so annoying me.
On Saturday my mom bring me her old Samsung Note Phone.
I have enough oh this part of a **** phone.
Think about it! 1400€ and you got a peace of ****...
I am still waiting for a costum rom...
so.....almost a year now and never happened, just the usual "you didn't restart your phone for more than 28 days bla bla bla".....