hi
i have i-mate ( XDA II ) work only on charger , battry is ok , i tested it on other devices
it work for not more than 1 min and restart again to the startup screen that apper after reset the device to its original state.
i tried flash it and flashing finish ok , upgrading main , extended rom and radio stack but the same problem exist
anyone know what is that please !!!!
Are you sure you are sliding the little red slide/switch inside the battery compartment back into place when you change the battery? This slide switches between backup battery and main battery. It sounds to me like you are running for about 1 min. on the backup battery, then it drains and your device resets.
Is the red switch correctly moved toward the battery?
If so, try jiggling that switch to see if maybe it is not making good contact.
HTH!
thanks for replay
the sw is ok coz if i set it to unlock possion mobile not power on and the red light on
but if i put the battry and lock the key it work in the charger not more than 1 min at all and restart again .
i upgraded its sw and it finish without any problem but still the same
please help
If your imate is not new, try to clean the battery contacts with soft tissue and may be some alcohol, may be there is some grease. Also check for the
status of contact pins.
Also, as u tried the battery with other imate, what about urs with the other battery???
this happened to me
if you got it wet or damp
my xda2 got wet and this happened to me i found if i left it to dry out i took the xda2 apart used a soft tooth brush on the motherboard put it back together and hey presto it worked and didnt hard reset
I've just got back from work having lef my XDA II on O2 at home, and the thing won't turn on!
When I plut it into the charger, a faint red light comes on (where the green signal indicator usually is), However after a few minutes charging it should deffinitely turn on, yet it still does not.
Does anyone have a clue whats going on??
If the main battery and backup battery run out, shouldnt sticking it in the cradle charge it?
Any help much appreciated
Try removing the main battery for a while then try again.
I've had a few of such experience. It won't turn on. Even charging it from the power main, soft reset, take out main battery for a minute or half...
The only way to wake it up is to HARD RESET.
Strangely, I thought somehow the battery ran dry, but after one hard reset I noticed the main battery was at normal level, backup battery 100%. How frustrating. It happened a few times already.
8) I also found this problem. I use Spritebackup and schedule to backup everday at midnight. So, I can restore after have to do hard reset
What ROM version are you running on your XDA2?
I had the same problem on my MDAII and I was on 1.60.00WWE but an upgrade to 1.72.00WWE fixed the problem. That ROM also used to wipe my SD Memory!... Now I'm on 2.06.00WWE (Windows Mobile SE) and it's better than ever!!!
Good Luck!
Rayan said:
What ROM version are you running on your XDA2?
I had the same problem on my MDAII and I was on 1.60.00WWE but an upgrade to 1.72.00WWE fixed the problem. That ROM also used to wipe my SD Memory!... Now I'm on 2.06.00WWE (Windows Mobile SE) and it's better than ever!!!
Good Luck!
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I had the problems when I was on 1.60.00WWE. Since the very last hard reset (device not responsive to soft reset after a flight in February), I changed it to Sin's Merged ROM version 2 (WM2003SE). I wouldn't say it's better than ever, as I noticed the device is slower but it has been ok ...
I just joined the list because of this issue.
I have ROM Ver 1.72.00WWE and Radio Version 1.17.00.
I only upgraded both ROM and Radio in the past fortnight. It's only since the upgrade that I've had the problem of not being able to 'wake' the XDA and having to do a 'ahrd' reset. I have also another issue regarding the GPRS connection but I'll write a separate email on that.
Seamie
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Its nice to know other people have the same problems.....
I have had similar problems and either just remove the battery or do a soft reboot. As I travel a lot, I can't get to my desktop to back up. So I use a 1GIG SD card. But I have'nt lost any data yet.
One annoying problem I had was the damn thing kept switching on every time I picked it up or put in the hard case, or even just laid it down. It seems to have disappeared now. Has anyone else had the same problem? :roll:
so its fate!
check in this morning and mine is doing nothing, nada, zip
hmm soft reset nothing check the threads and this ones at the top!
used all day yesterday sitting on the charger overnight and bingo its dead...
Same problem
Have had intermittent problems with being able to turn on. Took battery out for a while and when it decides to work it automatically has performed a hard reset. Use daily for receiving jobs, recording serial numbers using BT scanner and then e-mailing. As well as being my phone and GPS. Have started taking my laptop with me just so I can restore data on the run.
What a pain!
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From the replies given it appears that the problem lie swith the battery. Has anyone raised this with the supplier? I was thinking of getting a spare one, but they are a bit pricey.
I honestly don't think it's the battery that's at fault. This is because I didn't have any problem with my XDA II until I upgraded the ROM and Radio recently. Secondly, it happens irrespective of whether the battery is fully charged, half charged ... whatever. IMHO, it's whatever was done in the upgrade!
When I got mine back from repair the battery was totally drained as well as the back up battery. would do nada, not switch on, nothing whatever I did.
A few minutes on the charger was not enough. You have to leave it in for about 14 hours once it's in that state for it to become live again.
Don't ask me why, but it needed at least 14hrs on that mains charger !
I too suffer this problem .... only since upgrading too.
Will try the Spritebackup method
guys i have a similar problem. my power button has broken and i turn on the device with the record button (i have remapped the buttons). Yesterday i turnd it on and the screen freezed on the today screen . I performed a soft reset, the screen went blank and it never turned on. Now the device is dead, soft reset won't work, it doesn't seem to charge (no light when i put it on the cradle) and i cannot perform a hard reset because i do not have a working power on/off button.
Is there anything i can do to turn it on?
Before the experts arrive, you could try removing your battery and simcard and leaving them out for a good 15 minutes they try again.
I broke the power on button off my last xda, my hubby soldered it back on
I've had the same problem since 10 days now. First time (friday), the phone just reset itself (hard reset) without reason... 4 times within 2 hours. When I came home i reloaded it for 12 hours and restored a backup. It worked fine from saterday until wednesday.
Then on wednesday it reset (hard reset) itself almost 10 times. Thats the first time i noticed a red light when I tried to recharge. The red light dissapeared after a couple of minutes and the phone would switch on again ... in hard reset mode. Again I left it charging a whole night and restored the backup the next morning. It worked fine again until ... yesterday (monday)... I dropped it (stupid me). It went completely dead. Even when recharging for 2 hours the light was still red. A new fully charged battery (my first thought) did not help a bit.
This morning I opened it up (its about 18 months old, so no more waranty) and i found nothing. When i closed it up... it did a hard reset !!! I changed nothing inside (I even found a little piece of metal afterworths that must have fallen out!). I suspect it was the fact that i removed the battery AND the SIM-card for more than 30min that did the trick. My phone is not SIM-locked (illegal in Belgium to sell sim-locked phones, good thing, but they are a lot more expensive here too). A brand new battery did not help.
Problem is ... when I send it in for repairs, it will be gone for about 4 weeks ! And the best they can do is give me a Sony Ericsson P900. I appreciate their effort, but carkit wont work, no GPS, etc... so i would rather try to solve the problem myself. I'll contact the repair center today and see what they suggest. I'll keep you posted
Cissen, how did you get on? Have you found an answer to your problem yet?
Edit: Mine crashed again yesterday and it showed the battery as being empty although I had fully charged it the day before.... so, I have now ordered a new battery.
They are pretty pricey for branded ones but I found this site yesterday so have ordered one from there - only 20 pounds including delivery so not wasted too much if they're crap
http://britishpound.ecyan.com/batteries-chargers/batteries---mobile-phones-and-pda---o2.shtml
I've got this problem too, when I first got it, it turned for about three seconds then turned off, so I thought it was a dead battery. but when I put the battery in there is no charging light, I have tried 2 different batteries that work fine in my other xda IIi. If I take the battery out and place in the charger a red light comes on.
Ei guys. this is a bit different from your experience. Anyone experienced by just changing battery it went hard reset? or just by changing sim card on the phone, removing the battery just for a second the phone went hard reset although I did checked the backup battery which is in 100%. Anyone?
Hi,
i have a QTek S100. Since a while it says always that it is charging the battery even when it is not attached to the powercable. I changed now the battery because i thought the battery is broken but it wasn'nt. Has somebody a idea what I can do?
When in the charging status the battery holds only for 6 hours, because its not going in standby mode...
Please i hope someone of you know how to fix that. I love my S100 but its so annoying, to recharge it all the time...
Thanks!!!
Have you tried a hard reset?
how to do it: Press simultaneously for 1 sec, the power button and the reset hole.
(note: You will loose all your files/contacts/sms/programs, etc - Do a phone backup 1st)
Regards,
Keeper
I have flash the new rom from t mobile.... after I flash from wm5 to wm6 which complete.... it cant boot anymore... even I have taken out the battery and out it back ..... i press power button no response.... nothing can be seen from the screen.... im afraid it is dead as good....
Take battery out and connect to power. If you see a red light where it lights up to show its charging then the hardware is OK.
Try with battery and see if it charges. NO LED means battery dead.
Need to know if the hardware is COMPLETELY dead or if the battery is the culprit.
If everything is ok and you just need to replace the battery then read this for a safety net while flashing - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296722
Cheers...
im able to see the red light if i did not put in battery and i have another unit battery which is workable and when i put in also no resposne.
Sounds like battery contacts may be broken or cracked. Might be unfixable. Usually happens after a drop... You could try to re solder the contacts but no guarantees.
the pda was not drop before....
Are you charging with the original charger or USB/3rd party charger?
Did you let the battery go under 10% charge?
If you are charging without the original charger or with the usb cable it may not be getting the correct voltage which may be confusing the internal charging sensor.
This may also happen if you let your battery go below the 10% mark frequently.
There are a few threads about this so I'll let you search for them. Good luck.
I don't believe it would be the internal fuse as the red LED shouldn't turn on if this was blown.
Cheers...
tmkam said:
I have flash the new rom from t mobile.... after I flash from wm5 to wm6 which complete.... it cant boot anymore... even I have taken out the battery and out it back ..... i press power button no response.... nothing can be seen from the screen.... im afraid it is dead as good....
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This happened to me too with a regular, unlocked HTC TyTN (not the MDA Vario II from T-Mobile). Fortunately, after about two days, while I thought the handset is "dead", I tried to turn it on again and it worked, just like that. Weird
Hi! i've bought an used Qtek 9090. the problem is that this Qtek don't power on! it doesn't go on bootloader mode, doesn't go on hard reset ecc... but when i charge it, the red led turns on!
what can i do? please help me
well try to charge the battery only in the cradle
if this not help try to borrow working battery from someone, if your device does not start even with working battery then you are screwed (a hardware problem of some kind)
no i think the battery is ok.
there is a way to restore the bootloader? i've read about the jtag, but i don't know anything... can you explain?
Battery is charging only when the LED is orange/amber. Red means problems with charging - that's why xplode proposed putting the baterry directly in the cradle, as it can "fix" the battery.
Well the red light means there is problem, the most comon problem is the battery, but the red light is also shown with motherboard, bootloader, kernel, and other problems
one more option is there. if the battery is not charged from a long time it needs a shock before recharging to activate the electrons. u should apply some 12v at 1 or 1.5 amp for 15-30 sec. than battery will get a little charge which is sufficient to turn on the phone once.................... but do not apply this voltage regularly or for long time.