8125 not booting / charging & miniSD issue - 8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General

I did a search but didn't find what I was looking for so I apologize if this has already been posted.
So last night the phone was working fine. When I get up this morning it was off and would barely boot. I would see the boot screen for about 5 secs or so and then it would just shut off. I would occasionally get it to do the same thing after removing the battery for a while but that's it. It wouldn't even charge (no lights or anything when connecting to a charger). So now I just removed my miniSD card and now it's charging. What's up with that? I'm using an ATP ProMax 1gb card that I got from newegg after I got the phone. It was working fine for the most part and this is my first real issue.
The second issue I had with this card (though it's more of an annoyance than an issue) is that when hitting the power button to bring it out of sleep, Spb Pocket Plus wouldn't update the display of the card's free space. It would show the same as the internal memory free. I would have to eject the card and re-insert it for it to update. This wouldn't happen all the time, but enough to annoy the heck out of me.
Anyone ever have either of these issues?
Quick update: with the miniSD card ejected, the phone charged and booted up fine, though the date reads November 24, 2005. I put the miniSD back in that seems fine. My battery is only showing 6% so it must've died overnight, but why wouldn't it charge? I had it connected to my car charge (was out of town all day) and that charger has worked before without any problems. Very weird indeed.
TIA!

I have a kingston 1 gig and my card doesn't give me that problem with SPB pocket+. But it does eat up 9-12mb of ram when i plug it in which is extremely annoying. As to why your device didn't charge with the card.. i don't know, maybe because your battery was completely dead the charger needed to be plugged in for a bit for the device to recognize the charge

Not charging...
I don't know what's going on but I had the same issue this very week with the MiniSD card...
and it was working superbly.
Had an accidental battery drainage... for some reason now it won't even charge. Trying removing the storage card, the battery... everything.
I'm leaving it on the charger even if the lights do not indicate its charging
Anybody want to share

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battery died, SD card formatted itself (again)

hi, my phone's battery ran out yesterday night, cuz i went a club and had no place to charge it, my phone normally lasts from 9am - 1am.
but as soon as i got home, i plugged my phone in, and notice my SD card formatted itself! everything is gone! but the diskspace is still being used.
this is like the 10th time my card either curropts, unreadable, or formats.
did anyone find a way to fix this problem yet? it happens atleast twice a month. and it sucks, i lose all my data and notes.
im using the 2.17 t-mo rom on a 8125
and a 2gb OEM card
thanks

What is wrong with my Jasjar(s)?

Desperate for help, please read and give advice!
Had a Jasjar for almost a year. Battery started to weaken, so went on gizmos2go.com and bought a replacement. Already with the old original battery, Jasjar started to act weird: power meter suddenly dropped down to 12% and in two minutes back up 80%. With the replacement battery things got much worse. Restarted, insufficient battery power message came on often, car charger did not charge it at all and finally when I took off the wall charger, the charging icon would not change back to power meter until reset.
So I took it back to the shop (in Europe) before the warranty expires. They sent it off to Italy to get it repaired at I-Mate, suggesting it will need a new motherboard. 30 days passed, phone did not get back, so I got a brand new one with a newer ROM, without the original battery.
At first all was good for less than a day. I reinstalled all my software and started to get a message that there is not sufficient power to supply the SD card operation. I paniced, took the card out, no issues for the rest of the day. But this morning green solid led light on (battery charged). I unplug it, try to turn it on, screen blank, green led on. Reset: screen dead red solid led light. Plug in the charger and starts charging from 0%. Charges in one hour and now it seems to be fine. For now…
Anyone had similar issues? Solutions?
Can it be the battery? Is there a way to check it at home?
Can it be a malfunction of the SD card? There is no visual physical problem and works fine in my pc.
Can it be the charger? No name car charger, pc USB cable?
Can it be any sw?
Please, help! Thank you,
IZ
I think its the issue with ur battery coz in ur earlier case and the newer one ur battery was common which had the same problem not with ur sd card , try use with ne of ur friends battery for a day the things will pretty much b narrowed down with the problem .

Battery charging problems (red light)

I've got a strange problem with my French Orange SPV M600: it doesn't seem to keep it charge. So first guest was the battery, which I changed. But even with a new battery the M600 discharges very quickly.
What did I do:
1) Put SIM-card in M600
2) Put original battery in M600
3) Connect it to the original wall plug-charger
4) Wait until red light comes up
5) Push the power button and hold it until the M600 switches on
6) Type in the PIN-code
7) Verify regularly the charge and it's state
Until here, everything goes as expected, the M600 charges the battery, although it does this very slowly, since it takes more than 24 hours to go to 100%. After that, regardlessly of if I keep the M600 attached to the charger, connect it via USB to a PC or deconnect it from any powersource, it will discharge very quickly without any initiation of a new charging cycle.
So at first glance, I though it must be the battery. So I bought a new one. It's not an original, but one from Dynapack. But with this new battery I get the same strange behavior.
I've tested off course several other different scenarios:
a) with a SIM-card
b) without a SIM-card
c) with the new battery
d) with the old battery
e) after a hard reset
f) after a hard reset and bypassing the installation of Orange specific software
g) any combination of the above.
But until now, no luck. Please keep in mind also that I've not fiddled around with ROM-upgrades, it's still the original.
So has anybody an idea of what the problem could be?
May be it is because of the charger. Borrow it from someone and charge again, see anything happens. good luck.
I wasn't able to borrow another charger, but I had another USB charger that I tried, off course, with no luck. And another universal USB-charger doesn't work either. Everytime I start a charging cycle, the M600 will charge and after a few hours charging it will show that the battery is for xxx% charged. And then after a few hours, the M600 is completely discharged.
I doubt the problem comes from the charger, since the M600 will charge. I also doubt it's the battery, since it behaves the same with another battery.
EDIT:
In all my experiments I forgot one thing: to take out the 2GB SD-Card. I did this yesterday evening, did a new hard reset and let it charge. A few hours later, my M600 indicated that it was almost fully charged. This morning, it was and instead of showing an orange or red led, it had it's led shining green, a colour that I haven't seen much lately So I suspect either the SD-Card to be faulty resulting in a very high battery drain or some program that executes itself in the background which resides on the SD-Card. So the next step are:
1) test for several days without the 2GB SD-Card: if okay, SD-Card or contents on it is suspect
2) test for several days with the 2GB SD-Card: if not okay, SD-Card or contents on it is suspect
3) if 2 is not okay, test for several days with
3a) the same card, but freshly formated
3b) another card
I'll keep you up to date.
i have the same problem as you with my M600.today i charged my M600 for about 6 hours an d my battery was 40% charged.
I hope that you adviced will be a good solution for my phone.Tomorow i'll try to fix it.
keep us up to date
hi, somebody figured out how to fix the problem? thanks
i subscribed my problem with battery.So two days ago my phone reset itself 2 times.And then was dead.So today i bought a new battery and now it works great.
So this prolems with charging, might tell you that, your battery will be dead soon.
where did you buy the new battery? i just bought 1 from:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6398
very cheap if you asked me... now waiting for it

White Screen all the time

Hey,
I've got a serious problem with my XDA Orbit. There is a white screen coming after the boot screen. Sometimes the phone even starts until the todays screen but after a while it is going white again.
I tried hardreset succesfully but the problem still appears. I cannot flash the official wm6 because when the screen goes white the connection to the computer is interrupted. I cannot go into the boot loader...
All the time when I press camera button and softreset the phone is just turning off. Has somebody an idea what I could do?
Any booting with MicroSD card maybe?
Or is it the battery? (I don't think so but it might...The battery was empty for a long time...?)
Or any other ideas?
Greets,
Kon
Just saw this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467648
maybe new battery helps
Li-Ion batteries should be stored charged. Leaving them uncharged can cause them to malfunction, try a new battery.
What do you mean by "stored charged?".
Do I have to have a charger like it is included in a cradle? Or is there another way to charge the battery?
I bought a new one but the same problem still appears...
Sorry to hear the new battery did not help. Have you tried starting the phone with the SIM and Memory card out?
Stored charged means the battery should be fully charged up before storing and every now and then taken out of storage, the charge level inspected and re-charged if required.

Sign of bad battery?

Have a TMOUS purchased in May. Latest stock rom/radio. When the battery is super low it goes through the process of shutting down - but when I plug it into the charger the phone will boot instead of staying shut down and charge. Will attempt to boot then go into Sense then shut down again and do the same process all over again. The only way to stop it is to quickly power down and it will stay down and charge. In any of the situations the phone appears to be charging.
Is this a problem with the ROM/Hardware or is something going on with the battery? Have an 8GB SD card with Android (no boot loader) and thats pretty much it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I doubt that your battery is gone bad, but there are chances, try to condition your battery
Its just a little strange that the when the supposedly dead phone is plugged into a charger it boots up without pressing the power button. Don't think thats normal. Also when plugged into a charger when the battery is "dead" or near dead it should boot up and charge. This one doesn't - it boots - shows an LED charge light and then powers down and reboots. For some reason the battery with such a low charge can't power the phone and charge at the same time.
Will attempt to do a hard reset - maybe HD2 Tweak or something else did something to the registry and try it again. Since its under warranty will request another battery and take it from there. Don't think anything is wrong with the phone's hardware because it functions flawlessly.
stim141 said:
Its just a little strange that the when the supposedly dead phone is plugged into a charger it boots up without pressing the power button. Don't think thats normal. Also when plugged into a charger when the battery is "dead" or near dead it should boot up and charge. This one doesn't - it boots - shows an LED charge light and then powers down and reboots. For some reason the battery with such a low charge can't power the phone and charge at the same time.
Will attempt to do a hard reset - maybe HD2 Tweak or something else did something to the registry and try it again. Since its under warranty will request another battery and take it from there. Don't think anything is wrong with the phone's hardware because it functions flawlessly.
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If the battery drains and shuts off because it's out of juice, it WILL turn back on as soon as you plug it in, but it shouldn't keep rebooting after that...
Also if it's just shutting down on you in Android without warning when it's low, you need to condition your battery in Android so that it has the correct batterystats info.
No something is wrong. Ran it out of juice in WM this afternoon. Got the error message let it go. Went down and shut off. Plugged it into a car charger USB/cig adapter. Powered up go to tmobile screen/radio code then animation - rebooted did the same thing without touching it a few times then shut off - light led for charging did not appear.
Pulled battery - when charger disconnected - plugged charger - red light no reboot. Tried it again - same results with a hitch - it froze when it was charging - accessed internet explorer then it did a hard freeze - had to press reset button.
Don't know whats going on at this point - it shouldn't have done the freeze. So I'm going to experiement - pull the SD card (has Android on it) and try it again without the card. Try another card, try another charger and see - if I get the same results its either the phone or battery. When I have a charge greater than 5% there are never any problems. Only when battery level 0-1%.
stim141 said:
No something is wrong. Ran it out of juice in WM this afternoon. Got the error message let it go. Went down and shut off. Plugged it into a car charger USB/cig adapter. Powered up go to tmobile screen/radio code then animation - rebooted did the same thing without touching it a few times then shut off - light led for charging did not appear.
Pulled battery - when charger disconnected - plugged charger - red light no reboot. Tried it again - same results with a hitch - it froze when it was charging - accessed internet explorer then it did a hard freeze - had to press reset button.
Don't know whats going on at this point - it shouldn't have done the freeze. So I'm going to experiement - pull the SD card (has Android on it) and try it again without the card. Try another card, try another charger and see - if I get the same results its either the phone or battery. When I have a charge greater than 5% there are never any problems. Only when battery level 0-1%.
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Your battery pins aren't bent are they? (The little guys on the phone side that smash down when you insert the battery)
No, they are fine. I did call T-Mobile this afternoon and spoke to a level 2 tech - they think the battery is bad. Under warranty and have to call HTC tomorrow morning.
The phone does charge and does get to 100%. Drain in Windows seems fine and uniform but it does drop quickly once I get to about 20%.
Because of the reboot issue I think one of the cells is bad. Doesn't seem to want to trickle charge when the battery is that low. Tries to reboot - but can't get enough juice to sustain itself. Should just bypass through the battery as its charging. Either its the battery or somehow the charging circuitry is bad - who knows - with a new battery if it still does it then is the phone's hardware.
Will stop using Android for a while until this gets worked out - although I prefer the browser over WM 6.5.
stim141 said:
No, they are fine. I did call T-Mobile this afternoon and spoke to a level 2 tech - they think the battery is bad. Under warranty and have to call HTC tomorrow morning.
The phone does charge and does get to 100%. Drain in Windows seems fine and uniform but it does drop quickly once I get to about 20%.
Because of the reboot issue I think one of the cells is bad. Doesn't seem to want to trickle charge when the battery is that low. Tries to reboot - but can't get enough juice to sustain itself. Should just bypass through the battery as its charging. Either its the battery or somehow the charging circuitry is bad - who knows - with a new battery if it still does it then is the phone's hardware.
Will stop using Android for a while until this gets worked out - although I prefer the browser over WM 6.5.
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Def sounds like a battery issue then, if the pins aren't bent because that is the biggest symptom of bent pins.

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