hey everyone,
i have this really weird problem,
when i plug in my charger, the right led turns orange to indicate the uni is charging.
the problem is, when the charging is over and the battery reaches a 100%, the uni just gets stuck!
if it was on standby mode while the led turned green, the phone is dead.
cant turn it on, cant call it, cant do nothing, the green light doesnt even turn off when i unplug it!
However, if the device was on while the charging was over, it is still fully operatable, but the green light won't turn off also, no matter what i do. even the iLauncher indicator and the normal battery indicator shows its still charging.
at first i thought it was the "hide battery icon" hack i installed, but i uninstalled and got the icon back, it and the problem is still there.
the only solution is to soft reset. but this is very uncomfortable - i cant reset my phone every evening
BTW, im using brand new battery, just a few days old, but i don't think this happend to me all the time with it. do you think it might be the problem?
what's wrong with my uni??
Please help!
i have an spv m5000, with an i-mate jasjar rom (i find it more comfortable)
Rom: 1.90.96 WWE
Radio: 1.13.00
ExtROM: 1.95.95 WWE (but i cooked it and removed + added some programs)
Same problem here. Please help! I've tried two new batteries, same story.
shlomki said:
the only solution is to soft reset. but this is very uncomfortable - i cant reset my phone every evening
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Actually you already answered your problem, it is probably caused by one of your apps since a soft reset cures it. I suggest do a Backup and try a hard reset and see if it still persist. If the problem went away, then it confirms that it is caused by one of your apps, otherwise it could be the battery or a hardware problem.
cktlcmd said:
I suggest do a Backup and try a hard reset and see if it still persist. If the problem went away, then it confirms that it is caused by one of your apps, otherwise it could be the battery or a hardware problem.
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I just upgraded to the latest orange rom yesterday and the problem was still there.
but i only checked that AFTER i installed all the apps again. stupid me.
so i hard resetted again and im charging now. results should be in about 1 hour.
but yesterday when i checked, i found out something very interesting:
when i switched back to the old original battery, the problem was GONE, and the uni was working perfectly.
so this suggests this is a battery problem.
i looked at the batteries side by side and found out there are a few minor differences:
1. the original was made in taiwan, while the new one from ebay was from china.
2. they had a different product number underneath the barcode.
3. the new one was a little lighter than the original.
(made me think: might it be a fake?)
besides that, they had the same voltage, same 1620mah, and both was packed by dynapack, supposedly.
after going back to ebay, i found out there is another battery for sale, a little more expansive than the one i bought, but this one WAS made in taiwan,
but still had a different product number. the other ones were just like the on i bought. made in china, and the same product number as my new one.
so nekdo123, can you please check your batteries too, and see where did they come from?
i'll post some pics later on to show you the batteries.
Original one was made in Taiwan. Second one was made in China and third one in Hong Kong.
I'll try original one again (I've stored it) and will report in one or two hours (just to charge it).
I've bought a new one when original one started to shut down my PDA at 45% of battery power.
I've also tried many ROM's (original ones, hacked ones, radio 1.09 and 1.13,...), and problem stays.
hmm, interesting.
well, no surprises: my charging is complete and the problem still stays with the new battery.
funny though, i bought a new battery because of the same problem: my original one started to crash my pda at 59%.
i added a picture to show you the product numbers. the above battery is the original one, the one in the pda is the new one from ebay.
you can even see the font on the battery is a little different.
is the product number on your battery from china the same as mine? how about the one from taiwan?
Yes, they are! Hong kong's has tottally different Model No. (CS-EXECSL).
Did you try putting original one back in and to see, what happens with it at full charge?
yep, as i said:
but yesterday when i checked, i found out something very interesting:
when i switched back to the old original battery, the problem was GONE, and the uni was working perfectly.
so this suggests this is a battery problem.
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i fully charged it untill the green light came on and the device wasn't stuck. it was still working perfectly, and the green led turned off after disconnectig the charger, and i was able to continue to work as usual.
Ups, I should remember, that you've alredy wrote that.
Well, it seems that it's battery problem. The BIG question now is, what battery to buy? I've bought two different ones and both are not working.
I've looked at eBay and found DYNA TAIWAN made batteries. But, they have same PN as this China ones, without "M" on end of it. So, I don't dare to buy third one, without knowin that it'll work!
What will you do?
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What will you do?
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I would rather walk to the stores than ordering from the Net...
I presume it may be fake batteries and that's why u can got it cheap....sorry if i'm wrong..
The only problem is the price. It's 5 times higher than over net.
yep, it the same problem here in israel.
the one thats made in tawian costs about 23$ at ebay (if i remember correctly), and it costs about 105$ in stores (in israel).
i think im gonna wait till i finish all my expanses on the universal (2gb sd card, silicone case, etc...) and after a couple of monthes when i have more spare money i'll just buy the one from taiwan.
and by the way, i wasn't referring to the product number on the right, the one without the "M" in the end.
i was talking about the one underneath the barcode, the one that starts with "DY..."
by the way, notice the one from taiwan:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Battery-XDA-Exe...ryZ75446QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
they state its an "Original Dynapack Battery", while the others don't mention anything about it.
Now I've bought this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/PolarCell-Li-Po...6822659QQihZ012QQcategoryZ38918QQcmdZViewItem
Will tell you when I get it, how's with it.
brave of you, buying a third one so soon
i wasn't able to see it's picture in the details, though.
where was it made? and what about the p/n?
and btw, what brand of universal do you have? is it orange spv-m5000 aswell?
looking forward to hearing the results.
I still hope that it's a battery fault. After third one I don't know what else I can do.
Mine is O2 XDA EXEC. I don't know, why you're asking about serial numbers, but here they are:
Taiwan't: DY8A85AD000980, China's: DY8A658N002140. Maybe you'll figure out something from these numbers?
Actually I bought an used PDA. the seller gave me one of new batteries I have. I've bought one, because his "new" didn't work (had simptoms like your's). So, I've bought another one, thinking, it's a battery problem, because with original one, PDA work like it should.
Will see, how works fourth one
Hello shlomki!
I've received battery today and I've tested it. It works like a charm (and stone rolled away from my heart - imagine, that there is a problem with PDA not with battery).
So, I recommend you this seller.
The seller of my second battery(Hong Kong's one) also sent me a new battery. I'll receive it next week. Will tell you if there is any difference with that one (if not else, I'll have it for backup - of course, if it'll work).
hey!
thats great to hear!!!
i feel that stone also, now that i can get a battery that works for sure!
how did you get your hong kong seller to send you a new battery?!
how did you convince him? did you have to send the old one back to him??
i see that the new battery you ordered is 1800mah, how does that work for you with charging it to the fullest? does it work like any other 1620mah battery??
How did I convince Hong Kong's seller? I didn't give him an opinion on eBay. I wanted to try battery before I do that. And after it didn't work, I just wrote him an email, that I have a battery problem. The next day he sent me an email, that he sent me a new battery and asked how can we arrange sending "old" one back to him on his costs!
I wrote him, that costs are so low, that there is really no problem about that. So, I'll wait till I receive a new one and then I'll send him old one back.
I don't know why, but I have a feeling that it also won't work (same serie, same error - I guess it's a chip error in battery). Will see when I receive it.
About new battery. Yes, it's like normal 1620mAh (maybe charging takes minute more or less - don't know, didn't time it). But, it's stronger and I think it should las that few % more time.
Yust for info. I've got a replacement battery today. Same problem! So I guess, there are different hardware revisions of Universals and not all batteries will work in all revisions.
Luckily Polar Cell's one works like a charm!
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Dear All,
I have had my SPV now for about 4 weeks now and very pleased with it. However, twice in the last week it hasn't responded when I turned it
on and ended up removing and re-inserting the battery. When it comes back, it starts with the "Welcome to Pocket PC" setup wizard and all my data is gone.
Has anyone else had this problem. This problem has happened with both
versions of the ROM. The only s/w I am running is
Tube (VisualIT)
MS Arcade Pack (Pacman, DigDug etc)
MS Voice Command
Agenda Fusion
CityTime
Regards & Thanks
Chris
Yeah i got the same problem. But it happens when I upgraded my ExtRom from Orange.com. Sometimes it stays at suspend mode, then i have to perform a hard reset to wake up the device. Very odd.
dfens said:
Dear All,
I have had my SPV now for about 4 weeks now and very pleased with it. However, twice in the last week it hasn't responded when I turned it
on and ended up removing and re-inserting the battery. When it comes back, it starts with the "Welcome to Pocket PC" setup wizard and all my data is gone.
Has anyone else had this problem. This problem has happened with both
versions of the ROM.
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I have had my M1000 for about four weeks too now and although it occasionally soft resets it never fails to respond to the power button. Maybe you have a faulty phone?
On a different note, you say you have Voice Command, I was looking for places that sell it in the UK but it appears to only be available in the US, if you could let me know where you got it I would be really grateful.
Hope you sort your phone out!
Fin
High all
No probs so far
Swiss m1000 installed Programs
Pocket Hack Master ( Overlock your PDA )
Pocket Mechanic ( Clean Defragment and more )
Snails ( adictive Worms(TM) Clone )
Crazy Cart ( adictive Mario Cart(TM) clone
and lots more.
Im overlocking my CPU to 530 MHZ and no Trubbles so far.
Got the thing for two months now, running in this config for about one month.
Peace
Yep, I am having the same problem or much the same problem. The unite works fine until every four or five days when I notice that the bluetooth light and the green phone radio light are flashing (even though bluetooth is turned off). It does not respond to the power button and then lights go off when I try a soft reset. The only way I can get it back on it with a hard reset.
It does not seem to be a battery issue as the battery is fully charged and when I try plugging in the Charger (before doing the hard reset) the charging light does not light up. I have had the same problem with several M1000s from Orange.
Anyone have any ideas at to what might be going on?
Thanks,
Steve
Yep, I am having the same problem or much the same problem. The unite works fine until every four or five days when I notice that the bluetooth light and the green phone radio light are flashing (even though bluetooth is turned off). It does not respond to the power button and then lights go off when I try a soft reset. The only way I can get it back on it with a hard reset.
It does not seem to be a battery issue as the battery is fully charged and when I try plugging in the Charger (before doing the hard reset) the charging light does not light up. I have had the same problem with several M1000s from Orange.
Anyone have any ideas at to what might be going on?
Thanks,
Steve
With Orange Switzerland SPV M1000 I experience the following problems:
1) Bluetooth lights (blue light) and the battery lights flashes even though
bluetooth is not connected and the battery level is fine.
2) Once every other day the device (though fully charged) freezes and I end up doing soft reset.
3) Removing battery already puts the device to soft reset. Orange
4) The activeSync is running without me having to start any activeSync session.
5) Abruptly I get message the memory is full and the device then freeses.
Is anyone having the above problems? How do i resove this?
Many thanks
Swissmate
SteveD said:
Yep, I am having the same problem or much the same problem. The unite works fine until every four or five days when I notice that the bluetooth light and the green phone radio light are flashing (even though bluetooth is turned off). It does not respond to the power button and then lights go off when I try a soft reset. The only way I can get it back on it with a hard reset.
It does not seem to be a battery issue as the battery is fully charged and when I try plugging in the Charger (before doing the hard reset) the charging light does not light up. I have had the same problem with several M1000s from Orange.
Anyone have any ideas at to what might be going on?
Thanks,
Steve
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SAME PROBLEM AS THE REST OF YOU WHO HAVE THEIR SPV FREEZED UP VERY OFTEN. IN MY CASE IT'S EVERY 3 OR 4 DAYS, POWER BUTTON AND SOFT REST DOES NOT RESPONDE, SO IT'S EITHER HARD RESET OR SOMETIMES SIMPLY REMOVING THE BATTERY DOES THE WORK. I HAD MY PHONE REPLACED 3 TIMES ALREADY AND STILL THE SAME PROBLEM EVEN WITHOUT INSTALLING ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE BUT WHAT CAME BUNDLE WITH THE ORANGE PHONE. IS THIS A ROM BUG ???
SPV M1000 FRANCE
SD CARD 1 GB
OMEGA ONE BATTERY PACK PRO
OMEGA ONE JOURNAL BAR
SPB GPRS MONITORS.
FORTUNATELY I USE THE X BACKUP PROVIDED WITH THE PHONE TO SAVE MY DATA, BUT IT'S TIME COMSUMMING AND REPETITIVE AS AFTER EACH TIME THE PHONE RESETS ITSELF, I HAVE TO RESTORE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. :evil: :twisted:
IF SOMEBODY COULD IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM, THIS WOULD HELP A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE ME
THANKS
RICHARD
There have been frequent reports of this problem- Orange are aware of it, and are replacing M1000's as required. They are currently testing a new ROM, so it appears that they think it may be a ROM problem, though it could also be a batch of faulty hardware.
Another possibility
Turning off the record button seems to have helped, could it be that this is being caught and filling memory / draining batrtery?
3rd phone 3 weeks.
Great when working - anyone using a GPS receiver? Tried a TomTom with an XDA 2 lead is not recognised
Re: Another possibility
BobW said:
anyone using a GPS receiver? Tried a TomTom with an XDA 2 lead is not recognised
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Remember you have to turn of the IR in settings>connections>beam before a GPS will be recognised.
NeilM said:
There have been frequent reports of this problem- Orange are aware of it, and are replacing M1000's as required. They are currently testing a new ROM, so it appears that they think it may be a ROM problem, though it could also be a batch of faulty hardware.
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we got almost 30 of these at our work, it seems the only one to have this problem is... my one! so i swapped it for another one and it did the same problem... hmm, they must not like power users, the other users are idiots so they dont really mess about with the settings n all
anyhooz, ill be upgrading all of em to SE very soon and i doubt that rom will have the same glitch...
who knows... now that we can confirm (99%) that SE works on the xda II maybe the operators will now make an official upgrade to SE... they have no reason not to
regards
djrm.net said:
we got almost 30 of these at our work, it seems the only one to have this problem is... my one! so i swapped it for another one and it did the same problem... hmm, they must not like power users, the other users are idiots so they dont really mess about with the settings n all
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Hmm. That is interesting. Only having one here - and having problems - I do not have much to compare.
Do you think the problem comes from changing the standard settings or using extra software then?
By the way the new ROM does not seem to make much difference in terms of this problem, alas!
Exactly the same thing to me...
Every 5 or 6 days... it goes of for no reason, and the only way to wake it up is to hard reset it! weird SPV... maybe some day a nice guy will come up with a solution to our problem! Hopefully...
:shock:
To keep an old thread alive
Those experiencing issues with this device going into coma (requiring Hard Reset to clear)please would you post detailed accounts of when the issue occurs.
Please confirm power settings, what applications were open on the device and whether the radio or BT was on.
Does the problem occur off or on charge, if on does same problem occur if charged from travel charger not dock?
If off charge, if known - state both internal and external battery charge levels when problem occurs?
What is seen on the handset at point of coma?
Working from soft Reset through battery off to hard reset, what was necessary to restore the device and did soft reset or battery off result in a dump?
Could ROM V's and bootloader V's also be stated.
cheers guy's, together we'll crack it
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:roll: I have had my phone from about June last year. The first reset occurred about the 3rd Jan this and two more occurring in the past few weeks the last one on sat 12th Feb
The history as I can recall with the last reset is as follows. I took the phone out from work (cradle) Friday afternoon after 4pm don’t think it was put to charge again before the incident also the phone was not used very often as its a work phone. It was on stand by all day Saturday with the green light flashing but no signal input was being received as I was expecting a cal which never came only to find out the phone was off as mentioned by the caller when I called them. Got home about 530pm with the light still flashing and tried to switch the phone on after finding out no signal was received, the light then went out. Could remember this quite distinctly as it happed on the previous occasion. To activate the phone i have to take the battery and sim card out as with the previous occasion put the card in another/different phone to activate it (make a cal) then put the card and battery back in for the phone to work when it would then go through the reset process. Once working on checking, both battery powers were very low think less than 50% as when i checked some time after they were up to 75%
Am in an office with 3 other users and the only one with this problem and am on my 3rd phone since the year started. It seems to be linked with low battery power (both) and extended stand by when it completely shuts down. Trust this would help to get us a stage further.
i have had two m1000's with this problem,
orangecare stepped up for the replacement and i upgraded the 2nd to win2003se and it still does it!
i make scheduled backups now and have learnt to live with it until my contract expires..
on another seperate note..
Remember you have to turn of the IR in settings>connections>beam before a GPS will be recognised.
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how do i do this in 2003se?
MORE ON THIS
I had an M1000 that worked fine but a small problem occured and orange replaced it - the new one had this problem every 7 days or so - the bluetooth light was flashing although not switched on and when I try to turn phone on it wont - remove/replace bat and resets - I upgraded to ROM 2.02 from this forum but was using origional orange extended rom and it made no difference - if it is a rom problem its in oranges extended rom
I was on a 166wwe - boot loader 1.06 - dont know radio version but was still happening after DCM 2.02 WM2003SE WWE from this forum with radio 1.18.00 and original ORANGE ext rom so if is on ROM is definatley oranges ext rom that has a problem. - HAS ANYONE HAD THIS HAPPEN WHILE ON CHARGE????
THEY REPLACED MY PHONE WITH A REFURB - ITS NOW FINE BUT IM NOT HAPPY
guys lets think here
were all orange subs so its got to be an orange thing (so unlikley to be hardware) - there are people here (myself included) who have upgraded radio and OS so I am begining to think it is in the extended rom on these machines - has anyone who has replaced extended rom had this trouble - I would experiment but no longer have this fault - I never thought Id wish I could get it back but now I think I can see a resolve
we need an orange customer who does not have this trouble to post extended rom on here for us all to try????? - - - Please ??????
it would be nice to crack this one guys keep plugging on
Had my M100 nearly a year now and after many many resets decided to call Orange as I would have thought this was a known problem with them. But according to technical they have never seen this before!!!
There response was ... backup your data! doh!
I told them I did and it was unacceptable to say this as the thing is faulty it takes over an hour to reload the data and it's happend 4 times since I called them 4 days ago.
:twisted:
PS: has anyone got a copy of the original 1.66 rom as you can no longer get it from Orange.
Twice now I've put my device on to charge overnight, as I have for the last 8 months that I've had it, and it has not been responding when I come to get it in the morning.
I plug it in, device closed, around midnight then come to get it the next day and when I open it the screen is black, pressing power does nothing and the only thing I can do is reset. This has been happening since I did a hard reset 2-3 days ago. I have it set so that it doesn't turn off when on external power, and so it turns off after 2 minutes when on battery power.
Can anyone think what's happening to it?
Given the number of threads I've made recently you can probably guess I'm starting to regret getting this phone.
Could be freezing due to unstable ROM, could be battery... which ROM are you on?
The one which it came with out of the box from O2 in July 2006. Don't really know anything about ROMs, if there's more info you need me to retrieve I'll be happy to - just let me know how.
Anjow said:
The one which it came with out of the box from O2 in July 2006. Don't really know anything about ROMs, if there's more info you need me to retrieve I'll be happy to - just let me know how.
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What programs do you have installed? Specifically, which ones are used as today plugins?
It's interesting it only started happening after hard reset... sometimes a hard reset will go 'wrong' and install funny and the best thing to do is another hard reset. Might be worth considering.
Non-standard today plugins that I use are SPB Pocketplus, SPB Backup and SPB Time.
I have just taken it off charge now and pressed power and it has just turned the backlight on full but there's nothing on the screen. The main difference between now and before the hard reset is I'm not using the SPB Time today plugin. I'm going to try disabling that.
This is quite a worry for me as I'm meant to be using it to wake me up in the mornings and I don't have another method at the moment...
It happens to me too...
my problem is related to the battery (I have 2 batteries and it happens only with one)....
soft reset first thing in the morning ;-)
It seems disabling the SPB Time today plugin did nothing.
Also, yesterday I had it plugged in for around half an hour but nothing happened. It seems it only crashes when it has been plugged in overnight.
did you try with another battery?
to me it happens only when it stay connected to the charger after it reached 100%
I don't have another battery to try with.
Another member of the 'normally I have to softreset in the morning' brigade... but then I have an alarm clock
Now this is totally unfounded and just a complete and utter guess, but based on logical thought processes of some kind anyhow... try if ya like.
1. Place in bootloader overnight hoping to discharge the battery by morning.
2. Soft reset and fully recharge BY WALL CHARGER.
3. Once fully charged, hard reset.
Reasoning:
1. Apparent way to recalibrate battery to full charge
2. Possible findings that USB charge will never charge to full capacity
3. Just in case there is some funky little OS setting that screwed up on your last hard reset.
Logical to me, but then I'm an 1/8th Irish... Hmmmm Let us know if ya do and hope it helps.
Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be able to try that for another 3 weeks - I'm home from university and I left my wall charger there (I never use it)
i've had the exact same problem - its a faulty battery, trust me.
you're welcome to follow my thread on the subject:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=285147
after ordering the right battery from ebay - the problem was solved.
I'm a little confused by your topic, this is what I've got from it - tell me if it's right:
You had the original battery - that's the top one in this picture that you attached. That started crashing at 59%.
You then got the bottom one in that picture from ebay and that battery had the same problem as mine is having.
You switched back to your old one, which solved the problem.
...What is it you're suggesting I do, get a battery from ebay? I am confused because it seems it was the battery from ebay that caused problems for you.
nekdo123 posted in my thread that he bought a different battery from ebay, which worked great.
i can now confirm that, because i recently bought the same battery as he did - and it really does work flawlessly.
it is a "PolarCell Akku 1800mah battery". the only problem in buying it is that it's on a german ebay version, so it is hard to understand the terms and conditions, because i don't speak german...
i managed to understand it by translating it with an automated translating site, which helped.
the link is on the thread... good luck!
I bought one from Hong Kong and it worked fine too
patrickl said:
I bought one from Hong Kong and it worked fine too
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what matters seems to be where the battery was made, apparently.
and not where you bought it from.
shlomki said:
what matters seems to be where the battery was made, apparently.
and not where you bought it from.
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Well, I doubt anything coming from HongKong was made anywhere else than China.
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Well, I doubt anything coming from HongKong was made anywhere else than China.
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You'll probably find that the other battery was made in China too... most things these days are...
It's probably not what country made it, but how it was manufactured.
Today I received a package from the ebayer I ordered it from. It contained a receipt but no battery. Why would they send a receipt over without a battery?
I have had my 8525 for less than two months, did the research the first time, used Hard-SPL, a black edition rom, etc. I was loving the phone with no issues at all, except maybe redoing a few things. When, BAM I get a brick for no apparent reason!
I pulled the phone out of its holster and tapped the O/I button as usually, nothing, then I watched the light and noticed it was not blinking. It has not responded to anything since, I have tried:
removing the battery and replacing
stylus inserted soft reset
attaching to the charger
It does not even show any LED indicators for charging. Of course running a cooked rom, my first thought was that. However, the symptoms seem to say that is paranoia. It seems to not even respond to a charger with an amber LED would have to be something hardware based.
I will mention that this was a refurb (for $149 which made it worth it) and it is still in the 90 day warranty.
I just want some feedback if anyone has it on anything to try with the phone before calling the warranty exchange.
Do you get at least a red led light when plugging in the phone to the charger without having the battery in? If yes I would say the battery said GODBYE ...
What did you do last on the device?
Have you tried a Hard Reset?
As mentioned above, no LED indicators for anything at all.
I did try a hard reset as well, nothing at all!
I assumed since this was a refurb maybe a previous mode of failure reoccured. I called warranty and requested a replacement. It arrived today. Now to start tweaking all over again. If this is a blatantly obvious hardware problem, I wonder if anyone in RMA will even know what software is one it, or will care? I hope there is no huge fine impending
I RMA it. No lights nothing its toast, probably hardware... If it is unresponsive to you they most likely won't be able to check the OS.
Hi rodent, where do you buy your hermes from? $149 seems to be a good deal
rodent said:
I have had my 8525 for less than two months, did the research the first time, used Hard-SPL, a black edition rom, etc. I was loving the phone with no issues at all, except maybe redoing a few things. When, BAM I get a brick for no apparent reason!
I pulled the phone out of its holster and tapped the O/I button as usually, nothing, then I watched the light and noticed it was not blinking. It has not responded to anything since, I have tried:
removing the battery and replacing
stylus inserted soft reset
attaching to the charger
It does not even show any LED indicators for charging. Of course running a cooked rom, my first thought was that. However, the symptoms seem to say that is paranoia. It seems to not even respond to a charger with an amber LED would have to be something hardware based.
I will mention that this was a refurb (for $149 which made it worth it) and it is still in the 90 day warranty.
I just want some feedback if anyone has it on anything to try with the phone before calling the warranty exchange.
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I got it from AT&T(then Cingular) If you were signing or renewing a contract a refurbished 8525 was $149. I believe the same deal is now $199. But they may drop again, it was only two months ago.
Hey if you're going to college (like me ) then you can prob get a brand new one from AT&T Premier! Go here to get started: http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/
Good luck! My new 8525 cost me $80.24! A tilt will set you back about 290 tho if you get the unlimited data package I think.
I got this problem last night. It started when I got my hermes dead, but after trying to charge the battery, the led turns to red. I've read on wiki (hermes problem) and try all possible solutions suggested there. Unfortunately, those don't solve my problem. Today, I am going to ask softbank shop (where I bought it from) to fix it.
The problem is, mine is flashed several times using English ROM from this forum. I also unlock it using code method, which base on imei calculation (at least that what Kevbodian, whom I got the code from, said)
My question is, is my phone still protected by Softbank warranty? I need this in order to make me feel confident when I try to communicate my problem to softbank officers. Thank you
Sounds like an overdischarged battery, pretty common. What I learned with HTC phones is that you should just never let their battery run down completely until it turns off by itself, but rather turn it off yourself at 10% unless you have the charger at hand. The shutdown threshold is always set a bit too low.
The last method in the list (the 3xAAA batteries) should work. I've always revived them by doing the same in a more "serious" way with decent equipment.
The problem is that by the time the phone turns off, and especially if you don't plug the charger right after, the battery voltage will drop enough for the phone to judge it as faulty and refuse to charge it. Charging the battery a bit outside of the phone to bring the voltage up a bit is enough.
Get you a cheap battery on eBay!
At least you can flash in case you will have to mail it in afterwards ...
Thanks for your reply. I'll try once more. Just to make sure, there are six pins on the battery. The + and - mark do not point to specific pins, but at the middle of 5th and 6th pin for - and between 1st and 2nd pin for +. Do I have to connect those two pins for each + and - or only the 1st and the last pin? Thank you.
mjbudhiyahoo said:
Thanks for your reply. I'll try once more. Just to make sure, there are six pins on the battery. The + and - mark do not point to specific pins, but at the middle of 5th and 6th pin for - and between 1st and 2nd pin for +. Do I have to connect those two pins for each + and - or only the 1st and the last pin? Thank you.
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Were you able to figure it out? I'm in the same boat as you and I already tried the first and the last pin without any luck.
petes69 said:
Were you able to figure it out? I'm in the same boat as you and I already tried the first and the last pin without any luck.
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Well, finally I sent the phone to Softbank. I think my problem is not at the battery. After trying to use another battery from working phone, I came to the conclusion that I got problem with my handset. Hopefully, I'll get it back alive within 15 days, otherwise I have to pay rental fee for the phone that they lent me.
I got message from softbank today. It said my phone has been fixed. I'll see what they did to it, especially the ROM. I hope they didn't lock my phone.
Has bought the device second-hand from a comp firm with a guarantee for 1 month. After 1 month of no problems working the gadget began to turn off by itself at first on 27 % of the battery (original) .
Then 32, etc .
I has thought, that problem is in old battery. Has bought new CS-execsl with 1750mAh, but the device continued to switching off without any system/sequence .
It practically is not switching off when it on the charge! The hard reset is tried. Has already passed 5 months, the firm does not respond. At a full charge on both bateries it is switched off in 5 minutes of work/ full loading of the processor.
How it is possible to solve a problem? The service centre puts the overestimated sum.
Where can I found the newest ROM /shoul this help?
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Has bought the device second-hand from a comp firm with a guarantee for 1 month. After 1 month of no problems working the gadget began to turn off by itself at first on 27 % of the battery (original) .
Then 32, etc .
I has thought, that problem is in old battery. Has bought new CS-execsl with 1750mAh, but the device continued to switching off without any system/sequence .
It practically is not switching off when it on the charge! The hard reset is tried. Has already passed 5 months, the firm does not respond. At a full charge on both bateries it is switched off in 5 minutes of work/ full loading of the processor.
How it is possible to solve a problem? The service centre puts the overestimated sum.
Where can I found the newest ROM /shoul this help?
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Welcome
Yes, perhaps upgrading the ROM could help
Please READ the Wiki, you´ll find several ROM´s and a way to upgrade
I personally would recommend any of Tomal ROM¨s
Good luck
I just tried to change ROM on 100%battery. Installed a little bit soft (resco explorer, core player, opera). The same problem. Switcging off after the same time of watching video on both batteries.
Can it be the hardware problem?
Yes!
It's a battery problem...
I had the same problem... at 27 -33%
probabily some unofficial charge set (like the car adapter) could damage your battery.
Don't buy another original battery, use ebay. The original it's like 60€, but on ebay is like 40€...
I have an original battery and from CS but the same problem happens.Do you know some other tricks (like paper trick)?
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UniversalBatteryIssue
Check this out Mine turns off too but at 20%, but soon I'll order a 3200 extended and maybe the problem will disappear .
Mine too, it turns off at 20%, but well I have the original battery since 2005 so I can´t ask for more, I just bought a new one from Dukenukem and aparently it´s original
no result
I tried the "peice of tape on the second pin" but without any result.
Tried to push the battery (if it is the connection problem) but it is conecting there well.
Installed the newest ROM with WM6.1 by Luka16thebig, no result.
When device turns self off it make a short sound like "little fly hits a window".
Want to buy a new Asus P750.