hello everyone
i am having a major problem with my 8125
over the last 6 months i have noticed a loss in the battery integrity and its run time is less.
about a week ago i spilled some water on my phone. i wiped it up, and used it as normal.
shortly after, it started crashing on me.
what will happen is i will be on a phone call, and the phone will just shut off.
i look at it and it is rebooting.
it will sometimes prompt for safe mode, get to Windows Mobile screen, and reboot again. safe mode does the same thing
i pull the battery, replace it, and plug the phone into the wall. i can get it to turn on now, and it charges, but the battery reads in at nearly dead. under 20%, when it was charging all night and was full a minute prior.
is this the battery gone bad?
I would often plug it in to my Motorola Bluetooth USB power chord, and i use a cigarette lighter to USB adapter in my car to charge it.
could either of these play into the demise? do i need a new battery? or a fresh install? or a new phone?
thanks guys!
happened again.
not a single Cingular store in San Diego has a replacement battery in stock.
anyone have a place they recommend?
Is the water damaged sticker pink? If not you might be in luck with XBM.
Not that the water is definately at fault, but in the future, never use an electronic device that is wet. It gets wet, pull the battery immediately and wait for it to dry.
as soon as it got wet i pulled that battery and put the unit in a dehydrator
wwhere is the water sticker?
Under the sim card...if you pull out the sim it should be white...If its not white then no luck on the exchange.
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3 or 4 days ago my phone was acting strange, the power on button wouldn't turn the screen off, or it would turn it off then immediately turn back on. Battery would charge as usual then would drain extremely quickly (minutes to get from half power to battery so low to shut down the handset.
Today the phone won't take any charge and won't turn on at all even when plugged into the usb charger. When theses problems started the phone ceased being able to sync with any pc.
Anyone got any idea what's wrong with it?
I've started the returns system on Mobiles.co.uk, I've had the phone 7/8 months and the shop no longer stock this model. Just wondering what will be the next step.
Sounds like water damage. Check for water damage by looking at the label under the battery. Also check to make sure all contacts inside the phone with the battery are clean and clear.
How can you tell if its water damage. As far as I know it hasn't been exposed to water and as I keep it with me pretty much all the time, I'm fairly certain.
2nd pic here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=546170&highlight=water+damage+indicator
Slightly more info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622728&highlight=water+damage+indicator
definitely not water damage then, my indicator is completely white. Ah well teh phone is currently winging its way back to htc via carphone warehouse. Will update here once I know what was the problem.
Hi
I'm not sure if my phone is dead or the battery is dead. My HD2 got slightly wet - and I mean slightly. The phone continued to work. I dried it out over night and re-connected the battery. The phone booted up ok and was fine. I went to charge it and everything was fine, however when I returned to the phone it now won't turn on.
When it is connected to the usb or charger I get no lights. So my question is this: Is it possible to power the phone without the battery installed? If it is then it looks like my phone is dead. If it isn't then is it likely that the battery is dead and the phone might be ok?
Is there any way to test?
Thanks
Jonathan
if the battery becomes completely flat it can become unresponsive to charging, and when you plug your phone in it tries to turn on, thus keeping it flat.
you can try....with battery out, connect charger. nothing will happen, but now when you put the battery in it won't try turn on. leave it to charge for an hour or so and see if the charging light comes on.
but more importantly, you have gotta make sure the phone is dry, battery too,,, jar/bowl of rice and somewhere warm seems to be the usual advice.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried what you said but the charge light hasn't come on. I did get a short vibration out of it when I first put the battery back in so I hope that the battery is just dead.
this is going to sound crazy on many levels, but this happened to me when I dropped my phone in a bathtub. What you want to do is put it in a container of rice. Trust me. Leave it for 24 hours or longer if you can, after this it could be working, if not it's probably fried.
Now when I plug it into the charger, it just goes to the Core Cell splash screen, for like a split second then turns off, then does it repeatedly... I donnu, how to charge my phone, I donnu what to do, please help.
like i ttly hope someone can halp...i donnu wut it iz.
i wuz in yor phonez checking ur batterys, and it looked mkay to meh.
lol.
I don't know WTF is going on here... My phone is like constantly just reloading the same thing, every 4 seconds, it just loads the Splash screen for less than a second, turns off, then does it again, this is while it's plugged into the charger, when it's taken off the charger, nothing happens, I can't ever turn the phone on...
You've obviously got a bad phone.....take it in to your local store T-mobile and have them look at it.
Have you tried plugging your phone into the computer to try syncing/charging it that way, or just into the wall?
I tried the computer, that takes longer to get the splash screen to come up, & there is no T-mobile in Australia, plus I don't have a stock rom, and HSPL.
Try taking your battery out and making sure that none of the pins that make contact with the battery are bent or broken. It is easy to bend the pins and it can prevent charging of the battery.
Another option may be to hold the volume down button during this startup loop and see if you can get into the bootloader. It should charge in the bootloader and it may stop the looping. After charging for a while just restart and all should be well.
I have also had this and other strange things happen when the battery is depleted or very low. I try to not get below 10% anymore just in case.
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Try taking your battery out and making sure that none of the pins that make contact with the battery are bent or broken. It is easy to bend the pins and it can prevent charging of the battery.
Another option may be to hold the volume down button during this startup loop and see if you can get into the bootloader. It should charge in the bootloader and it may stop the looping. After charging for a while just restart and all should be well.
I have also had this and other strange things happen when the battery is depleted or very low. I try to not get below 10% anymore just in case.
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I fixed the issue last night, I chucked my Battery into the Freezer, for like... more than 8 hours, woke up, and plugged my phone back together, and it charged, without booting up and restart
So all good
Obviously, your battery was terrified by what happenned to the chicken and the turkey in your freezer and decided to behave!
I really don't think it's a good idea to put a freezing cold battery into a warm handset.....that's a recipe for condensation and rust and/or water damage.
Hello Everyone!
Let me start by saying last week i dropped my N4 in water, but managed to shut it off before anything was broken. I immediately put the phone in rice and left for 3 days. So on the third day i took the device out of the rice and attempted to turn it on, no luck. I ordered a new battery and managed to tear down the phone and clean off all of the corrosion with 99.9% Isopropanol alcohol. I installed the new battery and re-assembled the phone and everything was working great for two days. So the third day of the new battery, I left the phone on charge overnight before I went to school, and i was playing a game, my phone was on 80% battery still when a window popped up telling me the device was powering off. I thought this was a one off and attempted to turn my phone on again, however the second my device booted and got to the lock screen it powered down again. Any help? My theory is that the phone battery software is not in sync with the hardware. I.E when the phone is at 80% battery the phone thinks it is infact at 0. I got my phone to turn on the other day for a few minutes and it displayed it was at 0% charge, however when i tried to boot up the phone before that it said it had 50%? any help would be greatly appreciated! thankyou for your time!
My phone had been working perfectly fine, as well as charging perfectly fine. Recently, I accidentally let it drop to 0%, which I don't usually do. I went to plug it into the same wall outlet as always, but instead of the usual charge process, the battery icon with the lightning bolt in the middle simply flashes on the screen and then turns off, which happens over and over again.
It should be noted as well that about 3 weeks ago my phone get fairly wet. After that incident, I turned it off till it dried, powered it up, and everything appeared to be totally ok. No problems since then until this.
Other facts:
-I can safely get into the recovery menu (power + vol down), which is stable, but any menu selections result in the Motorola splash screen for a quick second and then the phone powering down.
-The computer will recognize the connection to the phone.
Attempts to resolve:
-New cable, new usb hub, new wall outlet
-Trickle charge from the computer (same flashing)
-Phone in rice to remove moisture
-Toothbrush cleaning of Micro-usb port (suggestion from another thread)
I'm pulling my hair out, and I am considering prying off the back and replacing the battery. I have searched other threads, but have seen various solutions none of which worked for me. If anybody has any idea how I can fix this please help!!!
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately most probably is the hardware problem. I had similar issue with razr. Splashed it on the beach, quickly washed with tap water, dryed it and for couple of days like nothing happened. Then suddenly digizer stopped working. It was motherboard. Luckily one xda member donated me the same phone with broken screen so I replaced motherboard by myself.
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Unfortunately most probably is the hardware problem. I had similar issue with razr. Splashed it on the beach, quickly washed with tap water, dryed it and for couple of days like nothing happened. Then suddenly digizer stopped working. It was motherboard. Luckily one xda member donated me the same phone with broken screen so I replaced motherboard by myself.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Well, I got it back working again, by charging it for 5 hours straight and then not charging it for an hour. Now it appears to be functioning alright, with the exception that it once went from 40% bat to 15% to 0% in a matter of seconds and I had to repeat the procedure to get it back on. I have another turbo with a broken digi that I could cannibalize but I have no idea what to replace... the battery? Bizarre issue, but I guess that comes with the territory of water damage.
Maybe some part is still wet. If another Turbo has only broken screen, then is probably the easiest solution to take screen from the (ex)wet and put to another one. You just have to have proper screwdriver.
Replaced battery now Droid turbo flashing when I charge?