So i have a 8125, it was my first pocket pc phone, i now have a tilt, i let my friend borrow my 8125 because i was never using it, so one day he comes to my house and brings it back he says that it stopped working, it was charging and when he woke up it wouldn't turn on, i was like wtf, inside i was thinking he screwed it up, but i read on these forums that happens sometimes, so i tried the 9v battery thing, no go, every time i hooked up the phone to the charger without the battery a red light would flash, but when i put the battery in it wouldn't do anything, so i tried a second battery to see what happens, nothing whatsoever, so i stopped trying anything for like 2 weeks, then i was like screw it, ill open it and take the mobo and lightly slam it on the desk, guess what, it fixed it, and its still working like new. i slammed it on the metal shielding, and it works perfectly fine. just thought I'd share maybe it will work for some people getting red led's.
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hey all, like most people here, i've been flashing my phones like crazy for the past couple days to trying out all the new roms it's been fine for the last couple days and sundenlly it just stop working this morning. It wouldn't turn on or anything, when i plug the usb in, window gives me an error as it cannot connect to the phone. I try the charger and it wouldn't charge(the charging light on the phone wouldn't turn on). I just got my phone replace last week due to theft. So is my phone bricked? I've flashed my phone alot and each time i wipe everything, could that be the problem? if i take it back to sprint store you think they would send me a new one? thanks.
Take it in and find out...
Just curious... what rom were you running when that happened?
cptkool said:
hey all, like most people here, i've been flashing my phones like crazy for the past couple days to trying out all the new roms it's been fine for the last couple days and sundenlly it just stop working this morning. It wouldn't turn on or anything, when i plug the usb in, window gives me an error as it cannot connect to the phone. I try the charger and it wouldn't charge(the charging light on the phone wouldn't turn on). I just got my phone replace last week due to theft. So is my phone bricked? I've flashed my phone alot and each time i wipe everything, could that be the problem? if i take it back to sprint store you think they would send me a new one? thanks.
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Pull out the battery, remove charger.
Put the battery back in and dont press anything. Plug it into the wall and see after ~60 seconds you get a charge light.
I just got my phone replaced with the exact problem. Took it to sprint and they ordered me a new one under the HTC warranty, no problem. I didnt say anything about flashing just that it stopped charging and would not turn on anymore.
natelw said:
I just got my phone replaced with the exact problem. Took it to sprint and they ordered me a new one under the HTC warranty, no problem. I didnt say anything about flashing just that it stopped charging and would not turn on anymore.
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Just remember that if they get the phone to boot after you turn it in and they find out its rooted/ROM'd that they can fine you the entire price of the phone. Not trying to scare you but it has happened to people. However, it does seem there have been quite a few complaints about USB "issues".
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Just remember that if they get the phone to boot after you turn it in and they find out its rooted/ROM'd that they can fine you the entire price of the phone. Not trying to scare you but it has happened to people. However, it does seem there have been quite a few complaints about USB "issues".
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I too have had the usb charging issue. Try moving the usb cable around in the phone and see if it contacts. Mine does by lifting up on it. I called Sprint to see what they can do and they said that it is caused by the user. I laughed at them and said some not so nice words then hung up on them. Then took it to a Sprint store and they ordered a new one for me without any questions.
as a side note I am glad they are replaceing it cause now the speaker is blown and the paint is peeling from the power button.
Also, FYI, my kid's hero's charger died on him (the one out of the box). We thought his phone was broken because it would not charge or be recognized by the USB. Then we tried out my charger and, boom, all good.
Worth a shot....
alright guys, thx everyone for the reply, status update: I try everything that was mention here, pull bat and putting it back(several times), moving charging cables, letting the charger sit 60sec, none of it work. I know my phone wasn't out of batteries cuz when i went to sleep it was about 86% left, so i thought my bat blew out on me after a week of usage. so i just left my phone in my pocket and after a while it started getting hot, i was like wtf, and took out the bat immediately. i leave the bat out for about 30min, put that sucker in again, and voila, it power up, everything was back to normal...anyone know wth's going on? of course i'm very happy my phone is working again
Hi fellas, long time no see!
So, first of all, yes, I've used the search, but what I've found is threads about wet phones, mine I believe is already dry.
Situation: I'm in the club, glass of absolut and redbull in my hand, phone in my jeans pocket, extra glass of absolut w/redbull on the bar next to me. Fat drunk aproaches the bar and tips my glass with his elbow, all my drink spilled over my clothes. After a brief discussion I realized the guy was too drunk and was a worthless douche so I let it go. I reach for my phone and realize my pocket is soaked wet, when I take it out, phone is out, red light dim. So I turn it off, take it apart and forget about it til the next day. Next day, it began to turn on, but shut itslef off after a few secs, so I take it apart again (that is back cover, battery, SIM and sd, I dont have the screwdrivers to go further), cleaned what I could with alcohol, let it vent in front of a fan for a few hours, then in a bowl of rice for 2 days, no good.
So I got an extra phone and let it sit for more than a month. The other day I decided to give it another try and voila! it worked, had to be dry by now! used it for a day, left it charging, when I came back, it was off again, unresponsive. I have an extra battery, so I got one of those universal battery chargers, because I though the problem could be the phone not charging the battery. It was (even when the light turns on red and it says charging and all). So, first weird thing, light turns on red, screen says charging, but USB wont wont actually charge the battery if it is somewhere below.. 70% maybe, it does charge if it is lets say about 80% or above.
I used it like this for a week or so, and now, when I turn it on, after the bootscreen and the initial loop, the phone now powers itself off (with the text "turning off" -or whatever it says- and vibrating and all), even with the battery full. Tried with both batteries full, plugged in the usb (the light is green when full, and will even charge), erased battery stats (recovery works fine) but the damn thing wont load android properly!
Any ideas what might be causing this? it should be dry by now (its been like 2 months already and I let it vent and used the rice method), it doesnt smell funny (you know, like burnt, like when sth short circuits).
btw, also tried flashing the ROM again (i always have a couple in the sd just in case) and didn't work neither, does exactly the same.
i know it is a bit long to read but i wanted to give you the most insight i could. i know that it works! it did a couple days ago, but something got screwed with the startup and i dont know what it is!
update: so today i tried again, to my surprise, it showed me the first-use android intro, and i could use it, but wen i was about to finish setting it up, it shut off
time for a new phone!
You need a new Phone.
aaawww cmooon, heh, yeah, i know, but it aint easy to just "change the phone", i mean, i already have, but im using a crappy phone, and i wouldnt buy anything lower than the dream, but these things arent cheap here you know? you might get them for free sometimes with a contract, not around here we dont.
I think the problem is the no-charging issue, because i believe the phone not working now is due to bot batteries being damaged by the universal charger. the contacts are all scratched. i tried like to scratch them more to make them even, and it worked for about 2 minutes.. if i can rule that out and i can fix the chargin issue, all i need is a new battery, but i wont buy another one (i cant just go to a shop because they dont sell them here, i have to order them online and wait like a month for it to arrive) until i know it will work!
Just an update:
So I forgot about the issue once more and let it sit for.. well from the last post till last week (6 weeks give or take a week). After dusting it off, I took the less-damaged battery and tried my best to fix the contacts. Put it back on, plugged it, and after a while, I turned it on. To my surprise, it worked, and now it is charging again. I guess it hadn't fully dried, idk, but it works at least for now (and has been working for over a week now, I think that's better than last time) .
So Im a proud owner and enthusiast for the Atrix 4G (original only I cant stand any of the others released they did it best first time around). Ive had this phone with some minor problems for over a year. For a while the phone would randomly reboot in my pocket so long as it wasnt doing anything. If I were playing music on the device it wouldnt reboot but the second I stopped the music, put it in my pocket, and pulled it out it would be powered off. I reset the phone to factory (I had a flashed rooted rom on the device) and the problem stopped.
Now about 3-4 months later I made a phone call put the phone in my pocket to pull it out with a black screen. Now I thought the phone just died was all so I went in and plugged it in to the factory wall charger and to my surprise the LED came on and the phone chirped that it was charging. So it was actually still powered on. I tried looking at the screen from all angles and shined a light on it but there is no picture to be found anywhere. Otherwise the rest of the device (to the best of my knowledge) is still working properly. I could confirm this by my alarm going off in the morning and my in-ability to turn the alarm off due to a black screen.
Also ive pulled the battery, allowed the device to die, and have tried several chargers and other batteries I have so its not a battery or power issue. The screen also remains black on boot, you know the device is powered on once it boots into the OS and chirps that it has service.
Ive dis-assembled the phone to check all the cables in hopes that it would be a simple fix such as a loose cable however everything was double and triple confirmed to be plugged in and locked in place.
I had allowed the phone to die and waited a day or so with the battery pulled out once it had died and then plugged it in and allowed it to charge before powering it on for 30 minutes still to no avail. Ive even tried hard-naving to factory reset and still have had no luck.
I would like to purchase your dead phone for parts.
Sent from THE most powerful smartphone in the world!
To me, it sounds like you have a broken LCD screen.
Atrix 4G replacement LCD on ebay
(Note... that is simply the first link I saw on ebay. Do your research before buying anything, I barely even read it.)
Hi everyone,
a friend of mine's Nexus 4 has this strange behavior.
It went into water for about 1 second: unfortunately, she was working far from home and needed to keep the phone on for working reasons, I know and told her that the best would have been to switch it off and put in a bag of rice.
In any case, after few minutes where she was not able to listen to the people speaking, and the same on the other side (she was not listened), she kept the phone in a pocket and under the sun, and suddenly everything went fine: probably some water in the audio jack made the phone think the earplugs were plugged, and then this was fixed.
In the rest of the day everything was working, and we thought that, thanks to the hot day and the phone under the sun, the humidity has dried up.
At night when she came back home, she switched the phone off and put in the rice for the night.
The day after, she tried to switch the phone on, and nothing happend.
Screen black, no signals.
After reading something on the internet, she plugged the charger, and kept power+volume down buttons pushed: after some time, the red light appears, just one fast blink and then dark again.
So, we ordered a replacement battery (I have already substituted a Nexus 4 battery of another friend of mine), which arrived yesterday. I proceeded with the substitution, everything went fine (and I noticed that the internal water detectors are still perfect white, only the one in the sim tray is pink), but when I plugged the usb charger, again nothing happened. This time, holding power+volume down made the red light appear and stay solid, no blinking, no disappearing, until I unplug the phone, at that moment it disappears.
I let her charge the phone for the whole night, but still the same issue this morning.
What can the problem be?
It sounds strange to me that at first the phone worked and then it stopped at the first switch off (and I think that she powered off and on the phone right after the incident, and was still working) :-\
And I'm not able to understand the red light behavior...can someone help please?
Many many thanks :-[
Hello guys,
This just happened.
I left my phone charging, and when it hit 100%, I disconnected it from the charger and then I was going to put it in airplane mode, so I could go to bed. When I pushed the status bar down, the phone froze, 5 seconds later the screen went black and it wont turn on now.
When I plug the phone on my PC, there's a sound notification from windows, just like when you plug whatever USB device, but the phone is absolutely dead.
Holding the power button doesn't help. It just got out from warranty last month.... Full stock phone.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
50/50 chance a new battery might fix your problem. But if your not gonna do it yourself might be time to throw in the towel.
Similar event happened with me, phone died abruptly service center people told me that pcb has died and needs to be replaced, will cost more than 300$ for a new pcb. This phone has got really poor quality hardware component can die any time. Never gonna buy huawei built phone in future
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50/50 chance a new battery might fix your problem. But if your not gonna do it yourself might be time to throw in the towel.
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I haven't had any problems with the battery whatsoever, it was fine since day one, a little but totally normal wear. The phone charged fine everytime also.
I stopped by in a service shop, they don't mess with nexus devices and they don't know anyone who does (Nexus never came to my country, so it's a rare device to see, iPhones, Galaxies and Moto G are kings here)..
Anyway, I tried everything I could. Hair dryer, downloading build with QFIL, holding the power and volume for more than 20 minutes, leaving the charger on for 24h and everything else I found online and the phone didn't even tried to recover, so I pulled the trigger on a OnePlus 5T. I hope this one lasts me for 5 years, like I was planning with the N6P.