Hello everyone,
Yesterday, I got an Orange SPV M3100 from a friend but I cannot get it to switch on. I can get into the bootloader mode and the information the bootloader gives is:
Code:
HERM100
IPL-1.01
HERM100
SPL-1.40.Olipro
I have tried a hard reset, it says that the phone has been restored and press SPACE to boot but when pressing space nothing happens - no Orange Logo, no splash screen - absolutely nothing - it doesnt even attempt to boot. The same happens with the power button - no attempt to boot. However in both cases (when I hold the power button down and after a hard reset, the green LED lights up)
At first I thought the battery was dry (since the phone hadnt been used for a few months) but even after charging it for a few hours, no difference. However, I am not sure whether there is a problem when charging it (no LEDs light up when charging - is this normal - i thought an Amber light should come on). However, the phone does have enough charge to stay in the bootloader screen for hours so I think it is charging.
Ive tried searching the board and the wiki but I cannot find anything similar to this (most people have at least the operator logo or windows logo coming on)
I would appreciate any advice as to what is wrong with the phone and whether I can go about fixing it.
Thanks in advance for your help and if you need any more info please do ask.
Chada
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Hello dear XDA-dev members;
I had a problem this morning with my Wizard. I have a G3 device which i had downgraded to Button ROM for unlocking etc. It was working really fine until this morning. Last night i have turned off the phone radio (wireless and bluetooth was not enabled)and the battery was charged almost at %60.
This morning i woke up, i saw that he was entered in USB recovery mode itself. (the screen with red, green, blue, with my IPL 1.0 / SPL 1.0) , i was terrified because nobody touched my phone. Then i have pushed over power button, it shut-down. I've just waited a few minutes then i've just pushed again over power button, it started with my windows mobile 5 splash screen and showing my ipl/spl. the screen is really bright at this moment but fades out, when he started to fade out, he just shut-down itself.
I've read and searched over the forum, and though that it was my battery which was dead. I've plugged it with wall charger and waited almost one hour, and the charger led was red. I've tried to turn on, he just came on and go over my Today screen! and the charger led turned to green. Almost 45 seconds later the phone turned off itself. I've tried to re-start but it's same. I'm getting windows splash screen, and the screen brightness starts to fade out and the phones shuts down.
I've tested my battery with a volt-meter, i'm getting 4.86 volts. i have also checked power pins inside the phone, i'm also getting power there (4.6 volts) when it's connected with wall-charger, so i think that it's fine.
I have tried to hard reset, pushing communication + voice command button + soft reset button, i had the black screen, he said that it was ok, but same here. I was running with Button rom as i said before. (1.05)
Please help.
if you still can get into bootloader, it should be fine
It was entered into bootloader mode itself. When i'm trying to start it, the splash screen comes on, it shows WM5 and my IPL/SPL and 20 seconds after, it shut down. I really need help because it's my only phone that i own.
etron45 said:
It was entered into bootloader mode itself. When i'm trying to start it, the splash screen comes on, it shows WM5 and my IPL/SPL and 20 seconds after, it shut down. I really need help because it's my only phone that i own.
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Have you had your phone more than a year? It may be the battery.
Replacement batteries cost only $5 on ebay or Amazon. Just get a battery so you can be sure that isn't the problem. In any event, you will probably need a new battery so you may as well try this.
joihan777 said:
Have you had your phone more than a year? It may be the battery.
Replacement batteries cost only $5 on ebay or Amazon. Just get a battery so you can be sure that isn't the problem. In any event, you will probably need a new battery so you may as well try this.
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I've gone to buy a new battery, but it's the same thing. It just shuts-down irregullary at splash screen, or today screen.
Some faults in memory result in the device needing to soft reset in an attempt to reclaim memory. Perhaps you could try flashing to another rom. I dont own a g3 so I cant really advise you any further.
Mine not exactly like you but automatic bootloader or stuck at IPL screen. It was out of nowhere but thought a bad flash. When trying the hard reset, it would come as "failed".
Nearly threw phone thinking too old and dead but this came to rescue. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276963. If not tried, give it a shot.
WARNING: Use card reader to save your MINISD data's and if successful, first format card before reinserting.
this is my firends phone - tmobile cmpact 2 - its never been cooked, standard wm5 rom and no upgrades or downloads. it suddenyl today entered bootload screen - we took out the battery restarted, then it loads to the tmobile splash screen the cuts off, now it wont even turn on
tried charging it, and the charge light doesnt ocm eon, any ideas??
Thanks
anyone?..........................................
You have to enter bootloader mode (look up the wiki for how to) and then run the official rom upgrade for charmer.
my charmer is also dead
right in the middle of typing in an adress at iGO on my Charmer with WM5 it started rebooting and turned black after the T-Mobile bootscreen. And I could only turn it on by removing the battery, waiting for some minutes and then turning on again, just to see the same thing happening - black after T-Mobile screen.
Now I cannot turn it on at all, cannot reset (neither hard nor soft), cannot get into bootloader nor can I charge it (at least no LED is indicating anything).
Does anybody have an idea? vlodeck?
At the moment I am not at home, so I cann't try the original power supply (so far I used the one in the car).
Thanks in advance!
There are two possible outcomes Jared.
Either your power supply in the car is not enough to lift up Charmer.
Or your battery went totally dead, in which case you would have to buy a new battery.
Good luck.
Thanks for the fast support!
the strange thing is, that it all started with battery at about 80%...
I will check on sunday with the original power supply and a battery from another device. Then I will let you know the outcome.
I can lend you my battery, Jared!
...to see if it is really the battery.
Otherwise I can only recommend the HTC Kaiser ;-)
problem solved for now
thanks frikibaby for the offer...
but vlodeck was right. At home I pluged in the charger and it started charging and I can also turn it on again. So for some reason my car charger does not charge the charmer anymore although the indicator and the battery bar says so ...???
Thanks for the support!!
Hi everyone, sorry for my first post being a request for help,
I have a bell Vogue and during the weekend it locked up completely. With a reset it would just hang at the windows start screen. I performed a reset the phone to factory defaults and it started working fine again. But since i lost all my programs and settings i thought it would be a good time to upgrade to jd's 6.1 bell oem rom. So for the past two days its been running great and ive been very happy with it, until this morning. I felt it vibrating in my pocket as if i was receiving a text, when i pulled it out it was at the HTC logo screen and wouldnt get passed that. So i did a soft reset and it still just hung there. I then removed the memory card and now it wont even start. Just a black screen. And when i connect the usb cable i get a red led turning on. Any ideas anyone or does it look like im going to have to get a new celly?
Thanks
RED LED...
Bud, My experience says that SOLID RED LED means it can't see battery - I have POWER Plugged in anbd When I remove battery, LED Goes RED. So I think Battery is NFG. or contacts or Charging circuitry on main board...
Hi All,
I've tried to upgrade the ROM of my QTEK S200.
It got completely stuck!!! I had to remove the battery. Now it stays black. Even a hard-reset does nothing. No bootloader, no white screen, nothing. It's like the device doesn't recognize the battery anymore. Same problem with another battery. When I connect the power supply, the light stays red for 5 seconds and then goes out again. No charging (orange) light.
Does this mean that the device was short-cutted (hardware problem) or can this be fixed with some manipulation?
Anybody an idea how I can fix the hardware (if broken) myself? Can't be to difficult if it just blew a fuse ;-)
Thanks
Hello.
I have big problem with my Uni. It's not booting, it's not going to bootloader mode. When I connect Uni to computer the red LED blinks and nothing happen. Battery works in other uni.
hmm leave the uni on the charger with battery in.
also have you tried using another battery in the dead uni?
same problem
I have the same problem during upgrading to wm6.5 computer gave me an error message
i pressed the reset button and the unit went blank
now its dead whatever i do notthing happens bootloader keys , hardrest keys , reset buttons nothing happens
if i connect to the wall charger to the unit nothing happens
if i press reset button red light blink once and if i remove the battery and connect the pda with the charger red light remains on
please help
I connected the unit with charger for whole night hoping it will work but nothing happened even the battery is cold ?
holy **** me too. i borked my sd slot so i took it apart, just popped off the back and fiddled with the sdpins and now it refuses to boot+redlight.
any thoughts? i miss my phone -_-
Hi
I noticed if i connect the device with my pc the red light flushes time to time and the pc gives the error of usb device not recognized please help I miss my o2 exec.
many thanks
keyfetcher said:
Hi
I noticed if i connect the device with my pc the red light flushes time to time and the pc gives the error of usb device not recognized please help I miss my o2 exec.
many thanks
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did you try another battery in your uni? also did you try tapeing the pin on the battery that reads the voltage level?
according to the universal service manaul flowchart, a redlight indicated bad battery>bad battery pins>shot motherboard.
so i don't think this is good. anyone got any..thoughts on figuring out WHAT exactly happened?
Hi
thanks for the input
will you please guide how I can tape the pin on the battery that reads the voltage level
many thanks
help
I have upgraded my xda exec from wm5 to wm6.1 but later decided to upgrade by downloading this upgrade from xda developer site " BA_6.5.23004.WWE-xplode-R7.1"
during upgrading it reached to 75% and then my pc gave me an error message
unfortunately i continued and later on a gray screen appeared on the xda exec
i pressed the reset button and the unit went blank
now its dead whatever i do nothing happens bootloader keys , hard rest keys , reset buttons nothing happens
if i connect to the wall charger to the unit nothing happens
if i press reset button red light blink once and if i remove the battery and connect the pda with the charger red light remains on
I connected the unit with charger for whole night hoping it will work but nothing happened even the battery is cold ?
I asked my friend to check the power in battery and he said its charged
I dont know what is wrong ?
please help
keyfetcher said:
I have upgraded my xda exec from wm5 to wm6.1 but later decided to upgrade by downloading this upgrade from xda developer site " BA_6.5.23004.WWE-xplode-R7.1"
during upgrading it reached to 75% and then my pc gave me an error message
unfortunately i continued and later on a gray screen appeared on the xda exec
i pressed the reset button and the unit went blank
now its dead whatever i do nothing happens bootloader keys , hard rest keys , reset buttons nothing happens
if i connect to the wall charger to the unit nothing happens
if i press reset button red light blink once and if i remove the battery and connect the pda with the charger red light remains on
I connected the unit with charger for whole night hoping it will work but nothing happened even the battery is cold ?
I asked my friend to check the power in battery and he said its charged
I dont know what is wrong ?
please help
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I beleive that BA_6.5.23004.WWE-xplode-R7.1 mean blue angel rom. http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-482997.html
so you are pretty much out of luck unless you can jtag.
again the same problem
keyfetcher said:
I have the same problem during upgrading to wm6.5 computer gave me an error message
i pressed the reset button and the unit went blank
now its dead whatever i do notthing happens bootloader keys , hardrest keys , reset buttons nothing happens
if i connect to the wall charger to the unit nothing happens
if i press reset button red light blink once and if i remove the battery and connect the pda with the charger red light remains on
please help
I connected the unit with charger for whole night hoping it will work but nothing happened even the battery is cold ?
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...almost the same.
my problem occurred after I did a soft reset. It took it a while to boot and every other time I used soft reset the boot took longer and longer until it did not want to turn on again.
Soft reset doesn't work but when it's left on the charger and pressed, the battery light blinks once. It won't charge and my PC registers a device malfunction when connected through USB.
The only sign of life pops up when I press hard reset but after I press 0 or X nothing happens.
Please help!
I have same problem as well, I even bought spare battery but uni remains dead and silent.
Beside the fact that when it's connected to PC, windows show unrecognized usb device.
what happened before it died? did you ... do anything to it? mines still dead as a doornail.
I am not alone :'(
It means many other fellows are suffering from same.
strange , total silence from experienced guys... atleast they can say it is useless for you to try.. and now dig a grave for it.
Experienced guys have their own lives too
Wait with patience till someone replies you and do not double post on same topic please