Hi !
I searched already around the forum, but I didn't find anything for my problem:
Yesterday my device turned off because of low battery (while listening music), then I tried to charge it with the original charger over night. Today in the morning the device was not charged but the amber/organge LED was blinking.
When I put on the charger the red led turns on, after a few seconds the amber led starts blinking then after a few minutes the led turns again red an then again blinking amber and so on ...
I can boot up Windows mobile bu after a few secounds the deivce turns off an then again red led an blinking amber ...
I did a softreset and a hardreset but still no charging.
I tried another battery from a neighbour, the device works fine, but still a blinking amber led (not always-on) when connect on the charger.
Can anybody help me ?
Sorry for my bad english ..
Have you tried using your friend's phone charger?
The problem has been discussed. It is known as the RLOD (Red light of Death) and is reported against many different phones and brands. It is likely a fault in:
1
The phones charging circuit
OR
2
A faulty battery
OR
3 A faulty USB port (bent pin or cracked solder joint)
OR
4
A cracked solder joint between the battery connector and m/board
In my experience it is most likely to be a faulty (stuck) charging circuit.
The following link may be useful, and it is worth persevering. I once had a phone that took several days to get started again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1077622#post1077622
Mike
@gypsygirl: I tried two different chargers which are working fine which another device (xda neo)
@mikechannon:
I think its a problem with the charging circut or the usb port (otherwise the data connection works when connected to the pc).
I tried the battery from my friend with 90 % battery left and put on the charger and ist doesn't start charging, only blinking amber ...
I guess I will buy an external cradle for charging the battery, not the best way, but so i can use the device ...
When there is any solution for a cracked charging circut, i will try it out ...
Thanks for help
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Hello all. anyone knows what the heck is going on ?
i have it pluged in to the ac charger. charge light is on and the starts charging. then all of a sudded it starts to loose power while charging. what fives ?
Hovhannes said:
Hello all. anyone knows what the heck is going on ?
i have it pluged in to the ac charger. charge light is on and the starts charging. then all of a sudded it starts to loose power while charging. what fives ?
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Problems with charger physical connection may be?
Your cat or wifey plugging off (even slightly) the plug out of the power socket.
Or may be charger cable loose in the mini-USB slot on Universal?
Did the amber charging light also go out?
the htc shows charging but noting happens.
orange light is on
As I've noticed, charging is handled by ROM. When you reset your device it doesn't start until Windows Mobile greeting blue screen is displayed.
If the amber light is on, everything's fine on the physical part.
I suggest you soft reset your device and try charging again -- could be the piece of software responsible for charging hung or went into instable state.
Hi all, i have a S200, when i power on the equipment the red led stay on, is on all the time,if i power off the equipment the led goes off , with equipment disconected (off) if i connect the charger the led goes on(red) if i disconect charger led goes off. Any help to solve this ? tks in advance. (escuse bad english)
I had something similar going on last year when I was on vacation in Spain.
I connected my Qtek S200 via an adapter to the cigarette lighter. Suddenly the light turned red. Never saw it before, I think the circuitboard in the adapter broke and so my Qtek got 12 Volt! The battery went extremely hot also.
Disconnected and bought a new adapter. Problem solved.
i using original charger and charger is ok , i have changed batery and problem is same,i have re-instaled windows mobile but no way......
Hi all.
I've bought a XDA IIi the XDA shows an orange/red blinking light when charging it trought a USB Cable to PC. According to the manual, it should be an amber solid led when charging it. The only solid led I've seen is a green one on the charger.
I'm available to sync trought ActiveSync, but XDA shows an orange/red blinking light and one post talking about that blinking orange led was caused by a low-power charging, but i use USB Cable to PC.
I always use USB to PC cable and charge my XDA phone.
I have exactly the same problem, any solutions?
Me too, same problem but additional headache no charge via usb nor wall charger. It also blinks on original wall charger also, set off charging also. its frustrating ARRRRGH.
Need solution badly
mine too
mine does it too but only once in awhile and if i soft reset my phone it goes back to charging like i listen to music and its charging and then suddenly the stupid orange light blinks and doesnt charge my phone and its annoying?
anyone have a solution?
The problem might be a near-dead or malfunctioning battery. Using a USB cable to charge does not fully charge a near-dead battery, and sometimes if the battery has completely discharged, the cable will not charge it.
Another solution...
I'm having the same problem... When i plug the usb connector the amber LED turn's on and hold. After some time the LED start to blink. When the led is blinking the battery doesn't charge.
There are some "software based" solution, or a debuging tool???
The orange led is normal that's how it is when it is in charging mode but the blinkink led is becouse of the conection with the phone and the USB try to move the USB in the phone plug it might work cuz it workd for me.
I hope i help'd u guys
What kind of move? Do you think that the problem is a bad electric contact? I guess not... I pluged and unpluged several times...
Well it workd for me becouse if i plug the usb cable to the end it has no connection that's way i move the cable back and forth untill i get the connection.
Blinking amber
I have the same problem on my htc p3300, and when i used batti 2.4 i saw that the battery temperature is 432675.5 etc something fake temerature. This is the reason, why my pda unable to charge my battery. If you set your pda in bootloader mode, it will charge your battery!. After 3 or more times i charged it in bootloader mode somethimes the battery temp sensor works normally, and the charge is working as well. Sometimes not.
Bat you can charge your battery allways in bootloader mode.
Sorry for my English.
Try it!
Good luck!
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smalll said:
I have the same problem on my htc p3300, and when i used batti 2.4 i saw that the battery temperature is 432675.5 etc something fake temerature. This is the reason, why my pda unable to charge my battery. If you set your pda in bootloader mode, it will charge your battery!. After 3 or more times i charged it in bootloader mode somethimes the battery temp sensor works normally, and the charge is working as well. Sometimes not.
Bat you can charge your battery allways in bootloader mode.
Sorry for my English.
Try it!
Good luck!
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does it show any indication while charging in bootloader mode???
i woke up this morning, and my htc8525, which had just been sitting on a table for a couple days, was off. battery ran out, i thought. i plugged it in to the wall adapter and not even the charging light came on. i plugged it in to a usb cord on my laptop and still no love. i cleaned the battery, charger and sim contacts with rubbing alcohol, still nothing;
i have not flashed it or updated software in it in over 2 months.
any suggestions on what could the problem be or how to fix it!?!?
thanks!
Try with another battery, sometimes batteries are hard to kickstart when they are completely drained.
Mmmm. Yes the charging circuit can get temperamental if the battery runs below 10%. But in that circumstance the Red LED will come on when the charger is connected.
The likely situation is that either:
1
The battery is completely flat and co-incidentally a pin is bent in the usb socket (thus preventing charging) - a somewhat unlikely co-incidence.
2
The internal on-board fuse is blown - this is actually not that uncommon.
You can see a pic of the fuse location in the Service Manuals section here:
www.mikechannon.net
Mike
I have made the assumption that the charger is operating normally.
similar problem here:
When connected (charger or USB cable) Red LED 'no charning' comes on.
How can I solve this problem and force the device to charge?
Thanks in advance
edit: I've downloaded Service Manual and tried to charge it - it's been almost 4 hours now, and Hermes is still dead, red LED still on (not amber)
To be clear, if the device shows a red LED then it's a charging circuit problem or a faulty battery. If no LEDs light up then it may be the fuse problem, USB connector, or battery connector block problem.
For situations where you get the red LED try these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1077622&postcount=6
Mike
Hi guys,
Suddenly facing a strange problem since last night.
My x10i was running out of charge & i connected to the comp to charge while i was working. I noticed the charging speed was extremely low, so i restarted the phone to see if it would help. Did not.
Thought there is some problem with the cable, used a different cable as well, but no use.
The slow charging had stopped and eventually the phone died.
Tried connecting to the socket & charging, still no use.
The red led blinks when i connect the phone to a charger via the usb or the socket.
needless to say the phone does not even boot up now, obviously for no charge...
any ideas wat maybe wrong or wat i could do ?
please advice
Have you tried to let it charge for some time in off mode? As long as your battery is not dead, and the phone get the right voltage through the USB connector it should charge in an "emergency mode". This is a slow way of charging, but allows for charging without any electronic circuits to monitor it, it is not the same as the charging screen that usually displays when you connect the phone while it is powered off. Usually when a phone is completely discharged it needs to be connected at least 15 min, sometimes a lot longer, before the electronics kicks in, and starts the speedcharging.
My best advise would be to connect it to the mains charger, or a USB port you KNOW supplies power. Some laptops cut down on the powersupply to the USB ports when they run on battery. Let it be connected for a long time (several hours), and then try to power it on again.
If that does not help three things can be wrong
1. Somewhere the USB connection is broken, either in the cable or in the connector on your phone (or on the PC's connector, but that is less likely).
2. The battery is dead, modern batteries contain circuits that actually disables the battery when any given parameters gets outside the defined limits. This is to prevent the battery catching fire. On some batteries this renders the battery useless, and you need a new battery.
3.) The mainboard of your phone is dead, and hence nothing works, can be ruled out if you can borrow a battery from someone to test if your phone works then.
I hope a good and long charge can sort out your problem, that is the easiest fix, and it is free.
Hi O_K,
well, i have been charging (or trying to) the phone since it died last night.
i have used different chargers & different modes of charge (through the system & the wall socket) - no joy at all.
the LED blinks red a couple of times when connected.
Very occasionally, the SONY ERICSSON logo (startup) shows on the screen & it switches off again, back to the blinking.
So charging for a long time & through different chargers has not helped.
gonna try a different battery now to see if that can help.
Thanks for your response!
well, tried switching chargers & batteries.
The problem seems to be with the charging unit on the phone (USB)
with any charger or battery, wen connected the led blinks (like wen the phone is charging), but there is no charge happening.
eventually the phone dies, even if charging
any ideas?
There is a thread some where in this forum for fixing the same problem you have...I don't remember the exact name of the thread..if I find it I'll post the link here..Anyways what the guy did was
-Pull the battery out and connect the charger till the led turns green.
-put in the battery now and charge the phone...
and I think that was it.
Hope it helped..
EDIT: Found the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944322