There's a major problem with my mda vario. Yesterday, I picked up my phone and it was extremely hot. when I tried chargin it, the the led stayed on red and then amber. after a while, the device itself turned on properly but just the screen doesnt come on. i can still tap the screen and hear sounds and use voice command to control everything but the screen remains off. does anyone know whats wrong with it? has anyone had this problem? i would really much appreciate if anyone could help fix this.
Sounds like a hardware problem to me - try a hard reset if you can see what you are doing or try and time it right. Ensure its not a battery problem - plug it into mains charger for a while to make sure its fully charged or if you can - borrow someone elses battery. But i think it may need to go back to your provider for repair.
i can't turn on my phone while it is charging throught usb and normal power. the red light is on but i just can't turn it on. anyone can help me with this? thanksXD
Did you run the battery all the way down?
Red light means charge is below acceptable level.
Yep red light means battery is below the level where it can power the device and it has to charge so that's is why it won't turn on. Just give it a good charge and it will be as good as new hopefully.
even when i plug it in with 50% it'll still be red light. is there something wrong?
I was having the same issue with a cingular branded 8525. hard reset didnt work..flashing the rom didnt work. at&t sent me a new one a few days ago for free.. just talk to their warranty exchange and tell them htc deemed the device defective.
...(then install wm6)
ya, i bought mine in HK so exchanging it is out of the question, anyone else have ideas?
This has been a problem that has affected a small number of Windows Mobile phones all along. This is not specific to the Hermes or any other WM PDA phone.
If you can't exchange it, and you've tried the basic things like a hard reset and flashing the ROM, then you'll just have to live with it.
(You do know that you should first try a hard reset for every problem like this, right?)
Hi everyone,
I have an unusual problem and I have searched almost the whole internet but I have not found an answer, so now I turn to you for any ideas. My problem is that over the past month, my amber/orange charge light remains constantly on, even when the phone is not charging. I have tried to soft reset, I have looked into HKLM->Drivers->BuiltIn->Battery key and have found no solution. The phone will still charge the battery OK. The other bluetooth light works OK, it still blinks when bluetooth is on. The right led remains orange. I have also tried to take out the battery and re-insert, but issue persists. I am using Faria's 3.3 and IPL/SPL is 2.26, radio is 2.61.11 for over 6 months on a WIZA100, but the issue has occurred a little over a month. Phone has always been well taken care of, no major drops and absolutely no water has ever touched it. Battery drain is normal, I get about 1 day and a half of normal usage, push email. I thought it was batterystatus, and I have removed it, but problem persists. When I soft reset, as soon as the IPL/SPL screen comes on, better yet, as soon as the HTC logo screen before the IPL/SPL screen comes on, the battery light remains constant orange. Any ideas? Please help!!
Sincerely,
Ricardo Cheing
Ricardo Cheing said:
Hi everyone,
I have an unusual problem and I have searched almost the whole internet but I have not found an answer, so now I turn to you for any ideas. My problem is that over the past month, my amber/orange charge light remains constantly on, even when the phone is not charging. I have tried to soft reset, I have looked into HKLM->Drivers->BuiltIn->Battery key and have found no solution. The phone will still charge the battery OK. The other bluetooth light works OK, it still blinks when bluetooth is on. The right led remains orange. I have also tried to take out the battery and re-insert, but issue persists. I am using Faria's 3.3 and IPL/SPL is 2.26, radio is 2.61.11 for over 6 months on a WIZA100, but the issue has occurred a little over a month. Phone has always been well taken care of, no major drops and absolutely no water has ever touched it. Battery drain is normal, I get about 1 day and a half of normal usage, push email. I thought it was batterystatus, and I have removed it, but problem persists. When I soft reset, as soon as the IPL/SPL screen comes on, better yet, as soon as the HTC logo screen before the IPL/SPL screen comes on, the battery light remains constant orange. Any ideas? Please help!!
Sincerely,
Ricardo Cheing
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It doesn't sound like you've tried hard resetting your device yet. Hard resetting the device will not revert back to manufacturers rom but will bring you back to the part where you configure the phone, before customization.
I imagine this is the only way you are going to get the orange light to go away, at least when its not charging... You can hard reset by holding the comm manager and voice button and pressing the reset button with the stylus.
BACK UP EVERYTHING BEFORE HARD RESETTING!!!! If you do not, you will lose everything on the device IE: music, videos, pictures, documents etc...
Try to use another Radio ROM version. The charging related issues are related to the Radio ROM.
Thanks guys, I will change the radio rom on my phone before hard resetting. I didn't want to try to hard reset because of the way I already have my phone configured. I have heard there is a way to create a cab with all customizations, but I'll have to figure out how to do this. I will report more later, because I'm at work right now and I don't have the usb cable.
Ricardo Cheing said:
Thanks guys, I will change the radio rom on my phone before hard resetting. I didn't want to try to hard reset because of the way I already have my phone configured. I have heard there is a way to create a cab with all customizations, but I'll have to figure out how to do this. I will report more later, because I'm at work right now and I don't have the usb cable.
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Hi, my phone last night (O2 XDA Mini S (Wizard)) started the exact same symptoms as you. At half 4 last night the screen came on and the phone claimed to be charging, while unplugged. I soft reset, but no change. by the morning the phone now claims to be fully charged. I've taken the battery out for a while, soft reset but nothing has worked so far, it now claims to be 100% charged constatnly, so i'm currently running the battery down to see what happens.
did you ever find a solution to this?
Hello, just wanted to update the thread, after 1-2 months of the battery charging light always on, no matter what, it fixed all by itself as I was preparing to hard reset my phone, no BS, I swear. I took the phone in my hand and was debating if I should hard reset or just flash another radio rom, and bam, I saw the light go back to normal, blinking green. That day it went back to always on, but then it would fix itself, but finally it's back to normal. So I went ahead and flashed the official T-MO 2.26/ 2.26.11 ROM which downgraded my Radio from 2.61 back to 2.26.11 and replaced my OS and then I flashed the official T-MO 3.08/ 2.69.11 ROM which upgraded my IPL/SPL and Radio. I then flashed Dr. Dot's BlackDiamond 2.0 WM6 and applied the 2.69.11 radio fix on XDA Mobile 6 Release 3. My phone has been wonderful since, thanks everyone.
hi leewebster try this and let me know if it works for you
thanks Ricardo Cheing ,
your input helped as this problem started when i had charged my phone with wife's dopod m700 charger
any way after playing around for some time i figured a workaround for it
i did the regitry hack for disabling the charging via the usb,
powered off the device by pressing the power button then took out the battery and put it back and then powered the device and the problem was sorted also the phone now will not charge when connected to the comp
now if i enable the charging via the usb then the problem returns
hope this is of help to somebody
ps: registry for disabling charging via usb
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/DRIVERS/BUILTIN/usbfndrv
enablineUsbcharging change the value to "0" (for disabling)
and
"1" (for re enabling)
Thanks for this tip, I have added a reference to this thread in the Wizard Wiki
just to update
today i re enabled the charging via the usb by making the registry hack , powered down the phone took out the battery and then restarted the device and was pleasently surprised to see that the device no longer had the solid amber light
device is working absolutely fine
Sweet hack
Hi, The post about disabling USB charging does indeed cure the charge light on all the time. Now the battery status works correctly. Only drawback was I use a cradle to charge with a USB plugged into a wall adapter. It won't work because of the USB being disabled and I mistakenly assumed since it was plugged into the wall it would although USB is USB whether powered from wall or computer. The factory AC adapter charges it fine though and the annoying light on all the time is gone. SWEET!! I will also re-enable it just to see if it remains gone like you did after a few days, and hopefully it will. If it doesn't I can live with it the way it is now
Thanks for the post!
Amber Charge Light Always ON!
wizard1 said:
Hi, The post about disabling USB charging does indeed cure the charge light on all the time. Now the battery status works correctly. Only drawback was I use a cradle to charge with a USB plugged into a wall adapter. It won't work because of the USB being disabled and I mistakenly assumed since it was plugged into the wall it would although USB is USB whether powered from wall or computer. The factory AC adapter charges it fine though and the annoying light on all the time is gone. SWEET!! I will also re-enable it just to see if it remains gone like you did after a few days, and hopefully it will. If it doesn't I can live with it the way it is now
Thanks for the post!
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Dear All,
Please help me if possible. I have been facing this same issue, however, when I go to battery icon and click on it, the next screen shows that the battery bar is running as it runs during charging, though the device is not connected neither with USB and/or wall charger, amber light is also stays on. I did hard reset, i did soft reset, I took the battery out and put it back in, all my efforts are in vain, no success sofar. I must tell everyone here that this is my third battery and the last two faced the same problem and then died and now they are useless, using those two batteries, i can't turn the device on, i cannot charge the device, they are garbage now, please help if possible!
Is There any solution to this....
hi I have been facing the same problem in my HTC touch Viva (India))...... but the problem is random .......... all of a sudden the light comes on and the phone claims to be charging without any source of charging ............... however in my case soft reset makes the light revert back to normal......but the problem re occurs after a few hours ....... I have tried every solution given on the internet (Hard Reset , registry hack etc) ....... but no avail.........Has anyone found a solution to this
My phone Specifications
WM 6.1
ROM 1.35.720.2 WWE
RADIO 03.37.90
Hi.
Got my Nike about one week ago, and everything was fine but from few days green LED is turned on constantly, also if i will turn off the phone. It only goes off if i will take out the battery, but straight after putting it back into phone it lights up :/ When phone is turned on and the LED is on and i will slide keyboard out and in it goes off for some time. I turned off diodes in registry but it's still the same.
Can any one help me? It looks like it's draining battery much faster frome the time it happened for first time.
Thanks for help
not sure it will help, but test NUELED 1.5:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=111075&d=1220599385
Thanks for that app, but i don't think that it will help because led is on also when the phone is turned off, but any way i will give it a try.
Tried to hard reset it last night but it's still the same.
Regards
So i've been making multiple posts on here regarding the fact that i have been unable to receive text messages for the past week on my native messaging app and the only way i can get them is thru google voice. Well i was never able to fix that and last night i plugged my phone into the charger and went to sleep, everything working fine.. I guess at 7am my girlfriend turned my alarm off on my phone and it was working fine, then around 8:15am i woke up to find my EVO off.. So at first i figured well i must not have put the charger all the way in and it died, so i put it back onto the charger and realized the light was not coming on at all and the EVO wasn't turning on, I tried another charger and my car charger and none of them get the LED light on the front to turn on like it normally does when charging, and i cannot get my EVO to turn on at all now, i get nothing. What do you guys think could have happened? It's just dead, the charger doesn't work or even turn the LED light orange, and i can't get it to turn on at all, just nothing. Any Ideas? I've been dreading having to get an insurance phone because of the fact it cannot be rooted and i run MIUI on my phone, so i was just living with the google voice text issue, but i had to go ahead and file my claim this morning because my phone wont even come on now.. The thing that scares me is that if HTC is able to get my phone to turn on, they're going to find out that i rooted it and it's running MIUI? Once they ship my insurance phone and i send my rooted phone back in, is there anything they can do?
Probably a dead battery
Edit: As in, will no longer work, not just depleted of charge. When you get the replacement switch out batteries, and see if it works.
They will not do anything to your account. Sprint now works on rooted phones, as long as it's not a software issue. Besides it's not like you are going to be able to root the replacement anyway.
What would cause the battery to just die and not charge ? and wouldn't the charger still get the orange LED light to come on ?
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Besides it's not like you are going to be able to root the replacement anyway.
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Looking at this thing running the stock OS makes me sad. Still such a nice phone, though.
When you made your insurance claim you should have said it was lost. $100 for a new phone and they won't see your rooted one.
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When you made your insurance claim you should have said it was lost. $100 for a new phone and they won't see your rooted one.
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They really don't care if it's rooted; the only reason they want the phones back is so that they can try and refurb them.