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8125 Dead

I have a 8125 and I was able to unlock it fine. After unlocking it I upgraded to the underground crossbow edition rom - which the 8125 rebooted and was running. I tried out a couple things and everything seemed to be running/working fine. It was getting late so I put it down and went to bed. This morning when I got up the phone was off so I went to turn it on and nothing happened. I figured it just ran out of battery power plugged in the charger and guess what no red light on. I have tried everything under the sun but I cant get it to charge or startup. Anyone have any ideas? It was working fine.

i know u said u've tried everything and i don't mean to sound like i'm takin the buscuit, but leave it on charge for n hour, then try bootloader. taking the battery out completely for a while could work.
i had so many problems with crossbow! think this was one of them.

Unplugged
Well so far I left the charger plugged into the phone with the battery in it for over an hour now - with no luck. The red charging light doesn't even come on. Did you have that problem? I also left the battery out and plugged in - still nothing. Tried taking the battery out and then putting it back in while plugged in - no go.
I have not tried the "bootloader" - but the phone will not turn on at all or respond in anyway. Its in a powered down state (or so it seems) - I dont think bootloader will work?? But I dont know anything about bootloader - is it on the ftp site and how do I use it?

Any chance the battery could have been completely discharged?..just a thought. I think i read that completely flat batteries wont charge up via usb. Disregard if thats a silly suggestion, just thought id offer my two cents.

try getting a new battery and see if it boots up...it can be your battery.and you are trying to charge with an AC adapter right?

Wall Charger
I am charing it via the wall charger (not usb) and I am going to try to get another battery. Just weird that I never had a battery problem until I install the wm6??!! Unless the damn thing drained my battery dry and somehow damaged the battery. I called Cingular and they are sending me another unit as its still in warranty. So we'll see when I get it - I will try the new battery. Strange. Very Strange - because everything was working last night.

Strange
Well after leaving the battery out all afternoon I took a go at the phone again, put in the battery then turned it on. It actually started booting up - showing the WM6 bootscreen. After about a minute it shut down like it was out of power. Strange. I know the phone is not bricked because if it was it wouldn't have just done what it did. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it?

Could be a bad battery. You need to test out with some one else battery
HuddaDudda said:
Well after leaving the battery out all afternoon I took a go at the phone again, put in the battery then turned it on. It actually started booting up - showing the WM6 bootscreen. After about a minute it shut down like it was out of power. Strange. I know the phone is not bricked because if it was it wouldn't have just done what it did. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it?
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HuddaDudda said:
Well after leaving the battery out all afternoon I took a go at the phone again, put in the battery then turned it on. It actually started booting up - showing the WM6 bootscreen. After about a minute it shut down like it was out of power. Strange. I know the phone is not bricked because if it was it wouldn't have just done what it did. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it?
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u shud have plugged it in while it was booting...did u?

New Battery
Well I finally got the new battery I ordered today. When I put it into my phone it will boot into wm6 fine but will not sync with activesync 4.0 or charge via USB or plugged into the wall. I uninstalled activesync, rebooted my computer and installed Activesync 4.5 - but still no luck with the phone via usb syncing with my pc. Also when the phone in plugged into the wall via the wall charger it does not charge. I am beginning to think the port on the bottom somehow was disabled from the rom update, although I dont see any posts with people having that problem. I guess my next option is trying to reflash it to stock rom via a sd card since it wont connect via USB - however I can not find the information step by step how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Try going to the bootloader screen: Turn off your phone and then hold the camera button while you turn it on. When you are at the Rainbow screen (thats the bootloader) plug in your USB cord. You should see in the bottom left (above the left soft key) where it says USB. If it doesn't then I'd say your USB port is broken (I'm not aware of any ROM being able to disable that).
As for flashing from the SD card, I believe thats documented in the Wiki...

HELP battery 100% dead, wont charge!

i was working today and the phone died on me. Havent charged it in days. I came home, tried to turn it on real quick, and it turned on and then off before it booted up, then i was like ah hell ill plug it in. plugged it in it started to boot so i went to wash my car. hour and a half later i came back to grab my phone and its dead. no light, no anything, just dead, unplug it, tried to start it. dead. nothing, no light. I thought ok, cable broke. so its plugged into my laptop via usb and still dead. any ideas? its flashed with wm6 im leaving the country monday and i need this working!!!

I've had this problem before. I just left it plugged in and eventually (after a few hours) it started charging.

Are you using the original MDA charger? I had a similar problem when using a motorola charger...

WIZ don`t power up

I though my battery died so I bought new one, but it doesn`t respond also.
On friday there was problem with display and device automaticaly restarted
I opened it and something like this is not connected anywhere. I can`t see anything in service manual like that. Do you know what is it and where it suppose to be connected ?

That's a holder for the stylus.
There's a small screw that goes through it when it's in place and it holds the stylus from falling. It's very easy to place it back!

xusso said:
That's a holder for the stylus.
There's a small screw that goes through it when it's in place and it holds the stylus from falling. It's very easy to place it back!
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Ok, thanks, so it`s not for battery so my wizard is dead definitely

It may not be your battery!
I had my wizard die in much the same manner as your's. I thought it was a gonner until I ran across a site somewhere with a whole group of people with the same problem with their wizard. I'm only guessing, but I think you let your battery run very low and the device shut down, which is alright, until you consider that it cannot charge without the operating system (Windows)
up and running! I had to cut the mini end of a usb to mini usb cable, strip the black and red wires and hold the black to the negative pole of the battery and the red to the positive pole while it was plugged into the usb port on the desktop computer for about 20-30 seconds. Then replaced the battery in the phone, booted windows and recharged with the home charger. It worked great, but now I carry a fully charged battery with me, in case it happens again and I,m out somewhere where I can't jump start the battery with the cable trick. I think this method is also mentioned somwhere on this site. Good luck and let me know if it works.......

Oh. I also though it is the problem with charging, but the night before my battery was fully loaded and in the morning the phone died without possibility to boot up. two days later I`ve buy the new battery and put into the Wiz...nothing.
I asked salesmen if it`s possible that the new battery is charged under possibility of the phone, but he said it`s definitely not. So I suspect that something happened to the hardware.
I`ve tried connecting USB directly to the battery also, before I buing new one, but it also didn`t worked for me.
Before it completely died there was several hangups on today screen and once even on the booting splash screen, with the strange situation where the radio ROM was not displayed at all :/ ??
After this several reboot sesions it has not started again.

I didn't catch the whole story from the beginning, but did you drop the Wiz? I dropped mine, and I am going through the same exact thing with the Radio not showing up. Mine only gets to the first splash screen, and enters an endless reboot loop.
If we can find a solution to this problem, I'd DEFINITELY love it. Until then, I'll still be sad.
esselite said:
Oh. I also though it is the problem with charging, but the night before my battery was fully loaded and in the morning the phone died without possibility to boot up. two days later I`ve buy the new battery and put into the Wiz...nothing.
I asked salesmen if it`s possible that the new battery is charged under possibility of the phone, but he said it`s definitely not. So I suspect that something happened to the hardware.
I`ve tried connecting USB directly to the battery also, before I buing new one, but it also didn`t worked for me.
Before it completely died there was several hangups on today screen and once even on the booting splash screen, with the strange situation where the radio ROM was not displayed at all :/ ??
After this several reboot sesions it has not started again.
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Hi there,
As you can see I'm very new to this forum but I too have just come across this problem this morning.
My battery was fully charged yesterday and I had my alarm set to wake me up this morning but it did not go off. I checked and it was all set ok so I did a soft reboot. It hasn't come on since. A took out the battery for a while and it managed to boot up to the WM6 screen but then switched off.
Now it seems the device doesnt even switch on
IPL/SPL 2.22.002 (I think from memory)
OS 6.0xxx
Running the TNT rom not sure what version (was ebayed)

Have you plugged it in through the wall, and not the PC? Somehow mine came back to life this morning, all I did was plug it into the wall AC power WITHOUT a SIM card, and it booted like normal first try.
Madlew said:
Hi there,
As you can see I'm very new to this forum but I too have just come across this problem this morning.
My battery was fully charged yesterday and I had my alarm set to wake me up this morning but it did not go off. I checked and it was all set ok so I did a soft reboot. It hasn't come on since. A took out the battery for a while and it managed to boot up to the WM6 screen but then switched off.
Now it seems the device doesnt even switch on
IPL/SPL 2.22.002 (I think from memory)
OS 6.0xxx
Running the TNT rom not sure what version (was ebayed)
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Samsung stuck in boot loop( I think )

About 20 minutes ago my phone recently shut down, and repeatedly starts up for 2 seconds (to the sgh-t959d screen) then shuts down again and does it immediately after. I've taken the battery out, i've plugged it into the computer but the computer doesn't seem to recognize it and the screen goes to the charging battery for 2 seconds then shuts off and does it again repeatedly. I'm currently running a 2.2 froyo firmware, the phone is about 2 months old and this happened out of nowhere I haven't downloaded any apps or anything onto the phone recently, it seems about 70% charged and I do not know what to do, if anyone has any advice for me please reply and help. This phone is not rooted and is 100% stock I have done nothing to it.
I've also tried going into download mode but it goes onto it for a second then restarts the phone.

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About 20 minutes ago my phone recently shut down, and repeatedly starts up for 2 seconds (to the sgh-t959d screen) then shuts down again and does it immediately after. I've taken the battery out, i've plugged it into the computer but the computer doesn't seem to recognize it and the screen goes to the charging battery for 2 seconds then shuts off and does it again repeatedly. I'm currently running a 2.2 froyo firmware, the phone is about 2 months old and this happened out of nowhere I haven't downloaded any apps or anything onto the phone recently, it seems about 70% charged and I do not know what to do, if anyone has any advice for me please reply and help. This phone is not rooted and is 100% stock I have done nothing to it.
I've also tried going into download mode but it goes onto it for a second then restarts the phone.
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How are you running 2.2 if the phone is unrooted/stock? Did you mean 2.1?
Can you plug it into a wall without the battery in and boot it?
Perhaps a hardware issue?
EDIT: just noticed the phone wont boot without a battery in. Maybe your battery **** the bed? Do you have a verizon store nearby? I would stop in and have them put in a spare battery quick to see if that solves the problem..

Well not completely stock, it's unrooted though.
No I can't run the phone without the battery by plugging it in.

bumping this thread

Sounds like you dont have a fascinate, you should mention that... have you tried download mode? Pull batt, hold vol down, plug in usb
Sent from my stock 2.1
unrooted, fully bloated (for now) Fascinate

Atrix will not sync to computer

Alright guys after having a problem with my first Atrix, it was unfixable, but it was okay because I got myself a replacement.
So I got home and plugged it into the Wall Charger for an hour and it charged to 100%.
After that I plugged it into my computer, I was surprised that the phone just shut itself straight off. I ignored it and turned it back on. I then noticed that the phone could not sync to my computer no matter what I did. It doesn't even charge, like my first one. It does however show a solid green led. My first Motorola synced right away when I plugged it into my computer.
Are these phones really this defective? I'm probably going for another phone if I can't fix this one. Any help guys? Nothing was installed on the phone except my blur account. I have Moto Media Link and Helper installed on my Windows.

Do you have the latest and greatest USB drivers installed for the Atrix?
I believe this may be your problem!

I got them here.
http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-...tware_and_Drivers/USB-and-PC-Charging-Drivers
I did not download the PC Charging Drivers though.
Edit: How is it possible that I get two defectives in a row?
I always talk **** about my iPhone and now I take it all back. Haha. Seems like whenever something goes wrong with my iPhone I can always just hard reset it or restore it and it's good as new. This phone seems unfixable even after factory resets and battery removal trick.
The phone is now showing the same symptoms as my old phone and it's just an matter of time before the battery runs out and the phone is left nonchargeable. The battery is stuck at 90% for some reason and won't go down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149451
I hate that AT&T doesn't carry any better phones than the Atrix at Bestbuy.
Update 2: Got a second replacement in the same day. Working as intended. For now.