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Let me give you the run down. I recently bricked my phone trying a 2.3.320 SBF update which got stuck on the M logo. I followed steps as on rootzwiki and got my phone working again, with the new 2.3.320 update. I backed up my cricket APN so the reflash wasn't to bad. I use Droid Overclock at low volts running 1.2Ghz. I have done so for months...never had an issue....ran smooth and fast.
After the new SBF update and re-rooting and running my usual overclock settings, my phone got a lil warmer then usual. I was removing bloat at this point, nothing else. I could not get it to boot into the homescreen...I thought this was unusual as I did not delete any important files ( just bloat ). So, I restarted it, so I thought.
I can not even get it to turn on and after several hours on the charger, It will not turn on! I can get into bootloader but all it states is
Batter Low
Cannot Program
When it's plugged into the USB on my computer, the LED light turns solid green and stays green unless I unplug it. I can not turn it on nor boot into recovery. Only thing I can do is load bootloader and get that exact same message everytime.
My phone is in mint condition. Nothing less then perfect....until today, until I loaded the new 2.3.320 using RSD Lite. Whats going on with my phone? Is it a goner? I will be heading to the VZW store for a brand new battery but I don't think it is the case.
Ideas? Anyone? Sad, sad day for my X...
I think the problem may be that you accidently removed the files necessary for it to charge. If you knew someone else that had the same phone, you could try charging your battery in his phone. That could possibly work.
It had 70% charge when I turned it off to reboot it the first time.
Wierdest thing, as I was reading your post...CWM just started up out of no where and out of excitment, I grabbed my phone and hit the camera button on accident and it rebooted, past the M logo but got stuck on the Droid animation! I had my chance to flash it back to a working nandroid and missed it.
Something wierd is going on here...
If you pull the battery, put it in, then plug it in you should go right to CWM. Keep playing with it until you make it in. I know my phone won't boot up (dead battery), but still gets to CWM.
Might have to jump start it
If the battery is too dead you'll either have to borrow a battery or cut a USB cable to 'jump start' it. I found a post with pictures on how to do it for mine, or look for one of my old posts where I describe it a little.
Use the wall charger. I have the same problem except when my phones dead it wont charge over a computer USB cause its not getting the correct voltage for it to charge. Try that if that's not the case then use another battery and sbf.
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Ok here's what happened:
1.) Rooted using z4
2.) koush bootstrapped
3.) CWM recovery installed using rom manager
4.) wiped data through cwm and koush
5.) wiped system
6.) installed liberty 1.5
7.) rebooted. Let liberty boot up.
Problem is, she had about 15% battery left upon the start of all this. When i got back into liberty it almost immediately rebooted, and shut off. When i plugged in charging cord connected to computer, green LED came on, which shows me that maybe the battery is charging. Couldnt get power to come back on phone. Wondering if the phone was just too dead to come on or if i've bricked it by not having enough charge?
The woman who owns the phone had to leave suddenly with the phone , so I cant really find out till later tonight if she got it to turn on or not.
One word of advice and then I will help you:
always always always charge your phone before flashing anything.
Now to help you:
There is a way to charge your battery without it being in your phone. Actually there are two; one costs money, and one is fun
Money method: Buy a dock for the battery. It will charge it and youre all set.
Fun free method: this is also referenced as the "macgyver" method. It involves splicing a USB cable and putting the cable ends on your battery. It is not hard but could possibly be dangerous if you can't read instructions. Google it as I don't know the exact wording and I do not want to lead you in the wrong path
i have unlocked my atrix fine, then failed to flash gingerbread, and so tried to flash back to the original tmobile 2.2.2, but during the sbf flash through terminal, it just stopped dead, then after a while rebooted the phone, and now it does nothing. except the green charge light comes on when plugged in via usb. the power button appears to do nothing, so i cant boot back into fastboot or RSD. help pleeease XD
*EDIT* i have just rebooted with fastboot after many tries to boot failed 4, which is ok i can deal with that, but also "battery to low to flash"
is the phone charging when the green light is on, even when it cant boot? if so thats fine and i'll delete the thread. many thanks
ishamm said:
i have unlocked my atrix fine, then failed to flash gingerbread, and so tried to flash back to the original tmobile 2.2.2, but during the sbf flash through terminal, it just stopped dead, then after a while rebooted the phone, and now it does nothing. except the green charge light comes on when plugged in via usb. the power button appears to do nothing, so i cant boot back into fastboot or RSD. help pleeease XD
*EDIT* i have just rebooted with fastboot after many tries to boot failed 4, which is ok i can deal with that, but also "battery to low to flash"
is the phone charging when the green light is on, even when it cant boot? if so thats fine and i'll delete the thread. many thanks
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First Rule, always charge your battery to the full before flashing.
Second Rule, always read the instructions carefully beforehand. Most importantly the warnings.
Third Rule, always follow the steps exactly as described.
Fourth Rule, if u face any hiccups or problems please describe in detail. Which version of Atrix, which country, how were u flashing, how did u unlock, what steps did u follow.
tbh i didnt realise that the phone couldnt charge while in fast boot, never even crossed my mind to check. im ok getting the phone out of RSD etc, and am aware of all the warnings, i suppose the real issue here is that when i plug the phone in, it boots up to the fail to boot/RSD screen, and wont charge. is there any way i can force it not to try to boot? thanks
Unfortunately, this sounds like the classic bricking situation. However, more details are required to be sure. To start:
What GB file did you use to upgrade from froyo?
What exactly is your error message?
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Buy an external battery charger so you can charge your battery. You can still flash ROMs when you have a fully charge battery using RSD Lite.
i tried to upgrade to GB with an orange sbf, since it seems from other forums tmobile people had had success with it. for whatever reason mine failed at the end, leaving me with RSD mode, then when i tried to flash back to the tmobile sbf from the Original sbf thread, the process just stopped part way through (it had worked fine before, with the same method) and again left me with RSD, but with low charge this time. is there no way around this without buying a charging station? i'd like to save money if possible, and with shipping the phone would be out of action for days, not ideal, though of course if its between that and an argument with tmobile about unlocking/waranty, i'll spend the £20 XD thanks
ishamm said:
i tried to upgrade to GB with an orange sbf, since it seems from other forums tmobile people had had success with it. for whatever reason mine failed at the end, leaving me with RSD mode, then when i tried to flash back to the tmobile sbf from the Original sbf thread, the process just stopped part way through (it had worked fine before, with the same method) and again left me with RSD, but with low charge this time. is there no way around this without buying a charging station? i'd like to save money if possible, and with shipping the phone would be out of action for days, not ideal, though of course if its between that and an argument with tmobile about unlocking/waranty, i'll spend the £20 XD thanks
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If you have a spare USB cable you can use it to charge the battery. Search on YouTube for how to charge any phone without a charger
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do you mean charging with a stripped down usb cable? would that not cause the phone to still boot up? the videos i have seen before clamp the wires between the battery and phone terminals, i would of thought this would make the phone boot as it is, without charging since i only have RSD mode? if im wrong, thatd be great, but if not ive found a battery only charger for £0.99 XD
ishamm said:
do you mean charging with a stripped down usb cable? would that not cause the phone to still boot up? the videos i have seen before clamp the wires between the battery and phone terminals, i would of thought this would make the phone boot as it is, without charging since i only have RSD mode? if im wrong, thatd be great, but if not ive found a battery only charger for £0.99 XD
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from what i remember someone posting who was in your situation, they did this and it gave their battery a charge. it's worth a try right?
Ok my buddy has an atrix 4g for ATT. he 'said' he was in cwm and loading a rom and now its softbricked. though i am familiar with droid, after reading recovery threads and everything, im still unsure of my resolution. most threads tell me i need an unlocked bootloader, others say not to flash if you were on this version. Honestly i have no idea if the BL is locked, what version or update he was on. at the moment it says failed to boot, starting RSD mode, battery is too low to flash.
A. will it charge while it says that or how should i charge it in this state?
B. after it does charge, what should i flash to it?
I apologize that i dont have much information. you have no idea how long it took me to find the power button lol. I appreciate any and all suggestions. Thanks
You definitely need to get more information from him before you can do anything. If his bootloader wasn't unlocked, then he was likely trying to flash one of the P-Roms like Greyblur or Gingerblur, in which case your solution will be a lot messier since the only way I remember accessing recovery back then was by using Tenfar's CWM app that reset it to recovery w/ a wall charger.
As for charging the phone, I don't recommend keeping it on and plugged in, in the chance that it doesn't charge and you are left with a dead battery. When the phone is completely off and you plug the charger in, do you see the charging battery?
When the phone is plugged into the wall charger it boots up automatically and says failed to boot 1, starting rsd, battery too low to flash. If I plug it into my pc the green power light turns on but nothing else happens. I never get any pictures on screen. No battery and no motorola logo. He was on 2.3.4 but he took his sd so I couldn't see what he was trying to flash. I will try to get more info
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Same thing happened to me, and I can assure you it doesn't charge in that state. I have to find a way to charge the battery now... It is 0% dead. I hope I can use RSD Lite to fix it when it is charged.
alright, what happened was his battery was too low to finish the flash. it died halfway through, and now the phone is in some sort of limbo state that is just completely unusable.
but, if you have a spare USB cable you can fix this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6JNCvIe8k
just watch that video, and let your phone charge for about half an hour to 45 minutes. after that, reflash the pudding .sbf with rsdlite (unless you can boot into recovery, then you can just reflash any ROM)
If you can boot the phone into recovery by holding the volume down key when powering on, then simply find the alien rom, save onto your SD card from the PC, then install in recovery...then you should be able to reboot into a working phone and charge. If you can't boot into recovery, and the phone is stuck on the "starting rsd protocol" screen, than...I think its a paper weight, but I could be wrong.
Although this problem could probably be fixed by an earlier post, I'm curious....
what would happen if you plugged it into the wall charger, let it boot up into the boot loop, then pulled the battery, left it out for 30 seconds, then put it back in. (this is without unplugging it from the wall charger). Does it allow the phone to stay off and charge, or does it still automatically boot up? Just curious.
im gonna look at the youtube video. ive got a D3 and i saw where a kid had cut a usb cable and made something work for 30 minutes and was able to flash again, but i was def trying to avoid that lol. also, there is no loop really. it doesnt restart, it just sits there. when the battery is pulled, it still stays on the same screen and never powers off until the charger is removed. i may see if i can get a new battery. i really apprecaite the feedback
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Although this problem could probably be fixed by an earlier post, I'm curious....
what would happen if you plugged it into the wall charger, let it boot up into the boot loop, then pulled the battery, left it out for 30 seconds, then put it back in. (this is without unplugging it from the wall charger). Does it allow the phone to stay off and charge, or does it still automatically boot up? Just curious.
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It will not charge in this state
well my only option at this moment is to try the usb trick. im trying to strip the wire and hook it to the connector on the phone and then just smash teh battery on top of it, but i have no idicator light, so i dont know if its charging. would it charge if i tape/rig/solder it to the battery itself and not have it in the phone? i really dont wanna try a wall outlet charger
I am going to splice a cable and report back with results. My only other option is to charge the battery in my friend's Droid X
If that fails, to AT&T I go.
i havent been able to get it to charge through the usb using the red and black wires. i was very careful and have a decent set of tools to work with. he can buy the external battery charger for $30 if he'd like. im not really sure what else to do at this point.
Okay everyone.
I have a huge problem.
Yesterday I flashed the CM9 5th March Quarx ROM on my Defy Red Lense with the CM9 Kernel.
Everything went through fine, and I loved it.
Today, I was using my phone to have it suddenly reboot.
I think, well OK must be a bug or something. So then this weird thing comes up - where the battery icon would normally be is a question mark in the battery.
I thought my phone was fully charged when it crashed, so I pull out the battery and put it in again. Then I try to boot again. Doesn't work.
So I plug in the charger, and it boots, but the question mark is still there.
Same thing.
Then I try to get into 2nd init, works fine. I can access everything, save for stock recovery, which, when I select, just leaves me on red Motorola Logo.
I tried to do factory reset, but leaves me on question mark.
The other thing is, there is an option in 2nd Init called 2nd Boot. I tried booting with this and it presents me with a screwed up version of CM9. I get the boot logo for ages - like its starting up for the first time, and then always the android intro. Wifi doesnt work, neither does cell reception.
When I unplug charger, dies.
When I start again, all data wiped and same intro screen again.
This problem is also here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1537083
Noone really helped, so hopefully I get some help here!
Thanks
Hello everyone and me.
So i've been working on my problem for ages now.
One thing that seems to have made it better is that I found out its the fact that the battery is flat - you will get battery is low cannot program in bootloader.
The fix is to get someone elses battery or charge yours somehow - i'm gonna avoid playing mcgyver, for the sole reason that if you plug it into you computer, it will trickle charge. This won't happen with anything else.
SO
-Plug into computer
-White LED will go
-Phone wont show anything
-Leave for ages
-Then press on, and it will burst into life, hopefully enough time to sort out boot, and then plug into mains charger
-HASNT WORKED FOR ME COMPLETELY YET
must..be..patient..
You might have installed the defy+ version with GB kernel, for which you need Battery fix to be flashed, after this every thing should be normal, once I did the same thing when I first tried CM9, i observed that battery is not updating at all, and all of sudden phone is dead and when I plugged the charger, theres a just question mark.
I just kept the phone for charging, but hardly it went up for about 5%, then i restored my old nandroid backup. So the phone booted up correctly, after that i installed CM9 and then battery fix, then after its working flawlessly.
This is a link to battery fix of Auris.
http://www.4shared.com/zip/UR1QUISz/...ttery_Fix.html
THANKS!
Awesome!
Thanks so much, its great to have helpful people on this site.
This is exactly what i've done, didn't know about battery.
I'll try it now!
You can as well install walter79 kernel 4.5.2-109_DHT-22 for better battery. I installed it and runnng fine with good battery life.
You can see how CM9 kernel is performing for 1 or 2 days, then you can flash http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=804956&d=1323018232 this kernel and see. You dont need to install battery patch with walter79 kernel. Enjoy!