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
So after a long fiasco of installing an old GB leak before installing the latest version, to running into force close loops and freezing at the M logo. So finally i reflashed everything and rebooted and bam! i finally got 596 to work. But i noticed that my battery logo had a question mark and that it basically wasn't recognizing my battery. I thought maybe a simple reboot will fix it, went in cwm and flashed the 596 deodexer and rebooted. Got into the lock screen when i noticed it immediately said Connect Charger. When i unlocked the screen after about 10 seconds it went black and my phone wouldn't turn on. If i connect it to pc the led flashes blue for a second meaning the battery is dead but with the battery not being recognized it cannot charge. If i connect it to a wall charger it loads up the M logo and goes to the battery charging screen, when you completely drain your phone and need to wait til its 5% to turn on, but again has a question mark in it. I don't have any external chargers either. Whats my best course of action? Do i have to go out and buy a new battery...? All helps appreciated.
im very sorry about bumping my thread.., but my phones just sitting here useless and its very aggravating and extremely inconvenient so once again, any and all help is appreciated please gentlemen(ladies).
If you can boot even for a second, boot into clockwork recovery and find the option to wipe battery stats. I would try that.
Also, even with a charge, booting while plugged into AC causes it to show the charging screen. Unplug it, turn on your phone, and in the middle of booting THEN plug it in.
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djsupersoak said:
If you can boot even for a second, boot into clockwork recovery and find the option to wipe battery stats. I would try that.
Also, even with a charge, booting while plugged into AC causes it to show the charging screen. Unplug it, turn on your phone, and in the middle of booting THEN plug it in.
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Thank you for the reply, ill try wiping the batter stats asap might have to end up ghetto rigging a charge into it. Ive heard that car chargers/external chargers will still charge it, is this correct? I would love to try your second idea except for again i don't even have a charge anymore. i tap the lock button and the led flickers blue for half a second, which if im not mistaken means the battery is completely dead. While i guess its always possible, never really expected my phone to just randomly stop realizing there's a motorola batter inside of there.
Edit: also if im not mistaken i believe that i had tried to plug the charger into after/during boot up and it still says its not a certified battery or whatever the message is and refuses to charge.
Not entirely sure about the car charger idea. It might work. Kind of skeptical on that if it won't even charge when connected to a computer. You could always purchase a new battery, maybe the extended. If it doesn't work just return it. If you don't want to purchase one, I possibly could ship you an extra one just to borrow and try to see if it's a battery or phone issue.
If you have a friend with another droid x you could try borrowing his or her battery to see if the actual battery is the issue without buying one...
It sounds to me like the battery stats on your phone got corrupted when flashing the new software and need to be cleared, which as said before can be done in CW recovery. There is also an app called BatteryCalibration which will help the situation also after you actually get booted up.
Hope this helps!
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If you have a friend with another droid x you could try borrowing his or her battery to see if the actual battery is the issue without buying one...
It sounds to me like the battery stats on your phone got corrupted when flashing the new software and need to be cleared, which as said before can be done in CW recovery. There is also an app called BatteryCalibration which will help the situation also after you actually get booted up.
Hope this helps!
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I have actually seen the app before, at the time didnt really notice what it did but i understand a bit more now. If any of the actual charging methods work ill definitely try that. Might just have to hook it up to a split usb for a while to get a decent charge.
djsupersoak said:
Not entirely sure about the car charger idea. It might work. Kind of skeptical on that if it won't even charge when connected to a computer. You could always purchase a new battery, maybe the extended. If it doesn't work just return it. If you don't want to purchase one, I possibly could ship you an extra one just to borrow and try to see if it's a battery or phone issue.
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Thanks for all the help man, really appreciate it. Ill try the car charger i suppose, wont hurt. Worst case I do actually have a friend with a DX so i can see whats up with that. Ive been meaning to pick up the extended for a while now just never really got around to it, guess this might give me an excuse. thanks for the offer to send out a battery though
No problem. I've got a bunch of unused stock batteries for various phones from all the extended battery upgrades we've gotten.
In any case, if you can't wipe battery stats, trying a friends battery or something would be the next best thing.
What I would do if you borrow a battery, if it STILL shows the question mark then it is a phone problem. Boot into CWM and wipe battery stats while using your friends battery, then try your own.
Even if your friends battery works without giving the question mark, wipe stats anyways and maybe it will stop doing it for yours.
Best of luck to you with this!
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djsupersoak said:
No problem. I've got a bunch of unused stock batteries for various phones from all the extended battery upgrades we've gotten.
In any case, if you can't wipe battery stats, trying a friends battery or something would be the next best thing.
What I would do if you borrow a battery, if it STILL shows the question mark then it is a phone problem. Boot into CWM and wipe battery stats while using your friends battery, then try your own.
Even if your friends battery works without giving the question mark, wipe stats anyways and maybe it will stop doing it for yours.
Best of luck to you with this!
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Great news gentlemen! so after trying the usb split usb method to charge my phone, the first time it didnt work. i just figured i didnt have the wires pushing on the battery poles enough so i retried it. Ended up forgetting it was plugged in and about 30-45 minutes later took it off. plug her in and my phone started up, good signs so far. Finally my os loaded and lo and behold, there's my battery showing green! So i quickly throw it on my wall charger and its charging too. Wiped my battery stats just in case anyways and reflashed everything. Got 596 loaded up and running and deodoxed. After trying to install a battery mod i got a few boot loops but after a wipe didn't work luckily i made a 596 nandroid before trying it. Flashed back to that and everything loaded up fine. Cant thank you guys enough for the help you've been. making a nandroid once my full set up is back to normal haha
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
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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
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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
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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.
Hi I'm having issues with my Motorola Atrix.
I tried loading a firmware, but I think I might have bricked it.
Whenever I boot up the phone now it gets stuck at the Motorola screen.
When I try to hook it up to a PC it won't turn on and the green LED light is the only thing that goes on.
If I plug it in to the wall it will boot, but only load to the motorola splash screen and stays there forever.
I get no error messages.
If I try to do a fast boot, the phone tells me the battery is too low to flash.
Does anything have any suggestions?
Edit: It looks like the phone won't charge. I bought a new battery, and it works at first, but once the phone dies it won't charge again.
Can you give more details....what you were installing and can you cycle through the other boot modes.
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There are many threads about this, many threads! The new battery should have only had a partial charge, and wouldn't have lasted for long. Take a old usb cable and cut the end off and strip the insulation back and tape the appropriate ends to the appropriate contacts on the battery and let it charge for a bit. Then put the battery back in your phone and try again
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Could you direct me to one of those forums? I have looked and I can't find anything. Is there something physically wrong with the phone and can't charge?