I have a white MT4G and my wife has a red one and when mine's on the charger it sometimes gets hot...I think it's my memory card. Anyone else have this issue?
Sounds like the battery, which is next to the SD card. Lithium-ion batteries heat up as a normal part of their function... but also, they can heat to the point of combustion, or to the point of explosion. (Youtube has plenty of videos of spontaneous laptops in flames. The Tesla electric sportscar has compartmentalized batteries so if one explodes it does not set off all 1300 of them.)
Your battery temp is measured and tracked by the Android OS, but only while Android is running. If you are charging while powered down, Android will not be available to manage any overheating/overcharging. I'm not certain if overcharging can be stopped in any case.
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Well that's what I thought at first but if I remove the battery cover the battery is cool...touch the metal area on the SD slot and its hot..sim slot is hot but not as hot as the SD card
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Well that's what I thought at first but if I remove the battery cover the battery is cool...touch the metal area on the SD slot and its hot..sim slot is hot but not as hot as the SD card
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the only thing i can think of is the USB cording plugged into the phone is bad and it's tricking the phone into automounting the SDcard and the added electricity is overheating the SDcard....
This is my second white one since I had to send the first one due to the speaker going out and it did the same thing...kinda odd
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Would the memory card be the issue like if it was going bad?
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Any idea what this means? Never seen it before and I don't see it in the manual.
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According to this HD2 thread you should try a battery pull
With my evo it meant it was overheated and needed to cool down and sometimes a battery pull to reset it.
Evo's overheated? Wow. Were you o/c'ing?
No. That's Florida in the summer. Hot as balls. The heat of charging while driving with no AC really pissed off the evo.
It's probably easier to show what's happening with a video:
This happens when charging my phone. But only when placed on a hard surface.
Also when the phone is resting on a surface, it doesn't respond to my touch input.
It acts as if there is an invisible hand touching the screen in random places very rapidly.
I hope this isn't a defective screen, because I'm sure this isn't normal behavior.
My problem is almost exactly the same as this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846941, but the explanation doesn't fit in my case, as it's very hot here (high 30's C), with almost 100% humidity, and the phone isn't the same as mine.
Has anyone had a problem like this with the DHD?
On a side note, does anyone else think of "Dial Home Device" from Stargate when they see DHD, or is it just me?
Mine started doing this a while ago. Also only when charging, and only on a hard surface. Bit annoying, but I can get round is easily. Would be interesting to know what causes it though...
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Mine does this when I'm using a cheap ebay charging cable. It's ok when using a genuine HTC cable.
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Just tested mine again, and it seems ok. Very weird. Was using the same cable too (HTC one). Maybe it bugs out sometimes when it's next to my PC. Seems ok right now.
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Mine does this when I'm using a cheap ebay charging cable. It's ok when using a genuine HTC cable.
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Anyone confirm this?
I've just bought 2 cables (cheap, retractable) from ebay for emergency use... :'(
Seen demo/display phone acting like that in best buy although phone wasn't flat but on sort of a stand and always on charge...
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It has been discussed and confirmed earlier. It happens with cheap non-genuine chargers.
The solution is to use only the genuine charger.
I should add I do have a cheap charger and data cable from ebay that do work ok, so this problem is not universal across all non-HTC accessories.
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It has been discussed and confirmed earlier. It happens with cheap non-genuine chargers.
The solution is to use only the genuine charger.
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Lol!
I only use genuine charger and battery no matter what but I hope the cheap cable would not cause this. It's just a cable anyway...
By the way, can you provide the link for the said discussion for my joy reading?
Thanks!
I had this the other day I was holding the phone and had it plug in the HTC charger. I was browsing the web and could not move up and down it just zoomed in or out like I had two fingers on-screen I restarted the phone but still did it I then unplugged it and it was ok.
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Just some extra details here, the charger I was using in the video was a generic usb charger, but using the genuine charger doesn't stop the problem.
The screen is in perfect condition, not a single scratch, phone is less than two months old and I only have a genuine cable.
Also this happens on ANY hard surface, a book, tiles, wood, but soft things like wool or upholstery don't cause any problems.
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Just some extra details here, the charger I was using in the video was a generic usb charger, but using the genuine charger doesn't stop the problem.
The screen is in perfect condition, not a single scratch, phone is less than two months old and I only have a genuine cable.
Also this happens on ANY hard surface, a book, tiles, wood, but soft things like wool or upholstery don't cause any problems.
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Sounds like a proximity sensor issue.
I had this exact same problem as shown on the video on both the HD2 I had previously and the DHD. In both cases the culprit was not the cable but a cheap charger.
What the...never seen s.th. like this before...
Faulty phones?
DN41
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Same **** here ;-(
Happens when using a eBay noname docking station! Phone is not laying on a surface! The last time i charged with this docking station there was no problem.
I will try the htc charger...
Slightly off topic but whilst my DHD is charging, if I run my fingers across the aluminum body it feels like its vibrating. I had this on my Hero too.
I'm almost positive its the current, as unplugging it stops the "vibration".
the erratic behavior of the DHD is caused by improper grounding, as the small current from the ungrounded charger is passed on to the phone's body, mostly by a other then HTC cable, there will be a current on the phone, small, but none the less there, as the digitizer measures the electric resistance against the screen on spots, as a human finger(flesh somewhat differs from nothing or non organic objects touching it) it measures a touch, this small current also can give a false touch, thus creating this erratic behavior.
hope this explains it clearly to you all.
so, if you properly ground the phone somehow, it will stop
Yup. Left phone on charger overnight - woke up and the camera was flashing every 2 seconds. That's all it will do. Whether it's hooked up, unhooked. As long as the battery's in that's what it does. No rom changes in over 2 weeks. No damage of any sort.... no recovery or anything
Well you can probably do a warranty exchange.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
I had something similar with my nexus one. Except it wasnt the camera but the trackball... changing kernels around seem to help a bit but eventually i took it for water damage. Take the battery out and let it dry off for a day or two. You can also try to pry it open and have your hand at any corrosion if you find any. However i wouldnt recommend that unless you know what yer doing.
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I had something similar with my nexus one. Except it wasnt the camera but the trackball... changing kernels around seem to help a bit but eventually i took it for water damage. Take the battery out and let it dry off for a day or two. You can also try to pry it open and have your hand at any corrosion if you find any. However i wouldnt recommend that unless you know what yer doing.
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He said it was left on the charger, not fell in water.
I'd crap my pants if this happened to me.
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He said it was left on the charger, not fell in water.
I'd crap my pants if this happened to me.
CM7 Drugged
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I realize that but like i said i had the same experience and my phone didnt get noticably wet at any time could have been a single drop of water and corrosion takes a while to build up.
Still...
Im wondering if you used your original charger when this happend because i can personally say ive seen my atrix behaving strange when connected to some cheap random charger (touch screen not working for example). Didnt believe it could cause permenant damage though.
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I realize that but like i said i had the same experience and my phone didnt get noticably wet at any time could have been a single drop of water and corrosion takes a while to build up.
Still...
Im wondering if you used your original charger when this happend because i can personally say ive seen my atrix behaving strange when connected to some cheap random charger (touch screen not working for example). Didnt believe it could cause permenant damage though.
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It was hooked up with a Blackberry charger, actually.
Still acts the same.
Check the charger to see if its power ratings are different than your otiginal one.
Also... does the device boot up in any way or is the screen simply black and the flash flickering no matter what?
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Check the charger to see if its power ratings are different than your otiginal one.
Also... does the device boot up in any way or is the screen simply black and the flash flickering no matter what?
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Looking at it today, I noticed that the charger port (or inlet if you will) is very structurally loose. The voltage on the blackberry charger is about 3/5 that of the stock Atrix charger, if memory serves me - somebody at work switched out the chargers the day after I got the phone. It took a good 6 hours to charge...
ATT said that it would be full cost of phone, because it's personal damage.
I'm looking into the Mi-One.
EDIT: No, the screen will not even begin to come on. Camera flashing is the only indicator of any power. Used an external battery charger, and two different batteries.
The MI-One looks sweet!!!!
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Looking at it today, I noticed that the charger port (or inlet if you will) is very structurally loose. The voltage on the blackberry charger is about 3/5 that of the stock Atrix charger, if memory serves me - somebody at work switched out the chargers the day after I got the phone. It took a good 6 hours to charge...
ATT said that it would be full cost of phone, because it's personal damage.
I'm looking into the Mi-One.
EDIT: No, the screen will not even begin to come on. Camera flashing is the only indicator of any power. Used an external battery charger, and two different batteries.
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Moto will probably either fix it or send you another phone. I know people who bricked from trying to downgrade and they got another phone. I'm sure you could too. I would try that before you buy another phone.
ETA: Now that I think about it not being able to put the rom back to stock would probably be an issue if they can get it to turn on but if they can't they might replace it.
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Looking at it today, I noticed that the charger port (or inlet if you will) is very structurally loose. The voltage on the blackberry charger is about 3/5 that of the stock Atrix charger, if memory serves me - somebody at work switched out the chargers the day after I got the phone. It took a good 6 hours to charge...
ATT said that it would be full cost of phone, because it's personal damage.
I'm looking into the Mi-One.
EDIT: No, the screen will not even begin to come on. Camera flashing is the only indicator of any power. Used an external battery charger, and two different batteries.
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I also think you should bring it up with motorola. Waking up to find your phone bricked is hardly what id call personal damage. You also shouldn't bring up the charger issue. And as for the usb port i'd say it would take too much effort to discern the connection with that and the phone acting as it is, and im sure they would rather just send a replacement unit.
A usb port malfunctioning is hardly an account for personal damage. The usual case is they simply stop working, but definitely not brick your entire phone.
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My HD2 USB socket is buggered, it won't charge unless I get the cable in at a certain angle. It's definitely not the cable which is dodgy, I've used three different ones and they all have the same result. This means I can't sync Android with my laptop.
Any way I can disassemble my phone to repair or replace the USB socket? Any guides out there? Thanks.
I googled repair HTC HD2 charge port
And got pages of stuff
Same to me. What's happened is the port has come away from the main board. Just needs soldering.
I don't use usb to sync so I bought a mains battery adaptor for charge.
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Just needs soldering! I'm afraid for the average joe trying to solder the micro usb connector pins back onto the pcb is no easy task. My reccomendation would to leave solder out of it, you'll likely short something or get solder spashes all over the place.
Get the finest soldering iron tip you can, a magnifying glass and just press the pins back onto the pcb pads.
TO be honest this is very poor design by htc, that socket should have been reinforced, using solder to hold sockets down is just terrible cheap design.
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Just needs soldering! I'm afraid for the average joe trying to solder the micro usb connector pins back onto the pcb is no easy task. My reccomendation would to leave solder out of it, you'll likely short something or get solder spashes all over the place.
Get the finest soldering iron tip you can, a magnifying glass and just press the pins back onto the pcb pads.
TO be honest this is very poor design by htc, that socket should have been reinforced, using solder to hold sockets down is just terrible cheap design.
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Agreed, absolutely POS design. I had my HD2 less than a month and my usb broke.
I didn't have the guts to try and re-solder it, so I got me an external charger, spare battery, and started using things like dropbox, email attachments, and micro-sd to standard size sd-adapter more.
I never had any problems with the mini-usb's, but it seems the micro's are alot more delicate
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Agreed, absolutely POS design. I had my HD2 less than a month and my usb broke.
I didn't have the guts to try and re-solder it, so I got me an external charger, spare battery, and started using things like dropbox, email attachments, and micro-sd to standard size sd-adapter more.
I never had any problems with the mini-usb's, but it seems the micro's are alot more delicate
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Technicaly the mini has a much lower mtbf. the micro issue is that folks try to put in in the wrong way up as its harder to see, so spend effort pushing the socket off not connecting to it
I have dropped a red blob of paint onto mine and now the problem has gone.
The Mini was a far better connector. Easier connection, stronger, more pins & already in huge use. introducing & standardising to the micro was madness !
Yeah, I use an external charger and unplug my battery to charge it, but it's really not very practical. I was using an app called 'Sleep as an droid' which is a great alarm clock app but I can't use it any more because my phone just runs out overnight
I might give it a go, but I really don't want to damage my phone any more
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Yeah, I use an external charger and unplug my battery to charge it, but it's really not very practical. I was using an app called 'Sleep as an droid' which is a great alarm clock app but I can't use it any more because my phone just runs out overnight
I might give it a go, but I really don't want to damage my phone any more
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There is a store in south Wales that will soldier it back for about £20 thy google
I got a spare battery and an external charger. I just swap out the battery once it is empty for the spare which is fully charged in about 1-1.5 hrs.
I also use a card reader for large file transfers and samba for smaller ones.
Fortunately, when the port died, I had a 420MB partition. So I can still flash most android Roms.
If any of you know anyone who fixes the HD2 in India, please let me know.
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same issue ... this micro USB is not working anymore.
I have two batteries and an external charger.
I do not understand your last point: how do you flash without USB ?
atomebr
Transfer ROM to sd card, flash using cwm.
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Just a quick bit of information.
Not 100% sure it caused it but it couldnt have helped.
My phone completely died the other after unplugging my charger.
When I mean died I'm mean, no charge what so ever, no light and no response from any button combinations.
I checked the port and it was full of dust and lint so removed it and sent it back.
Lost all my Videos though
The dust could have created a short on the port and killed the main board so keep it clean peeps
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Just a quick bit of information.
Not 100% sure it caused it but it couldnt have helped.
My phone completely died the other after unplugging my charger.
When I mean died I'm mean, no charge what so ever, no light and no response from any button combinations.
I checked the port and it was full of dust and lint so removed it and sent it back.
Lost all my Videos though
The dust could have created a short on the port and killed the main board so keep it clean peeps
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I've had problems with a dirty charge port too. With a toothpick, thin cloth and methanol hydrate it's a pretty easy clean. I wonder if there is a plug you can get like for headphone jacks.
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Covers would be a great idea I'm not that fussy about how they look
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Tw1tchy said:
I've had problems with a dirty charge port too. With a toothpick, thin cloth and methanol hydrate it's a pretty easy clean. I wonder if there is a plug you can get like for headphone jacks.
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I had a Samsung Infuse and after 2 years the USB port stopped working. At first it wouldn't connect to a PC, then it charged slowly and sporadically on AC, then not at all. I just assumed it was broken. I wonder if it just had to be cleaned... My contract was almost up though so I didn't care.
Off-topic, but the One is seriously 1000x better than the Infuse. Samsung's update support and TouchWiz were so bad the phone practically screamed "root me!!!', and even after rooting it sucked. The difference after switching to the One was incredible.
Thanks for the info
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I had a Samsung Infuse and after 2 years the USB port stopped working. At first it wouldn't connect to a PC, then it charged slowly and sporadically on AC, then not at all. I just assumed it was broken. I wonder if it just had to be cleaned... My contract was almost up though so I didn't care.
Off-topic, but the One is seriously 1000x better than the Infuse. Samsung's update support and TouchWiz were so bad the phone practically screamed "root me!!!', and even after rooting it sucked. The difference after switching to the One was incredible.
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Same, I came from OG note, usb port broke twice while under warranty and once more afterward. After that I ditched plastic, and went for build quality over everything!
There can only be one, the chosen ONE.
Can we use denaturated alcohol instead?
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