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
Phalanx7621 said:
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.
Phone came to me stuck in boot loop, so i did a full wipe in android recovery. Got stuck at M logo, so i went to sbf the phone. Bootloader gives me the battery low message saying that I can't program it, but the phone won't charge the battery. Tried using both a wall outlet charger and charging it through a computer, both won't charge the battery.
I've been trying to get my hands on another battery, but i can't find a friend with a battery i could use.
Does anyone know a remedy to charge the battery so i can flash sbf, or does anyone know how I can get the phone running again?
Thanks!
Plug in your USB charger with the battery out and hit power. The boot logo should still come up. Once it does insert the battery before the logo disappears. Your battery should begin charging and you'll get the normal phone off battery charging logo.
I recently acquired a Defy and immediately installed CM11 on it. My main phone is a Nexus 4 and one of its best features is that even if the battery is completely drained, if plugged into the wall charger it will immediately boot up. The iPhone I had before would show a low battery screen until it reached around 10%, at which point it would finally boot.
It seems that when the Defy battery drops below 15-20%, it will not boot at all - pressing the power button does nothing. I plug it into the mains and the usual white light does not show. It still seems to charge and I can eventually boot into recovery to see that power has reached around 20%. At this point if I disconnect from the charger the phone usually boots up. I haven't had it long enough to troubleshoot extensively but I think that while plugged into the wall it is less likely to boot successfully. An unsuccessful boot starts with the Motorola logo, then the screen goes black and the buttons flash once, at which point the boot fails.
Is this at all similar to the experiences of anyone else, or could it be a battery / firmware problem?
Thanks
Have you tried to remove battery, insert it again and then try to boot?
I had the same problem once, I'm on cm10.2. Maybe we should replace the battery, I always charge it before reaches 30%
Hello,
I'm new t this forum do sorry if wrong category or something else.
Let me get to the point. Today I wanted to replace the battery on my G2 because the old one was draining really fast. I bought a brand new battery and I removed the old one and plugged the new one in. I reboot the phone and it boots up to the pin entry screen and it says Battery 0% too low to continue and the device will power off. I tried to charge it but when i plug in the charger the phone tries to turn on but kinda lags on the boot animation, it takes a really long time for it too boot up, but without the charger it turns on, gets to the pin entry screen and it turns off. I tried a few adapters, a few USB cables, even tried putting in the old battery but the same happens, I tried charging it form a PC, nothing. I got in the recovery, tried a reset, nothing. Please help. Do i need a new motherboard or what?
Thanks
I have a USC S7 edge. Stock rom, no mods. My battery life is toast so I opened the phone to replace the battery.
I changed the battery. Plugged in for the first time and all it did was flash the battery icon with the lightning bolt when plugged in. Wouldn't boot.
So I tried the power with home button while plugging in, it brought up the galaxy s7 logo and just went into a boot loop doing that.
Next, I tried booting into recovery, and now it whenever a charging cord is plugged in, the recovery booting logo just flashes. I can get it to go into download mode only when plugged into a wall charger. It won't go into download mode when plugged into a computer.
I removed the battery completely and it exhibits the same behavior when plugged into USB.
Any ideas? Is my device bricked? Could it be just the battery is defective? I can't test my old known working battery as it was discarded. I have another battery on order and it should arrive in a couple days.
did you make sure that nothing was disconnected or moved when replacing the battery.
you may have partially disconnected a cable when opening your phone up.
When I bricked my phone I went into recovery and reset everything but after it went into the loop you are describing. All I did was boot into download mode and flashed stock to make it work again.
Any advice on getting it to go into download mode when connected to a PC? Mine won't- perhaps thats due to the battery.
It will go into download mode when plugged into a high amp wall charger