Tried to flash, but my phone now won't boot, it gets stuck at the M logo. In the top it outputs a dos-like error message "Failed to boot. Starting RSD Mode. Phone battery is too low to flash."
So I'm trying to charge my battery and reflash. If I unplug the phone from the wall charger, it shuts off and can't boot at all, and if I plug it into the wall charger, it automatically tries to boot and gets stuck at the M logo, and having left it like that overnight, the battery did not charge.
I'm willing to buy a new battery, but I'm afraid that it won't be charged when I purchase it. If there is any way to charge a battery without the phone, I'd love to know about it.
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.
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My battery sucked, like going from 100 to 20 in 10secs so i asked for a new one from huawei greece. They sent me a new battery and when i put it into the phone and tried to boot it phone didn't boot. I thought it was because the battery was empty and when i connected it to charge first the light was blinking red and then phone boot up to the battery screen. 15min later i realised the phone was boot up and the red light was blinking red and not like staying red which is the light when you charge it with no battery. the percetange was 0%. i left it there for a little bit but nothing happend. then i tried to turn it off while it was connecting to the charger but that just boot up again with the same red blinking light and 0% percentage. I'm on aurora sp on top of aurora v20. When i try the old battery everything is working ok like it charges and everythinh. Could someone help me out?
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Try this connect your phone to usb power without battery inserted. Then turn on when phone boot insert your new battery into your phone let charge until green led or 100%. And install Battery Stats and post details about your batt.
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Try this connect your phone to usb power without battery inserted. Then turn on when phone boot insert your new battery into your phone let charge until green led or 100%. And install Battery Stats and post details about your batt.
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i've tried that nothing changed. i let it boot up without the battery then put it back in without pulling off the charger and it still seemed to be without battery just with the usb cable. i got back to official gingerbread, no rooting and stuff now but still doesn't charge. the weird thing is that the very first time that iconnected it to the charger, when the phone was off, the light started blinking red without phone getting into "battery screen" and after a while it was at battery charging screen. 15min later it was booted up and "no charging" status
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i've tried that nothing changed. i let it boot up without the battery then put it back in without pulling off the charger and it still seemed to be without battery just with the usb cable. i got back to official gingerbread, no rooting and stuff now but still doesn't charge. the weird thing is that the very first time that iconnected it to the charger, when the phone was off, the light started blinking red without phone getting into "battery screen" and after a while it was at battery charging screen. 15min later it was booted up and "no charging" status
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Okay. Ask Huaei to change your battery since it's damage for another one you have and can active warranty do that
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%
So my phone ran out of juice 4 days ago, it was left uncharged till 2 days ago when i decided to charge it. I plugged it into the nexus 7 2012 charger (which i use to charge many other devices and none had problems including my nexus 5) and the LG logo showed up. After 3 hours i went to check on it and it was just dead and warm. It's completely unresponsive, won't boot into recovery or download, won't show LG logo no matter what button combinations i press. It's not recognized by my PC.
I opened the back case, pulled the battery cable and reinserted it and tried but still dead. When i connect the phone to any charger it warms up but is still completely dead. I tried booting it with the battery unplugged and still dead. What might have gone wrong?
Check voltage of battery (Should not be below 3.7v).
I had issue with mine when battery corrupted. Led was blinking red on charge/pc/power on
I don't think it's the battery, I've already tried booting without it and it won't boot or get recognized by the PC.
You saying about booting without battery, was it "test point" procedure?
I'm not really sure what you mean. I unplugged the battery connector and plugged it in the charger and attempted to boot it up. I was trying to test if the battery was the source of failure but I think it's not since it should have booted up if it was just the battery that failed.
Same with me. I bought a new battery and the same thing happens. Blinking red light. It shows some life for about 3 seconds with the logo coming up but then dies. anyone know whats going on?