Used my device last night to do some reading and the battery was about half full.
Went to use it tonight, won't turn on. Thought something killed the battery, so charged it for an hour.
Held power button, nothing. Tried volume up then power, nothing. Finally got it to do something by pressing volume down and power. It comes up to the Odin screen.
I've never rooted/loaded any roms or anything, so anybody have any idea what the heck happened or how to get my device back to normal?
Thanks for any help.
Have you used the stock AC wall-charger to charge it up?
Yes, it's charging now while I am reading all about using Odin and downloading a stock firmware...
Not that I know what I'm doing <grin> I'm hoping it powers up after I charge it some more before I go mucking with it...
Thanks, Samsung! I'd much rather be having this fun instead of reading a book. Where is the damn ICS update? Honeycomb sucks.
I would let the battery go flat which is the same as removing the battery on a phone and hope that allows you to re-boot normally after charging then I would try a factory reset to clear any problems before going down the re-flashing road.
Well, looks like letting the battery go flat is my only option because after charging all night it now won't even go into Odin Mode.
Do you have a general idea how long it will take for the battery to die since there are no indicators? Should I expect days/weeks?
Sure wish I could pull the battery or use the paperclip trick like on other devices. This thing is a very expensive (imported) paperweight right now.
EDIT: Any idea why I couldn't get to the boot loader (volume up + power) to reset the device but the Odin mode worked?? I don't think it's the button, this device has been coddled. Just sits on my nightstand until I read a little at night and put it back.
Uh 九千., I'd thank you twice if I could.
So I go to pull the usb cable and wall charger behind my nightstand to bring to work and it's NOT the original charger. I forgot it came with the European power adapter so I had to use a generic USB charger.
I grabbed the Samsung wall plug from my 8.9 and now it shows the battery with a yellow exclamation mark. I'll try charging it and go from there.
Very strange, considering I've been using the other usb wall charger since I bought the device maybe six months ago...
I'm hoping for the best!
EDIT: IT BOOTED and it's charging... What a relief. Thanks for the help guys.
EDIT 2: So before, it was NOT charging... It got so low that only the Samsung wall charger could get it going??? Very strange.
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Yesterday, before going to sleep I checked my mail and layed my phone next to me. This morning I grab my phone but it doesn't respond. I just charged it for an hour but still no response... Any suggestions
Remove & install battery, then boot up again?
I allready did that twice without result but after reading your reply I tried again. Now I replaced the SIM and SD card too and now it's working again! Thanks.
Don't want to bring you down but It sort of happened the same for me, I went to sleep with 85% batt, plugged the charger went to bet, next moring tried to tur on, nothing, charger was still on, tried pulling te batt out, turn on no luck. Still haven't been able to figure it out but I know my streak won't charge the battery so I'm charging the batt outside the streak ordered a second batt so no way to test cable/battery ATM, so far can't say if it's the battery but it don't look like the battery is the problem. forgot to mention, a couple of times I saw the empty battery icon, so i used a BB Bold battery to jump start the phone (just making sure the streak was ok heh), only thing I can think off is that there was a power surge of some sort and took the charging IC with it. The cable works fine for sync and x-fer files but charging is a NO go. it goes as far as telling where the power source is coming (USB/AC) but thats about it. no charge.
so before reaching my conclution i say make sure the metal contacts are touching the battery, make sure the battery has charge if you are an avid electronics guy I say check voltage on the battery and see how is that doing. I've read a lot lately to see what can be my problem and there is one tiny hope that the battery might have triggered it's security gimmick and it won't take charge the "smart" way and that is why I have to use a Li-ION "desk" charger. But I don't know that much of batteries.
I hope it guides you towards what might be happening. Not a solution but you're not alone.
***UPDATE
LOL, I realized you fixed the problem. nice one!
when you have a lot of applications running which consume a lot of battery you will notice the streak is going to tell you the charger is invalid. infact there is more powerdrainage then charging capacity. this shouldnt happen with the dell adapter which delivers 1 ampere at 5v instead of the pc which gives 500mA.
if this happens to you one time that the device wont turn on or do anything anymore unplug it from AC and detach the usb cable . then attach the usb cable to the pc and stick the other side in the device and wait for it to show desktop, should be no longer then 30 secs for it to show. (you need the dell sync software and drivers being installed)
Dell Streak 7 won't power on or off
Had my 7 for a few days now, the screen was intermittently not responding so I checked out a few forums - decided to calibrate the screen - so powered it off and then powered it back on holding the power button and the + and - volume simultaneously. Now it won't power back on properly - I just the the soft buttons lighting up. It also won't power off. I have plugged into the ac power charger and the power light does not go on at all (orange or green). It had pretty much a full battery when all this happend about 10 minutes ago.
Fixed it - buy pressing the hard reset button adjacent to the SD card slot. Now working well.
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.
ok, the nook im using has had a tough life, and for 6 months I thought it was completely dead.
Then it came back to life and seemed to be doing well for 3 months then it started going down hill
bottom line issue: The NC seems to be turning itself on during the night while I have it plugged in and charging. Then when I unplug it in the morning its less than 50% charged.
I had cm9ICS on it and other than poor battery life everything seemed ok, someone here suggested I go back to mirage to haelp the battery so I did.
I went all the way to a full format (cache apps, everything) then started building with Mirage, everything seemed to work just fine.
Then when I went to shut down it just reboots.
So I try pressing and holding the power button in all the way, until it completely powers off, and it looks like its ok, but then this morning I got up and went to unplug it, it was already on and the battery was down at the 50% mark
I really like the NC I have 2 others at home, one fr the wife one for the child, plus I have given 3 more as gifts to friends. BUT it just is not looking good here...
any ideas would be appreciated.
thanks
j
Try your wifes power cable and see if it does it too.
thanks,
ive actually tried 3 of them
same thing on all of them.
now I have noticed that it only completely powers down about 1 out of every 4 tries.
If I use the soft power off option (press and hold for 5 then select power off then yes) the other times its just one big reboot
anyone had THAT?
To power off the nook when charging... attach to charger... press power button... select shut down from menu.
If you hold power button in to hard shutdown with it connected to charger... it is going to power cycle.
That is normal... and functions the same way if you put B&N stock rom on it.
dizzy
i didnt know that aboout the hard shut down when plugged in. but once again last night took 6 attempts to get it to go off and STAY off w/ the menu
any ideas?
anyone
bueller?
Are you also using the stock wall adapter? In addition to the cable you need to have sufficient output from the source you are plugging the cable into. Most older usb ports only have 0.5A output and the Nook needs ~2A usb port (usually say iPad compatible).
If the Nook is running on a low charge it will have start up and shut down issues until it is sufficiently charged. It sounds like you may have issues other than that but make sure you are getting a full charge after plugging it in overnight and go from there.
yep, matter of fact just to make sure I have tried swapping between all 3, no difference,
i may end up with a novo aurora if I cant figure this one out
j
So this is what happened:
the phone discharged fully and i connected it to charge. then i got a flashing red led. seeing this as a bad omen i tried to turn my device on - no luck - it wasn't responding.
i unplugged the charger and plugged it back in and again the same result, then again..... and i got a solid red light. so after a few times of messing about with it , trying out a few sources of power and such i got it charging (the battery logo appeared). The charging lasted for ~30 sec and it went black.
So after that the n4 is completely unresponsive. No flashing leds no backlight on screen, NOTHING.i tried out a few chargers and cables and beside those i used a genuine n4 charger (it's 100% working - i tried to charge another device). i left it there for the whole day to charge thinking that maaaaaby the battery ran to a complete 0 and i just need to give it time, as you probably guessed it, that did nothing.
In fact, i think the phone is not charging at all. The reason i think so is because the wall charger is emitting a faint high-pitch squeal regardless of the fact that the phone is connected (it should be squealing only when it's plugged into socket and the phone is not plugged in it)
so TL DR:
n4 is completely dead, no signs of life. The things that were tried:
a handful of chargers and cables that are 100% working on other devices
trying to boot with a combination of volume buttons pressed
holding the power button for 60 sec. while plugged in
prolonged charging (~7 hours)
verbal threatening to sell the damned thing if it's a serious problem
so that's that. i should get my tools back from a friend on monday. i'll try to take it apart, maby there's a loose connector here or there or something. Any ideas what i could try before that?
Some searching around the forums wouldn't hurt. Try this for example.
kalopop said:
Some searching around the forums wouldn't hurt. Try this for example.
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thanks for the link, that seems to be worth a shot.... i'll be able to take the phone apart on monday, that's the earliest i will be able to try it. i was wondering if there is anything i can do until then to remedy the situation. I mean i'm really getting a kick out of my old sony erricson k300 but i kinda prefer the nexus and would prefer to fix it asap.
ok i fixed it
i used a 3v source and held the contacts manually for 5 min. that returned it to the red blinking led state and after leaving it to charge for 5 min it returned to the battery icon on screen. thanks for the info again.
Well my D802 past away (I think) two days ago; Isn't booting into any mode whatsoever and it doesn't seem to be charging (no red led, no heat) it was on 6% battery when I last seen it working and after that I've had nothing from it; and any pointers in what to look for or any knowledge what's possibly gone wrong would be greatly appreciated
Update: Well pulled both ribbons from each side of the battery and left it for a while' plonked them back and and left it for a couple of minutes; and attempted to turn it on and the LG Logo did show for like 2 seconds and then gone back to this original state mentioned above; don't even know what this means
Battery dead? Usb port broken so it doesn't charge?
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Battery dead? Usb port broken so it doesn't charge?
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I'm unsure; I don't believe that they are broken; my phone was on or around at least 6% when it failed on me; but like I mentioned battery doesn't warm up when I've had it plugged in while but when it does go flat on battery the first couple of times it would have attempted to boot back up when I hold the power button it hasn't at all recently so I'm totally stumped
Exactly. It might have emptied to the point it doesn't have enough charge to boot up.
No heat = battery not charging.
Battery not charging = dead battery, dead port, dead charger..
Firsr try using different charger / cable. If that doesn't work, that leaves you with bad port or battery bad.
For testing port, try getting into download mode. Plug the cable to just your phone, press and hold volume up button, and then (while holding volume up) plug the cable to your computer. If you get even a hint of download mode (since your battery is probably empty, it won't stay in download mode and it will shut down), that means the port and the cable is good but battery empty.
There are other parts to it, but if none of this show any result, you should take it to the service.
This is something I would do to test it, I might be missing something. Maybe someone else can give another idea.
Recently purchased a G4; still would like a few others to weigh in on this :') wouldn't mind selling it on to fund this G4; thanks