Hi,
I have ASUS Transfer I've treated a like a baby. I'll root my galaxy nexus and put 3 ROMs on it a day, and have dropped it a dozen times, once into the bathtub and last weekend when I camping it started to rain while I was asleep. The damn thing got waterlogged. I was able to dry it out on my defogger and had it working again within a couple days.
The transformer I rooted once, but I got some strange error after about a week every time I tried to install anything, so I decided to just frig with my phone and let my tablet be. Then they forced ICS down my throat and it was draining the battry so bad I left it connected to the charger, which got bent because I was using it all the time plugged in and occasionally forgot how short that cord is. I bought a USB extendor but it was too late, that stupid cable was already coming apart.
Anyway, it will no longer connect to the computer, and that was alright, I had FTP. I was going to order a replacement cable, it was getting dicey whether it would even charge or not. In fact, I called someone on Amazon yesteday that a reasonable price.
And then last night, I plugged it in and it made an electical buzzing sound while it was charging. I didn't really pay much notice because I have a power inverter and it was not drawing any more than usual. The next reboot though all it's doing is flashing the ASUS screen and then powering off and then deciding to power on again and repeat x1000.
I have an RMA # and I don't want the battery to be flat dead when I send it in or I'll get back a repaired tablet with a battery that will last half the time of this one. LiIon's hate being discharged and left dead.
Is there anything I can try besides the factory reset thing? I let this thing update itself back to stock firmware and lost root and never did put a custom recovery on it.
Failing that, does anyone know how to get this thing to just power off and stop trying to load. 1000 times is quite enough. I feel sick about this because I love the damn thing and this like watching a cancer patent wheeze.
Thank you.
May it rest in peace
If there's no USB, or anything and it's stuck, you just need to let the battery die :/
Your kidding right? Let it dieeeeeee
Make sure in the RMA notes you ask for a new battery too, Sorry, there's nothing you can do without USB and with a bootlooper Dx Unless you open it, which = void warranty anyway.
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I've been running Revolver 4 beta for a few weeks, and experiencing the random reboot/sleep of death that ICS seems to bring. It's obnoxious, but I can live with it.
Today, though, I got home from work, and the thing will not boot at all. I mean, nothing. No Asus logo, no recovery, no screen on at all.
I have a replacement plan from Best Buy, so I'm probably just going to get it replaced tomorrow, but I'm curious if I'm the only one to have this issue.
Also, I imagine that short of replacing it, I'm boned, right?
Edit: I'm a complete moron. My charger is plugged in behind the couch, and apparently came unplugged sometime over the past few days. I apologize. Please laugh at me, and delete this thread, if possible.
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Try connecting to the usb port on PC and let it sit 8-10 hrs off. It may have woken up and run down the battery. If the bat is too low the standard charger will not charge it. Getting the bat level up a little may let it charge again.
My Nexus is now unuseable. 2 nights ago I had it plugged in all night and it did not charge. Last night it charged. However, now it boots comes up to the homescreen and shutsdown. Other weird things have happened like seeing speckles on the screen and last night the screen was unresponsive.. I can't get it to boot in safe mode because it shuts down before I can bring up the safe mode screen. After it shuts down I can't do anything with it. About 5 minutes later the charging indicator appears and I can reboot again. I had charging problems before. Google was supposed to send me another charger but never did. I rooted and unlocked it. Now I may be stuck with a broken tablet? Any suggestions? Google is closed on Sunday. Thanks.
Sounds like a hardware issue, possibly with the GPU on the Tegra 3 chip, although I could be wrong.
In any case, I would recommend waiting till tomorrow and contact Google.
Did you do anything with your tablet like flashing a custom ROM or anything like that?
charge with ur phone charger for an hour and see.
Problem solved???
OK it looks like I solved it. The charger is BROKEN and not providing any power to the tablet. When the tablet booted up to the homescreen, there was not enough charge in the battery to sustain it so it shut down. Fortunately, I bought a very nice blackberry charger on Ebay and now that the tablet is plaugged into it, the tablet is working. THANKS for your concern guys. I will be calling Google to have them send the charger they promised me.
THANKS!
have you ever gotten any asus products as you know asus are half baked there useless ill just sell it
After a few years of good experiences, the last couple of weeks my Archos 10.1IT is having problems. A re-install of everything did not cure. Apparent problem are the device not going to sleep (the screen switches off but the device keeps active), and the USB host port no longer working. Well, sleep and host port works immedeately after a reboot, but stops after having slept once. This happens with stock Android, and with UrukDroid.
Yesterday I switched it on at charge level 80% and within minutes it dropped to 10%. Then the device froze, and I notices that it had become very hot. I could not switch it off (long press of the power switch had no effect) so I put it outside just in case it would catch fire.
That didn't happen. I tried to recharge it but the behaviour didn't change: Immedeately after booting up it starts discharging fast. Peculiar is that although I switched it to ariplane mode, WiFi is still the biggest consumer of energy (36%). Also peculiar is that although the battery feels hot, battery snap reports the temperature at 23.0 (which is the normal temperature during operation).
Something is severely wrong. I think this is the end of this tablet.
Goodbye
After some attempts to get it back to life, deep discharge, recharge and so on, I consider the device dead.
If anyone is interested in the remains (the unit's okay, just the battery is broken) drop me a note.
Goodbye to y'all -- it was fun.
I ordered a Samsung Galaxy Note for replacement.
Never say never...
Just for fun I investigated at the company I bought it, and they informed me that I had a two year warranty (I expected just one year). This means that I still can send it back for repair.
To prepair the device for reparation I wiped it (reset Android and data). To my surprise it is now charging again and seems to function normally (except for the deep sleep and host port). Strange...
FYI: The Samsung Note 10.1 is nice and fast, but very bloated. And you need all kinds of extra connectors and cables to connect it to the charger, USB devices and HDMI.
Finally
Today I went to the shop with the broken Archos. They were very sorry to inform me that they didn't sell Archos anymore, and couldn't repair it. All they could do was give me a refund.
So I received €159,95 refund after 20 months for a device that was €229,00 when I bought it.
Still I think I gonna miss it...
new batteries
sciurius said:
After some attempts to get it back to life, deep discharge, recharge and so on, I consider the device dead.
If anyone is interested in the remains (the unit's okay, just the battery is broken) drop me a note.
Goodbye to y'all -- it was fun.
I ordered a Samsung Galaxy Note for replacement.
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There are 2 batteries inside the Archos 101, and it is very easy to replace. Will you try ?
Those batteries are very simple. You can get it thru the mail order.
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The way the story goes:
My girlfriend drops her N4.
The screen breaks and I replace it.
About two weeks pass and she gets the red light of death.
I do some homework, read few threads, watch few videos and try everything I found before I take device apart again.
Try pushing all the buttons I read about, while plugging the charger, while unplugging and standing on one foot and singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and other voodoo. No success.
Taking the back cover off and unplugging the battery. Connecting it back, closing the N4, try to power it up but no signs of life.
Suddenly I realize the device is very hot. VERY hot. I start taking it apart again, unplug the battery and let it cool. After that I plug the battery back again leave the back cover of, to check if the powering up process made it so hot. Well, no. After about 15 seconds I begin to feel the heat.
I decide to blame the battery from my own N4. I take my own N4 apart, try to get the battery out, but while doing it I damage the battery and it starts smoking. So now my device is officially dead too. My N4 battery goes to the trash and I think "whatever... I'll try her battery on mine.". I plug it in and the N4 stays cold for few minutes, I close the back door and it powers up flawlessly and now runs for few hours.
Since I she bought the N4 in the US she had no warranty here where we live, so that's the reason I changed the screen myself which voids any chances for RMA even if could figure a way to get it back the the US.
Meanwhile I ordered a new battery for myself.
Do you guys think it the logic board that's dead (If so, should I replace it?)? Maybe other part that just does short circuit? Maybe the battery got f***ed during the screen replacement and it just took time to kill the entire phone with overcharge or something? Any other ideas I didn't lay my mind on?
Thanks in advance for your replies!
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The way the story goes:
My girlfriend drops her N4.
The screen breaks and I replace it.
About two weeks pass and she gets the red light of death.
I do some homework, read few threads, watch few videos and try everything I found before I take device apart again.
Try pushing all the buttons I read about, while plugging the charger, while unplugging and standing on one foot and singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and other voodoo. No success.
Taking the back cover off and unplugging the battery. Connecting it back, closing the N4, try to power it up but no signs of life.
Suddenly I realize the device is very hot. VERY hot. I start taking it apart again, unplug the battery and let it cool. After that I plug the battery back again leave the back cover of, to check if the powering up process made it so hot. Well, no. After about 15 seconds I begin to feel the heat.
I decide to blame the battery from my own N4. I take my own N4 apart, try to get the battery out, but while doing it I damage the battery and it starts smoking. So now my device is officially dead too. My N4 battery goes to the trash and I think "whatever... I'll try her battery on mine.". I plug it in and the N4 stays cold for few minutes, I close the back door and it powers up flawlessly and now runs for few hours.
Since I she bought the N4 in the US she had no warranty here where we live, so that's the reason I changed the screen myself which voids any chances for RMA even if could figure a way to get it back the the US.
Meanwhile I ordered a new battery for myself.
Do you guys think it the logic board that's dead (If so, should I replace it?)? Maybe other part that just does short circuit? Maybe the battery got f***ed during the screen replacement and it just took time to kill the entire phone with overcharge or something? Any other ideas I didn't lay my mind on?
Thanks in advance for your replies!
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so judging from your experiences it is not a dead battery that causes the red light of death problem?
i am wondering because i too have red light of death on my 2nd batch nexus 4 (ordered 11/27/12, delivered december 13 2012) and i too took it apart and removed battery for charging, this did nothing but i have a new nexus 4 coming from rma and i would like to swap the batteries and see if that will help because i would like to wipe the phone im sending back but idk if thats possible
ae1990 said:
so judging from your experiences it is not a dead battery that causes the red light of death problem?
i am wondering because i too have red light of death on my 2nd batch nexus 4 (ordered 11/27/12, delivered december 13 2012) and i too took it apart and removed battery for charging, this did nothing but i have a new nexus 4 coming from rma and i would like to swap the batteries and see if that will help because i would like to wipe the phone im sending back but idk if thats possible
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I ended up getting a used motherboard from ebay for about 100$ and replacing it. Still works like a charm.
But I can't promise you anything, since it may be any other part that causes a short circuit and burns it. I just took my chance.
For me unfortunately the RMA wasn't an option.
So all this happened sometime during the night of 7/1 & morning of 7/2. I noticed when my alarm went off on my phone, my phone was EXTREMELY HOT. Very uncomfortable to the touch. However the battery was at 100%. Not really thinking anything of it, I used it as normal and when bedtime rolled around, I plugged it back in the stock cable & charger. No "beep" indicating it's charging. No change to the battery icon. I started troubleshooting and testing it with different cables/different charger combinations. My phone would not charge at all but everytime I connected a charger to it while it was turned on, it started getting very hot.
I eventually just turned the phone off and attempted to charge it again. When it's off, it won't charge (but won't overheat).
I did notice that when I used another charger (that had an LED indicator of when it was charging), it would completely go off when I plugged my GS4 to it.
I'e never used any other charger with my GS4.
Any ideas WTF is going on?
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So all this happened sometime during the night of 7/1 & morning of 7/2. I noticed when my alarm went off on my phone, my phone was EXTREMELY HOT. Very uncomfortable to the touch. However the battery was at 100%. Not really thinking anything of it, I used it as normal and when bedtime rolled around, I plugged it back in the stock cable & charger. No "beep" indicating it's charging. No change to the battery icon. I started troubleshooting and testing it with different cables/different charger combinations. My phone would not charge at all but everytime I connected a charger to it while it was turned on, it started getting very hot.
I eventually just turned the phone off and attempted to charge it again. When it's off, it won't charge (but won't overheat).
I did notice that when I used another charger (that had an LED indicator of when it was charging), it would completely go off when I plugged my GS4 to it.
I'e never used any other charger with my GS4.
Any ideas WTF is going on?
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Can you give us any insight on the phone such as any custom flashes or possible root permissions to apps that might affect the battery?
Most likely than not the battery might be fault, I highly doubt it would be anything else unless it's flashes with a certain kernel or rom that might have a bug or two.
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Can you give us any insight on the phone such as any custom flashes or possible root permissions to apps that might affect the battery?
Most likely than not the battery might be fault, I highly doubt it would be anything else unless it's flashes with a certain kernel or rom that might have a bug or two.
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Oh. Sorry about that. This phone is as stock as it gets. Nothing custom about it.
I talked to AT&T Chat this morning and they said they think it's the battery. I've never really heard of a battery preventing a charge problem, but that's what they told me it was.
The crappy part is, they are sending me a battery first (and if that doesn't work), they told me to call them back to have the phone replaced. What's worse is if it isn't a battery problem, I'm out a phone for the entire weekend until Monday or Tuesday.
Faluzure said:
Oh. Sorry about that. This phone is as stock as it gets. Nothing custom about it.
I talked to AT&T Chat this morning and they said they think it's the battery. I've never really heard of a battery preventing a charge problem, but that's what they told me it was.
The crappy part is, they are sending me a battery first (and if that doesn't work), they told me to call them back to have the phone replaced. What's worse is if it isn't a battery problem, I'm out a phone for the entire weekend until Monday or Tuesday.
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I think in most cases (i don't know AT&T) they send you a replacement and ask you to ship your phone into the box your new phone came in.
Either way I would think that it is the battery especially with your phone overheating while charging Of courses there are cases where the plug or cord is at fault so you might want to give those options a try as well.
L1qu1d said:
I think in most cases (i don't know AT&T) they send you a replacement and ask you to ship your phone into the box your new phone came in.
Either way I would think that it is the battery especially with your phone overheating while charging Of courses there are cases where the plug or cord is at fault so you might want to give those options a try as well.
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I might want to try that option (get a new phone) despite them sending me a battery first. I'll call them back.
My phone has about 15% left (I turned it off after I realized I couldn't charge it for troubleshooting purposes). I notice now that the phone gets really warm (around the camera flash) when on. This is without it being plugged in and only turned on.
I've tried 2 other chargers (A Griffin and a Belkin that I use for my other phones for work) and none of them charge my GS4. When I plug it into my Motorola Droid Razr (work phone), it charges that just fine. This is really frustrating. Any other weekend would be fine, but it's the freaking 4th of July weekend and I won't have a phone for the entire holiday.
Thanks man, going to call AT&T to see if I can sweet talk the rep to just send me a new phone. The battery is scheduled to come Friday, so maybe they can ship the phone that quickly.
Faluzure said:
I might want to try that option (get a new phone) despite them sending me a battery first. I'll call them back.
My phone has about 15% left (I turned it off after I realized I couldn't charge it for troubleshooting purposes). I notice now that the phone gets really warm (around the camera flash) when on. This is without it being plugged in and only turned on.
I've tried 2 other chargers (A Griffin and a Belkin that I use for my other phones for work) and none of them charge my GS4. When I plug it into my Motorola Droid Razr (work phone), it charges that just fine. This is really frustrating. Any other weekend would be fine, but it's the freaking 4th of July weekend and I won't have a phone for the entire holiday.
Thanks man, going to call AT&T to see if I can sweet talk the rep to just send me a new phone. The battery is scheduled to come Friday, so maybe they can ship the phone that quickly.
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I'm not the biggest tech guy when it comes to phones but I think around the flash area is where the battery connectors are (where they make contact with the phone), so that might result in it getting warm. Although with you not charging it it can still be the battery being faulty.
I would call them back and try to exchange the full phone just to be on the safe side. I still think it is the battery but if your under warranty why let it go to waste?
This happened to me with an HTC Sensation back in 2011. They sent me another battery and it still did this. This could be a common defect among logic boards. Anyway, I get a warranty replacement right away. In your case, it won't matter what rom your using, it will always do this.
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I'm not the biggest tech guy when it comes to phones but I think around the flash area is where the battery connectors are (where they make contact with the phone), so that might result in it getting warm. Although with you not charging it it can still be the battery being faulty.
I would call them back and try to exchange the full phone just to be on the safe side. I still think it is the battery but if your under warranty why let it go to waste?
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MattMJB0188 said:
This happened to me with an HTC Sensation back in 2011. They sent me another battery and it still did this. This could be a common defect among logic boards. Anyway, I get a warranty replacement right away. In your case, it won't matter what rom your using, it will always do this.
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Thanks guys. I did what you said on Wednesday and AT&T is sending me another phone. Should arrive sometime today. My phone's been off for 3 days now. But with about 10% charge left, I'm curious about something.
Do you have suggestions on how I can make a backup/copy my settings from my old phone to the new one? Remember, my port isn't working. So not sure if this is even possible.
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Thanks guys. I did what you said on Wednesday and AT&T is sending me another phone. Should arrive sometime today. My phone's been off for 3 days now. But with about 10% charge left, I'm curious about something.
Do you have suggestions on how I can make a backup/copy my settings from my old phone to the new one? Remember, my port isn't working. So not sure if this is even possible.
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Best bet would prob be to see if you can get an app quick that backs up everything onto the SD card and swap the SD cards when the phone arrives. Or manually back up what you can to SD (pictures, songs etc) using apps like ES manager etc
PLEASE! Im experiencing same issue with my phone, any solution?
I purchased a defective sgh-i747m (Canadian version of the s4) and, when I connect the phone to as charger, the area where the charging cable connects to the motherboard gets extremely hot. When I try to boot the phone with a good battery, the Samsung logo appears, then the phone turns off. Can't seem to get the phone to charge the battery without getting really hot. Only solution I found was changing the motheboard.
i just got this problem today and a bad time because im leaving in a week, but i decide to leave with out a battery for a couple days see if that does anything