Well, here's hoping. So my power butting was getting stuck. I managed for a while, but eventually I broke down and opened it up. Nothing too exciting there. It all seemed to go back together well, and when I booted everything back up, it worked just fine. However, when I unplugged the nook - it was charging - the Nook died. I double checked the two connections - from frame to board - and everything seemed to be seated well. But still now power. Plugged in the battery says its charging, and nearly fully charged. But unplug it and poof - the nook dies. Any suggestions?
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Well, here's hoping. So my power butting was getting stuck. I managed for a while, but eventually I broke down and opened it up. Nothing too exciting there. It all seemed to go back together well, and when I booted everything back up, it worked just fine. However, when I unplugged the nook - it was charging - the Nook died. I double checked the two connections - from frame to board - and everything seemed to be seated well. But still now power. Plugged in the battery says its charging, and nearly fully charged. But unplug it and poof - the nook dies. Any suggestions?
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This probably means that some cable connecting the battery to everything else is not properly connected. This happened to me when i was changing my batery on my nook color. Thats why the nook only operates with the cable pluged in. The battery inst retaining power since the connection is being interrupted.
OK. That's about what I thought. Thanks
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I have a 8125 and I was able to unlock it fine. After unlocking it I upgraded to the underground crossbow edition rom - which the 8125 rebooted and was running. I tried out a couple things and everything seemed to be running/working fine. It was getting late so I put it down and went to bed. This morning when I got up the phone was off so I went to turn it on and nothing happened. I figured it just ran out of battery power plugged in the charger and guess what no red light on. I have tried everything under the sun but I cant get it to charge or startup. Anyone have any ideas? It was working fine.
i know u said u've tried everything and i don't mean to sound like i'm takin the buscuit, but leave it on charge for n hour, then try bootloader. taking the battery out completely for a while could work.
i had so many problems with crossbow! think this was one of them.
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Well so far I left the charger plugged into the phone with the battery in it for over an hour now - with no luck. The red charging light doesn't even come on. Did you have that problem? I also left the battery out and plugged in - still nothing. Tried taking the battery out and then putting it back in while plugged in - no go.
I have not tried the "bootloader" - but the phone will not turn on at all or respond in anyway. Its in a powered down state (or so it seems) - I dont think bootloader will work?? But I dont know anything about bootloader - is it on the ftp site and how do I use it?
Any chance the battery could have been completely discharged?..just a thought. I think i read that completely flat batteries wont charge up via usb. Disregard if thats a silly suggestion, just thought id offer my two cents.
try getting a new battery and see if it boots up...it can be your battery.and you are trying to charge with an AC adapter right?
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I am charing it via the wall charger (not usb) and I am going to try to get another battery. Just weird that I never had a battery problem until I install the wm6??!! Unless the damn thing drained my battery dry and somehow damaged the battery. I called Cingular and they are sending me another unit as its still in warranty. So we'll see when I get it - I will try the new battery. Strange. Very Strange - because everything was working last night.
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Well after leaving the battery out all afternoon I took a go at the phone again, put in the battery then turned it on. It actually started booting up - showing the WM6 bootscreen. After about a minute it shut down like it was out of power. Strange. I know the phone is not bricked because if it was it wouldn't have just done what it did. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it?
Could be a bad battery. You need to test out with some one else battery
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Well after leaving the battery out all afternoon I took a go at the phone again, put in the battery then turned it on. It actually started booting up - showing the WM6 bootscreen. After about a minute it shut down like it was out of power. Strange. I know the phone is not bricked because if it was it wouldn't have just done what it did. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it?
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HuddaDudda said:
Well after leaving the battery out all afternoon I took a go at the phone again, put in the battery then turned it on. It actually started booting up - showing the WM6 bootscreen. After about a minute it shut down like it was out of power. Strange. I know the phone is not bricked because if it was it wouldn't have just done what it did. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it?
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u shud have plugged it in while it was booting...did u?
New Battery
Well I finally got the new battery I ordered today. When I put it into my phone it will boot into wm6 fine but will not sync with activesync 4.0 or charge via USB or plugged into the wall. I uninstalled activesync, rebooted my computer and installed Activesync 4.5 - but still no luck with the phone via usb syncing with my pc. Also when the phone in plugged into the wall via the wall charger it does not charge. I am beginning to think the port on the bottom somehow was disabled from the rom update, although I dont see any posts with people having that problem. I guess my next option is trying to reflash it to stock rom via a sd card since it wont connect via USB - however I can not find the information step by step how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Try going to the bootloader screen: Turn off your phone and then hold the camera button while you turn it on. When you are at the Rainbow screen (thats the bootloader) plug in your USB cord. You should see in the bottom left (above the left soft key) where it says USB. If it doesn't then I'd say your USB port is broken (I'm not aware of any ROM being able to disable that).
As for flashing from the SD card, I believe thats documented in the Wiki...
When running n163, my charger (twice) stopped working until I rebooted. The odd symptom was that the "n" was green, right down to a low-battery shutdown, even when the USB end of the cable was unplugged.
The NC itself acted as if the cable was unplugged, even when plugged into a USB port.
It hasn't happened under n165, but that's only since this morning.
These were some USB changes recently, weren't there?
Thanks!
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It happened to me again just now. I'm running n177 now, and I'd been using my NC off and on the charger all morning. I plugged in with the gauge at about half, the plug light went green, and I got no lightning bolt on the gauge.
A reboot restored normal charging.
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It happened to me again just now. I'm running n177 now, and I'd been using my NC off and on the charger all morning. I plugged in with the gauge at about half, the plug light went green, and I got no lightning bolt on the gauge.
A reboot restored normal charging.
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Check chargin with another cable if it works fine u need to replace ur cable.
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Check chargin with another cable if it works fine u need to replace ur cable.
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Same cable works fine after reboot, didn't even unplug it for the reboot. The light changed color midway through the boot.
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I had this happen to me too. Put it on the charger last night right before I went to bed. Woke up to a green 'n' but the battery was down 6%. Unplugged & replugged the charger, still a green 'n' but not charging. Reboot got an orange 'n' and it's finally charging.
Running Nightly 174.
I am seeing a bit of bizarre behavior with Nightly 166. On two units, when I power down, and plug in the charging cord, the unit boots up. I have had to press the power button to get the screen to go dark, and it will charge faster than if I had not done so.
Also, I have experienced once or twice, an issue of putting the unit under charge only to have the charge level reported as low, but, strangely, it felt like the unit was warm, like the battery had undergone charging.
A friend's Nook with 166, he claimed when he put the unit on a charge, it kept cycling screen on/off. He was using a non-OEM cable, but the proper AC adapter.
Does the unit have to wake itself? Does the OS assist in charging the device? Is there a known issue with %Charge being displayed?
I had Nightly 177 loaded but backed it out because the Market wasn't working.
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I am seeing a bit of bizarre behavior with Nightly 166. On two units, when I power down, and plug in the charging cord, the unit boots up. I have had to press the power button to get the screen to go dark, and it will charge faster than if I had not done so.
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That's normal behavior. Something about preventing Sleep of Death.
Also, I have experienced once or twice, an issue of putting the unit under charge only to have the charge level reported as low, but, strangely, it felt like the unit was warm, like the battery had undergone charging.
A friend's Nook with 166, he claimed when he put the unit on a charge, it kept cycling screen on/off. He was using a non-OEM cable, but the proper AC adapter.
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Can't trust non-OEM cables; there're extra conductors in the B&N cable for faster charging.
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Yes; look for PBD, Premature Battery Death.
Turning USB host mode on and off affects my problem, but it doesn't help it any.
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I had this happen to me too. Put it on the charger last night right before I went to bed. Woke up to a green 'n' but the battery was down 6%. Unplugged & replugged the charger, still a green 'n' but not charging. Reboot got an orange 'n' and it's finally charging.
Running Nightly 174.
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Sounds like the same issue. I find that if it's unplugged when I boot, it just doesn't charge, and the NC never notices when I insert or remove the charger cable, the lightning bolt never changes. Also, I've lost USB storage mode altogether, a real pain.
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Well, it turns out that this whole problem was the charge cable. I had satisfied myself that it wasn't the cable with a visit to the store earlier, but I think that was before I realized that the "plugged in" state never changed after boot.
The fact that the plug could make the NC itself so confused about the state of the power supply is really startling. By the end, the light on the cable was changing color when I powered up.
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Battery Status Wonky....
Ok. Reading through this I seem to have a similar but not identical situation.
Running CyanogenMod-7-08312011-Nightly-encore with kernel 2.6.32.9.
Nothing special about the install.
Few days ago Nook took a nap and didn't wake up. Thought it was bricked but after fussing with a combination of pressing power and the "N" button finally got it to boot up like if nothing had happened.
Problem? When the battery started to discharge after its nap of death it got to 16% and stopped. Doesn't move. Perpetually at 16%.
If I plug it is to charge it the bottom gets warm, status says it is charging and the cable changes color like it is supposed to, (orange to green), just like it were fully charged but the Battery Status stays at 16%.
Bought a new cable from B&N and same thing. Battery Status stuck at 16%. Nook feels warm, (as if battery has been charged), and the cable changes color correctly, (orange to green).
At one point I even took the cable out and the status indicator showed that the battery was still being charged but no change from the 16%.
Very annoying as I keep getting notifications that I need to recharge since the battery is at 16% but I can leave it on for HOURS and it keeps working fine.
Any ideas or should I reformat to stock and get a new one from B&N?
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Few days ago Nook took a nap and didn't wake up. Thought it was bricked but after fussing with a combination of pressing power and the "N" button finally got it to boot up like if nothing had happened.
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That sounds like classic Sleep of Death, and is most likely unrelated.
Problem? When the battery started to discharge after its nap of death it got to 16% and stopped. Doesn't move. Perpetually at 16%.
If I plug it is to charge it the bottom gets warm, status says it is charging and the cable changes color like it is supposed to, (orange to green), just like it were fully charged but the Battery Status stays at 16%.
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At this point, I trust the cable light over the software to reflect reality, but mine would change color as I wiggled it because it was flaking out.
Bought a new cable from B&N and same thing. Battery Status stuck at 16%. Nook feels warm, (as if battery has been charged), and the cable changes color correctly, (orange to green).
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Did you power-cycle while plugged in? I did several boot-to-CWR while fiddling with things, and wound up with not enough power to boot when I got to the store. Try full power down, insert new cable, power up. I'm pretty sure that the software has a role in this.
At one point I even took the cable out and the status indicator showed that the battery was still being charged but no change from the 16%.
Very annoying as I keep getting notifications that I need to recharge since the battery is at 16% but I can leave it on for HOURS and it keeps working fine.
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What's reporting 16%? Battery monitor and the status bar (just the icon) both reported consistent levels throughout, except for being always plugged in.
Any ideas or should I reformat to stock and get a new one from B&N?
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See what happens with a power cycle while plugged in.
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Okay. Decided to try and discharge this puppy completely and they let it charge all the way up again and see what the Battery Status indicators look like.
As of right now, (12:24 am on Wednesday 9/14/2011), my Nook has been on since boot for 7:22:14 and the Battery Voltage still shows 3613 mV with a Battery Level of 16%.
BTW Battery Temp is 27.8 C and Battery Status shows as Discharging.
How long this sucker is going to last is anyone's guess. Hopefully by tomorrow it will be dead and I can start charging it to see if the battery status goes back to normal.
This was what happened - my N2T went dead, and I charged it up to 100%. It has previously been rooted with TouchNooter, and since my market wouldn't open, I overrooted it with TouchSalsa. Or so I remember. It may be different. I just remember that I used 2 different roots over each other. Didn't think anything would happen...
Anyways, all was fine and dainty with the N2T till the day the battery's charge was depleted. Charged it to full - Battery Indicator went green - and then proceeded to unlock it.
It was still responding at the lock screen, but once I unlocked it, it went straight to my Android home screen, and it just hanged. It has been showing the Android homescreen for quite a while now (probably due to the static e-ink screen, I believe it has died for a long long time), and nothing I do will make it reboot. I thought about forcing the battery out, but it was not user removable.
n2T-recovery wouldn't work too, as I can't make it reboot.
Any answers as to how I could make it rebott and/or restore the firmware like how I could force an iDevice into DFU mode?
Any help would be appreciated, as I imported this device into my country and it is not possible for me to send it back .
If anyone has encountered this problem before, feel free to shout out here too. My Nook Simple Touch has died for around 2 weeks now. I was hoping that the battery would run out and I could charge it but.... the battery indicator STILL shows green when I plug it in.
Also, whenever I plug it into my computer, the connected sound that happens when you plug in a USB drive just sounds - followed immediately by the disconnect sound. This happens in a loop until I plug out the Nook.
Try disconnecting the battery (by opening the nook) ...
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Try disconnecting the battery (by opening the nook) ...
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Same issue, i already open the cover and remove battery, the screen still display screensaver. Then I plugged NT into wall charger , then removed (to try make it reboot). Plugged battery into again but , plugged charger . But nothing happened, still the same.
Any other solution?
Just a hint: It appears that the Nook won't boot without the battery in.
I don't know if it's an interlock with the temperature sensor on the battery.
The chip that does the power management is capable of powering a CPU with a dead/shorted/missing battery.
Guess no one had a similar issue?
It is the same with my NST. It was bricked when I root it back to factory restore. The battery light is green, do everything you did to the battery, still no respond. I am not in the US so I can not take my NST to the local B&N store.
I get my NST only 1 week...
PS:Finally I get my NST back following this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457971&page=14
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
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So, this phone was working without any problems but then my wife turned it off and left it in the drawer for about 3 weeks when she went overseas. When she got back and tried to turn it on it wont turn on. We figured it might have drained the battery so we plugged it in but now its not charging either! When I unplugged and plugged in, the LED blinked orange once but now it wont even do that either, no power, no LED, not charging either. I have tired everything, left it disconnected, battery out for an hour, then put it together and tried to charge, still nothing.
Any ideas? It is already out of warranty so talking to T-Mobile is out of question.
Nothing has been done to it, it is physically fine, it was just off for a long period and not it just wont respond.
Edit: Fixed it! I don't know what, I was almost giving up, but I took the battery out and blew hard on the battery contacts in the phone and in the charging port then plugged everything in and put it back on charger, orange light started to blink and then went solid and now its charging. I just turned it on. This phone is dodgy, no other phone hard bricks like this if you leave it off.
Some phones don't function with completely discharged battery. Actually, most of newer phones. You need to leave the battery inside and the phone connected to charger for some time, till the charging light shows up. MT4G is very far from being "dodgy", doesn't differ from many other phones that behave the same, and you were nowhere near "hard brick".
Good luck in powering up Motorola Defy with completely discharged battery.
Recoverable problem
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So, this phone was working without any problems but then my wife turned it off and left it in the drawer for about 3 weeks when she went overseas. When she got back and tried to turn it on it wont turn on. We figured it might have drained the battery so we plugged it in but now its not charging either! When I unplugged and plugged in, the LED blinked orange once but now it wont even do that either, no power, no LED, not charging either. I have tired everything, left it disconnected, battery out for an hour, then put it together and tried to charge, still nothing.
Any ideas? It is already out of warranty so talking to T-Mobile is out of question.
Nothing has been done to it, it is physically fine, it was just off for a long period and not it just wont respond.
Edit: Fixed it! I don't know what, I was almost giving up, but I took the battery out and blew hard on the battery contacts in the phone and in the charging port then plugged everything in and put it back on charger, orange light started to blink and then went solid and now its charging. I just turned it on. This phone is dodgy, no other phone hard bricks like this if you leave it off.
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Had a similar problem. Phone died while using it then wouldn't light up when plugged in. Left it plugged in for half an hour wouldn't seem to charge via wall or car charger. Tried doing a hard reset with/without the battery & plugged in/not plugged in in various combinations. Got nuthin. Drove around for hours looking for a replacement or open T-Mobile place, until it got too late and I went home. Live chat with T-mobile rep was a waste of time. Plugged it in the wall and left it, as this once brought back a G2 battery that I thought was cold dead. Five hours later it was lit up and charging, showing 40% charge on the battery indicator app once I turned it back on. "HTC Sense" crashed immediately on boot then recovered. Seems to be fine so far.
- Suggestion; plug it in and leave it overnight if it seems cold dead and doesn't appear to be charging. It seems to need to hit some critical threshold before it will work again (as indicated by previous poster). Also pick up a couple spares off amazon or newegg if you don't have a second phone available.