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I went to sleep two days ago and my droid ran out of battery, i have try to recharge it , but i only get a green light and wont turn back on ,,, I have removed the battery also the sd card hold home and power and nothing seams to work !!! any suggestions that i need to try before taking it to exchange
How long did you charge it for? The DX wont turn back on if the battery completely dies and hasn't been charged to at least 20% I believe.
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i recharge it for abt 8hrs.. i just came back from two differnt verizon stores and they dont know about it or how to fix it.. they say might have to get another ...
Did they try a new battery??? Replace the battery, first, before replacing the X...
yeah coz no body has try a new battery on it .. im gonna have to go to best buy and see if they have one there even tech at verizon they said dont have battery for that phone there and they should right .. .. ill try a new battery if that doesnt help then im gonna have to order a new phone
Thanks guys just came back from verizon store .. and Finally somebody did what Str0ntium and i want them to do .. try a new battery .. my was out of juice so that why it wouldnt power up or recharge.. .. different Person at Verizon store tried the battery from his own DX .. and my phone turned on . once the was done , he let the battery charge for like 5% on his phone . then put it back on my phone . witch turned on and started charging normally .., im thinking on buying the xtended battery .. they said might give me like xtra 2 more hours .... will see what happens... .. i just got frustrated that to have somebody to try a new battery took me like 3 days .. very poor custumer service thats all i can say ..
I had the same thing happen to me a month ago. Can't find the link right now where I learned this right now but you have to do some jerry riggin to fix this. You have to take a usb cable and cut off the end that would plug into the device, find the red and black wires and wedge them between the proper terminals between your phone and the battery. If done right you can get power to the device to turn it on. Once on just remove the usb fast and plug into a normal outlet. Had to do this a few times and if done right works like a charm.
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I ll keep that in mind in case i ran in to something similar .. but hopefully i wont have to do it .. hehehe !!
Dead DroidX
If you allow your Droidx to fully discharge, it does not have enough power during inital recharge off a computer connected USB to get the recoginition that the device needs to be charged vs data tx. Just use your wall charger (Dumb Charging Unit w/no data line) no need to modify your cord. Just do not let get com[letely discharged and you will not have this problem.
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I had the same thing happen to me a month ago. Can't find the link right now where I learned this right now but you have to do some jerry riggin to fix this. You have to take a usb cable and cut off the end that would plug into the device, find the red and black wires and wedge them between the proper terminals between your phone and the battery. If done right you can get power to the device to turn it on. Once on just remove the usb fast and plug into a normal outlet. Had to do this a few times and if done right works like a charm.
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I saw something similar but instead of wedging it in between the phone and battery I used some electrical tape and stuck the red and black wires from the usb cable directly to the battery. I let it sit for an hour and then I was good to go.
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Next time charge it on the wall charger instead of a USB cable...
Yep happened to me a few weeks ago... I had a broken bootloader which you have to have in order to charge the phone. I just sacrificed a usb cable, I cut the ugly side with the usb-b form factor, and used a couple paperclips to pin the battery down. It took about two and a half hours to get full... just remember red on red, black on black.
DroidX x2, Droid2, Droid1, DInc, and LG Ally x2 makes for a big Verizon bill.
Bad droid, no Doughnut!
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If you allow your Droidx to fully discharge, it does not have enough power during inital recharge off a computer connected USB to get the recoginition that the device needs to be charged vs data tx. Just use your wall charger (Dumb Charging Unit w/no data line) no need to modify your cord. Just do not let get com[letely discharged and you will not have this problem.
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Hahaha your right. I was to stupid. Thanks bro.
I already posted this in Q&A, but I thought it would get noticed more in this section.
Ok I believe my phone is "Hard Bricked", because it doesn't power up at all. The Green led light will show if i take the battery out and plug it into the computer. This happened as was trying to start the process to unlock my bootloader. I was using RSDlite, loading the "zomgunlock" sbf file, put my phone into rsd mode plugged it in, pressed start and next thing i know it turned off and won't turn back on. Can someone help me?
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I already posted this in Q&A, but I thought it would get noticed more in this section.
Ok I believe my phone is "Hard Bricked", because it doesn't power up at all. The Green led light will show if i take the battery out and plug it into the computer. This happened as was trying to start the process to unlock my bootloader. I was using RSDlite, loading the "zomgunlock" sbf file, put my phone into rsd mode plugged it in, pressed start and next thing i know it turned off and won't turn back on. Can someone help me?
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What version are you on? And can you boot in rsd?
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its version before 4.1.83, but i know i can't get to RSD or to get something showing on the screen
Was it low on charge?
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No its not from a low charge, it was on already 80%
Oh, does your phone get recognized when plugged into a cp?
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no it doesn't seem to be recognized, i tried doing the combos green led light on (volume up + power , etc.)
But the phone stays off?
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It stays off unless I take the battery out of the phone and hook it to the computer, that is when I get the green light indicator
Hi,
I am a NOOB but was reading another post that had a similar problem. Not sure how to make a link to it.
The issue the other fellow had was that when he plugged in to the USB port it was actually draining his battery rather than charging it.
There are specific drivers on the Moto website that you need for the computer to charge the phone.
The short way around it is to charge at the wall.
The title of the post I am referencing is "[SOLVED] Atrix will not power on, green light flashes, plugged in and.... nothing!" initially posted 24th Feb 2011 last post was today.
If your issue is more complicated than this then I apologise for wasting your time.
Worst case no further harm done.
I'm pretty sure my battery is pretty good atm but I'll try anything to get my atrix working again
That happened to me when I was trying to flash the unlock bootloader for mine. I'm using the Atrix on Orange running on U4_4.2.0. Completely bricked with the same green light but nothing happening. Told Orange and got a new one luckyly, next day!
Yea well im on my second from at&t bcuz of a hardware problem, unless I'm able to get a third one. .i ned to find out how to fix this, and the battery charger method didn't work for me
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Hi,
I am a NOOB but was reading another post that had a similar problem. Not sure how to make a link to it.
The issue the other fellow had was that when he plugged in to the USB port it was actually draining his battery rather than charging it.
There are specific drivers on the Moto website that you need for the computer to charge the phone.
The short way around it is to charge at the wall.
The title of the post I am referencing is "[SOLVED] Atrix will not power on, green light flashes, plugged in and.... nothing!" initially posted 24th Feb 2011 last post was today.
If your issue is more complicated than this then I apologise for wasting your time.
Worst case no further harm done.
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USB port on a computer won't drain a connected device. Problem there was he was trying to charge a drained battery on USB 2.0 which doesn't supply enough power to charge properly. The solution to his problem was to charge with the proper Motorola AC wall charger.
Yea I know but I tried the fixes anyway since there was no harm
If it's an AT&T phone take it to a repair center and they will replace it if its less than 1 year old. You don't even need the crappy insurance.
I thought it's only me
I have same problem, googled it 2 days ago - noboday else reported it
same problem - flashed the unlock-able boot-loader - phone turn off, and died...
I progressed a bit more - after replacing battery with a fully charged one, just to find out it's not a battery issue - I prepared the "special cable" - pin 4 connected to VCC.
now - my phone does recognize my phone, as "APX". after providing drivers found in google - it now recognized as "NVIDIA USB Boot-recovery driver for mobile devices".
it doesn't really help, as RSDlite is still not recognizing it, and using NVflash - i get only errors...
I know - i didn't really helped to solve the problem, as I'm "stuck" with it too, just wanted to share my effort...
Tomer
henrys01 said:
If it's an AT&T phone take it to a repair center and they will replace it if its less than 1 year old. You don't even need the crappy insurance.
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Even though this is my second phone?
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Even though this is my second phone?
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The phone has a 1 year manufactures warranty.
o ok, thanks for letting me know
I have HD2, had an android installed, everything was working perfectly until I've bought a cheap chinese recharger, at first android started to lag, tried to restart the phone and it cound't get past HTC logo after MALGR screen, I couldn't even get into multicolor screen to do a hard reset, simply VOL DOWN and POWER buttons didn't do nothing(in MALGR vol DOWN AND UP were working perfectly) and now it doesn't even boot at all...have no sign of life.
Does it mean my phone is bricked or maybe there is a chance it's a battery.
I'd start all over, HardSPL, rooting, reflashing, EVERYTHING (Maybe Task29? Never tried it before but its supposed to help) - I'm not a dev myself, but thats the first thing i would try to do - sorry I cant tell you what exactly is going wrong - maybe start by charging via USB afterwards
Could be a duff charger. Do you have a usb lead? You could try charging of the PC to see if you can get some line in it!
is the charger just a mains battery charger or usb ?,
only ask as i had to get just a battery charger from ebay as my usb on my phone has broke so i couldnt charge it via usb lead, so i bought 2 mains battery chargers and 2 extra batterys ,
it sounds like its just a dead battery, buy a new one from ebay as they are cheap enough, and hopefully that should work .
First thanxx for responding, guys!
I was "bending" and "torturing" the phone and the battery for a whole day and a half night, and realized that all I have is a bad luck - literally.
But at least it's not bricked, but it's pretty normal, because I did nothing to trigger that.
It's definitely a battery that was completely dead, so I just cut some old charger and charged it with my fingers holding wires against that little metal rectangles..
but that wasn't the end of my troubles..
now the pc just doesn't recognize the phone most of the times in the HSPL bootloader(sometimes it does, but still it won't flash or do anything), I have this active sync installed..
later I'll try at my friends place..
It's almost two years I have my HD2, so probably its life sources are just finished, but I won't give up until I'll try everything..
I'll let you know the results
Finally after a lot of efforts it's reanimated!
Gotta drink some bourbon for that! Cheers everyone!
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Finally after a lot of efforts it's reanimated!
Gotta drink some bourbon for that! Cheers everyone!
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May want to change your sig then
I flashed my Defy with a custom ROM months ago and never had a problem. I left my phone for a few days and it's completely drained of its battery. I try to charge it using my USB cable connected to my PC, but the Defy doesn't show the animation where the battery is shown being charged; just the white LED and a black screen. When I hit the power button, it shows "bootloader 09.10, battery low cannot program". I know I flashed my phone correctly and have no idea why this screen is being shown. I didn't try to charge via wall outlet, I'm currently on vacation and only brought the USB cable with me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: My phone is a regular MB525, flashed with with a custom Gingerbread that was posted in this very forum. On my PC the model reads MB526...
Once battery is fully drained occassionally Defy takes time to even boot up. So leave it in that state (Connected to USB ) for couple of hours and try again.
Tried and didn't work, I'm hoping plugging into the AC charger will fix this...though that won't be happening for another week..
Have you the possibility to try the battery in another defy or to use another battery?
Not until about a week..
Don't worry, your Defy will get charged when connected to wall plug.
Mine was the same situation as it won't charge on total empty battery over USB port.
But it charging normally as soon as I plug it to wall charger.
just make sure you don't flash it with any SBF!
OP! i had exact same problem and it snowballed into something huge. It started same as you did, my fone ran out of juice as I was in my office and I couldn't get USB port to charge it, all I had was white LED and black screen in my office. So, at home i plugged it into wall charger for 5 or more hours and I still couldn't see the battery that shows its charging, I tried a different wall charger and still same results.
Then my phone begin to atleast fired up in wall charger but got stuck in Moto M logo. I could only access bootloader and not the Boot recovery for some reason. I been stuck here since, my battery was fully charged externally and yet nothing, I even tried every combo (SIM in, SIM out, SD Card in, SD Card Out) etc but I couldn't get into boot recovery so I could just hard reset my Defy. I could only access the bootloader.
At that point I flashed by Defy with 2.1 SBF's like 7 of them with same results, no matter what SBF file I successfully flashed with I could for the life of me get into boot recovery.
Now, i am just sick and tired and hate Defy because its effed up. I am taking it to the shop i purchased it from tomorrow.
i guess im having almost the same problem.
my defy doesnt boot, only shows the white LED.
it is recognised by the RSD, but nothing happens.
cant boot, doesnt show anything on the screen.
what should I do?
macgyver is not working either
I had a similar issue and I used the macgyver trick and flashed a new sbf. The rom you are using possibly doesn't support charging in the off state.
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as a total android/motorola user
and i appear to be having the same issue, bootloader only!!
Could i ask what and where is the official unmodified rom for this phone.
Thank you.
Cornz
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Meant to put "beginner" or "newbi" or "noob"...
I am somewhat pleased to report that a mains powered charger seems to be charging the phone...
Did the mains powered battery charger solved your problem?
I have to fix my girlfriend phone that seems to have the same issue.
Could you post the model or a link to the model of battery charger you have used?
effepas said:
Did the mains powered battery charger solved your problem?
I have to fix my girlfriend phone that seems to have the same issue.
Could you post the model or a link to the model of battery charger you have used?
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It was a standard mains charger.......Cheapo from the market...
cornz said:
It was a standard mains charger.......Cheapo from the market...
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Thank you for your help.
Unfortunately that solution didn't fix the battery problem... and also the McGyver method didn't work.
I'm afraid that my girlfriend will need a new battery.
She was using an aged MIUI rom (more or less six months old). After the battery replacement should I have to flash the stock Froyo CEE rom via RSD or do you think that the will works again?
Did u fixed the problem ? How ?
I`m in same posture...
I'm still in the same situation. The battery is on stuck at 5%, even if I change the one I own with another one. I can't flash via RSD and I don't know how to fix this problem.
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effepas said:
I'm still in the same situation. The battery is on stuck at 5%, even if I change the one I own with another one. I can't flash via RSD and I don't know how to fix this problem.
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Are you SURE the macgyver hack was done right? Did you use a usb port of a powered usb hub????
Sorry to ask but getting the wires to hold in place was difficult and if the usb port cant provide enough power then the macgyver hack wont work IME....
cornz said:
Are you SURE the macgyver hack was done right? Did you use a usb port of a powered usb hub????
Sorry to ask but getting the wires to hold in place was difficult and if the usb port cant provide enough power then the macgyver hack wont work IME....
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Sorry for the delay, buddy, I tried a different times and I asked also to another friend to try, as double control, but it didn't work.
Actually I send the phone to the assistance center... and I'm keeping my finger crossed.
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Sorry for the delay, buddy, I tried a different times and I asked also to another friend to try, as double control, but it didn't work.
Actually I send the phone to the assistance center... and I'm keeping my finger crossed.
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Damn, that's a shame...Hopefully its just a corrupt rom, the new boot loader is brick-proof I believe.
I rooted mine after upgrading and its a cracking little android phone...Actually, it doesn't get used as a phone, but a portable computer/gps.
Hey folks, i have a HD2 which isn't turning on. I received a call and it just switched off. Now there is no activity in it at all. No led when connected to a charger. I had MIUI installed on the phone.
The repair people say that the motherboard needs to be replaced which would cost approx 12000INR.
Any way i could revive it back?
Please suggest. Thank you!
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Hey folks, i have a HD2 which isn't turning on. I received a call and it just switched off. Now there is no activity in it at all. No led when connected to a charger. I had MIUI installed on the phone.
The repair people say that the motherboard needs to be replaced which would cost approx 12000INR.
Any way i could revive it back?
Please suggest. Thank you!
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You can try the the freezer trick, put the device in a zip lock bag and put it in the freezer for a few minutes and then see if you can turn it on or charge it. You can also take a old USB cable and cut the mico USB end off and strip the wires back then touch the read to the + on the battery and the black to the - on the battery for a minute or two and then try to boot the device. I sorta souds like you were using MAGLDR and the battery died. You can not charge the device while it is off with MAGLDR. So I would try charging the battery first.
Thank you for replying. You're right i was using Magdlr. I'll try what you said
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I've got the exact sam prob, the HD2 was using MAGLDR, and now it won't start (except for a few times it did), but I honestly can't figure how - since once it had been charged on an external batery charger, and then it turned on and worked for a while, but now it won't work with a charged battery...because I tried using it with another HD2 phone's battery which also has MAGLDR and which works (even with my phone's battery).
The pins have been changed, and it worked then also for a while I've been said, but it's not working again now.
Any help please?
TIA
P.S. I've tried ziplock...15min...nothing :/ How to try the USB? Which wires should I connect to which pins please?
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You can try the the freezer trick, put the device in a zip lock bag and put it in the freezer for a few minutes and then see if you can turn it on or charge it. You can also take a old USB cable and cut the mico USB end off and strip the wires back then touch the read to the + on the battery and the black to the - on the battery for a minute or two and then try to boot the device. I sorta souds like you were using MAGLDR and the battery died. You can not charge the device while it is off with MAGLDR. So I would try charging the battery first.
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something like this
https://www.google.com.hk/search?um....0.0.258.258.2-1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.lFN-ufsMSJw
but be very carefull, if you have an external batt. charger that would be best
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Which wires should I connect to which pins please?
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clue in post 2
T-Macgnolia said:
You can also take a old USB cable and cut the mico USB end off and strip the wires back then touch the read to the + on the battery and the black to the - on the battery for a minute or two
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or mini usb, or even an old usb printer cable, with the chunky end, , it doesn't matter which type.
Thanks samsamuel,
Seen the +/- signs on the back of the battery late, after having meassured the voltage, which is 4.14V (should I do the USB charge then even and how long is it safe since my battery powers up another HD2)?
TIA
if teh battery works in another device, then no, theres no point, its not that.
4.14 is fine, i think it goes up to about 4.2/4.3 when full, drops to the low 3.x when drained.
If the freezer trick didn't help either, then its gotta be either hardware, or something totally catastrophic, so if its an option for you, id try JTAG, failing that, id be considering using it for parts, , buying one with a cracked screen perhaps, and swapping your screen into it, ,
dont take my word for it, though, read learn and try things, you never know.