Hi, I just got an atrix two days ago and today tried flashing a ROM via CWM.
After following all of the original posts instructions correctly, the phone rebooted, and would not charge, or even boot into android D:
No red LED or error message, it would just sit at the booting screen.
Another strange thing, whenever I would plug the AC adapter into the phone, it would automatically boot, also mentioned by another person which flashed the ROM...
Post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15697608&postcount=417
Rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160649
I tried using RSDlite but it says the battery is too low to flash. Same issue with Fastboot.
What should I do? I can't charge the phone, and whenever I connect it to my computer I get a solid Green LED.
Please help me D:
I'll be available via XDA PM, skype (danstheman7 is my username) and e-mail at [email protected]
Thank you in advance
**sorry if this is in the totally wrong section, i'm freaking out a bit right now and posted here incorrectly. my apologies.
You could try and get a battery charger for your battery. Ebay or amazon.
Also if your battery is really low sometimes it won't power on just buy plugging it into the wall or computer untill it has more then 10% charge. So if you plug it in and get a green light let it set a while it may be charging. Few hours should do the trick.
I am impatient so I used an old usb cable, cut the end off that would normally attach to a device, and stripped the wires that were red and black. On the back of your battery there is a positive and negative sign just attach the red to positive and the black to negative. Using tape I taped them down so they wouldnt move, plugged it in, and waited for a while for the battery to charge. Monitor the temperature of the battery to make sure it don't get hot. If it does unplug it, disconnect and order a battery charger. Something isnt right.
Once charged for a while put the battery back into the phone which allowed me to flash fastboot and RSD. Now make sure you have a full battery before doing this again.
I am not responsible for damage you inflict on yourself or phone. This can be dangerous. Electric shock, fires, exploding battery, etc may occur. Please try at your own risk. But this is what I did, ive learned my lesson to never flash on a low battery. Always charge fully.
You could also put the battery back in the phone and not have to wait for the battery to charge. Although you risk destroying your phone. And not just your battery.
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Hi. Like you mentioned I had the same issue. I managed to fix it!
Go to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009
Download .zip for your carrier (Att or international) and then enter to CWM Recovery:
Plug your mobile to wall charger and hold volume down button. Then press volume down until you see android recovery - press up and it will lunch CWM recovery (I'm assuming You have got CWM installed for unlocked and you have unlocked BL). Then wipe your data and simply apply zip that you have downloaded. This Solved my problem.
I don't what caused the problem but What i did was:
1. I have Unlocked BL using pudidng for international.
2. Flashed via fastboot system.img for 2.3.4 OrangeFR
3. Applied fix for RAM
4. Installed CWM for Unlocked
5. Nand Backup
6. Applied cherry blur in CWM
7. Applied RAM fix for 4.5.91
Up to this point - no problems. I restored all apps via titanium. I went to sleep and when I woke up this morning my mobile was off and I couldn't switch it on.
I have connected to the charger and then the mobile went on immediately. After few sec went off again and then on. I thought the battery is dead untill I've read this thread.
Things I can do ONLY while my mobile is connected to charger:
1. Enter fastboot - but I'v got msg that battery is to low to flash...
2. Enter CWM Recovery
3. Once I'm in CWM I can unplug from Charger and connect to PC.
3. ADB sees my device
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To me cherry ROM drained my battery from 50% to 0% over the night and somehow I wasn't able to charge my mobile and even switch it off with the battery inside. This is strange...
I have the same problem with cherry blur... everything is perfect but battery life is suckinng
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Hey there,
i faced the same issue couple of days back. My battey was completely drained. As soon as I connected my phone to ac charge, it would star and stuck at the Moto logo without charging the battery at all. I was able to rebot my phone to recovery, but none of the recovery zip worked for me. I was not able to use flashboot since always got the low battery warning.
Finally had to order the spare battery charger from Amazon and charge my battey to boot into flashboot and flash the HKTW image. Once i flashed to HKTW i was bale to apply the latest 4.5.91 zip using CWM. Hope this helps.
Thanks,
SK
Foka002 said:
Hi. Like you mentioned I had the same issue. I managed to fix it!
Go to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009
Download .zip for your carrier (Att or international) and then enter to CWM Recovery:
Plug your mobile to wall charger and hold volume down button. Then press volume down until you see android recovery - press up and it will lunch CWM recovery (I'm assuming You have got CWM installed for unlocked and you have unlocked BL). Then wipe your data and simply apply zip that you have downloaded. This Solved my problem.
I don't what caused the problem but What i did was:
To me cherry ROM drained my battery from 50% to 0% over the night and somehow I wasn't able to charge my mobile and even switch it off with the battery inside. This is strange...
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This did the trick, thank you SO much
Go to local AT&T and ask to leave your battery in a display for a few hours and come back and pick it up.
Hi Guys.
First of All i am sorry for my bad English. Hope that u will understand me. I have a big Issue with my Defy with Red Lens. I used to have CM7 running on it with Android 2.3.7. Yesterday I decided to flash CM9 from 19/03 with the CM9 Kernel. Everything went just fine the phone started up and ran perfectly smooth until it just turned off. I wasnt even able to turn it on again. I guess the battery wa empty because it was in use for about 10 hours. Now heres the PRoblem: I cant start my phone. If i push the button nothing happens. But if i plug it onto the charger it will boot until this charging screen and not more. There is than a white questionmark on the battery on the screen and its stuck there with the red LED above the screen turned on. I am able to get into CM recovery Menu but everything i tried didnt work. I tried Clear Dalvik Cache, Full Wipe, Clear Battery Stats and the Recovery from CM. Nothing works. I am really confused.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks for reading this topic.
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Hi Guys.
First of All i am sorry for my bad English. Hope that u will understand me. I have a big Issue with my Defy with Red Lens. I used to have CM7 running on it with Android 2.3.7. Yesterday I decided to flash CM9 from 19/03 with the CM9 Kernel. Everything went just fine the phone started up and ran perfectly smooth until it just turned off. I wasnt even able to turn it on again. I guess the battery wa empty because it was in use for about 10 hours. Now heres the PRoblem: I cant start my phone. If i push the button nothing happens. But if i plug it onto the charger it will boot until this charging screen and not more. There is than a white questionmark on the battery on the screen and its stuck there with the red LED above the screen turned on. I am able to get into CM recovery Menu but everything i tried didnt work. I tried Clear Dalvik Cache, Full Wipe, Clear Battery Stats and the Recovery from CM. Nothing works. I am really confused.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks for reading this topic.
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put the charger in the phone and let it charge for about an hour .. then try restarting it .. something similar happened to me too ... and then tell me
I already let it charge for the whole night. it didnt take any effect.
auosjasim said:
I already let it charge for the whole night. it didnt take any effect.
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it the phone getting connectined in the bootloader mode via usb ?
The Bootloader tells me "Low Battery - cant program" and stucks there. But the Battery is fully charged, i let it charge for 11 Hours.
auosjasim said:
The Bootloader tells me "Low Battery - cant program" and stucks there. But the Battery is fully charged, i let it charge for 11 Hours.
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oops .. now that's bad .. perhaps service center is the way now
Isnt there any Patch for the Battery Issue? Because i am able to get to the Cyanogenmod Recovery Menü and i am able to install zip files
auosjasim said:
Isnt there any Patch for the Battery Issue? Because i am able to get to the Cyanogenmod Recovery Menü and i am able to install zip files
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.. oh well ..thats nice ! .. try installing a new rom .. the battery will get working then .. try wajkiui ,,,
I will buy a micro sd - usb adapter first and then i will proceed flashing. But thank for your advice mate. I will keep you informed.
auosjasim said:
I will buy a micro sd - usb adapter first and then i will proceed flashing. But thank for your advice mate. I will keep you informed.
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yea sure
Hi mate,
i found a certain battery fix on the internet and i flashed it onto my phone. now everythign is running just fine. The problem was that the battery didnt charge without the patch.
auosjasim said:
Hi mate,
i found a certain battery fix on the internet and i flashed it onto my phone. now everythign is running just fine. The problem was that the battery didnt charge without the patch.
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....... what the. ..... I used the same thing for the problem !... and still have the file ( defy red lens battery fix ) ... AND I JUST FORGOT BOUT IT ! ... damn such an idiot am i . .....
any ways good that your problems solved
I too had the same problem .... but charging the battery and restarting the phone in another rom solved it. ..... strange that yours didn't .
yamandude said:
I too had the same problem .... but charging the battery and restarting the phone in another rom solved it. ..... strange that yours didn't .
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May be because his battery was not getting charged at all! It was completely dead!!! Myself will take care to always keep my battery charged before flashing!
pranks1989 said:
May be because his battery was not getting charged at all! It was completely dead!!! Myself will take care to always keep my battery charged before flashing!
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yea sure do .. its a norm .. ;D
pranks1989 said:
Myself will take care to always keep my battery charged before flashing!
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Even if you plug it to the charger, if it's not charging, well...it's just not charging The battery meter shows full, but it's neither full, nor is it charging, therefore the patch needs to be flashed
Auris 1.6 vvt-i said:
Even if you plug it to the charger, if it's not charging, well...it's just not charging The battery meter shows full, but it's neither full, nor is it charging, therefore the patch needs to be flashed
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Oooo okay.... So then maybe I should go to hardware mode and work on something to check and charge smart Li-ion batteries!! Will do that once i get some free time!!!
auosjasim said:
I will buy a micro sd - usb adapter first and then i will proceed flashing. But thank for your advice mate. I will keep you informed.
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why?
just put it on the usb an laptop, go in Android Bootmenu (Stock Recovery, not Clockworkmod) and select: Tools!
There u can select "share usb" or "share SD Card". Don't know exactly, but the computer should recognize it so u can copy files to your SD Card (e.g. Roms etc).
greetz
I'm flashing my Defy with RDS Lite after unsuccessful ROM update with custom rom.
Phone was rooted and had Clockwork recovery, which I could not access any more (just hung on Motorola logo). Only option was Motorola bootloader and SBF.
I have now progress 40% and it has took already 4 hours, so 10% per hour.
Status is "Phone[0000]: creating image file"
How long should flashing generally take?
olaviivalo said:
I'm flashing my Defy with RDS Lite after unsuccessful ROM update with custom rom.
Phone was rooted and had Clockwork recovery, which I could not access any more (just hung on Motorola logo). Only option was Motorola bootloader and SBF.
I have now progress 40% and it has took already 4 hours, so 10% per hour.
Status is "Phone[0000]: creating image file"
How long should flashing generally take?
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Minutes (sg like 10), not hours.
Probably your battery went dead - then try to charge it somehow (external charger, other defy, or see this thread)
corrinti said:
Minutes (sg like 10), not hours.
Probably your battery went dead - then try to charge it somehow (external charger, other defy, or see this thread)
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Managed to get flashed. Using McGyver method.
Is it possible that battery is just went unexpectedly dead and will not charge at all?
Hello everyone, i need help. Yesterday i installed cyanogen 11 rom on my milestone, but when the phone boots, it said setup wizard stopped working and i couldnt do anything, after that i flashed my device with 2.3.4 version, from 2.3.6. At that time i didnt knew that that will brick my phone. So now it wont turn on...when i put it on the charger led next to charger/usb flashes, when i connect it to usb led stays on. I read a lot threads on the forum but no luck. I just need to enter to bootloader so that i can flash it again, i tryed it with camera vol down and power but now luck. Anyone knows another way?
Thanks in advance.
I fixed it by using battery bypass. I wont delete thread maybe will help someone.
nikolacirjakovic said:
I fixed it by using battery bypass. I wont delete thread maybe will help someone.
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How to do a battery bypass on motorola milestone 2?
sssloba said:
How to do a battery bypass on motorola milestone 2?
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look here and here
Tnx but this don't do the magic for me.. It's the same, only LED lights up and no reaction on button press..
I'll have to try something else.
sssloba said:
Tnx but this don't do the magic for me.. It's the same, only LED lights up and no reaction on button press..
I'll have to try something else.
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Sorry, but it worked for me...did you fixed it some other way?
Nope, not yet.
I'll try this with another cable. Also, i find a tutorial how to make Motorola factory cable, and i will try that when i find the time.
I can't put links here now, but it's called "How to Make Motorola Factory Cable to Unbrick Your Android! " on Youtube, maybe it can help someone elese.
I'm not giving up. :fingers-crossed:
sssloba said:
Nope, not yet.
I'll try this with another cable. Also, i find a tutorial how to make Motorola factory cable, and i will try that when i find the time.
I can't put links here now, but it's called "How to Make Motorola Factory Cable to Unbrick Your Android! " on Youtube, maybe it can help someone elese.
I'm not giving up. :fingers-crossed:
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I almost killed my M2 last week, all my fault. When battery is too low, cable bypass is not enough to turn on with vol down + camera. But there is another trick in RSD lite.
Put the bypass cable in the M2 battery & phone then connect bypass cable in a wall charger (computer usb port has not power enough). Now plug the data cable in the M2 usb then connect to PC USB port. Phone still appears to be dead if you try to power on (try it). Go to RSD lite 5.7 and click "Show device" until device properties shows something. Now ignore that your phone looks powered off and go ahead flashing with RSD.
After flashing you will need to do a factory reset as usual, turning on with X pressed until triangle appears. Note that in some M2 you go to wipe menu pressing @ one or more times in triangle screen, while on other M2 you press vol up + vol down to get wipe menu.
Mine was bricked for the same reason, flashed BL, 2.3.6, then because I could not wipe (didn´t know that there was two ways to get menu), I messed up the entire thing, flashing 2.3.4 - phone dead with side led on when connected. Battery does not charge in this state, so after discharged I recovered this way.
Progress
Ok, this helps a bit......I managed to flash my M2 but still no startup screen.
When I did what you wrote, RSD Lite v5.7 did show my device and it started flashing it, in some point the screen on my phone lights up and shows "FW update in progress.." . Everything finishes nice with no trouble...rebote and PASS...
But there is no Motorola icon shown, neither I can start in recovery mode, or bootloader mode or any other that i tried.
When I connect it to PC with data cable, it makes sound like the USB device is plugged in, and it also can be seen in RSD Lite as connected device but nothing on the M2 screen... Same thing happens when i press power button on the phone while it is connected with the data cable.
Any idea why?!
By the way, tnx for helping me this much! :good:
sssloba said:
Ok, this helps a bit......I managed to flash my M2 but still no startup screen.
When I did what you wrote, RSD Lite v5.7 did show my device and it started flashing it, in some point the screen on my phone lights up and shows "FW update in progress.." . Everything finishes nice with no trouble...rebote and PASS...
But there is no Motorola icon shown, neither I can start in recovery mode, or bootloader mode or any other that i tried.
When I connect it to PC with data cable, it makes sound like the USB device is plugged in, and it also can be seen in RSD Lite as connected device but nothing on the M2 screen... Same thing happens when i press power button on the phone while it is connected with the data cable.
Any idea why?!
By the way, tnx for helping me this much! :good:
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Excuse me, what sbf version are you trying to flash? Do you know your current BL version?
Please note that some sbf requires bootloader upgrade to 70.13 first.
And there is not direct downgrade - i.e. once flashed GB, flashing froyo bricks M2. Actually even between GB versions, once installed a R01 GB sbf you can not flash any R00 GB sbf. Some downgrades only this way.
Also there is not BL downgrade.
lampwarez said:
Excuse me, what sbf version are you trying to flash? Do you know your current BL version?
Please note that some sbf requires bootloader upgrade to 70.13 first.
And there is not direct downgrade - i.e. once flashed GB, flashing froyo bricks M2. Actually even between GB versions, once installed a R01 GB sbf you can not flash any R00 GB sbf. Some downgrades only this way.
Also there is not BL downgrade.
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I also think he's trying to downgrade. Perhaps he flashed Latin America ROM, and now he's trying to flash UK one. I don't know, but what he describes looks exactly what I experienced when I tried to flash Froyo over GB.
IMHO he should try to flash the latest ROM, that means Latin America 2.3.6 GB.
rabinhood said:
I also think he's trying to downgrade. Perhaps he flashed Latin America ROM, and now he's trying to flash UK one. I don't know, but what he describes looks exactly what I experienced when I tried to flash Froyo over GB.
IMHO he should try to flash the latest ROM, that means Latin America 2.3.6 GB.
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Yes, that is exactly what happened.
After reading some more about this, I now understand what was my problem....
Playing with my M2 I installed some CM versions, 10, 10.2, 11... and finally when I wanted to go back to stock rom, I find newer version than mine was, and there is the first mistake. I installed it not knowing that I can't do a downgrade later.
Secound mistake was that i TRIED to go back to my old stock rom, and....black screen happend.:crying:
But thanks to your help I now know how to fix it. And i did! :victory: :highfive:
My BL is 70.13 , and when i checked my CG31 with "smgver" it show that it is v4.
I can't go back to my old rom, but now I can install costum or some BR/AR gb except for persona&vivo,which is 4 as Endless7 explaned in his text.
Now there is only one more problem... the battery cannot be charged. There is icon like it is being charged, and also it says charging 1% and always is 1%.
I have original battery and one that is not original...neither one of those two can't be charged.
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Now there is only one more problem... the battery cannot be charged. There is icon like it is being charged, and also it says charging 1% and always is 1%.
I have original battery and one that is not original...neither one of those two can't be charged.
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When connected with a wall charger a discharged battery should jump to 20% in config, battery. If locked in 1%, probably there is a mess in the battery state variable.
If you are using a custom recovery, try to clear battery state on it and select the option to fix permissions.
Doing again the master clear/factory clear also may work, but needs to config all the phone again.
Another thing to consider, any short circuit or wrong wiring while doing the bypass cable may damage the charger (or battery, or phone), do you have a spare one to test?
lampwarez said:
When connected with a wall charger a discharged battery should jump to 20% in config, battery. If locked in 1%, probably there is a mess in the battery state variable.
If you are using a custom recovery, try to clear battery state on it and select the option to fix permissions.
Doing again the master clear/factory clear also may work, but needs to config all the phone again.
Another thing to consider, any short circuit or wrong wiring while doing the bypass cable may damage the charger (or battery, or phone), do you have a spare one to test?
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I tried both of this things, and none of them worked. When powered on, without charger, on the battery icon stands [!]
and when it is connected with a wall charger, icon changes to little lightning ( standard charging icon) inside the empty battery, without movements (battery do not changes colors, red, yellow, green). On lock screen says: Charging 1%, and same on the battery settings (1%).
That was on costum rom.
And on the stock rom in the battery icon stands [?], and when I connect it to the wall charger it says (with original Motorola battery inside):
"Invalid battery
Your device battery is invalid and cannot be charged.
Replace the battery with an original Motrola battery."
I changed the cable, and the charger, but I do not have third battery...short circuit...maybe...maybe.
One interesting fact, the battery seems to be charging, although it says 1%.
The original battery was empty at the begining, she couldn't even start the phone, and now phone is working on that battery....strange. Should it be able to do that, if there was a short circuit?
As far as I know, flashing stock sbf overwrites most config files, also battery statistics. Maybe the easiest solution would be to buy a new replacement battery - at least here, in Poland they go for 7-8$ - quite cheap IMO.
I remember when I was using MS2 that once I had this question mark instead of battery status - it heppened when I drained battery to zero, phone was unable to boot to charging mode, so I booted from another battery, and with a wall charger plugged in, I replaced battery with empty one. Then question mark sign appeared when there was no battery, but I don't remember how I got rid of it. Maybe it disappeared after some time? I don't know. But for sure it disappeared.
sssloba said:
I tried both of this things, and none of them worked. When powered on, without charger, on the battery icon stands [!]
and when it is connected with a wall charger, icon changes to little lightning ( standard charging icon) inside the empty battery, without movements (battery do not changes colors, red, yellow, green). On lock screen says: Charging 1%, and same on the battery settings (1%).
That was on costum rom.
And on the stock rom in the battery icon stands [?], and when I connect it to the wall charger it says (with original Motorola battery inside):
"Invalid battery
Your device battery is invalid and cannot be charged.
Replace the battery with an original Motrola battery."
I changed the cable, and the charger, but I do not have third battery...short circuit...maybe...maybe.
One interesting fact, the battery seems to be charging, although it says 1%.
The original battery was empty at the begining, she couldn't even start the phone, and now phone is working on that battery....strange. Should it be able to do that, if there was a short circuit?
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Battery sign with a "?" shows when battery is completely uncharged (and before the master clear in my case). Power off the phone, install the bypass cable (again) and put it in the wall charger with phone powered off. Wait 15 minutes charging before power on and wait more 15 minutes charging. Now remove the bypass cable and let battery charge as usual before powering on again.
I did all of that. I downloaded some battery widget, and it shows the battery state 100%. Same is when i go to Settings=About phone=Phone status, battery status is charged 100%. Now the only thing is that in the original battery status icon is still [?].
The important thing is that battery is 100% full and phone is not broken, it works! !
@rabinhood
I flashed costum and stock rom.
I have replacement battery, and same thing happens on it. Also I tried changing them while charging...nothing.
Maybe it will disappear by itself if I wait long enough. :laugh: