I was playing some games.. phone crashed. Now when i plug in the power the LED just flashes RED. Can't boot. I can still get into the bootloader but thats it.
I am rooted, unlocked, etc... am ****ting my pants right now. Any tips guys. Searched around the threads not sure what to do ? Maybe restore and RMA...:crying::crying:
actually now i cant even access fastboot... it shows for a split second and crashes out to blinking red LED
plug it in the wall, keep it ther for 10 minutes or so, then try to turn it on again.
This happens when your battery is literally out of charge.
Let it charge, the phone's entered the trickle charge mode because the battery is low. It may not recover and if it doesn't it means the battery is having an issue. From my reading of red light issues the solutions have been: let it charge because the battery is to low, it shorted so unplug and replug the battery, or to rma it cause the battery died.
Sorry guys skipped a boatload of details.... yeah the phone is charged...
I was playing games off the wall charger, believe me it has plenty of power. The light is blinking red can't do anything, no power up.
Either RMA or take the phone apart, disconnect the battery wires and reconnect them. There should be a guide somewhere, just look blinking red light of death.
Yup, blinking red led is a trickle charge mode.
Maybe the wall charger did not have enough power. Or the phone decided to discharge anyway.
What I am wondering about: if the phone gets back to life, is it empty or full (as in: switch it on without charging and see if it shuts off quickly).
Potential ways to handle this:
- wireless charger. The wireless charger does not pass through the 'red led' circuit but charges the battery directly.
- leave on trickle charge for a day. To trickle charge, that is supposed to be a slow process I think. Maybe someone can measure the current when it happens.
- unplug and replug the battery. This may reset the charge circuit or something.
- hold the power button down for 10 seconds. This will electronically disconnect the battery (but I do not know if it is a place that makes a difference).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2275426&highlight=fix+compilation
This is a thread i created for all possible red led problems (4 in total)
. have a read... It should solve your problem
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Long story short after not using my Universal for a while it now has this issue:
Only turns on when plugged into charger
Immediately shuts off when unplugged
When plugged into charger, red charger light is not lit
When plugged into USB, charging light flashes quickly and unit does not power on
I hard reset and no change
Under Settings>Power it shows Main Battery: Unknown
What can I do?
buy a new battery?
Ya that's, of course, what I figured. just making sure this was not a known issue of some sort.
...if the battery I ordered doesn't fix it I'm coming after you for the $2.60 it cost me.
uuu...me so scared
Cheers!
99% it is a battery issue...
When i plug my phone to either pc or ac the yellow light blinks and the battery reads 100%. Usually the yellow light is solid and the battery show as if its plugged in. Can someone please help?
Have you examined the contacts on the usb plug and where the battery snaps in?
That is usually the middle contact for the battery.
Pull the battery cover and battery out and inspect the battery connectors. My guess in the middle one is bent forward. Bend it back gently and be careful if you have to pull the battery.
The soft reset button is a better option if you just need to do a battery pull.
Are you using the standard HD2 battery that came with your phone? I bought a cheap $5 backup battery and I have this exact same issue when I try to charge it. The stock battery works perfectly though.
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I have the same problem, but only when I use internet on the phone for a period of time. When the antenna is used continuously it gets very warm, and I noticed that's the moment it quits loading and flashes the light. Maybe the battery gets too hot?
so what is the solution - will not charge from network charger nor from usb - when i pluged network charger for whole noght it was blinking green and orange and indicator wrote 100 percent of charge but when i looked into battery properties it showed me 9 percent and no charge - so by night it discharged fully and no answer on any doings
Some things that may indicate the flashing lights.
orange blinking is overheating.. but don't worry it does that and then it will pause charging for a bit and charge in waves rather then 1 cycle to let the phone cool down..it wont be a previous gen devices where it stops charging or gets extremely hot.
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Flashing green light when there are new SMS, MMS or e-mail messages, missed calls, or reminders.
Solid green light when the device is connected to the power adaptor or a computer and the battery is fully charged.
Solid amber light when the battery is being charged.
Flashing amber light when the remaining battery level reaches below 10%
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The only solution I heard of that works is to do a soft reset.
An alternative is to switch off the phone, then after 10 minutes or so plug it into the charger. This means that the charging circuitry is only supplying power to charge the battery and not power the phone as well.
fred_up said:
Some things that may indicate the flashing lights.
The only solution I heard of that works is to do a soft reset.
An alternative is to switch off the phone, then after 10 minutes or so plug it into the charger. This means that the charging circuitry is only supplying power to charge the battery and not power the phone as well.
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on this phone, you can't use anything but the battery for the phone. Take out the battery and you can't use the phone.
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on this phone, you can't use anything but the battery for the phone. Take out the battery and you can't use the phone.
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I'm not asking you to remove the battery. Either try a soft reset or charge the phone with the phone switched off ten minutes prior to charging.
Hi guys,
Suddenly facing a strange problem since last night.
My x10i was running out of charge & i connected to the comp to charge while i was working. I noticed the charging speed was extremely low, so i restarted the phone to see if it would help. Did not.
Thought there is some problem with the cable, used a different cable as well, but no use.
The slow charging had stopped and eventually the phone died.
Tried connecting to the socket & charging, still no use.
The red led blinks when i connect the phone to a charger via the usb or the socket.
needless to say the phone does not even boot up now, obviously for no charge...
any ideas wat maybe wrong or wat i could do ?
please advice
Have you tried to let it charge for some time in off mode? As long as your battery is not dead, and the phone get the right voltage through the USB connector it should charge in an "emergency mode". This is a slow way of charging, but allows for charging without any electronic circuits to monitor it, it is not the same as the charging screen that usually displays when you connect the phone while it is powered off. Usually when a phone is completely discharged it needs to be connected at least 15 min, sometimes a lot longer, before the electronics kicks in, and starts the speedcharging.
My best advise would be to connect it to the mains charger, or a USB port you KNOW supplies power. Some laptops cut down on the powersupply to the USB ports when they run on battery. Let it be connected for a long time (several hours), and then try to power it on again.
If that does not help three things can be wrong
1. Somewhere the USB connection is broken, either in the cable or in the connector on your phone (or on the PC's connector, but that is less likely).
2. The battery is dead, modern batteries contain circuits that actually disables the battery when any given parameters gets outside the defined limits. This is to prevent the battery catching fire. On some batteries this renders the battery useless, and you need a new battery.
3.) The mainboard of your phone is dead, and hence nothing works, can be ruled out if you can borrow a battery from someone to test if your phone works then.
I hope a good and long charge can sort out your problem, that is the easiest fix, and it is free.
Hi O_K,
well, i have been charging (or trying to) the phone since it died last night.
i have used different chargers & different modes of charge (through the system & the wall socket) - no joy at all.
the LED blinks red a couple of times when connected.
Very occasionally, the SONY ERICSSON logo (startup) shows on the screen & it switches off again, back to the blinking.
So charging for a long time & through different chargers has not helped.
gonna try a different battery now to see if that can help.
Thanks for your response!
well, tried switching chargers & batteries.
The problem seems to be with the charging unit on the phone (USB)
with any charger or battery, wen connected the led blinks (like wen the phone is charging), but there is no charge happening.
eventually the phone dies, even if charging
any ideas?
There is a thread some where in this forum for fixing the same problem you have...I don't remember the exact name of the thread..if I find it I'll post the link here..Anyways what the guy did was
-Pull the battery out and connect the charger till the led turns green.
-put in the battery now and charge the phone...
and I think that was it.
Hope it helped..
EDIT: Found the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944322
Today my phone chrashed twice when starting navigation while on the car charger. Screen went black, battery charging icon appeared, red led showed. A second attempt gave the same result. I also noticed the LED shining red... was rather afraid. And decided to restart without the charger, start navigation, and no crash.
After unplugging the charger, the screen stayed on the battery icon for a while. I could reboot the phone with the power button.
It woked okay a few times before but maybe the battery charge state was different, or I started navigation before plugging the charger in.
So, I won't use that charger (Samsung CAD300UBE rated at 5V 700mA) again. But why would it crash? The phone running on just charger power (which is insufficient) and crashing - perhaps to prevent damaging the battery with shallow charge cycles? I estimate the charge left when this happened at 80%.
So be careful which charger you use. Does anyone have a similar experience?
Im having same issue, but my phone wont boot up.
Any fix?
Nexus just died on me last night, out of nothing at all.
Plug the charger into USB, out for a bath and N4 give me a welcome with solid RED notification light. Unplug the charger RED light gone, but phone won't have any response no matter what key combination i press.
No fastboot, no bootloader, no charging animation, just a piece of brick with RED light when connected to USB power. Have tried to remove the battery connection and reconnect but yield the same.
Anyone have similar case? All the search i found is blinking RED light, unlike mine with a solid "RED mean STOP"
Plug it into the mains and let it gain power for a bit.. Battery might be completely depleted
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Plug it into the mains and let it gain power for a bit.. Battery might be completely depleted
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Have leave it charge overnight, however still the same when i woke up this morning.
One thing i forget to mention, when i unplug the battery pin and put in USB cable, the same solid RED light appear, wondering is this having to deal with battery not receiving/release charge
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Have leave it charge overnight, however still the same when i woke up this morning.
One thing i forget to mention, when i unplug the battery pin and put in USB cable, the same solid RED light appear, wondering is this having to deal with battery not receiving/release charge
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It was plugged in the USB all night, or AC power?
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It was plugged in the USB all night, or AC power?
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AC, original charger.
This is so weird that i have idea what have went wrong, worst case scenario it should have boot up to bootloader even if kernel / ROM went wrong, but haven't flash anything new for the past few days.