Hello All,
I've had my razr m for a bit now, unlocked bootloader, and was running a CM 10.1 release on it for a while. I wiped it, and installed CM 10.2 nightly (10-2 build i think) - i knew i had to potential to blow up my phone. Was using the for almost 2 weeks, then I went back to my parents house and had my phone hooked up to i guess what was a cheap china wall wart with the microusb cable already built in. it got kind of hot then turned off, i unplugged my phone from the wall and put it on the floor in the garage. i tried to turn it on a couple hours later, no dice. now when i hook it up to anything (only using legit chargers and a PC that can be sacrificed) the led just stays on green, but the phone doesn't even turn on...
any advice?
tl;dr
i hooked my phone up to a cheap china wall wart after upgrading the rom and using the rom for 2 weeks.
now the phone doesn't turn on.
thanks
IMO it sounds like the battery or the charging circuit is fried... normally when the led stays on and green its telling you that the battery is completely dead and will remain that way until the charge level reaches 4-5% then it will boot to the charging screen... I would plug it into a Motorola wall charger for a half hour to an hour if after that time the phone still won't power on I'd pick get a factory cable/adaptor if that brought it to fast boot I'd flash stock and attempt to charge again...if it wouldn't charge i would find a battery somewhere...
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i don't have a factory cable, but i do have an extra battery...
i am trying the battery now.... if that doesnt work any thing else?
i've made a factory cable, do i need to have the battery connect when using this cable?
ezknives said:
IMO it sounds like the battery or the charging circuit is fried... normally when the led stays on and green its telling you that the battery is completely dead and will remain that way until the charge level reaches 4-5% then it will boot to the charging screen... I would plug it into a Motorola wall charger for a half hour to an hour if after that time the phone still won't power on I'd pick get a factory cable/adaptor if that brought it to fast boot I'd flash stock and attempt to charge again...if it wouldn't charge i would find a battery somewhere...
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I always have... I'm sure you don't need to have it connected as it bypasses it...
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so i noticed that the LED only stays on green for like 5 to 10 minutes then turns off.
i have a second battery that when its connected the LED on the phone doesn't even turn on.
Hmmm.... can you get into fast boot mode with the factory cable you made?I'm guessing you found the walk through on how to make them did you make it correct solder points solid and getting +5v off pin 4...when plunged in (to charger) do you get a response from holding volume down and power....
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nope, doesn't even seem to turn on.... i have a 100% new battery on the way, i am going to try to replace it, there is a chance the other battery i had hanging out was bad. I also am making a new factory cable using the microB plug from sparkFun. as a note i might have my friend make a new case for the phone for me that has a removable back.
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Hmmm.... can you get into fast boot mode with the factory cable you made?I'm guessing you found the walk through on how to make them did you make it correct solder points solid and getting +5v off pin 4...when plunged in (to charger) do you get a response from holding volume down and power....
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so i got all the goodies in and hooked up the factory cable to my phone, no love from windows (ie doesn't detect the phone)
any ideas?
i know the cable is good, i have another phone that i have check it with.
i also have a board from my old xt907 (which i broke by throwing), and when i connect the factory cable to it, windows seems to think its there.
so the board for the phone that was hooked to the cheap china charger i think is 100% dead... when i hook it up to my machine with the factory cable nothing shows up.
the other board that i have has some qualcomm usb serial port show up....
any ideas on what i can try for the dead board to try to bring it to life? there is still some data i want of the damned thing....
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I am in the bootloader but it is flashing saying battery low cannot program. I pulled the battery to truly get it to turn off, but no go. I had it plugged in all night, and the green light is on, but I am still getting the battery low cannot program message.
Any ideas to help this situation?
Steve
Edit: NM I figured it out. It needed to be plugged into a wall charger.
I'm having this problem too although leaving it plugged into the wall isn't helping.
Plug it into a wall charger, and then do a battery pull. Turn it on after that and you should be good to go.
Here's to hoping. It seems to be discharging in the bootloop, or just enough juice is getting through to power that, but not the battery. I'm gonna leave it in the wall for a couple hours and see how it goes. Thanks.
Oh and I just ordered another battery, I hope it comes with at least 50% charge.
It won't actually shut off afaict. After a battery pull it just goes back to the bootloop, and somehow I think that's preventing it from charging. I was hoping not to have to wait the two days until the new battery arrives.
This means you are still connected via USB to your PC. Connect to a wall charger and not to the USB port of your PC. When its on the wall charger you will not get this.
I appreciate your help, but something else must be wrong, as it is connected to the wall charger. After about an hour and half on the wall charger the bootloader still says battery low, cannot program. I'm just gonna leave it connected to the wall all day and see if it manages to charge. I can live without it for a day.
I've done that before while sbf' ing... U have to some how charge ur phone battery using a friends phone buy a new battery or take ur battery into vz & having them charge it other wise ur forever stuck w/the green light after that u will b good to go
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Oh plus it won't charge While in boot loader mode Just fyi
Oh & if u ever do anything w/the boot loader in the future make sure ur battery is at least @70% to b safe
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So are you saying that if you connect it to a wall charger and do a battery pull that it goes back to the bootloader? If so then I cannot help. It will boot properly after the battery pull for me.
I meant it goes into the bootloop again. I'm attempting the USB cable strip procedure right now. I found it in the newb's guide up top. It's kind of scary but seems to be progressing. I hope I don't blow it up.
Will the guys at VZW charge me for a recharge? It seems, I don't know anyone else with a Droid X.
Ha! I did the rip open a USB cable, and connect the leads trick, and it worked like a charm. Now charging to full before I go back to Liberty 2.0.1 (at least until the official OTA for GB.)
Thanks guys for all the tips!
judasmachine said:
I meant it goes into the bootloop again. I'm attempting the USB cable strip procedure right now. I found it in the newb's guide up top. It's kind of scary but seems to be progressing. I hope I don't blow it up.
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Man be careful doing this!!! I hope you have the battery out of the phone while it's charging. USB has 5VDC and this phone runs on 4VDC!!! There is a voltage regulator inside the phone to control this when it is charging.
Also if the phone will not boot it will not charge the battery. Sounds like you are in a bootloader error from a bad flash. The battery for sure will not charge in this state.
fasthair
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Man be careful doing this!!! I hope you have the battery out of the phone while it's charging. USB has 5VDC and this phone runs on 4VDC!!! There is a voltage regulator inside the phone to control this when it is charging.
Also if the phone will not boot it will not charge the battery. Sounds like you are in a bootloader error from a bad flash. The battery for sure will not charge in this state.
fasthair
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Yeah I did it outside the phone. There is no way I could weave the wires into those prongs successfully anyway. I already ordered a battery, so if I fried the batt, no big lose. I wasn't willing to risk the phone itself.
Hi all,
Hi hoping someone could help, a guy at work has handed me his Defy as its not charging. Plugged it in and after the M splash screen it goes to the battery charging screen. Only problem is that just shows a massive question mark ? Anyone know what that means please? My ony thought is its not a a genuine battery so the phone is having diffaculty reading the charge level or something ?
Cheers
I can think of three reasons why the battery why the battery wont charge:
You are not using the original charger
You don't have the right battery
The battery is defect
It is easy to test point one: Just plug your phone in an USB-port of a running PC.
Otherwise you could buy an original battery, or if you know someone else with a defy, swap batteries and test...
I too had same issue, used universal battery charger for charging the battery for some time and then on its working fine.
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And you can charge it with an USB cable and a PC?
It just happened to me two days ago. A battery pull and put back solved it. There must be something with the connections. Got me. Only happened that one time.
I too had same issue,how did you solve !?
I too had same issue in 7 mounts
I have the same problem. If I connect my defy to a pc the white LED of charging turn ON but it doesn't charge. It can boot but it turn off after the boot because have no charge!
you could also have a wrong battd!
I have one charger that charge some android phones ( old xperia and samsung) but doesn't charge my defy or a newer samsung.
Anyway, I use an original samsung charger (don't buy those cheap $1 ones) and it can charge any phone.
It's strange because the voltage written written on both is the same and so is the mini usb plug (the amps are higher on the original though).
Only the original charger that came with the phone will charge mine. Any other charger and I get errors.
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Happened to me that the brand new battery didn't charge, just a question mark on the notification bar(I even charged via mcGyver Style). Check your connection pins on the battery between + and -. It couldn't check the battery load status. Check yours if still have the problem.
Ya are saying use a usb charger to charge our android but ya are not solving our problems for those who like the charging pads mine charges when phone is on and in sleep mode however when turned off and on the charging pad it shows the question mark on the battery symbol the phone works fine with the charging pad when in sleep mode just not when its turned off I like to just take my phone off the charger and go instead of unplugging it.
Hi Folks,
My HTC HD2 Android not getting charged either by a wall charger or usb via my pc... i dont what happened suddenly it got turned off due to low battery and when i pluged it for chrging its not showing orange LED notification of charging. when its off and plugged in Orange LED blinked once and Phone got switched on. And when its connected to PC for abt 3 mins it will show charging and after that it shows discharging and battery drains when it shows it discharging . pls help me out coz i dont want to loose my Leo .
Thanx in advance,,,,
Check the pins at the phone which connects to the battery. Sometimes they are deformed and this cause the charging/not charging problem.
But... in this case I don't think this is the problem, because this problem should not affect direct charging from usb cable.
Anyway check them just for sure!
Thanks VDodi
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Check the pins at the phone which connects to the battery. Sometimes they are deformed and this cause the charging/not charging problem.
But... in this case I don't think this is the problem, because this problem should not affect direct charging from usb cable.
Anyway check them just for sure!
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I tried diff cables but its the same...
Magldr doesn't support charging when phone is off.
Nigeldg said:
Magldr doesn't support charging when phone is off.
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so if your phone dies how do you get it to charge?
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so if your phone dies how do you get it to charge?
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Best way is not to let it run out
However, normally it will have enough charge left once it dies to boot up far enough to start charging. If this is not the case, then you have to cut open a USB cable and use the red and black wires to charge the battery. I have not had to do this and am unsure as to how to do it but there are tutorials. It seems simple enough.
Sarathdna said:
Hi My HTC HD2 Android not getting charged either by a wall charger or usb via my pc... i dont what happened suddenly it got turned off due to low battery and when i pluged it for chrging its not showing orange LED notification of charging.
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Consider, as was previously suggested, a cable connection issue.
While you do not currently have the luxury of looking at your status icons, I have found that, on occasion, when I plugged in the phone to charge, the status icon indicated a USB connection, rather than a charging icon. Unplugging the cable and re-inserting the cable fixed it.
Note that new high quality cables can exhibit the same issue.
You have nothing to lose... Give it a shot.
Good luck.
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Nigeldg said:
I have not had to do this and am unsure as to how to do it but there are tutorials. It seems simple enough.
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Take out battery, plug chopped up USB cable into wall charger, use fingers to hold red to + black to -, count to twenty, battery in phone, phone into bootloader, real charger cable into phone and wall charger, leave 10 mins, reboot into android. (Can charge all the way in bootloader, but it seems slower than when android is running.)
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Take out battery, plug chopped up USB cable into wall charger, use fingers to hold red to + black to -, count to twenty, battery in phone, phone into bootloader, real charger cable into phone and wall charger, leave 10 mins, reboot into android. (Can charge all the way in bootloader, but it seems slower than when android is running.)
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By 'tutorials on how to do this' I basically meant your posts
As previously said if you're using magldr you need to be booted into Android before the phone will charge. You can try to warm the battery up in your hands to squeeze the last bit of power out of it to boot up. Or there are standalone hd2 battery charges you can buy from eBay that charge your battery outside of the phone, they're pretty cheap.
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As Samuel said you can charge phone in bootloader. Just try!
Had to buy external charger
item # M00366 this charger was cheap has led's that change from red to blue as the battery charges and has a usb port so you can charge a battery in phone at the same time.
I'd been alternating tween an extended battery and the original when my HD2 started discharging while plugged in. same batteries and nearly a year of typhoon's excellent ROM progression then wham dead batteries....
My Nexus 7 was working fine up until yesterday. I hooked it up to my iMac at work and copied the latest version of the rom I use, flashed and everything seemed good. I noticed that last night the N7 didn't charge and the battery was really low, so I plugged it into my charger.
--Nothing--
Hooked it up to my computer
--Nothing--
Strange thing is, if I shut it down and leave it off, it detects the charger being plugged in and appears to be charging. Also, my OTG cable seems to be working fine. I hooked up my Xbox 360 wireless adapter and was able to pair and use it with my computer. I've tried wiping and re-flashing, restoring from backup, all results are the same.
Can someone give me some insight?
It seems the battery is really low. Try to use the stock charger since it has higher current to charge
Doesn't matter what charger I'm using. If android is RUNNING, it will not charge not do any USB operations (except OTG) I can't read it on the computer, charge it off the computer, charge it off any USB charger including the stock one, adb to it, fastboot to it. But if I shut it down, it will charge when it's completely turned off.
It's charging same thing happened to me when I turned it on for the first time. After putting it on for some time remove it and after some time it turned on with full charge..
In my case i Don't know why it didn't turned on just after the charging..
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Again my device not turning on....I did a factory data reset and boom its dead again. today I will sent it for replacement
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My battery was dead so i wanted to charge it.
But i can't get it to charge anymore and show the charge logo or anything on the display.
I tried normal power button
power button + up or down control key
I had it plugged in now for 5 hours...
Any ideas what it could be?
Sure it ain't your charger? Did you try using different chargers?
Try turning the phone off, then plugging in different chargers while it's off to see if the charging display pops up.
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Sure it ain't your charger? Did you try using different chargers?
Try turning the phone off, then plugging in different chargers while it's off to see if the charging display pops up.
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The problem is, i don't have the original charger anymore.
Today i tried with the htc charger and a normal usb-cable with iphone adapter.
Both didn't work.
I additionally tried charging on computer (usb) or direct power source.
I will try another charger.
TuikS2 said:
The problem is, i don't have the original charger anymore.
Today i tried with the htc charger and a normal usb-cable with iphone adapter.
Both didn't work.
I additionally tried charging on computer (usb) or direct power source.
I will try another charger.
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If you have access to a wireless charger, try that. If i remember correctly, it activates a different charging circuit that can help revive a phone when plugging it in won't.
I unfortunately don't have a wireless-Charger
Yesterday i tried with the Nexus 5 Charger. Didn't work either.
The smartphone doesn't even get warmer. So I think it does nothing...
Maybe try to clear the usb port better?
Habe a lookat the USB port, i Gad the case once, that one oft the 4 contacts oft the port peeled off and wasnt able to connect anything. I was able to put it back in its Position using some time and steady Hands and a microscope
Second, for some people it helps to completely disconnect and reconnect the battery.
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try wireless charging if u can lay your hands on it
if no other option mentioned above works,then try to dissemble your phone using various guides available(@ur own risk)
n try to see manually if your battery is showing a voltage change while charging..
hit thanks if this helps u
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Wireless Charging isn't a solution for me.
But!
The Phone did some weird things yesterday.
I plugged it in for several hours.
After one hour, the notification led blinked red a couple of times, then the screen came up with the symbol that it is charging.
Then it went black again.
Unfotunately nothing more possible.
The back was getting warm, so i think the battery was definitely charging.
Any ideas?