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8125 Dead

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.

Unplugged
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?

Wall Charger
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.

Strange
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...

[Q] [QPhone automatically turns on when connected either thru an AC Outlet or USB

Hi! I would like to ask if this is normal. I noticed that whenever the phone is OFF, and I connect it either thru a regular USB Port, or a Wall Outlet, the phone automatically Powers On & Boots. I have just flashed 4.4.2 Firmware, and I am also using MaxFour v14 Kernel & PhilzTouch CWM Recovery. Mine is a GT-I9500. It's not like the regular thing that when I charge my phone and it is off, the screen will light up a little, and shows a battery image and how much is already charged in there. And if I turn it off while charging, it will just Power-On and Boot again automatically.
Hope you can give me an advise on this.
Many Thanks!

Restarting on charging

my razr m restarting when i plugged charger after 4 5 mints restart.i tried safemode tried another charger other wise phone is working fine just rebooting on charging after 5 mints

Mine frequently restarts too, several times a day, whether on the charger or off. I've tried taking logcats but there doesn't seem to be any consistent trigger. I'm on the last version of JB.

5318008 said:
Mine frequently restarts too, several times a day, whether on the charger or off. I've tried taking logcats but there doesn't seem to be any consistent trigger. I'm on the last version of JB.
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any solution bro?
can custom roms solve this issue?

If you connect phone when turned off to 500mA charger (or computer), the phone will power on.
Or it restarts also in other situations?

ifhi said:
any solution bro?
can custom roms solve this issue?
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Klen2 said:
If you connect phone when turned off to 500mA charger (or computer), the phone will power on.
Or it restarts also in other situations?
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Mine restarts on its own at random with no prompting, several times per day, while already powered on. This happens whether or not it's connected to a charger. I haven't been able to figure out what's causing it. I haven't tried any custom roms, just the stock JB ROM.

So you are on JB? There are problems with random reboots on KK on GSM network, but I don't know about it on JB. You can try custom ROM or kitkat flash 163.46.10, NOT .15 if you don't have your bootloader unlocked.

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So you are on JB? There are problems with random reboots on KK on GSM network, but I don't know about it on JB. You can try custom ROM or kitkat flash 163.46.10, NOT .15 if you don't have your bootloader unlocked.
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I'm still on JB. My bootloader is locked. I've done the GSM edit and I'm on T-Mobile. Could just be a GSM problem? I remember my old Droid 3 would get occasional freezes and reboots, and it was on T-Mobile also.

On KitKat, there is problem with GSM causing random reboots and freezing. It can be solved by freezing FastDormancyMonitor app. But I'm not sure about JB. I'm on GSM too and I haven't noticed any reboots when I was on JB. You can try updating to kitkat (and rooting and disabling fastdormancymonitor). Not sure if this will help

I've read about the FastDormancy issue and I have it disabled on my JB phone, along with the build.prop edits that are supposed to turn it off too. I was hoping to avoid having to move to KK to fix the issue, especially as it sounds like some people on GSM are having the issue on KK too.

Klen2 said:
If you connect phone when turned off to 500mA charger (or computer), the phone will power on.
Or it restarts also in other situations?
when i connect my phone when turn off with 1 amp charger,phone is doing perfect charging no restart.otherwise when i connect computer usb in turn off condition phone will power on direct on pc connected usb . one more thing i connect my usb or wall charger in recovery mode same prob "hang then restart "
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Klen2 said:
On KitKat, there is problem with GSM causing random reboots and freezing. It can be solved by freezing FastDormancyMonitor app. But I'm not sure about JB. I'm on GSM too and I haven't noticed any reboots when I was on JB. You can try updating to kitkat (and rooting and disabling fastdormancymonitor). Not sure if this will help
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when i connect my phone when turn off with 1 amp charger,phone is doing perfect charging no restart.otherwise when i connect computer usb in turn off condition phone will power on direct on pc connected usb . one more thing i connect my usb or wall charger in recovery mode same prob "hang then restart "

It's a feature. It's so done by Motorola, that when connected to PC (or 500mA charger), it powers up.

Klen2 said:
It's a feature. It's so done by Motorola, that when connected to PC (or 500mA charger), it powers up.
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still same prob what can i do bro

What problem? If you mean power on after plugging phone to PC or less than 1A charger, you can do nothing. It is so, it is so on all DROID RAZR M's and it can't be changed.

This is also a safety feature. If you were to try this with phone on and plugged into PC with battery protection interlocks defeated, what will happen? Obviously you will damage the battery. Not to mention the Lithium polymer batteries are pretty touchy (they can blow up if you as much as stroke them the wrong way).

Mine restarts randomly 3 or 5 times per day.. Its exhausting

[Q] Bricked?

Hey all.
So I have an s4 that was running safestrap and hyperdrive. It all worked fine and I was having no problems. The phone froze (programs not responding, not a big deal.)
I did a battery pull and then the phone would not turn on again. When I put the battery in, it turns on for about 5 seconds. I managed to get it into recovery and download mode, however it turns off almost as soon as I get there. I checked with a different battery, but nothing.
I would ODIN it and everything would be fine, but it won't stay on long enough for my computer to even recognize it.
Also, I tried leaving the phone on the charger overnight, but it won't charge the battery or show the red LED. I felt for heat to see if it was hot around the usb/charging port but it wasn't.
Any ideas?

I'm sure you tried this, but did you try to use the USB cord to power and not rely on the battery?

[SM-T230] Tablet doesn't boot if not pluged to charger + doesn't charge if turned on

Hi Everyone,
I just got a little SM-T230 tablet and started to playing a bit. I flashed TWRP, changed rom, rooted, tried some mods and it became surprisingly good and snappy. So thanks again people here at XDA you are awesome as always.
But the tablet has some strange problems. When I try to turn it on, it keeps flashing the Samsung logo with the model number. It shows up for a few second after that goes black and shows up the logo again and repeats this for ever.... But if I plug in the charger (wall charger or laptop usb port, doesn't matter) it boots normaly. When I plug out the charger, no problem I can use the tablet normaly, does not turn off or anything. The battery is quiet good, it can play video continuously for almost 6 hours. If it fully charged the situation the same, I have to plug it in to make it turn on.
Another problem is, that the tablet doesn't start to charge when it is turned on. But if I turn it off and then I plug in the charger, it starts to charge, and after that if I turn it on, it keeps charging.
Do you have any idea what is wrong? What can I do to fix these problems?

I can't figure it out what is the cause of this problems. I flashed 4 different roms, stock and customs, but just the same with every rom. Can it be a hardware related issue?
Edit: A little update on the charging issue. I flashed CM 14.1 for T230 and now charging is working, I can charge the tab when it is turned on. But the boot problem still here.... I can turn on the tablet only when it is pluged to the charger.

You're lucky
My SM-T533 was hard bricked because I flashed a rom and I'm still searching for a Kitkat Debrick file, if someone would give it to me, that would be awesome