I recently acquired a Defy and immediately installed CM11 on it. My main phone is a Nexus 4 and one of its best features is that even if the battery is completely drained, if plugged into the wall charger it will immediately boot up. The iPhone I had before would show a low battery screen until it reached around 10%, at which point it would finally boot.
It seems that when the Defy battery drops below 15-20%, it will not boot at all - pressing the power button does nothing. I plug it into the mains and the usual white light does not show. It still seems to charge and I can eventually boot into recovery to see that power has reached around 20%. At this point if I disconnect from the charger the phone usually boots up. I haven't had it long enough to troubleshoot extensively but I think that while plugged into the wall it is less likely to boot successfully. An unsuccessful boot starts with the Motorola logo, then the screen goes black and the buttons flash once, at which point the boot fails.
Is this at all similar to the experiences of anyone else, or could it be a battery / firmware problem?
Thanks
Have you tried to remove battery, insert it again and then try to boot?
I had the same problem once, I'm on cm10.2. Maybe we should replace the battery, I always charge it before reaches 30%
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Tried to turn on my nook this morning to be greeted by a empty battery with electric bolt icon. I plugged it in to the stock charger and it goes into an endless boot loop that I cant pull it out of. I've tried booting to recovery and holding power till it shuts down.
I left it on the charger for a few hours now it sticks on the skateboarding android with the spinning arrow. Booting to recovery takes me to a blank screen.
sounds like you should probably do a reinstall if you cant even get that far.. You should be able to keep data and just reinstall your rom through cwm on a bootable sd card. Worst comes to worst, just start over, but that should do it for you...
Don't know if this helps or not but I had the same problem the other day after falling asleep reading. After letting it charge for about 4 hours I checked it and got nothing but the same screen and really thought I messed something up with my cable so called for a replacement. Figuring what the heck, I left it to charge the rest of the day thinking I couldn't use it till I got the new cable anyway. That night I checked it out and it was charged. My cable is messed up (can't connect to the computer with it) and it does take a bit longer to charge but at least I can use it while waiting for the new cable.
Having similar issues
Everytime I accidently let the battery die. I have to re do the manual nooter which I loose all of my apps and the info on them. At first I thought it was B&N doing their force update but my Nook today still says 1.2 so I guess it didn't update.
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I think at some point my boot sector got corrupted (probably due to low voltage) and had to make a boot disk to reinstall CWM followed by CM7. Everything runs great now.
I know this is Old but thsi is the Solution
When the nook gets below 5% charge it does not have enough juice to boot up enough to check the battery status.
I don't know why putting cm7 on it causes this issue but it just does not know it is low to display low bat and go into idle to charge.
Instead it tries to start up as normal and sucks the little tiny charge it got in a few seconds up and causes it to deplete the battery.
and it repeats over and over.
The answer is if you pull the battery out it resets it's last known battery state to 0% and will no longer try to boto but instead displays the low bat logo and then idles to charge as normal.
So you need to open it up and pull out the wire that connects to the battery, wait a minute for good measure and then plug the wire back in and put everything together again.
the next time you plug it in you will see low bat and it will shut off and stay off and start charging as normal.
Hi guys,
My battery went completely dead, left it to charge over night, now wont boot at all. If its plugged into the charger and I hold the power button the full battery symbol (black and white) shows for about 2 seconds and then goes off for about the same time then reapers. Any ideas?
Device status:
- Stock rom
- boot loader unlocked
- non-rooted
I've tried :
- Hold power for 30 seconds to a minute
- Hold power + volume buttons for 30 seconds to a minute
- no response form my computer when its plugged in
- no response when trying to boot into fast boot
I am aware this has already been asked. I've tried the other threads but no luck
EDIT
I got mine to boot. I have literally no idea how, I just tried the power button again and it burst into life, although the battery was empty.
I think this could be due to not letting the battery die enough. I normally let my phone (HTC One) so completely flat every month or so but i've never done it for the Nexus 10.
The same problem please help
Serious bump. Ive tried all of these methods, but it just shows the charge icon when plugged in. This is the first time for me that it wouldnt just turn on after going into that sleep state. Charged over night.
JustArchiee said:
Hi guys,
My battery went completely dead, left it to charge over night, now wont boot at all. If its plugged into the charger and I hold the power button the full battery symbol (black and white) shows for about 2 seconds and then goes off for about the same time then reapers. Any ideas?
Device status:
- Stock rom
- boot loader unlocked
- non-rooted
I've tried :
- Hold power for 30 seconds to a minute
- Hold power + volume buttons for 30 seconds to a minute
- no response form my computer when its plugged in
- no response when trying to boot into fast boot
I am aware this has already been asked. I've tried the other threads but no luck
EDIT
I got mine to boot. I have literally no idea how, I just tried the power button again and it burst into life, although the battery was empty.
I think this could be due to not letting the battery die enough. I normally let my phone (HTC One) so completely flat every month or so but i've never done it for the Nexus 10.
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I think this is the same issue that many (or a few) people are having. Mine, for example, will be at 100% charge. Then, sometime in the day (without using it) it will die. It will not power on. When I plug it into a charger, it will show the charge indicator on the screen, and I can get it to power on 50% of the time right away by holding down the power button for about 5-10 seconds.
When it boots up, the android tells me it is at 0% battery. If I leave it plugged in it will usually show 100% again after a short period of time, but until then, if i unplug it, the tablet powers right off.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-10-tablet/291202-nexus-10-battery-drain-instant.html
Here is a pretty good thread to see the issue.
Bill
Here's a question for you:
Watch your battery life. At any point, does it begin NOT draining? Such as remaining at 60% for 2-3 hours during usage? If so, you may have a defective motherboard and require warranty replacement, as that was one of my symptoms.
Hello all,
After a long time with Android phones since 2009, it's the first time I have such an issue.
Yesterday, I noticed my phone was low battery, and charged it during the night. Didn't pay attention a lot at the morning, and used it a little bit. At work, I noticed battery was very low and realized it didn't charge over 3%. Let it like this a couple hour, and realized it didn't charge anymore - Screenshot 1
After a long call this morning, battery dies and it's now impossible to charge.
What I did.
When I plug it, little battery+lignthing symbol. Nothing else. (shouldn't I see a battery charging animation? I don't remember as the battery of this phone usually never dies.)
Fastboot is working well, I tried to fastboot erase userdata and cache, just in case.
When Pressing volume down+up a couple of seconds, as instructed is some help forums, I see the red battery low symbol (and charging text, but obviously don't charge) - Screenshot 2
When pressing power + volume down about 15-20s, same scenario than before but text is green - Screenshot 3
I tried to contact seller and make the warranty work, but they are still trying to contact Motorola and seems complicated.
Please help me, I have to use an iPhone 6 while waiting for a warranty/response, it's just.... so ... iPhonish....
Just a quick update.
With the help of an USB power meter, I noticed that the phone will never charge. (or just 0.01 Amp)
I used the vol down + power to get into Fastboot: the phone "charged" with 0.1-0.2 Amp.
Only issue is that the phone will only stay a few minutes in this mode, then restart and thus stop charging.
I repeated the operation a few times till I get 3% of battery.
Then I was able to reboot into recovery, where the phone took 1.14 Amp => Problem solved!!!
Did you solve the problem? I have the very same problem and can only charge my phone in recovery mode. If I connect the charger while already booted into system a circle with a horizontal line in it appears in the battery symbol.
Tried to flash another kernel or rom without success.
Any ideas?
Thank you
Did this ever get any solution? Same problem here....
I post what I did to fix it here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70917477&postcount=21
So my phone ran out of juice 4 days ago, it was left uncharged till 2 days ago when i decided to charge it. I plugged it into the nexus 7 2012 charger (which i use to charge many other devices and none had problems including my nexus 5) and the LG logo showed up. After 3 hours i went to check on it and it was just dead and warm. It's completely unresponsive, won't boot into recovery or download, won't show LG logo no matter what button combinations i press. It's not recognized by my PC.
I opened the back case, pulled the battery cable and reinserted it and tried but still dead. When i connect the phone to any charger it warms up but is still completely dead. I tried booting it with the battery unplugged and still dead. What might have gone wrong?
Check voltage of battery (Should not be below 3.7v).
I had issue with mine when battery corrupted. Led was blinking red on charge/pc/power on
I don't think it's the battery, I've already tried booting without it and it won't boot or get recognized by the PC.
You saying about booting without battery, was it "test point" procedure?
I'm not really sure what you mean. I unplugged the battery connector and plugged it in the charger and attempted to boot it up. I was trying to test if the battery was the source of failure but I think it's not since it should have booted up if it was just the battery that failed.
Same with me. I bought a new battery and the same thing happens. Blinking red light. It shows some life for about 3 seconds with the logo coming up but then dies. anyone know whats going on?
Sorry if this has been covered but after an hour searching lots of threads about battery/charging issues, I can't find anything...........
Plugged my phone (S6Edge+) in as normal last night, this morning after about 1hrs use the battery was at 10%?? Didn't notice when I unplugged it if it was at 100% when I unplugged it but I guess not?
So I've plugged it back in and gone back about an hour later and it's shut down? Battery is showing 0% and it goes through power up sequence ok but then shuts down due to lack of battery.
When plugged in, I have the red LED top left, I get the empty battery graphic with a lightning bolt in the middle, then the graphic changes to 0% and I get the 3 green circles in sequence at the bottom of the screen.............all as normal, except the battery is staying at 0%?? Is there anything I can do?
I've tried different charger/cable, tried volume down + power, about to try a hammer.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
I had something similar happen to me recently . Heres what I did. Connect the charger to the phone, while connected reboot to recovery(TWRP), leave the phone alone about 20mins, after the 20 mins are up reboot back to recovery while still connected, now you should see atleast 1 percent battery while in recovery, reboot your phone as normal from recovery and now it will charge. This is what has worked for me.