Hi! I have a Sony Xperia X Compact, all stock... about 5 months old.
It began a few months ago; my phone would charge, but it would not be recognized by the computer. I couldn't browse the memory card etc. from the computer it was connected to. It did however charge.
Yesterday I was at a hospital, and by the time I got home, my phone had died. The last time I looked at my phone before it died, I saw a notification about an Android update.
When I got home, I connected the charger directly into the wall. however, nothing happened. I saw the red light, and it suddenly switched to green, then back to red again. Not blinking light..it's rocksteady.
After an hour or so, I tried starting my phone, but it wouldn't even vibrate. So I plugged it into my stationary computer, which told me it had only identified an "unknown device". I tried updating the drivers, but it said it had the newest ones. I tried a different computer, but same thing there. I even tried my linux server and my PS4. But still no go.
If I hold vol up + power, it vibrates once and the blue light begins to shine, but nothing more happens. If I hold the same keys further, it vibrates thrice and goes back to red + green.
I've been trying all different power supplies for hours, but it's stone dead.
I'd really appreciate any help!
I have the same problem
Were you able to solve it?
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Hi everyone,
I have had some trouble with my Vogue. At first it simply would not turn on. I would get a red light when I plugged the phone in to charge it. I have been using my old phone for several months now. Today I went out to the nearest Bell store and it seems like anything new is going to cost in the $500 area because I still have 1 year left on my contract. So I have renewed my interest in getting my Vogue working again
The original thread describing my original problem (with the red light) is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=546674
I purchased a new battery and now when I plug it in on the USB I can turn it on (no lights, red, green, or otherwise) but it does turn on. It boots up just passed the blue “Bell” splash screen and then reboots. It does this over and over again.
I am able to get into the boot loader screen by holding down the power and camera buttons and pressing the reset button.
Any ideas on what I can do? Any suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
The Fish
Reflash your rom when you get to the bootloader screen.
If you are unlocked flash nfsfan or whatever, just rename the nbh file to 'VOGUIMG.nbh' and it will flash.
If you were on stock you'll need the nbh from the stock package.
OK, here is an update
I have tried a hard-reset (press Send and End buttons at the same time and press reset button). This worked but the phone still kept rebooting. Tried the original battery, phone booted a little further up before rebooting.
I got the phone into boot loader mode and left it plugged in on the USB cable for a few minutes. This time when I rebooted I became ecstatic. I got all the way to the “align your screen” stage before hearing the “phone is dying” sound and the phone turned off. So here is what I think may have happened:
I have long lost the home charger kit. So I have, for as long as I can remember, been charging it by plugging it into a PC via the USB. This is fine except that Windows will only power the USB for the device if there is a driver installed. The device/phone looks different to Windows when it is in boot loader mode then when it is fully booted up. If the device is so dead as to not even have a flicker of life I don't think Windows sees it.
I have been doing this tonight under Linux. Linux seems to either have the driver, a more generic driver or powers the USB all the time for any device. I noticed this same behavior when charging my Moto Razr the same way. Under Linux it just worked by plugging it in. Under Widows I had to install the driver. So maybe here is what happened.
The battery got SO dead that it was not able to boot the phone up far enough for Windows on the PC to see it, recognize it and begin powering the USB port. Perhaps leaving the phone in bootloader mode and plugged into a Linux box got the battery a little more charged till I got to the point of being able to align the screen.
Anyway, I am more then ever convinced that this is some kind of battery/power issue. The phone is now lying here powered up and charging (already at 20%). The carrier customizations ran, rebooted while I crossed my fingers, and came back up. I even called *BELL and got a message about activating my phone. Tomorrow if the phone is charged up and behaving normally I will get an ESN change done and be back in the world of decent smartphones. Man have I ever missed my Google Maps
The next step is to flash a more up-to-date ROM... if I dare mess with a good thing.
The Fish
Hi guys,
I've got my Nexus One since early 2010, which was working like a charm until last weekend.
I was sleeping in a tent at a festival, and the phone slept in like 2 drops of water for the whole night. During the night I felt it vibrated, I think it was the "I'm dead" vibration, although it was at 47% when I got to sleep.
In the morning, I saw like 3 drops of water behind the screen glass. The ball was glowing green, although I don't remember setting any notification to this color.
I tried to put the screen on with ball click, power button click, power button long click, power button long click + volume up or down or ball... nothing.
So I thought it was dead. I went to charge it, the charing LED was RED instead of the usual orange. But it charged, and now it's working fine.
Problem is, when I plug it to the wall charger or USB or car dock, the LED is always RED and never orange nor green.
When I plug USB, windows is saying (translated from french) "USB Device not recognized. One of the USB devices connected to this computer did not work well, and Windows does not recognize it. Click this message to show help."
If I slighly move the cable, without unplugging, the message keeps popping like once every 2-3 seconds.
I don't know what to do. I can use wireless ADB, which is good if my laptop is using internet over wifi, but it's not working if the laptop gets internet from an ethernet socket. Indeed, windows does not know which interface to use to reach the phone, and it tries over ethernet...
Any idea? Would it be worth it to open it and try to remove rust?
Thanks
Regards
Edit: would it be possible to move this to Q&A? I guess I posted in the wrong section. My apologies about that.
Noticed my E900 was unexpectedly powered off. Tried to switch on and got the LG logo for 3-4 seconds, then... nothing. Seems to power off. Failed to boot?
Subsequently, power button did nothnig. After removing/replacing battery and powering on, I get the same LG logo for a few seconds, then nothing.
The LG logo tells me it isn't a dead screen. Connected to PC/Zune and nothing seen.
Are there any button combinations to do a reset?
I have ordered a new battery, but I think that's unlikely to help.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Mark
I had already tried charging the phone of course, and had left it plugged in for several hours. No change, still as dead as ever.
But later I connected to a PC. No sign of life from there, but I happened to leave it connected. An hour or so later I noticed it was displaying the almost-full-screen picture of a battery, with a small fraction of green at the bottom.
So it seems the battery had been totally drained to the point it was (almost) unrecoverable. Perhaps it was the low-current trickle from USB that got it going again.
Back up and running now. Glad I didn't panic and buy a new phone!
Hello.
This is a long shot, but i'm going to ask it anyway...
Some years ago I owned a Droid/Milestone 2, that decided to die apparently.
After a bit of searching, I decided to purchase the XT1058 I currently use and forgot about the droid.
But I've found it again lying around, and tried to start it with no success...
On its finals days, if for some reason you needed to reboot the phone, it would take some minutes for it to power up again. Once it was up and running, it was just fine.
Until some day, minutes became hours, hours into days, and the phone never worked again. While it was in this state, nothing appeared on the screen.
It was just dead... And then, after a minute or so, after pressing the power button, it would boot up and everything would be ok.... until the next reboot at least...
Now, if I connect it to the USB port, the white led on the side stays on. It's not recognized by windows nor RSD, but if you leave it like that, Windows makes the sound of an USB device connection, a few seconds pass and the sound of usb desconnection appears. So there seems to be a bit of life (not much)
I cannot charge the battery because when I connect the charger, white led by the charging port is not on.
It only stays on if I remove the jack just a bit, so it's not fully seated. I do not think it's battery related since when it died I tried different batteries...
Holding the power button does not do anything...
Question is, do you see any hope on this enterprise?. Idea would be to have this as a backup...
Or should I just throw it away?.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
As a newcomer to the forums, I'd like to ask for some help. I tried some of the methods described in several posts, to no avail. The situation is this:
Yesterday, I forgot my Defy+ on my desk and the alarm went of at 21:00 as programmed. It went for about 30 mins after that it was cancelled by default. I switched the wifi on and the phone restarted. In fact it stuck in a restart loop, mostly with the Motorola logo on screen. I took the battery out, kept it for like 30 mins, popped it back in and it went to the recovery console with the exclamation mark and the little droid icon. It stayed there for 30 sec, after that it went dark. Now this happened before so I did not panic and tried the battery swap again.
However, this time the phone is silent. Dead. If I plug it into a PC it gives me the notification sound (like when you pull out a usb drive from your PC) and the battery still gives out 3.7V.
No reaction for pressing the power button or volume up/down or any combination of that.
My question is: Is there a way to revive my beloved phone or is it just a piece of history now?
Additional info: Yes, it was a stock Defy+ with Android 2.3.4.
Any help is appreciated!
Update
Update: When I plug it into a PC with the Volume- button pressed down, a white LED starts to light until I disconnect it. During this if I try to enter bootloader mode, the PC recognises it as an unknown device and immediately prompts me to reconnect it.
Any ideas?