Hi.
This is a friend's stock P8 Lite ALE-L21.
He asked me to look at it because it had stopped recognicing the SIM card. He had taken it to a repair shop, and they told him the battery was bad, and replaced it. But after opening... i'm not sure they replaced it, it looks "too stock".
In any case, that didnt solve the problem.
I took the phone apart, cleaned everything with small brushes and contactt cleaner, and inserted my phone's SIM card because he was using his on another phone for the moment. IT WORKED! I could make a call from it and connect to the LTE network.
So i remove the SIM card and give the phone to him. Next day he says that he's put his card on the phone and it wont take it. I take the phone again, try with mine, and no luck.
I have taken it apart again and checked with a multi-meter that every pin on the SIM card tray has a connection with the mainboard, and that all pins are positioned well. I dont think the slot is the problem.
A weird thing happens, also. The phone sommetimes reports 0% battery when you turn it on, even if you just charged it. Just now, it was at 50% battery, i rebooted it, and it reported "battery depleted, the phone will turn off in 30 seoconds". And then i booted again and it reported 12%.
Are this symptoms familiar to someone? Is the board toasted?
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Soft reboots about 1 time per half hour now. Seems to have a hard time coming back to life after shutting down--flickering screen also the orange charge light goes off. Just happened again. This sucks.
Could be related to the charging function??
Did you installed any suspicious software lateley?
Have you tried a hard-reset? (do a backup first)
Now its hard rebootng by itself.
Its hard rebooting byitself now.
No new software. Looks like a trip to the shop where i bought it for service.
Pressing the power switch does a hard boot now.
Checking now the reset button--could be jammed.
On about the 10th hard reset--every time it completes installing and thenas soon as i press the on/off button it goes haywire
-or even before presing the buttton.
i have a similar problem, but i turned out to be that:
one my battery is dead, i cant recharge (charger at home)
i plug an external charger that uses 4 AA batteries...
it works fine, BUT when those 4 start to die, the xda
keep softreseting, somtimes even b4 it fully get booted.
so... check your main battery, maybe its dying on you!
Interesting!!
Took the unit to the shop today--they played around and at one point insisted that it was my sim card that was causing the problem.
Finally could see that the secondary battery had gone to 0% and was not recharging.
So in had to leave it there for extended service. Had to buy another mobile phone to use as a backup--bought the smallest thing i could find as I will use it at times i dont want to lug around the xda.
...you know, that could be true too, there is a small switch by the sim card, that if not pressed firmly, it resets the device.
a common problem if you remove the sim card often.
Hi, I have a major problem with my G1, it will not boot up at all now.
To make a long story short. Every couple of days my phone would not wake up from sleep mode. I thought I was having the issue people were talking about here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=528191
So i reverted back to Jesusfreakes 1.5 firmware and it kept happening. So i moved all my apps back to the phone and in fact removed all widgets and really jsut kept a couple of apps.
Anyway this has still been ongoign, usually though i just have to take the batter out and put it back in and we';re in business.
Today though... it's another story. The phone will not start up at all.
I pressed the red button = nothing.
i pressed the red and home button = nothing
red button and camera = nada.
I plugged into the power, a light doesn't even come on the phone. I laeve the battery out or in same thing. I even took out the SD card....
I think the phone just died on me... Anything else you guys can recommend I do?
Take out the battery and hold the Power button for 10-20 seconds.
Plug in the power adapter (without the battery) and see if the LED turns on.
Put the battery back in and see if it turns on.
Does your computer recognize it at all when it's plugged in to USB?
That's about all I know, if you don't see the charging light after you reset it using the power+no battery suggestion, I'd think it would be a hardware problem.
Well I wasn't having any of the waking up from sleep issues. But I did have my phone completely die on me. Same symptoms, it wast responding with anything I tried, and the notification led wasnt working either. I even tried another battery and what not. So this what I did:
1st I pulled the battery out and my sd card for a few moments, the plugged it back in... nothing
Then I let the phone on charge for about 16 hours (some1 suggested this, because messing with the SPL can send ur battery to -110% and takes about 14 hours to revive it. (this didnt do anything for me, but it may have helped I dont know)
Finally I took out my battery, my sim card and my sd card, and let the phone sit for like 10 hours or something, popped my battery back in, and the phone came back to life!
give it a shot, andd good luck
Thanks, i'll let you know in 2 days how it went
in the meantime i called HTC, they seem to know about this issue. He said they'll probably have to swap out the main board but i have to call during business hours for the repair department.
He told me to emphasize that my phone was unlocked so they return it that way also. Since they're putting a new mainboard in i'll ask them to put the rogers one in instead so i can get 3g (I'm with fido in canda 1900mhz)... Let's hope their customer service is extra willing to help out
So my phone was covered by warranty! I guess a dead motherboard does not show the kind of firmware running on the device hihi.
They tried to put a Rogers compatible motherboard in but it failed testing (I have a t-mobile device running on the Canadian network) so they inserted another motherboard. She does not see if it's Rogers or not though but she suspects it's a T-mobile compatible one. They also replaced my antenna.
Can't wait to get my G1 back!!! this Treo 650 is way to bulky
Hey guys, my herald suddenly started acting weird. It was working fine. Had occasional battery problems (like immense battery drain) but suddenly I took out the battery, reinserted it and it didn't switch on. I kept pressing the switch on button but to no avail. I attached my mobile to the data cable to check if this was a problem with my rom rather than the battery. I accessed the bootloader by soft reset and used romupdateutility to hardspl it. When I switched it back on the "Cannon Yang" sign appeared and the cell phone switched off. Also, when in bootloader, if i took out the charger or the data cable, the cell phone switched off by itself. It was working fine a few hours back though. So I went to purchase a new battery, got a hold of one, it was a bit bigger than Herald's original battery but could fit in. It's running fine, just that the back cover won't fit properly, but one problem, when I charge this battery, it doesn't charge rather the "Main Battery" says Unknown. Same thing happens when I connect it via data cable. Is there any way I can use my old battery again? What might be the problem? The phone barely switches on and when it does, it switches back off after the Cannon yang logo. With the new battery, the phone is working but the battery won't charge or rather would show the main battery as Unknown. I'd be grateful is someone could help me on this. Thanks =)
Buy a new battery. Sounds like it's dead. Just got 1 couple months ago for less than $5.00. Where did the other battery your using come from ? Better make sure it's the same specs as the other.
Received as is. Trying to figure out why , when after i have put this in the freezer, and taken the battery, sim and micro SD card out, its still resetting! the furthest it gets is to the windows screen, and then vibrates once and does it all over again. I even updated the ROM to 3.14.531.1 from t-mobiles website. is there any hope?
Check the battery pins and make sure none of them are slightly bent. If the battery pins are good, then your cpu is probably bad.
After months of various SD cards not working (phone not detecting them, bootloops when they're inserted, etc), I eventually decided to try out one last SD card that I know works with my brother's phone. Inserting the SD card wouldn't let the phone boot up, as I expected. But even removing the SD card fails to rectify the problem. Now, whenever I try to turn on my phone, the area near the SoC package gets very hot, and I have to remove the battery to power it off and let it cool down. The screen stays blank, and nothing seems to work. I have found out that plugging the phone in while the battery is removed and then reinserting the battery while the phone is still plugged in shows the battery charging icon, but the screen quickly goes blank after that.
Be honest, do I have a bricked phone? Or is there a way to somehow get it to boot, at least into recovery? I have the ZE551KL model.
if u still have warranty asus should take care of ur phone. from what u discribed there is a Short circuit on ur motherboard i don't know if it is possible to repair or not but it is definitly inside ur phone