Hey all.
First off, I'm running RR N from over a year now.
Everything was fine until now. The problem is that when I connect my charger to the phone it's not getting recognised. That is, it's not showing that it's charging in the ROM.
Like, initially when I plug it'll not show anything but when I restart the phone (with the cable still untouched) and it boots into the home screen it shows charging.
Absolutely strange. ??*♂
Now, after a few days it's not getting recognised even in my PC. And also, now even after it boots to home screen it won't show 'charging' but the batter percentage will increase over time.
Any ideas?
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I have an Imate Jasjar (1.12.38 WWE)
It is giving a rather weird problem. When the power is less than about 40%, the device shuts down (slowly fading screen) if any intensive program is run or multiple apps are opened. After this when I try to boot the device, it shows me the blue Imate spalsh screen and slowly fades off and shuts down.
However the moment I plug it into the usb port of my computer or the external charger, it boots up and works perfectly fine even if I remove the power, till it shuts down again that is.
Another way to simplify my statement could be that the device is showing the power status higher than it actually is. Which explains the booting up with external power.
Any suggestions as to how I can rectify this. This is really troublesome as the phone often shuts down while Im out and I cant really do anything except keep the device charged to the brim at all times to keep it functioning.
Another issue I have is that the device when connected to Windows XP via activesync gives an error "USB device not recognized"
I have tried using different computers and USB cables, but the problem is persistent. But if I keep it connected for long, it sometimes gets connected and syncs. The device has no problem getting charged due to the faulty USB connection though.
Any suggestions on this front?
Thanks in advance.
Sounds like you need to buy a NEW BATTERY.
OK, Thanks.
Any idea about the USB error?
I have very similar behaviour from my Uni (technically an SPV M5000 from Orange Switzerland), but somehow, I doubt it's the battery which is at fault.
I also see the powering down, with fading screen, and then refusing to come back up again (display fades out again on splash screen), but I've observed it with various levels of charged battery. It has happened at 85%( according to both the standard battery meter, and ilauncher meter) as well as at 30% and various levels in between.
If I plug in it, I can boot the device, and after that, the battery runs down normally. I doubt this would work if the problem really were the battery.
I've noticed that the problem arises most often when I'm accessing the internet, either by 3G or wlan. So far, it has never happened when I wasn't actively using the device (meaning I've never taken it out of my pocket and found it in this annoying state).
Any ideas?
Btw, I'm currently using Laurentius WM6 V7 ROM, but I observed the same behaviour with Ivans WM5 (I forget which version) before.
For the USB problem you could try connecting it and opening the device manager (right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager) and deleting the "Unknown Device" that pops up when this happens. Remove the cable, reboot.
This fixed it for me, but I had to do it again a few weeks later.
Oh, and a new battery is the other problem. I got one last week for about £5 from Ebay.
By the way, my Exec seem not to realize when will my batt full. I see 100%, and I wait for more than 1 hour later, but the LED doenst change green, it remains amber. What the heck with my fone?? My batt or my fone fault??
My Atom has stopped working. When connected to power, red light flashes rapidly. Battery is not the problem as I have 2 batteries and same thing happens on both. May be related to this:
A month ago I left it on the roof of my car - from which it fell at 40 or 50 km/h. After resetting, it worked fine except that battery status did not report correctly. After charging it would show 100% all the time. If I removed the battery or reset the phone, the battery icon had an exclamation mark. The icon returned to 100% after full recharge. A couple of days ago though it stopped working. It will start when plugged into charger, although the phone doesn't seem to be enabled. Bluetooth and wireless network show up on wireless manager, but phone doesn't. It won't boot from PC USB (starts boot but stops - not enough current I suppose).
I've opened it up, but can't see anything obviously broken.
Any ideas?
Omnia 7 with Mango RTM officially installed, working perfectly was recently let to sit idle while I was using my Focus, and the battery drained over time.
Today, I wanted to charge it, but plugging in the USB did not power the phone on. I even changed cables, and also used my PC to charge it - but for the life of me, it wouldn't turn on. I even let it sit with the charging cable in it for a while.
I also took the battery out and only plugged the cable, still nothing.
Is the phone dead? Can anything be done to revive it - it was a flawless phone and there were no issues as such. I would appreciate any help.
Update: I plugged in the USB jig which powered the phone on, but now it's in the download mode. Powering it down and and trying to restart it again I am hitting a dead end. It's not powering on. Anyway to restart the phone without removing battery?
Update 2: I remembered from the past trying to update the ROM, that it fails and restarts the phone. So, while in the download mode, I started the ROM updater from Samsung and ran through the normal update process. It failed and restarted the phone - now I see a big white battery charging icon on the front screen. So hopefully this will be ok - and I will update the progress.
But this is quite disturbing as to what steps I had to take to power it on. Imagine if I didn't have the USB jig.
Update 3: After showing the battery icon for about 5-10 minutes, the phone restarted itself and booted normally. It's now charging and hopefully all will be ok. I'll make sure I don't let the battery die again.
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?
just out of the blue yesterday, my phone quit working properly. it will not charge, well, sort of. when i plug it in, it starts to charge, and the battery symbol shows up, then turns off. and repeats that over and over. it doesnt get to the percent charged battery screen. just the very first one. i have powered it on a few times, but, no matter how charged it says it is, be it 2 or 20%, it shuts down after about a minute. it will not show the charging symbol no matter what type of charge i have it on. ive checked the battery with another s5, and it charges fine. ive hooked it up to my laptop, but get nothing different. i was able to start it in safe mode, but after about a minute, it shuts off. i got it into recovery mode as well, and wiped the cache partition, but dont want to lose everything on it, of course, so im not sure what to try next.
i appreciate any help i can get. thanks.
missTnA said:
just out of the blue yesterday, my phone quit working properly. it will not charge, well, sort of. when i plug it in, it starts to charge, and the battery symbol shows up, then turns off. and repeats that over and over. it doesnt get to the percent charged battery screen. just the very first one. i have powered it on a few times, but, no matter how charged it says it is, be it 2 or 20%, it shuts down after about a minute. it will not show the charging symbol no matter what type of charge i have it on. ive checked the battery with another s5, and it charges fine. ive hooked it up to my laptop, but get nothing different. i was able to start it in safe mode, but after about a minute, it shuts off. i got it into recovery mode as well, and wiped the cache partition, but dont want to lose everything on it, of course, so im not sure what to try next.
i appreciate any help i can get. thanks.
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This may well not be right but I was just wondering if it could be a faulty power switch?