Hi All
I have a problem with my XDA2, the phone is in excellent condition, but the internal back up battery does not charge at all, i have left the phone hooked up to my PC for a couple of days still no charge, and i have also charged the phone rom the mains still nothing in the back up battery, this is only a problem when i need to remove the external battery for any reason, because when i do this the XDA resets itself and i have to go through reinstalling everything again, i have phoned O2 they say the internal battery can be changedb but it will cost me between £100 and £130 to get it done as the phone is now out of warranty, now as i sais earlier the phone is in excellent / perfect cosmetic condition, but i am a bit reluctant to pay £130 to O2 if this is a job that i can do myself, only problem is i have searched the net and cant find anywhere that sell the internal battery, and is there any special tools required, if this is an easy job and anyone has got a broken XDA2 that would like to sell me the internal back up battery or know where a battery can be bought then please let me know.
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HELP..!!
I bought an MDA Vario on ebay. I tried to unlock it using the lokiwiz tool. I dont have the USB cable, but I did manage to activesync to the phone using IR. I also read that someone managed to unlock over IR.
I ran the Enablerapi.cab file in the phone, which went ok. After I ran lokiwiz.bat, I got the options screen where I entered "U" for unlock.
a little while later, my phone powered off. But it never powered on again. I tried hard resets, soft resets, removed the battery, removed the charger, everything. And it has no sign of life whatsoever.
I called TMobile and they said that since I wasnt a customer they cant help me (I'm from out of town).
Please can anyone help me. I saved up for a lot of time to buy this phone, and am devastated that its dead less than 4 hours after I bought it.
Update.
When I removed the charger from the wall and replugged it in, the red light came on on the phone. But thats it. Battery doesnt seem to charge, soft/hard resets dont work, and it does look (save for the red light) like it wont do anything
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Ok, reading through some of the posts I think I can rest a little easier. People say it usually gets back to normal (I need to leave it plugged in)
Two questions now.
1) Whats a normal charge time for the MDA..?
2) When the battery is totally flat (or even removed) is it normal for soft/hard resets/bootloader to not work even though its plugged into the wall socket..?
Well no one replied, I am however posting this here in the case that it may help someone else.
It was the charger. Rated at 800 mAh, it just couldnt charge the battery. I bought a charger from RadioShack which fits the phone, rated at 1.5A. In less than a second it was charging the phone, and now my phone is perfect again.
Good luck..!!
Hi all,
My two year old HTC P3300 has gone dead and I suspect it could be the battery. How could I know for sure? When it was new I upgraded to WM6 and apllied the corrupt SD patch because it was crashing sometimes when I would access the SD.
After that it has been working flawlessly for over a year except for battery life which has been getting shorter and shorter for the past few months. I turned off bluetooth and wifi and still the P3300 was only able to go for about 24H with normal usage (just four or five calls, a few reminders and no GPS).
All of a sudden a couple of weeks ago it started just turning off by itself when using simple things like card games. I could feel the battery was pretty warm and pressing the power button would do nothing. Only a soft reset would work.
Then a few days ago it finally decided to die. I was playing Freecell with the battery at about 80% and it turned off by itself but now even soft reset won't work. When I plug in the charger the orange light wont turn on althoug the battery does get a little warm.
The only thing it will let me do is start a hard reset but nothing much happens. It says to press send if I want to return the P3300 to the original factory settings. I accept and for about one seccond it shows:
Format FAT partition!
Format complete!
Then I get the HTC boot screen and some red letters that say:
IPL 1.36.0001
SPL 1.36.0000
and then nothing else happens. It just stays like that for a couple of minutes until it turns off by itself. After that I can't even do a hard reset unless I put the phone on the charger for a couple of hours.
To me this looks like it could be an exhausted battery but how can I confirm this without buying a new battery? I checked with a tester and I get 3.07V DC but I can't seem to get any amp reading (maybe I'm doing it wrong).
Please any ideas would be welcome. I love my P3300 and I hate the idea of having to change.
lolailo54 said:
Hi all,
My two year old HTC P3300 has gone dead and I suspect it could be the battery. How could I know for sure? When it was new I upgraded to WM6 and apllied the corrupt SD patch because it was crashing sometimes when I would access the SD.
After that it has been working flawlessly for over a year except for battery life which has been getting shorter and shorter for the past few months. I turned off bluetooth and wifi and still the P3300 was only able to go for about 24H with normal usage (just four or five calls, a few reminders and no GPS).
All of a sudden a couple of weeks ago it started just turning off by itself when using simple things like card games. I could feel the battery was pretty warm and pressing the power button would do nothing. Only a soft reset would work.
Please any ideas would be welcome. I love my P3300 and I hate the idea of having to change.
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Hi!
I'm experiencing the same problems...
Tried new rom, sdhc update cab, format sd to fat32, try another sd, etc...
Seems that the phone works more or less well if there's no sd card (maybe because it need more juice from the battery?), and even better, if I can say that for a phone..., without sim card too.
It worked more or less today only with sim card on it, but when there was an sd card it keeps blocking, hanging and turning off with difficult turn on situation.
Can someone help us?
Thanks!
Hello both.
It can be frustrating waiting for help (and you might have found an alternative solution) but I'll say what I can.
If your Artemis can be operated more normally whilst charging but fails quickly under battery power, that certainly suggests a battery problem.
Batteries are consumables but hard to test (although some shops can) - try your local retailer?
My spare battery is a Sanyo ARTE160 rated 3.7V 1,200mAh.
On the reverse, 4.2VDC is printed amongst chinese characters and it actually measures 4.16V off load. I'd think 3V far too low.
There's clever technology behind the management of these LiOn batteries because both over charge and over discharge can damage them. Their life is more determined by battery chemistry and charge/discharge cycles than age.
One caution - measure voltage by all means...
BUT
DO NOT measure current with a test meter to a battery - particularly not a LiOn battery - because it amounts to a short circuit. Current can be so high as to blow the meter fuse and in cases of sustained short circuit or over charging, the battery can swell or even burst dangerously.
I'd think a replacement battery (via e-bay?) far less expensive than paying repairers to confirm the battery was the only problem.
Hope this helps
Hi!
I bought a replacement battery from Ebay.
All seems to be OK yesterday at night until today by noon.
Today, in the middle of a phone call, the phone stalls.
After a reboot and some hours later, the phone keeps crashing and crashing and, sometimes, it doesn´t turn on...
Will try now to upload an original rom and see what it does.
Regards!
This might have happened because difficulties whilst using an impaired battery left a legacy of part-saved data, registry and file corruption problems.
The outcome would be good to know because battery problems can/will affect us all eventually.
Also, a brand new battery can need a few charge/discharge cycles to bring it up to best condition.
I also got a new batery from ebay and unfortunately it still doesn't work. Behaviour is exactly the same as before.
I suppose this means it is hardware related. Do you suggest opening it up to see if there is anything loose or broken that could be resoldered?
Thanks,
My p3300 went blank and I had the take the battery out to switch it on again. Took it to HTC and they had to replace the insides of the phone. When I got is back the batt. Only lasted for a day and it use to work for 4 days.
Hi All. My first post on this forum. Help please.
Both my wife and I have Defy's owned for 4 months and upgraded to Froyo 2.2 some weeks ago. Both working normally. Then yesterday my phone, for no obvious reason, came up with the message "Invalid Battery. Your device battery is invalid and cannot be charged. Replace the battery with an original Motorola battery." Also the battery symbol at top right of display is black, not green, and has a ? mark in it.
I have checked my battery, which came with the phone, and it is official Motorola with hologram. So is my wife's. I tried swapping the batteries and while her battery & my battery work perfectly in her phone, her battery in my phone gives the same errors.
I then tried a master reset....Twice! Both successful, wiping all my data, and requiring me to set up the phone again, but problem still remains. I have searched this forum for clues/help but cannot find any.
Can an "expert" shed light on this problem and how to fix it? I have read elsewhere of software that can be installed to stop the Defy refusing non Motorola batteries, though mine are official, but can't find it anywhere. Any Clues? I also wonder if flashing a new rom would help? Thanks.
With the back cover off, try pressing on the battery near where the 4 gold terminals are that connect the battery to the phone. It might be that there is a bad solder joint there.
Thanks.....tried that, and cleaning the contacts. All seems to be in order. Have spoken to Motorola support and they have asked me to send phone for repair under warranty. It's a pain being without a phone, so I wanted to explore other options before proceeding.
Would really appreciate some help with this as it has annoyed me for almost a year now.
Well here's the thing. Got the tablet just over a year ago and it did not take long before it would suddenly not boot or charge. And connecting to a comp gives no reaction from the comp that there's anything connected. Would normally have turned it in for the warranty, but I've been searching for months now and I just cannot for the life of me find the warranty paper on it. I've also searched a lot on google for this problem and it seems that most have it solved by disconnected and reconnecting the battery, but this unfortunately did not make any difference for mine. I could get a battery replacement if that's the problem, they're not all that expensive, but it's money I do not want to spend in just hope that this will solve it. Is there anything else that can be tried to get ANY sort of reaction out of it? Or if there's any way of finding out if it will work to simply change battery?
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No one?
Which model do you have? Also, are you using the Samsung oem cable?
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SM-T210 I think. Not sure if that's the number you want but the only one I can find that refers to model.
Wasnt aware there really was multiple models of it beyond the Wifi or 3g version and different size storage which should not affect anything like this.
As for cable, I've tried both the cable that came with it (samsung plug and usb cable). A friend's samsung charger that is not usb other than the microUSB (as in not detachable). And a regular usb of unknown brand. Tried charging both from plugs and trickle charge from usb on comp, and diconnected/reconnected the battery in between each attempt.
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This also happenned to me yesterday and i tried a lot of things.
The only thing that worked was to trickle charge the tablet with a original Samsung charger (the tablet said it was not charging but it was) and then, reconnect the battery, go into recovery mode and do a factory reset.
I learned my lesson i and will now program the GT-P5220 to auto-shotdown when it reaches 20% battery.
ibbgomes said:
This also happenned to me yesterday and i tried a lot of things.
The only thing that worked was to trickle charge the tablet with a original Samsung charger (the tablet said it was not charging but it was) and then, reconnect the battery, go into recovery mode and do a factory reset.
I learned my lesson i and will now program the GT-P5220 to auto-shotdown when it reaches 20% battery.
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plug your tablet into the usb port ON YOUR COMPUTER! and let it trickle charge. it may boot, it may not. idk.
DevMyAndroid said:
plug your tablet into the usb port ON YOUR COMPUTER! and let it trickle charge. it may boot, it may not. idk.
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I've had mine connected to the comp for a week straight, and still no reaction, nor any reaction after reseating battery after this week now... If I could just be sure it was the battery it's an easy fix, but spending the money on a battery, just to find that it makes no difference, would REALLY suck, since a new battery is ~50% of a brand new tab altogether. Not that I would ever buy another Samsung device again seeing as how this is apparently a very common problem with their devices (even if it's usually easy to fix).
Tab 3 Battery
EtherMan said:
Would really appreciate some help with this as it has annoyed me for almost a year now.
Well here's the thing. Got the tablet just over a year ago and it did not take long before it would suddenly not boot or charge. And connecting to a comp gives no reaction from the comp that there's anything connected. Would normally have turned it in for the warranty, but I've been searching for months now and I just cannot for the life of me find the warranty paper on it. I've also searched a lot on google for this problem and it seems that most have it solved by disconnected and reconnecting the battery, but this unfortunately did not make any difference for mine. I could get a battery replacement if that's the problem, they're not all that expensive, but it's money I do not want to spend in just hope that this will solve it. Is there anything else that can be tried to get ANY sort of reaction out of it? Or if there's any way of finding out if it will work to simply change battery?
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Cheap replacement battery off ebay item number:- 311097026065 cost me £7.20 not too much money and is a quick and simple process to swap out battery.
cyberhack said:
Cheap replacement battery off ebay item number:- 311097026065 cost me £7.20 not too much money and is a quick and simple process to swap out battery.
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Sure it's only £7.20 for the battery. But there's £12 shipping. Plus tax and import fees. End result: ~£30 (just barely a pound or two cheaper than the local stores), with a brand new tab of same type costing ~£65-70... I'm not paying half the price of the device just to test. I'd rather donate the tab to the local hackerspace (at least the screen should be usable to them if nothing else) and then never touch another Samsung device ever again.
Hi,
Had the elephone p8000 for a couple of weeks now and have been very happy with it - updated without problems OTA to the latest stock image, rooted to change the lock screen - but made no other changes to the phone.
Yesterday the battery had run down to approximately 3% - I plugged in to a charger and after about 15 minutes the phone was reporting the battery as 79% full. Which didn't seem correct!
I then used the phone for approximately 10 minutes, after which, without any warning, it suddenly died.
It now won't charge, turn on, or be recognised by a PC.
I've tried charging up overnight - but it still doesn't turn on.
I think whats happened is that the phone has got itself confused over the battery level and then fully discharged the battery to absolute 0 - as it didn't realise it needed to preserve a residual amount of charge.
Anybody got any ideas on how I can rescue this? I've tried all combinations of power, volume +/-.
Would a new battery solve the issue as a last resort?
It's a real pity, as up to then the phone had been great.
Thanks
I have had this type of problem with my old nexus 4 a few times ,phone gone dead no display or charging light,unable to charge using different chargers I had to disconnect battery for a short amount of time
Reconnected battery and everything was charging as expected and phone would power up????? not sure how easy it is to disconnect on P8000 have not had a look at mine
yet
Thanks - I think this maybe the solution. Problem is - having looked at a couple of videos, taking the battery out looks reasonably straightforward - but one of the screws (bottom right hand corner) has a tiny elephone sticker covering it - I assume this is an anti tamper device and will invalidate my warranty (with gearbest).
Not sure if to just give it a go - or spend the cash (£8ish) and send back to gearbest and run the risk of them kicking up problems and refusing to repair. Decisions!
Thanks
Try this:
Press power for around 20s. Release.
Plug charger.
Wait 5minutes.
Press power for around 5s. Release.
Bricked P8000
Hello, I have the same phone and the same problem, i already tried to change for the stock rom, but nothing! My phone doesn't charge or power on, I don't know what else I can do!
Not been able to get it to respond in any way... Have ordered a new battery.
Tried suggestion above but no change...
If you can and it's under warranty I'd try and send back to wherever you got it from.
As a matter of interest did yours show any strange behaviour around charging before it died?
All very annoying!
Thanks
Bricked P8000
How much the battery cost? You will change the battery (by yourself)?
I ordered the battery from Ali express £15 / $22 U.S.
Comes from China so might be a while to arrive.
I was going to change the battery myself - There are some videos online and it looks reasonably straightforward.
However - there is always the risk that the battery wasn't the problem / that I break a ribbon cable / fry the motherboard etc... or something else bad happens - but I thought that (for me) it was worth the risk for the money - this may not be the case for everyone.
Once I get the battery I will repost and let people know if it worked or not...
hello, I have similar problem. Can you tell me did the battery replacement solve the problem?
Hi,
Waited 60 days for the battery to arrive from China and it didn't! Gave up until I saw someone here (in the UK) selling them on ebay so bought one, fitted it to the phone (need to take about 12 screws out and remove the metal plate) and.....
It works! I've reflashed the phone to the Cyanogenmod ROM the guys on this forum have been working on (and it's great work) and am using it as my daily phone without any major issues - I'd even managed to not break the fingerprint scanner (as this needs to be removed to take the battery out).
So yes - a new battery solved my problem - I can't guarantee it will solve yours however - and the battery wasn't that cheap (£20 GBP) but I've got a fully working phone again.
To reiterate the problem I had - the phone suddenly charged really quickly to a high percentage, it then just suddenly died when still showing a reasonable amount of power (probably because the battery %age was not being reported correctly) and wouldn't react in any way. By fitting a new battery after this my phone came back to life in exactly the same state as it had been before. But I can't guarantee it will work for everyone
Good Luck!