Hi there, my wife and I liked the SX66 I got on Ebay a while ago so much that we decided to get her one too.
When it first arrived it wasn't working so I plugged it into my usb wall charger sync cable to charge it. I first noticed that the sync connection was a bit loose, and when plugged into the sync cable/wall charger the "Red" light (not Amber) came on. I left it on there overnight thinking the battery must have been fully drained or something. By morning it still wouldn't turn on.
So then I tried putting it into the cradle that came with it and plugged that in. NOW it got the "Amber" charging light.
I again let it charge for a while and it eventually turned on for me. The backup battery was low evidently, but eventually that charged to full as well.
I updated to a WM 6.1 ROM, installed UIs and all that fun stuff. The thing worked fine, but still would not play nice with a sync cable, only the cradle. Putting it on a sync cable would result in it turning off and the "Red" light. Putting it in the cradle would work as normal.
Well, yesterday we had a minor accident and a little bit of water got spilled on it. I did my best to dry it off with tissue and took the battery off and let it dry out. I didn't have a hair dryer handy at work, so I just let it air dry for a number of hours.
I then put the battery back in and turned it on. Everything seems to be working. I then tried to attach it to the sync cable so I could install stuff, forgetting that it never worked before on the sync cable. Once I did that the screen dimmed and got a bunch of lines across it like it was shutting off but was garbled, finally leading to black screen and "Red" light. The garbled screen before going black was different than what would normally happen.
I then tried to plug it into the cradle and the same thing happened. The screen immediately dimmed, garbled, went black, "Red" light. So now the cradle doesn't work either!
If I unplug the device and hit the power button it comes up with the 4 colored screen and displays "None" for the "R" and "G". If I do a hard reset the device boots up fine and seems to run without problems. It can go into bootloader mode still too. But there's no way to sync it! Trying to sync it with a cable or the cradle both now leads to immediately shutting down with no access.
Did the water somehow fry the sync connection since the sync connection already seemed flaky? Is there anything I can do to fix that?
Without being able to plug anything into the sync slot, how am I supposed to sync with my computer? Can I do it over a wifi or bluetooth connection? Or maybe beaming stuff from my other Blue Angel? What about installing a different ROM? Without being able to use the sync slot how can you update the ROM?
I only payed $70 for this thing, but money is money so hopefully there's something I can do that won't cost too much.
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I'm sitting on my bed, and i decide to load a video on you tube. The video gets to 49 percent and suddently, blackout. Now I'm sitting here with a brick and no clue what just happened. The phone won't power back on. I have no clue as to what just happened.
Edit: I connected it to the usb and it worked for a few seconds, now it doesn't. I'm guessing their is no usb charging of the device. I'm going to connect it to the wall charger and see what happens. The toolbar battery indicator i installed said it was at 100 the whole time. I've to retrace my steps and see what happened.
I installed total commander, did the default opera reg change, tool bar and task bar icons, nuePowerDriverCDMADiamond-100-v1.0-cab, and sdkcerts
yanked the battery out yet?
Maybe its flat. Ive recently had issues charging and using the supplied headset. I was really worried because my other Dopod 838Pro's connecter is rat sh*t.
But I got a bit of Isopropyl Alcohol and cleaned it with a cotton tip thing. All good now!!
Things seem ok now
Im using the wall charger and it seems to be charging now. I really have to pay attention to the charging light. I also made sure the do not charge if on and connected to the pc option was not checked. I uninstalled nuepower. That was scary. I mean i pulled out the battery and all that and it still didn't come on. For now i'm pretty sure this was a case of a dead battery.
Get that power driver out of there.
I played with a few and they don't work right on this hardware; they will show 100% charge but in fact there is no charge that goes into the battery when on USB. If you don't have the original battery.dll you will need to do a hard reset to get it back.
The unit will charge when OFF (truly off) since it is not actually running at that point, and the DLLs and such are not active.
Hello people
A couple of hours ago, my phone shut down due to empty battery. I came home, plugged it in and booted it, all was fine. At about 60% I shut it off and went to have lunch, when I came back and tried to turn it on, I couldn't.
Led was orange at the time, I unplugged the power cord but the led stayed on! I removed the battery to be able to reboot it, but when I re-inserted it I still wouldn't boot.
Now no matter how I try to charge it, led stays off like it's not charging. Tried various different cables/chargers, the same. Tried to plug it to the charger without battery but no led flashed. Tried to boot without sim/sd card, still the same.
Any ideas?
My battery has never been changed (for a year now) and has had a bunch of full drains. Could this be a dead battery? :/
Well seems the phone is fried... I tried two more official batteries and no go...
Sorry to hear it. I thought that at first when I read your thread but I thought because I am not the most experienced person here, there might be some kind of fix.
HTC will most likely if not certainly replace this handset for you, seeing as it just happened out of the blue.
Well I certainly hope so, problem is I suspect it's an import (from another European country) and local HTC service generally does not do well with European imports.
Anyway I'll give it a try, meanwhile I'm getting a sensation soon
I have a similar problem.
I'm lucky that my girlfriend has the same handset as I do, the I could compare the phone abnormal behavior tho that of her properly working phone.
The first thing I've noticed, after a while when the charger was attached, was that the phone is very hot and that the battery keeps draining out in a surprisingly high rate.
After a while I've noticed that even when the phone is turned off it wont recharge. Sometimes the Orange LED is on when recharging while it is off, and the LED stays on for a few seconds after removing the charger, as if it was still charging. Note that the affects of connecting the charger to the phone, are mainly the ones listed below (not necessarily altogether)
* The phone indicates as if it recharges.
* Going to an infinite loop of rebooting and crashing.
* Getting hot when power supply is plugged, or at any time when the phone is turned on.
Ultimately the battery was empty, and the only way I had to keep using the phone (mostly to diagnose the symptoms listed here) was to swap the battery with the one of my girlfriend's device, and charge my battery in her device while using her's. That's the place to mention that the battery works just fine and that the phone is draining any battery, no matter what.
I took it apart to have a closer look at the source of all of the heat emitted while the phone is turned on, and it seem to come from the motherboard itself.
That's all I have.
The worst thing is that a friend of mine who helped me opening it up broke the pcb of the volume keys. Now I checked and It turns out that that pcb is actually part of the flex cable, which sort of extension of the motherboard and is mainly the second most important piece of hardware of all the phone parts (not that there are so many). If I would be able to expose the conductors inside the flat cable I might be able to solder an alternative volume pad I'll make out of old some miniature switches I have. The cable is very thin. any Ideas of how to expose the relevant conductors without ripping the cable apart?
Just a (late) update:
It's been almost two years, I had given the phone to a close friend of mine after a couple of weeks since writing the first post, just in case he could resurrect it, nothing.
Then, a couple of months down the road, the phone suddenly woke up! He tried to connect it with the charger, after months of not being able to charge or boot it up and somehow it worked. And it has been working flawlessly ever since.
I just got it back to give to my girlfriend until her sensation is fixed, flashing Viper now
In case something like this happens to any of you, don't give up!
A while back, after sweating profusely into my phone during a workout session, my gnex started behaving badly when I wanted to charge it. Needless to say I've got a battery app installed that is able to detect the plugin state (whether the phone is on battery, whether the charger is plugged in or whether it's just a usb connection such as a computer) and actual % voltage the thing has in the status bar. The app itself is: Battery by MacroPinch.
Well I figured the usb port was probably going so I got a new one of those (i.e. flex cable microusb etc.) for my sch-i515. I also decided to get a new battery just in case... so I replaced the battery (it's an oem samsung one) and fwiw, the thing stabilized its behavior! I've since swapped them back and forth with no apparent issues. However, I took my phone out with me on a run and it started acting flakey again. I've (in the past) had to clean out the port with a toothpick, I've had to on occasion bend the flap in there, do battery pulls (which believe it or not worked for a while), and so on. This time however was different. The phone wouldn't wake when I plugged in or unplugged the charger... and in no way shape or form would the charge indicator come on (you know, lightning bolt in the batter icon etc.) and to make matters even worse this time, my laptop simply didn't recognize the phone was plugged in. So I bit the bullet and and did the surgery and replaced the usb board and mic.
It could not have gone more smoothly, unfortunately (as might have guessed) all is not well... so now:
if the screen is dark -
the phone will wake when the charger is plugged in
the phone will wake when the charger gets unplugged
Using a moto droid cable (from my og droid)
the phone/computer realize they are plugged in together and Wug's NRT works and so on.
BUT the battery STILL won't charge.
I guess the phone is a couple of years old and it doesn't really owe me anything (I guess) but I'd really like this thing working better until I can get a new one. Does anybody out there have any ideas on what I might have missed? The phone works as before, exactly fine except it won't chare so I'm pretty sure I managed to get all the connectors back together properly... I suppose the usb port I replaced the original with might be defective but....
Any help is greatly appreciated...
Oh I'm rooted but stock, android 4.2.2
No advice at all??
I WOULD have said bad usb port, MAYBE try another? They are cheap enough, mine has been broken forever and I do not want to take device apart to change it because crack in my screen I'm worried will get worse if I take device apart.
so since its impossible for me to charge battery in device, I'm NOT worried about THAT tho, BECAUSE a LONG while back I had purchased 2 extra OEM batteries, PLUS a OEM samsung EXTERNAL CHARGER/stand which ALSO came with a battery. so I NOW have 4 total batteries, and I charge them up in the external charger, then just swap them out as needed.
which honestly is GREAT, cuz if I'm going out all day, I can just bring my extra fully charged batteries with me, and not have to worry about battery drain from heavy use cuz I have 3 other fully charged ones WITH me.
that's really all I can say, if you would like help finding the exact external charger that comes with a battery as well let me know, I had bought mine on amazon couple YEARS ago for only like 25-30$ BRAND NEW, I'm guessing TODAY that price would be like ten bucks
Thanks... that may be the way to go but I use this thing for my gps... but the thing doesnt get power when plugged in at all it seems (I plug it in, pull the battery and it does not stay on) so far I've been using my wife's gnex to charge my main and spare... but like I said the thing is, the phone doesn't even stay on when plugged in and I pull the battery (hers does so I'm thinking that there may be something deeper in that's failed here). I cracked the thing back open last weekend to make sure all the connectors were engaged, but I did not find any issues with them past that point.
Does anyone know if there is a hidden connecter somewhere in there that i could possibly have accidentally unhooked that prevents input power from reaching the guts of this thing?
OK it's getting crazier all the time...
Since my gnex was "working" except for charging (also, the phone would not stay powered on with the usb plugged in and the battery removed) I decided to go for a long run yesterday... I take the phone with me for music, tracking and general "safety". About half-way through my run, I look at the window in the neoprene armband I'm using and it looks like a sauna... the bluetooth cuts out on me... so I pull the phone out and with a minimum of fiddling I get the music back on... regarding the charging issue ... I was using my wife's gnex to charge my two oem batteries.
Well after this run, I try and use voice to text in a text message after I got home... well guess what... the phone records NOTHING. It's like I'm not talking. So I try a few phone calls... the display shows the call in progress, but I hear nothing! So I use my land-line to call the phone... NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING.
I had previously replaced the usb port, so I took out the tools and disassembled the phone. there was some moisture in there... anyway I dry it out as best I can and reassemble. Now I plug in the headphones, and guess what... I make calls... i.e. the damn phone works as a phone. I pull the jack out and nothing. I turn on speaker mode ... I can hear the phone ringing when I place a call... turn off speaker nothing. Bluetooth works with the phone fine, and the volume control for multimedia makes no sound when I toggle it...
Fast forward to today. I disassemble it again thinking I might have not reconnected one of the straps... I disconnect the volume rocker connector and the usb port connecter plus I remove and re install the antenna housing.
NOW the phone CHARGES but no lightning bolt indicator in the battery... but the battery level is CLEARLY increasing! Also when I plug into a laptop, the usb debugging symbol comes on (since I have it enabled) but when I unplug it does NOT go away... I unplug, disable usb debugging it goes away... reenable usb debugging and the symbol comes back without the phone plugged in until reboot.... but now the phone WORKS again as a phone!
so now the phone:
charges but without any visual indication (other than the % reporting of the battery widget I use)
phone recognized by my laptop (which wasnt' working either until I reset some of the connectors today), but unplugging doesn't make usb debugging indicator in status bar go away.
Phone speaker and mic now working without having to use bluetooth, plug-in headphones or speaker phone. (mic was not working with speakerphone turned)
This is just too messed up. My sweat does carry a lot of salt.... and Im wondering if I managed to shake something loose... I did also pry the usb tab up a bit as well...
Is there some way... some fluid I can dunk the phone into, which might clean the thing without destroying it?
My galaxy nexus after some drops not charging.
It can only work only when i have connected with my laptop, charger.
I think usb port is ok.
I must buy a charging port to make that work?
Hello everyone,
I have a major issue regarding battery.
Here is a rundown of what has happened.
1. There was moisture detected at first by the sensor and there was in fact moisture there after I plugged in my usb charger in and saw water around the usb-c connector. This was due to humidity most likely as I live in NJ.
2. I cleaned it out with a cue tip at first and nothing changed. Plugged my usb charger back in to see if water was around it which it was not obviously.
3. Left my phone on overnight and then the Icon went away but, I could not charge my phone anymore despite their being no notification showing me that the phone was incapable of being charged because of "x" reason. I also made sure to use a shop vacuum to remove any other residue inside the phone.
4. Turned my phone off and then I was finally able to charge it.
5. Turned it back on and then the issue I have now is happening along with the fact, when I use my charger that came with the phone, I get a notification that I should use the charger that came with phone if I want it to charge faster....
Not only that but, to get it to charge occassionally I had to turn airplane mode on and THEN it would charge. This is spotty because it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.
Today I hit a breakthrough. After doing a factory reset (that literally did not change anything at all. Same problem, despite everyone at reddit suggesting a factory reset) I loaded my back up file that I created before the factory reset and *poof* the issues described above vanished.
However. When I put my phone into airplane mode and turned it off (tried to mimic the most successful variables that allowed me to use the phone without issue) and then plugged a my usb cable in, it charged no problem. Then when I turned the phone back on, the evil bleeping and screen dimmer of death came back on.
I am not up for a loaner phone and I can not wait 2 weeks for a new phone seeing as I work and people are always calling me.
Recommendations?
What do I do if no one responds?
Bump?
Not sure what else you can do. Sounds like the port got shorted out partially. I suggest grabbing a Qi charger and going that route in the interim, that should work without issue, unless the circuit on the board is the issue and not the USB port. I assume you are using a different chable/charger than the one that was wet?
Davetheboss said:
Hello everyone,
I have a major issue regarding battery.
Here is a rundown of what has happened.
1. There was moisture detected at first by the sensor and there was in fact moisture there after I plugged in my usb charger in and saw water around the usb-c connector. This was due to humidity most likely as I live in NJ.
2. I cleaned it out with a cue tip at first and nothing changed. Plugged my usb charger back in to see if water was around it which it was not obviously.
3. Left my phone on overnight and then the Icon went away but, I could not charge my phone anymore despite their being no notification showing me that the phone was incapable of being charged because of "x" reason. I also made sure to use a shop vacuum to remove any other residue inside the phone.
4. Turned my phone off and then I was finally able to charge it.
5. Turned it back on and then the issue I have now is happening along with the fact, when I use my charger that came with the phone, I get a notification that I should use the charger that came with phone if I want it to charge faster....
Not only that but, to get it to charge occassionally I had to turn airplane mode on and THEN it would charge. This is spotty because it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.
Today I hit a breakthrough. After doing a factory reset (that literally did not change anything at all. Same problem, despite everyone at reddit suggesting a factory reset) I loaded my back up file that I created before the factory reset and *poof* the issues described above vanished.
However. When I put my phone into airplane mode and turned it off (tried to mimic the most successful variables that allowed me to use the phone without issue) and then plugged a my usb cable in, it charged no problem. Then when I turned the phone back on, the evil bleeping and screen dimmer of death came back on.
I am not up for a loaner phone and I can not wait 2 weeks for a new phone seeing as I work and people are always calling me.
Recommendations?
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Try leaving your phone all night in Rice. The rice absorbs moisture from the phones when they fall into the water.
I've been having all kinds of trouble getting my tablet to charge. It's acting really weird. Over the last couple of days, I will turn the tablet on and it will say 80% charged (after being plugged in all night). Then, with it still plugged in, it will drain down to 15% in about 30 minutes. Why would it drain so fast (if at all?) when it's plugged in? It's also been taking hours for it to charge once it hits that 15% and I don't use it.
At first, I discovered my charging cable was to blame. I'd plug it in, but the tablet wouldn't detect it was connected unless I pulled on the wires just right for them to make contact. Apparently there was a broken wire inside the plug of the cable. So I replaced it with a new cable. Everything seemed to be working good then, and was actually getting proper charges again. Now though, it doesn't seem to want to work.
I was using the tablet yesterday to check my email. It had been plugged in all day and not being used. It said it was at 100%. After about 10 minutes though, the tablet shut off saying "battery low". When I try to turn it back on, I get the battery indicator showing it's at 0%. So I left it plugged in the rest of the day and over night. I just went to turn it on about an hour ago, and it's still sitting at 0%!
I thought maybe the cable was bad again, so I found another charger and tried that. It does the same thing the other cable does.. It stays off until I plug in the cable. Then, as soon as it's in, the tablet "wakes up" and displays the battery indicator. Like, it detects a power source has been plugged in. But no matter what I do, and how long I keep it plugged in, it stays at 0%. I can force the tablet to turn on by holding the power button. It goes through the boot animation prior to loading the screen. Then, in about 5 seconds, it turns itself off again.
I don't think the battery is truly at 0%. If it were, how would it be able to boot up without even a cable plugged in? I really don't know what to do now. I've rooted it, so I can't send it in to Samsung for repair. I don't even think the warranty would still be good at this point anyway. The tablet is at least 3 years old (based on when I joined this site looking for root help). And I think it was 2-3 years older than that before I bought it. Is there anything I can do?
I can't wait anymore. So frustrating to own something that's worked great then all of a sudden decide to no want to even power on anymore. I've spent all day trying to get it to charge with other cables. I've tried chargers, I've tried just straight cables. Plugging into the wall, plugging into the computer, plugging into the USB port in the car. Nothing works. So I hopped over to Amazon to just order a new tablet. I can afford it, not big deal there. But then I saw a ribbon cable used to replace the USB port on the tablet. Maybe the port is bad? Lots of "highly recommended" reviews. I went ahead and ordered one. It was less than $7. If it doesn't work, I still have the money to go forward with buying a new tablet. If it does, money saved! I went ahead and bought the "customers also buy" kit, with a replacement battery (just in case it's not the port), and a set of tools. If the cable is all I need, I'll have a spare battery. If the battery is all I need, I'll have a spare ribbon. If it still doesn't work, I'll go back to my original plan.
Just kinda bummed this is where I have to go now. Why would it suddenly just stop altogether like that? Is it because I keep it plugged in 95% of the time? Should I keep it unplugged till it's drained then charge it and unplug it again right away? I used to have to do that with an old cell phone. This is my first tablet so I dunno. If I end up needing to replace the whole thing, it'd be nice to know from experienced users what the best way to do it is, and what, if anything, I can do to prevent it happening again.
I'd suspect the battery is kaput.
It's not a good idea to keep the battery on permanent charge, there's no need. Let it cycle normally.
Well, all told this was an educating experience. I got the battery first. It came about 40% charged. Once it was installed I used TWRP to create a system backup and downloaded it to my computer. Then I left it plugged in overnight. The next day it was down to 30%. So the "charging" indicator on the screen was just a bunch of lies. I got the replacement charging port a day later and installed it. I didn't do anything else with the tablet, just left it turned off and the charging cable plugged in. It said it was charging, but again, after about 12 hours of charging overnight, the following morning it was down to 18%. So I'm returning both the battery and the port. They may still be working fine, and the problem is elsewhere in the tablet. I accidentally broke the little metal connectors over the power button (it's a contact sensor, and the connectors sit on top and complete the circuit when the button is pressed) when I took the back off to replace the parts. I also cracked my screen, although I think it's just the protector I put on it. I'm not sure what else to try at this point. The tablet is essentially a paperweight now. I can turn it on and watch the battery slowly drain to 0%, but I'll never get any more use out of it. So I decided to do a system wipe prior to putting it away for some future project to try and rescue it. Now it's stuck with the "Teamwin" screen flashing at me. I give up. I looked at Amazon to see if I could just buy another one, but they don't have any "new" left. They're all refurbished or "slightly used" from 3rd parties. I looked at other tablets, and bought a new Samsung Galaxy Tab S5E. It looks like it has the best reviews and marks. The only issue would be the wifi, but it seems to be a hit or miss with people. Some people say it's a problem, others say they don't even have a problem. So.. <shrug> I'll see how it works for me.