my dash shuts off to charge, when ever i plug it in the charger it turns off and the led light turns red, but it is charging when i disconnect it the battery level goes up, does anyone know if this is a software or hardware problem?
I personally think it could be a battery problem. Try getting a new battery off ebay (its fairly cheap like 6.00 for a stock battery).
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Ok here goes i know this is a random question and most of you prolly dont know or care, but ever since i used a friends moto car charger to use on my phone it worked and charged, but now my tmobile dash still thinks the phone is charging, the orange led will never turn off. It stays orange until then the light turns green like the battery is full. So the stupid phone is never plugged but it still shows as it is still plugged, anyone else ever have this problem?
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Ok here goes i know this is a random question and most of you prolly dont know or care, but ever since i used a friends moto car charger to use on my phone it worked and charged, but now my tmobile dash still thinks the phone is charging, the orange led will never turn off. It stays orange until then the light turns green like the battery is full. So the stupid phone is never plugged but it still shows as it is still plugged, anyone else ever have this problem?
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Turn it off.. remove the battery, then put battery back and restart it. Motorola chargers should work fine, I use my old V3T charger all the time
USB chargers tend to use a 5v 1a so you may find that the car had a fluctuation, i'd sugest the same as Bupahs.
Same as i use multiple chargers that have collected over the years.
Or you might be needing a new charger possibly or even a new battery maybe.
i have a p3300; no power lights when charger is connected; doesn't power on as well. battery is fully charged, battery and charger are both fine. but sometimes the p3300 powers on just fine; if i connect the ac charger then it also charges the battery. but it hangs in windows mobile 5 after some time (trackball and buttons and system does not respond anymore); after a soft reset no power/power lights or boot at all. then after some time and fiddling it might power on again and the cycle starts again.
i know it is a common problem; but is there a solution?
the backup battery (yes, there is one in it. the same as in the qtek 8310) gives me 0.20 volt. not sure how much it should be. but the backup battery in my qtek 8310 gives also 0.20 volt. not sure whether both are drained or that the voltage is normal.
will a drained backupbattery prevent it from booting up fine? or... hope to get it up running reliable again; great navigation phone with tomtom.
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without the battery installed i get a red light flashing quickly if i put the 5volt charger on it; same if i connect an usb cable (connected to my computer);
if i have the battery installed; i do not get a red light flashing.
with the battery plugged in and the charger plugged in; i don't see any charging lights. but it does charges my battery; i started with 3.7 volt, and it is going up (now at 3.9 volt).
in both instances i cannot get it to power on/into bootloader mode.
i've got exactly the same issue
I was given this phone by my brother as its broken, i tend to get alot of his broken stuff anyway i stripped the phone down and found that the little battery inside had leaked so i did a little bit of hack wiring and bodged a 3.3 volt battery used in a PC to power the cmos chip well it seems to have sorted the problem apart from the fact there are two wires hanging out of the phone but i've also noticed this battery voltage has dropped to 2.6 v now and still dropping over the days i'm guessing i'm going to have to make it replaceable.
oh just for the record
my brother tried a replacement main battery on it originally and tried flashing it with a clean rom to try and fix it but it carried on hence passing it on to me
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...to both of you...
buy a new battery..
leave it OFF while charging!!!
when the green led comes on (orange while charging... red flashing indicates battery is dead)
done.. turn it on..
batterys are cheep on ebay..
(if this dont work, pm me.. it could be something totaly differant but buying a new battery is the usual soloution for this common problem)
My touch Pro2 is blinking amber and green when power off and when powered on Also blinks and will not charge.
Read some posts it says it overheating, not mine it cool to touch and works fine. I don't think its the charge port because when power off I insert cable and it will go to amber or 5 seconds then that blinking alternating amber green.
does anyone know where the power magement ic is located on the board.
I going to try reflowing the entire board, but if I knew where the pm ic was would try that 1st. thanks.
already reset phone so it's not software issue.
It's either overheating or your battery needs to be replaced.
Before you go tearing your device apart, you could simply try another battery or try charging the battery outside of the device. Occasionally, when the battery level drops too low, the device doesn't have enough juice to charge at all and will fall into an infinite boot loop. It's easier and cheaper to just try an outside source to eliminate the obvious answers first.
This morning, my phone was dead. I tried plugging it in but found a blinking orange light. I tried turning it on but it wouldnt turn on. Does this mean there is a problem with my battery?
I've gone on several trips lately where I used my phone as a GPS. I just got a new dash mount for it. On those trips, I had noticed a blinking alternating orange and green light. I thought this meant it was charging and I had a notification, however, now that I do some searching it looks like it means overheating perhaps.
The orange blinking did turn solid after a while and I was able to boot my phone.
Could be a battery issue. If the phone is completely dead, it takes a few minutes on the charger before it can power on. Let it sit for like 5 - 10 minutes on the charger, and when the light goes solid it should be able to be turned on. You may want to invest in a new battery.
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This morning, my phone was dead. I tried plugging it in but found a blinking orange light. I tried turning it on but it wouldnt turn on. Does this mean there is a problem with my battery?
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This is normal behavior for a completely drained battery. The phone will not turn on until it achieves partial charge (I'm not sure off-hand what %), and it will give you the flashing orange to let you know.
As you observed, once you charge it enough, it will turn on normally and everything is fine again.
As for the blinking you observed during navigation, that could have meant notifications while charging, as you suspected. It's also possible that you were overheating, but if so the phone would have stopped accepting charge and the battery icon would have changed to indicate such.
Thanks, it is working again now. I'll have to keep an eye on the battery life to see if it has really gotten worse.
In the car, I know there was one time where it got really hot. I held it next to the AC vent for a few minutes to cool it down. Also, my charger cable may be going bad. I noticed that eventhough I turn off the screen, sometimes it will randomly come back on. I figure maybe this is the cable getting disconnected and then reconnected.
This happened to me before and it turned out it was my charger not working properly. I even got a message multiple times saying that the charging accessory was not compatible but it was the the stock data cable. The problem turned out to be it didn't have enough voltage or something like that because it kept telling me to connect to a wall rather than through USB, while I was using the A/C adapter.
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I'm pretty sure that a blinking orange light during use is a "hot battery" notification. On one trip, I had navigation going, while streaming XM and had the car charger plugged in. When I noticed the blinking orange, the temp was at 119F and really hot to the touch. I immediately stopped navigation and streaming, and unplugged from the charger. Since I had the air on, I removed the phone case and battery door and let the AC blow on the phone which cooled it down and the blinking stopped.
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that could have meant notifications while charging, as you suspected.
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No. It doesn't do that. If you are charging, you get a solid red and no indication of notifications.
The blinking red/green means the battery is too hot and is not charging, as other people have confirmed.
Hi, I've just got a Desire secondhand. I charged the battery then used it to run GPS. The LED goes green to say it is charged and the phone stops charging. Then the phone seems to power from the battery only which then goes flat until the point where the phone shuts down. (No good when in the car!) I could attach and re-attach the charger to stop it from shutting down and to force a charge but the point is I should not have to. The phone should take its power from the USB once the battery is charged and not run the battery down!>?!
Is this normal behaviour or has the phone a fault? Its running Android 2.2 stock and I can't find any battery settings at all on the phone so I can't see if it is software related.
Can anyone please advise?