I don't know did exactly did this happened, but it's quite a long time.
The sofkeys of my defy are endlessly lit!!! Even if the phone is off/locked/whatever they are lit, at least when there's the battery inside. They are really dimmed though. I think it's the main cause of my battery drain problem.
They also flashes when the phone is off and when I press (not long-press) the power button.
This happens with ANY ROM I installed (LiquidArc, CM7, WIUI,etc)
I'm getting pretty scared that my softkeys' LED get burnt and don't light up anymore
Like I said, they are extremely dimmed and only noticeable in complete dark, And I can't take photos..
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I have a Tmobile HTC TP2 flashed with Energy Rom and it had been working fine for several weeks. Today the screen randomly turned off and the red light was on. I couldn't soft reset or anything, but removing the battery and putting it back and powering up worked. However, it only stays on for about a minute before the screen turns black again with the red light coming back on. Anyone know what is going on or how to fix this??
jdx915 said:
I have a Tmobile HTC TP2 flashed with Energy Rom and it had been working fine for several weeks. Today it randomly turned off and the red light was on. I couldn't soft reset or anything, but removing the battery and putting it back and powering up worked. However, it only stays on for about a minute before the screen turns black again with the red light coming back on. Anyone know what is going on or how to fix this??
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Red light ... do you mean the left hand light? That one is orange on my TP2. Is the unit hot to the touch on the back panel?
Yes the left hand light...after looking at it again it does appear to be orange, not red. The back panel does not feel hot, and when the screen goes black, the orange light appears to flicker a little bit as if there may be some kind of power issue or something (but is mainly solid orange like it is when it's charging), I'm not sure. I don't believe it's a problem with the actual battery, because I've tried using a different battery and have gotten the same results.
Edit: It is now staying on longer maybe a few hours compared to the minute or so it was staying on yesterday, but with the same turning off problems. Except I think it is just the screen that is turning off because if I play with the volume buttons, eventually I can hear the volume up/down sounds.
After searching through some forums, it seems it could be a 'Sleep of Death' problem...
Hi there,
I experience a weird problem with my Defy that noone else seems to have.
Sometimes my Defy just won't come back from Standby, the Screen stays black. The Touchbuttons at the bottom get luminated if I press the On/Off button, and you can see that the backlight of the screen works as the screens turn into a lighter shade of dark ( ), but still the screen stays black. I know that the phone stays on, as I get haptic feedback by long pressing the Off button.
I had my phone at datrepair for the issue and it came back with a standard Froyo (DACH Retail), but as soon as I flash to other Roms like CM7 or other Froyo builds, voila there it is, screen blacking out from time to time.
Until now I didn't find anyone with that problem, but perhaps any of you guys knows a solution for that problem, as I'm very keen to use CM7, since the Rom is just fabolous. I just don't have the nerves to solve the black screen by removing the battery and inserting it back again every single time it turns up...
Thanks in advance for any help.
I was trying to flash the Lifeless rom back onto my phone, and had Aroma wizard started up, and was checking the options I wanted, when I remembered that absentminded me had forgotten to do something in the OS that I can't remember at the moment. I didn't see a cancel button in Aroma, and since I'm so impulsive, I held down power and volume up to reboot the phone. It nearly booted to the OS, with the capacitive keys lighting up at the bottom, when it suddenly shut off and attempted to reboot (maybe because I was flashing AC!D audio earlier and had checked the build.prop tweaks). It didn't reboot, but seemed BRICKED.
Ok, the actual problem.
It seemed totally hard bricked to me, nothing when I plugged it in to my PC or charger, so I, enraged, walked away and left my Optimus plugged in. When I came back, I saw that the notification light was blinking red, one shade of red brighter than the other. I gained some hope back by...
The FIX
... following the directions on YouTube (look it up, I can't post links) on performing a hard reset by disassembling the phone and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery connector. I, however, had to do a little twist to get my phone to PARTIALLY boot.
When I detached the battery connector from the mainboard,(phone still plugged in) the phone would proceed to bootloop, showing up the unlocked Google screen, etc. (flashed the ZVB Teenybin, that's why the Google screen) until it got to the battery charging icon in the center with the lightning bolt in the center. At this point, I reattached the battery connector and BOOM, the phone rebooted NOT LOOPING , PARTIALLY STILL but with the battery icon animation stacking up.
Unfortunatly, my battery was nearly dead so I then waited for a bit and let it charge up.
I held down the power button + vol up (on my bare phone with the backing taken off) to get it to boot into fastboot, then TWRP to flash the rom. I SUCCESSFULLY flashed the rom (relieved at this point) and I booted FULLY :laugh: . It got me to the Optimizing apps numberhere/biggernumberhere screen. Suddenly, the frickin phone shuts off and the notification light blinks red, but with a delay this time instead of a brighter shade of red. I did what I did before numerous times, but the phone would stay alive less and less.
I let the phone cool off for a bit (Heating issues on the Optimus ), tried charging it again, and I managed to finish optimizing my apps. It loaded up the lock screen for a split second, and then shut off with the LG goodbye animation.... Which is a hell of a lot better than a blinking reset light.
So after it shut off I let it charge...
And I was back!
NOTES:
The video I describe was originally made to resolve some other reset indicator, with alternating blinking capacitive buttons and the notification light, but also helps with the issue I had with solely the notification light blinking.
I don't think that anyone has had this issue since not really anyone is retarded enough to force reboot with Aroma loaded up.. but I decided to type this up just in case.
Just yesterday i noticed that my phones screen was bugging out, eg. if it bumped into something or set down on a hard surface the screen would
flicker, similar to static, but only for a second. later that day, the screen went black, i thought the battery was low and did a quick battery pull
and it booted up normally. it happened again an hour or two later the, black screen that is. when i got home i really noticed the static as it was
placed on hard surfaces: the table, desk, etc. since it was low on battery i plugged it in to charge for a bit, when i came back to tun it on i was able
when when the screen timed out i wasn't able to turn it back on, i tried the battery pull but nothing, At that point the boot animations wouldn't show
the only things that indicated that the phone was turning on was the notification light and the pouch buttons. when it is "on" i'm able to swipe to
unlock, hold down and get the feedback of when you want to move an app or widget. The phone is on but the screen is black. oh and when i try
to go into recovery or download mode the screen is still black,
im wondering if its a busted screen but the thing is there are no cracks or anything on the screen maybe a few minor scratches but that's it
DavidCDM said:
May i ask how many remaining memory space you have on your phone?
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truthfully, i haven't a clue, but i can guess, if you are talking storage wise, around 3-5 gigs.
I was given a Note 5 to fix. I do not know the history of the device. If a Android update was attempted or why it is needing to be fixed. It presented with a very dim (almost unreadable, except in completely dark room) screen. I have wiped cache and master reset the device. I can see that the powered off battery icon is center screen all the time and it is solid black. I cannot power it off via the normal power button but I can power it on. I can power it off using the power button + volume down. The touchscreen is responsive and not cracked or broken at all. The back, multi and home buttons react normally to touch and light up. When plugged into power or PC, it does charge and will show a red LED when charging and a green LED when battery is full. The sounds are normal as far as I can tell. I cannot get the screen to change when I swipe or press a center button. I was able to get a picture of a begrizzled man peering closely at the phone trying to figure out what the hell the problem is. So, softwarewise, some of it seems to be working. But, I cannot figure out the dim screen. Like I said earlier, there no cracks or even scratches in either glass, front or back. The bottom portion of the stylus is broken, but I was able to use a tiny phillips head to stick up in the open area and it working. I get a sound and vibration when it is removed and inserted.
Any ideas?
If you want to see the pictures, go here.
"i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/derek_wilson62/Galaxy%20Note%205/2016-09-30%2008.31.21_zpscdg0qoow.jpg"
"i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/derek_wilson62/Galaxy%20Note%205/2016-09-30%2008.31.06_zps8bzbfka9.jpg"
"i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/derek_wilson62/Galaxy%20Note%205/2016-09-30%2008.30.40_zpsrfhfxtyl.jpg"
For some reason when the phone detects that the battery is under 5%, it will forcibly dim the screen until it is charged above 5% or plugged in. Maybe the phone thinks that the battery is at or below 5%. Have you tried plugging it into a power source to see if the screen lights up?
derekwilson62 said:
I was given a Note 5 to fix. I do not know the history of the device. If a Android update was attempted or why it is needing to be fixed. It presented with a very dim (almost unreadable, except in completely dark room) screen. I have wiped cache and master reset the device. I can see that the powered off battery icon is center screen all the time and it is solid black. I cannot power it off via the normal power button but I can power it on. I can power it off using the power button + volume down. The touchscreen is responsive and not cracked or broken at all. The back, multi and home buttons react normally to touch and light up. When plugged into power or PC, it does charge and will show a red LED when charging and a green LED when battery is full. The sounds are normal as far as I can tell. I cannot get the screen to change when I swipe or press a center button. I was able to get a picture of a begrizzled man peering closely at the phone trying to figure out what the hell the problem is. So, softwarewise, some of it seems to be working. But, I cannot figure out the dim screen. Like I said earlier, there no cracks or even scratches in either glass, front or back. The bottom portion of the stylus is broken, but I was able to use a tiny phillips head to stick up in the open area and it working. I get a sound and vibration when it is removed and inserted.
Any ideas?
If you want to see the pictures, go here.
"i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/derek_wilson62/Galaxy%20Note%205/2016-09-30%2008.31.21_zpscdg0qoow.jpg"
"i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/derek_wilson62/Galaxy%20Note%205/2016-09-30%2008.31.06_zps8bzbfka9.jpg"
"i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/derek_wilson62/Galaxy%20Note%205/2016-09-30%2008.30.40_zpsrfhfxtyl.jpg"
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Update #1 - Somehow, without knowing how, I managed to turn on an Accessibility option for the phone to tell me what buttons or actions I have taken. Unfortunately for it is in Spanish. I guess I should have taken Spanish in high school...
gg83744 said:
For some reason when the phone detects that the battery is under 5%, it will forcibly dim the screen until it is charged above 5% or plugged in. Maybe the phone thinks that the battery is at or below 5%. Have you tried plugging it into a power source to see if the screen lights up?
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Yes, I have plugged it to the wall, I have plugged it to my PC and I have wireless charged it. It seems to charge to full as the red LED turns green.