My kindle recently has had some issues. I had it uncharged for a few months because I had no real reason to use it.
I attempted to power on without plugging it in assuming it had a little bit of juice left since I didn't just let it die on its own.
Nothing.
So, I do what everyone else would do, plug it in and forget about it for a while and let it charge (12 hours). When I come back to it I find that it still has zero charge.
This time I plug it in and watch it, I get to the yellow triangle screen for about 1 second and then it starts all over. The green charging light turns on for this second, then goes black then it restarts.
My question is: Is there anything I can do short of requesting a new one? Would amazon even ship me a fixed unit because of my rooting of the device? Am I completely SOL? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I am on my 3rd Fire in less then 60 days, the first two died from the same thing. Powered off but when I went to power it on the next morning the light would briefly turn green then turn off. The screen would not come on, and when I plugged the charger in the light would turn green then change to a bright orange then immediately dim to a pale orange. Like I said the first two did the same thing, they were both flashed with the latest gedeROM and OC to 1200Mhz, I have shied away from flashing the third one until I can find a common denominator , either that or my luck is just that poor. I have googled this issue for the last few days and haven't found anybody with the same issue. Any help would be awesome thanks.
sarsius said:
I am on my 3rd Fire in less then 60 days, the first two died from the same thing. Powered off but when I went to power it on the next morning the light would briefly turn green then turn off. The screen would not come on, and when I plugged the charger in the light would turn green then change to a bright orange then immediately dim to a pale orange. Like I said the first two did the same thing, they were both flashed with the latest gedeROM and OC to 1200Mhz, I have shied away from flashing the third one until I can find a common denominator , either that or my luck is just that poor. I have googled this issue for the last few days and haven't found anybody with the same issue. Any help would be awesome thanks.
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Well it sounds like its not charged. When u plug it in, do you have enough time to hold the power down for the 20 seconds required to force it off. If you can do that then you could let it charge while its forced off. But it sounds to me it wont stay on long enough. This might require a factory cable, not sure though. This same thing happened to me, ad with me being stupid I made a charger that is more voltage than default charger and I fried my kindle. I suggest not to do what I did
powerpoint45 said:
Well it sounds like its not charged. When u plug it in, do you have enough time to hold the power down for the 20 seconds required to force it off. If you can do that then you could let it charge while its forced off. But it sounds to me it wont stay on long enough. This might require a factory cable, not sure though. This same thing happened to me, ad with me being stupid I made a charger that is more voltage than default charger and I fried my kindle. I suggest not to do what I did
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Yes I attempted a reset but it wouldn't respond and I tried to let it charge, but after about an hour it got extremely hot and I didn't feel I could leave it plugged in safely. When I contacted amazon for support I did all this for the tech on the phone and when I plugged it in and told him about the light, he said something about the usb port had come off the board which I know is possible but to happen twice in 60 days with two different devices is just ridiculous. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong if anything both devices were fully charged when the errors occurred. I just don't want to have to get a fourth before the month is out, the only positive is the fast turn around from amazon.
Ok, I've owned my M8 for less than 2 weeks and my god what a phone it is!
or was...
Today at half 4pm I was using my phone and was curious as to what happens if you cover one of the cameras and take a photo. I turned my phone round, covered the top camera, turned it back around and accidentally pressed the volume button (i think) and took a photo as the little error it gives about having the top camera covered appeared.
The phone turned off...
I turned it back on, the white 'HTC Powered by Android' screen appeared, then went off again.
I tried again, and again. By the 4th time my 'uuuurgh I CANNOT be bothered for this' mood starts to kick in. However I discovered that it will boot, and work fine, when connected to the mains.
It appears that I have a power issue, however not a hardware power issue. The only times that the phone will now stay on without being plugged in is either in the recovery or HBOOT menu. I've confirmed this by keeping the phone in the HBOOT menu for over an hour on battery. If I boot the phone up whilst plugged in, it will cut out when the power cable is disconnected BUT ONLY when the battery icon goes from charging to discharging. There's a split second between them but it stays on until the icon changes every time.
I phoned HTC, the lady said that I can send it back for repairs but they'll have it 8-10 days. I haven't owned the phone myself for much longer than that!
Tomorrow I'll take it back to carphone warehouse and see what they can do. I don't want to have to look into rooting just yet (if that will sort anything) as I'm happy with it as it is stock. I'm just so gutted. PLUS none of my spare phones fit nano sims.
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I'm open to anything right now and I know that a lot of you reading this are a lot more knowledgeable than myself on the way android works so I'm hoping someone can shed some light. any light
Cheers guys
spears93 said:
Ok, I've owned my M8 for less than 2 weeks and my god what a phone it is!
or was...
Today at half 4pm I was using my phone and was curious as to what happens if you cover one of the cameras and take a photo. I turned my phone round, covered the top camera, turned it back around and accidentally pressed the volume button (i think) and took a photo as the little error it gives about having the top camera covered appeared.
The phone turned off...
I turned it back on, the white 'HTC Powered by Android' screen appeared, then went off again.
I tried again, and again. By the 4th time my 'uuuurgh I CANNOT be bothered for this' mood starts to kick in. However I discovered that it will boot, and work fine, when connected to the mains.
It appears that I have a power issue, however not a hardware power issue. The only times that the phone will now stay on without being plugged in is either in the recovery or HBOOT menu. I've confirmed this by keeping the phone in the HBOOT menu for over an hour on battery. If I boot the phone up whilst plugged in, it will cut out when the power cable is disconnected BUT ONLY when the battery icon goes from charging to discharging. There's a split second between them but it stays on until the icon changes every time.
I phoned HTC, the lady said that I can send it back for repairs but they'll have it 8-10 days. I haven't owned the phone myself for much longer than that!
Tomorrow I'll take it back to carphone warehouse and see what they can do. I don't want to have to look into rooting just yet (if that will sort anything) as I'm happy with it as it is stock. I'm just so gutted. PLUS none of my spare phones fit nano sims.
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I'm open to anything right now and I know that a lot of you reading this are a lot more knowledgeable than myself on the way android works so I'm hoping someone can shed some light. any light
Cheers guys
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all will be good your in your 28 days so cpw should hand you a new one take your box and bits with you
Hi!
Before starting this thread and asking this, I read through the general Q & A for Kindle beginners, many of the forums and questions and through some that seem similar to what is happening to my Kindle but either I didn't understand the solution and I need to be guided or I didn't find one to help with my issue and I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me.
I have a Kindle Fire, 1st generation. I changed my cracked screen 2 days ago. I put everything back, or so I thought, because I ended up with the ambient light small motherboard and 2 screws. After searching like crazy for the ambient light cable that was, assuming, connected to the small motherboard that then connects to the little adapter next to the battery I gave up because I could just not find it at all and just screwed the small motherboard back to where it was.
At first my kindle wouldn't even turn on and it was connected to an outlet, so I connected the charger to my laptop and saw a flick of life but then it went dark. I decided to connect the adapter to an outlet again and nothing happened. I switched out the USB cable to a BB USB cable and connected it to an outlet and it sprung to life. The "kindle fire" in orange and white started flashing bright, there was no dimming of the light, and then it would go dark and appear again. I thought maybe it was the battery that needed to be fully charged first before I did anything so I let it sit for 15 minutes. I then, (while looking for a solution online), pressed the power button for 60 seconds then waited 3 minutes and then again 60 seconds to see if it would stop that but it didn't do anything. I tried the 40 second technique and nothing. I left the Kindle connected to the charger overnight hoping that maybe this morning it would be all better but it is still the same: the "kindle fire" logo keeps just flashing over and over again.
I read in some forums that maybe I need to "root" it because it may be stuck in reboot and that I would need to download the KFU. I'm computer savvy and can figure it out mainly on my own, but feeling a bit insecure about going forth with it and really ruining the Kindle if I don't do it right.
Would I need to download the Kindle Fire Utility and replace the bootloader and get it back to factory settings? If so, can someone guide me through it? Or is there another step that I would need to take in order to stop this?
If I missed the answer for this in another thread, I do apologize and would greatly appreciate if you directed me to it.
Thank you, in advance!
AyLola said:
Hi!
Before starting this thread and asking this, I read through the general Q & A for Kindle beginners, many of the forums and questions and through some that seem similar to what is happening to my Kindle but either I didn't understand the solution and I need to be guided or I didn't find one to help with my issue and I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me.
I have a Kindle Fire, 1st generation. I changed my cracked screen 2 days ago. I put everything back, or so I thought, because I ended up with the ambient light small motherboard and 2 screws. After searching like crazy for the ambient light cable that was, assuming, connected to the small motherboard that then connects to the little adapter next to the battery I gave up because I could just not find it at all and just screwed the small motherboard back to where it was.
At first my kindle wouldn't even turn on and it was connected to an outlet, so I connected the charger to my laptop and saw a flick of life but then it went dark. I decided to connect the adapter to an outlet again and nothing happened. I switched out the USB cable to a BB USB cable and connected it to an outlet and it sprung to life. The "kindle fire" in orange and white started flashing bright, there was no dimming of the light, and then it would go dark and appear again. I thought maybe it was the battery that needed to be fully charged first before I did anything so I let it sit for 15 minutes. I then, (while looking for a solution online), pressed the power button for 60 seconds then waited 3 minutes and then again 60 seconds to see if it would stop that but it didn't do anything. I tried the 40 second technique and nothing. I left the Kindle connected to the charger overnight hoping that maybe this morning it would be all better but it is still the same: the "kindle fire" logo keeps just flashing over and over again.
I read in some forums that maybe I need to "root" it because it may be stuck in reboot and that I would need to download the KFU. I'm computer savvy and can figure it out mainly on my own, but feeling a bit insecure about going forth with it and really ruining the Kindle if I don't do it right.
Would I need to download the Kindle Fire Utility and replace the bootloader and get it back to factory settings? If so, can someone guide me through it? Or is there another step that I would need to take in order to stop this?
If I missed the answer for this in another thread, I do apologize and would greatly appreciate if you directed me to it.
Thank you, in advance!
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Likely need a fastboot cable
How to flash twrp and firefirefire with a Fastboot cable
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53652317&postcount=2
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Purchased as a Christmas gift a couple of weeks ago and worked great out of the box. It was put on the charger at the end of the day to charge. Next day come back to the tablet only to find it will not power on.
Tablet gives no indication that is plugged into the original charger. Pressing and holding the power and volume up to try and access the bootloader provided no response.
Calling this one bricked unless anyone else has thoughts or suggestions. Have seen this with other Android devices in the past but where going on 3 years old. This guy is only a couple weeks old. 1 day powered on even.
Can you try a different charger? How much battery was left when you put it on the charger?
Couldn't say what the battery percentage was at, it wasn't dead though. I was given the tablet back to try and troubleshoot and only have as much info as I was given.
As for the charger, this is my one and only USB Type C device and only have the original charger it came with. I was told however that a type c cable was used from a laptop to see if anything worked. No response I am told.
Have a few days to wait until I can RMA it. I will see if I can source another power adapter.
there are many [upwards of 20 or so] reports that it takes between 15 and 20 seconds of holding power button down to power up the device. i have had it happen twice. the largest thread for this issue i have read is on reddit.
I've had it happened to me twice on my first unit and twice on my RMA'd one now. Every time it happened it was after leaving the tablet unattended for several (12+) hours, regardless of battery % (anywhere between 10 and 60%). I never turn it off to make sure I don't get the touchscreen issues again as these come back everytime I reboot the tablet but when this happens there isin't much I can do as it turns off by itself. I can confirm that a very long push of the power button (agree with the 15-20 seconds mentionned above) also does the trick for me. Same pattern on my first unit and my 2nd one.
I'm realllllly hoping Google will have a software fix for all of this (touchscreen issues, awful Wi-Fi download speeds/range on 2.4 Ghz and this (tablet going dead without any apparent reason and being hard to reboot)) as I want to love the tablet but it's a mess right now.
Thanks for the reports.
I held down the power button till my finger went numb. Still don't know if the tablet has a charge and if the charger even works.
Same thing happened with my GPe htc one. Charged, freaked out, rebooted and then bricked never to come back to life.
Would have been nice to have found reports of issues before. Every search brings up reviews however. Hopefully this thread gets indexed.
Don't know if this is related: I've had the tablet for about two weeks and have twice had it not turn on (or respond at all) when I pressed the power button (short press, long press--although possibly not >15s). Even though I thought there was well over 50% battery left and even though though tapping under the cute LEDs showed four greens, I plugged it in and just left it for hours. Then when I came back, everything was fine--it turned on immediately.
I know this is old thread, but though this might help someone: my pixel c won't charge unless I
1) with the device plugged in
2) hold power-vol up-vol dn all at the same time
3) un plug the cable
Can be hard to do with only two hands. "Charging" will pop up on the screen immediately for just a second when you pull the cable if you did it right. I often need to do it more than once. Thanks Google!
support .google. com/pixel/answer/6328598?hl=en (sorry, guess I can't post links)
I lent it to someone, but it died out of the blue on them apparently. If I wait several hours without putting it on the charger it flashes red once when pressing the power button. Then when I plug it in it flashes red on and off for several seconds. Then the battery charge icon comes up, and disappears after several seconds. When trying to turn it on it doesn't work. I've tried waiting even an entire night before taking it off the charger and then trying to turn it on, but no sign of life with that. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I have a pixel now, but I'd still like it to work. Something about it being my first Android phone has me attached to it any explanations or ideas on how to get it to work would be great.