Hey guys, I just purchased an HTC One X, got back home and plugged it on the charger but no light came on. I tried to use the USB cable to charge it on my laptop and even tried my Nokia N86's charger but nothing worked, no light came on. I then decided to leave it on the charger. About 5-10 minutes later a red blinking light appeared, I didn't like the fact that it was blinking and decided to Google it, some people said that it's a battery problem and some others said that it just means that the phone is low on battery. I checked my phone again and noticed that the red light stopped flashing. Should I be worried that this is the start of a worse problem or is it to be expected? I was scared to buy this phone at first due to the problems I was reading online and this red flashing light thing isn't much of a warm welcoming :crying:
Energokinetic said:
Hey guys, I just purchased an HTC One X, got back home and plugged it on the charger but no light came on. I tried to use the USB cable to charge it on my laptop and even tried my Nokia N86's charger but nothing worked, no light came on. I then decided to leave it on the charger. About 5-10 minutes later a red blinking light appeared, I didn't like the fact that it was blinking and decided to Google it, some people said that it's a battery problem and some others said that it just means that the phone is low on battery. I checked my phone again and noticed that the red light stopped flashing. Should I be worried that this is the start of a worse problem or is it to be expected? I was scared to buy this phone at first due to the problems I was reading online and this red flashing light thing isn't much of a warm welcoming :crying:
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Now that the flashing has stopped, is there just a constant red light?
If there is a constant red light now, no need to be worried.
The battery was obviously very low, and as it is a newly bought phone this seems to be the more logical cause.
If there is no red light any more I would take it back for replacement.
Wilks3y said:
Now that the flashing has stopped, is there just a constant red light?
If there is a constant red light now, no need to be worried.
The battery was obviously very low, and as it is a newly bought phone this seems to be the more logical cause.
If there is no red light any more I would take it back for replacement.
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It's charging just fine now, the red light isn't blinking. So you're saying that I shouldn't be worried? Thank God, this incident made me think that I've made a wrong phone selection again. Thank you!
Energokinetic said:
It's charging just fine now, the red light isn't blinking. So you're saying that I shouldn't be worried? Thank God, this incident made me think that I've made a wrong phone selection again. Thank you!
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Yeah this sounds like a definite low battery. They can get to a point where there so low, they havent even got the energy to realise they are being charged, and therefor will not charge.
As I said, as its a new phone I'd say 99.999999% it is a battery that was left to get to low, which the seller should have kept an eye on. But it has obviously sorted itself out. So leave it to charge for an hour or 2 and your away !
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Wilks3y said:
Yeah this sounds like a definite low battery. They can get to a point where there so low, they havent even got the energy to realise they are being charged, and therefor will not charge.
As I said, as its a new phone I'd say 99.999999% it is a battery that was left to get to low, which the seller should have kept an eye on. But it has obviously sorted itself out. So leave it to charge for an hour or 2 and your away !
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Thank you for your help!
No worries, glad I could help !
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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?
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.
enricong said:
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.
Hello, I asked this question yesterday and fixed it but it appears to have gotten worse.
Pretty much my phone turned off randomly last night and now all I get is a red flashing light, I'm on Cyanogenmod 10. I managed to turn my phone on once and it turned off again, I think it may be stuck on 2% battery or something. I also did the plug into pc then switch to mains and left it to charge but nothing happened, I'm trying to go back to stock ROM too and completely format my phone and start again.
Can someone help me with this? I can't turn my phone on enough to get it into USB mode so I can change the stuff around and I think it may actually be broken, I have no idea how to fix it.
- Alerion
Leave it charging for a couple of hours.
robchongke said:
Leave it charging for a couple of hours.
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I left it charging all day, nothing has happened
In case of low battery did you try this to get it charged
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957442
Check the batt script post .....
Hope this helps a bit
MarcelHofs said:
In case of low battery did you try this to get it charged
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957442
Check the batt script post .....
Hope this helps a bit
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I think it may actually be down to having to change power cable as I lost my original HTC One X the other day, its probably not charging fast enough
I had it happen just now for the first time, the battery monitor indicated 89% so it didn't need charging, and plugging it in didn't turn on the amber LED. I held down the power button for a good 30 seconds and a few seconds later it started up.
How odd and I hope it doesn't happen again, considering I just switched from the lemon problem ridden LG Optimus LTE (Nitro HD).
My HOX just seems to have died overnight. It has been completely fine and stable at least a month on AOKP ICJ 1.3.0. Have not done any form of meddling with the rom/kernel/anything since then.
Yesterday the phone was working completely fine, but this morning, the phone screen won't turn on, it won't boot(at all), holding power button/power + vol down doesn't do anything.
The phone is now behaving very weirdly:
Charging does not turn on any LED lights, and it still would not boot during/after charging for hours.
However, it seems the LED will start flashing red if I leave it charging for a while(it's not overheating as far as my hands can tell).
The default action for charging normally is a always-on red LED.
Also, after a some plug-in time, it seems the the HTC sync manager will detect it and auto-run.
Phone remains unable to be turned on.
I kinda panicked here and unplugged the phone to see if the effect can be reproduced; it could not. Phone now remains undetectable.
After plugging it out, the red LED continues flashing for a few minutes, the phone can be noticeably felt to be getting hotter gradually.
But still nowhere near overheating levels.
Could anyone perhaps help me troubleshoot? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'll try to see if I can get into get it to be detectable again later after it cools down a bit; see if I can at least get into bootloader.
-Reproduced, but adb reboot bootloader seems to reset the cycle, bringing it back to undetectable.
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Oh wow. It really works. Thanks tomascus!
Alright phone's useable again. What a panic attack.
Any idea why the first 2 hours of charging before I posted this didn't seem to do the trick? Is this just some internal checkpoint thing?
ULAMSS5 said:
Oh wow. It really works. Thanks tomascus!
Alright phone's useable again. What a panic attack.
Any idea why the first 2 hours of charging before I posted this didn't seem to do the trick? Is this just some internal checkpoint thing?
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It likes to take its time
The light blinks when the charge is really low....
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What the title said. And I searched this on XDA and found several threads but none that cater to my exact problem, and if there are then it was simply because I didn't want to/don't have the time to go through hundreds of threads. Anyways, My Xperia Play (R800a) from Rogers (Canadian Service Provider) has been nothing but trouble for me. I got it Christmas day in 2011 and it worked beautifully for around 6 or 7 months. Then it started acting up. Like battery draining real fast, then not charging, then charging, then working for a day then not working for a week and then another day it worked then it just died (or at least the battery).
So I gave up on it and popped my SIM in my old iPhone 3G. Well I recently just bought another BST-41 XPLAY battery from amazon and I have had probably a 1% increase in some sort of success with trying to bring this thing back to life. I remember I rooted it but I never didn't anything with the root. Moving along, the phone with its original battery would blink 3 times in a pattern for maybe 2-3 minutes then there would be no blinking lights. With my new battery it just continuously blinking 3 times in the same pattern it did with my old battery.
Phoned Sony support yelled at the, its not on warranty anymore and I don't know what to do with it. I have read it could be the charger or the USB port, or cord. But right now with the 3 blinking red lights I think it means its charging... I just don't know. I wish this phone would come back to life already. I tried PC companion too and it doesn't recognize my phone. Oh and when I charge it on my PC I get the same blinking red light 3x and its also just doing that continuously.
If one of you have a solution to this, without linking me to another thread, because I have spent the past year looking at ways to fix it and I ran into some threads on here that haven't helped me, then I would be forever in your debt! Right now I am on my knees praying for this thing its just ridiculous.
Blinking would mean that the battery's dead. You could try charging the battery with an external charger and not use your Play to see if the phone would turn on after the charge. If it does, then it's probably the usb port's fault on the device.
Techniques said:
Blinking would mean that the battery's dead. You could try charging the battery with an external charger and not use your Play to see if the phone would turn on after the charge. If it does, then it's probably the usb port's fault on the device.
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I think thats the case but im not putting any more money into this piece of junk.
So, my problem started the last night when I was off to sleep. Pluged the usb charger and nothing. No red led, no charging notification. Nothing at all. Anyway, I left it over the night, and in the morning the charger was heaten up, like very very hot, unlike the phone, which was at the right temperature, but still dead.
Tried even cleaning the female usb of the phone, but still no results. All I got now is a dead phone and I have no more ideas.
Any help of any kind would be great!
PS.: The battery was very low, like 2 left percents, so I can't even boot in bootloader
QwertyQQ said:
So, my problem started the last night when I was off to sleep. Pluged the usb charger and nothing. No red led, no charging notification. Nothing at all. Anyway, I left it over the night, and in the morning the charger was heaten up, like very very hot, unlike the phone, which was at the right temperature, but still dead.
Tried even cleaning the female usb of the phone, but still no results. All I got now is a dead phone and I have no more ideas.
Any help of any kind would be great!
PS.: The battery was very low, like 2 left percents, so I can't even boot in bootloader
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Replace the battery with new one
Are you sure? I mean, the battery was just fine, never had any problems with it. But I'll trust you and buy a new one.
Thank you!
LOL I just tried to charge it this morning again and voila! all of a sudden it started to actually charge
QwertyQQ said:
LOL I just tried to charge it this morning again and voila! all of a sudden it started to actually charge
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What ROM and Kernel you have?
unboxed rom new layout and stock kernel. i guess it caused the problem because it started right after installing the rom
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unboxed rom new layout and stock kernel. i guess it caused the problem because it started right after installing the rom
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To me it sounds like kernel issue.