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[Answer] How to Charge your phone when you think you have bricked it

ok there are far too many topics about people who think they have bricked their HOX.
not to say i told you so but its a bit of a stupid idea to be flashing things with a low battery anyway
well here is what to do to get it charging
1. hold power button for 10 seconds to power the phone off
2. power on with volume down held to enter Hboot
3. press power button to enter Fastboot
4. scroll down with volume down and select Power Off
5. Plug you phone into the wall and you will see the red charging light come on
6. wait a few hours or until you get green light
now you can do whatever it was you was trying to do before
flash rom / fastboot flash recovery / flash ruu (whatever)

that technique does nothing, now my battery is too low to do anything, wtf

chukwu77 said:
that technique does nothing, now my battery is too low to do anything, wtf
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Plug it in and leave it like that. When my phone was discharged fully, red light didn't light up for first 15 mins (or more) of charging.

i left this thing on the charger all night, it will first open the fastboot screen about 5 secs after i plug into the wall, then the red light will blink but nothing charges. On what screen do i hold down the power button for 10 sec? i can only do anything on the fastboot screen. and from there as i said, I get NOTHING.
And even with the phone off, it turns on the bootloader as soon as i plug it into a charger

Yep. In my case, when it was fully discharged, I plug cable in, there is no red light. Then, after some time, red starts blibking. After some more time, it stops blinking and continues to charge.

ok i will give it another go. was the wall charger making your bootloader start each time? Even when i power it down, if i plug in wall charger it goes to bootloader

chukwu77 said:
ok i will give it another go. was the wall charger making your bootloader start each time? Even when i power it down, if i plug in wall charger it goes to bootloader
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No, I discharged completely to 0%, then phone shut off by itself.
Then I plugged in, nothing happened. No bootloader, no red light. But it was charging. After some time, red light started blinking. After some more time, red stayed lit. Thats when I turned it on manually. And it continued to charge to 100%.
So if your phone turns on, do not unplug. Try to shut off somehow, by some menu option to shut off or by press-holding power for 10 secs.

So i left the phone for a couple of hours, i come back and still nothing, no red or green light. only thing that happens is the bootloader will load and the red light will flicker on and off. it does not stay turned off no matter what i do if i plug in my wall charger

chukwu77 said:
So i left the phone for a couple of hours, i come back and still nothing, no red or green light. only thing that happens is the bootloader will load and the red light will flicker on and off. it does not stay turned off no matter what i do if i plug in my wall charger
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And no way to shut down the phone from boot loader?
If not, someone said that if you unplug and re-plug charger, red light will blink again and it will charge some more. and you keep doing it until there is enough charge to flash. That's what I read on one of the posts.
Get into recovery and plug up to ac power. The light comes on for a min. Or so then goes off. When it goes off unplugg it then plug it back in. Keep this up till you have some juice. Then fastboot flash the stock recovery relock bootloader, then get ruu 1.26.707. Run that ruu and it should boot. After that you can flash all the roms you want.
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well it does say Power Down. but that doesnt do anything as soon as its plugged in bootloader will start back up

chukwu77 said:
well it does say Power Down. but that doesnt do anything as soon as its plugged in bootloader will start back up
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even if you power down while still plugged in?

If i power down while still plugged in nothing happens, it just sits there. i waited about half an hour and still didnt see any lights come on.
Well if i power down it actually will boot all the way to the screen unlock but will read 0% battery and shut off

Solution:
If you have a working ROM and your battery is at 0, just wait a bit until the LED flashes red. After a few minutes it will go solid. Then turn on the phone and boot into the ROM so your phone can charge. Do not turn device off while charging.
If you do not have working ROM, boot into fastboot, flash stock recovery (this will allow charging while phone off). Turn phone off from fastboot menu, and let charge. Then when LED goes green, flash clockwork and then flash ROM.
I have been in both scenarios so if you need help let me know.

dortok said:
Solution:
If you have a working ROM and your battery is at 0, just wait a bit until the LED flashes red. After a few minutes it will go solid. Then turn on the phone and boot into the ROM so your phone can charge. Do not turn device off while charging.
If you do not have working ROM, boot into fastboot, flash stock recovery (this will allow charging while phone off). Turn phone off from fastboot menu, and let charge. Then when LED goes green, flash clockwork and then flash ROM.
I have been in both scenarios so if you need help let me know.
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i dont get this, im running offical CWM and can charge whilst off, i wrote this guide as that is the steps i perform
phone unplugged > boot to hboot > go to fastboot > select power off > wait for phone to power off then plug mains adapter in > charging light comes on & phone stays off

bagofcrap24 said:
i dont get this, im running offical CWM and can charge whilst off, i wrote this guide as that is the steps i perform
phone unplugged > boot to hboot > go to fastboot > select power off > wait for phone to power off then plug mains adapter in > charging light comes on & phone stays off
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Just because the charger light comes on doesn't mean its charging. I thought it was charging while off but then my phone drained to 0

Iii goooootttt the reeeeddd liiiiggghhhhtttttttttttttttttt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thaaaankkksss!!!!

...it's really NOT possible to charge the phone atm when you flashed a custom recovery. Doesnt matter, if you are in hboot/fastboot/recovery or shut down your phone.
And yeah, also when the LED is red means NOT that its charging.

j4n87 said:
...it's really NOT possible to charge the phone atm when you flashed a custom recovery. Doesnt matter, if you are in hboot/fastboot/recovery or shut down your phone.
And yeah, also when the LED is red means NOT that its charging.
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FUUUUUUUUUU!!!
What can i do now?

wolfraim said:
FUUUUUUUUUU!!!
What can i do now?
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you can still boot up your phone, right? but its constantly rebooting because teh battery is too low when its booted up!?
...I heared reports that its possible to boot into recovery, and put the charger in.
Led shall light up but goes off immediatly then, put it out and tehn in again...repeat that several times...seems that it charges the phone for a bit while you pluggin it in.

j4n87 said:
you can still boot up your phone, right? but its constantly rebooting because teh battery is too low when its booted up!?
...I heared reports that its possible to boot into recovery, and put the charger in.
Led shall light up but goes off immediatly then, put it out and tehn in again...repeat that several times...seems that it charges the phone for a bit while you pluggin it in.
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Now im testing if i can charge when the splash screen is ON, because i install VILLAIN ROM, so it show LOADING. text, in this screen i connect it to the power and it still showing up the screen, so i thinks it is charging i will wait for a couple hours to try a RUU (because my HOX is RELOCKED).
Thanks!!

Device Won't Turn On

Screen went black during phone call, audio still present. Then the phone shut off and refuses to turn on, no charging led when connected to power supply. Battery still had 75% charge during call

Have you tried holding the power button down for 10 seconds?
John.

Tinderbox (UK) said:
Have you tried holding the power button down for 10 seconds?
John.
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Thanks. This has also happened on my girlfriends device numerous times.

Similar thing happened to me, i was charging my One X while it was off (the battery completely depleted).
The notification LED was on (red) indicating it was charging, the LED turned off after about an hour of charging, i tried to turn it on and nothing, absolutely no reaction.
I've tried holding the power button for 10 seconds, also tried a vast combination of buttons;
Volume up + power.
All three buttons at once.
Any suggestions before i take it to the shop?
UPDATE:
5 minutes after posting this the LED light turned on, i tried to turn the device on and it did, so everything seems to be fine now, i just don't get how after an hour on the charger, when i turned it on just now my HTC One X battery was at 2%
In any case I won't be letting the battery deplete to 0% anymore

@dusan do you have CWM as recovery? It is known that battery-charge is broken, even when the device is off, when cwm is flashed.
Try to get into fastboot after some while, flash the stock recovery as fast as possible and turn the device off again for charging.

That would explain it, I do have CWM, I don't know how but I guess it charged just enough juice for me to turn the device on.
If I flash stock recovery will I be able to recharge the phone with the device off ?
Also would I lose root in that case?

Bricked

Got a bootloop, figured to do a hard reset (volume up+power). Phone vibrated 3 times. Since then i have not been able to turn it on, and no led while being plugged in to PC, charger, no flash mode. It kept it plugged in a wall charger for 6 hours and still no red led. Help :crying:
- PC Companion cant recognize my phone
- tried volume up+power, connect to pc, then hold power+volume down
Note: Phone was not hot or warm during the bootloops
EDIT: Plugged phone into my computer 2 hours ago and finally a red led! Stupid wall charger -_-

fcb13 said:
Got a bootloop, figured to do a hard reset (volume up+power). Phone vibrated 3 times. Since then i have not been able to turn it on, and no led while being plugged in to PC, charger, no flash mode. It kept it plugged in a wall charger for 6 hours and still no red led. Help :crying:
- PC Companion cant recognize my phone
- tried volume up+power, connect to pc, then hold power+volume down
Note: Phone was not hot or warm during the bootloops
EDIT: Plugged phone into my computer 2 hours ago and finally a red led! Stupid wall charger -_-
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Sucks not having a battery to pull don't it.

Step1: Don't plug to charger until your phone no screen no response
Step2: Plug it to charger for about 10min, it would be turned on automatically. Do hard reset(vibrate 4times) when it is turned on.
Step3: Open flashtool and select ftf, plug your phone to computer and press volume down simultaneously. Wait until the green led appear, It would be flashing.
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siuming720 said:
Step1: Don't plug to charger until your phone no screen no response
Step2: Plug it to charger for about 10min, it would be turned on automatically. Do hard reset(vibrate 4times) when it is turned on.
Step3: Open flashtool and select ftf, plug your phone to computer and press volume down simultaneously. Wait until the green led appear, It would be flashing.
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Its been 3hrs and its still the red LED ill try to hard reset.
EDIT: Just tried to hard reset, and nothing. Its plugged in and still has red LED
EDIT 2: IT WORKS ! Thanks

my phone is stuck on black screen tryingin to power off, is a reflash nessary or is there a chance it may come back after batt drain? also can i just restore from cwm if i can get into it?

justdrew said:
my phone is stuck on black screen tryingin to power off, is a reflash nessary or is there a chance it may come back after batt drain? also can i just restore from cwm if i can get into it?
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If you can get into cwm I would think you can restore. Try it.
Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.

sure, you can
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Help, dead Z1C!!

Hi, only had it 3 days and it wont power up any more!
The battery was down to about 27%, plugged it into the wall charger and the phone just rebooted itself. After it booted back up I connected the charger again and this time the phone just turned off. The phone won't turn on any more, i just get a constant blinking red led light.
Tried a volume up + power button for a minute now nothing.
Tried pressing the little red button under the Sim, nothing.
Connected the phone to a PC and the PC makes a blip sound(found new device sound), but just keeps repeating the blip sound, like the usb cable has been unplugged and plugged back in over and over. Wanted to use the Sony companion software to do a reset.
Any other ideas or is it dead?!?
thanks

Viper888899 said:
Hi, only had it 3 days and it wont power up any more!
The battery was down to about 27%, plugged it into the wall charger and the phone just rebooted itself. After it booted back up I connected the charger again and this time the phone just turned off. The phone won't turn on any more, i just get a constant blinking red led light.
Tried a volume up + power button for a minute now nothing.
Tried pressing the little red button under the Sim, nothing.
Connected the phone to a PC and the PC makes a blip sound(found new device sound), but just keeps repeating the blip sound, like the usb cable has been unplugged and plugged back in over and over. Wanted to use the Sony companion software to do a reset.
Any other ideas or is it dead?!?
thanks
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What did you do before it can't turn on?
Can you flash the ftf on it?
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Ben Ling said:
What did you do before it can't turn on?
Can you flash the ftf on it?
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Hi, not flashed anything as the phone was brand new. Spoke with the retailer and they swapped out the handset.
I did manage to get the device to boot up after more searching online, by holding down the power button for about 10mins and keeping it charged at the same time. The flashing red light then changed to a solid orange light, after another 10mins or so the phone booted up. But the phone was playing up after that even after a hard reset.

Viper888899 said:
Hi, not flashed anything as the phone was brand new. Spoke with the retailer and they swapped out the handset.
I did manage to get the device to boot up after more searching online, by holding down the power button for about 10mins and keeping it charged at the same time. The flashing red light then changed to a solid orange light, after another 10mins or so the phone booted up. But the phone was playing up after that even after a hard reset.
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so for now it still can't boot up ?

[Q] Can't Power on after flushing rom

I was flushing beanstalk on HTC Desire (bravo), during the process phone stuck for 20 min so I take the battery out to turn it off. But now its not turning on.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CONNECTED TO CHARGER WITHOUT BATTERY:
The charging red and yellow light blinks.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CONNECTED TO CHARGER WITH BATTERY:
The charging yellow light blinks for a minute or so and then turns off.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PRESSING POWER BUTTON:
nothing happens no mobile screen, no logo, no splash. But back side of mobile is heating up so I guess some kind of processing in the background and it is unable to boot it.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CONNECTED TO PC:
since the phone is not starting so PC is not able to detect it. So I can't do anything with adb or fastboot

sadiqkhoja said:
I was flushing beanstalk on HTC Desire (bravo), during the process phone stuck for 20 min so I take the battery out to turn it off. But now its not turning on.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CONNECTED TO CHARGER WITHOUT BATTERY:
The charging red and yellow light blinks.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CONNECTED TO CHARGER WITH BATTERY:
The charging yellow light blinks for a minute or so and then turns off.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PRESSING POWER BUTTON:
nothing happens no mobile screen, no logo, no splash. But back side of mobile is heating up so I guess some kind of processing in the background and it is unable to boot it.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CONNECTED TO PC:
since the phone is not starting so PC is not able to detect it. So I can't do anything with adb or fastboot
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If it blinks the battery is dead so ur gna have to let it charge.
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no, yellow light remains on for a minute and then turns off

sadiqkhoja said:
no, yellow light remains on for a minute and then turns off
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What happens if u pull the battery out n put back in, press n hold volume down + power? Does it go to bootloader? Very strange that nothing happens if u were only flashing a rom.

hey guys i have the same issue my phone wont turn on or charge ,when i plug in the charger it wont show the yellow led ,after reading about it on the web and xda
i gonna take the battery out , plug in the charger then reinsert the battery and let it charge for couple of hours to see what happens.