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[Q] Help. My Evo is dead

First of all, I did read through other posts and they are similar but not the same as my problem and didn't resolve my issue.
I have noticed recently that when I plug my Evo in at night (samsung wall charger) the charge light comes on, and when i get up (usually about 5 hours) the charge light is still on but battery is not fully charged. this has happened twice in the past week.
Flash to this morning..... same thing happened but my phone in NON-RESPONSIVE at all. No charge light, NO power, wont turn on. I tried my car charger and my HTC wall charger that came with the Evo (it has a blackberry cable but the "pod" is HTC) and tried plugging into PC plugging in with no battery and no luck. I don't have any people readily available to borrow their battery so i don't know what to do.
I would just take it to Sprint(as far away as possible, lol) but it is rooted running Warm 2.2
what can i do?

Your cable or charger went bad, this happened to me recently, if they are verified good, then your battery discharged so low that the charger won't charge it anymore.
Bridge the terminals in parallel of a similiar charged battery for 10-15 min to bring up the minimum voltage so that you can charge it fully.
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......

Could be a bad battery, my sisters phone drained so much it had no charge light and wouldn't turn on. You could pick up some cheap batteries off ebay or just take it to the sprint store and ask them if they have a battery you could just try. Even though it is rooted, it is not like you are trying to get them to repair it...unless the new battery doesn't work.

I would think it's the battery. Normally when the battery is completely drained though I get a flashing orange light. Seems like you get no response at all. I suggest trying a different battery and if that doesn't work take take it to Sprint because if your phone won't turn on with a good battery there will be no way for the people at the store to know that you are rooted. I'd just take it to Sprint first thing. Because if it is the battery the worst that can happen is that Sprint charges you for the battery. If it isn't the battery, you get a new phone. Also if they try to charge you for the battery you already know what is wrong so you can just go somewhere else for the battery.
It could be the cable but you say the charge light stayed on so it doesn't seem like it. I have gone through 3 cables already you can get the OEM for 5 bucks on ebay.

so if i take it to Sprint and they give me a battery and thaT WORKS THEN THEY WILL SEE MY CUSTOM SPLASH SCREEn. You think they will Know what it is?
caps key seems to be broken, or i just have fat fingers

Jimdog420 said:
Your cable or charger went bad, this happened to me recently, if they are verified good, then your battery discharged so low that the charger won't charge it anymore.
Bridge the terminals in parallel of a similiar charged battery for 10-15 min to bring up the minimum voltage so that you can charge it fully.
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
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and how do i do this

18rmiller said:
so if i take it to Sprint and they give me a battery and thaT WORKS THEN THEY WILL SEE MY CUSTOM SPLASH SCREEn. You think they will Know what it is?
caps key seems to be broken, or i just have fat fingers
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They really don't care. You act like Sprint is going to sue you and take away your phone for life or something. I took my rooted-Evo in without insurance and they allowed me to get another one for 100 bucks and added insurance to my plan WELL AFTER the 30 days after purchase. Try 6 months later. You got nothing to lose and a lot to gain.

mufc1991 said:
They really don't care. You act like Sprint is going to sue you and take away your phone for life or something. I took my rooted-Evo in without insurance and they allowed me to get another one for 100 bucks and added insurance to my plan WELL AFTER the 30 days after purchase. Try 6 months later. You got nothing to lose and a lot to gain.
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just want to make sure

dont worry i walked into sprint with myns and the guy booted it up couple of times and he didnt care.
he told me i was gonna get a new evo and stuff, and i walked out

Girlfriends on her way to sprint. hopefully back with a new phone. or at least a working version of mine

Nice, sending the female have better odds lol

Jimdog420 said:
Your cable or charger went bad, this happened to me recently, if they are verified good, then your battery discharged so low that the charger won't charge it anymore.
Bridge the terminals in parallel of a similar charged battery for 10-15 min to bring up the minimum voltage so that you can charge it fully.
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
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how do i do this? They say I have to take it to a store with a tech and they will take care of it because i have insurance, but if it is just the battery then i don't want them to know my phone is rooted(whether they will say anything or not)
elegantai said:
Nice, sending the female have better odds lol
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exactly, unfortunately it didn't work because nothing happened

18rmiller said:
how do i do this? They say I have to take it to a store with a tech and they will take care of it because i have insurance, but if it is just the battery then i don't want them to know my phone is rooted(whether they will say anything or not)
exactly, unfortunately it didn't work because nothing happened
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Then bury your phone. I do not see what all the fuss is about Sprint seeing you got a rooted phone.

got a battery. going to unroot the phone today and take it to sprint. Thanks Guys

Evo not charging

So I recently I been noticing that my phone isnt holding its charge as great as it used to but i figured that was from my new job and its lack of cell coverage. Now this last week i have been noticing that I would hit the power button, the screen would go black but then 5seconds later the screen would come back on. Now as of 2 nights ago I cant even charge it. I changed cables and outlets. Went to two different outlets and now have it plugged into my pc. Still it just keeps it alive but not charged. Does this sound like a USB port issue or a battery. And if its battery where can I get one for cheap and fast. Thanks

Nihility86 said:
So I recently I been noticing that my phone isnt holding its charge as great as it used to but i figured that was from my new job and its lack of cell coverage. Now this last week i have been noticing that I would hit the power button, the screen would go black but then 5seconds later the screen would come back on. Now as of 2 nights ago I cant even charge it. I changed cables and outlets. Went to two different outlets and now have it plugged into my pc. Still it just keeps it alive but not charged. Does this sound like a USB port issue or a battery. And if its battery where can I get one for cheap and fast. Thanks
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You can find batteries pretty much anywhere on the internet from Ebay to Amazon. If you're replacing your battery, you may consider going with an extended one, just for the hell of it.
However, I doubt the battery is your issue. Your phone should recognize it's charging, even if your battery is having issues (to my knowledge).
Have you tried pulling your battery out, and then putting it back in and rebooting the phone?

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-x-EXTENDED-BA...838159?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item27bba466cf
There you go. 20 bucks. lol. but I'd search ebay for the best deal. The main part is the wall charger. they work wonders. the USB part of those wall charges are crap. easier to use your laptop.

well i removed the battery and now its charging. I will see if this works. I was looking into getting an extended battery I just dont want one sooo bulky.

btw, if it is charging off the phone. then you've likely been a dumbass and damaged the USB port. lol. in that case. you might get stuck with changing out two batteries daily until you get an evo 3d. :-D

Nihility86 said:
well i removed the battery and now its charging. I will see if this works. I was looking into getting an extended battery I just dont want one sooo bulky.
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I've had my phone do strange things like this as well. Pulling the battery is always my first thing before I actually go in depth on trying to figure out what the issue is.
More often than not, for random things like that, pulling the battery will fix it.

[Q] Help!! My phone bricked itself!!

Somehow my phone has bricked itself. It's a Droid Incredible 2 that I purchased off an ebay power seller a few months ago. I've had no problems with it. I got myself a wireless charger for Christmas. Not sure if that is relevant or not, but wanted to give all the facts.
Last night I put the phone on the wireless charger when I went to bed like I have since Christmas. This was about 2200ish. Around 0300ish I hear beeping sounds from the charger and I hear a loud ticking sound from that vicinity as well. No idea if the ticking sound was coming from the charger. I was dead asleep and thought I might be dreaming it. Then it stopped. I went back to sleep and thought nothing of it until this morning when I picked up my phone and it was dead.
By dead I mean completely dead. Press the power button and nothing happens. Plug a charger into it and the charging light blinks once every 4-5 seconds. The phone still will not power on. Battery pull had no effect. Tried to get into recovery by holding the volume button and power button down. Nothing at all.
Any ideas before I take it down to the VZW store this evening? My phone is rooted so I may have voided my warranty and I have no way to un-root it. It seems to be a hardware issue, not a software one though so it shouldn't matter.

A. Nonymous said:
Somehow my phone has bricked itself. It's a Droid Incredible 2 that I purchased off an ebay power seller a few months ago. I've had no problems with it. I got myself a wireless charger for Christmas. Not sure if that is relevant or not, but wanted to give all the facts.
Last night I put the phone on the wireless charger when I went to bed like I have since Christmas. This was about 2200ish. Around 0300ish I hear beeping sounds from the charger and I hear a loud ticking sound from that vicinity as well. No idea if the ticking sound was coming from the charger. I was dead asleep and thought I might be dreaming it. Then it stopped. I went back to sleep and thought nothing of it until this morning when I picked up my phone and it was dead.
By dead I mean completely dead. Press the power button and nothing happens. Plug a charger into it and the charging light blinks once every 4-5 seconds. The phone still will not power on. Battery pull had no effect. Tried to get into recovery by holding the volume button and power button down. Nothing at all.
Any ideas before I take it down to the VZW store this evening? My phone is rooted so I may have voided my warranty and I have no way to un-root it. It seems to be a hardware issue, not a software one though so it shouldn't matter.
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Sounds more like your charger fried your battery, and that's if you are lucky. The other possibility is that your charging port is fried as well, not as likely though since you said it still blinks when you plug it in. My personal opinion would be to get a new battery and charge it with your normal charger, if that works then toss the wireless one, it's probably bad news.
Unfortunately if you had purchased the phone from verizon they would have just given you a new battery free, they usually do that no questions asked one time for each customer, at least from all my encounters that's how it's been.

A. Nonymous said:
Somehow my phone has bricked itself. It's a Droid Incredible 2 that I purchased off an ebay power seller a few months ago. I've had no problems with it. I got myself a wireless charger for Christmas. Not sure if that is relevant or not, but wanted to give all the facts.
Last night I put the phone on the wireless charger when I went to bed like I have since Christmas. This was about 2200ish. Around 0300ish I hear beeping sounds from the charger and I hear a loud ticking sound from that vicinity as well. No idea if the ticking sound was coming from the charger. I was dead asleep and thought I might be dreaming it. Then it stopped. I went back to sleep and thought nothing of it until this morning when I picked up my phone and it was dead.
By dead I mean completely dead. Press the power button and nothing happens. Plug a charger into it and the charging light blinks once every 4-5 seconds. The phone still will not power on. Battery pull had no effect. Tried to get into recovery by holding the volume button and power button down. Nothing at all.
Any ideas before I take it down to the VZW store this evening? My phone is rooted so I may have voided my warranty and I have no way to un-root it. It seems to be a hardware issue, not a software one though so it shouldn't matter.
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before you do that you need to plug your phone in for a few hours so it can get a good charge. It sounds like you wireless charger wasn't working and your phone is dead. Then pull your battery and try to turn your phone on.
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zax10 said:
before you do that you need to plug your phone in for a few hours so it can get a good charge. It sounds like you wireless charger wasn't working and your phone is dead. Then pull your battery and try to turn your phone on.
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good call, didn't even think about that, if it doesn't work after trying to charge it with the normal charger then most likely the wireless charger fried the battery and you it just needs to be replaced.

dankblaze said:
Sounds more like your charger fried your battery, and that's if you are lucky. The other possibility is that your charging port is fried as well, not as likely though since you said it still blinks when you plug it in. My personal opinion would be to get a new battery and charge it with your normal charger, if that works then toss the wireless one, it's probably bad news.
Unfortunately if you had purchased the phone from verizon they would have just given you a new battery free, they usually do that no questions asked one time for each customer, at least from all my encounters that's how it's been.
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Sadly I don't have another battery to test with. I'm sure they have one at the VZW store I can test with (I hope). It doesn't power on even plugged into the wall though. Shouldn't it power on plugged into the wall whether there's a battery in it or not?
I'm not sure how it could have fried the charging port if it was charging wirelessly. Unless you're talking about the charging connectors inside the phone. That would be bad news altogether. But if that happened, the phone wouldn't go from fully charged to 0% in just 3-4 hours. So that would indicate the entire phone is fried which would make me extremely unhappy.
zax10 said:
before you do that you need to plug your phone in for a few hours so it can get a good charge. It sounds like you wireless charger wasn't working and your phone is dead. Then pull your battery and try to turn your phone on.
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It won't charge when plugged into the charger. The charging light doesn't come on at all.

A. Nonymous said:
It won't charge when plugged into the charger. The charging light doesn't come on at all.
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I would go to a verizon store and check on testing out another battery then. Hopefully that wireless charger didn't fry anything internally. Also, if your battery is completely dead then the phone won't bootup even if plugged in, it's like having a dead battery in your car, if you have low battery your car will start up but if you have a dead battery it won't because it needs at least a little juice to fire up the alternator. Hope that analogy made sense lol.

dankblaze said:
I would go to a verizon store and check on testing out another battery then. Hopefully that wireless charger didn't fry anything internally. Also, if your battery is completely dead then the phone won't bootup even if plugged in, it's like having a dead battery in your car, if you have low battery your car will start up but if you have a dead battery it won't because it needs at least a little juice to fire up the alternator. Hope that analogy made sense lol.
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It did. I just figured with no battery it would bypass the battery and run just on AC power. I'm using my DInc at the moment so I still have a phone. The battery for the DInc has the terminals on the other side and I'm guessing it's not as simple as just turning the battery over. Last thing I want is to make things worse.

A. Nonymous said:
It did. I just figured with no battery it would bypass the battery and run just on AC power. I'm using my DInc at the moment so I still have a phone. The battery for the DInc has the terminals on the other side and I'm guessing it's not as simple as just turning the battery over. Last thing I want is to make things worse.
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Nope, don't even attempt that, you might cause more problems than you already have. Bottomline though, I'd just take it in to a verizon and see how they can help you. They are usually really cool about giving a hand at most stores.

dankblaze said:
Nope, don't even attempt that, you might cause more problems than you already have. Bottomline though, I'd just take it in to a verizon and see how they can help you. They are usually really cool about giving a hand at most stores.
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I'm desperate at this point and that still struck me as a bad idea.
I can't find any other instances on Google where using a wireless charger fried a phone.

Went to the VZW store. They said my phone had no warranty on it, but since I purchased insurance they'd overnight me a replacement. They said the battery is good. The phone itself is dead apparently. With the holiday and me getting there after 1700, I'm guessing I won't get it until Tuesday. I'm now worried about how to wipe my personal data from the phone before sending it in.

Smash the phone.. they wouldn't find out.. its an insurance replacement already and that's 99% of the reason insurance exists.. for water/smash/loss to the phone.
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faehsemc said:
Smash the phone.. they wouldn't find out.. its an insurance replacement already and that's 99% of the reason insurance exists.. for water/smash/loss to the phone.
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agreed. Assurion actually performs a master reset on devices before booting (if phone actually boots). If not they will use your phone as a donor phone. I use assurion as the rooters get out of jail card. They just dont give a damn.
In fact I have "lost" many phones just to have parts lol. Cheaper and faster shipping than eBay.
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faehsemc said:
Smash the phone.. they wouldn't find out.. its an insurance replacement already and that's 99% of the reason insurance exists.. for water/smash/loss to the phone.
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After sleeping on it, I remembered that I've got a screen lock on there so my data is all safe. The phone is programmed to nuke itself if someone enters the wrong code too many times. I'm not too worried about it now.

zax10 said:
agreed. Assurion actually performs a master reset on devices before booting (if phone actually boots). If not they will use your phone as a donor phone. I use assurion as the rooters get out of jail card. They just dont give a damn.
In fact I have "lost" many phones just to have parts lol. Cheaper and faster shipping than eBay.
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Not trying to sound like a ****, but it's people like you who cheat the system for their own benefits. Inturn, the prices of insurance go up resulting in ridiculous prices to pay.
Pretty soon insurance isn't even going to be worth it to buy because it will cost so much.

Not once did I ever say I cheated the system. The devices I am claiming as lost are broke. What would be the use of paying for another phone if the one I have works.
The cost of insurance being raised is due to inflation caused by shipping cost being raised due to the cost of gasoline.
In fact what I do saves me from multiple insurance claims. Example I washed my old x10. Filled claim as lost. Recieved my replacement. A month later broke my screen. Instead of having to use insurance again I simply swapped out my screens.
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Strangely enough, the device now works. I put it on the charger when I had the problems with it and it wouldn't power on and the charging light just flashed. I just plugged it in again 'cuz I was bored stiff more than anything. It started charging. I pressed the power button. It powered on. Battery says it is at 14%. Should I trust this device?

Let it fill up all the way.. try it
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Let it fill up all the way.. try it
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Fill it wirelessly or wired? I'm thinking wirelessly. A replacement device is on it's way anyway and VZW says the battery tested good.

A. Nonymous said:
Fill it wirelessly or wired? I'm thinking wirelessly. A replacement device is on it's way anyway and VZW says the battery tested good.
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Whichever way you did it to get 14%
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It charged over night with no issues. I transferred my service back to it, but I'm carrying my full charged backup phone with me for a couple of days. VZW tested the battery at the store and claimed it was good.

Nexus causing old and brand new batteries to drain while charging - Please Help!

So I have a CDMA Verizon Nexus running the latest version of Bugless Beast. It's been working great for a week now, but today it's had the craziest problems.
I forgot to charge it last night, woke up to a dead battery, so I plug it in the charger for an hour, but it stays at 0 percent. It never charges at all. Then I unplugged it, the phone dies, and it can't charge at all. I take it to a Verizon store, they swap it for a new extended battery, and it boots up the phone, showing it was a battery issue.
After I come home with the new battery inserted, I notice the battery is draining again even with the new one and it's charging again.
I tried to wipe it and recover it to stock so I can see if the issues are the same with stock settings, but of course, the battery died in the middle of it all.
Has anyone had issues like this? Thanks in advance!

Try a different charged are you using the stock charger and extent ion cords?
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Bfitz26 said:
Try a different charged are you using the stock charger and extent ion cords?
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Sorry, forgot to mention that I was using the stock charger and have tried other chargers for different phones laying around the house. When I took it to the Verizon store they also tried different chargers before replacing the battery, but it wouldn't turn on. Swapping it with a new battery worked temporarily, until it started to drain again even with it charging using the stock one.

Do the battery stats provide any useful info?

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Do the battery stats provide any useful info?
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I unfortunately can't check them now because both batteries are spent and the phone won't charge them, but if it helps at all, I noticed that it would have the charging icon on the battery when plugged in, it would say "charging" on the lock screen, but when i would check the battery stats,it would go against all of that and say "discharging" instead.

Just for my understanding: the phone is off, you charge for a couple of hours, the phone does display the charge icon when you plug in a charger, but if you try to turn on the phone after a few hours of charging it's still dead?

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Just for my understanding: the phone is off, you charge for a couple of hours, the phone does display the charge icon when you plug in a charger, but if you try to turn on the phone after a few hours of charging it's still dead?
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Almost all correct. When I say charge icon, I mean the one in the top right corner of the screen when it's actually on. I've never been able to get the black screen with a charging battery to show up at any point.
Say I have a battery that has about 35 percent juice left. The phone will be on, and I'll leave it in the charger. It will say its charging, I can operate the nexus just fine, but according to the battery stats in the settings, it's actually discharging while it's plugged in. Once it hits zero, that battery is useless.

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Almost all correct. When I say charge icon, I mean the one in the top right corner of the screen when it's actually on. I've never been able to get the black screen with a charging battery to show up at any point.
Say I have a battery that has about 35 percent juice left. The phone will be on, and I'll leave it in the charger. It will say its charging, I can operate the nexus just fine, but according to the battery stats in the settings, it's actually discharging while it's plugged in. Once it hits zero, that battery is useless.
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And you also cannot charge the phone when it's off?

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And you also cannot charge the phone when it's off?
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Correct.

In that case, I doubt there's anything we (you) can do. I'd return it to the store.

Petrovski80 said:
In that case, I doubt there's anything we (you) can do. I'd return it to the store.
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That's what I was guessing as well. My only problem is that since it's rooted, the warranty is voided, so I can't get a replacement phone. I had come so close to bringing it back to stock and unrooting it with its last bit of battery, but it died right in the middle of it attempting to re lock the bootloader.
At this point I think I only have a few options...
1.) Buying another battery from Verizon so I have some juice for the Nexus to finish up the bootloader issue mentioned above, bringing it back to stock, then bringing the phone in to replace it.
2.) Just say I lost it and hope for the best that they'll give me a replacement one. I bought it off contract from a third party vendor which probably won't help my case, but I am insured by Verizon on the phone, so it may just work.

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That's what I was guessing as well. My only problem is that since it's rooted, the warranty is voided, so I can't get a replacement phone. I had come so close to bringing it back to stock and unrooting it with its last bit of battery, but it died right in the middle of it attempting to re lock the bootloader.
At this point I think I only have a few options...
1.) Buying another battery from Verizon so I have some juice for the Nexus to finish up the bootloader issue mentioned above, bringing it back to stock, then bringing the phone in to replace it.
2.) Just say I lost it and hope for the best that they'll give me a replacement one. I bought it off contract from a third party vendor which probably won't help my case, but I am insured by Verizon on the phone, so it may just work.
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A third option could be lending/buying a charger that allows you to charge your battery outside the phone. I think DealExtreme sells those. Shipping takes a while though. Anyway, good luck. Hope you'll get a replacement.

Option Number 2 may not work out for you, do you have insurance?

[Q] Please help with my tab not charging or booting.

Would really appreciate some help with this as it has annoyed me for almost a year now.
Well here's the thing. Got the tablet just over a year ago and it did not take long before it would suddenly not boot or charge. And connecting to a comp gives no reaction from the comp that there's anything connected. Would normally have turned it in for the warranty, but I've been searching for months now and I just cannot for the life of me find the warranty paper on it. I've also searched a lot on google for this problem and it seems that most have it solved by disconnected and reconnecting the battery, but this unfortunately did not make any difference for mine. I could get a battery replacement if that's the problem, they're not all that expensive, but it's money I do not want to spend in just hope that this will solve it. Is there anything else that can be tried to get ANY sort of reaction out of it? Or if there's any way of finding out if it will work to simply change battery?

*bump*
No one?

Which model do you have? Also, are you using the Samsung oem cable?
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SM-T210 I think. Not sure if that's the number you want but the only one I can find that refers to model.
Wasnt aware there really was multiple models of it beyond the Wifi or 3g version and different size storage which should not affect anything like this.
As for cable, I've tried both the cable that came with it (samsung plug and usb cable). A friend's samsung charger that is not usb other than the microUSB (as in not detachable). And a regular usb of unknown brand. Tried charging both from plugs and trickle charge from usb on comp, and diconnected/reconnected the battery in between each attempt.

*bump*?

This also happenned to me yesterday and i tried a lot of things.
The only thing that worked was to trickle charge the tablet with a original Samsung charger (the tablet said it was not charging but it was) and then, reconnect the battery, go into recovery mode and do a factory reset.
I learned my lesson i and will now program the GT-P5220 to auto-shotdown when it reaches 20% battery.

ibbgomes said:
This also happenned to me yesterday and i tried a lot of things.
The only thing that worked was to trickle charge the tablet with a original Samsung charger (the tablet said it was not charging but it was) and then, reconnect the battery, go into recovery mode and do a factory reset.
I learned my lesson i and will now program the GT-P5220 to auto-shotdown when it reaches 20% battery.
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plug your tablet into the usb port ON YOUR COMPUTER! and let it trickle charge. it may boot, it may not. idk.

DevMyAndroid said:
plug your tablet into the usb port ON YOUR COMPUTER! and let it trickle charge. it may boot, it may not. idk.
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I've had mine connected to the comp for a week straight, and still no reaction, nor any reaction after reseating battery after this week now... If I could just be sure it was the battery it's an easy fix, but spending the money on a battery, just to find that it makes no difference, would REALLY suck, since a new battery is ~50% of a brand new tab altogether. Not that I would ever buy another Samsung device again seeing as how this is apparently a very common problem with their devices (even if it's usually easy to fix).

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EtherMan said:
Would really appreciate some help with this as it has annoyed me for almost a year now.
Well here's the thing. Got the tablet just over a year ago and it did not take long before it would suddenly not boot or charge. And connecting to a comp gives no reaction from the comp that there's anything connected. Would normally have turned it in for the warranty, but I've been searching for months now and I just cannot for the life of me find the warranty paper on it. I've also searched a lot on google for this problem and it seems that most have it solved by disconnected and reconnecting the battery, but this unfortunately did not make any difference for mine. I could get a battery replacement if that's the problem, they're not all that expensive, but it's money I do not want to spend in just hope that this will solve it. Is there anything else that can be tried to get ANY sort of reaction out of it? Or if there's any way of finding out if it will work to simply change battery?
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Cheap replacement battery off ebay item number:- 311097026065 cost me £7.20 not too much money and is a quick and simple process to swap out battery.

cyberhack said:
Cheap replacement battery off ebay item number:- 311097026065 cost me £7.20 not too much money and is a quick and simple process to swap out battery.
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Sure it's only £7.20 for the battery. But there's £12 shipping. Plus tax and import fees. End result: ~£30 (just barely a pound or two cheaper than the local stores), with a brand new tab of same type costing ~£65-70... I'm not paying half the price of the device just to test. I'd rather donate the tab to the local hackerspace (at least the screen should be usable to them if nothing else) and then never touch another Samsung device ever again.