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No charging and amber blinking

Hey,
I don't have any charger, so I have been always charging my Artemis via USB.
A couple of days ago it stopped charging. It happened after I discharged it to a very low level.
When I plug in the USB cable, the amber (or the orange) LED starts to blink. I can see the icon that says that the cable (which is ok) is plugged in, but the battery level is dropping instead of increasing.
I've tried even hard reset.
I haven't tried with another battery, but I've tried to charge the battery with a charger made by myself. It was OK - PDA is working, but I can't still charge it normal way.
Any ideas?

Blinking amber
I have the same problem on my htc p3300, and when i used batti 2.4 i saw that the battery temperature is 432675.5 etc something fake temerature. This is the reason, why my pda unable to charge my battery. If you set your pda in bootloader mode, it will charge your battery!. After 3 or more times i charged it in bootloader mode somethimes the battery temp sensor works normally, and the charge is working as well. Sometimes not.
Bat you can charge your battery allways in bootloader mode.
Sorry for my English.
Try it!
Good luck!

So it's a temp sensor problem? I've had the same problem with my SPV 650 a few times. Hopefully it was never permanent!

hey
Do you know how fix this problem ? Is there problem with battery or with mainboard ? I change rom, radio, battery, charger.If bootloader mode is the best solution?
I wait for answer and your ideas

Hi.
I have Prophet with the same problem. It doesn't charge batt, doesn't turn on - clouds then white screen. And it has happened after deep discharge.
Trying "bootloader mode"

i have the same problem with my dopod p800w. the device work only when it pluged, even when the battery is full (in another device) the notification message appear and it turn off ! Anyone can help me ? Sorry for my English !

im suffering from this problem
any solution?
i am about to purchase a new battery however.. i dont think that would solve the problem..
how do you enter bootloader menu?

Battery issue

The other morning I woke up and unplugged my phone and the "Unplug your phone" notification wouldn't go away and the phone thought it was still plugged in. If I rebooted it would just turn off and keep going from the green batter charging icon to a black screen and back. Only way I could turn the phone on would be to actually plug it in again. Problem fixed itself that evening and the phone was fine for a couple days. Today the phone started with the same thing.
I've tried searching but couldn't find anything on this specific issue. Any insight? Thanks in advance.

Brand new ept4g and I got 6hrs of battery life its so lame I have hack so much bad luck with this bad boy but I'm not giving up.
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This isn't a battery consumption issue...

Anybody have this problem yet?

mcdssn said:
Anybody have this problem yet?
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I'm having the same problems the last few days. Also when I unplug my phone I get a red exclamation point over my battery widget, when i open the widget it says that the battery is over voltage and the red led light won't go off. Think i'm about to go see what best buy does for me. Been dealing w/ this problem for a few days now.

Did you get a replacement? I haven't had any free time to go to sprint with my problem. It is still happening often though.

I had a similar issue the other morning. Though my phone would only boot back up in recovery mode. I reflashed it to out of the box stock but that didn't make any difference. When it did boot up it would show that it was connected to the usb port but it would not be plugged into anything. I plugged it into a usb port on my computer that I hadn't used with the phone before and it reloaded the drivers on my computer and "that" issue went away. After turning phone off it would start rebooting itself immediately or with in a few seconds of turning off. I let the battery die completely and then recharged it and the automatic reboot went away, at least for most of the day, but last night I turned the phone back off and it rebooted itself. I did reroot and restore my phone after I got it to not show the usb connected or the battery charging while the phone was off icon. Just wish I could figure out why it wants to automatically reboot itself when I shut it off.

Same issue here
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Haven't had the time to get a replacement but the problem still exists...
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA App

My Battery Monitor Widget shows a max of 1500mah? Wtf? And a measured of under 1200?
No wonder my battery life is crazy low...

Liv2? said:
I had a similar issue the other morning. Though my phone would only boot back up in recovery mode. I reflashed it to out of the box stock but that didn't make any difference. When it did boot up it would show that it was connected to the usb port but it would not be plugged into anything. I plugged it into a usb port on my computer that I hadn't used with the phone before and it reloaded the drivers on my computer and "that" issue went away. After turning phone off it would start rebooting itself immediately or with in a few seconds of turning off. I let the battery die completely and then recharged it and the automatic reboot went away, at least for most of the day, but last night I turned the phone back off and it rebooted itself. I did reroot and restore my phone after I got it to not show the usb connected or the battery charging while the phone was off icon. Just wish I could figure out why it wants to automatically reboot itself when I shut it off.
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I figured a way to shut the phone off and not have it automatically reboot. If after shutting the phone off the normal way and once the screen goes black but before the capacitive lights go out, if I again press the power button, the phone finally shuts down without rebooting itself. Not sure why this is happening but at least I can get it to turn off now.

I found better battery life by determining which app or apps drain the battery. I used Battert spy, cpu spy and system tuner. My problem was Touchdown exchange for Androir 2.x. I switched to Moxier Mail. I would get hours on moderate to heavy use. I got 22.5 hours yesterday on moderate use.

My tab 3 7.0 just died by itself and doesn't turn back on? (T210)

so i was using it normally (about 45% battery), plugged in a usb cable as i wanted to transfer a file from PC to the tab. in the middle of the transfer, i noticed the file was stuck and the tab had frozen. so i unplugged it, and the tab turned off and restarted. however, it wasn't able to restart. i was able to see the screen backlight turn on for about 2 seconds and it would go fully black (off) again.
i kept trying to turn it on, go to download mode , but it did the same thing (backlight screen on) for about 8 times, and then... finally it FULLY died. the backlight wasn't even able to turn on. i charge it int he charger for 10 hours, and it is STILL fully dead.
i got this tab from TD bank so i dont have a receipt, so how does warranty work...?

geminihc said:
charger for 10 hours, and it is STILL fully dead.
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Do you hear anything, or see any response when you plug it into the charger?
Can you test the charger & cable with another phone to make sure they work?

yes it charges my other android stuff (it is the charger from the tablet). no it doesnt make any sounds
i feel like if there is a way i can remove the battery, i might be able to turn it back on.

That's a Drag

[Q] Can't boot up SmartWatch 3

Guys,
I've updated my SmartWatch 3 to 5.1 yesterday via OTA
Everything worked fine.
When battery was low, I charged it up from 9% to around 80% (I switched it off though)
It stuck charging at 80% as it was very hot I removed it from charge.
After 2-3 hours I charged again to complete from 80% to 100% even after 1-2 hours of charge It would not charge.
Today morning I did the same I wouldn't charge. I switched on the watch I got android wear logo and it directly switched off.
Now it's not switching on.
Any help I can get?

Yeah same issue here but it is harder than that ...
I installed TWRP on my watch, and when I received the 5.1 OTA, it seems that it did not want to install the update because I was not on recovery stock. Then, my SW3 started to lag, I was not able to install the ZIP via TWRP, and it was superhot, I was unable to boot Android Wear..
That's so ****ed up, man. I can't even know what should I do. xD

I've got the same (or really similar) problem my watch was out of battery, I put it on the charger, it showed normal charging battery icon, then when I tried to turn it on it doesn't show anything, the display is black and when I held down the power button it vibrated once. The problem is that it isn't only display fault because I can't connect to the watch with my mobile phone. Wat do?
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Mavi222 said:
I've got the same (or really similar) problem my watch was out of battery, I put it on the charger, it showed normal charging battery icon. When I woke up the watch was extremely hot and then when I tried to turn it on it didn't show anything, the display i black and when I held down the power button it vibrated once. The problem is that it isn't only display fault because I can't connect to the watch with my mobile phone. Wat do?
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edit: Well that was weird, I unplugged it from the charger and put it there again and now the charging icon is back and when I pressed the button it started to boot. Weird.

Me, too.
After OTA today, my watch is dead. Even long press power button can make freeze screen reboot.
sharukhmohammed said:
Guys,
I've updated my SmartWatch 3 to 5.1 yesterday via OTA
Everything worked fine.
When battery was low, I charged it up from 9% to around 80% (I switched it off though)
It stuck charging at 80% as it was very hot I removed it from charge.
After 2-3 hours I charged again to complete from 80% to 100% even after 1-2 hours of charge It would not charge.
Today morning I did the same I wouldn't charge. I switched on the watch I got android wear logo and it directly switched off.
Now it's not switching on.
Any help I can get?
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Okay guys, here my solution, it worked for me :
If the screen of your SW3 is completly dark:
1) Just let it plug. In fact, the watch is charging, it's just not shown up (I dunno why...)
2) Let it like that for 1 hour, and then unplug it and let it cool down for 10 mn.
3) Install the Sony Companion App on your PC.
4) Keep ressing the power button of your watch til a screen with the watch and USB appears.
5) Plug It to your PC, open the Companion App.
6) Somewhere in the menus, you can resinstall the OS of the watch, RESET it, find the menu.
7) Let your watch restart.
And you're done ! It worked for me, so try.

I left it aside from morning to evening. Didn't even touched it. It completely discharged. So I kept to charge once again and it magically booted up and now working fine. Seems pretty weird. ?
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As I read in other post, I can confirm there is some kind of bug when you are charging your SW3, if you turn it on with the usb cable charging and the screen showing the battery %, the smartwatch gets like frozen and doesn't do anything.. In case you have this problem, you should wait until the battery goes to 0%, start charging your sw3 BUT when you are going to turn it on again first unplug the usb cable and wait until the battery % display dissapears.. I did it after I read it in other post in XDA (I don't have the link here.. I was searchig for it on another computer) and worked for me.
I hope it works for all.. sorry if my English it's not perfect hehe
I found the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch-3/help/smw3-wont-start-t3192354

SMW3 wont start

Hey all. I made a recovery flash, and for some reason im not able to start the device. Is very hot, like chargin (but it's not), I press hole button and at 8 seg of press ir vibrate 1 time, ando do nothing more...
My computer dont recognize it so i cant adb it

SOLVED.
Seems there is a bug. When you power off and connect the watch to charge it, it starts the charging screen. If you start the device connected and with this screen, enter in a loop black screen draining battery. Until the battery is not at 0% the watch don't start.

I can confirm there is some kind of bug when you are charging your SW3, I did as you said and worked for me. now my SW3 is working again! thanks!

mdomfu said:
SOLVED.
Seems there is a bug. When you power off and connect the watch to charge it, it starts the charging screen. If you start the device connected and with this screen, enter in a loop black screen draining battery. Until the battery is not at 0% the watch don't start.
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Have same problem, but do i understood corectly: i just need to leave swr50 for some time (how long?) till battery drains to 0% ? how will i know that? and what to do next? charge it? Thanks.

amdas said:
Have same problem, but do i understood corectly: i just need to leave swr50 for some time (how long?) till battery drains to 0% ? how will i know that? and what to do next? charge it? Thanks.
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After ~2 hours turned watch on and it started like nothing happened before. Battery was empty ~1%, then plugged to charge and now works. So i hope problem solved... :/