Okay, so after I had my phone for a while I decided to root it using unikernel and twrp, everything went smoothly and the phone was fine, about last week my phone stopped charging, I plug it in, and only MTP shows up, no charge indicator, okay, so I decide to do a system restore, stupid me forgets that I turned on the FRP lock and I get locked out, after 2 days of trying to find the firmware to flash back to stock I finally do so, problem is my phone STILL wont charge, It is now dead so I cant even turn it on without it turning back off on me, I plug in the phone and I get that grey battery symbol with the lightning bolt in it for a couple seconds, and then it turns off, it only shows the battery, no percentage, no green glowing circle at the bottom, no red LED light, just the grey battery and then shuts off. Everything works fine only problem is it will not charge, I ordered 2 official cables off of amazon and tried both, no cable will charge this thing, but odin still sees the phone and can flash it. sometimes when I plug the phone in it'll show the grey battery, and my pc will acknowledge the phone, and then say that it malfunctioned, in device manager it lists the phone as an unknown device (device descriptor request failed), I have windows 10, with the latest android SDK, I have the latest Samsung mobile drivers installed, I tried everything I can think of, Ive looked everywhere for a similar issue and cant find a thing
Sounds like the usb port maybe damaged. Do you have a wireless charger you can try? The battery may be bad is the other option. Bad batteries are warranty claimable. Take it into sprint and see if they will replace it.
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Hello
I was on purity Rom 5.4.3 and franco kernel for some time now, with no problem at all.
Yesterday before going to sleep I did put the phone to charge, when I woke up i saw that it wasn't charged at all...
after searching in XDA i found the "hack" to lift the usb port with a fine screwdriver, and it helped. the guy said also to afterwards reboot the bootloader, and here started the mess...
after rebooting bootloader and then the system, directly after the bootanimation the screen would go black and the full battery with the flash sign would show. like when charging the device when power is off...
this would happen each time I tried to boot, or to go into recovery. The only stable state was fastboot, but from there on nothing would go.
I tried to go back to stock with GNEX toolkit but it wouldn't recognize the device while in fastboot, and on the screen in the last line was written: fastboot command read error -2147483647
In the meanwhile my device is off but plugged in. It's showing me again the charging symbol with the flash and the full battery, then swithcing to the charging animation for 2 cycles and then back to the full battery with the flash. meaning it's not really charging.
Also when i try to boot now, it's passing the bootanimtion, but while still at the end of the bootanimation, i can feel the phone vibrating before powering off, and i get also the message that i should connect the device to a charger...
Anyone has an idea what to do?
Thank You
Edit: now I somehow managed to boot, had 2% battery left but it wouldn't charge. so i tried to re-bend the usb port inside the phone like before...now the usb plug won't fit anymore, can't manage to get it inside..bended it too much? wrong? I'm getting crazy here
I'm not any kind of electronics technician, but if I was going to guess, I'd say that sounds like some kind of short in the micro USB pin. If that's the case you could take it to a small electronics repair shop and see if it can be repaired or replaced.
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I have been using Cyanogenmod for a while, and after installing a series of buggy nightlies, I decided to flash it back to stock. However, once I did that, I am now unable to charge my phone. Now when I open Odin and put the phone in download mode and connect the phone it recognizes the phone and let me reflash it. However, the phone is not being recognized otherwise by the computer and hence it is not charging via computer as well (It is only being recognized by Odin when in download mode)
The only time I was able to charge it post stock flashing was just after I flashed it, but that's just once. It wont let me charge again. I flashed it again, the same thing happened, it let me charge for the first time post flash, but not more than that.
It also charged a second time post flashing when I left it plugged in to the wall charger overnight. When I plugged it in, it did not show any sign of being charged or any LED indication as well, but when I woke up in the morning it showed my battery had 100% (without the thunder sign on the battery icon, I removed and plugged it back in, it did not charge again, i swithced off and tried charging again, it showed the charging sign for a while with green filled battery tumbler and glowing dots but it stopped after a while)
Sometimes, when I plug the charger in, the LED glows, but the battery icon in the notification does not show a thunder sign of charging, however when I open the battery details, it shows the battery as charging, but in reality, the battery simply drains. This too happens only sometimes not every time when I plug the charger in
I have tried various chargers and USB cables
Kindly reply if anyone has any solution
There seems to be a charging bug with all JB bootloaders for Note 2. Latest knoxed KitKat bootloaders have the fix.
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Hello guys,
Wondering if you know what this issue could be. Basically, I had not used my xperia play for a few years and I wanted to try a few emulators on it now, so I tried to start it up and it worked twice, I could see the Sony logo and then it went onto a white screen (this is why I changed it on the 1st place and I think it'll need a Flex cable).
The problem is that after those 2 times, the mobile was vibrating when I tried to turn it on but nothing on the screen at all (not even the previous Sony logo I saw). I managed to plug the charger, get a static red light, which then turned orange and after like 10h that I checked again it was green.
I trid to start it up again, but still nothing. What's happening now is that as soon as I disconnected the charger when it was with the green light, when I connect the charger again it has a blinking red light that doesn't disappear (I've left it charging for hours but same light still there).
I tried to connect it to the computer, but I get a message of USB device not recognized, tried to udpate drivers for Xperia Play or someone mentioned some Zeus drivers, but still the computer cannot see it.
I was wondering if it'd be worth buying a new battery as well to see if this fixes the problem? What do you think? As mentioned, before the problem, I just saw it booting up correctly a couple of times and I didn't do anything afterwards...
Cheers
I could be wrong, but if the phone wasn't used for a few years, I would suspect your battery is part of the problem. I remember that I had an orange light and the phone wouldn't boot for me either when my battery was bad. I bought Hyperion batteries and the phone has worked great since.
As far as the phone not being recognized... I'm not sure. I would probably try uninstalling all Sony related drivers, then reboot the computer and reinstall them. Maybe see if you can get Flashtool to recognize the phone in Flashmode or FastBoot as well.
Do you think the computer should recognized the phone (xperia play in this case) even with a battery problem? for example, if the phone is switched off and the battery removed? (or does it need to be turned on?)
The phone definitely needs to be turned on to be recognized... either booted up normally or on fastboot mode, Flashmode, etc.... I can't remember if it will work in Flashmode or fastboot without the battery inserted... but I'm thinking it won't. I'm at work, but if I get some time to try it out tonight, I will report back.
If you could have a quick look at some point (no rush), out of curiosity, to see what happens if you try to connect it to the PC without the battery? I was thinking that it might be recognizable (as there's power coming in from the USB cable), however in my case I keep on getting the red blinking light when I plug it to the PC without the battery as well and I get the message saying that the device has not been recognized.
I've ordered a new battery anyway to see how it goes. I will learn something from the experience whether it finally ends up working or not...
Cheers!
mickael28c said:
If you could have a quick look at some point (no rush), out of curiosity, to see what happens if you try to connect it to the PC without the battery? I was thinking that it might be recognizable (as there's power coming in from the USB cable), however in my case I keep on getting the red blinking light when I plug it to the PC without the battery as well and I get the message saying that the device has not been recognized.
I've ordered a new battery anyway to see how it goes. I will learn something from the experience whether it finally ends up working or not...
Cheers!
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Ok. I did some testing and you definitely need to have the battery inserted for fastboot mode or Flashmode to work. There is no response from the phone or the computer when only plugged in with the usb cable (and no battery) while holding back button or search button.
If your battery is bad (like we suspect after not using the phone for a few years)....then hopefully you'll be able to get into Flashmode/FastBoot again once you get your new battery.
As far as the screen turning white... it sounds like you're probably correct with thinking something could be wrong with your slider /flex cable.... but that's hard to know for sure. When my friend's flex cable was bad, it started out with lines through the screen and eventually had a strange textured grey/white appearance when the cable finally went completely out.
Just quick update for future reference in case someone faces a similar problem.
The red blinking light when trying to charge the mobile with an old battery was caused by the battery being faulty after a long period without use. I ordered a new one and as soon as I plugged it in to the charger, the light became orange (rather than red) and a little while later green.
Even with the battery charged, I had the problem that I couldn't see anything at all on the screen. The mobile vibrated when being switched on but then just a black screen. It turned out to be the 'flex cable'. It was totally knackered. Replaced with a new one and all working as well now.
Cheers!!
mickael28c said:
Just quick update for future reference in case someone faces a similar problem.
The red blinking light when trying to charge the mobile with an old battery was caused by the battery being faulty after a long period without use. I ordered a new one and as soon as I plugged it in to the charger, the light became orange (rather than red) and a little while later green.
Even with the battery charged, I had the problem that I couldn't see anything at all on the screen. The mobile vibrated when being switched on but then just a black screen. It turned out to be the 'flex cable'. It was totally knackered. Replaced with a new one and all working as well now.
Cheers!!
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Cool man. Glad to hear you fixed your phone. :thumbup:
So I recently purchased a Z5P unlocked, with a contract in vodafone, regardless of that ive been having many problems with the Z5P. I love the phone and all its features. On to my problems and if anyone has an idea how to fix it please tell me!
1: my first problem is the water thing, if i take it in water its all fine, until water touches the jack, say if im in the rain, listening to music(which i have done to experience this problem) it will keep going into headphone mode, this isnt a huge problem, but if theres some work around to this id greatly appreciate it.
2: This is my biggest problem, the charging port just doesnt work properly! i connect it, it charges just fine, 100% in an hour or so, then it drains throughout the day i get home from college, from about 8-5/6 its down to about 50/45% i plug it in and no charge, or even worse half way through the day it'll pop up saying charger not charging battery, with nothing connected into the charger! its just died on me and will not charge at all, until i plugged it into my computer via fastboot and the lil blue light pops up and is now charging. Slowly, but is charging. any ideas as to why it isnt charging through wall charger? all official cables, and around 3 it was charging, in college fine. i get home and it doesnt charge.
other lil problems include the brightness thing, which i guess will be fixed in marshmallow? it keeps going into adaptive brightness even though i turn it off?
another problem is when i turn it off (Press the power button>Power off) it doesnt turn off, it forever restarts, red light, sony screen, black screen-repeat.
also another problem is the lag?! not in general, its all smooth but in snapchat the device starts lagging and then heats up? might be snapchat, i dunno. but the charging ones the big one!:crying::crying:
EDIT: i have done a full reset of my phone before it fully died on me, and this is the first time its ever fully died.
I don't know what country you're in but I'd return it for a new one. To many problems you got there...
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I have the same problem as you, when i plug in the phone to the charge, nothing happend but, when i connected to my PC the phone appears to work fine until i restart it, after that, my pc wont reconice the phone either and i cant charge it until the battery is completely dead and of course, when i turn it off, the phone do the same as yours, white scren whit the sony logo after the red light and do the same thing over and over again, i tried hard reset twice but wont work, dont know what to do either............. did you connect your phone on a PC with windows XP in college???, because my problem start when i connecte to an old PC with Windows XP...
So I bought a used and seemingly working D855. Could start/restart and use it just fine. At home I turned it off and now it won't turn on again. No notification led, no vibration, nothing.
If I take out the battery and plug in the charger the screen turns on with the usual charging screen and the exclamation mark. As soon as I put in a battery the screen turns off and it doesn't react to anything anymore until I take out the battery, regardless of if the charger is plugged in or not. I actually have another LG G3 and switched batteries, they are both charged and not the issue (both work in the other phone).
The dead phone is on stock MM (I think 30n), not rooted, no recovery yet. I haven't used it yet so it was completely on stock, not a single non-stock app installed.
I am completely puzzled, since I can't get into recovery/factory reset or download mode or even get a bootloop or something like that. Any ideas?