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[Q] Problems charging/holding a charge/can't boot

Having massive issues right now. Last night I left my phone plugged in AC to charge and ran a sleep tracker app. Woke up this morning and found the phone dead. I tried unplugging and plugging again multiple times and managed to get the Red LED blinking then it went steady indicating it was charging. Turned the phone on but as if it wasn't charging anymore, it powered off within minutes. I managed to get recovery running and factory reset (running CM10). Same issue still there. I even tried leaving the phone in hboot and recovery to charge but after 10 mins the battery went flat again. Now I've just left the phone off and plugged into AC. The blinking LED came on again then went steady - but after 15 mins the LED light disappears. I just left it like that, now the phone tries to boot up but gets stuck at HTC logo. Also it is incredibly hot.
Any ideas? Really need help here.
Additional info, installed NFS: Most Wanted yesterday, tried playing but phone really overheated big time. Could that have cause the motherboard to fry? Just seems odd though cause it boots up fine, just won't stay on - can't even get past the initial setup wizard.
Also I would take it back to Vodafone AU but since I can't get the phone up long enough to restore to stock, they might find out I've rooted and thus voiding my warranty.

I had the same problem. I installed NFS MW and it drained my battery like help and when i tried recharging it it wouldnt charge
at all. Even when i pluged the phone on it wouldnt charge. Tried a different cable. For all it could be a adapter/cable problem.
That was what it was for me. I tried a different charger and it worked. If you are using a different charger, use something with 1A output.

If the led is blinking, it means that the battery is verryy low.
once your phone turns on, turn the airplane mode ON and display OFF and wait a few minutes before using the phone.

no luck
xzallent said:
I had the same problem. I installed NFS MW and it drained my battery like help and when i tried recharging it it wouldnt charge
at all. Even when i pluged the phone on it wouldnt charge. Tried a different cable. For all it could be a adapter/cable problem.
That was what it was for me. I tried a different charger and it worked. If you are using a different charger, use something with 1A output.
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Yea, I tried using a different cable, even tried using my old iPod USB to wall adapter. No luck there, but I think I'm on to something now. Thanks anyway

getting there
Vcek said:
If the led is blinking, it means that the battery is verryy low.
once your phone turns on, turn the airplane mode ON and display OFF and wait a few minutes before using the phone.
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Hey, yea I figured that much from searching around. Too bad it's such a big flaw. I couldn't sustain a charge at all when I was still on CM10. Couldn't even finish booting up and it would just die. Voltage was super low was my guess. Tried using the fastboot charging script (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658084&page=5) and managed to get battery up enough to flash stock boot.img, did a nandroid restore to Stock ROM then flashed stock recovery. Seems to be stable now, in airplane mode and display off. Started up phone at 4% and now it's at 6% so fingers crossed :fingers-crossed: Thanks for the reply though - needing all the tips I can get!

stuck in recharge loop

Hi,
my Xperia S (CM10.1)
is kinda stuck in charging, and won't charge or boot normal.
The device was working all fine. 2 days ago i drained the battery totally and when got home put it on the charger.
Then i booted it while on charger still charging, after 1 minute it restarted by itself.
After a couple minutes charging it boots up by itself, on screen it says "connect charger" which is connected.
Then i decided to "power off" the device and let it charge for a while, after a while i started it , after booting it still said: connect charger.
After a minute it did same, restart by itself , loop.
I then took it off power and left it all night of power, today i left it all day on charger, while turned off.
And tonight i went to look at it, it still shows a red little light in off state, and doesn't want to turn on.
Is something wrong with battery? has anyone have this problem?

Have you tried soft reset?? (Vol+ and power button for 10 second)

yes, that don't work (no response)

ok, i got it to reboot into recovery
i will let it in recovery mode for some hours, to see if it will charge in this mode.
i thought there was some battery reset function in the recovery mode? cant seem to find it.
TWRP recovery

ok , good news, just restarted,
screen says now 44% charged and is charging again!
don't know how it got stuck in a non charging mode, quite weird.
lucky i got into recovery mode where it could charge.

MobiDroid™ said:
ok , good news, just restarted,
screen says now 44% charged and is charging again!
don't know how it got stuck in a non charging mode, quite weird.
lucky i got into recovery mode where it could charge.
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Sometimes it happen for me when I completely drain my battery. But not that long. Most of the times 5-6 hours.
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Hello my ion died last week. Before it went dead it would just turn off within a min of being turned on. My phone isn't rooted or anything but what could it be? I tried charging over night but it doesn't turn on at all. Could the battery be defective because I got this phone around Oct. Nov. of last year. I got the TL now but I still want this fix because it has all my videos and pictures on the internal SD card.

[Q] Phone Boots when battery is connected then goes black.

First thing is first, I have been searching here and Google and have not found this exact problem.
I am running cm-11-20140719-NIGHTLY currently
Today my phone turned off on its own while connected to a car charger.
Here is what it is doing.
When the battery is connected the phone turns on and gets to the Samsung logo, then it goes black. No back light, nothing. If I pull the battery and re-insert it, it happens again. Once it goes black none of the buttons seem to be responsive (cannot force a reboot by holding the power button). Once it goes black if I connect it to a charger I get no LED indicating charge level.
If I try to boot into recovery I see the blue text and then it goes black.
If I try to boot into download mode I can get to the triangle screen if I am fast and then it goes black.
If I have a data USB cable connected and I connect the battery the phone does nothing, and will not respond to the power button, again no LED light indicating charge level.
If I have a charge only cable (wall outlet) connected and I connect the battery I see the battery charge icon for about 1 second and then the screen goes black. and the phone will not respond to any buttons.
I have duplicated all these things with 2 batteries both actual Samsung batteries, neither of the batteries is bubbled out at all.
I have tried leaving the battery out for several hours, but this did not help.
I have data on this phone that was not backed up so any suggestions I will try.
Thanks

daemorok said:
First thing is first, I have been searching here and Google and have not found this exact problem.
I am running cm-11-20140719-NIGHTLY currently
Today my phone turned off on its own while connected to a car charger.
Here is what it is doing.
When the battery is connected the phone turns on and gets to the Samsung logo, then it goes black. No back light, nothing. If I pull the battery and re-insert it, it happens again. Once it goes black none of the buttons seem to be responsive (cannot force a reboot by holding the power button). Once it goes black if I connect it to a charger I get no LED indicating charge level.
If I try to boot into recovery I see the blue text and then it goes black.
If I try to boot into download mode I can get to the triangle screen if I am fast and then it goes black.
If I have a data USB cable connected and I connect the battery the phone does nothing, and will not respond to the power button, again no LED light indicating charge level.
If I have a charge only cable (wall outlet) connected and I connect the battery I see the battery charge icon for about 1 second and then the screen goes black. and the phone will not respond to any buttons.
I have duplicated all these things with 2 batteries both actual Samsung batteries, neither of the batteries is bubbled out at all.
I have tried leaving the battery out for several hours, but this did not help.
I have data on this phone that was not backed up so any suggestions I will try.
Thanks
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Return to stock with Odin to see if the problem goes away. If not, report back and we will go from there.

The Sickness said:
Return to stock with Odin to see if the problem goes away. If not, report back and we will go from there.
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I would if I could get it into download mode... The screen will not stay on for more than 5 seconds and ODIN never sees the phone.

Here's a thread talking about that issue. I'm afraid it sounds like your display is dead:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267827
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I had this problem before and I was freaking out, but it was just the cord I used when trying to connect it, but yours sounds like an overload problem, maybe from your car charger if it plugs into the car lighter socket. My buddy has a super recharger that hooks into his lighter socket, and while it may charge fast, it might have jolted your phone, or maybe you had it over clocked in your rom? Or was it a recent occurrence or did it happen as soon as you installed the rom? Because this happens on a bad flash sometimes, if your Wi-Fi connection is shaky or far off, you could get a bad download and it will royally harm your time having to mess with it.
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Android_Monsters said:
Here's a thread talking about that issue. I'm afraid it sounds like your display is dead:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267827
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If it was just the screen wouldn't I still be able to get into download mode?

NinjaTale said:
I had this problem before and I was freaking out, but it was just the cord I used when trying to connect it, but yours sounds like an overload problem, maybe from your car charger if it plugs into the car lighter socket. My buddy has a super recharger that hooks into his lighter socket, and while it may charge fast, it might have jolted your phone, or maybe you had it over clocked in your rom? Or was it a recent occurrence or did it happen as soon as you installed the rom? Because this happens on a bad flash sometimes, if your Wi-Fi connection is shaky or far off, you could get a bad download and it will royally harm your time having to mess with it.
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I had flashed the night before and it ran fine all night and all morning, then it just shut down. The car charger I use is not a super charger, but it is also not a Samsung charger. I was not overclocked and my wifi is not shaky usually.
Seems like I am screwed either way.

daemorok said:
First thing is first, I have been searching here and Google and have not found this exact problem.
I am running cm-11-20140719-NIGHTLY currently
Today my phone turned off on its own while connected to a car charger.
Here is what it is doing.
When the battery is connected the phone turns on and gets to the Samsung logo, then it goes black. No back light, nothing. If I pull the battery and re-insert it, it happens again. Once it goes black none of the buttons seem to be responsive (cannot force a reboot by holding the power button). Once it goes black if I connect it to a charger I get no LED indicating charge level.
If I try to boot into recovery I see the blue text and then it goes black.
If I try to boot into download mode I can get to the triangle screen if I am fast and then it goes black.
If I have a data USB cable connected and I connect the battery the phone does nothing, and will not respond to the power button, again no LED light indicating charge level.
If I have a charge only cable (wall outlet) connected and I connect the battery I see the battery charge icon for about 1 second and then the screen goes black. and the phone will not respond to any buttons.
I have duplicated all these things with 2 batteries both actual Samsung batteries, neither of the batteries is bubbled out at all.
I have tried leaving the battery out for several hours, but this did not help.
I have data on this phone that was not backed up so any suggestions I will try.
Thanks
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This blows, I just had the Same Exact thing happen last night, word for word.
Although I'm on a stock Rom that's rooted.
Phone was in my pocket and it vibrated as it restarted on its own. Pulled it out of my pocket, waited for it to fully start up, then I could use it.
However, it rebooted 2 minutes later and has Never come back yet.
I wish there was some sure fire way to verify if its the screen that went bad or the logic board. The mere fact the screen shows the Galaxy S4 logo, or Download Mode for a few seconds before shutting off seems weird if the screen was in fact bad.... =(

jamesvtw said:
This blows, I just had the Same Exact thing happen last night, word for word.
Although I'm on a stock Rom that's rooted.
Phone was in my pocket and it vibrated as it restarted on its own. Pulled it out of my pocket, waited for it to fully start up, then I could use it.
However, it rebooted 2 minutes later and has Never come back yet.
I wish there was some sure fire way to verify if its the screen that went bad or the logic board. The mere fact the screen shows the Galaxy S4 logo, or Download Mode for a few seconds before shutting off seems weird if the screen was in fact bad.... =(
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Check your power button, it could be stuck.

serio22 said:
Check your power button, it could be stuck.
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You were correct! Had to mess with that button a bit to get to work properly, but its still an issue. One to many power button presses and the issue returns.
I have tested the phone without the exterior power button only using the logic board button and it did that same thing. Am I correct to assume that the fault is the actual button on the logic board? So new logic board to fix this? =(

Why so many presses of the power button?
Pp.

[Q] HTC One M8 Not turning on with battery

Hi,
I tried to search the forum but couldn't get mine working.
I got HTC One M8 partially dead from my friend, so that I can check it. TWRP recovery is installed. HTC Boot logo show " This build is for development purpose only..."
Now I have three different genuine chargers with me. One from HTC One M8, another from HTC ONE Max and third is from HTC Evo 3D. If I plug the charger in computer to get it detected and then try some adb cmd on it. It will just keep restarting after showing first boot logo. Then when I put it to its own wall charger it get on and the TWRP recovery screen appears for 1 sec and then the battery information that it is charging. few seconds later TWRP recovery screen just appear again for 1 sec and goes away while the phone is yet charging.
The battery charging information shows that is phone is charging up and the LED is stable. I let it charge over night and was 100% in the morning. As soon as I removed the wall charger. The phone went off. I tried to power it on but it didn't. I put the phone again to charge with wall charger but it again started from 1%. The phone goes off as soon as I remove it from wall charger and then start charging again from 1% if I put it back.
It is not water damaged, neither it has been hit hard, nor dissembled.
What I have tried it to get into hboot by holding POWER+Vol Down. Also Tried POWER+Vol up for 10-20 sec. I also tried to go through Battery calibration by holding VOL Down+VOL UP and Power for 2min+. Phone doesn't show any life if I try it on battery, not even vibration. Only on wall charger it start doing it regular procedure as said above.
Now the question is if it charging the Battery at all? Because I don't feel the phone heating up a bit while charging. Or is it some other problem?!
Thanks

Any help?
*ping*

aaho said:
Now the question is if it charging the Battery at all? Because I don't feel the phone heating up a bit while charging. Or is it some other problem?!
Thanks
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Sounds like it's not really charging, probably a hardware problem. Any way you can return it under warranty?
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Random reboot hard bricked my Robin

May be unrelated but updated to the latest nightly of Lineage, ran into the camera issues and got some random reboots. Sent an email, and then put it in my pocket, pulled it out a few minutes later and it wouldn't turn on. Have done the hold down power and volume down button to no avail. Used the USB cable to hook it to the laptop, see it in QDLoader 9008 mode. If I hold down the power button and the volume down button I can see it disconnect and reconnect but it never turns on or shows anything on the screen.
Spent a few hours googling it and looks like you need some hardware specific files to the QFIL method, which I can't find. So is this device toast? Was really enjoying the device and so sad that it died after only using it for about 1.5 months.

**UPDATE**
So the leave it plugged in to the laptop overnight trick didn't work. So I took the phone a part, when it's in this mode it seems like there is is still power to system. I left it open until the battery died, and the regulation circuit cut power. Then plugged it in the laptop(although a charger would probably work). Let it charge for 10min and it came back. Seems like it get stuck somewhere in the boot and needs to be reset, but without a removable battery you can't cut power. So if anyone runs across.this, leave it disconnected overnight(or maybe longer) until what ever state it is in kills the battery. Then plug it in and it may come back. My booted after being plugged in for 10min and turning it on using the power button

So I have the same problem with my device and am thinking about doing the same thing. What tools do I need in order to perform this?

I also have the same problem, is there any help?

coll0412 said:
**UPDATE**
So the leave it plugged in to the laptop overnight trick didn't work. So I took the phone a part, when it's in this mode it seems like there is is still power to system. I left it open until the battery died, and the regulation circuit cut power. Then plugged it in the laptop(although a charger would probably work). Let it charge for 10min and it came back. Seems like it get stuck somewhere in the boot and needs to be reset, but without a removable battery you can't cut power. So if anyone runs across.this, leave it disconnected overnight(or maybe longer) until what ever state it is in kills the battery. Then plug it in and it may come back. My booted after being plugged in for 10min and turning it on using the power button
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So this worked for your hard bricked phone? And you had no more issues after?