So a couple weeks back I decided to throw the unofficial Lineage OS ROM on my M9 with SuperSU and OpenGApps, and all went great for those 2 weeks until today. I was listening to YouTube (I have YouTube Red, so the screen was off), and noticed I got a notification. When I went to check it, the screen lagged a little then went black. The LED at the top of the screen was still blinking, and the display was still on. About a second later both the display and LED turned off. I didn't catch what the charge was, but it shouldn't have been low (it was at ~80% about an hour prior).
I've tried everything I can think of, and looked around the web for any advice. I've held down every combination of buttons that actually do anything for up to ~2 minutes and nothing. Both with my phone plugged in and not plugged in. My phone has been charging now for ~1.5 hours and I've tried all those buttons for varying lengths the entire hour and nothing. My stock charging cable is broken, so I've been using some other ones, and have tried on multiple cables from multiple sources. I left it plugged in to my Mophie for a large portion of that time (was walking to class) and kept an eye on my Mophie's charge level. My phone is draining it, so there doesn't seem to be anything wrong there. I'm really not sure what to do at this point. Any suggestions?
EDIT: Okay, well since I was due for upgrade anyway I have an LG G6 now so I don't need to worry about not having a phone. I still have my M9 though, so if anyone has any ideas on what's going on, and if it's fixable it would give me something to play with.
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A couple of hours ago, my phone shut down due to empty battery. I came home, plugged it in and booted it, all was fine. At about 60% I shut it off and went to have lunch, when I came back and tried to turn it on, I couldn't.
Led was orange at the time, I unplugged the power cord but the led stayed on! I removed the battery to be able to reboot it, but when I re-inserted it I still wouldn't boot.
Now no matter how I try to charge it, led stays off like it's not charging. Tried various different cables/chargers, the same. Tried to plug it to the charger without battery but no led flashed. Tried to boot without sim/sd card, still the same.
Any ideas?
My battery has never been changed (for a year now) and has had a bunch of full drains. Could this be a dead battery? :/
Well seems the phone is fried... I tried two more official batteries and no go...
Sorry to hear it. I thought that at first when I read your thread but I thought because I am not the most experienced person here, there might be some kind of fix.
HTC will most likely if not certainly replace this handset for you, seeing as it just happened out of the blue.
Well I certainly hope so, problem is I suspect it's an import (from another European country) and local HTC service generally does not do well with European imports.
Anyway I'll give it a try, meanwhile I'm getting a sensation soon
I have a similar problem.
I'm lucky that my girlfriend has the same handset as I do, the I could compare the phone abnormal behavior tho that of her properly working phone.
The first thing I've noticed, after a while when the charger was attached, was that the phone is very hot and that the battery keeps draining out in a surprisingly high rate.
After a while I've noticed that even when the phone is turned off it wont recharge. Sometimes the Orange LED is on when recharging while it is off, and the LED stays on for a few seconds after removing the charger, as if it was still charging. Note that the affects of connecting the charger to the phone, are mainly the ones listed below (not necessarily altogether)
* The phone indicates as if it recharges.
* Going to an infinite loop of rebooting and crashing.
* Getting hot when power supply is plugged, or at any time when the phone is turned on.
Ultimately the battery was empty, and the only way I had to keep using the phone (mostly to diagnose the symptoms listed here) was to swap the battery with the one of my girlfriend's device, and charge my battery in her device while using her's. That's the place to mention that the battery works just fine and that the phone is draining any battery, no matter what.
I took it apart to have a closer look at the source of all of the heat emitted while the phone is turned on, and it seem to come from the motherboard itself.
That's all I have.
The worst thing is that a friend of mine who helped me opening it up broke the pcb of the volume keys. Now I checked and It turns out that that pcb is actually part of the flex cable, which sort of extension of the motherboard and is mainly the second most important piece of hardware of all the phone parts (not that there are so many). If I would be able to expose the conductors inside the flat cable I might be able to solder an alternative volume pad I'll make out of old some miniature switches I have. The cable is very thin. any Ideas of how to expose the relevant conductors without ripping the cable apart?
Just a (late) update:
It's been almost two years, I had given the phone to a close friend of mine after a couple of weeks since writing the first post, just in case he could resurrect it, nothing.
Then, a couple of months down the road, the phone suddenly woke up! He tried to connect it with the charger, after months of not being able to charge or boot it up and somehow it worked. And it has been working flawlessly ever since.
I just got it back to give to my girlfriend until her sensation is fixed, flashing Viper now
In case something like this happens to any of you, don't give up!
Howdy, guys.
I've got my One rooted, unlocked, and was running a CM10.2 nightly build. Everything was working fine until yesterday, when my battery started to rapidly discharge. I woke up with 100% battery, and after about 15 minutes of playing music it was down to 30%. I recharged it and started noticing rapid battery loss, about 10% per 15 minutes when the phone was idle.
Worried that this had to do with my ROM, I flashed the Eclipse Google Play Edition v1.2 ROM. However, the drain issue continued. I decided to let the phone fully discharge, then try powering it up again.
When it was fully discharged, I tried plugging in the phone. No LED came on and I couldn't turn the phone on. I've let it sit for over 2 hours now with the same result.
Some posts with similar symptoms have mentioned plugging the phone into a Windows PC and experiencing the "USB device plugged in" sound alert. I am not having any such luck, and what I currently have is a very aesthetically pleasing paperweight with no function whatsoever.
Has anyone else experienced a similar issue, or found a fix?
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I would take that back to Verizon were i you, sounds like a bad battery to me, chances are remote that it's the phone/hardware/software. they have to repair it despite the fact it's rooted, they probably wont even notice lol
Were it me, back to verizon we go
Last Sunday, listening to music with HTC One (bought on Sep 11) on the charger, it suddenly went dark. Would not reboot, no charge light either. Went to a VZW store, they're shipping me a warranty replacement.
I wonder whether my habit of leaving it charger-connected whenever it's sitting on my desk (i.e., way beyond the fully-charged point) somehow stressed the battery (or the charging circuitry) -- though that habit never impacted my two previous HTC models.
When you hold Vol+Down and Power do your home and back arrows blink? If so, point the phone sensors (the two on the front on the left hand side) into a bright light. Then hold down Vol+Down and Power. It should boot. I'm not sure why. But it worked for me today after installing a custom recovery. -shrugs-
musicman625 said:
I would take that back to Verizon were i you, sounds like a bad battery to me, chances are remote that it's the phone/hardware/software. they have to repair it despite the fact it's rooted, they probably wont even notice lol
Were it me, back to verizon we go
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I've got a replacement being shipped to me, and I'll send them the old one when it comes in. Currently using an old Samsung Stratosphere as a replacement, I was just hoping there'd be an easier fix or something simple. Thanks, though!
Please look into this guys;
Last night, I charged my HOX from 18%-28%, used it for a few minutes and then turned it off (it was still at 28%). I then plugged it into the HTC "black box" usb charger (I've been using the same one since I got the phone like six months ago) but turned on charging after 2 hours - and left it charging for like 6½ hours.
EDIT: My brother actually switched on charging two hours after I switched the phone off. [IT WAS TURNED OFF FOR 2 HOURS]
In the morning, the red LED wasn't on, so I disconnected it and tried turning it on - it didn't work.
I tried holding all three buttons for minutes and all of that, but it still didn't work.
I googled the issue and went through a bunch of threads where the exact same thing happened, and most people said the battery either died permanently or something similar. This one person said he fixed his HOX by using a different charger, apparently the chargers themselves can die.
I plugged my HOX into my mom's Samsung charger, and booted it into bootloader, and selected RECOVERY. After a few minutes and to my orgasmic relief, my phone turned on.
I'm still confused as to what happened.
1) Is there something terribly wrong with my phone's battery now? (When it turned on it was at 1%, whereas I turned it off 6½ hours prior at 28%)
2) My HTC black box charger is obviously not to be used now, right?
3) Is there any problem with using a samsung charger on my HOX from now on? Or should I search for another HTC Black Box Charger?
I'll leave it on charge until it reaches around 60-70% and test it out, and let you know if it's fine. But until then, could you please try answering my questions?
THANKS!
On a side note:
I recently had my HOX repaired at the UK service center under warranty. The phone actually had a bunch of issues; yellow spots on the screen, the ruined wifi antennae thing.. Well, they replaced the screen and display, and replaced the Wifi wiring. When I got it back, it turned out that they forgot to remove a plastic cover from the in-call speaker. Thus I cannot use the phone for phone calls outside of extremely quiet places, unless I use earphones with a mic. I let HTC know this, and they said, "Oh, no problem, just send it back to center"
I reside outside of the UK. I had to send it there with my own money and bring it back with my own money. So now I have to choose between spending another $90 or being able to use my phone for phone calls.
Thanks again, whoever bothers to read this and helps me
After a long day streaming Pandora from my Tab S in my car, running on battery, no charger connected, I decided to put it on a charger and turned on navigation about an hour from my destination as I was in an unfamiliar city. After about 45 minutes, I saw a bright green flash from the screen. A few seconds later, and there were more flashes and it turned off. I have not been able to get it to come back on. I have tried charging it, on a charger and on PC. I have tried every combination of home+vol up/down+power I have seen in several threads, while connected to a PC, to a charger, and not connected at all. The PC does not recognize the Tab at all, ever, during any of the manipulations.
I have seen where some have luck just letting the tab sit for a few days, and it will be miraculously revived by charging, so I will try that. I have also seen where some force charge the battery using the wires from a stripped USB cable directly on the battery terminals, and as my warranty is long past void, I will try that too.
Here's my question: If none of that works, given the description, does anyone have a good idea that it may be just the screen or the battery that may need to be replaced? Or is it more likely a motherboard issue? Is there any way of telling? Despite the heavy use, the TAB did not seem excessively hot. I have felt it much hotter in the past .
I'm a tab-a-holic, and use this thing all day, every day. I use it for work, and for reading and movies at home. I'm a little frustrated as I have yet to own any tablet that lasted two years. I really don't want to spend the money for another one right now, and, if needed would prefer to repair this one if I can save a few bucks.
And, if it's relevant, the Tab is rooted, running AOSP 6.0.
I don't know too much about this - but if I were in this situation, I'd put it in a refrigerator for about 1 minute and try booting it up.
As for the cause - AOSP 6.0 has been known to have some overheating issues on this tablet under heavier loads.
Yeah, still don't think overheating was the cause. Not gonna put it in a fridge either. ;-P
Thanks to all for your concern and helpful comments!
My Tab S is unbricked as of just a few minutes ago! I just let it sit for a few days, and then left it on a charger for a few hours today. I was not expecting anything as the battery icon did not pop up when I plugged it in. But, when I came back to it a few hours later, I pressed the power button and there was the battery icon showing a full charge. It booted up normally with no issues and is working fine.
I can't tell you how happy I am!
I posted this in the noob thread and I'm not sure how posting a new thread will help but hopefully someone may be able to sort me out.
I was using my phone in the car about an hour ago, listening to music (3.5mm jack). At this point my battery was at 3%. I opened Snapchat and the camera was being weird; it had purple noise(?) lines all over the screen every time I pressed the screen to focus it which tells me the camera is stuffed for whatever reason.
Anyway, the phone died on me. I assume the battery died as it was already low. However, it then starts to bootloop about 4-5 times and only manages to reach the encryption screen once, at which point it just switches off. Again, I thought the battery died! So I walk in to my flat, plug the charger in and expect it to boot but nothing happens. At this moment, there is no LED light on the front to indicate charge despite having been on charge for over half an hour, there is no vibration or any form of life from the phone. It just seems to have flat out died on me.
Now I know people will say I dropped it or its water damage so right off the bat, it is neither of those. It was dropped around 3 months ago, once, on carpet, from about 1.5ft if that. Never seen liquid and never been pulled out in the rain or anything like that. Last night it charged fine and today it worked fine too. Now it's dead!
Is there anything I can do/try? The USB cable/charger are fine, I tested them with a volt meter. Other things I have done include trying to boot the phone in any way possible through a number of button combinations, with and without SIM/SD card and even tried to plug the cable into my laptop. It's simply dead. Finally, if this helps: the phone is stock apart from an unlocked bootloader. It is rooted and has xposed installed with 3-4 mods, none of which do a lot (Snappreffs, xnotifications, dpi manager etc). It is running old firmware (like from last May when I bought it. Just never got around to updating I guess!) but this has never caused a problem.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Edit: Phone now responsive after 45 mins+ of being plugged in. Charging and working fine. Weird af..Mods feel free to delete this thread.