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[SOLVED!!] Looping Bootloader or startup and unable to charge to reflash

I really don't know what's just happened...I think maybe my TP2 just decided to die on me.
I was using NRGZ Leo ROM from 22nd Feb. All was going well until my battery ran out today. At the time, my daughter was playing a game on it, not from WM, but from the Android port (Haret). While she was playing, I heard the familiar short vibrate of a soft reset. I know my battery was low and I suspect the battery wasn't charging, although it was plugged in (not sure if Android supports charging yet in the later builds)
Anyway, for some reason, it wouldn't go past the vibrate/Touch Pro2 screen. It just kept resetting and looping back. I attempted to do a hardware reset (power button, talk/send, end buttons) but accidently chose the wrong combo (power button, volume down) and entered bootloader. No problem yet, just reset and try again, right? Only I didn't get the chance, as it reset itself and looped through bootloader.
Now I am stuck in this loop. I can't flash from SD as it wont stay on long enough before self-resetting to find the RHODIMG.nbh on the card. I can't connect to my PC as it wont stay in bootloader long enough before self-resetting for my PC to install the "Windows Mobile Device" drivers, and even if it did, when it self-resets, it would disconnect anyway. I can't connect to MTTY for the same reason. I can't connect to ActiveSync or WMDC as I can't boot to WM to get ActiveSync running on the device.
When plugged in to AC power or through USB, it fires itself up automatically and into this loop, and it wont turn off manually, reset or accept any other button combos to enter RUU (from SD method) or to do hard reset. When it is not plugged in to any power source it won't even switch on.
I suspect it is resetting as it is not charging. I'm guessing that when in bootloader, charging is disabled, and I think this because I was originally getting 3 seconds of bootloader, now I am getting around 8 seconds, but it doesn't get any better than that, and I don't know of a rom upgrade method that can be done in 8 seconds! There are a few seconds of charging time before bootloader kicks in and the orange LED goes out and presumably stops charging. Am I right in thinking there is no charging in bootloader and in the Android port (I am using the latest version from 27/2, rhod100).
Basically, to summarise, I am stuck in bootloader-reset-bootloader loop, I cannot connect to pc in any way, flash from SD, Hard Reset, I have very little or no battery and it won't charge because it keeps going into bootloader where there is no charging taking place and it wont turn off to charge that way either.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I don't hold out much hope though. At the moment, it doesn't seem that I am able to interact with it at all to make it do anything different or to manipulate what it is trying to do. Hopefully someone will see something familiar and maybe have some suggestions.
Oh, and by the way, it's nothing to do with a bad flash. I've been doing this for long enough to know what I'm doing, and I wasn't even doing a rom upgrade at the time. My last rom upgrade was 2 days ago and all went well, and I have been using it without problems since, until now. I haven't flashed my Radio or SPL since HSPL was released, so I know it has nothing to do with that either.
Thanks in advance for anyone who can give any advice at all, or even just take pitty on me! Apologies for all the text. I know it looks boring and may put some people off reading, but I needed to get all the info in.

Are you able to charge when it completely turned off?

can you pull the battery out, put it back in and simply charge for an hour or so to get some juice into the battery?
Then you could maybe reflash it from the bootloader or sd card...

shadixs said:
Are you able to charge when it completely turned off?
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I can't get it to turn off, power button has no effect.
clauswl said:
can you pull the battery out, put it back in and simply charge for an hour or so to get some juice into the battery?
Then you could maybe reflash it from the bootloader or sd card...
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If I take the battery out, obviously, it cuts the power and the looping stops...until I put the battery back in, and it starts itself again. I can't stop the loop and I can't turn the power off or even stop it switching itself on.

matmaneyre said:
I can't get it to turn off, power button has no effect.
If I take the battery out, obviously, it cuts the power and the looping stops...until I put the battery back in, and it starts itself again. I can't stop the loop and I can't turn the power off or even stop it switching itself on.
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I had exactly that problem after a bad romflash. I bought a decktop cradle for the tp 2 that has 2nd. battery charger. Charged the battery and reflash, everything was ok again.
So, juice up the battery and do a hard reset or reflash..
SOMETHING LIKE THIS

I know you prob dont wanna hear it, but id say its a warranty job. Theyll just force flash it anyway so they wont notice the rom you were using.

Cheers guys. I thought it might be the rom. Not sure how though as like I said, my last rom flash was a couple of days ago and it was fine. Guess these things just happen sometimes. I'll try and get the battery charged somehow. Trouble is, I don't know another single person who has a TP2, so it looks like the cradle option I think. It did cross my mind to be honest when I was trying to think of alternative charging methods.
As for the warranty idea, if it can be avoided, I'd rather not take that route if I can help it, but thanks for the suggestion. Lets just say that will remain an option as my last resort if all else fails.
Still open to suggestions if anyone knows of any miracles....any Hogwarts graduates kicking about these forums with a few magic words to spare?

Hey man, I had the same issue when my phone wouldn't for some unknown reason charge.
1) Take our your battery
2) Plug in your DESKTOP CHARGER (not USB from PC!!) to microUSB slot
3) Put your battery back
4) Wait few moments (5 minutes)
5) and you are ready to boot, now you can even charge from USB. No idea why, but looks like booting takes more than 500mA :O
If it wont help, swap those 2 and 3 points

Hey guys! Please give this thread a better title. More related to the problem. Sounds like it could be useful in the future for hopefully very few people.

OK, I will change the thread title. I searched for quite a while but couldn't find any similar cases. But it seems it is more common than I thought since I raised the issue, so a new, more specific title might be more beneficial to other users experiencing similar problems.
For the record, I haven't solved it yet. Waiting on a standalone battery charger I bought from eBay. Didn't really want the cradle. THIS is the one I have bought. I will update on my progress when it arrives.
Thanks for your help to all who have contributed so far.

Hi I have the same problem the phone won't charge or connect via usb I think it is a faulty usb port the phone have & because of that it is causing the phone to go to bootloader.

I've had this happen before, just plug it into the mains charger (wall charger) and let it sit for a while. It will loop a couple times but once there is enough juice in the battery it will be back to normal.
Since you have RHODIMG.nbh on your sd card, maybe taking your sd card out would help it a bit.
There have been other posts with the same issue and plugging it into mains will solve the problem
spark001uk said:
I know you prob dont wanna hear it, but id say its a warranty job. Theyll just force flash it anyway so they wont notice the rom you were using.
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Not true. just the battery is really low, once charged enough to power device after boot, everything will be back to normal.

fone_fanatic said:
Not true. just the battery is really low, once charged enough to power device after boot, everything will be back to normal.
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Seems like it would make sense. I don't have my wall charger on me now...does the Rhodium not boot up without a battery in it? I thought my old Hermes did, guess I've never tried it with the TP2.

This might sound a little stupid, but I actually know somebody that said it worked for his iPhone (waste of 3-4 mins if not). Plug in the USB charger from PC. Reboot the PC without disconnecting the phone. Wait 3-4 minutes...

Toleraen said:
Seems like it would make sense. I don't have my wall charger on me now...does the Rhodium not boot up without a battery in it? I thought my old Hermes did, guess I've never tried it with the TP2.
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from what i remember, it won't boot without the battery.

fone_fanatic said:
I've had this happen before, just plug it into the mains charger (wall charger) and let it sit for a while. It will loop a couple times but once there is enough juice in the battery it will be back to normal.
Since you have RHODIMG.nbh on your sd card, maybe taking your sd card out would help it a bit.
There have been other posts with the same issue and plugging it into mains will solve the problem
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I left it looping for hours....no joy I'm afraid. Just gonna have to wait for this charger to arrive I think
Toleraen said:
Seems like it would make sense. I don't have my wall charger on me now...does the Rhodium not boot up without a battery in it? I thought my old Hermes did, guess I've never tried it with the TP2.
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from what i remember, it won't boot without the battery.
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Definitely doesn't power up plugged in without a battery. Battery needs to be present. Still waiting on this charger though. I'm hoping it's not one of those where it says the item location is Cardiff (UK) when actually it's in Hong Kong and takes 14 years to arrive

soocerclaude said:
Hi I have the same problem the phone won't charge or connect via usb I think it is a faulty usb port the phone have & because of that it is causing the phone to go to bootloader.
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I really don't think it's the mini usb port as it charges and tries to connect to pc before bootloader kicks in & it all stops.

Hi I found a way 2 get past the bootloader loop just plug your headphones went in bootloader and restarted the phone but it still won't charge or sync with computer.

soocerclaude said:
Hi I found a way 2 get past the bootloader loop just plug your headphones went in bootloader and restarted the phone but it still won't charge or sync with computer.
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Well when I unplug the ac adapter, mine doesn't last on bootloader for more than a couple of seconds before dying. Doesn't even get to the RHODIMG.nbh update screen that way - not enough charge (I'm still hoping). Tried charging overnight while looping but still wouldn't charge enough. The trouble is that obviously the bootloader is killing the battery as it's not charging very much.
Got my charger finally....but they sent the wrong one. Waiting on a response from the seller. The "dock" on the charger wasn't big enough, so while the connectors were in the right place to charge the battery, the battery didn't sit flush, so they wouldn't reach the points on the battery itself. Hope they have a TP2 one & it's not just them thinking it's compatible, as it's the only one on the whole of ebay UK that has them in stock in the UK. Don't want to have to wait up to 2 weeks for one from HK.
I will keep you posted anyway.

Hi I brought mine 2 get fix because my warrenty got void due 2 water damage. I think it is the usb port that is causing this, saw in other forums the same thing. Will get back the phone on monday & I will update u on the situation.

Bricked TP2 after charging on notebook usb

Hey guys I am really scared that my TP2 is bricked after I booted android and used it a while I connected it with my notebook usb cable and charged it. I had 51% at the beginning. After 10 minutes I had 67% and 5minutes later it reboots without doing anything! And since then it never starts again! When I press power button it does nothing! Only when connecting to a charger it boots up but only in bootloader mode and crashes after about 5-15 seconds!
Can someone pleeeeeeease help me?!?!?!

RobbyTouchHD said:
Hey guys I am really scared that my TP2 is bricked after I booted android and used it a while I connected it with my notebook usb cable and charged it. I had 51% at the beginning. After 10 minutes I had 67% and 5minutes later it reboots without doing anything! And since then it never starts again! When I press power button it does nothing! Only when connecting to a charger it boots up but only in bootloader mode and crashes after about 5-15 seconds!
Can someone pleeeeeeease help me?!?!?!
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Have you plug it in to a wall, sounds like your battery its completly empty, happened to me the other they, it didnt have enough juice to boot up. plug it to a AC( wall plug) and see if that works.

devilcuban said:
Have you plug it in to a wall, sounds like your battery its completly empty, happened to me the other they, it didnt have enough juice to boot up. plug it to a AC( wall plug) and see if that works.
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Ok I´m charging for about 30 minutes now but there nothing happens when I press the power button?!?

RobbyTouchHD said:
Ok I´m charging for about 30 minutes now but there nothing happens when I press the power button?!?
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OH that's wierd, do you have any way of trying out another battery? just to see if is juts the battery that went dead and not the phone ?

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OH that's wierd, do you have any way of trying out another battery? just to see if is juts the battery that went dead and not the phone ?
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No badly not...I don´t know anybody who has a tp2 and the battery of my hd2 didn´t fit in of course
Is there any way to completely reset everything because it is always booting in bootloader when I connect with charger and then putting the battery in. When the battery is inside and I connect the charger nothing happens and when I put the power button there also happens nothing!

RobbyTouchHD said:
No badly not...I don´t know anybody who has a tp2 and the battery of my hd2 didn´t fit in of course
Is there any way to completely reset everything because it is always booting in bootloader when I connect with charger and then putting the battery in. When the battery is inside and I connect the charger nothing happens and when I put the power button there also happens nothing!
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You could try the T-mobile store and see if they can let you test one out,
as for the reset you can try Hard reset by pressing POWER+SEND+END buttons then when the screen comes up hit VOLUME UP key.
But definetly try a new battery frist if you can.
Edit: Also when you charge it does the LED comes on?

devilcuban said:
You could try the T-mobile store and see if they can let you test one out,
as for the reset you can try Hard reset by pressing POWER+SEND+END buttons then when the screen comes up hit VOLUME UP key.
But definetly try a new battery frist if you can.
Edit: Also when you charge it does the LED comes on?
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And there is another thing...in the middle of all the text of the bootloader is standing Rom3 Error...is that normal? Never looked on this text before

RobbyTouchHD said:
And there is another thing...in the middle of all the text of the bootloader is standing Rom3 Error...is that normal? Never looked on this text before
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That is wierd, no i dont think its standard. could you take a pic of your Bootloader and post it ?

devilcuban said:
That is wierd, no i dont think its standard. could you take a pic of your Bootloader and post it ?
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Here it is...

RobbyTouchHD said:
Here it is...
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Well i think we can assume its not your battery, .
Do you have the original Rom, that you can flash to it ?

Why does it say Rhod100? Isnt the T-Mobile Tp2 Rhod210?

King Royalty said:
Why does it say Rhod100? Isnt the T-Mobile Tp2 Rhod210?
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Rhod100 is the UK version

devilcuban said:
Well i think we can assume its not your battery, .
Do you have the original Rom, that you can flash to it ?
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No I haven´t...
The good thin is that I was able to load the normal SPL as you can see (no OLINEX) but I haven´t found the original rom for it! Is there a thread here where all the download links are?

King Royalty said:
Why does it say Rhod100? Isnt the T-Mobile Tp2 Rhod210?
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Where can I download the Rhod210 restore.nbh SPL? I found it nowhere!

RobbyTouchHD said:
No I haven´t...
The good thin is that I was able to load the normal SPL as you can see (no OLINEX) but I haven´t found the original rom for it! Is there a thread here where all the download links are?
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Yes i saw that so i should load a rom fine.
you could try HTC site
http://www.htc.com/uk/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=250&act=sd&cat=2
or maybe the T-mobile site over there might have it?
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Where can I download the Rhod210 restore.nbh SPL? I found it nowhere!
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the Rhod210 is the US version of it, donno if the you can use that one. if anything you could HArd-SPL again and do a custom rom.

devilcuban said:
Yes i saw that so i should load a rom fine.
you could try HTC site
http://www.htc.com/uk/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=250&act=sd&cat=2
or maybe the T-mobile site over there might have it?
the Rhod210 is the US version of it, donno if the you can use that one. if anything you could HArd-SPL again and do a custom rom.
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No i can´t HSPL again because it stays at 0%...already tryed that
But what could this error be???

RobbyTouchHD said:
No i can´t HSPL again because it stays at 0%...already tryed that
But what could this error be???
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Oh, that blows. im trying to read the error but its kind of difficult, if anything you could try to post in the Wimo ROm development section or General, they might have a better inside of the error.
Edit. i think the error says
"Upgrade ROM code error
Please try again "
try this and see if it works.
1. Download orginal rom from HTC.com
2. Remove HTC Battery
3. Remove SD-Card
3. Connect the Phone to USB-Computer
4. Start-up the phone in the Tree-color screen
5. If everything is right, in the bottom you will see USB
6. Start-up the update on your computer (rom you've downloaded from htc.com)
7. Run the Update
8. Your phone will boot after it succesfull install
9. Place the battery and SD-Cart back in the Phone

I have the exact same problem from running Haret while plugged into AC power thinking it was charging, but obviously it wasn't. Never trust the battery meter in the Android ports. They are so far out it's just dangerous if this is the result of a dead battery whilst running it in my opinion.
My problem is identical to yours, even the error code on the bootloader. I can get it charged to a point where the bootloader will stay on for a maximum of about 8 seconds, but I can't get any more charge into it than that.
What you need to do (I hope) is to charge your battery in some other way. I have bought a battery charger from eBay HERE (still waiting for it at the moment), or if possible, you could get hold of another battery that is already charged, another TP2 to charge your battery, or a desktop cradle that has a second battery charging port. I'm pretty confident that it if I can charge the battery I can reflash and all will be OK. Doesn't have to be a stock rom, as long as you can get a "good" flash.
The phone won't charge the battery in bootloader, and you can't get into anything other than bootloader for a few seconds, right? I started a thread in the General section HERE and got some promising replies. It's what I expected anyway. No charge in the battery = unable to boot or reflash. I believe it is a direct result of running Android with low battery, so I won't be doing that again any time soon!
Nothing else that anyone else has suggested above will work. Obviously, it goes without saying that I am grateful for the suggestions, but I've tried it all. It is impossible to reflash due to the bootloader-reset-bootloader loop, impossible to hard reset, or turn off to charge when the phone is off, or anything else until there is more charge in the battery. Hope this helps. I will post an update on my thread when I have the charger and let you know if it has worked. I'm about 90% sure it will though.

Makes seense if battery didnt have enough juice while he did a hard reset/flash it would of couse that error.
Good Luck! let us know if that battery charger you got fix the problem.

matmaneyre said:
I have the exact same problem from running Haret while plugged into AC power thinking it was charging, but obviously it wasn't. Never trust the battery meter in the Android ports. They are so far out it's just dangerous if this is the result of a dead battery whilst running it in my opinion.
My problem is identical to yours, even the error code on the bootloader. I can get it charged to a point where the bootloader will stay on for a maximum of about 8 seconds, but I can't get any more charge into it than that.
What you need to do (I hope) is to charge your battery in some other way. I have bought a battery charger from eBay HERE (still waiting for it at the moment), or if possible, you could get hold of another battery that is already charged, another TP2 to charge your battery, or a desktop cradle that has a second battery charging port. I'm pretty confident that it if I can charge the battery I can reflash and all will be OK. Doesn't have to be a stock rom, as long as you can get a "good" flash.
The phone won't charge the battery in bootloader, and you can't get into anything other than bootloader for a few seconds, right? I started a thread in the General section HERE and got some promising replies. It's what I expected anyway. No charge in the battery = unable to boot or reflash. I believe it is a direct result of running Android with low battery, so I won't be doing that again any time soon!
Nothing else that anyone else has suggested above will work. Obviously, it goes without saying that I am grateful for the suggestions, but I've tried it all. It is impossible to reflash due to the bootloader-reset-bootloader loop, impossible to hard reset, or turn off to charge when the phone is off, or anything else until there is more charge in the battery. Hope this helps. I will post an update on my thread when I have the charger and let you know if it has worked. I'm about 90% sure it will though.
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I also ordered a charger now maby it´ll come tomorrow...I hope that it will work after charging outside the phone.
I´ll report here when it works!
Cheers

[Q] Bricked Wildfire cannot power up

Hi
in need of help here....
The phone was happily running CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1 and all was well.
Had the phone plugged into the mains for a recharge and all was as expected.
However the next time that I looked the phone was off without any lights.
I disconnected the charger and tried to reboot the phone, nada
tried rebooting to recovery and again nada.
The phone is completely dead.
tried changing the battery with a known good fully charged battery,
Still cant boot the phone at all and interestingly when connected to PC via USB the PC doesn't see the phone....
Desperately need plenty of help here
TIA

Can you go into HBOOT?

see my post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401784
It details how to fix a similar issue i had
Doing it this way will totally wipe all your data i'm afraid.
If you cant get into HBOOT i.e. powers on but just a blank screen, let me know, i should have a fix at home (i'm at work at the moment)

Thanks for getting back to me,
But the issue is the phone is bricked ie cannot boot at all...
need the help

Arfer said:
Thanks for getting back to me,
But the issue is the phone is bricked ie cannot boot at all...
need the help
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so no power to the phone at all? what happens when you connect to PC? does the charge LED come on?

No nothing at all, as I mentioned earlier no lights and the PC does not see it at all..any thoughts? TIA

Mmmmm seems like its a gonna mate.
Last attempt I'd try removing battery and leave it out for about 20mins,then replace and without turning it on or pressing any buttons plug charger in and leave for as long as you can. Try at LEAST 10 hours then try turning it on. Sorry can't think of anything else more to try.
" once its gone,its GONE."

Thanks for that I'll give it a try overnight and post back

Arfer said:
Thanks for that I'll give it a try overnight and post back
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yeah try that and ive just remembered something too but not sure if it was wildfire related but i think it might be worth a mention.
sometimes the chargers have faults and need replacing so lets throw that into the pot too. if the over night power down charge doesnt work maybe try a different charger as a final last resort. really hope its as simple as that for you cos to be honest its not a bad little phone to have.
regards slymobi.

Tried as you suggested, same result. Will try and borrow a known working charger but won't be able to organize it until the weekend. Will post back then.
Thanks for now and best regards Arfer

Ah gutted. Lets hope its the charger then mate. Could try a USB charge whilst you wait for mains charger. Just try off power charge from USB this time.
" once its gone,its GONE."

Arfer said:
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Desperately need plenty of help here
TIA
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i have a nokia 3310 you can have as a replacement.

Thanks for all the help but all to no avail. Technically speaking it's dead. Thanks anyway.

sorry mate, but i think the time has come

Arfer said:
Thanks for all the help but all to no avail. Technically speaking it's dead. Thanks anyway.
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really good excuse for an upgrade though!
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium

That's a good positive way to look at it ! Shame my wallet is now fully into it's own post Xmas "economic downturn"

I know this sounds like a noobish trick but I was in a similar boat today.
I ran out of juice today during school, so when I got home I plugged my phone in. Nada from it. Cut to the chase, I run CM7.1.0.1_buzz like you with CWM(2.5.0.7 I think).
Took the battery out, and pushed the white button in on it (assuming it's a reset button for the battery controller). Threw the battery back in the phone and plugged it in. I then had a red flashing light, which from what I've seen myself, just means the phone is completely flat (I've seen it twice and my battery still works, no replacement). So I'm leaving it to charge since last time I had it, a full charge got rid of the red flashing light to a solid red light (the normal charging one). I thought I had a brick too since I OC'd it since I rooted a long time ago.
Good luck!
EDIT: Forgot to add, I couldn't get in to HBOOT

Thanks for the battery button tip. Didn't work for me, have also tried putting in my mate's fully charged battery and it won't boot...the phone is no more

Blue LED light flashing after Battery died

Well I was at work and my phone died and I thought no biggie I'll just charge it when I get home, well when I got home I put it on the charger and all that happened was the Blue LED flashes every 4 seconds. I can get into download mode but it keeps saying "LOW BATTERY! CAN'T DOWNLOAD!" I dont know what to do my phone was perfectly fine right before it died. Please help me
Well Im off to bed, so far nothing please if anybody could help I'd really appreciate it!?!?!

LeKtRiCzzz said:
Well I was at work and my phone died and I thought no biggie I'll just charge it when I get home, well when I got home I put it on the charger and all that happened was the Blue LED flashes every 4 seconds. I can get into download mode but it keeps saying "LOW BATTERY! CAN'T DOWNLOAD!" I dont know what to do my phone was perfectly fine right before it died. Please help me
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try leaving it on the charger a while... but I'm sorry to say that it sounds like a brick. If it won't take a charge, you won't be able to odin anything. I had a similar issue and the battery would get real hot on the charger but it wouldn't charge so I couldn't flash anything.
good luck my friend

Wizard Knight said:
try leaving it on the charger a while... but I'm sorry to say that it sounds like a brick. If it won't take a charge, you won't be able to odin anything. I had a similar issue and the battery would get real hot on the charger but it wouldn't charge so I couldn't flash anything.
good luck my friend
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I'm hoping its not a brick, i left it on the charger and was getting warm. This sucks how did it even brick

guys help me.

what the hell do you want help with? Find a way to way to charge your battery and Odin something.

Need more details than "my battery died".
Are you rooted, what rom, kernel and recovery? What did you do leading up to this point? What have you done to try to remedy the problem?
Cover the basics and you might get an answer

There could be two possible problem
1.Battery is not charged - maybe usb cable is bad. Try charge with another cable
2.Battery is bad or dead - replace the battery.
To test couple of things, try to use different battery if you can find. If phone boots up, then you don't need to worry about the brick.

tkemack said:
Need more details than "my battery died".
Are you rooted, what rom, kernel and recovery? What did you do leading up to this point? What have you done to try to remedy the problem?
Cover the basics and you might get an answer
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Yes I am rooted. My rom is MIJJz BLEND ICS 2.5 and Im using Rogue FC18. I was at work and texted my dad that I was off and at that time my battery was at 1%, well it died and ever since then it hasnt turned on. I have flashed anything since the 18th
kobridge said:
There could be two possible problem
1.Battery is not charged - maybe usb cable is bad. Try charge with another cable
2.Battery is bad or dead - replace the battery.
To test couple of things, try to use different battery if you can find. If phone boots up, then you don't need to worry about the brick.
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I tried a different charger and same thing happened
CBowley said:
what the hell do you want help with? Find a way to way to charge your battery and Odin something.
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If you were in my situation you'd be desperate for help

Im not sure if our phones are even capable of doing this but take out the battery and plug the charger into the phone without the battery essentially bypassing the battery. Its strange that the phone would just brick, it sounds like something more than that.

I tried that and it didnt work this sucks bro

Take out the SD Card if you have one. And I assume you have tried accessing the recovery menu while plugged in?
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Also did you try to just try charging it via the usb on your computer?

mdsevol said:
Take out the SD Card if you have one. And I assume you have tried accessing the recovery menu while plugged in?
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Also did you try to just try charging it via the usb on your computer?
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That was the first thing I did, I can get into Odin but it says my battery is to low

How long are you leaving it on the charger? I know with some devices like ipod touches and stuff if they are really dead they need to sit on the charger for a while so they can gain enough power to boot up. However I will say my epic has gone dead over night before too and when I plug it in it goes right on. I would definitely take it to a sprint store. Make sure they have a repair center though otherwise they will want to mail it to samsung and then you will be without a phone for at least a week or two.

I have had batteries/phones in the past where they would only accept trickle charge after they were fully drained. My theory is since these batteries take more current as they get more depleted, they are refusing to charge because the current is higher than expected.
I have no idea if that is what is happening here, but you may want to try low current charging sources .5 amp or less.

You can try an external battery charger....if you have one. If not, find an extra charger and strip the end. Take the battery out of the phone and put the bare wire ends on the appropriate terminals on the battery and reinsert it, now you will be directly charging the battery. Its not very safe if you dont know what your doing, but I have done it before....I actually have a charger set up for this. Another option would be to tape the wire ends to the terminals.

Ok so I just tried to boot without battery on my device while plugged into the wall. It doesnt power nor do any lights come on. I think it may be your battery brother. I would suggest order a cheap one off ebay and have it ship as fast as possible just to check it for a solution. Or go to your sprint store with the battery only and tell them that it is not working and that you want to replace it and see what they say.

Sounds like a bad battery to me. I would try what the guy above me suggested. Get a extra battery from Ebay. Or take it to Sprint..
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This happened to me. It was a bad recovery/kernel.
Find a way to charge your battery, boot into download mode, Odin a stock ROM from sfhub and start over.

CBowley said:
This happened to me. It was a bad recovery/kernel.
Find a way to charge your battery, boot into download mode, Odin a stock ROM from sfhub and start over.
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lmao...well thats the problem isnt it

CBowley said:
This happened to me. It was a bad recovery/kernel.
Find a way to charge your battery, boot into download mode, Odin a stock ROM from sfhub and start over.
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The point is he CAN'T charge it lol...
He most likely has a bad battery.
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Dead SGH-I317 what to look at first?

A friend of mine gave me dead Note-2, does not respond to buttons, battery inside was completely discharged.
I tried to hook it up to the charger, no signs of life, put precharged battery in, still nothing (in another words it does not respond to any buttons pushes or plugging into the charger).
Phone is in perfect cosmetical (close to like-new condition), no signs of water damage, so what else to look at or try to bring it back to life? I put the battery into my alive Note-2 it charges fine.

Phone ever dropped? Possible loose connection?
If you are using a Windows computer, does anything appear in device manager when the phone is connected?

Not a single dent on the besel or screen dry inside (I already took the back cover off), no mechanical damage inside, sadly no signs of life when hooked up to computer....

You took off the battery cover or the frame surrounding the motherboard, battery compartment, etc?
Have you tried leaving it on a charger for a few hours?

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You took off the battery cover or the frame surrounding the motherboard, battery compartment, etc?
Have you tried leaving it on a charger for a few hours?
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Yes took it apart all the way to PCB, no fully charged the battery up in another phone.

You did everything I could think of other than swapping out parts, I at a time.
The phone may have to be examined by a repair shop or Samsung.

Ok when the phone is left with the charged battery inside, the whole screen surface and battery gets noticeably warm, not burning, but evenly warm.

Is it possible that the screen is dead? The only way to really tell would be to put the motherboard into another phone. Don't know of any other way to really diagnose the problem as there is nothing on the screen when connected to a charger.

toshik1 said:
A friend of mine gave me dead Note-2, does not respond to buttons, battery inside was completely discharged.
I tried to hook it up to the charger, no signs of life, put precharged battery in, still nothing (in another words it does not respond to any buttons pushes or plugging into the charger).
Phone is in perfect cosmetical (close to like-new condition), no signs of water damage, so what else to look at or try to bring it back to life? I put the battery into my alive Note-2 it charges fine.
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Its hard bricked, probably due to one of a few reasons.
1) it had a locked bootloader and someone flashed TWRP in an attempt to root it, a common cause.
2) someone rooted it, flashed TWRP then somewhere along the line flashed a ROM for a different device, also a common cause.
3) someone tried to update it manually by flashing a stock update in Odin but flashed the wrong firmware, or part of a firmware, again a common cause.
4) it had a locked bootloader and someone improperly tried to unlock it.
There are some more but aren't very common.
Have you tried a USB jig to see if it boots to download mode? If so you can flash the stock firmware and maybe revive it.

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Have you tried a USB jig to see if it boots to download mode? If so you can flash the stock firmware and maybe revive it.
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Thank you! I'm sorry to ask what is "USB jig"?

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Thank you! I'm sorry to ask what is "USB jig"?
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Its a device that costs $3-4 USD on eBay, it forces the device into download mode even of it won't with the buttons.
You can also make one with an old USB cord and a 300k resistor or combo of resistors equalling nor more and no less than 300k.
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Thank you! I'm sorry to ask what is "USB jig"?
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Have you tried booting to recovery? Vol up + Home + Power
Or Vol up + Power if you don't have home hardkey.
Have you tried booting to download mode? Vol down + Home + Power
Or
Vol down + Power
Does the device even vibrate when you hold power? Does PC show anything when you connect the device to PC?

Thanks found it, will make one tomorrow. So it works on newer ones as well?

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Thank you! I'm sorry to ask what is "USB jig"?
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Or, if you have a sdcard to put in it you can convert the sdcard to a bootable drive by using a debrick.img for your device, if you can find one or get someone to pull a copy from their device.
That makes the phone boot from sdcard, then you can restore everything back to the device then return the sdcard to normal use.
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Thanks found it, will make one tomorrow. So it works on newer ones as well?
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USB jig works on all Samsung devices, they are made that way purposely. also, it isn't guaranteed to boot it to download depending how bricked it is, but if its all possible for the device to perform the function, it will do it.

Yes I have SD card and another Note-2, where are the instructions how to make that debrick.img?
No PC does not see it, does not vibrate and I tried every button combination with no luck.

It took a few minutes to make USB jig, tested on another phone, works sadly does not do anything to the patient

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It took a few minutes to make USB jig, tested on another phone, works sadly does not do anything to the patient
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Here, this is the method, the thread says its for S3 but the method works on other Samsung devices also, the debrick.IMG has to be from the same exact model, can't use a debrick.IMG from a different model number. Use this method, just find your debrick.IMG and use it, also, make sure you understand the partition structure on your note 2 and you know which partition is which and which mmcblk0 each of your partitions are in, if you get the partitions wrong you will have wasted your time.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2660566
This method doesn't work if the device doesn't at least vibrate when holding power.

I weep for dead notes...
Best phone ever made...IMHO...g
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