Hi,
Was trying to reflash my Jammin and after it completed and reset, it wouldn't boot with the USB cable plugged in. The screen flashes white, and both LEDs flash simultaneously (red for the top LED, and blue for the bottom), and this is repeated in a boot loop.
A similar thing happens when I unplug the USB cable and press the power button, except that it only happens once then turns off.
However, if I plug my mains power charger in I can get into the boot loader (so it's not bricked) and can in fact boot into the new ROM (Button ROM). Interestingly, in settings the battery indicator says there is 0% battery.
Now I don't think this is a battery problem. I have tried a friends fresh battery and the same things happens. By going into boot loader and switching off with the power button I have also got the original battery to fully charge (until yellow LED turns green).
Here is the thing that has me really frustrated. I can boot into windows (using the mains power cord) and during the boot can change to the USB cord (no reset and boot cycle). So Windows works with the USB in and Activesync detects the phone. However, when I try to reflash to another ROM the update software throws the following error: Error [220] mains battery power, because it reads the battery is less than 50%!!
Please help me!! Any ideas are appreciated.
Gavin.
I'm thinking that I may be able to solve this with the "cutting the mains charger wire trick." This will hopefully provide the necessary power while flashing, and allow me to have a USB/activesync connection at the same time.
Any thoughts before I destroy a perfectly good charger?
well seems I've solved it with a bit of surgery. used this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319636 and it boots into my new ROM!! Yay!
Hey there,
I have seen quite a few threads on similar cases, but I am not sure whether this is not a specific one that you know what to do on. My Touch Pro is not charging/booting anymore.
I have successfully run my Touch Pro with a custom WM6.5 ROM (and others before) from bauner located here for weeks now. Never had any anomalities or problems with my battery or its lifetime.
I plugged my phone into my AC charger yesterday since it had low battery, and it produced a loop of charging/not charging cycles... it was charging some seconds, then it stopped so that I got the warning (very low battery I think), then charging some seconds, stopping a while... I kept it on, thinking it was because it was almost down to zero, but it had not charged at all over night. Plugging it in again in the morning brought it up to 7%, but still no luck to get further.
I took it to another place and tried to charge without the SIM, and this time it started charging and didn't stop as yesterday. I had it up to 89%, turned it off, put in my SIM and was welcomed with the message that my Touch Pro has too low battery and will shut down. When plugging in the cable, either PC or AC adapter, the LED indicates charging twice and dies on the third flashing, always at the exact same time (half of the third flashing of the LED).
I have neither installed nor changed anything on the system for weeks without problems with it (apart from a crashing Tmail/Outlook every now and then). Especially that it always dies on the third flashing of the LED AND that it seemed to have charged 89% while returning a the low battery message keeps bugging me.
Would you think this is a dead battery (have the phone (new) since early June!) or more related to either a faulty ROM or simply the cable? Any advice is welcome!
Maybe you have a bad battery or bad contacts. I bet that pulling the sim card (and removing/replacing the battery) may have temporarily fixed the issue, but when you put the sim back in, it came back. It's just a guess, but that's what I would suggest looking into. Maybe the contacts in the phone need to be pulled out a bit. If you can't fix it, then flash back to stock and take it in for service or exchange.
Hey there,
I checked the pins for the battery and adjusted them slightly. The funny thing is that I sometimes get the case that I unplug the cable & the LED signalises that the battery is charging. Plugging the device in again gives the 2 1/2 LED flashes, then nothing.
I'd really love to take the route of putting on the stock ROM and send it in if it helps. Unfortunately with a device that is not charging I cannot flash a new ROM... if you know something that I don't know, please let me know .
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Hey there,
I checked the pins for the battery and adjusted them slightly. The funny thing is that I sometimes get the case that I unplug the cable & the LED signalises that the battery is charging. Plugging the device in again gives the 2 1/2 LED flashes, then nothing.
I'd really love to take the route of putting on the stock ROM and send it in if it helps. Unfortunately with a device that is not charging I cannot flash a new ROM... if you know something that I don't know, please let me know .
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If you pull plug the phone in through the usb and have enough charge on the battery to get into bootloader, it doesn't matter if the battery is in or not (seriously, you can remove the battery pre-flash, and as long as it's plugged in, you're good to go). So, the thing to do would be put it in bootloader, then hook it up to your pc through the usb and run the flashes. It should work fine.
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If you pull plug the phone in through the usb and have enough charge on the battery to get into bootloader, it doesn't matter if the battery is in or not (seriously, you can remove the battery pre-flash, and as long as it's plugged in, you're good to go). So, the thing to do would be put it in bootloader, then hook it up to your pc through the usb and run the flashes. It should work fine.
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What do you mean exactly? When I download a ROM I have a wrapper which needs a switched-on device for flashing. How can I get into 'bootloader' and flash a ROM? Sorry for my noobishness . And thanks for your previous help.
Well, what you do is press and hold volume down and then press soft reset. Keep holding the vol down until the tri-color screen appears. Then hook up the usb cable to the phone. It should say 'usb serial' or something like that on the bottom of the screen. Then you should be able to run the flash. Once you're in bootloader and plugged in, you can actually remove the battery without having the phone shut off, so your battery issues won't matter. You should be able to flash that way with no problems, but read the flashing threads to make sure you do the rom/radio flash and the stock spl flash properly. I've never done those, so I couldn't tell you the exact procedure. I always flash off of my sd card, too. You can flash the stock rom/radio off your sd card if you rename the image RAPHIMG.nbh, but I'm not sure you if you can flash the spl off of your sd card. You have to get the info from the hard spl thread.
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Well, what you do is press and hold volume down and then press soft reset. Keep holding the vol down until the tri-color screen appears. Then hook up the usb cable to the phone. It should say 'usb serial' or something like that on the bottom of the screen. Then you should be able to run the flash. Once you're in bootloader and plugged in, you can actually remove the battery without having the phone shut off, so your battery issues won't matter. You should be able to flash that way with no problems, but read the flashing threads to make sure you do the rom/radio flash and the stock spl flash properly. I've never done those, so I couldn't tell you the exact procedure. I always flash off of my sd card, too. You can flash the stock rom/radio off your sd card if you rename the image RAPHIMG.nbh, but I'm not sure you if you can flash the spl off of your sd card. You have to get the info from the hard spl thread.
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Well, thanks for your kind tips. But this is what I get: I push the vol. down button on the left side of the device and press the soft reset button on top of the device. Be it only the vol. button which I hold afterwards or both (vol/soft reset), my Raph doesn't go further than the boot screen (touch pro) and exits with the message that the phone won't load because of too low battery. So I can't get into tri-color boot screen at all. I could read in how I can revert back to stock spl, but I cannot even get far enough with my device... damnit.
Nobody having an idea? Changing the charging cable doesn't help, so it must be either the battery or, even worse, the device that got broken somehow, from one day to another...
Know anyone else with the same phone? borrow their battery / use their phone to try & charge yours.
Try to get atleast a partial charge from a dekstop charger (try your local phone store - say your phone wont charge properly & you want to check the battery before buying a replacement).
Also (i just tried it) i can enter the bootloader without the battery in at all. Plugged into the mains charger (USB didnt work). Put the battery in (dont try to turn the phone on), take the battery out (i waited for the charge indicator to have done 1 "breath"). Then (no battery & still plugged in to the mains) press & hold vol-down, and press & release the soft reset. Voila - bootloader!
I then removed the power so the phone died as it still had no battery in, replugged power, and again could enter the bootloader. I guess when it tried to / started to charge the battery it charges a capacitor on the phone giving it enough power to start, then as soon as its alive, it can draw power from the charger.
Hope this helps!
Yeah, just plug it into the wall charger and go into bootloader. Then flash your stock rom/radio of an sd card. That should work fine, and who knows, maybe the battery will charge. If it does, keep the stock rom or try a different custom rom. If not, try to flash the spl off the card, but like I said, you should very carefully read the instructions for flashing spl's, because I'm not sure if you can flash them off an sd card (you can't flash hard spl that way, but maybe you can flash the stock spl in the hard spl thread that way).
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If not, try to flash the spl off the card, but like I said, you should very carefully read the instructions for flashing spl's, because I'm not sure if you can flash them off an sd card (you can't flash hard spl that way, but maybe you can flash the stock spl in the hard spl thread that way).
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NOOOOOO
Well, when i did i bricked it! Managing to flash the spl back to the phone - unfortuantly it then spat its dummy out & gave me a SPL/ROM upgrade error - which i couldnt get past, as i no long had hard spl.... Ended up sending it back with a blantent error on the screen, but the good ppl at t-mobile service decided it was the main board (there was a seperate fault with the usb port) causing the problems so fixed it FOC for me!
My advice is NEVER flash Hard SPL off (i mean remove hard - back to stock) using the SD card unless you are starting with a fully servicable phone & are prepared to have a good play in MTTY to recover any problems!
But seriously, if the phone is mostly stock - and wont boot (you really might wanna check a known good battery first!) then the techs arent likely to notice as they will be in the same boat as you!
Well, thanks for your tips, I will try to follow them accordingly (and I am happy it should work, mates!). In the meanwhile I ordered a brand new battery for like 20$ (which seems cheap here in Europe) to see whether it is the battery that is ****ed. I will still look and see how I can get a new ROM installed from my SD card in the hard spl thread (or somewhere else).
Thanks for discussing, one question remaining: I am thus bound to my hard SPL since I shouldn't apply it from an SD card as long as the phone won't boot? (My new battery will tell me if it will ever boot or not).... once I figured that a new ROM A-N-D a new battery are not helping, I'll send it in and along some prayers that they won't find out.
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Well, thanks for your kind tips. But this is what I get: I push the vol. down button on the left side of the device and press the soft reset button on top of the device. Be it only the vol. button which I hold afterwards or both (vol/soft reset), my Raph doesn't go further than the boot screen (touch pro) and exits with the message that the phone won't load because of too low battery. So I can't get into tri-color boot screen at all. I could read in how I can revert back to stock spl, but I cannot even get far enough with my device... damnit.
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You need to hold the volume down button, and poke the reset button (thats the little hole to the right of the usb port) with your stylus. When the tri colour screen comes on let go of the volume down button.
Well, I tried getting into bootloader the way you described it.
1.) When having the phone plugged in and putting in the battery afterwards, no "breath" (as you called it) is coming. I need to plug in the cable again to have the LED flashing.
2.) I then remove the battery after the first breath.
3.) I press and hold the vol. down button on the left side and press the soft reset button on top once and wait. Start screen with Touch Pro line comes.
4.) The device turns off again, no warning (anymore) or anything. When I keep holding the vol. down button the phone repeatedly restarts with TP line appearing, short vibra, restarting....
Is this common behaviour in a known scenario (e.g. when the device is bricked or something)? Can I put it into trash ?
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Well, I tried getting into bootloader the way you described it.
1.) When having the phone plugged in and putting in the battery afterwards, no "breath" (as you called it) is coming. I need to plug in the cable again to have the LED flashing.
2.) I then remove the battery after the first breath.
3.) I press and hold the vol. down button on the left side and press the soft reset button on top once and wait. Start screen with Touch Pro line comes.
4.) The device turns off again, no warning (anymore) or anything. When I keep holding the vol. down button the phone repeatedly restarts with TP line appearing, short vibra, restarting....
Is this common behaviour in a known scenario (e.g. when the device is bricked or something)? Can I put it into trash ?
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Wait: isn't that the hard reset button you are talking about?! Still the same behaviour though, no matter which button I press, be it the one on top or the little hole right to the USB connector....
To hard reset you hold hold down the power button on the top, the volme down button on the side and then poke the reset button
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Wait: isn't that the hard reset button you are talking about?! Still the same behaviour though, no matter which button I press, be it the one on top or the little hole right to the USB connector....
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To sum it up:
1.) Plugging in the cable with battery in, removing it, holding vol.down and pressing either of the buttons (top/bottom of device) will get me into the TP screen loop.
2.) Plugging in the cable and leaving in the battery and pushing & holding vol.dwn and using stylus for bottom button gives no reaction at all.
3.) Same as above, but pressing button on top of the devices gives TP screen and 'low battery' message before shutting down.
4.) An observation: plugging in the cable and removing the battery after the first "breath" lets the LED make its 2 1/2 cycles EVEN though the battery is off. It stops at the same point. How can this be? A sign that my TP is the fault and no battery at all ?
Thanks for your help anyway!!
I'd say its the battery, but only because you cant get it to boot up. Im no expert though. Ive never bricked a phone so I dont know how it reacts when its screwed.
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NOOOOOO
Well, when i did i bricked it! Managing to flash the spl back to the phone - unfortuantly it then spat its dummy out & gave me a SPL/ROM upgrade error - which i couldnt get past, as i no long had hard spl.... Ended up sending it back with a blantent error on the screen, but the good ppl at t-mobile service decided it was the main board (there was a seperate fault with the usb port) causing the problems so fixed it FOC for me!
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Thanks, I wasn't sure on the spl flash, but I'm not surprised it has to go off the pc. Hopefully, I'll never have to go there.
It sounds to me like a problem in the charging circuit, once the phone has woken, it should be able to draw power from the mains charger without the battery in. You said that it simply dies without warning - ie its not drawing power to run from the mains charger, and without a battery (no matter how low on charge) there isnt any power available to produce a warning message.
Assuming i'm right (and it should be faily easy to prove at least in part) when you get your new battery, it will probably come with a partial charge. That should let you boot your phone & flash a new rom & restore the spl - then you can return it in a stock condition.
Please be very careful with flashing on a low (below 50%) battery, you wont be able to do it from the pc, but you can from the SD card (instructions in the rom fourm). I'm not sure if the 50% minimum applies to the hard spl restore or not, but you would be wise to get everything you need ready / read it all so you can flash before the battery drains too much (ie dont play with the phone once you get the new battery, boot it once to see the charge status, then power off. Copy the nbh file to the sd card via the pc & card reader, load phone into bootloader & go. Dont bother setting up windows, flash the spl back to stock.)
Good luck!
Alright so i woke this morning and my moto G is not charging with either the ac adpater or the computer. My phone is not rooted it is currently dead. The only way that my computer recognizes the phone is when i put it on bootloader that is the only time it recognizes it as a device does anyone know why this has ahppened and is there anything i can do.
Always check the Frequently Asked Questions first!
Q28: Moto G will not power up (addition to Q16 and Q25)
Plug it into the charger
Hold the VOL DOWN key
While still holding the VOL DOWN key, press and hold the POWER key
Hold both keys down for over 120 seconds. This is more than two minutes and will seem like a long time. You might want to time yourself to make sure you hold it longer than two minutes.
After holding the keys down for more than two minutes, release them.
The Flash Boot screen will display, and the Normal Reboot option will be highlighted
Press the VOL UP key and the device will start a normal reboot.
If you have tried the above and it didn't work, try this:
Plug in the phone for 15 minutes.
Proceed to Step 2 above.
Source: https://forums.motorola.com/posts/3d5eadc25d
Thank you for your reply however my phone is totally dead from battery so everytime i go to the flash boot and click normal boot it just gives me the three blinking lights that means it has no more battery. SInce my phone cannot charge I dont know how to fix this issue i was wondering if anyone else had this problem. When i plug my phone into my computer I keep getting unknown device attached to usb and nothing happens. However, When i boot into flash boot that is the only time that my computer can recognize my device however it still does not charge since charging does not work while in flashboot mode.
disconnect your phone from the charger or pc, leave it alone for aprox. 15 minutes then connect it to the pc and wait for it to start charging (this may take around 5 - 15 min.)
i had my phone not taking a charge from either the charger nor the pc and found those instrucctions on a post and that made it come back alive
why did you post two threads on two different sub fourms?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/help/moto-g-charging-t2904775
sorry i forgot that they came out with a new moto g this year so i accidentally put it in the wrong thread and ^^ i tried that it didnt work it does nothing no charge or anything everytime i connect to my computer it says "usb device not recognized" the only time it is recognized is when it is in fast boot does anyone have a solution to this besides me buying a new phone?
I was restoring a TWRP restore, and it said completed and whatever, but now the phone won't boot or vibrate at all. I've tried plugging into computer, holding volume buttons, nothing works! The only thing that happens is the led turns red when is plugged into charger and power button is being held, otherwise it blinks red. How do I fix the bad restore?
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qais9 said:
I was restoring a TWRP restore, and it said completed and whatever, but now the phone won't boot or vibrate at all. I've tried plugging into computer, holding volume buttons, nothing works! The only thing that happens is the led turns red when is plugged into charger and power button is being held, otherwise it blinks red. How do I fix the bad restore?
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Try this...
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1.Run Companion on you PC
2.Push and hold volume down on phone
3.Connect cable to phone (you will here some kind of sound)
4.Forcing connect phone/tablet on companion
5.Click update or repair phone/tablet
One more thing,just in case install this USB flash drivers (for boot and fastboot) if you can connect to pc companion
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Try this...
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1.Run Companion on you PC
2.Push and hold volume down on phone
3.Connect cable to phone (you will here some kind of sound)
4.Forcing connect phone/tablet on companion
5.Click update or repair phone/tablet
One more thing,just in case install this USB flash drivers (for boot and fastboot) if you can connect to pc companion
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just tried that no sound is made when i plugged in
Anyone?
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Not currently rooted as I see no need (for my usage) on this phone.
Had a similar issue long back with an HTC One X, it first went in to a bootloop one day and then in CWM it showed internal storage as non mountable and finally ended up like yours where it would not turn on. Ended up being a bad NAND I am guessing as they had to replace the motherboard. I think you just had bad luck, just get it replaced.......
However in one last attempt try charging for like a day and try turning it on could even be a bad battery to be honest... though probably you still want to replace it
Option 1:
Plug your phone into your turned on computer with the USB cable and leave it there to charge until the red light comes on (leave for 1-2 hours, more if you feel it necessary), then quickly put it on charge using the wall charger.
Option 2 (not likely to work):
Plug your phone into your wall socket with the USB cable and wall charger and leave it there to charge until the red light comes on (leave for 1-2 hours, more if you feel it necessary), then quickly put it on charge through your turned on computer using the USB cable.
If neither of these work (as dumb as this may sound)turn off your phone and put your phone in the freezer for 15-30 minutes (This is done to discharge the battery, wont break your phone). When you've left it there for your chosen time, try option 1 again. If that doesn't work, turn the phone off again and put it back in the freezer for the same time and try option 2. If they don't work, i'm sorry I don't know how to help you.
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-Mantenner
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405201
Try the procedure from post #8 from the HTC One X forum above:
Now I have exactly the same problem. Where you able to resolve it?
Edit: There is someone else with the same problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/help/xperia-z3-dead-wont-charge-blinking-red-t3156982?nocache=1