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[Q] help fascinate won't do anything, not even turn on

Alright, well my phone won't turn on at all, as if there were no battery in or something, this is the result of several stupid things i did to it. It began with a not so stupid thing, i flash some new roms on it, was trying out a few, then eventually put stock back on and applied voodoo lag fix. well then i had some issues with haptic feedback so via odin i flashed stock back on it, without disabling lag fix or doing anything first. Well that wasn't such a huge problem as i could still get into recovery and all and so i assumed that it could be fixed somehow. Well after a few hours i got impatient and did something that i don't understand at all, but it resulting in my phone being in the stat it is right now. i download the file "s1_odin_20100512.pit" then i opened odin and put it in the PIT section. I checked Re-partition, Auto Reboot, and F. Reset Time. I hid start, the phone took it, odin showed success, only the phone hasn't done anything since shutting down. Please help me, and I really appreciate any taking the time to think about this.
[Edit]: Okay i think it might be more helpful to just as "Is there anyway to go from no software on the phone at all to put software on it?" I think this is basically the only it could be fixed since there's no way to access it to re flash the kernel, rom, etc.

Does the phone energize if it's plugged in to A/C? Despite the battery...

no
no, the phone doesn't do anything, although i do believe that it is charging because the battery warms up, im weary to leave it on the charger though because idk if it will overcharge without active software. But to be clear, it has the same issue when plugged in as when a only battery, it does nothing what so ever no matter what i do. Thanks for the reply btw.

did anyone get this figured out?? please let me know!!! I am having the same problem; it won't even show charging... and i can't go into download mode for Odin

[Q] Please help, bricked Nexus S 4G

I did search, both here and google, and have not come across a similar problem.
I picked up a nexus s 4g recently and unlocked the bootloader using fastboot oem unlock, flashed clockwork mod recovery on, and installed cyanogen 7. I then found out I'm a complete idiot because that rom was made for the GSM phone, and the radio doesn't work.
Tried to use fastboot to load an original rom back on, which failed, so found a windows machine and installed Odin, followed a tutorial on how to flash back to stock, Odin reported a pass, but the phone will no longer turn on.
No amount of taking the battery out, button combos, or charging has changed this.
I had about 70% battery when I tried to flash with Odin, so I'm fairly sure it's not a battery issue.
I also tried to adb devices with the phone hooked up, and nothing was found, so it shouldnt be an unresponsive screen.
Help?

did you make a nand?

I did not. Not sure if it would help, because I can probably download someone elses nand but I don't know how to do anything with it with my phone not powering on
I could be completely wrong about that, not very familiar with nandroid.

You can't get it into download mode?

Correct.
Essentially the phone is dead, it will not respond to anything.
Very similar to the battery not being installed, but I know for certain the battery has a charge.

I just checked the battery, and I retract my previous statements. 560mAh and 3.08 volts. Would that be low to the point of it not taking a charge through the charger?
I have it on a special charger directly on the terminals right now, I will post results once its through.

Read in the fascinate forum that a guy purposely flash a rom from a different device ans used Odin to revert back, also he gave a tip that one should keep trying to use Odin if the first try didn't work. Not sure if this will help never happened to me...
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Fully charged battery did not help

Try what they used to suggest with the epic when it was stubborn. Remove the battery. Plug the usb cable into the phone then into the computer. Try to put it into download mode. If that doesn't work, I can't think of anything else. If you have insurance, maybe they'll swap it when they see it's dead for a refurb. Be nice and play dumb. Tell them something like it froze one time and you pulled the battery and after that it wouldn't turn back on.

I could use my insurance, but its $100 bucks now. Sprint really changed their policy on that.
I also don't really want a refurb phone, when mine was NIB 3 days ago. I realize it's my fault but still.

Totally Bricked Charge? Non-responsive

Calling all Android Superheroes!!
I think I've done it. Turned my Charge into a paperweight. Was trying to flash the latest GummyCharged 1.91 package using Odin. It failed 3 times, but having read many accounts of similar failures I retried using different cables, different ports etc. After every "Fail" I unplugged the phone, rebooted, shut down Odin and started all over again.
After the last "Fail" message the phone simply stopped responding to anything. Won't boot, won't go into download mode, won't boot to recovery, doesn't show any sign of life when plugged into the wall.
All my reading about bricked Droids all seem to have some kind of responsiveness so don't seem to apply to my situation.
If anyone has suggestions or can point me in the direction of further resources I can research I'll be most grateful.
The worst part is going to be telling the wife when she asks what I'm doing.....
Thanks in advance for any / all help.

Call verizon tech support and give them some crap about how your phone was powering off by itself and you were dropping 4g, 3g, and 1x consistently and now your phone wont even turn on. They'll surly send you a like-new replacement phone.

I was having odin problems with my Charge as well, every rom failed... I figured out I had to uncheck 'reboot' and keep the battery in to get it to flash right. I know this doesn't really help but its similar
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge

Thanks Sleek. I bought mine through Costco so I think I've also got the option to head back to Costco and get it swapped out. However, I've made my way through life believing that I should never surrender to the challenges presented by technology nor my own stupidity, so I'm pride-bound to at least try to make lemonade out of this situation.

anoninja118 said:
I was having odin problems with my Charge as well, every rom failed... I figured out I had to uncheck 'reboot' and keep the battery in to get it to flash right. I know this doesn't really help but its similar
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge
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Thanks anoninja - I'll keep those tips handy for the next flash attempt. And there WILL be further attempts....

I had this happen to me on the second day I had my Charge. What happened was, I was flashing what I thought was the latest version of Humble EE4, but it wasn't, it an old .md5 file for my Epic. I didn't even look at the file name, I just looked at the file extension and it would not turn on, wouldn't show that it was charging (no pun), or any sign of life other then the phone would get hot due to something with the battery.
My solution was that I called VZ customer care and said something like, "For some reason my phone will not turn on. I plugged it last night and when I awoke this morning, it will not come on. I tried pulling the battery and it still does nothing. Is there anything you can do to help me?"
So the customer care lady tried to walk me trough a factory/data reset, and you guess it, "it didn't work." After another five minutes or so of her "trying" to help me, she said that they would replace it under the warranty and she overnight-ed me a new phone and I had it the next day. I did have to send the bricked phone back to VZ, so for good measure I ran an electromagnet over it, you know just in case.
You can try it that way or go into the carrier store and play dumb (like you really shouldn't have a smart phone) and have them replace under the warranty.
Good luck!!!

Take out battery, plug into rear usb ports (if you're on a tower. If you're on a laptop it doesn't really matter. If you want to know why just ask, otherwise just do it). Fire up Odin3 with administrative rights (right click, run as admin). Hold down the lower volume button and cross your fingers. If it still won't power up into download mode, your phone has tapped out and needs to be replaced.
Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 1.4

Some times the phone looses power during the flashing process even though it's connected to the computer. Keep the battery in the phone while flashing to alleviate this issue.
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kvswim said:
Take out battery, plug into rear usb ports (if you're on a tower. If you're on a laptop it doesn't really matter. If you want to know why just ask, otherwise just do it). Fire up Odin3 with administrative rights (right click, run as admin). Hold down the lower volume button and cross your fingers. If it still won't power up into download mode, your phone has tapped out and needs to be replaced.
Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 1.4
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Do everything he says but odin recovery.tar its in the humble ee4 section. After that reboot phone go to settings, then development, and turn on usb debugging. It took me 2 days to figure this out. Did the same thing. From now on before you odin make sure usb debugging is enabled. Hope this helps.
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Just checked that forum and realized recovery.tar is not there. If you want it just pm me and ill email it to you. Its a lifesaver in your situation.

try this;
with battery out, keep the phone unplugged and hold down the volume down button and put the battery back in (not usb cable) and see if your phone responds to download mode this way. If it does, plug the phone in and see if odin now sees your device (with the battery still in).]
This worked for me in a similar situation.

My phone got hosed so bad that Odin would error out.
I finally found this and it managed to recover my phone:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...harge-full-factory-tar-flashing-software.html

quarky42 said:
My phone got hosed so bad that Odin would error out.
I finally found this and it managed to recover my phone:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...harge-full-factory-tar-flashing-software.html
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Same here. It totally saved my butt.

Hi all. I appreciate all the suggestions. In the end I solved my problem by exchanging the phone. I couldn't get it to come back to life no matter what I tried. Thanks again to all.
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Emancipation boot loop

Running Emancipation A1 for weeks now. Love it. Runs smooth, support is top notch. All of a sudden, I'm stuck at the Samsung logo boot loop. I can't even get into CWM recovery mode to wipe and reflash. Didn't download or change any settings.
Downloading necessary files to go back to stock. In the meantime, if anybody has any suggestions, I'm all ears. Going to be a long night I guess.

If you used a crt on mod, the last 5-10 pages on the main Eman thread may address this problem.

Thanks. No, I didn't install the CRT on mod that was provided. Very strange, because the rom has been running flawless for quite some time. I'm downloading the Heimdall one click file now.
A little nervous at this point. Yes, I've flashed a few Rom's, and flashed a few modems, but never had any problems.

Holding volume up and down Anne pore won't get you to recovery?
If that's the case, you might need to get into download mode and start from scratch via heimdal or Odin

Yeah, can't get into recovery holding up/down volume buttons. I downloaded heimdall, and went back to stock. Not I'm experiencing same problem. Phone continuously rebooting. Can't connect or even get into download mode. Also tried a different USB cord, just to make sure. No difference.
Yikes.

Well this pretty much sucks. I think I went back to stock. The phone booted up briefly enough for me to go into settings and see that it was running a stock version of the software. What it was I can't remember. Probably 2.3.6 just like the post says it will revert to. However, I cannot do anything when I power on now. The phone is stuck in at the Samsung logo and will just flash and flash and flash. Can't get into recovery or download mode. Nothing.

Lavman72 said:
Well this pretty much sucks. I think I went back to stock. The phone booted up briefly enough for me to go into settings and see that it was running a stock version of the software. What it was I can't remember. Probably 2.3.6 just like the post says it will revert to. However, I cannot do anything when I power on now. The phone is stuck in at the Samsung logo and will just flash and flash and flash. Can't get into recovery or download mode. Nothing.
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is the battery charged?
do you have a jig to force a download mode?
may have to go back thru th q/a thread for similar problems...there's quite a few

If its doing that, it could be a hardware issue. Might need to take it in if you are still under warrantee.

qkster said:
is the battery charged?
do you have a jig to force a download mode?
may have to go back thru th q/a thread for similar problems...there's quite a few
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battery charged. in fact I have a couple batteries charged, just in case.
not sure what you mean by whether I have a jig to force a download mode.
I'll search through the threads. I'm pretty fed up at this point. Also tired, which isn't helping.

NunHugger said:
If its doing that, it could be a hardware issue. Might need to take it in if you are still under warrantee.
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I got the Infuse the first weekend it came out, which I think was last May. So I think I'm technically under the 1 year warranty. I also have the Insurance on it. Not sure if that will help.

Well, this didn't have a very happy ending. After playing around with the phone last night trying to revert back to Stock, the phone suddenly stopped working. Wouldn't turn on at all. Tried different batteries, different USB cords, nothing. Replacement on it's way from AT&T free of charge (since I was still under warranty). Refurbished no doubt.

Lavman72 said:
Well, this didn't have a very happy ending. After playing around with the phone last night trying to revert back to Stock, the phone suddenly stopped working. Wouldn't turn on at all. Tried different batteries, different USB cords, nothing. Replacement on it's way from AT&T free of charge (since I was still under warranty). Refurbished no doubt.
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The ending sounds happy to me. This issue could have happened out of your warrantee...that would have been sad. Hope your are back up and running soon.

Yes, it's bittersweet. Because I really had the phone functioning well and looking the way I wanted. But like you said, it was under warranty, so I can't be all that upset. Just trying to make it through the 4-5 days without having a phone.

[Q] Unable to charge while off?

So my phone shut off yesterday due to loss of battery power.
However, when I went to charge it, it would not charge when it was off.
IE: The battery picture with the "goo" in it that fills as it charges.
So since it wouldn't charge I was stuck at the a bootloop at the logo. Not animation.
Luckily my buddy at work has a Bionic that I was able to stick my battery into and charge. If not for that I would have been screwed.
Now I know I have personally a MILLION posts due to this problem and I'm wondering.
Who else can't charge while the phone is shut off? Is this due to CWM on boot? Our modded ROM's? If this is true for you, are you rooted? Stock ROM? CWM on boot?
We should really find a way to fix this. We need to be able to charge while the phone is off. This would save a lot of people headaches. Thoughts?

Fall of Enosis said:
So my phone shut off yesterday due to loss of battery power.
However, when I went to charge it, it would not charge when it was off.
IE: The battery picture with the "goo" in it that fills as it charges.
So since it wouldn't charge I was stuck at the a bootloop at the logo. Not animation.
Luckily my buddy at work has a Bionic that I was able to stick my battery into and charge. If not for that I would have been screwed.
Now I know I have personally a MILLION posts due to this problem and I'm wondering.
Who else can't charge while the phone is shut off? Is this due to CWM on boot? Our modded ROM's? If this is true for you, are you rooted? Stock ROM? CWM on boot?
We should really find a way to fix this. We need to be able to charge while the phone is off. This would save a lot of people headaches. Thoughts?
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You CAN charge in this situation, but it is a real PIA, and you have to really keep playing with it until you get the sequence correct.
It is a little dance like this:
1) power off.
2) take the battery out.
3) plug the phone into the wall socket, not a usb computer connection, with the battery out!
4) HOLD the power button to turn the phone on
while the dual core screen comes up, hold the power button for a very long time, and the phone will eventually shut off.
5) put the battery back in the phone and put the back on, the phone may try to power on again, and you may have to due 1-4 all over again, or you can HOLD the power button for a VERY long time again until it powers off.
Now if it turns off, you should see the white light come on and that means it is charging.
Note the timing is key and you may have to play around to get it exact, because two of the different exchanges of my phones each had a slight different sequence to make it work.

jimbridgman said:
You CAN charge in this situation, but it is a real PIA, and you have to really keep playing with it until you get the sequence correct.
It is a little dance like this:
1) power off.
2) take the battery out.
3) plug the phone into the wall socket, not a usb computer connection, with the battery out!
4) HOLD the power button to turn the phone on
while the dual core screen comes up, hold the power button for a very long time, and the phone will eventually shut off.
5) put the battery back in the phone and put the back on, the phone may try to power on again, and you may have to due 1-4 all over again, or you can HOLD the power button for a VERY long time again until it powers off.
Now if it turns off, you should see the white light come on and that means it is charging.
Note the timing is key and you may have to play around to get it exact, because two of the different exchanges of my phones each had a slight different sequence to make it work.
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Won't it also charge in stock recovery? I know that's not really off, but it is low power.

lkrasner said:
Won't it also charge in stock recovery? I know that's not really off, but it is low power.
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Not sure, I have never tried it. I have however done what I have mentioned during a boot loop MANY times now, and never had an issue. Once you figure out the EXACT steps it takes, it just becomes second nature. Oh and like I said, it can be just slightly different even between two different A2s, but it is only like a millisecond here or a slight step there, that is different, or maybe when the battery goes in and or comes out of the phone...
I can assure you though that it does work to get you a full charge before a flash after and during a boot loop.

jimbridgman said:
Not sure, I have never tried it. I have however done what I have mentioned during a boot loop MANY times now, and never had an issue. Once you figure out the EXACT steps it takes, it just becomes second nature. Oh and like I said, it can be just slightly different even between two different A2s, but it is only like a millisecond here or a slight step there, that is different, or maybe when the battery goes in and or comes out of the phone...
I can assure you though that it does work to get you a full charge before a flash after and during a boot loop.
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Good to know. I have a family member with the same phone, so when I kill mine and need to flash I just steal her battery for a few minutes.

So this happened to me again. Accidentally let the phone discharge. Not to worry, I'm not bricked. But now again I'm gonna have to charge my phone battry on my buddies bionic. BUT WHY WON'T OUR PHONES CHARGE WHILE THE IT'S OFF?
I shouldn't have to be paranoid if my phone dies.
I guess I never really got an answer to my OP, while I got it reconciled, it'd be nice to have an answer.
In GB, if your phone was off (powered completely down) you could plug it in, and the screen would come on with the battery that had the goo that would fill up as it charged. I seem to have lost this capability ever since I have rooted and started running custom ROMS. WHY?
So, four questions remain: Why is this happening? And is it happening to anyone else? If you're unsure, can you test it for me (see if your phone will charge while off) and most importantly. HOW TO FIX IT?
It's a little infuriating.

I've never had this happen to me. I know that's not helpful in your circumstance. My phone will shut off at the '0% battery level' and I can plug into my wall charger or USB to my laptop, and goo I get. I'm wondering if its your charger? The Moto chargers seem to be a little on the shoddy side. I've replaced all of mine with other non-Moto wall chargers. And as you know, if you're completely out of juice, USB may not have enough current to charge it back to full. Just my thoughts.
Sent from my Atari Falcon030

Thanks for the thoughts mate, but it doesn't matter what I try to charge it on? Will it charge for you no matter what ROM?

Fall of Enosis said:
So this happened to me again. Accidentally let the phone discharge. Not to worry, I'm not bricked. But now again I'm gonna have to charge my phone battry on my buddies bionic. BUT WHY WON'T OUR PHONES CHARGE WHILE THE IT'S OFF?
I shouldn't have to be paranoid if my phone dies.
I guess I never really got an answer to my OP, while I got it reconciled, it'd be nice to have an answer.
In GB, if your phone was off (powered completely down) you could plug it in, and the screen would come on with the battery that had the goo that would fill up as it charged. I seem to have lost this capability ever since I have rooted and started running custom ROMS. WHY?
So, four questions remain: Why is this happening? And is it happening to anyone else? If you're unsure, can you test it for me (see if your phone will charge while off) and most importantly. HOW TO FIX IT?
It's a little infuriating.
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Ok I am going to answer this finally, for you....
The battery screen with the "goo" is a "boot hijack", we have stolen that ability to use it for CWM/bootsrtap and it's boot hijack replaces it. YOU CAN NOT LET YOUR PHONE FULLY DISCHARGE. When you get to less than 10% find a place to start charging it, or turn the phone off until you can connect it to a charger.
Sometimes we have to rob peter to pay paul, and in this case we "stole" that ability to get to CWM on a boot with either bootstrap and BP tools, or the J.Y.Daddy hack, but either of those steal this same boot hijack "space".

PERFECT JIM! Thanks man. I just wanted to understand why it was doing it. Thanks so much! Although that doesn't explain why Apex is able to charge lol. I figured since I was stock(ish) ICS that it wouldn't matter? Although I did use bootstrap to flash Altered's carrier remover zip. And maybe Apex is completely stock.
EDIT: I grabbed my buddies bionic to stick my battery into to charge, and his is rooted running a custom and they use safestrap as their recovery, however when his boots up, it boots into safestrap and then starts charging with the goo.
How come Bionic can do it and we can't? WAH!

That's interesting. Any idea why I don't have any problem from a full discharge-to-shut off and charge problem? I've not done anything that anyone else hasn't, I mean, I rooted, installed the bootstrap, J-Y-Daddy CWM, flashed myself silly, edited "this" and "that" and tweaked "these" and "those". Never found myself not being able to charge after a shut down...
Edit: I'm running Lithium v.1.3.1
Edit #2: Knocking frantically on wood! Hope I didn't just jinx myself!
Sent from my Atari Falcon030

Apex_Strider said:
That's interesting. Any idea why I don't have any problem from a full discharge-to-shut off and charge problem? I've not done anything that anyone else hasn't, I mean, I rooted, installed the bootstrap, J-Y-Daddy CWM, flashed myself silly, edited "this" and "that" and tweaked "these" and "those". Never found myself not being able to charge after a shut down...
Edit: I'm running Lithium v.1.3.1
Sent from my Atari Falcon030
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You probably have something with the logwrapper and boot hijack link that is not fully correct... that is what actually does the boot hijack.
Here is where we started to think about this whole thing, just so people can see how we got to where we are with these hacks... yes this is quite old..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341198

jimbridgman said:
You probably have something with the logwrapper and boot hijack link that is not fully correct... that is what actually does the boot hijack.
Here is where we started to think about this whole thing, just so people can see how we got to where we are with these hacks... yes this is quite old..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341198
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So, I'm wondering if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I suppose its good for the sake that I don't have the charging after dead issue, but could it pose any others? I've had things this way for 4 months...
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Apex_Strider said:
So, I'm wondering if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I suppose its good for the sake that I don't have the charging after dead issue, but could it pose any others? I've had things this way for 4 months...
Sent from my Atari Falcon030
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Good question, I am not really sure.. you are kind of the odd man out possibly.. I have had the battery after dead charge scree too before too with the boot hacks, and other times not so much... I think it has to do with how the hacks are done and the order they are all done in. I am not totally sure what that order is though.
Here are more links on the CWM history:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1335933
This is from the above thread but it talks about what I am saying, and how this all was finally made to work for us:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19368661&postcount=24

See the EDIT in my previous post. The bionic boys "safestrap" recovery has the ability. I know cause I just used my buddies bionic to charge my battery. it boots into safestrap, and then if you don't choose recovery, or boot normally, poof, into battery charging.
It's interesting how they have it and we don't. Hmm...

Fall of Enosis said:
See the EDIT in my previous post. The bionic boys "safestrap" recovery has the ability. I know cause I just used my buddies bionic to charge my battery. it boots into safestrap, and then if you don't choose recovery, or boot normally, poof, into battery charging.
It's interesting how they have it and we don't. Hmm...
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safestrap is a little different.... I know I did the OG mods to make it work for us back in nov/dec. It uses a different hijack method, and we can't use that one on our phone, and thier recoveries don't work on our phone.

Apex_Strider said:
That's interesting. Any idea why I don't have any problem from a full discharge-to-shut off and charge problem? I've not done anything that anyone else hasn't, I mean, I rooted, installed the bootstrap, J-Y-Daddy CWM, flashed myself silly, edited "this" and "that" and tweaked "these" and "those". Never found myself not being able to charge after a shut down...
Edit: I'm running Lithium v.1.3.1
Edit #2: Knocking frantically on wood! Hope I didn't just jinx myself!
Sent from my Atari Falcon030
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Time to pull a system.img! LOL!
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By the way folks, with the release of our spiffy new recovery (Thanks whirley and Luk!) This thread is no longer an issue. Since the battery monitoring had been removed for the boot hijack with the bootstrap.apk we could not charge with the phone off.
NOW, I tested it and we can. Apparently the removal of the battery monitor was not an issue with the new recovery. HOORAY! We should have no more people complaining about dead batterys!

I had this issue this morning and I thought my phone had bricked at first since I installed SCv7 late last night. My phone shut off at 3% and it would not allow me to charge it and it would not turn on at all. I tried Jim's method a few times; did not work for me. I am on SCv7 ICS, rooted, and I do have Bootmenu installed. I went and bought another battery today, which I was going to do soon anyway; and Im going to buy a battery charger on Amazon, just in case. Im not quite sure how to fix it, but as long as I have an extra battery, I will be okay.

Are you not able to charge while off? That issue has been resolved with the new recovery. What does it do when you try to charge it?
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