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[Q] Strange Charging Issue

Hi. I have a S-OFF'd, T-Mobile USA Sensation, Im using Leedroid Sensational 1.0 (cwm 4.0.1.5). My phone died, I tried to reboot it, it did turn on for a few seconds. When trying to charge it, it flashes the led light quickly, progressively becoming slower, then the screen flashes white then sits at a blank, black screen for a few seconds, then seems to turn off (screen turns off and led light stops showing up). The device doesnt get hot, so it cant be the charger overheating. I also cant boot into HBOOT. Any ideas?
EDIT: Left it on the charge all night, still does not turn on, it's got to be that the charging issue is still present (or actually, worse) in CWM 4.0.1.5.
EDIT2: I have tried rebooting it via adb, but the computer doesn't detect it.

Do u have cwm 4.0.1.5
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I have the 4.0.1.5 recovery and my phone wont even charge now (offline). I doesnt have enough juice to even power up so now im screwed.

simplytheone said:
Do u have cwm 4.0.1.5
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Yes CWM 4.0.1.5

Mine did this out of the box, I'm just now trying to get something out of it. Otherwise this pos is going back to htc...
Its worth mentioning that there is a red infared type light above "htc" that fades with the red l.e.d.
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Yes, I have the same issue as of this morning. After installing new CWM. It was charging fine before. Last night I let the battery discharge completely and had it on the charger all night.
When I woke up the LED light was off. Upon unplugging the charger and plugging it back in the LED light blinks (orange) a few times and then it goes off.
I can't turn the phone on at all.
EDIT: Looks like it's the issue with the latest CWM. Here is another thread with the same problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16241725#post16241725
I'm gonna buy a new battery and see it the phone boots back up.

Phone boots with a new battery, just got an HTC one from radio shack.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005C...=AKIAJMJLJ4O5MRRW6UTA&creativeASIN=B005C2BVFO
Think this would work? It charges the battery externally.

Yea it would work externally, provided your battery is ok... Buy a battery just to be sure. They have always come with atleast a trickle of charge in my past experiences. If it boots, flash the stock pyramid ruu. If not, id say either the new battery is dead (rarely) or your sensation is dead. Or buy an external charger, then send it for repair.
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crx4xharder said:
Yea it would work externally, provided your battery is ok... Buy a battery just to be sure. They have always come with atleast a trickle of charge in my past experiences. If it boots, flash the stock pyramid ruu. If not, id say either the new battery is dead (rarely) or your sensation is dead. Or buy an external charger, then send it for repair.
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Reading other users posts, I think this is an issue from CWM 4.0.1.5, not a hardware issue, but thanks for letting me know.

Im currently rocking the same setup thanks for letting me know about this ill keep an eye on my battery life. Until ClockWorkMod fixes itt

Yup same issue here. Will be buying new battery and/or battery charger to resolve.
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I bought a few batteries and an external charger just in case my battery is also fried, although be aware that most of them on the net look like cheap china batteries, so they probably aren't actually 1600MAh.
I honestly think this is BS. It's costing me $16 just to get my phone to boot, I hope Koush or someone else can actually fix the charging issue by CWM 4.0.1.6.

Definitely CWM issue. If your battery is completely discharged, as mine was this morning, here is how to charge your battery without the phone.
It does work. I just charged mine enough to boot up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585

Sensation just killed itself.

Well it looks like my sensation just killed itself and has gone to the mobile phone graveyard in the sky.
It was on about 85% battery just lying on the side, not charging, then suddenly the screen flashes, it turns itself off and then nothing.
I take the battery out for a while, put it back in , nothing. I connect the charger, it doesn't even light up to suggest it's charging.
Absolutely dead and it's 100% stock with no mods.. Oh well. Off to the HTC shop tomorrow..

Maybe the battery is completely dead. Try charging it for an hour, unplug the charger, and see if you could turn it on.

Can you get to the bootloader?

Try holding down the power button longer. Mine used to require a very long press to turn on.
Matt

held power button for 5 minutes and nothing lol
It had 85% battery then woosh.. a flicker.. and nothing

Sorry to hear that.. keep us updated.

Sorry to hear.. that suxx.. R.I.P poor Sensation

that's a sensational headline

Maybe it overheated. A friend's thunderbolt overheated and wouldn't turn on for almost 3 hours.
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Well done HTC you done it again.

I think mine just did the same thing. WTF? I am rooted, flashed Android Revolution HD 1.1.7. Everything seemed fine. It reloaded all of my apps automatically and everything was fine. Was messing around in my office and went to check it and I was getting the "black screen" when I tried to wake it. Pulled the battery and it won't come on at all. Can't get into the bootloader or anything. Have it plugged into my computer with the USB and the LED indicator was flashing a few times, my computer recognizes it off and on but it has alerted me a couple of times now. Weird. I will leave it off for a little while and see if I can boot it back up.

masse1369 said:
I think mine just did the same thing. WTF? I am rooted, flashed Android Revolution HD 1.1.7. Everything seemed fine. It reloaded all of my apps automatically and everything was fine. Was messing around in my office and went to check it and I was getting the "black screen" when I tried to wake it. Pulled the battery and it won't come on at all. Can't get into the bootloader or anything. Have it plugged into my computer with the USB and the LED indicator was flashing a few times, my computer recognizes it off and on but it has alerted me a couple of times now. Weird. I will leave it off for a little while and see if I can boot it back up.
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I have the same situation with my phone. I also added the black and white circle batterymod from themes and apps section. I got it to boot when its on wall charger. Seems that itdrained the battery from about 75% to 0% in about 7 hours of idling when I was sleeping, luckily the alarm still worked, but the screen didn't go on before wall charging.
Hope this helps. Going to flash some other ROM, god I miss CM7.

What version of clockwork recovery do you have?
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I'm pretty sure I had the .1.5...

kripwalk said:
What version of clockwork recovery do you have?
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I have v4.0.1.5

Mine died too. Overnight when it was plugged in. Woke up no lights, no LED's when i plugged it in. Manually charged the battery with a spliced USB cable till it was at 4 volts... nothing. Brought it in to the store they tried a spare battery... sucker was totally non responsive.
HTC warranty phone should be here Wednesday... until then... loaner flip phone!

gbear14275 said:
Mine died too. Overnight when it was plugged in. Woke up no lights, no LED's when i plugged it in. Manually charged the battery with a spliced USB cable till it was at 4 volts... nothing. Brought it in to the store they tried a spare battery... sucker was totally non responsive.
HTC warranty phone should be here Wednesday... until then... loaner flip phone!
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That sounds like mine, apart from the charging bit
Took it to the HTC shop and they have to send it away to their "techie" people to confirm it's "dead dead" before they will replace.
Should be 10 days, could be 30.
If i'd bought it online from them apparently i'd have more rights and they'd replace on the spot.... nice......
Didn't even get a loan phone and this is one of HTC's "brand" shops, even detailed on their site. (

So not only you can have death grip and unresponsive screen...but now it's the whole phone that die??
How the hell I am supposed to switch from sgs2, I am too scared now

vegetaleb said:
So not only you can have death grip and unresponsive screen...but now it's the whole phone that die??
How the hell I am supposed to switch from sgs2, I am too scared now
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Why do you bother, just stick with your Samsung, I bet you are really happy with that one.

99% of the people here have no problems, so I wouldn't base your choice on this situation
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Battery not charging.

So I'm s-off and rimunning core Droid rom. And my phone died, and I went to plug it into the charger and all it does is blink then the light jst goes off and nothing happens. Any suggestions?
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ptaylor09 said:
So I'm s-off and rimunning core Droid rom. And my phone died, and I went to plug it into the charger and all it does is blink then the light jst goes off and nothing happens. Any suggestions?
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Hi, go here and have a read, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1137323,
It sounds like a cwm issue you have.
To fix your current issue though you need a battery with some charge in it. There are some ideas out there on how to "jump start" your battery, but i would advise caution using any of the stripped usb cable methods.
Best bet is to get a battery from a friend with a decent charge in it, or put your battery in a friends phone and charge it. Then do the cwm update.

I had the problem, so I updated my CWM and a few days later (now) its dead. LED blinks a few times but thats it.

Any other options ?
Here we go I have the same issue ...
So if all else is working, no error with CWM, what else could be causing the batteries not being charged or takes a veeeeery long time, and still they are not fully charged ?
Battery is not hot, I have rebooted several times, I have tested all kinds of resets, but that does not change anything, still lousy charging.
I have reflashed CoreDroid ROM v2.5 several times, using stock kernel, still no go.
Is the main board malfunctioning, could it be a bad battery, bad cables, what ?

[Q] Pretty Sure Its Gone

But im hoping someone here can tell me otherwise.....
Was at work last night, playing a game on my phone when the battery got low (6%) so i stopped playing, let the phone sit, looked at it a little while later and it was at 2%, it died before i get out of work, no big deal. Get in my car and my car charger isnt working. My car charger has an extra usb outlet on it so i check that with my ipod and it works, so i immediately assume its the phone off charging issue i had before. Except now im not even getting the amber led saying its even trying to charge. Ive tried my wall charger, usb, pulling the battery and leaving it out for a while and nothing. Ive looked around and this has happened to a few people, but they were all under warranty (which i am not) and got it replaced. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if so how did they fix it?

I had the same problem, are you using a custom recovery? The thing that fixed it for me was to charge the battery out of the phone on my external charger
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yeah im using a custom recovery but this hasnt happened to me in a long time. I just recently flashed to the latest CoreDroid and (i think) this is the first time my phone has fully died on me since then but im not sure. My girls friend is gonna come over in a little while, she has the same phone as me so ill see if her battery boots my phone up n if so then ill charge my battery then replace the recovery.

Do: take the dead battery, Sim and micro sd card out. Hold the power button for 5-10 sec. Reassemble, connect wall charger and don't touch anything for at least an hour. Restart, phone should boot now.
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^^^^
Thanks trying this now. Still have no amber charging led but maybe ill get lucky

Probably old recovery with charging issues. Look up threads by vladnosferatu , he posted a revival method ages ago.
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Bronyr said:
Do: take the dead battery, Sim and micro sd card out. Hold the power button for 5-10 sec. Reassemble, connect wall charger and don't touch anything for at least an hour. Restart, phone should boot now.
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Didn't work for me

**** I think the same thing is happening with me.
Okay no, my charger cable was just loose

so, yeah. My phone is officially ****ED. Just put a fully charged battery in it from my girls friends phone, still wont power on :/
This is even more ****ty due to the fact that i have no warranty
ANYONE know ANY way around this?
If i can somehow get HTC to take this back an send a re-furb im deff. selling it and going back to Samsung. This is the 3rd HTC phone ive had thats given me problems.

Interesting. Would be nice to know what caused it. There is a way to check via adb wherever It's alive a bit, but I'm not sure what commands. Try leaving it with battery out overnight for now.
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my computer wont even acknowledge my device never mind adb. Im close to just breaking this damn thing

I've got stuck with this issue on a couple days ago.When I try to plug the charger an LED light will blink all the time and the phone can't turn on, so I left it for about 5 minute(LED still blink all the time and I can't turn it on).After that I pull a charger from the wall and plug it again at the different plug,then an LED light turn normally orange not blink anymore.After a few minute I've tried to turn it on and it work again!

Why no warranty? Don't HTC have at least one year warranty? The phone hasn't even been out that long. HTC fixed my HD2 under warranty even though it was over13months after I bought it.
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Got a hold of HTC. My phone is still under factory warranty gonna send it out tomorrow to have it fixed, the phone doesnt even turn on so im hoping there will be no way for them to find out its rooted.

[Q] HTC One S doesn't power up! blinking LED! please help

My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??

When you plug it into a computer, what comes up?

barezb said:
My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??
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Hey, did you find a solution?
My friend also has a similar problem with his One S...

Mine did the same thing I guess the battery has to charge past 5% before it turns on
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mixalot2008 said:
Mine did the same thing I guess the battery has to charge past 5% before it turns on
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u should never let ur battery get to low,,, keep it charged... leave it alone for awhile..

Did someone find a solution to this? A friend of mine's One S had exactly the same issue..Also recharged for something like 5-6 hours but never turned on again..suggestions?

Only thing you can try is to boot into 'Fastboot' and try reboot from there, not saying it will work but worth a try cuz mine did the same thing 2 days ago and mine was cuz battery dropped lower than 2% while messing around on computer

barezb said:
My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??
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Are you using cwm recovery? If so boot into fastboot and flash twrp. There is a bug with cwm that won't boot the phone while the battery is dead...the led light just flashes and occasionally you will get the screen flash. Unplug the phone from charger and pc, hold volume down + power to enter bootloader then plug into pc to fastboot the twrp recovery.
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I had the same problem a loooooooooooooong time ago. Plug it in, wait for it to have a solid orange LED. Then try to power it on. If that doesn't work, give it a couple more minutes then do a soft reset. If that doesn't work, then you, sir, have a very plush paperweight.

kylepont said:
I had the same problem a loooooooooooooong time ago. Plug it in, wait for it to have a solid orange LED. Then try to power it on. If that doesn't work, give it a couple more minutes then do a soft reset. If that doesn't work, then you, sir, have a very plush paperweight.
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Dude lol, this was resolved Jan.17th but thanks for ur input:thumbup:
HTC One S/Viper/Elemental Kernel 3.4 beta

TheCrow1372 said:
Dude lol, this was resolved Jan.17th but thanks for ur input:thumbup:
HTC One S/Viper/Elemental Kernel 3.4 beta
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I just googled to see if the One S had any other LED colours except for green, orange and amber, because I would like to customise them as well, and I saw this thread on the results. Sadly, green, orange and amber is my lot

kylepont said:
I just googled to see if the One S had any other LED colours except for green, orange and amber, because I would like to customise them as well, and I saw this thread on the results. Sadly, green, orange and amber is my lot
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Yeah that's one of many things that HTC never listens to from suggestions or complaints from end users
HTC One S/Viper/Elemental Kernel 3.4 beta

TheCrow1372 said:
Yeah that's one of many things that HTC never listens to from suggestions or complaints from end users
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I mean... Come on, even though RIM/BlackBerry are in millions of pounds in the red they still fit 16,000,000 colour LEDs. We as HTC users are stuck with three.

Resolved?
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Dude lol, this was resolved Jan.17th but thanks for ur input:thumbup:
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I have the same issue, and I don't see a post that is dated 1/17 or anything from the OP that tells how it was resolved. Care to share?

Unplug your phone, soft reset, go to fastboot, flash twrp recovery and enjoy your phone .

Same problem here I was having random reboots screen frezzing black no response when on fully charged I some how got it fastboot and ran the ics ruu thinking it would fine again since it was stock it worked fine for one day I did update to official tmob jb it stared again except this time it died on full battery finally it just gave out would no longer showing any indication of charging or powering on I sent the phone back to tmo relocked and unrooted and they sent me a new one
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barezb said:
My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??
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I have changed my battery with the battery of the One X+ of 2100 mah, if you read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1888741 many people have succesfully done this, anyway in my case the battery was completly discharged ( zero power ) and when I plug the phone to the charged I got this exact situation: orange blinking led with the screen flashing sometimes. I can enter inside fastboot with the charget pluged it but I cannot start the device. I have left the phone connected to the charger for a lot of hours but it doesn't charge. What can I do?