So I rooted and installed leo rom and it was nice. Wanted to try the neon pyramid rom, installed and all was fine.. I noticed though it seemed as if the battery wasnt charging like it did before. So I chose to let it discharge all the way down to 0 and re charge. All was well, until I went to plug it into the charger and now I get a blinking orange light for a while, then it just turns off (no light.) The phone will not turn on and the only light i get is when i first plug it into the charger it blinks maybe 20 times and thats it.
Are there any tricks I can try to wake this thing from the dead? What should I do?
Any help is appreciated, I need my phone back!
Why did you post this in the Sensation forum? You seem to have a Nexus S, see your signature.
Back to the problem:
What happens is you remove the battery, put it back in and hold the volume down button and power button till you see something...does this work?
This is a known problem and can be easily remedied.
Basically, on some Sensation's, the custom recovery img (CWM) doesn't let you charge when the phone is completely discharged.
To correct this, follow these steps:
Take out the battery and put it back in
Plug in the USB cable to charge the phone
Leave it for an hour or two
Come back
Unplug USB cable and try turning the Sensation on. If this doesn't work, take out the battery and put it back in. DO NOT plug the USB cable back in.
You may have to do this a few times to get it right. For more info, look at this thread.
Hope that helps
I must update my signature...ive got both, but I get nothing when trying to boot to the bootloader
redbullcat said:
This is a known problem and can be easily remedied.
Basically, on some Sensation's, the custom recovery img (CWM) doesn't let you charge when the phone is completely discharged.
To correct this, follow these steps:
Take out the battery and put it back in
Plug in the USB cable to charge the phone
[*}Leave it for an hour or two
Come back
Unplug USB cable and try turning the Sensation on. If this doesn't work, take out the battery and put it back in. DO NOT plug the USB cable back in.
You may have to do this a few times to get it right. For more info, look at this thread.
Hope that helps
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Trying it now, i will let you know, thanks
redbullcat said:
This is a known problem and can be easily remedied.
Basically, on some Sensation's, the custom recovery img (CWM) doesn't let you charge when the phone is completely discharged.
To correct this, follow these steps:
Take out the battery and put it back in
Plug in the USB cable to charge the phone
[*}Leave it for an hour or two
Come back
Unplug USB cable and try turning the Sensation on. If this doesn't work, take out the battery and put it back in. DO NOT plug the USB cable back in.
You may have to do this a few times to get it right. For more info, look at this thread.
Hope that helps
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Tried a couple times, ive got nothing, is there something i am missing?
Ok, the above method did not work, HOWEVER I found another thread and tried it.
I cut the usb cable open, and connected the positive and negative to the leads on the phone, inserted battery and it powered on, now I am charging and good to go. Whew!
Thanks guys!
Michigan Jason said:
Ok, the above method did not work, HOWEVER I found another thread and tried it.
I cut the usb cable open, and connected the positive and negative to the leads on the phone, inserted battery and it powered on, now I am charging and good to go. Whew!
Thanks guys!
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Aha, yeah. Every phone is different I guess
Glad you got it working though
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Hey guys, i've done the search button and still can't find any answers. First of all, all i've done to my phone : S-off, superuser, root. No custom ROM installed. i did that 2days prior yesterday and it was working and charging fine. So yesterday when i was playing paradise island my phone died. I connected it to the USB wall charger and left my room. After 3-4hrs, my phone is still dead. So i thought maybe the USB or wall charger is not working. I tried using my cousin Mytouch wall charger with the htc USB, still doesnt work but using my wallcharger with the mytouch usb, my cousin's phone charges.
When i try to charge my phone, the amber light comes on but its flashing, then after 3 times, light will stop
Troubleshooting i've done
I've tried numerous times to go to HBOOT, nothing
Removed the battery several times, nothing
tried USB charging through my laptop nothing.
Any help guys??
Same issue!
Please help with this!!
CMW
If you search you'll find that there is a problem and after installing CMW Recovery most phones will not charge if they're off, so if you let your battery drain to the last you will be unable to charge your battery trought the phone, no solution at this moment for this
Work arounds
- Charge your battery on a wall charger directly not trought the phone
- Charge your battery on an stock untouched Sensation
AlejoBD said:
If you search you'll find that there is a problem and after installing CMW Recovery most phones will not charge if they're off, so if you let your battery drain to the last you will be unable to charge your battery trought the phone, no solution at this moment for this
Work arounds
- Charge your battery on a wall charger directly not trought the phone
- Charge your battery on an stock untouched Sensation
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Wallcharger, is there one i can purchase??
Is the battery itself the problem?? because t-mobile, will sent me a new battery. I've only had this phone for 3 weeks. IF the battery itself not the problem, they will send me a new phone but i'm assuming that i've going to have to send the old phone back, is there going to be an issue regarding the warranty when i send the old phone to them???
it's not the battery, it's the cmw what's the problem. You have an older version of cmw.
I see, where to get the latest CWM? There's a way to go back to stock right?
Now i kinda regret S-OFF,ROOt, CWM ...lol..-.- i know it's my fault tho...
Once you managed to boot the phone again, you can install rom manager, from there you can easily install the latest cmw.
i have the latest CMW Still doesn't charge when battery at 0%
You would think they would test CMW before releasing....
DiZzle. said:
Once you managed to boot the phone again, you can install rom manager, from there you can easily install the latest cmw.
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I used CWM 4.0.1.4. From what i know its suppose to fix the charging problem. As of right now, im trying to manually charge my battery by splitting on of my old USB cable +wall charger. So hopefully this will work.
None of the threads in the entire forum are even remotely helpful if you can't even get the phone to turn on.
I can't reflash the recovery - if there is no way for me to get into the bootloader.
A wall charger hasn't helped - nor my N1 battery taped in.
NOTHING.
Please stop jumping a million steps ahead to reflashing the recovery - start with HOW TO TURN THE PHONE ON - bearing in mind that NOTHING IN THE FORUM so far has worked.
shar1r said:
None of the threads in the entire forum are even remotely helpful if you can't even get the phone to turn on.
I can't reflash the recovery - if there is no way for me to get into the bootloader.
A wall charger hasn't helped - nor my N1 battery taped in.
NOTHING.
Please stop jumping a million steps ahead to reflashing the recovery - start with HOW TO TURN THE PHONE ON - bearing in mind that NOTHING IN THE FORUM so far has worked.
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I've been using my brothers G2 battery (which doesn't fit) to turn on my phone.
But since I don't have a universal charger, and my phone wont turn on (I tried EVERYTHING) than there is no point to attempt to get into recovery unless I'm going back to stock.
Tl;DR CWM Needs to fix there shhhhhheeeet.
I finally manage to turn on my fone by splitting my old usb cable...i know somone said, its dangerous but it work for me....so do it at your own risk....now im juz looking for a safe wayto revert to stock w/o cwm,root,super user....might keep S-off tho
Any suggestion
If u need to start you fone....get a spare usb cable...and split it..remove the battery from your fone. Now tape the red wire to positive and black to negative....attach the usb to ur wall charger.....then wait 10- 20 min. Now remove ur battery then insert it back to you phone and turn it on. Once it starts, connect it to ur htc usb+ wallcharger.... once again, someone said its dangerous....so make this your last resort
fredrick90005 said:
I finally manage to turn on my fone by splitting my old usb cable...i know somone said, its dangerous but it work for me....so do it at your own risk....now im juz looking for a safe wayto revert to stock w/o cwm,root,super user....might keep S-off tho
Any suggestion
If u need to start you fone....get a spare usb cable...and split it..remove the battery from your fone. Now tape the red wire to positive and black to negative....attach the usb to ur wall charger.....then wait 10- 20 min. Now remove ur battery then insert it back to you phone and turn it on. Once it starts, connect it to ur htc usb+ wallcharger.... once again, someone said its dangerous....so make this your last resort
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Yeah. That didn't work for me. After splitting two cables - I decided to cut my losses.
Unfortunately I'm not in the US - and that's where I bought the phone. I'm going to try and find and independent vendor and see if they have a battery I can buy.
If not - I am ROYALLY screwed.
Yeah the battery/cwm combo is ****ed. So angry.
Do you have the one with the blue text? It's supposed to fix these issues
Swyped from my HTC Sensation
Sorry to revive this thread, but I am in the same boat. After trying to flash android on my brother's hd2, I noticed that the battery died. I cannot charge it since it has no ROM currently installed... Has there been a fix?
Hey all
Ive had my nexus s for over a year now and not had much trouble with it. Untill now
It simply wont turn on.
I was about to install a kernel so i shutdown my phone, it hung so i pulled the battery. When i attempted to turn it on I get nothing. Ive tried to batteries and charging it which has not helped
When i plug it in my computer doesnt reconise it. I cant even boot in to the boot loader
Any ideas?
hal752 said:
Hey all
Ive had my nexus s for over a year now and not had much trouble with it. Untill now
It simply wont turn on.
I was about to install a kernel so i shutdown my phone, it hung so i pulled the battery. When i attempted to turn it on I get nothing. Ive tried to batteries and charging it which has not helped
When i plug it in my computer doesnt reconise it. I cant even boot in to the boot loader
Any ideas?
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Does it show the charging symbol on the powered down phone when you plug the charger in? Maybe your power button is broken.
Make sure you are using the AC adaptor to charge and not a usb cable.
Nope, nothing atall :-(. The only indecation its doing anything is that the battery is getting warm.
Try this with both of your batteries, separately:
1. Remove battery from phone.
2. Wait for 5 minutes.
3. Put battery back in and connect to AC adapter (not usb)
4. Wait 5 minutes.
5. Press the power button.
6. Re-try 1-5 with the other battery.
Same thing happened to me... it seems the phone is not recognizing the power adapter.. ARGGHHHHHH
If anyone as fixed this, please let me know!!
You may want to give this tool a try, see if it does anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
Hi, did you find a solution to this issue? my nexus S won't turn on.
It's getting warmer when plugged in, but it has no indicator of charging, nor is the power button working :S
Any help would be appreciated.
Hi
I would start a new thread since this is one year old....
But please give more information:
Are u rooted or stock?
If rooted, what recovery, what ROM, what was happening prior to issue.. etc.
The more info the better for readers to help give advice.
Good luck
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Hi all,
So my transformer is bricked... completely been trying hard reboot, APX mode, holding power button, HDMI output the list goes on.
My only final resort is what I've read is draining the battery down and trying to recharge it? (Just need some confirmation here please if possible).
I've kept it in the dock, what I've noticed is, in the morning it was green LED now its gone to the amber so something is draining the battery I"m hoping I can get this down to 0.
How long do you guys think with both dock + pad and most likely on standby. Not too sure of the issue here
Anyway, I'm really reluctant to send this back to Asus RMA because in short:
1. First time I sent it, it got returned like a squeaky box. Every where you held it you heard a creak like it was about to snap. They didn't fix some things, and more dust ended up in my camera lens... + had to pay postage..
2. Half fixed, came back with wrong firmware (TW --> US). Could never update ever again, so microsd card updates FTW. No way was I planning on spending an extra month sending my TF back and forth... I paid extra to get the first batch B40 lol.. They replaced everything inside my TF motherboard, screen, Inside LED!?, buttons. Close to the works..
This happened right after I upgraded to ICS, it was the US stock rom booted up fine. my apps were updating, and as everyone else was saying about how some apps caused ICS to slow down I wasn't aware so I thought I would shut it down and power it back up. Since then it's not been able to come up ever again... Any suggestions?
What do you think?
Thanks in advanced.
One other thing, could someone check.. when tablet is docked and OFF. Do the usb ports still work?
Right now, when docked but "bricked" I can still charge my phone via USB.. If someone could test this that would be much appreciated as that could at least eliminate that my TF's battery is dead, right?
get it off the dock, hold volup+pwr, count to six and leave it for a couple of days. You can test if it's empty when you plug it in your pc via the cable. If you get the device plugged sound it means there's still juice there - unplug and press again volup+pwr. when you unplug it from the pc the tab shuts itself down.
if you don't volup+pwr before you plug in the usb it won't turn itself on. but it turns off automatically at unplug, as I said.
after the battery is down, plug the tab to the charger. I don't have the dock so I can only speak about the tab itself. Don't know why, but it works for me everytime. Hope it fixes yours, then, if possible, root and flash something.
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get it off the dock, hold volup+pwr, count to six and leave it for a couple of days. You can test if it's empty when you plug it in your pc via the cable. If you get the device plugged sound it means there's still juice there - unplug and press again volup+pwr. when you unplug it from the pc the tab shuts itself down.
if you don't volup+pwr before you plug in the usb it won't turn itself on. but it turns off automatically at unplug, as I said.
after the battery is down, plug the tab to the charger. I don't have the dock so I can only speak about the tab itself. Don't know why, but it works for me everytime. Hope it fixes yours, then, if possible, root and flash something.
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Hi there,
Thanks, I'll that a try.
It's definitely charging and discharging, the battery brick is warm.. I've never had to connect my tablet to a windows PC. Today I did, it didn't make a sound.. Do I need to fully charge to be able to turn it on?
Normally not. I plug mine to the charger, I don't remember if it stats or I have to press power, when it boots the battery stays at 0% for several minutes.
Sorry for the late reply, did you manage to wake it? It's a long procedure of waiting mainly and can get annoying.
I'm still trying, earlier you had a thread about it poping up through the computer. What was the command you used in Linux?
Windows gives me nothign even when there was power in it.
Thanks.
Thank you sooo much!! It finally has powered back on, I hope this doesn't happen again.
couldn't find any info so i'll see if i can hopefully get some answers
been running my inspire using Existz's ICS rom via the ace hack kit. no problems. i went and picked up an infuse 4g and decided to use it. so had that rooted and running. yesterday backed up everything on the inspire and removed the sim and sd card started using them in the infuse. was still playing games and such on the inspire. here's were things started to act weird. plugged in both phone on the wall charger and powered off the inspire. well it kept rebooting in recovery. i'd go down to power off and it'd come back on. did this maybe 3 times and then finally stayed off. today went to show a friend that was interested in it and it would not power on. no led light, nothing. plugged it in and still nothing. put in the spare battery and no led light or anything. tried to put it into recovery, nadda. put the sim and sd card in thinking it may make a difference, nope. so i'm not getting any power.
any help is appreciated.
BLU CIVIC said:
couldn't find any info so i'll see if i can hopefully get some answers
been running my inspire using Existz's ICS rom via the ace hack kit. no problems. i went and picked up an infuse 4g and decided to use it. so had that rooted and running. yesterday backed up everything on the inspire and removed the sim and sd card started using them in the infuse. was still playing games and such on the inspire. here's were things started to act weird. plugged in both phone on the wall charger and powered off the inspire. well it kept rebooting in recovery. i'd go down to power off and it'd come back on. did this maybe 3 times and then finally stayed off. today went to show a friend that was interested in it and it would power on. no led light, nothing. plugged it in and still nothing. put in the spare battery and no led light or anything. tried to put it into recovery, nadda. put the sim and sd card in thinking it may make a difference, nope. so i'm not getting any power.
any help is appreciated.
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If the phone is not booting at all and even trying a spare battery is not showing signal of life, then take it to a service centre. When the phone is plugged is showing the led light?
No, no led light anymore. Unsure of how whatever happened happened.
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No, no led light anymore. Unsure of how whatever happened happened.
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Try another cable, maybe is failing and the battery just discharge 100%. Have you tried plugging it to the PC?
glevitan said:
Try another cable, maybe is failing and the battery just discharge 100%. Have you tried plugging it to the PC?
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plugged it into the computer and the pc "device connected" sound came on and installing driver pop up window came up, but nothing from the screen or led
BLU CIVIC said:
plugged it into the computer and the pc "device connected" sound came on and installing driver pop up window came up, but nothing from the screen or led
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maybe the screen has issues. Are the capacitive buttons doing anything when you touch them?
No, buttons aren't lighting up either. Going to try some more different cords and try plugging it into my wife's mac book and see if that does anything.
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well still nothing. any recommendations on where i can take or send my phone to get repaired?
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well still nothing. any recommendations on where i can take or send my phone to get repaired?
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I have no idea about that...but send an email to HTC to see what they tell you...
Try letting it sit and charge for a while second try to boot into hboot. I'm assuming that you rooted your phone so going through HTC for repair is not an option. I had a similar issue I ended up booting into hboot and then flashing a stock rooted img and starting all over with my phone.
Since your computer recognizes the device, did you try to send it a reboot command via adb?
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No I did not. Not sure how to to do it that way, but I'm sure I can find out how.
After reading a couple threads where people have had the same issue, I left the battery in it and placed it on the nightstand. It started to vibrate a few times and when I hit power I get a solid red led. Will have to search and see what that means.
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It sounds like it could be a bad battery. Given the red light, what has me wondering in the vibration prior to you pushing the power button. It almost sounds like the phone shutting down from low battery, but you said it wasn't on.
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Just a little note on Android phones. If you let them die completely they will not charge the battery from a PC or computer of any kind. The ports on a PC only provide 500ma max and it require at least 1 amp to charge a dead battery. That can only be accomplished by the wall charger that was supplied with the phone. If you are using another charger make sure it says on it that is can supply at least 1 amp or 1000ma any thing less will not charge a dead battery. Also note if the battery is completely dead, then the phone will not charge any way. The phone has to be able to power up and load the OS in order to charge. Androids use a software based charger that does not know how to charge unless the phone can boot and preload the the boot part of the OS. You may need an external charger the battery alone can be placed in or buy a new battery as they will usually have enough of a charge to get you going.
As the previous poster said, it sounds like you have a bad cable from the beginning and all you did is discharged it completely. Get a new cable and try the wall charger. If that does not work then spend 20 bucks and get a new battery.
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It sounds like it could be a bad battery. Given the red light, what has me wondering in the vibration prior to you pushing the power button. It almost sounds like the phone shutting down from low battery, but you said it wasn't on.
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vibrated a couple times when i was in bed. got up and hit the power button and just the red light would come on, nothing else. generally when i had a low battery the phone would boot up, then shut off. not in this case
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Just a little note on Android phones. If you let them die completely they will not charge the battery from a PC or computer of any kind. The ports on a PC only provide 500ma max and it require at least 1 amp to charge a dead battery. That can only be accomplished by the wall charger that was supplied with the phone. If you are using another charger make sure it says on it that is can supply at least 1 amp or 1000ma any thing less will not charge a dead battery. Also note if the battery is completely dead, then the phone will not charge any way. The phone has to be able to power up and load the OS in order to charge. Androids use a software based charger that does not know how to charge unless the phone can boot and preload the the boot part of the OS. You may need an external charger the battery alone can be placed in or buy a new battery as they will usually have enough of a charge to get you going.
As the previous poster said, it sounds like you have a bad cable from the beginning and all you did is discharged it completely. Get a new cable and try the wall charger. If that does not work then spend 20 bucks and get a new battery.
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well i have 2 batteries, 2 different plug adapters, 3 different cords and a car charger. tried six different ways charging from a wall adapter and flip flopped batteries as i changed cords and plugging it into the car charger. each cord and the car charger works with my infuse and worked with the inspire that day. battery was at 3/4 when i plugged it in. i guess could try a new batter, but i'm doubtful.
My phone was perfectly fine today, I used it all day without a problem. the battery was at 2 percent so I turned it off until I had access to a charger, about five minutes later. I plugged it in and no response; no vibration, no battery charging animation, pressing power button doesn't do anything, holding power button doesn't do anything. Tried taking the battery out while leaving the charger in for a minute or two, then reinserting the battery and immediately hitting power (per someone's instructions I found on an older thread) and same deal, no response. Tried letting the battery sit out for a few minutes and then put it back in, plugged the phone back in, no response. I have not recently dropped it or spilled anything on it or anything like that. I'm running a cm10 nightly from a couple weeks back. I've tried three different chargers in four different outlets, as well as trying the two that had usb connectors in different usb ports on my computer. Nothing. I have no idea what's going on, I was texting my friend and playing words with friends, that's about as intensive and complex my usage got today. I don't have any weird kernels or undervolting or overclocking or anything like that, just cm10 with a few core apps and one or two games. I'm really f****d if my phone won't work, I'm currently out of town for a few months so now I have no way to really contact anyone. I'm really hoping someone reads this and knows what the hell's going on, the threads I was able to find about people who had a problem similar to mine were resolved in booting into download mode and flashing a stock rom via odin..but of course I can't get into download mode, honestly it seems like it must be a usb problem because my computer doesn't recognize it and it won't charge anywhere. I would seriously appreciate anyone's help right now.
Don't write so much. No one will read it. Take a deep breath, take the battery out, take 3 deep breaths, put it in. Let it charge 15 minutes, it'll seem like a life time. Should work after that.
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If you are trying to get into DL mode by just hitting the power button it won't happen. lol Try this. Pull battery, plug phone into usb cable, plug usb cable into computer, hold volume up AND down, reinsert battery. That will bring up DL mode. Report back if that works or not to further diagnose the problem.
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If you are trying to get into DL mode by just hitting the power button it won't happen. lol Try this. Pull battery, plug phone into usb cable, plug usb cable into computer, hold volume up AND down, reinsert battery. That will bring up DL mode. Report back if that works or not to further diagnose the problem.
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Pulled and reinserted battery, let charge for an hour or so, still nothing. Also, no download mode.
Have you tried a different usb cable, cleaned usb port on phone? Pretty sure battery is just dead but could be faulty power button....
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Take the phone to a PC plug it in hold the power button and see what device manager says
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If you can't get into DL mode via my instructions above it could be your battery or the USB port. If you can take the battery to a store and have it charged. Then boot up and plug it in. If you still get nothing your USB port is most likely shot. A good repair shop can swap them out fairly cheap.
This happened to me once. After freaking out for a couple hours it finally started to take a charge only from the wall mounted charger. it has never happened again so I don't know what caused it or why it finally started to take a charge.
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Well thanks for the advice guys, I think it's probably my battery. I took it to the att store today, they hooked it up and told me that the phone has no water damage but the battery apparently does. I'm assuming there's nothing wrong with the usb port because before they did their diagnostic such and such they told me it was most likely either the port or the battery..so I can only assume the usb port's fine. Just ordered a new battery per their advice, figured I'd go with the extended 3850 mah with the larger cover included. Never bought an extended battery so I guess it can't hurt to try one out.