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Tethering vs. My droid2

I relay on tethering for all my internet needs (browsing and ps3) All of the apps available heat my phone up so hot that the moto logo on the battwry cover turned black and fell off. Already gone througj 2 batteries in 3 months.
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You posted this in the wrong section.
However, if you've got the phone plugged in, you can remove the battery. You're killing batteries due to the heat and the constant charging. Lithium Ion batteries don't enjoy being roasted, nor do they enjoy being charged all the time.
Also, if the phone is getting that hot, perhaps you should place an icepack on it, making sure to put something between the phone and the ice pack to prevent the condensation/moisture from destroying your phone.
I'm assuming that you're doing "illegal" tethering, in which case, using it as your primary source of internet, I'd hope Verizon never gets keen to you or your bill will bankrupt you for sure.

danthemanohhyea said:
I'm assuming that you're doing "illegal" tethering, in which case, using it as your primary source of internet, I'd hope Verizon never gets keen to you or your bill will bankrupt you for sure.
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Exactly... you might want to rethink your tethering strategy.

I keep my phone on the dock with a mini fan for the heat. I tried pulling the battery but phone won't boot without it.
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Take the battery out after the phone is on.

you cant just take out the battery and plug it in, i just tried. i leave mine in the window and check on it every now and then, if it gets over 100 degrees i stop tethering for awhile, but i can play DCUO on my laptop for about 3 hours before i have to shut it down if its cold enough outside.

shivsmo said:
you cant just take out the battery and plug it in, i just tried. i leave mine in the window and check on it every now and then, if it gets over 100 degrees i stop tethering for awhile, but i can play DCUO on my laptop for about 3 hours before i have to shut it down if its cold enough outside.
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I've ran my phone without the battery installed quite a few times, never had problems..
You must turn on phone without charger plugged in, then plug in charger, then remove battery.

danthemanohhyea said:
I've ran my phone without the battery installed quite a few times, never had problems..
You must turn on phone without charger plugged in, then plug in charger, then remove battery.
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It doesn't work I just tried, followed your steps exactly. My Droid 2 shuts off and tries to restart but comes to a screen with a battery symbol and a question mark inside of the battery, basically the phone is saying " wait, where the **** is my battery". If all your guys' phone's work without the battery then mine is like the only one that doesn't.

shivsmo said:
It doesn't work I just tried, followed your steps exactly. My Droid 2 shuts off and tries to restart but comes to a screen with a battery symbol and a question mark inside of the battery, basically the phone is saying " wait, where the **** is my battery". If all your guys' phone's work without the battery then mine is like the only one that doesn't.
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Dunno what to tell you, works for me.

danthemanohhyea said:
Dunno what to tell you, works for me.
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Really, wow lol.

danthemanohhyea said:
Dunno what to tell you, works for me.
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Are you stock? if not what ROM do you use because I'm running Liberty 1.5 and I just tried it connected to AC power and it rebooted like what was said.

newk8600 said:
Are you stock? if not what ROM do you use because I'm running Liberty 1.5 and I just tried it connected to AC power and it rebooted like what was said.
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I think I was using a version of Fission ROM, but I don't remember.. I don't tether too much anymore since my work got wifi installed.

[Q] Battery/Charging Problem

Heya all!
So a few a week before Christmas I unrooted my inspire to give to my girlfriend for christmas and she liked it very much.
She used it for a few weeks but a few days after New Years she said it wouldn't turn on and when she plugged her phone in to the charger it did something weird.
So I went over and checked it out...
When I plugged the inspire in the screen lit up showed a full green battery and the LED was amber and blinking then it suddenly went looked as if it wasnt charging anymore... Then it showed the screen and went blank and did this cycle for a few minutes....
She used all the wall plugs in her house and her laptop and got the same results... So is this a charging or a battery issue? Any help would be appreciated
Thank you all in advance!
EDIT: Also when the battery comes on the screen there is no % sign

bilibox said:
Heya all!
So a few a week before Christmas I unrooted my inspire to give to my girlfriend for christmas and she liked it very much.
She used it for a few weeks but a few days after New Years she said it wouldn't turn on and when she plugged her phone in to the charger it did something weird.
So I went over and checked it out...
When I plugged the inspire in the screen lit up showed a full green battery and the LED was amber and blinking then it suddenly went looked as if it wasnt charging anymore... Then it showed the screen and went blank and did this cycle for a few minutes....
She used all the wall plugs in her house and her laptop and got the same results... So is this a charging or a battery issue? Any help would be appreciated
Thank you all in advance!
EDIT: Also when the battery comes on the screen there is no % sign
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Sounds Like a bad battery but is also symptoms of a failing main board. Try a different battery if you got one and if it still fails, send it in for warranty

Gizmoe said:
Sounds Like a bad battery but is also symptoms of a failing main board. Try a different battery if you got one and if it still fails, send it in for warranty
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Just ordered a battery and should be here in 2 days or so .... Then Ill go and try it around saturday... Hopefully thats just what it is!
And if not I shall just send it in...
Thank you for your help!
Also another question... If the main board has died do they replace the whole phone?

Don't know for sure, but you will probably get one that has already been refurbished. That's usually how it works.

Did you try another Charger or USB
Did you try another charger and or USB? The reason I ask is i had a issue with mine not exactly the same; however similar. I would charge for hours and only get a 3- 5 % increase. I thought my battery had went. Then I was connected to my car charger and it seamed to work a better. I then tried my wife's charger for her Atrix and it worked fine. My charger had went bad. If you haven't tried another charger it my be a good idea.
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Woke up to a dead i727

Hi Guys,
I need thought my own Sky would give me problems since i take care of it so well :crying:
So last night i put the phone on my night table to charge, it had 9% battery left and the phone beeped since i plugged the charger and it was charging, now in the morning when i realize i'm late for work, i went to check my phone and it was dead(no alarm this morning). It was all plugged in still the charger and battery. Now i got to work and a work partner has a Sky too, i tested his battery on my Sky and nothing, tested my battery on his Sky and worked so my battery is fine(it was 100%), i tested my charger on his Sky and charged, i tested his charger on mine and nothing.
Tried plugging the phone with only usb cable to the pc without battery to reach download mode or recovery but nothing.
Now since our batteries are fine and chargers, im assuming my motherboard died which i was thinking if the battery would work it was going to be the charging port.
Is there a way to test each part of the phone o be more accurate about this issue?
Thanks in advance.

Can you get into download, recovery? Any vibration on long press power button? What rom was it on.. How long? Etc. Need a bit more info.
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toyes said:
Can you get into download, recovery? Any vibration on long press power button? What rom was it on.. How long? Etc. Need a bit more info.
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The phone won't do anything at all, i have fixed Sky's power button before and this is really weird. Stock Rom/Kernel, it was Android 4.1.2 and i have it for like 1year and 6 months.
If you need anything else let me know.
One more thing that could help, lately i noticed that the phone wasn't charging as fast as usual.I installed the Skyrocket charging app and when i plugged the charger to the phone it would say Fast Charge A/C 900~ mA and after like 30 seconds it would go down to 800, 700, 600 and then say Charger Wakelock 500~ mA.
Im really starting to think my board died.

Dead board. It happened to me on another Samsung phone a few weeks go. Came home from a day of fun. Put phone on table and plugged it in. Went to bed. Woke up to a completely non responsive phone. Got a new battery just in case. Still nothing. It was a great phone too. Oh well at least it died in it's sleep. lol

it happened to my sons s2 i9100, went to charge it and when he went back to it and it was dead, got it repaired under ext. warranty but cant find invoice on what they fixed if they even stated what they fixed, my guess mobo

theesotericone said:
Dead board. It happened to me on another Samsung phone a few weeks go. Came home from a day of fun. Put phone on table and plugged it in. Went to bed. Woke up to a completely non responsive phone. Got a new battery just in case. Still nothing. It was a great phone too. Oh well at least it died in it's sleep. lol
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vincom said:
it happened to my sons s2 i9100, went to charge it and when he went back to it and it was dead, got it repaired under ext. warranty but cant find invoice on what they fixed if they even stated what they fixed, my guess mobo
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OH Jesus Christ, i'll try to get a new mobo then and update this.
And i'll lose all my data and will have to restore a Kies Backup from May-2013. Great!:highfive::victory: :crying:

Had this happen once or twice. It turned out that the usb port on the bottom of the phone had some junk that accumulated in there as well as some signs of minor corrosion, and was not making a good connection anymore. It just needed to be cleaned out. First, I think I just (very carefully) used a needle or safety pin or something like that to gently extract the lint/dust/crap out of the port, and then cleaned up the metal connectors in the port, and one of the back inside corners where I saw a little bit of green/white build up, with a little bit of isopropyl alcohol. I let it sit for a little bit to make sure it was dry and when I plugged it in, it started charging again. I happened to have an Optivisor lying around which made it a bit easier to see what I was doing, but it isn't necessary. The most annoying part was getting a small, focused beam of light from a flashlight into the port at just the right angle, and then figuring out how to keep it there while I worked. Shouldn't take long, and as long as you don't do something really dumb, it can't hurt to give it a try.

Except that he ruled that out by swapping batteries with his friends phone.
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Pixel XL power off by its own and won't turn on

Hi Guys,
I need help here. I can't send the phone back for warranty because I've imported it from else where. Also I didnt root it or install any mods or whatsoever. Running 7.1.2
I was just surfing the net, nothing fancy was loaded. It was in battery saver mode which means it should be in the range of 20ish% when all of a sudden it just shut down. Thinking it was perhaps low on battery and it shut down by itself I put it to charge, but there was no indication that it was charging.
I tried turning it on by holding on to the power button for almost a minute and nothing happens even when I waited for 10 mins and try again.
So i tried going to recovery mode but pressing power and vol. down button, after waiting for almost a minute there was a short vibration and thats it. And if I continue holding on to it, there was 5-6 short vibrations.
Is there anyone who can help me on this?
Thanks.

Maybe Battery Problem

STORMING BLOOD17 said:
Maybe Battery Problem
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Thanks for the reply!
Is there anything I can do about it? What about the vibrations I get when I hold the vol down and power button does it mean anything?

Maybe test the charger on a different device to be certain there is power going to the phone. Then leave it plugged in, walk away for 1 hour. Come back and try again... I've had devices seem to be completely dead because there was literally nothing in the battery. Plugged them in for a while, came back, worked like a charm. Of course this might be a long shot. Still worth a try. Good luck!

troy` said:
Maybe test the charger on a different device to be certain there is power going to the phone. Then leave it plugged in, walk away for 1 hour. Come back and try again... I've had devices seem to be completely dead because there was literally nothing in the battery. Plugged them in for a while, came back, worked like a charm. Of course this might be a long shot. Still worth a try. Good luck!
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I see.. thanks for the suggestion! I'll plug it in and perhaps take a nap. And keep my fingers crossed in my dreams.

deception83 said:
I see.. thanks for the suggestion! I'll plug it in and perhaps take a nap. And keep my fingers crossed in my dreams.
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Tak the battery Out.
Rub the (+ & -) Polaris on your hair or a carpet (so it gets an electric energy) for 30 seconds.
Now place your tongue on tye polarises if you fell an electric shocked your thongue that means battery works fine.
Or else Its A problem in the battery

STORMING BLOOD17 said:
Tak the battery Out.
Rub the (+ & -) Polaris on your hair or a carpet (so it gets an electric energy) for 30 seconds.
Now place your tongue on tye polarises if you fell an electric shocked your thongue that means battery works fine.
Or else Its A problem in the battery
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You must've bought the Pixel with a removable battery...

troy` said:
You must've bought the Pixel with a removable battery...
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HAHAHAHAAHHA
I dont own the phone but i thought it has a removable battery.
I was just seaching and I found this question

troy` said:
Maybe test the charger on a different device to be certain there is power going to the phone. Then leave it plugged in, walk away for 1 hour. Come back and try again... I've had devices seem to be completely dead because there was literally nothing in the battery. Plugged them in for a while, came back, worked like a charm. Of course this might be a long shot. Still worth a try. Good luck!
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Doesn't seem to work.. Any more ideas?

Couple months back my pixel turned off while using it and called support, they replaced it under warranty. I never found out why it went dead. I know this don't help..
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Just a quick update. I found a phone repair company whom were willing and is able to try repair my phone.
Will be back to post their findings if they are indeed able to do it.

Did you ever get this issue sorted?
I have the exact same problem.

non responsive s6

Hello, my niece brought me an faulty s6 and asked if i could fix it. Since i used to repair peoples phones a few years ago.
When i got it, it was completely dead, except a white light of doom on the led bulb when i tried to boot in DLmode/recovery. That later stopped lighting too. I then tried to change the battery for a new one. It didn't change a thing, so i thought it might be the charging port. So i got a qi charger...
So here we are, the qi charger tries to charge it (i can see the light animation for it). The phone gets warm but no sign of any juice to the battery..
Can't see any next steps that are worthwhile..
I would really like to get the data off the phone tho..
Any ideas?

pzayx said:
Hello, my niece brought me an faulty s6 and asked if i could fix it. Since i used to repair peoples phones a few years ago.
When i got it, it was completely dead, except a white light of doom on the led bulb when i tried to boot in DLmode/recovery. That later stopped lighting too. I then tried to change the battery for a new one. It didn't change a thing, so i thought it might be the charging port. So i got a qi charger...
So here we are, the qi charger tries to charge it (i can see the light animation for it). The phone gets warm but no sign of any juice to the battery..
Can't see any next steps that are worthwhile..
I would really like to get the data off the phone tho..
Any ideas?
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Do you get any sign of life plugging into a pc? Adb is your best bet to get data but you need to be careful using it.
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jr866gooner said:
Do you get any sign of life plugging into a pc? Adb is your best bet to get data but you need to be careful using it.
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Nope, no life at all. Don't think I'll be able to salvage this one