My phone is rooted with stock rom. The only changes are listed below
Froze bloat that was safe
changed bootanimation to stock samsung
replaced some apps with inverted versions of themselves (ex. google +, stock messaging)
Here goes:
I was using navigation and I noticed that my phone was off after I had finished. Nothing worked at all, I could not boot into recovery or download. I connected the phone to a charger and red led flashes and an empty battery appears. The battery was full. I could reboot the phone while on the charger, but it would shut off as soon as it got to the homescreen. While off, If I pressed the home button, the green battery would appear as if it were charging. From here I could boot into recovery and download mode. The phone will only boot into these modes while connected to the charger. Here is where it went bad. I attempted to restore a backup while the phone was on the car charger and my car charger got pulled out in the middle of a restore. No charger meant that the phone shut off mid restore. Now, when I plug in the phone, the red led appears and the empty battery with a circle inside appears and then goes away. This repeats itself over and over and the phone buzzes when the empty battery reappears. I can still boot into download mode but not recovery. If I try to flash the stock samsung rom via odin, it says that it passes, however upon automatic reboot the samsung appears and nothing else. After the samsung appears the phone just continues to buzz every 5 seconds or so as if it is trying to do something. Could it be a bootloop? I have done a ton of searching here and now I am resorting to help! Your time is appreciated and beers on me if you can help me get my phone back to normal.
What Rom/kernel were you using before this happened? If custom, which one?
I have another thread a few posts down with the same topic. I am going to delete this one. I was stock rom and kernel. For some reason the phone will not recognize the battery. I tried a new one at verizon and the same thing. I can now boot into both recovery and download mode when connected to the charger , but the phone shuts off as soon as it boots and shows an empty battery with a circle in the middle. Sometimes it does not make it through the verizon boot animation and sometimes it makes it all the way to the homescreen and I can make a few selections before it turns off. After flashing the stock kernel and rom in odin I believe i am completely stock, however I do not want to chance sending the phone into Verizon. I believe that I saw a thread before this happened to me talking about having to calibrate the battery in some way and it had an item to flash in order to fix the problem. I can not find it now. Any ideas? Now that I can access recovery is there anything else that can be done? Why won't the phone recognize that it has a battery? As soon as I pull it off the charger it shuts off. When it is on the charger it appears to be charging and the green in the battery appears to be at about 80% but the level does not move up or down at all. Thank you for your help ahead of time.
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what am I supposed to do in this instance?
matt2k12 said:
what am I supposed to do in this instance?
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Ok when I leave it there to charge after about 5 minutes it tries to boot up again on its own... its like a boot loop but it stays turned off for about 5 mins in between.
Now I believe its officially stuck at the CM logo screen after the data only back up and restore. It stopped turning off which I think was due to battery and when I plugged it into the PC it turned on and has been at the CM logo screen for about an hour now.
It also refuses to boot into recovery now. Stock or Open Recovery. It only shows the green charging LED and when I do a force shut down it blinks on and back on in about 1 second. I have no clue what the deal is. I'm going to try and flash a stock image with RSD Lite and try it all again.
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Your battery is empty. You can't flash anything via fastboot in such state.
When the battery is empty while starting the phone, the bootloader charges it a bit first (that green LED). Only when the battery is charged a little, it switches to boot.
What you want to do is to catch the moment when it starts to boot and hold the volume-up to get to OpenRecovery. OR supports charging so you can let the battery charge more there.
kabaldan said:
Your battery is empty. You can't flash anything via fastboot in such state.
When the battery is empty while starting the phone, the bootloader charges it a bit first (that green LED). Only when the battery is charged a little, it switches to boot.
What you want to do is to catch the moment when it starts to boot and hold the volume-up to get to OpenRecovery. OR supports charging so you can let the battery charge more there.
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Thank you again for your responses.
I was thinking along those lines... But it seems like as soon as it gets a charge that it goes right into the boot logo. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground to go to any recovery mode. I was stuck in a similar situation before but it wasn't constantly trying to boot.
Here is what happened:
When I flashed data only, I selected "reboot after" option so it is constantly trying to do that re-boot but since it cant boot it stays at the CM logo I guess until the phone dies. Then it charges for a while with the green LED and then it tries to boot again. I have tried to access all kinds of recovery and fastboot and everything at the usual intervals and I cant get it to start any recovery mode because it is still following the re-boot command from Open Recovery.
I will keep trying but this time seems different than when I had low battery/no recovery in the past instances. Something is overriding my recovery and I think it has to do with the Open Recovery reboot after flashing command.... I even opened up the back of the phone and disconnected the battery and its still not working.
kabaldan said:
Your battery is empty. You can't flash anything via fastboot in such state.
When the battery is empty while starting the phone, the bootloader charges it a bit first (that green LED). Only when the battery is charged a little, it switches to boot.
What you want to do is to catch the moment when it starts to boot and hold the volume-up to get to OpenRecovery. OR supports charging so you can let the battery charge more there.
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matt2k12 said:
Thank you again for your responses.
I was thinking along those lines... But it seems like as soon as it gets a charge that it goes right into the boot logo. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground to go to any recovery mode. I was stuck in a similar situation before but it wasn't constantly trying to boot.
Here is what happened:
When I flashed data only, I selected "reboot after" option so it is constantly trying to do that re-boot but since it cant boot it stays at the CM logo I guess until the phone dies. Then it charges for a while with the green LED and then it tries to boot again. I have tried to access all kinds of recovery and fastboot and everything at the usual intervals and I cant get it to start any recovery mode because it is still following the re-boot command from Open Recovery.
I will keep trying but this time seems different than when I had low battery/no recovery in the past instances. Something is overriding my recovery and I think it has to do with the Open Recovery reboot after flashing command.... I even opened up the back of the phone and disconnected the battery and its still not working.
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I got fastboot working by plugging the phone into a dedicated AC power charger, not one with a USB adapter. Then I let it sit on the boot screen for a couple hours. This way it fully charged the battery and I could bring up fastboot.
What was happening with the USB adapter was that it would try to boot, die, and refuse to go to fastboot, over and over again. I would not have got it working without a dedicated AC power charger.
That literally happened to me a few days ago. Fastboot will say a warning on the screen, somewhere around the middle, "Battery Low" or something along those lines, I paid it no attention, as I knew it was plugged in and should've been charging through my processes. Well, the battery has to be at least 50%+ charged before fastboot will allow any connectivity or communication with ADB or Fastboot on pc. Facepalm.
Always double check battery charge at least 60% or more to be in the safe side, or you risk to soft-brick to even hard-brick your phone.
Sorry if I explain this horribly, will try and be as descriptive as i can.
Was using CM 10.2. Had a problem, which I was on the way to fixing. I was having an internal storage fault which was fixed by using stock recovery, could then flash TWRP back and everything worked fine. Then one day it all decided to die. Phone would just get past the HTC logo screen and would then die before booting Android. I could however get into bootloader/fastboot/recovery ok. However could not mount internal storage-windows wasn't picking it up when plugged in, so flashed stock recovery again and this seemed to make it mountable again. So was able to put CM 10.2 back, so re-flashed CM with no joy, wiped caches and data etc, still nothing. Didn't want to boot Android. Boot.img was flashed and everything. Went back into bootloader, however upon unplugging the USB cable, the phone turned off.
Tried turning the phone back on and it just showed the HTC logo screen for a slit second and died.. then showed it again for a split second. Does the same for the recovery screen if you hold down Vol Down and power - shows it for a split second and then dies.
But if you plug the charger in (orange light comes on) and turn it on, the orange light goes off.. stays off for a moment..and then comes back on, phone does not turn on. BUT if you press the power button and the orange light turns off and then you quickly hold the Vol Down and power button at the same time (before the orange light comes back on) it will bring up the bootloader.. and it stays on. I can try booting and it shows the HTC logo screen as normal but then turns off again before booting android (same problem i was having before the charger issue). I can go into TWRP recovery no problem, i did factory reset for good measure while there but the moment you remove the charger, it turns off. Its like the battery is totally dead but TWRP shows it as 90+ %
If you leave it to charge completely and the orange light turns green. It WILL bring up the HTC logo screen as normal (not for a split second) but eventually turns off again and doesn't boot android. Green light then turns orange again and it only shows the screens for a split second.
I've flashed this phone with a couple of ROMS before and have had my share of issues but nothing like this, i'm stumped. I think Android not booting up and the charger issue could be unrelated but I could be wrong, never faced this kind of problem. Been looking around, cant find an issue like this, i fear it could be a hardware issue as supposed to a battery calibration issue.
I would like to drain the battery completely and give it a full charge just to see what happens but i cannot keep the phone on without it charging, so cannot drain the battery...
Any help/advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Sorry if I explain this horribly, will try and be as descriptive as i can.
Was using CM 10.2. Had a problem, which I was on the way to fixing. I was having an internal storage fault which was fixed by using stock recovery, could then flash TWRP back and everything worked fine. Then one day it all decided to die. Phone would just get past the HTC logo screen and would then die before booting Android. I could however get into bootloader/fastboot/recovery ok. However could not mount internal storage-windows wasn't picking it up when plugged in, so flashed stock recovery again and this seemed to make it mountable again. So was able to put CM 10.2 back, so re-flashed CM with no joy, wiped caches and data etc, still nothing. Didn't want to boot Android. Boot.img was flashed and everything. Went back into bootloader, however upon unplugging the USB cable, the phone turned off.
Tried turning the phone back on and it just showed the HTC logo screen for a slit second and died.. then showed it again for a split second. Does the same for the recovery screen if you hold down Vol Down and power - shows it for a split second and then dies.
But if you plug the charger in (orange light comes on) and turn it on, the orange light goes off.. stays off for a moment..and then comes back on, phone does not turn on. BUT if you press the power button and the orange light turns off and then you quickly hold the Vol Down and power button at the same time (before the orange light comes back on) it will bring up the bootloader.. and it stays on. I can try booting and it shows the HTC logo screen as normal but then turns off again before booting android (same problem i was having before the charger issue). I can go into TWRP recovery no problem, i did factory reset for good measure while there but the moment you remove the charger, it turns off. Its like the battery is totally dead but TWRP shows it as 90+ %
If you leave it to charge completely and the orange light turns green. It WILL bring up the HTC logo screen as normal (not for a split second) but eventually turns off again and doesn't boot android. Green light then turns orange again and it only shows the screens for a split second.
I've flashed this phone with a couple of ROMS before and have had my share of issues but nothing like this, i'm stumped. I think Android not booting up and the charger issue could be unrelated but I could be wrong, never faced this kind of problem. Been looking around, cant find an issue like this, i fear it could be a hardware issue as supposed to a battery calibration issue.
I would like to drain the battery completely and give it a full charge just to see what happens but i cannot keep the phone on without it charging, so cannot drain the battery...
Any help/advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.
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I tried to understand as much as i can and it seems like a corrupted BL/recovery .Have u tried flashing your stock rom?If there is still a problem , then it may be a hardware issue . Try contacting HTC service centre if it's a hardware issue.
If it's not a hardware issue then try flashing some other room and recovery.
Hello,
I flashed the latest LRX22C image on my nexus 5 today.Had flashed it clean,wiping data,cache and system etc except the Internal Storage.Then I flashed the SUPERSU 2.37 ZIP .Everything was fine for about 4 hours.Then suddenly when I pressed the power button to turn the screen off,it was not turning off and the "Switch off" mode was popping up instead .Then, when I got a call,it switched off.The phone won't turn on again.It starts,the Google Boot Splash appears and the bootanimation starts for like 2 seconds and it switches off.Same thing for bootloader mode.
Please Help me!
EDIT: Now its turning on by itself and switches off in 2 seconds!
Sounds like a bad power switch to me, but of course that is just my opinion. :good:
sounds like a mech issue.
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I have the same problem on mine now... Basically my phone powered down around 45%. Battery. At the time i thought it was dead... But it wasnt. When i would plug into external power, either usb or through wireless charging it would power cycle continuously at the android splash screen.... (1 to 2 second intervals - even if i booted into fastboot) Interestingly it would never go to the battery charging mode. But automatically boot on charge... It did this for about 6 hours then i gave up and left it unplugged for a day. I plugged it back in and it started power cycling again, however this time on its third boot it came back to life . thats when i discovered i still had 40% battery... I dont know what exactly made it boot but it did. Oddly also on boot, it started optimising apps and finishing install again. I checked the md5 before I installed the update so no issue there. Since it powered up i have powered the phone off using the power button long push and let the phone power down. After doing this when i plug the phone in to usb charge it goes to the charge screen. No issue. That said, if i try to power up while tethered and charging it will not allow it. It just stays at the charge screen. As soon as i unplug the usb the power button allows the phone to power up and work... When booted up it charges as normal when plugged in. Im convinced there is an issue with the power management drivers or drivers for the button controls. My phone worked fine until the 5.0.1 update was installed. On my nexus 5. Anyone else or just us two? Ive had a hard time finding people posting on this issue.
I have a d850 that I bought used. It came with the stock updated image.
I rooted the phone, used an autorec app from the store to get TWRP on it, took a backup of the rooted image, (after much failed fiddling with other methods) and flashed the latest CM nightly for the D850 on it. After much fiddling, I finally found a GApps package that worked and flashed that as well to get CM working properly, then took another backup.
At this point I was pretty happy that I had everything working how I wanted. However, I paired my phone with my vehicle (bluetooth) and shortly afterwards the phone shut off.
In this state, the buttons on the phone produce no result. I tried a battery pull, plugging it in and some other shenanigans and nothing worked. Just when I was about to declare it bricked, I discovered something. If I pull the battery, and then plug the phone into power, the error screen comes up. At this point, I could reinsert the battery and the phone would switch to the powered off charging mode (green battery icon). From here, I can reboot the phone into recovery mode (via button pushes), but only if I remove the charge cable once the LG screen comes up. If I don't remove the charging cable, the LG screen comes up, then the phone switches back to powered off charging mode (green battery icon). From recovery (TWRP) I can boot the system back up normally and everything runs fine. I can reboot the phone without issue. However, if I power off the phone, I have to play the pull the battery, plug the cable game again.
I have no idea what portion of the phone (bootloader, recovery image, image, etc) controls what the buttons do when the phone is off. Anyone have any ideas on what I have hosed or how I can fix it?
UPDATE: I found a second method today. Inserting the battery while holding down the power button will also boot the phone successfully. Still clunky, but less clunky.
Hello, I flashed this phone from CN to WW using the `flashall_AFT.cmd` script. It worked fine except the battery indicator at the top would stay pinned at 100%. I ignored this and eventually let the phone die the next day while playing games on it. After that, the phone has been semi-bricked.
The phone does not turn on at all unless it is plugged into the charger.
If I plug the charger into the bottom port on the phone:
1. Android logo flashes for .2 seconds
2. Phone shuts off for 5 seconds
3. Steps 1-2 repeat until I unplug it again
If I plugin the charger to the side port on the phone:
1 The green charging circle with the lighting bolt shows up for a few seconds
2. It changes to the main boot screen
3. Phone shuts off for 5 seconds
5. Steps 1-3 will repeat until I unplug it again
I can still boot the phone into fastboot mode when it is charging from the side port. I used this to re-flash the phone using the `flashall_AFT.cmd` script again, but that did not solve the boot loop problem. What else can I try now to get the phone working again?
Update: I tried to flash it one more time using `flashall_AFT.cmd` with the 1.1.92 WW raw image. It completely froze while on `Sending sparse 'super' 6/14`. The phone no longer boots at all and does not connect to my computer. I just see a solid red light at the top of the screen when it is plugged in. If I hold both volume buttons and the power button all at the same time for about 10 seconds, the red light will briefly turn off, but that is all I can make the phone do at this point.
you'll probably need to use a 9008 rescue tool to have any chance at saving it at this point.... I'd say just sent it back to ASUS for a RMA to see if they'll do it for you