Hi.
I've a Droid 2 Global. The problems started when the phone gets wet for a rain. It was a storm, and I pull out the battery, because I was sodden and I don't want this to happen.
The thing is, that even when I did so, and leave it all night alone, the next day I pull the battery on, but the phone doesn't turn. I conect the charger and it said the phone have 5% battery. Inmediatly rise up to 20, later do 60, and then to 100%. In less that 1 minute. I think the battery was damage, so I bought a new one.
Just to be sure, I did conect a red wire-black wire, to the phone, from the USB. I did it once it deads while bad flashing, so I guess it'll be fine. I does turn on, and everything, so I turn it off, and pull of the wires and the battery.
I bought a new battery today, doesn't seem OEM, but chinesse instead, I couldn't find any better. But know the phone doesn't charge at all. I shows a "?" in the charge screen.
It turn on, I don't know how, and the same "?" was in the battery icon in the notification bar.
Go Power recognize a fixed percent of battery, and recognize while I plug the charge cord, but I doesn't charge and turn off itself.
Any help?
The question mark? Motorola being stupid and not allowing 3rd part batteries. Happened with my Motorola Flipside.
Buy a geniune Motorola battery and it should work.
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gagdude said:
The question mark? Motorola being stupid and not allowing 3rd part batteries. Happened with my Motorola Flipside.
Buy a geniune Motorola battery and it should work.
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I'll delete it. Thanks for fast answer. I'll put the another one back and charge, same happen. It turn on, for like 2 hours, a then it turn off. It doesn't get any charge while it was on the phone.
The phone shows the same "?" in the battery charge mode, and in the notification bar.
You say with an OEM battery will work? How I know it's really OEM? If doesn't work, what?
Againg, thanks for you fast answer.
If its OEM it will have a Motorola logo on it, as 3rd parties are not allowed to put it on their batteries.
If it doesn't work, then unfortunately your phone is water damaged. But I can almost guarantee its because the battery is chinese
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I notice that I can charge the battery, if it's off, but it just doesn't show. I doesn't show how much is left, or anything.
You think this is a OEM battery to buy it?
PS: My father said to me to put the phone in rice, and it will absorb the water in the phone, and battery, so i did it. But the phone it's acting the same.
If its water damage, so it won't charge or show the battery left like never right?
It's there anyway to fix it? Changing parts with a Droid 2-not global will work? It's less expensive that the Global version, and I'm don't want to expent a lot of money on it.
BTW! Really thanks for the time you spend answering.
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I notice that I can charge the battery, if it's off, but it just doesn't show. I doesn't show how much is left, or anything.
You think this is a OEM battery to buy it?
PS: My father said to me to put the phone in rice, and it will absorb the water in the phone, and battery, so i did it. But the phone it's acting the same.
If its water damage, so it won't charge or show the battery left like never right?
It's there anyway to fix it? Changing parts with a Droid 2-not global will work? It's less expensive that the Global version, and I'm don't want to expent a lot of money on it.
BTW! Really thanks for the time you spend answering.
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Changing parts is a hard task, and I doubt you should try it unless you are experienced.
Water damage can take on many forms, but usually true water damage destroys hardware and the phone cannot be turned on. Since your phone is perfectly fine, but just won't read battery, I'm stil betting on the chinese battery. You even said it charges when the phone is off, but when it is in it doesn't? Motorola prett much told the phone to ignore the battery if it is not OEM. Otherwise, why would it still charge when off?
Clues lead up to to Motorola and their older policy of not allowing 3rd party batteries. I've had this happen to me when I bought a chinese battery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
A few hours ago my girlfriend was just looking at her Triumph (was watching for messages so she wasn't actually doing anything on it) when the screen turned off. Now it wont turn back on. Have tried the power button, turning on the bootloader, and removing the battery for 5 minutes. No matter what we can't get the phone to turn back on. Any ideas on what has just happened? The phone is rooted with gingerbreak with titanium backup installed. That's it. We got the phone at Best Buy and this is our second phone. We're probably past our 30 days so this kind of bugs me! Any idea what we can do from here? Any other tricks to try?
As a quick update, Best Buy tells me that an Exchange counts as an original transaction. So I'm only 17 days into my "new" transaction. I can't believe neither of these Triumphs have lasted more than three weeks :\
Did you have it connected to the charger while using it? I have noticed it gets very hot even without the charger being plugged in. It may have over heated. Just a thought. Good luck. Let us know what happens.
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No, the charger wasn't connected at the time. It was just sitting there with the screen on. The Significant Other wonder why it wouldn't turn off so she hit the power button and it didn't do anything. Finally the screen just went black but the backlight was still obviously on so she pulled the battery and put it back in. From there, she pushed the power button and the virgin mobile logo came on and nothing else. She had to remove the battery again. She put the battery back in once more and was able to get the Virgin mobile logo one more time. It froze after the logo and she pulled the battery one more time. After that the phone refused to turn on at all. When connected to the charger it doesn't do anything. Still completely lights out on the phone.
Man that sucks. I hope your able to find a fix.
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Same thing happened to me the other day. I let my Triumph lose all its battery to charge it back up 100% (performing a full battery charge cycle), and it will no longer turn on. even when I have it plugged in the red light indicator will not light up most of the time.
Funny thing is, this is also my second exchange from best buy and luckily im still within 30 days and i have a replacement plan. I really suggest getting the replacement plan (its $30, good for a $300 phone), because unlike best buys other mobile protection plans, you dont pay monthly, you're covered for 2 years, and if you get tired of getting the same phone, they will give you a $300 store credit card.
You know my phone did something similar, my phone died and when i went to plug up the charger i got nothing. I think there might be something wrong with the charging ports on these phones, try wiggling the charger while its plugged in, thats what i did and it finally took a charge
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You know my phone did something similar, my phone died and when i went to plug up the charger i got nothing. I think there might be something wrong with the charging ports on these phones, try wiggling the charger while its plugged in, thats what i did and it finally took a charge
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upon closer inspection of the charging port, i noticed the female micro usb port was actually pushed further inside, thus preventing most chargers to work. I found a rocketfish charging adapter from best buy that seems to work perfect while my other cable didnt work at all.
As an update, we went back to best buy and sure enough they count the exchange as a new transaction, so I was only 17 days into my second transaction. They exchanged me another phone on the spot and so now we're on the third triumph. GPS checked out ok and the MEID was the correct length. The screen is the worst of the 3 (some pretty bad backlight bleed out onto the screen itself from the sides). I was picky about it but the gf isn't since you can't even see it unless the screen is completely black. So we'll see how this one holds out!
My guess is as was assumed, the battery wasn't getting charged. When the battery was removed for 30 minutes or more we were able to get the logo to show up and nothing more. My guess was the charger wasn't making contact anymore. We wouldn't want to keep a phone like that anyways but it seems like this might be a problem for these phones.
Every once in awhile mine will not power back on. It happened to me a couple of times shortly after I bought the phone.
I tried pulling the battery a couple of times and powering back up, no go.
What worked... remove battery, press power button for a couple of secs, replace battery, power back up. Has worked every time... so far.
My guess is need to drain some capacitors or that I had invoked part of boot recovery sequence without finishing?
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upon closer inspection of the charging port, i noticed the female micro usb port was actually pushed further inside, thus preventing most chargers to work. I found a rocketfish charging adapter from best buy that seems to work perfect while my other cable didnt work at all.
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Have you noticed the "I just broke my Triumph's Screen"- post? We'll If you saw my cracked Triumph, well that's another issue that I just discovered. The battery drained all the way and now it will not take a charge anymore. This is the exact same problem OP is having. Regarding this issue I will open up my phone sooner or later when I get a new one and take pics. I don't mind seeing wth is in there, maybe everything's held up by Elmer's glue lol. I'll make sure to let everyone know hopefully I'll do this within a couple days.
It seems like dead
If Motorola and VMUSA are not serious about resolving issues for Triumph then this phone will be dead anyways - customers won't be buying those. The number of returns are far more than new purchase. It seems like Motorola stopped manufacturing these.
So this phone will either get Ice Cream Sandwich update or it is end of life for this phone.
Just out of no where my phone doesn't power on and the orange led light that comes on when your charging it doesn't come on either. Does anyone know what I should do? I tried that recovery image thing but I don't know if I did it wrong or what?
When I type in
adb reboot
or
adb reboot bootloader
It gives me the following message "adb reboot is not recoginzed as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file."
By the way im doing this on the command center on my computer.
I do not have water damage and have never dropped the phone or anything? could this be a hardware issue?
Hmm ok sounds good I will do that!
I had a similar issue on my old Evo. As it was explained to me, the battery is so dead that the phone doesn't even recognize it's physically there. The solution that worked for me was to "jump start" the battery from another phone. Make sure the other phone's voltage is the same (I had another HTC, so there were no issues). On the battery there are 3-4 contacts, and the sticker identifies the pos and neg. Simply get two wires, lay them between the battery contact and phone contact on the functional phone, and hold them to the corresponding contacts on your battery, essentially wiring your battery in parallel with the other phone. Hold them on to charge for about two minutes, this should put enough charge back into your battery to allow your own phone's sense circuit to recognize and charge it. It worked for me causing no damage to either phone, and the battery didn't even lose any perceivable life.
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I had a similar issue on my old Evo. As it was explained to me, the battery is so dead that the phone doesn't even recognize it's physically there. The solution that worked for me was to "jump start" the battery from another phone. Make sure the other phone's voltage is the same (I had another HTC, so there were no issues). On the battery there are 3-4 contacts, and the sticker identifies the pos and neg. Simply get two wires, lay them between the battery contact and phone contact on the functional phone, and hold them to the corresponding contacts on your battery, essentially wiring your battery in parallel with the other phone. Hold them on to charge for about two minutes, this should put enough charge back into your battery to allow your own phone's sense circuit to recognize and charge it. It worked for me causing no damage to either phone, and the battery didn't even lose any perceivable life.
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Well when I brought it to the cell phone repair store he did a check on the battery and said the battery was fully charged and he checked the phone and said that it was accepting a charge or something. Im just not getting power. Unless the guy at the store is an idiot and wanted to make money off me. I don't know.
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Well when I brought it to the cell phone repair store he did a check on the battery and said the battery was fully charged and he checked the phone and said that it was accepting a charge or something. Im just not getting power. Unless the guy at the store is an idiot and wanted to make money off me. I don't know.
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Happened to me too. Lucky for me a friend had a stock Sensation and I was able to charge my battery on his. When I popped in his battery on my phone it turned on fine, but this was sometime ago.
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Well I came home from vacation about a week ago to find my blaze siting where I left it but dripping wet with water so i just took the battery out and let it sit for the past week. The indications i think that are for water damage and red....so i plugged the battery in and charged it but it keeps on vibrating every 2-3 seconds and i tried to turn it on but didn't work and when i try to enter download mode all i see it the samsung logo flash and goes back to dark..... any help?
please tell me its not completely done for...
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Put it in a bag of rice
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Put it in a bag of rice
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Its been drying for a week by its self... its quite dry
Maybe try replacing the battery?
I'm no expert, but the only time the phone vibrates every 2-3 seconds is when it's plugged in and no battery is inserted. Maybe try another battery? It's worth a shot and is cheaper than replacing the entire phone. If you are lucky you can convince someone at a store that you will buy a new battery if you can confirm the battery is the problem and maybe they will open the replacement for you to try for free (it's worth a shot right?).
The vibrating indicates that it is operating at a low level, but unable to receive sufficient power to fully boot or is missing the battery. You can duplicate this with any known-good phone by removing the battery and plugging the phone in to a power source and turning it on. I assume that you have a battery in, otherwise it shouldn't boot at all. Can you get a hold of a spare battery to attempt powering it that way (the GSM Galaxy Nexus uses the same battery too)?
I repair phones for a (side) living. I'd be willing to either buy the bad phone from you, or repair it for you. If you aren't successful on your own, and would like help, feel free to pm me.
Thanks guys for the support! I will try to just keep it plugged in for a while seeing if it will charge it... if not my brother as well as 2 of my friends have the same phone so i could easily test there battery.
-Thanks for the help
Just letting you know, I just decided to leave it charging for a while and it looks like the battery just needed some charge!
-thanks for your help!
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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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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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