Hey guys! To make a long story short, I was messing with with my cousin's atrix 2(At&t), and I flashed the acid sound mods. When it rebooted it was stuck at the At&t splash screen. The battery was already low and so it died. Now I can't get it to charge. Is there anyway I can get it charged so I can fix it?
You can either charge it using another Atrix2, get an external/universal charger, or Google "macgyver battery charge method". The last option is a worst case scenario, I think, but it works (I've used it myself) though it's not for the feint of heart.
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Wow thanks man! I just did that macgyver trick and got it back working! You saved my ass from having to buy him a new phone!
No problem. Glad I could help.:thumbup:
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So I think my thunderbolt is bricked
I've had this phone since it was first released. Been running BAMF for a few months now.
Running BAMF Remix 1.8.6, Imoseyon's Sense leankernel (extreme), Official MR2 Radio
This morning I was getting lockups. I was just browsing FB, checking the interwebs... I did a battery pull and turned it back on. After a few more minutes of browsing, I hit the vol down key and it locked up again. I did a battery pull and the phone would not turn back on. Pulled the battery, SIM, and SD card and re-inserted and no luck. Plugged the phone into a charged and the charge light does not turn on.
Brought it to verizon store and they are sending me a replacement although they said my moisture sticker is missing (I never touched it) Tried a new battery and didnt work. One of their chargers did light up the charge LED though...
Anyone have any ideas?
This has me thinking perhaps I should revert back to the shipped radio.
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ddgarcia05 said:
This has me thinking perhaps I should revert back to the shipped radio.
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Based on this one experience or has there been multiple reports?
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There was another somewhere in the cm7 thread but i think that was a third person relay. I'm not reverting back, just gonna use stock kernel and rom.
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Hmmm. I'm using the leaked non bricked mr2 radio and all is well here, fingers crossed!
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There is no evidence to indicate that causality is the new radio. It could just as easily be damage done to your phone by overclocking it or (gasp!) a legitimate warranty return. Phones can and do stop working for other reasons.
Btw, tbolt doesn't have a "moisture strip." The battery does. Dumbass VZW reps. Can only trust a handful of them at most.
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People really need to stop trying to start the bricking paranoia for TBs. I bet Verizon doesn't have any more replaced TB then it does other android phones.
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Btw, tbolt doesn't have a "moisture strip." The battery does. Dumbass VZW reps. Can only trust a handful of them at most.
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They actually opened up a new thunderbolt and showed me the "moisture strip". The only thing I can think of is that they forgot to put it in earlier models and more recently started shipping with them. They told me that they are going to inspect my thunderbolt for moisture when it gets sent back.
Where is the moisture strip, and what does it look like?
I haven't seen one either,can't even find the cute little dot other phones have. Please send pic of it so we know. Had my TB. Sence week 3 of release.
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None here.
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On the thunderbolt the moisture strip is supposed to be in the little crevice opposite of the volume buttons where the two antenna leads are sticking up to contact the back cover.
I'll confirm once my replacement phone comes in a few hours. Hurry up UPS guy!
Hey guys, long time follower if these forums. I have an unlocked inspire that keeps shutting the phone off everytime the flash is used on the camera. Has anyone else experienced this, if so is there any sort of fix for this?
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Probably a bad battery. The flash LEDs use a ton of current. If you've got a weak cell, it might be manifesting itself during high current draw, but seem otherwise OK. How's battery life overall?
My wife's phone's battery had a similar issue, but hers would just die when the level got down to about 75% indicated. Got a $12 ebay replacement (genuine HTC) and fixed it right up.
Well it is actually my girlfriends. She actually has no other issue with it other than that. I don't think the battery life is that bad to be honest. I think ill go with the replacement battery and see how that works out. I appreciate the help man.
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At&t should give you a free one. That's what they did for me.
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Hey I'm back with another question and was hoping for an answer I'm currently running absolution 3.7 and some times whenever I reboot my phone after charging it to 100% it boots and just says 0% and turns off. the only solution I found was to plug it into the charger and turn it back on and it would be fine. But I'm not always near my charger :/ I can't conclude if this has been happening on other roms since I stay with abso more than anything. I'm not undervolted or overclocked.
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Make a backup.
Download rom again, check md5, full wipe (you should know how to by now ), flash rom, don't install, restore any apps. Wipe battery stats just in case. With nothing installed see if you can reproduce the issue.
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Well to reproduce it'd take time. I've only gotten this a few times like I said once in a blue moon. I ended up going into recovery where it said --% for my battery so I wiped the cache and dalvic. Rebooted. Powered off and rebooted once more and it worked but I was stressing because I was going away for awhile today haha xD but yes ill try what you said. Thanks I know I've had this before I moved (3 months ago) and have flashed multiple times. It could also be just the battery because it is swollen and I can't even pull it out xD its time for a different device just not in the budget :/ oh well lols
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Yup, could be the battery.
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Yeah its pretty bad. My back of my phone isn't flush with the battery door or the bottom door to the sdcard/simcard also tried my hardest to pull it out and had absolutely no luck haha
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Check out the threads where they take apart the desire hd/inspire to see if there is a way to get it out and just buy a nrw battery. Before the battery damages your cellphone.
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The next step is for it to explode. Haha I'm not too worried if the battery is the problem I can barely use my screen haha xD
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Jajajaja...... Dude, give your phone some love.
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Well I dropped it because I almost got hit by a car. And just ever since that the digitizer bleeds and I just idk :/ I don't have a computer so my phone is everything and I use it like 15+ hours straight haha xD
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30280285
There's a couple more you can look into either here or the dhd section, can't remember.
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No cash to fix. I'm hoping to get a surprise belated birthday present from anyone with the galaxy note. We can all wish can't we? Haha XD
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I've had this issue too. It's most common when I'm switching batteries.
I think it has something to do with the battery stats. My fix for it has been to either keep rebooting or pulling the battery until it recognizes it as 100, charge it for a second, or switch out the battery.
Really strange.
I can't pull my battery lol. But I tried rebooting a few times nothing worked so I wiped the cache and delvic cache and had to reboot a few more times and it worked. But I just don't like that this happens all time at bad times lol xD
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I have had my S3 for about two months now and it has been rooted the whole time. The stock ROM finally annoyed me enough to try a new ROM. I installed Rootbox then Pacman, but they both just sat on the boot screen for about 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and gave up. I tried installing MIUI which went well but as soon as I hit the 'restart' button, the screen went blank and now the phone won't turn on. The battery is fine, I tried the known good one out of my wife's S3.
Is there any hope here? Any chance I will be able to get it swapped out at Verizon? Am I just f'ed?
Just for the record because I know it will be asked: I am have installed many ROMs on my old Droid X and I did follow directions for these installs. MIUI even had the wizard. I do have a nandroid but since I cannot turn the phone on at all, I can't get to it. I cannot get to download mode or react when I plug the charger in. I can't even get the thing to vibrate when holding down the power button...as far as I can tell it is COMPLETELY dead.
Thanks for the input.
Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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i fried a gsiii and got a replacement frpm big red. just tell them the OTA did it. if it can't turn on they can't check what you've done until it's too late. bring it in asap and have a sob story about how the update destroyed your phone... it worked 2 days after the jelly bean update for me.
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Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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No dice on both fronts.
Thanks Bear, that is pretty much the plan so far.
Any response booting into download mode?
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Does the screen flash for a second or respond for any amount of time when you try charging it with or without the battery? Our is there no response at all when you're trying to charge it,?
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No problem. They will give you a replacement as long as there is no physical damage to the phone... Good luck!!
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Did you flash a rom for the i9300 version of the phone and not the i535? I did that and hard bricked my first s3.
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Seems like my phone shuts off every time I turn off the screen. Doesn't shut down when plugged in or when I'm using the phone... I'm using Domination ROM 100% supercharged. Any input on the cause would be greatly appreciated! I have a log cat but I don't seem to see a attachment button!!
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Seems like my phone shuts off every time I turn off the screen. Doesn't shut down when plugged in or when I'm using the phone... I'm using Domination ROM 100% supercharged. Any input on the cause would be greatly appreciated! I have a log cat but I don't seem to see a attachment button!!
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I recently had an issue like this. My phone would randomly shut down. I found it persisted across ROMs so I knew it wasn't that. It ended up being my battery. Bought one off of Amazon and it has been like new ever since.
So my answer .. check the battery if you can. I was lucky enough to know some one with the same phone and was able to swap batteries for a bit to confirm it.
Take the battery and place it on something flat. If it spins easily (swollen). That's a good sign that it is on the way out.
Yeah... the battery seems a tad swollen! Thank you!!
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Snowrdr said:
Yeah... the battery seems a tad swollen! Thank you!!
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Buy these as replacements, you will not be sorry. They are 1800mah, stock is 1650
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HBH1R2/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Is anybody else scared to buy new batteries after that guys sgs3 exploded due to using a non stock battery?
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Is anybody else scared to buy new batteries after that guys sgs3 exploded due to using a non stock battery?
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Even the best batteries can go bad. I've even seen the iPhone split apart from a bad battery swelling up inside.
I've been using an Andida(?) 2300 mAh battery in my GS4G without issue. My HTC G1 has pretty much only been used with random eBay batteries (as the original HTC battery swelled up and stopped working years ago).
I've had some cheap batteries last a long time, and I've had OEM batteries crap out on me.
It's all kinda random.
So... About six and a half hours ago decide to check out that Xylon Ultimatum ROM (still haven't bought a new battery) was runnin P.A.C. All In One, and my phone has not shut off once. over 6 hours now! Could that have been a ROM issue? i thought for sure it was battery cause i been using that P.A.C. ROM for awhile now. and it just started this shutting off thing. i havn't seen anyone post anything with this issue running PAC All In One.
I'm thinking my battery is all good! It's been over 24 hours now and the battery is holding a great charge! Could the pac rom have that issue?
i messed with my voltages with SETCPU app the same way i did with the PAC ROM, and my phone shut off the first time i shut off screen! i subtracted 25 to 50 on all MHz levels. i changed them back and everything seems proper! could this be the cause of my shut down issue???
Thank you!!
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