My i815 just developed a strange problem with the battery. Unless the device is in recovery mode, it thinks the battery is dead.
I can boot fine when plugged into the wall charger. the instant I unplug, it shuts down. If i reboot to recovery, it can be unplugged and run for hours in recovery so the battery is fine, the machine just does not know it.
I have tried wipe, reflash and used Odin to flash the pIT, Modem and sbl. the results are the same every time.
Any advice is welcome.
Doug M.
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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.
Put your phone into download mode and let it sit on the charger for 30 minutes. After pull and reinsert your battery and then try to power on your phone without your charger. Then proceed to charge your phone to full since it powered on.
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This did not work but thank you for the suggestion. From what I have gathered, as long as I can get into recovery then I should be able to get everything back to normal. Anyone?
elreydenj said:
This did not work but thank you for the suggestion. From what I have gathered, as long as I can get into recovery then I should be able to get everything back to normal. Anyone?
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if you can get into download mode, you can use odin to fix everything.
you might have to do a complete wipe but it is what it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
read that
I tried this already. My problem is that after I flash the first bootchain, the second bootchain will not flash. I gets stuck at the setup in odin. I see there is an option to disconnect the phone and exit odin and reconnect the phone without leaving download mode if this happens. My problem is that if I disconnect the phone from the computer or from the charger it shuts off automatically. I tried these steps the best that I could and when I click nand erase and it reboots, then all it does is buzz every few seconds. I then shut it off and do the data and cache wipe and reboot. It reboots and appears to be the stock rom asking me for language and activation after, but the phone shuts off almost immediately and reboots to a blank battery with a circle in the middle. This is after I have had the phone on the charger for a long time. This happened out of the blue after I was using navigation. This problem did not arise from changing something in the system or from flashing a rom or kernel or anything of the sort. No one has seen this issue with the blank battery? I saw someone mention in android forums but the resolution was that they returned it and got a refurb.
I have read all the threads regarding charging or battery problems.But mine is unique
I am trying to explain the situation.So please read through it.
Couple of days back my phone was charging very slowly while i was playing on it.Since AOSPA had a problem of slow charging, I switched backed to CM13.When i rebooted the phone died on boot animation.I coudnt turn it back on,whenever I try to it just gave a vibration.I thought the battery deep discharged.But some how after some time i was able to get into recovery and fastboot.So when I plug in the charger I get the oneplus logo and charging animation and it will reboot again.But when i boot into recovery(twrp 3.0.2.0) and charge, it charges fine.The fastboot commands also works fine.But when i boot into the ROM and try charging,it wont charge.Occasionally I am able to charge my phone.I have tried going back to stock (cm11s) ,Changing ROMs etc. Since i able to perform fastboot operations successfully,I dont think the USB port is damaged.There is no sign of water damage.Is there any way I can diagonise the problem ? I really dont know whats wrong with the phone.
Please help
Last night I tried to flash TWRP just because I wanted to go to a custom ROM- alas, the phone now will not go past the google logo. It usually hangs there for 10-ish seconds and then reboots. Occasionally hangs there indefinitely. It's not a power button issue- the button worked just fine before flashing and I've confirmed it still works normally with a multimeter.
I tried to reflash stock using the Google images and "flashall.bat", which says it succeeded- but the phone still loops. I can get into fastboot, but I get the bootloop even in recovery. Running the similar script through Nexus Root Toolkit always fails on flashing the system partition- usually a buffer error due to a sparse header. Can't even seem to get it to do the "fastboot boot TWRP.img" or whatnot. I've flashed KitKat, Lollipop, and MM stock roms to no avail- they all say they succeed, then continue to bootloop.
I've tried just about everything I've seen on here- but not being able to get into recovery hampers efforts like repairing the persist partition.
Help?
When you boot into recovery, the phone reboots itself? If it does, it could be a sign of a failing power button.
When flashing a stock ROM, are you flashing userdata.img and then performing a factory reset/wipe before booting the phone with a stock ROM for the first time?
When I can get into recovery (without a restart), the phone is totally fine.
I think part of the issue is that the battery ran down while I was trying to do the repair- hence it trying to restart and failing. Power button still seems fine (again, confirmed with a multimeter). I left it plugged in to my iPad charger (since that's a 2A charger) overnight and it was still blinking red in the morning. I moved it upstairs and now I can't even make it that far.
Perhaps the battery was just shot by the time I got the "repair" done, hence the boot loops. Is there any way to revive it shy of cutting open the battery + charging manually (with a bench supply) or just replacing the battery altogether? I may try doing a motherboard swap with my working Nexus 5 just to see if it is in fact the battery.
When the phone is powered off and connected to a power source, do you ever see a flashing red LED? You flashed the correct twrp for the hammerhead?
I would try a new battery because it seems like everything is working.
Summary: I was installing a Slim7 custom rom on my tablet when before it finishes off the power went off and my device turned off completely, when I was trying to boot back on Recovery [TWRP] it won't work so thus Download mode it is completely dead. Thinking this was a battery problem (drained, I guess) I tried to charge my tablet but it doesn't charge properly, stucked in "cycle" logo inside a battery (but won't animate as usual) and doesn't proceed to actual charging animation.
"I am sure this was due to battery problem, I tried to install it with 5% battery (but charging on a pc). I think it didn't charge correctly until it ran out."
I tried everything that might help myself
- holding power button for few minute and plugging the charger after a couple of seconds..
- Using Samsung Kies
- Odin
So how do I fix this problem??
please help me.
none works. hopefully someone here is willing to help me out, thanks in advance
You should never use KIES if you installed a custom ROM or a custom recovery - it's likely to fail and giving "black screen of death"
I have a S7 that is FRP locked and after touching it for a while i installed the stock firmware and it worked I could do anything like normal, I shut it down and now I can't start the phone, access the recovery or charge it, I can only go into download mode with the phone plugged in the PC, or else it wont work, btw when i install the stock firmware it goes into recovery, erases the data and for some reason it goes into a weird state of charging mode but when I unplug it it goes into the loop.
Update: I'm so dumb, since the phone is new I don't know how it works and made this post, basically it needed charge, after 10 mins with that symbol it went to 2% and back to normal...