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Hey all, got a bit of an odd issue with charging whilst phone is switched off.
when i plug it in, the orange light comes on, but then after a few seconds it goes off. i can sometimes see a faint red glow in the trackpad, and others the camera flash LED's even flash, 1, 2 or sometimes 3 times.
im not really sure if its charging, it doenst seem to be.
Charges fine when on. OR when off with "Fast boot" enabled (i usualy have that off).
im running latest CWM Recovery from rom manager. 5.0.2.7 from RM 4.8.0.2
Rom wise im using Undead's Senseless v3.7.1
Rooted and S-OFF using Revolutionary.
Any thoughts?
TIA.
Ross.
I think its normal. Mine has done that too an.d charged
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Try rebooting the phone again and then shut it down. Now wait almost a minute before plugging in the charger. If fastboot is unchecked and I plug in the charger too fast after turning off the phone, I get that issue too sometimes. Waiting a little longer before plugging in seems to do it for me.
i'm pretty sure this is a ClockworkMod issue, and each new release was supposed to fix it, but i guess not? i'm 99% sure when i briefly rolled back to unrooted stock, this issue wasn't there. and even with the issue, i believe the battery charges, regardless of what the light is doing?
yogi2010 said:
i'm pretty sure this is a ClockworkMod issue, and each new release was supposed to fix it, but i guess not? i'm 99% sure when i briefly rolled back to unrooted stock, this issue wasn't there. and even with the issue, i believe the battery charges, regardless of what the light is doing?
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It's definitely a ClockworkMod issue and you're right every Recovery Release to date has had it's problem in the charging department with the phone off and fastboot unchecked.
On the latest OFFICIAL release (v5.0.2.7)though, the steps in my previous post seem to help. If fastboot is unchecked and you turn the phone off, just wait a really long pause before plugging in the charger and it may blink once but then the orange charging light will come on and stay on and will turn green when charged like it's supposed to. It also doesn't freeze the phone up like the first Revolutionary Recovery we had.
This has been my experience with Official CWM Recovery v5.0.2.7 while leaving fastboot unchecked. I hope it helps.
Cool, will do that. Gotta finally upgrade from CWM 4.0.0.9 I guess
Thanks for the replies. ive tried switching off, and leaving for a while, and then plugging in. Orange light came on, but after about 5 mins it went off. i tried switching it back on again but had to unplug charger before it would power on. i then just charged normally as battery was low and didnt want to risk being unable to charge.
ive just reflashed 5.0.2.7 and will test again soon incase there was something wrong there.
battery was completely full this morning at 7am. and even just with phone sat there idle, only got just over 8 hours out of it and it was down to 24%. so now also wondering if there is some other issue with the rom or recovery. seems to be pulling between 250 and 500ma even with screen off. (using current widget)
will see what happens and report back.
Just a quick update. switched off, and plugged in again. light blinked twice and went off. but could faintly see trackpad flashing. tried to take picture, and obviouslt its the IR LED inside flashing. see attached.
then 10 mins later, orange charge light has finally come on. and trackpad stopped flashing. Lets see if it charges!
weird things going on with this phone! lol.
Hi all,
So my transformer is bricked... completely been trying hard reboot, APX mode, holding power button, HDMI output the list goes on.
My only final resort is what I've read is draining the battery down and trying to recharge it? (Just need some confirmation here please if possible).
I've kept it in the dock, what I've noticed is, in the morning it was green LED now its gone to the amber so something is draining the battery I"m hoping I can get this down to 0.
How long do you guys think with both dock + pad and most likely on standby. Not too sure of the issue here
Anyway, I'm really reluctant to send this back to Asus RMA because in short:
1. First time I sent it, it got returned like a squeaky box. Every where you held it you heard a creak like it was about to snap. They didn't fix some things, and more dust ended up in my camera lens... + had to pay postage..
2. Half fixed, came back with wrong firmware (TW --> US). Could never update ever again, so microsd card updates FTW. No way was I planning on spending an extra month sending my TF back and forth... I paid extra to get the first batch B40 lol.. They replaced everything inside my TF motherboard, screen, Inside LED!?, buttons. Close to the works..
This happened right after I upgraded to ICS, it was the US stock rom booted up fine. my apps were updating, and as everyone else was saying about how some apps caused ICS to slow down I wasn't aware so I thought I would shut it down and power it back up. Since then it's not been able to come up ever again... Any suggestions?
What do you think?
Thanks in advanced.
One other thing, could someone check.. when tablet is docked and OFF. Do the usb ports still work?
Right now, when docked but "bricked" I can still charge my phone via USB.. If someone could test this that would be much appreciated as that could at least eliminate that my TF's battery is dead, right?
get it off the dock, hold volup+pwr, count to six and leave it for a couple of days. You can test if it's empty when you plug it in your pc via the cable. If you get the device plugged sound it means there's still juice there - unplug and press again volup+pwr. when you unplug it from the pc the tab shuts itself down.
if you don't volup+pwr before you plug in the usb it won't turn itself on. but it turns off automatically at unplug, as I said.
after the battery is down, plug the tab to the charger. I don't have the dock so I can only speak about the tab itself. Don't know why, but it works for me everytime. Hope it fixes yours, then, if possible, root and flash something.
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get it off the dock, hold volup+pwr, count to six and leave it for a couple of days. You can test if it's empty when you plug it in your pc via the cable. If you get the device plugged sound it means there's still juice there - unplug and press again volup+pwr. when you unplug it from the pc the tab shuts itself down.
if you don't volup+pwr before you plug in the usb it won't turn itself on. but it turns off automatically at unplug, as I said.
after the battery is down, plug the tab to the charger. I don't have the dock so I can only speak about the tab itself. Don't know why, but it works for me everytime. Hope it fixes yours, then, if possible, root and flash something.
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Hi there,
Thanks, I'll that a try.
It's definitely charging and discharging, the battery brick is warm.. I've never had to connect my tablet to a windows PC. Today I did, it didn't make a sound.. Do I need to fully charge to be able to turn it on?
Normally not. I plug mine to the charger, I don't remember if it stats or I have to press power, when it boots the battery stays at 0% for several minutes.
Sorry for the late reply, did you manage to wake it? It's a long procedure of waiting mainly and can get annoying.
I'm still trying, earlier you had a thread about it poping up through the computer. What was the command you used in Linux?
Windows gives me nothign even when there was power in it.
Thanks.
Thank you sooo much!! It finally has powered back on, I hope this doesn't happen again.
Hello! Last night, my phone died while I was out. When I got home, I plugged it into the wall charger and I noticed the LED didn't come on. I left it charging overnight for about 6 hours and tried to turn it on - no luck. I read on another topic that you needed to charge it to ~2% through USB for it to begin charging on the wall if it's "too" dead, so I left it on my laptop for an hour but again with no luck. I did notice that my laptop couldn't recognize a device though, and since my phone was the only thing plugged in, it means my phone was 'on'. I held the power button and the device disconnected, held the power button again, the unknown device reconnected. So my phone is turning on and off, so I wondered it was my screen. I turned it on, but no sounds worked when I messed with the volume button, so I'm going to rule the screen out. Despite being able to turn 'on', I can't get into recovery and it won't truly turn on.
I'm rooted and unlocked, running a version of PA, though I haven't updated it in some months and haven't downloaded anything other than a picture or two to my phone recently, so I don't think I've bricked it or anything.
I've never used ADB or fastboot or anything like that, so if there's a solution through that I'd be happy to try it out. If there's anything I forgot to mention, please tell me!
Thanks in advance for any help I can get.
This has happened to some people. It seems like going completely dead can somehow corrupt something in the firmware in rare cases.
Open Device Manager and plug in your phone, then see what pops up. If you see QHUSB_DLOAD, your phone has bricked, but it may be fixable. Check into the Unbricking Evita thread and see if the guys there can help.
Failing that, get a warranty exchange.
Try different button combinations (hold power, or hboot combination) while the phone is plugged into the wall charger. At least one person I was trying to help, got his phone to power on this way, when nothing else seemed to work.
Sounds like you're phone is in qdl mode. i second trying the unbricking thread.
I have never had this issue before, if the phone was off and I plugged it in to charge it would stay off and charge and if I pressed the volume it would show a image of a battery being charged. Now when the phone is off and I plug it in the wall charger it turns off, if the phone is on and charging and I try to turn it off while charging it would power off but immediately turn back on. I am on stock at&t with their latest official update.
I have not changed anything in the phone or installed any new apps. What would be like to cause this and could it be fixed?
TheChemist187 said:
I have never had this issue before, if the phone was off and I plugged it in to charge it would stay off and charge and if I pressed the volume it would show a image of a battery being charged. Now when the phone is off and I plug it in the wall charger it turns off, if the phone is on and charging and I try to turn it off while charging it would power off but immediately turn back on. I am on stock at&t with their latest official update.
I have not changed anything in the phone or installed any new apps. What would be like to cause this and could it be fixed?
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So that's problem? I don't see there any problem... When phone is in off state & you plug it in charger, it will show your battery charging (aka Charge only). Again if you will turn off charging phone it will always boot to charge only mode... So that's normal.
turffe said:
So that's problem? I don't see there any problem... When phone is in off state & you plug it in charger, it will show your battery charging (aka Charge only). Again if you will turn off charging phone it will always boot to charge only mode... So that's normal.
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No the phone never turned on before like to the android OS, it just charged. Now it turns completely on when the phone is off and it gets plugged into the charger.
Try reflash AT&T 125 final ICS via RSD lite. That issue was on Cmdefy recovery customs roms & it was solved by installing BMM. I think you'll need to root & install BMM (aka Boot Menu Manager) to check if phone in off state turn yellowish led when connecting to charger (This feature is on BMM 0.3.4).
It's a long history.
One day, my Moto G stop charging. He charge until 1%, then turn itself on, and when it was on, it wasn't charging. I thought that was a OS/software problem, but nothing was sloving. I send to warranty and there they send me back saying that a piece was oxidated and was my fault, so they can't help me. When the cellphone arrive back, it was charging normaly. I really doesn't understand. But my PC wasn't showing the smartphone when plugged in the USB port. I started to use AirDroid.
I have a little struggle to update to Android 4.4.2 but I did it. The smartphone was really weird, but I let it go. Now I have the most annoying problem. It keep turning off by itself. I don't know if is software/OS, hardware, some app, something I'm doing wrong, but it's driving me crazy.
Please guys, help =[
P.S.: Sorry my bad english.
I had same issue where it turned off on its own and wouldn't charge. I plug cable to wall charger and held power button for 1 minute nothing happened so I kept pressing power button repeatedly until it vibrated and started charging.
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So, it's charging normally now, but it keeps turning off itself. Another annoying problems is that it turn itself on when I connect it in the USB port on my PC, but not when I plug on wall charger.
Sorry for the double post, but I'm don't know what to do anymore! Please, someone help me! Any ideas!
Try this
Plug it in
Hold power button for 2-3 mins
Leave it charging for an hour then unplug
Hold power button for 30 seconds it should vibrate and boot
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I guess you missing the point: I CAN charge and I CAN turn it on. The problem is that the cellphone keeps turning itself off at random. Random time, in random activites.
imagenerator said:
I guess you missing the point: I CAN charge and I CAN turn it on. The problem is that the cellphone keeps turning itself off at random. Random time, in random activites.
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Hi are you able to connect the phone to a PC? If so I would transfer important data and then do a factory reset to see if that solves your issue sounds more like a software problem to me.
Already did a Factory Reset (the one in Configuration, the one the Fastboot just normally boot the device) and the problem persist.
So no one can help me? =[
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So no one can help me? =[
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does the phone fades purple then goes crazy then shuts down for a while then turns back on?
It did it when I did something different, trying to turning on or recovery, I don't really remember. I remember that I freaked out, because the screen was black, without changing, than I did a reset (Power + Volume Up) and then it reseted.
You already try charging with wall charger? Maybe your PC don't have enough power to recharge this phone
I was able to charge the phone, Anyway, the device stopped to turning off alone. By itself. I didn't do anything different.
I'm so confused.
Something is shorting out inside, probably due to the said oxidation, which will most likely result in such behavior.
If you know how to do it, just open the phone, take the pcb out and clean it well with a dry contract cleaner and a hard toothbrush to remove any oxidation and possible residue.
Later I was thinking that could be it. So if anything goes wrong, I'll do it or ask to someone with a little more experience to do for me.
Thanks.
imagenerator said:
Later I was thinking that could be it. So if anything goes wrong, I'll do it or ask to someone with a little more experience to do for me.
Thanks.
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Some Moto G's do turn themselves ON when you plug in a charger, I have 2 and both do it - you connect the phone when it is turned OFF and then it turns itself on! Sometimes if I plug in the charger and turn OFF the phone quickly it stays off.
It's a bug / feature / quirk but it's unfortunately normal so you can discount that as being a problem related to your other problem.
imagenerator said:
I guess you missing the point: I CAN charge and I CAN turn it on. The problem is that the cellphone keeps turning itself off at random. Random time, in random activites.
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I'm having this exact problem too. The phone is less than a month old. Twice this week its happened. Phone was close to fully charged on going to bed, I still checked some emails while it was plugged in.. the charging symbol was also on, so I know it was charging ok when I put it down... then in the morning, wake up, phone is off, but the battery display is showing 100% (The big one shown on screen when it is turned off)
Potentially if I was only using my phone as an alarm, I'd have not woken up. I always use a backup, but now this Moto G worries me!
Seems a few people are having this issue!