Hi all I have a nexus 4 that up until last week was problem free. I had 5.0 lollipop installed and decided to revert back to 4.2.2 which I followed via one of the instructions out there. I didnt notice much difference with 4.2.2 so i proceeded to keep updating one at a time as the ota updates came to my phone. I did notice though that my phones battery seemed to get worse and worse for life..So i finally got to 4.3 and I had charged my phone up went home after work and went to bed a few hours later I hear a text message sound I went to get phone and it was saying battery only 13% so i plugged it in and phone shut off on its own...I tried to start it back up and all of a sudden red light of death came on so i left it went back to bed a few more hours of charging I thought it was good but no go. I quickly found the supposed fix to pull battery and it will reset phone.. Pulled it apart pulled battery connector and reconnected still no start. Check battery voltage found only 2.8 volts tried found again and still no go just red light. Totaly pulled phone apart mother board display camera etc hoping that somehow the static charge in chips will clear red light fault..even let it sit overnite. Still no go read somewhere about boosting battery with 5vdc connected it up boosted bad and checked it it went up to 3.3volts....Put back into phone and away she went....So I ordered a new battery and waiting for it to come. So i want to go back to lollipop and now when i plug it into my comp It doesnt see it and I cant load drivers Ive read how many posts here and tried numerous fixes but no go even 2 diferent computers.... I have my wireless turned on all the time hoping to get 5.0 OTA update but thats not happening either starting to wonder if i have a bad motherboard or something thats caused the battery to fail....Done factory reset a million times and cant unlock bootloader...since comp doesnt see it.....Was wondering if somehow i can use airdroid to load bootloader unlock on my phone and unlock it like adb flashboot does in windows? thanks :crying:
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Hi all this question may of been asked before or slightly differently. I have Sensation with ICS (Unbranded) and had the phone since Sept 2011 and it seems when my battery gets to 30-40% left (approx) i start getting rebooting and becomes more so lower it gets. Now i know its not ICS as it started doing this 2-3 weeks when i had gingerbread. So could my battery be failing? or something more sinister going on?
Thanks in advance
Also when i upgraded to ICS i did a factory reset.
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I'm a bit curious to see the answer for this one, my friend has the same problem, and I've been trying to troubleshoot it for him with no luck.
There are a few posts about switching the type of signal, which we tried, but it wasn't a good solution as he didn't get 3G network at where he lived
So i have now also turned wifi off (Only 3G enabled) and @ 50% according to battery indicator i went to open a message (SMS) and it rebooted on me.
Did you cablibrate the battery?
um no, never heard of battery calibration , any tutorials on what needs to be done. Thats new to me
Ah ok i found this on xda for non rooted device
1. Turn off your phone.
2. Fully Charge.
3. When getting 100% signal, unplug quickly.
4. Pull off the battery and put it anywhere.
5. Wait for 180 seconds exactly (be careful )
6. Meanwhile, take this opportunity to dust off the internal compartment.
7. Put back the battery on the right side.
8. Turn on the phone.
9. Pray the Battery god
10. ... and voilà !
Source : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312273
So i will give that a try
I tried my above post to calibrate battery and it didnt work for me so i sent my phone back for repair and alls good now. They never said what was faulty so the reason i guess is still unknown.
Some people on Facebook HTC UK page said it could of been a Ram or Processor issue, it wasn't a battery issue as I still use same battery and works fine since i got it back.
Turn off your phone.
Fully Charge.
When getting 100% signal, unplug quickly.Pull off the battery and put it anywhere.Wait for 180 seconds exactly (be careful ) Meanwhile, take this opportunity to dust off the internal compartment.Put back the battery on the right side.Turn on the phone.
Thanks i tried everything inc. your idea and all failed. I returned it to HTC for repair in the end
my battery charged than i go from home out, than i looked my phone; phone turn off, than come bak my home and plug charge; but phone not charged-charge light not shine-. i plug my extended mugen battery and phone turn on. what the hell my original battery?
I already posted this in the appropriate forum, but didn't see much of a response and it technically is a question so here it is:
What the title said. And I searched this on XDA and found several threads but none that cater to my exact problem, and if there are then it was simply because I didn't want to/don't have the time to go through hundreds of threads. Anyways, My Xperia Play (R800a) from Rogers (Canadian Service Provider) has been nothing but trouble for me. I got it Christmas day in 2011 and it worked beautifully for around 6 or 7 months. Then it started acting up. Like battery draining real fast, then not charging, then charging, then working for a day then not working for a week and then another day it worked then it just died (or at least the battery).
So I gave up on it and popped my SIM in my old iPhone 3G. Well I recently just bought another BST-41 XPLAY battery from amazon and I have had probably a 1% increase in some sort of success with trying to bring this thing back to life. I remember I rooted it but I never didn't anything with the root. Moving along, the phone with its original battery would blink 3 times in a pattern for maybe 2-3 minutes then there would be no blinking lights. With my new battery it just continuously blinking 3 times in the same pattern it did with my old battery.
Phoned Sony support yelled at them, its not on warranty anymore and I don't know what to do with it. I have read it could be the charger or the USB port, or cord. But right now with the 3 blinking red lights I think it means its charging... I just don't know. I wish this phone would come back to life already. I tried PC companion too and it doesn't recognize my phone. Oh and when I charge it on my PC I get the same blinking red light 3x and its also just doing that continuously.
If one of you have a solution to this, without linking me to another thread, because I have spent the past year looking at ways to fix it and I ran into some threads on here that haven't helped me, then I would be forever in your debt! Right now I am on my knees praying for this thing its just ridiculous.
Ok so i am brand new to the xda forums and i joined because my friend said the people over here are very knowledgeable. I have a Galaxy SIII from verizon and i had it Rooted and i had cyanogen mod flashed on to it. I went to sleep woke up did a couple things then went to look at my phone. I tried turning it on i got nothing. I plugged it in and got nada. I then searched on the web to find out that it is hard bricked. I am only getting the battery notification LED when i plug in the phone without the battery inserted and sim inserted. Ive had this phone for a little bit but cant afford a new one so if you have knowledge on how to fix it please post. I have a p that can handle most anything so running programs and what not is easy if it comes to having to do things computer-side :crying:
Have you tried booting into recovery/download using the 3-button combos? Some people have found that leaving the phone on the charger for a while also makes it come back to life. If those don't work than you're most likely hard bricked. You can try the SD card de-brick method. Everything you need is in this youtube video (there are links to all the files you need in the video description):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM
Alternatively, you can send it to http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/ and they'll fix it all up and root/unlock bootloader/install any custom ROM and ship it back to you for $50.
I did try to boot into my twrp recover but it wouldnt work so i left it plugged into my pc while i played some garrys mod and then decided to put the battery in so i didnt lose anything. Out of instinct i hit the power button and it showed the battery charging boot logo. I nearly shat myself . but i remained calm turned it on and then it booted showed the cyanogenmod booter and loaded in with all my old files :good: My replies may be few and far between but i know its good to give and take in forums so ill check maybe once every 3 days and reply to anything i see by directing the messages at people personally
Hi...I am coming from a Galaxy S, and restoring a S3, in order to take advantage of several features.
Phone I have has no battery (in the mail). On the Galaxy S, in order to put phone into download mode, I would pull the battery, hold the vol down, and then connect via USB.
There are different instructions for putting the S3 in download mode, so I am trying to confirm if the phone needs a battery installed in order to put it in download mode.
Even dumber question...with no battery installed, should I even be able to see something on the LCD? If yes, I will need to get a working LCD (phone was given to me by someone who basically said "I think it was working before").
TIA...Eric
Nothing will be on without the battery. You need to attach the USB charger, hold down those buttons, you should be in download mode and you need to put back the battery before Odin flashing.
Thanks...so the vibration I get and the led indicators on when I plug in without battery are the only things to go on. I'll wait for the battery before scouring around for a new LCD.
Just can't wait to see if this i535 got the 4.3 OTA update, which would kind of stink, but you live and learn.
Thanks again
ejaf said:
Thanks...so the vibration I get and the led indicators on when I plug in without battery are the only things to go on. I'll wait for the battery before scouring around for a new LCD.
Just can't wait to see if this i535 got the 4.3 OTA update, which would kind of stink, but you live and learn.
Thanks again
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I hope you find a solution but what you are describing has happened to me multiple times. Hard bricks suck.
Good luck mate :good:
Battery came last night...installed, booted and VOILA.
All is working, so it looks as if I'm on to the next steps.
Appreciate the help.
Eric
Hey everyone 2 weeks ago I was using my lg g2 verizon model running android 5.0.1 lollipop and it felt from my bedside. Note this is not her first time the phone had fallen. I have a tpu case on it and it usually fears very well against occasional drops. That fateful night however the phone fell and when i picked it up it went blank and was switched off. I tried to power it on by pressing the power button but the phone just vibrated continuously on a second by second basis ( literally counting mississippis). I then tried to plug the phone into my wall outlet to force a boot but it just vibrated too.
Later that week i opened it up removed and reattached the battery cable and IT CAME ON!! Two short days after i rebooted the device for a new app but then it didnt power on. The same problem occured. I tried my fix again and after a couple of tries it finally worked. A week later and forgetting my phone problems i restarted ny phone again only to find out that the problem had returned. After trying my quick fix over and over again, nothing seemed to work so i decided to try troubleshooting the device myself. My results have left me baffled.
Ok so before you guys start shouting out solutions, heres what did and found ;
1) Tried a new battery and the phone still vibrated.
2) Unplugged the battery from the motherboard and plugged in my charger and the phone still vibrated. Lead me to believe that its not a battery problem.
3) Removed all un-neccessary components from the phone ( camera, screen, mic, antennas, etc...) the phone still vibrated.
4) Removed the power button module from the phone and it still vibrated when the charger was plugged in.
Note: I disconnected the vibrator behind then motherboard and held the phone to my ear while I plugged it in to my wall outlet. I could hear a faint clicking sound in a cycle.
Im completely lost sorry for the long thread but if anyone can offer some advice please help me i have no money to buy a new phone atm #life
Thank you in advance xD
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Hey everyone 2 weeks ago I was using my lg g2 verizon model running android 5.0.1 lollipop and it felt from my bedside. Note this is not her first time the phone had fallen. I have a tpu case on it and it usually fears very well against occasional drops. That fateful night however the phone fell and when i picked it up it went blank and was switched off. I tried to power it on by pressing the power button but the phone just vibrated continuously on a second by second basis ( literally counting mississippis). I then tried to plug the phone into my wall outlet to force a boot but it just vibrated too.
Later that week i opened it up removed and reattached the battery cable and IT CAME ON!! Two short days after i rebooted the device for a new app but then it didnt power on. The same problem occured. I tried my fix again and after a couple of tries it finally worked. A week later and forgetting my phone problems i restarted ny phone again only to find out that the problem had returned. After trying my quick fix over and over again, nothing seemed to work so i decided to try troubleshooting the device myself. My results have left me baffled.
Ok so before you guys start shouting out solutions, heres what did and found ;
1) Tried a new battery and the phone still vibrated.
2) Unplugged the battery from the motherboard and plugged in my charger and the phone still vibrated. Lead me to believe that its not a battery problem.
3) Removed all un-neccessary components from the phone ( camera, screen, mic, antennas, etc...) the phone still vibrated.
4) Removed the power button module from the phone and it still vibrated when the charger was plugged in.
Note: I disconnected the vibrator behind then motherboard and held the phone to my ear while I plugged it in to my wall outlet. I could hear a faint clicking sound in a cycle.
Im completely lost sorry for the long thread but if anyone can offer some advice please help me i have no money to buy a new phone atm #life
Thank you in advance xD
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Unfortunally for your phone this is indeed an hardware problem and i doubt it may be a software one...
If you didn't "worked" on the device from the software side i think the better way is to take it to an assistance shop or something like that in order to fix your vibration problem.
But for futher assistance i suggest you to ask overe here: Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Or here:
G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!