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[Q]Help, phone won't turn on. Red light flash.

I just noticed my phone last week and it wouldn't turn on. Occasionally after I take out the battery, put it back in and press the on button it'll flash the red led on the top once, and then it doesn't do it again. I don't know what to do, can someone help me? Do I have to call warranty?
I can't get to bootscreen or recovery or anything, no power. Tried it on computer usb and the power adapter.

Try changing your battery.....! Mayb its dead!

MF101 said:
Try changing your battery.....! Mayb its dead!
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Those batteries cost half as much as a new system
It's a gamble, I might try buying a new one and seeing if the battery swap will help.

Or if u still have warranty, first go to service centre!! They'll tell the issue

Heat your battery with your hands firs, or something like that(don't get it in the oven). Maybe will help.

MF101 said:
Or if u still have warranty, first go to service centre!! They'll tell the issue
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I rooted with htc website so I don't think I still have warranty
Nobody on google seems to know the answer to the problem.
I'm currently heating it with body heat but I dont think it'll work.

Try charging your battery first with All-Battery charger or something similar and then try switching your phone on! Charge atleast for and hour or so!

mahenderkumar.dr said:
Try charging your battery first with All-Battery charger or something similar and then try switching your phone on! Charge atleast for and hour or so!
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It has been charging for 2 days with no signs of coming on.
Can anyone confirm for me if HTC Explorer will turn on without a battery in, if it's connected to USB?

poketama said:
It has been charging for 2 days with no signs of coming on.
Can anyone confirm for me if HTC Explorer will turn on without a battery in, if it's connected to USB?
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No it won't
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poketama said:
I just noticed my phone last week and it wouldn't turn on. Occasionally after I take out the battery, put it back in and press the on button it'll flash the red led on the top once, and then it doesn't do it again. I don't know what to do, can someone help me? Do I have to call warranty?
I can't get to bootscreen or recovery or anything, no power. Tried it on computer usb and the power adapter.
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OT!!!
LED? Why doesn't my pico has LED?

Fas1h said:
OT!!!
LED? Why doesn't my pico has LED?
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It's the proximity sensor

Sachin Thomas said:
It's the proximity sensor
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Oh crap, yeah, it turns on red when i press the power button, release the button, then wait for about 5-10 seconds and then the phone turns on.

Another idea that just came out, I don't think it will work but there is nothing to loose if you can try it, recently a user pm-ed me with similar issue, I don't know how he did this but , he says that this fixed his,
salat_1364 said:
thanks
i solve my problem
in fastboot i have to go in advance and select wipe battery and fix my problem
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I believe he found another battery to do the command, I'm not sure will pm him to see what exactly he did

Fas1h said:
OT!!!
LED? Why doesn't my pico has LED?
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There's two dark circles next to the htc logo
shortyoko said:
Another idea that just came out, I don't think it will work but there is nothing to loose if you can try it, recently a user pm-ed me with similar issue, I don't know how he did this but , he says that this fixed his,
I believe he found another battery to do the command, I'm not sure will pm him to see what exactly he did
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Thanks for help, I don't have access to another battery at the moment. I'm seeing what I can do about buying another phone, if I can fix this one I'll just sell it again.

poketama said:
I just noticed my phone last week and it wouldn't turn on. Occasionally after I take out the battery, put it back in and press the on button it'll flash the red led on the top once, and then it doesn't do it again. I don't know what to do, can someone help me? Do I have to call warranty?
I can't get to bootscreen or recovery or anything, no power. Tried it on computer usb and the power adapter.
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how did the problem occured...were you in clockworkmod when your battery first died(normally)...if yes then i'm sorry to say its dead permanently..

janit said:
how did the problem occured...were you in clockworkmod when your battery first died(normally)...if yes then i'm sorry to say its dead permanently..
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Well it was just in the normal startup, I was running nextgen. I didn't actually see it die, just picked it up one day. I used the HTC website to root it.

Moto G Hard Bricked

anyone can help me?
when i flash the stock firmware files after restat my phone dead...
wont turn on or charged anymore...
what happends?
i flash the original stock rom as i always do for testing..
maybe some files wont needed to flash and that cause the brick?

Maybe your battery died? Check this: http://motorola-g.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-reanimate-moto-g-dead-battery.html

Yep, I had the same problem with my testing device. The solution from Piar worked for me.. But I had to hold the power button about for 40 sec.
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makcode said:
Yep, I had the same problem with my testing device. The solution from Piar worked for me.. But I had to hold the power button about for 40 sec.
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its not the batt, but wrong flash files...
not its dead and wont come to life...
well now i going to buy new phone so..what happens happens..!

I wonder if service cable from Defy/RAZR would work on Moto G. It has connected pins in USB and bypassed battery in order to flash soft using RSD.
Does bootloader work on your device?

Piaer said:
I wonder if service cable from Defy/RAZR would work on Moto G. It has connected pins in USB and bypassed battery in order to flash soft using RSD.
Does bootloader work on your device?
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nothing works mate the phone is completely off.... wont turn on with none of the know tricks
its ok thoo.. time to turn but to real the deal i use the g for test and see how moto goes! i hope will give us high end phones!
now im going to something much better!

ChanceOfChange said:
nothing works mate the phone is completely off.... wont turn on with none of the know tricks
its ok thoo.. time to turn but to real the deal i use the g for test and see how moto goes! i hope will give us high end phones!
now im going to something much better!
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G has locked bootloader. It is difficult to brick it. I wouldnt give up. Still possible that battery is dead. I cant check myself but I would check if it's possible to measure voltage on battery. Anyway, you can still disassembly the phone good luck!

Piaer said:
G has locked bootloader. It is difficult to brick it. I wouldnt give up. Still possible that battery is dead. I cant check myself but I would check if it's possible to measure voltage on battery. Anyway, you can still disassembly the phone good luck!
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its unlocked and flash difrent vers....so its not the batt my friend

My Moto G Hard Bricked too while downgrading to 4.3!
The phone wont power on even holding power button or plugged in a charger.
My PC doesnt recognize it anymore, so i cant do flash-blank
Now it seems like a useless piece of plastic
It never happened with me with any Sony or Samsung phone that has passed by my hands.
I'm giving up of motorola......

thewerthon said:
My Moto G Hard Bricked too while downgrading to 4.3!
The phone wont power on even holding power button or plugged in a charger.
My PC doesnt recognize it anymore, so i cant do flash-blank
Now it seems like a useless piece of plastic
It never happened with me with any Sony or Samsung phone that has passed by my hands.
I'm giving up of motorola......
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plug it in and hold the power button for more than 2minutes. watch if the white led light is blinking. if it does leave the phone plugged in for 1hour and it will turn on.

ManBearrrPig said:
plug it in and hold the power button for more than 2minutes. watch if the white led light is blinking. if it does leave the phone plugged in for 1hour and it will turn on.
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The device turned on, thanks.
But I'm facing other problem :/
I did the flash-blank to restore bootloader, ok, but it says 'Device is LOCKED' even after flashing motoboot.img
So I can't flash boot.img, recovery.img or system.img
Tried to unlock bootloader again, but is give me: "fastboot oem unlock disabled!"
It's weird because when I type 'fastboot oem get_unlock_data' he gives me other key than the first time I've unlocked it
My new questions is:
There's a way to force this bootloader to be unlocked?
Or how can I flash stock firmware with locked bootloader? (tried many firmwares, fastboot always says 'Perflash validation failed' for boot.img and 'Invalid signed image' for system.img and the devices says 'hab check failed for boot' | 'Invalid PIV signed system image'.
Can anyone save me from this hell?
UPDATE: After searching and reading so much in the web, i figured out that i wiped cid partition (yeah, i'm a douchebag) so i give up of try to fix my moto g and bought a new phone

ManBearrrPig said:
plug it in and hold the power button for more than 2minutes. watch if the white led light is blinking. if it does leave the phone plugged in for 1hour and it will turn on.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
This worked for my Moto G
I will always love you

Bakapo said:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
This worked for my Moto G
I will always love you
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HAHAHAHAH!!!
Favourite XDA post!!

ManBearrrPig said:
plug it in and hold the power button for more than 2minutes. watch if the white led light is blinking. if it does leave the phone plugged in for 1hour and it will turn on.
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if it does not work (there is no led light & turn on after 1 hour plugged in) what we should do?

tseptiana said:
if it does not work (there is no led light & turn on after 1 hour plugged in) what we should do?
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try to plug it in the wall and leave it over night.

thewerthon said:
My Moto G Hard Bricked too while downgrading to 4.3!
The phone wont power on even holding power button or plugged in a charger.
My PC doesnt recognize it anymore, so i cant do flash-blank
Now it seems like a useless piece of plastic
It never happened with me with any Sony or Samsung phone that has passed by my hands.
I'm giving up of motorola......
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galley there is a solution for mobile hard bricked problem MOTO G2 I have not done why not have another MOTO G2 try there and please help me this is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto...1#post68213461
if you can send me the files and the palace to palace
my email [email protected]

[Q] Htc mini appears to be totally dead ?

Hi guys.
so just picked up my phone (was connected to charger) to realize that is dead! the screen is totally black,no charging/notification lights and touch buttons are not illuminated and wont power on or take a charge. tried to connect to pc but adb keeps saying "waiting on device" and thats it.
the phone is unlocked,rooted, jmz TWRP recovery and cm11.....has been running fine for the past week.
it appears to have died a sudden death....any ideas guys ???
cheers
EDIT: dunno what the hell happened as nothing was turning it back on BUT after after holding down power button and volume down for about a minute the damn thing booted up SORTED!!

Braddison said:
Hi guys.
so just picked up my phone (was connected to charger) to realize that is dead! the screen is totally black,no charging/notification lights and touch buttons are not illuminated and wont power on or take a charge. tried to connect to pc but adb keeps saying "waiting on device" and thats it.
the phone is unlocked,rooted, jmz TWRP recovery and cm11.....has been running fine for the past week.
it appears to have died a sudden death....any ideas guys ???
cheers
EDIT: dunno what the hell happened as nothing was turning it back on BUT after after holding down power button and volume up for about a minute the damn thing booted up SORTED!!
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Can you get into recovery mode?

Hi,
I have the exact same problem.
I cannot get into recovery. I tried Power + Vol. Up but that did not work (yet).
Did you leave it plugged into the wall charger while doing this, Braddison?
Also it does not show up on PC.

milchmaennchen said:
Hi,
I have the exact same problem.
I cannot get into recovery. I tried Power + Vol. Up but that did not work (yet).
Did you leave it plugged into the wall charger while doing this, Braddison?
Also it does not show up on PC.
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If I remember correctly I had it on charge and held down power and vol up. It did take a couple of minutes continuously holding down the buttons. Been fine ever since
If that fails try power and volume down for about 30seconds, I'm sure that's meant to hard reset phone

Thanks for your quick answer. I will try once more.

Same dead HTC One Mini here...two days ago the phone suddenly turned off (with somewhat of 80%-90% battery) and since then its dead. No LED, no charging, it even doesnt get warm when its being plugged into the charger. Pressed Power+Volume down (plugged or non-plugged) more than 2 minutes, and also Power+Volume Up more than two minutes.
adb shows no device. If i plug the phone into an USB-slot in a linux-machine dmesg doesnt says anything. So its dead or not? Since its not more than a half year old it should have warranty, but i think i wont get my photos and stuff. So this is an advioce to myself: never ever buy a phone without micro-sd-slot again!!!
cheers, jennix

jennix said:
Same dead HTC One Mini here...two days ago the phone suddenly turned off (with somewhat of 80%-90% battery) and since then its dead. No LED, no charging, it even doesnt get warm when its being plugged into the charger. Pressed Power+Volume down (plugged or non-plugged) more than 2 minutes, and also Power+Volume Up more than two minutes.
adb shows no device. If i plug the phone into an USB-slot in a linux-machine dmesg doesnt says anything. So its dead or not? Since its not more than a half year old it should have warranty, but i think i wont get my photos and stuff. So this is an advioce to myself: never ever buy a phone without micro-sd-slot again!!!
cheers, jennix
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I would try again after putting on charge for a few hours, ensuring that power and volume down are pressed simultaneously. i have read that its best to do this while in a bright room or shining a torch on the sensor, seems strange i know but its worth a try
good luck

Braddison said:
I would try again after putting on charge for a few hours, ensuring that power and volume down are pressed simultaneously. i have read that its best to do this while in a bright room or shining a torch on the sensor, seems strange i know but its worth a try
good luck
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Its a bit esoteric, isnt it? But nevertheless i tried it (at least the bright room) but it doesnt work. I will send it to T-Mobile and then i will hope that they didnt find that it has a CM11 on it...
thx, jennix

hi all,
while hanging on the phone for a few minutes, it switched off.!
now:
Braddison said:
the screen is totally black,no charging/notification lights and touch buttons are not illuminated and wont power on or take a charge. tried to connect to pc but adb keeps saying "waiting on device" and thats it.
the phone is unlocked,rooted, jmz TWRP recovery and cm11.....has been running fine for the past week.
it appears to have died a sudden death....any ideas guys ???
cheers
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abzboi said:
Can you get into recovery mode?
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NO, unfortunately, i cant...
i see a few of you have the same problem - have you found any help yet?
Braddison said:
EDIT: dunno what the hell happened as nothing was turning it back on BUT after after holding down power button and volume down for about a minute the damn thing booted up SORTED!!
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really? how nice of it!
did you cheer your mini up while switching on.?

I have the exact same issue right now, just 1 day after ive installes the latest cm11 nightly. gonna charge it for a few hour and hope it helps. Do you guys have any advice?

LQi said:
I have the exact same issue right now, just 1 day after ive installes the latest cm11 nightly. gonna charge it for a few hour and hope it helps. Do you guys have any advice?
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No, dont have an advice. My Mini One is dead and it seems to stay so But can it be that all dead Minis in this thread are flashed with CM11?
cheers, jennix

jennix said:
No, dont have an advice. My Mini One is dead and it seems to stay so But can it be that all dead Minis in this thread are flashed with CM11?
cheers, jennix
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Could be. But did even leaving the phone of the charger for a few days so the battery totally dies, and then recharging not work?
thanks anyways:cyclops:

hi all,
i got rid of the problem by going to my carrier. (a1 - vodafone, austria)
htc fixed it on guarantee (although i flashed a cm11-nightly)
the problem was: a damaged mainboard, which got replaced - took about two weeks..
cheers, and good luck..

schischeux said:
hi all,
i got rid of the problem by going to my carrier. (a1 - vodafone, austria)
htc fixed it on guarantee (although i flashed a cm11-nightly)
the problem was: a damaged mainboard, which got replaced - took about two weeks..
cheers, and good luck..
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thanks! Just sent mine to HTC, hope they fix it within warranty. Can I ask if ur data on the internal SD is stil intact or did you lose it all? And again someone with cm11 installed. Anyone with Sense had the same problem?

I have the exactly same problem, my phone was rooted with CM11 nightly when it died. I sent it to my carrier, but now they want me to pay 200$ for a new motherboard, because they found it was rooted and the warranty is voided. Even when I pay 200$, i still will have no warranty. And I had more than 1 year left. Is there a problem with CM11? How comes that they replace it for some people for free, and for some not? Please, give me a tip how to proceed and do I really have any options from this point?

These horror stories make me wanna stick to stock based roms. I'm a big fan of CM, but not if there's a chance it could fudge my mainboard.. real shame
or is this another example of another design fault with this phone?....
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As they have to replace the motherboard it is an hardware issue, where I live rooting doesnt void warranty if there is an hardware issue. They have to give you warranty. Could you ask your carrier what exactly caused it and why the motherboard had to be replaced?

LQi said:
Can I ask if ur data on the internal SD is stil intact or did you lose it all?
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all data gone!
i got it back with latest firmware installed (4.4. ) and sense of course.
and all that bloatware you dont need but cant delete,.

J0ro said:
I have the exactly same problem, my phone was rooted with CM11 nightly when it died. I sent it to my carrier, but now they want me to pay 200$ for a new motherboard, because they found it was rooted and the warranty is voided. Even when I pay 200$, i still will have no warranty. And I had more than 1 year left. Is there a problem with CM11? How comes that they replace it for some people for free, and for some not? Please, give me a tip how to proceed and do I really have any options from this point?
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Hey. I sent it directly to AVARTO (service center here in Germany) they too wanted to charge me (around $ 240). Then I asked what exactly the problem was and they revised their statement. Sent it back for free within warranty. On the repair sheet it than said "not turning on. constantly".

Hi.
Another dead mini. S-OFF, TWRP, CM11.

[Help]Sony Xperia E - RED LED unchargable battery

Hello guys , I am having a serious problem with my Sony Xperia E , it seems to be bricked. Something went wrong , I heard it happens sometimes because of software bug or whatever , and your phone goes into this sleep mode , which won't charge at all. I mean , when I plug it in to charge , the red led lights up (once every 3-4 seconds) untill it finally starts up , but when it starts up it shutdowns since the battery is 0% and not charging. On the internet I could not find any help about Sony Xperia E and this red led error. So , if anyone knows what to do.. Please help me , I'm too lazy to take it to a service and besides I don't got money to spare for it

Cezar725 said:
Hello guys , I am having a serious problem with my Sony Xperia E , it seems to be bricked. Something went wrong , I heard it happens sometimes because of software bug or whatever , and your phone goes into this sleep mode , which won't charge at all. I mean , when I plug it in to charge , the red led lights up (once every 3-4 seconds) untill it finally starts up , but when it starts up it shutdowns since the battery is 0% and not charging. On the internet I could not find any help about Sony Xperia E and this red led error. So , if anyone knows what to do.. Please help me , I'm too lazy to take it to a service and besides I don't got money to spare for it
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Hi Cezar and everyone else (this is my first post),
I had the exact same problem and i was sure i bricked my phone beyond repair but there is a way to fix it. So my first thought was to externaly charge my battery but you can't do that, so i came up with a way. You will need to strip one end of the USB cable and separate the black and the red wire. The red wire is positive and the black is negative. Put the two wires between the battery and the positive and negative sockets in your phone (like shown in the pictures [attached]). And now your phone will be charging .
And do not forget, red is the postive, black the negative!
I hope this solves your problem!
P.S. Don't mind the black box, I built it just so i can use it for projects to have a power source, it's just a switch and a LED

Cezar725 said:
Hello guys , I am having a serious problem with my Sony Xperia E , it seems to be bricked. Something went wrong , I heard it happens sometimes because of software bug or whatever , and your phone goes into this sleep mode , which won't charge at all. I mean , when I plug it in to charge , the red led lights up (once every 3-4 seconds) untill it finally starts up , but when it starts up it shutdowns since the battery is 0% and not charging. On the internet I could not find any help about Sony Xperia E and this red led error. So , if anyone knows what to do.. Please help me , I'm too lazy to take it to a service and besides I don't got money to spare for it
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Hello,
I was in the exact same situation yesterday with my Xperia J but luckily i managed to fix it, Your battery is able to charge what's happened is it's completely flat like there's no juice left, So what you have to do Plug your charger in via Mains and leave it like that for a good hour or two, Take your phone off charge and push the power button and see if the red led flashes 3 times if it does this means your battery is still flat, So what i did next is plugged it in via USB and put it in flashmode attempting to flash stock rom back onto it, but that just completely failed so then i tried flashing CWM that did get me somewhere my phone booted up after but then it died again so i left it on charge via USB this time for one hour and it was charging as usual i then flashed Stock rom back onto it, it was still bricked after (bootloop) so i flashed it again, and it got my device back to good health, Not sure if any of that made sense but **** it :laugh:

that536 said:
Hi Cezar and everyone else (this is my first post),
I had the exact same problem and i was sure i bricked my phone beyond repair but there is a way to fix it. So my first thought was to externaly charge my battery but you can't do that, so i came up with a way. You will need to strip one end of the USB cable and separate the black and the red wire. The red wire is positive and the black is negative. Put the two wires between the battery and the positive and negative sockets in your phone (like shown in the pictures [attached]). And now your phone will be charging .
And do not forget, red is the postive, black the negative!
I hope this solves your problem!
P.S. Don't mind the black box, I built it just so i can use it for projects to have a power source, it's just a switch and a LED
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Thanks for the post and the help , but I have a question , in this way will I still be able to get things from my PC to my device and vice-versa ? or it will make it chargeable only ?
And also , is this the only way to deal the problem ? And do you have any ideea what causes this ?

Hi cezar,
Just keep your phone on origenal charger and cable for an hour. This should work.
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Cezar725 said:
Thanks for the post and the help , but I have a question , in this way will I still be able to get things from my PC to my device and vice-versa ? or it will make it chargeable only ?
And also , is this the only way to deal the problem ? And do you have any ideea what causes this ?
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Well with this method you will need a spare USB cabel for data transfer/flashing because this one will be just a USB on the one side and stripped wires on the other.
This is the only way I found how to deal with this problem, you could always find someone with the same phone so that he can charge your battery for you.
This problem is a symptom of a soft brick. I guess you flashed a ROM that isn't stable so you found yourself in a loop. My advice is to do one of the things I said and in the future flash nee ROMs with at least 50% battery so you don't find yourself in this situation!
P.S. Try SONYs Emma, thats a cute little program for flashing stock ROMs especially in situations like this one.
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Hi cezar,
Just keep your phone on origenal charger and cable for an hour. This should work.
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In my case this disnt't work because my phone was stuck in a loop, it would start charging, boot up by itself, get to the point that it has 0% battery and power off by itself.
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Narrry84 said:
Hi cezar,
Just keep your phone on origenal charger and cable for an hour. This should work.
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This didn't work in my case either , it would start charging , boot up by itself, get to the point with 0% battery and power off by itself
that536 said:
Well with this method you will need a spare USB cabel for data transfer/flashing because this one will be just a USB on the one side and stripped wires on the other.
This is the only way I found how to deal with this problem, you could always find someone with the same phone so that he can charge your battery for you.
This problem is a symptom of a soft brick. I guess you flashed a ROM that isn't stable so you found yourself in a loop. My advice is to do one of the things I said and in the future flash nee ROMs with at least 50% battery so you don't find yourself in this situation!
P.S. Try SONYs Emma, thats a cute little program for flashing stock ROMs especially in situations like this one.
In my case this disnt't work because my phone was stuck in a loop, it would start charging, boot up by itself, get to the point that it has 0% battery and power off by itself.
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hmm I just thought about this. I do have indeed a custom ROM , but this didn't happen in process of flashing. just randomly , a month maybe I after cyanogenmod 11. Anyways , I just thought about this. What if I get another batterry from one of my friends , flash back to stock on my device and then give back the battery to that guy. Wouldn't that just work ?

Cezar725 said:
This didn't work in my case either , it would start charging , boot up by itself, get to the point with 0% battery and power off by itself
hmm I just thought about this. I do have indeed a custom ROM , but this didn't happen in process of flashing. just randomly , a month maybe I after cyanogenmod 11. Anyways , I just thought about this. What if I get another batterry from one of my friends , flash back to stock on my device and then give back the battery to that guy. Wouldn't that just work ?
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Actually this happend to me too days after flashing CM11 just after the GSM bug. Yes that would work perfectly!
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Then you have too flash your phone using flashtool.
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that536 said:
Actually this happend to me too days after flashing CM11 just after the GSM bug. Yes that would work perfectly!
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cool thanks for letting me know I'll try

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Hello,
Ive tried to look for a similar situation in other thread but each case is different so i open a new one.
This morning, when i took my idol 3 the screen did not switch off when pressing power button. I thought it was battery but when i plugged charger,nothing happened except the led is on continuously. I kept power button pressed for 10 seconds. The phone vibrates shortly but still a black screen, no sound and no reaction from the touch panel. Power+vol+ did not led me to my twrp recovery. What can i do now to get it work again? The phone is rooted with Rom Eu 4.2 from murigny64 and it is the first time i encounter this issu. Thanks in advance for helping me

Tonight i disconnected the battery for about 30min then connect it again. Then i tried to start in recovery: Just a vibration but no display and no sound. I unplugged/plugged the battery again and try to start. Same problem. What the hell could happen? Maybe a deffective hardware

Insist on boot ( normal or in to recovery with vol + and power).
That is a hardware brick.
Happened to me to some times, insist, it will unbrick

persona78 said:
Insist on boot ( normal or in to recovery with vol + and power).
That is a hardware brick.
Happened to me to some times, insist, it will unbrick
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Hopelessly i tried to restart several times before you post your message. But im gonna try again.
I charged the phone all the night but nothing better and the phone is not detected on pc so no adb action possible.
Maybe the battery is dead...

nigloud said:
Hopelessly i tried to restart several times before you post your message. But im gonna try again.
I charged the phone all the night but nothing better and the phone is not detected on pc so no adb action possible.
Maybe the battery is dead...
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Can be, can be to... To bad if is battery.
But still trying to boot, is very difficult to.
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thank you for advise but it's still not working. I spend about 30 minutes trying different combination of button: power pressed until it vibrate, power+vol up, power+vol down, power+vol up & down, discontinuous press of power with charger and no charger....and so on. Its a complete failure.
If it is the battery, there was no sign of weakness before (short life, random shutoff, ....) . It happen suddenly: I lock my screen before sleeping and the next morning no way to switch it on again.
I thought I would avoid problems for long with a twrp recovery, a backup and adb tools on my pc.....but for hardware issues its useless.

How can I be sure it is battery before purchasing another one ?

nigloud said:
How can I be sure it is battery before purchasing another one ?
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There is also possibility that your screen has been broken
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belkoo said:
There is also possibility that your screen has been broken
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If it was the screen the touch panel would work and i could sense vibration when typing the pin code no?
The led bright continuously when i plug instead of flashing slowly as it used to do when charging. That why i think its battery.

...and when i start in recovery the phone is not detected on my pc

That's hardware brick. Don't give up, try to boot, normally or in recovery, keep trying it will boot.

Have you tried to open the phone and disconnect battery? Custom ROMs made me similar issue a few times.

jani0417 said:
Have you tried to open the phone and disconnect battery? Custom ROMs made me similar issue a few times.
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Wtf idol 3 has non removable battery haha
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belkoo said:
Wtf idol 3 has non removable battery haha
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Therefore the back can be dismantle and we can access battery and that s what i did.
Yes i disconnected it for several hours and pluged it again but it gave me the same result. And now it doesnt vibrate anymore when i keep the power button pressed a while.
I purchased a battery on internet and im waiting for delivery to test if im right or not. Il feedback about the test.
Anyway its nice from you to look for any solution. Thanks

nigloud said:
Therefore the back can be dismantle and we can access battery and that s what i did.
Yes i disconnected it for several hours and pluged it again but it gave me the same result. And now it doesnt vibrate anymore when i keep the power button pressed a while.
I purchased a battery on internet and im waiting for delivery to test if im right or not. Il feedback about the test.
Anyway its nice from you to look for any solution. Thanks
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I guess you did everything properly, so just one thing: at first time when I did this, I choosed the wrong cable (which didn't 'reset' the phone), so I hope you pulled both out.

jani0417 said:
I guess you did everything properly, so just one thing: at first time when I did this, I choosed the wrong cable (which didn't 'reset' the phone), so I hope you pulled both out.
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I think i choose the good connection: This is the one over the battery with 6 wires: 2 red, 2 white and 1 black (see picture attached). I just left it with a small screwdriver to disconnect.

nigloud said:
I think i choose the good connection: This is the one over the battery with 6 wires: 2 red, 2 white and 1 black (see picture attached). I just left it with a small screwdriver to disconnect.
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Yep, that's it

Hello,
I received the new battery today.
So i unpacked it, i unplugged the old one and plugged the new one ...and guess what happened......the same bevahiour as with the old battery: when i press the button power, it vibrate but it doesnt start neither in recovery nor in normal mode.
I just precise that the new battery is charged at 50%........:crying:
So the problem is not the battery but it was the only thing i could test by myself before sending the phone to alcatel for repair.
Im still wondering what could happen to my idol 3: It had been woking perfectly for months and one morning with no warning, it refuse to switch on. Ok sorry for annoying us and hope it wont happen with yours.
I hope alacatel will apply the guarantee although the phone is rooted and bootloader unlocked....because its a hardware issue i think.

Hello,
Just to conclude. The phone got back from repair after 10 days. They have changed motherboard, battery and also the back that was damaged. Its a brand new phone .