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Hi guys,
My o2 xda mini S just suddenly died couple days ago. It didn't even hold any charges. I hard reset it and it kinda started working. I thought it was the t-mobile rom 2.26 screwed up my phone so i downgraded to rom 2.21. However, the phone started acting up again. Battery kept on draining quickly. And today, the phone died again. I'm trying to charge it and nothing happens. No indicator light. I even tried hard resetting it again but no luck. I guess it's totally dead now. Please let me know if there's something I can do. What's wrong with my phone? Did I brick it? I doubt that since after the rom 2.26 upgrade i was able to use the phone for a while. PLEAAAASSEE HEEELLLLPPP.
- Did you charge it with USB or charger?
- Does it feels unusually hot the last time it is used
Sound like a hardware problem though. Unlikely a ROM will give battery issues.
-I tried both USB and charger nothing charges.
-It doesn't feel hot at all.
Please help. Thanks.
hanmin said:
- Did you charge it with USB or charger?
- Does it feels unusually hot the last time it is used
Sound like a hardware problem though. Unlikely a ROM will give battery issues.
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oh man...spamity spam...lol...
and about the thread problem, i think that ur battery is dead...this damn device ONLY work with a working battery (just try removing the battery and turning on the device...what happens? nothing!)
try jump starting your battery with a 9 volt...I read it in some thread. Try using someone else's battery and see if it works.
<_<
Someone else's battery will do the trick. If it still isn't working, then I hope your warranty is still good? >_>
Hi all! This is my first post here so, please be nice.
This is regards a t-mobile MDA It is a g3 version.
I was trying to reinstall the 2.26 ROM straight from the t-mobile website. It had gotten to about 90% when a connection error came up. It started the "recovery" process, so I did that perfectly, but then, the bootloader randomly restarts when I plug in the USB. Now, I have been doing a lot of reading on this forum. I have disabled wescomm during install, i have stopped all background programs.
I started again. I got to about 10% of the reinstall, when the bootloader restarted itself..again.
I'm sorta thinking it's the battery, but before i did this reinstall, i let the battery fully charge to 100%. So, i don't know how it could've drained so fast, if that is even the problem. The battery is in good condition. It has about a couple days of stand-by time.
Of course now, i'm stuck in bootloader mode that randomly restarts. Is there anyway of making it stop restarting?
How can I get my MDA back? It seems the programs I've found require activesync and my phone doesn't stay on long enough for any of them to work.
Thanks for all your help. I'm sorry if the answers I need were posted elsewhere, I did do a search, so maybe I have just been using the wrong terms...
I have uploaded a YouTube video if you want to see the restarting for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h0Sp37N-ZU
-Pam
EDITED: I have removed the SD card also.. still no luck. If the phone is bricked, please just tell it to me...just make it fast...
EDITED: THE PROBLEM IS FIXED!! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!
Hi,
This is a battery issue. Everytime you got errors like this, try to recharge it again and redo the flash procedure. I spent a whole day doing it once and it worked!
ok... So, even though the bootloader keeps restarting, it is charging the battery?
thanks!
-pam
Use your wall charger instead of the USB cable to be sure that it's charging.
pammylz said:
EDITED: THE PROBLEM IS FIXED!! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!
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Can we know how you did it? That could be a good help for others
Well, I did what everyone said I should. I did have to jump start the battery, plugging it in did nothing but drain what was left on the battery. So, I read on the forum that a 9V and some twist ties should do it and it did give it some juice to be charged. I had to hunt down the exact wall charger that came with the MDA, because my other wall chargers (for my other phones) didn't charge the phone. But, once I had that all set up, and it was charging because the bootloader screen stayed on the entire time it was charging. So, an hour later I tried the install again, it finally completed. Thank god!
Well, the reason why I wanted to reflash the ROM was because I was having a hard time inputting on the screen, I would tap one place and something a quarter-inch over would be selected. And also, whenever I turned on the wi-fi, the MDA would restart. I tried hard-resetting, and it wasn't helping.. But, now it has been reflashed, everything works great.. except the random, unexplainable restart. :|
Need help myself
I'm having a simular problem with my G3 device.
I wanted to get rid of NBD 8.0 because it constantly was rebooting or simply shutting down. I thought it was the software so downloaded a different ROM.
Before installing this new ROM I (as usual) downgraded before upgrading (installed regular T-mobile ROM). This however didn't go to well. At about 85% it got stuck and reported an error 302. I tried recharging and different ROM's but to no aveill.
I just got of the horn with T-Mobile and they're willing to send me a new battery (free of charge).
At the moment my Wizard is in the wallcharger, none of the 5 or 6 ROM's I've tried have worked, they all stall at one point or other and the bootloader then keeps flashing on and off.
I'm hoping the new battery will work, but I'm interested in that solution you used, what did you do? How did you jumpstart your battery?
Any advise is welcome (concerning this issue of course ) so HELP!?!?!
I have the battery jumpstart solution described here in the top post - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321342&page=2. Hope it helps.
Did the battery solution, didn't work, I'm beginning to loose faith. I'm still waiting for the replacement battery from T-Mobile, hope that helps.
EDIT: I GOT MY NEW BATTERY, and everything works again!!!
The batt boost failed so I was without a phone for a while, got everything working again. Thanks for the assistance!
I was attempting to do a new upgrade to WM6 after running the stock WM5 for about a day, and during the flash process the RUU utility crashed on my business laptop (The memory location could not be "written"). Ever since then, my phone boots up in the three colored bar RUU mode.
After reading http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294107, I felt that all was not lost and it looked like I could just simply reflash while it was in RUU mode. The problem now is that whenever I try to flash it, no matter what rom (stock Cingular rom, T-Mo 2.26, different WM6 roms, etc.) the phone reboots anywhere between 1 & 4% through during the flashing process.
I don't know what the battery % is anymore (since I can't boot directly), but I know it was around 80% when I originally started. I tried plugging the phone into the charger (not USB to PC) and the phone went into RUU mode on there as well. Is there a way to charge the battery while in RUU mode?
Are there any other ideas? I don't really know anyone with a Wizard so I don't know if I can swap a battery with someone else to give that a shot. Thanks in advance for any help,
Jason
You could cut open a usb cable and manually charge your battery. I have done that before by taping the wire leads to the battery and letting it charge for an hour or so.
Which wires would go to which leads on the battery?
Try to shut down and plug your wiza into the USB. Take out your battery and plug it in prior doing this...It happened to me once..sorry I don't remember exactly how I fixed it...but I remember trying more ways.
Do you mean shutting down the phone or the computer?
I have tried pretty much any combination that I can think of. I finally hit 50% without the "communication failure" from occurring. When it happens, the USB "Ding-Ding" noise happens indicating that it has been unplugged, and when the phone boots up again the noise happens again showing reconnection.
Jason
Ugghhhh I'm so pissed at the phone I just want to smash it lol I would never do that. I was even ready to try to exchange it under warrantee but I was trying some different flashes to make sure my battery troubles were h/w and not s/w first :-/ It is in the fridge now cooling off while I pretend that it is going to help...
Jason
myrandex said:
Ugghhhh I'm so pissed at the phone I just want to smash it lol I would never do that. I was even ready to try to exchange it under warrantee but I was trying some different flashes to make sure my battery troubles were h/w and not s/w first :-/ It is in the fridge now cooling off while I pretend that it is going to help...
Jason
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WHAT ? You put your Wizard in the fridge ? Man, that's insane !
I hope you're joking if not, get it out of there.
First make sure that you have the battery charged, and only then move to the next phase (flashing)
After it's charged, use a ROM that you know for sure it works !
This is easy, you're making it hard.
P.S. I meant take the battery out of the Wizard, then put it back and only then connect to PC through USB to charge it.
lol I was teasing but in computers I have used the freezer trick on hard drives that didn't like behaving
Yea I have tried like a 100 times tonight with no luck though. I have to resist physically damaging it to try to do the battery theory tomorrow when hopefully I can convince some stranger @ work to let me swap batteries with him for an "experiment"
Jason
I would suggest maybe trying a different computer to flash from or at least a different USB port, but since you said that you're using a laptop that may not be an option. If you do have a second USB port though try connecting the sync cable to it. From what you've described so far, you should be up and going again already by now.
Sounds like your battery level is low. Plug your phone into a wall charger, don't worry whats on the screen and let it charge for a while.
Cing 8125 said:
Sounds like your battery level is low. Plug your phone into a wall charger, don't worry whats on the screen and let it charge for a while.
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I hear that sheet! been there done that. 2yrs ago with my blue angel, and just a few months ago with the wizard. it works (if the battery% being to low is the problem)
Good so it still sounds like it will chare in RUU mode? I am leaving it in that state right now for a couple of hours to see if it helps.
Jason
It is rebooting like once per second now pretty continuously. I don't think it is getting much of a charge :-/
I still think it is your battery. I had the same problem, I let the battery charge overnight. I don't know how long it takes to charge when the phone is in that state but it might not charge as fast when it is.
You have to use a wall charger and some people suggest a cradle charger but I used my wall charger.
Also if the battery gets to low it won't charge. I don't think that is your problem but if it is you would need to jump start or get a bit of charge on it so it will charge. There is a thread about doing this using a 9V battery.
Good luck.
Well I tracked down someone with a 8125 today and convinced him to let me borrow his battery for a bit, and the flash took just fine. Now I'm back to running stock Cingular WM5 :-/ I think I will let it run like this for a couple of days before I get adventurous again, and if the battery flakes up at all, warranty exchange since the s/w is stock now
Glad to hear you got it going.
Not to highjack the thread but i seem to have a similar problem.
I can sync my 8525 with the computer, but when i start the ruuwrapper and it starts to sync, it shows i have a connection problem.
Like regularly, i can like remove and add files and what not, but just when trying to flash it with a new rom, it disconnects on its own.
Error (260)
Can someone shed some light.
I have searched the Internet and forums for days and can't find a solution to my problem. I have found a few with the same problem, but no solutions. Please help!
I have a Sprint HTC Touch Diamond 6950SP (DIAM500) running the original ROM. A few months ago and for no apparent reason, it stopped recognizing the battery and stopped accepting a charge. I haven't messed with the phone in any way or attempted to load a new ROM. The Power Status screen simply shows, "Main battery: Unknown". Plugging the phone in with the supplied charger will actually discharge the battery and the circular LED does not come on. I tried several soft and hard resets; then I downloaded and flashed the ROM with the one from the Sprint web site (WM 6.1 Professional 5.2.20764/Build 20764.1.4.3), but nothing seemed to help. I found that I could get the battery to charge by removing the battery (with the phone plugged into the charger) and then putting it back in. When the circular LED flashes twice, I remove the battery and wait till it flashes two more times, and then put the battery back in. This takes many attempts, and eventually the LED continues to flash and will charge the battery. I did this for a long time while I searched for a solution, and one day, it just started working again!!! The phone worked great for several months and suddenly, it has started doing the same thing again.
I decided to upgrade to WM 6.5 and downloaded all the necessary applications, (many thanks to XDA and friends). But, when I attempted to flash my ROM, it stopped and indicated that my battery was too weak - even though I new it had a full charge, (see battery status, above). I've checked the battery with a multimeter, therefore, I know it has a full charge. I don't have any other problems with the phone, nor do I have any problems with it sincing to my computer. I have since ordered a new battery, but it hasn't arrived yet. Someone please help.
Thanks.
I have read at other posts that the Diamond's battery has a recognition chip in it. Also, without the battery, it will not run from the charger. Could the chip in the battery be bad? Has anyone else had this problem?
Is there a registry fix (or tweak) for the battery status? Please, one of you must know something about this.
Got my new battery - the phone does not power up, charge or anything else with the new battery. I tried charging the new battery with the method I've tried before, (see above), but it won't even light the circular LED. I checked the new battery with a multimeter, and it shows it has 3.7 volts. Now what? Any ideas would be appreciated.
that happened to me for a little while. idont know what it was but it wouldnt charge using the usb cable to any computer or even the a/c adapter but it would charge with another wall charger i had. after a couple days a friend had his psp over and i charged my phone with his cable on my computer like nothing and after wards it all worked again
Thank you so much for your reply!!!
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lokoz89 said:
that happened to me for a little while. idont know what it was but it wouldnt charge using the usb cable to any computer or even the a/c adapter but it would charge with another wall charger i had. after a couple days a friend had his psp over and i charged my phone with his cable on my computer like nothing and after wards it all worked again
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I have tried other cables and chargers, but none have helped. Last time my phone started working properly, I had plugged it in to my computer, but that hasn't happened this time. Thanx for your comments - keep 'em coming.
I purchased a new charger/docking station for my phone and spare battery. It wouldn't charge my phone or the new battery I purchased either. The new battery still will not work in my phone - paper weight! The charger does charge my old battery, though. Does anyone know if you can run a Touch Diamond from the USB/charging cable without the battery installed? Mine won't, but I was wondering if it should.
Hey man
you know that happend to me when i first flashed my diamond for metro i bought a new battery and nuthing changed so what i did was a hard reset and it fixed it for me but i dont know thats just me and if u want to try it make sure u back up ur contacts with PIM backup hope u fixe it
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you know that happend to me when i first flashed my diamond for metro i bought a new battery and nuthing changed so what i did was a hard reset and it fixed it for me but i dont know thats just me and if u want to try it make sure u back up ur contacts with PIM backup hope u fixe it
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Thanks, Krzynate! I tried that already, many times now, (see my first post in this thread). Thanks anyway and please keep the posts coming.
I had the same problem.. I ended up buying a new battery and it wouldn't charge in my phone. So I ordered an external charger from EBAY for 10$. My new battery is charging so It might be the solution you are looking for.
Thank you so much for posting! As I wrote previously,
(I purchased a new charger/docking station for my phone and spare battery. It wouldn't charge my phone or the new battery I purchased either. The new battery still will not work in my phone - paper weight! The charger does charge my old battery, though.), this did not fix my problem. The vender that sold me the new (bad) battery is sending me another one - hopefully, it will work this time.
It's Fixed!!!
I wrote the Internet store where I purchased the non-working battery. They sent me another battery and now it's fixed!!! The battery indicator and status all recognize the new battery! Apparently, there is a recognition chip in the battery; the original battery's chip's software became corrupted, and the other "new" battery's chip was blank. The original battery still works, (as long as I charge it with the external charger), and still has an unrecognized status in WM 6.1. Please pass this info on to others that have simular problems. Thanx XDA!
Hi Guys,
So I have been using information on XDA for a number of years but only now encountered a problem that I have to start this thread.
My A2 sunning stock Pie, it wont charge, I cant connect to the computer to unlock BL and flash Oreo and I have today tried to boot to EDL via testing point.
Nothing, nothing works, I can get some power in it slowly but the charge keep turning off, I would presume that cause it starts to charge it wouldnt be the data cable at fault.
Just wondering if anyone has any idea's for this one?
Many thanks in advance
Yes I have exact same problem I have found no solution if you find one please let me know
rallenjr64 said:
Yes I have exact same problem I have found no solution if you find one please let me know
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Happening since your Pie update?
Try another charger. It worked for me.
Most likely Xiaomi's original charger is not able to supply the proper mA to charge the phone.
I installed Accu​Battery to check the current charge's mA and sometime is ok (over 1600) but others is not sending any current.
Also, sometimes original charger works fine after 3 or 4 retries.
There's a slightly chance that this could be a software issue after latest February Android Pie update.