Dead battery mid-flash? - 8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading

uh...Hello, title says it all. I just picked up an 8125 and liked wm5 but really wanted wm6. So, I did my research found the files and guides I needed and started to do my updating. Now the problem is when I did the RUU (Vista version) everything was going well. I got to around 90ish percent (it picked up speed towards the end) and then she crashed and went back to the boot loader screen. So I tried the recovery mode, only to find my phone keeps flashing on and off back light comes on screen goes to the 3 colored bars and then the light goes off and a few bars of the screen slowly fade out only to come back to life again. Now the odd thing is, I had 100% battery when I started (plugged in for 6 hours previously) and I hadn't had the phone go dead on me before. It's been a few minutes now and the blips keep speeding up (I suppose the battery is giving it's last few gasps). Do you guys have any ideas as to why this would happen (I didn't notice any short battery life issues previously)? Perhaps I should order a new battery and reattempt the flash? I apologize in advance if this has been answered previously or posted in the wrong section (I did do a forum search previous to posting). I would very much like to recover my latest investment. Oh yes, plugging it into my usb/power adapter will cause the blips to pick up pace a bit, though the screen has been silent for the last minute or two (while plugged in). Thanks in advance for any replies.

If you can enter the RUU then everything is ok(the 4 color screen which has "RUU" at the top right corner). I think your battery is dead, what you should do is order another battery or turn your phone off and plug the usb cable in (it should charge). After you got your power issue solved, flash the base rom (t mobile 2.26) then flash the rom that you wanted(remember your device must be SIM/CID unlocked)

Can't get it to charge which sucks. I just bought a battery and am just waiting to get it. I was in the middle of doing the IPL downgrade so I could do the CID unlock when it died. Well, I hope I can get past this.

Charge the battery with Wall charger or with some friends pda,get into bootloaders (multicolor screen) and flash the official rom to recover back.

Just flash the base rom as zabardast_1 said then use Wizard Service Tool to sim/cid unlock then do what you wanted

Just got my battery, luckily it came with a good charge and it finished the flash I'll see if I can hit the CID unlock with the button rom in WST if not I'll try zabardast_1's one.

Wel i just finished up with a successful flash to the tmobile 2.26 with xda mobile 6, runs great

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HELP!!

I flashed radio rom 2.40 and it is screwing up my phone BIG TIME. i am using Faria's WM6 but this rom is killing it.
I cannot get to the bootloader screen even if I press the 2 buttons on the right and the Reset button but I cannot get to the loader screen.
Anyone know another way to get to the bootloader so that I can go back to the original 1.19 ROM.
Thanks,
Mike
ok, i read this in this forum because just 2 days back the same thing happened to my 8125... ok Charge ur phone with the battery still in it for 2 hours....then after thats done take out the battery and charge the phone without the battery.....Then pull the plug out and push back in for like 3 times (ur screen and orange led light should flash)...then without putting the battery back in hold the camera, power, and voice buttons at the same time until the bootloader screen comes up. Finally put the battery back in and unplug the charger, put the pc charger in and flash ur old rom....hope this helps, because it worked for me! Good Luck!
Arjun
ajdesidevil said:
ok, i read this in this forum because just 2 days back the same thing happened to my 8125... ok Charge ur phone with the battery still in it for 2 hours....then after thats done take out the battery and charge the phone without the battery.....Then pull the plug out and push back in for like 3 times (ur screen and orange led light should flash)...then without putting the battery back in hold the camera, power, and voice buttons at the same time until the bootloader screen comes up. Finally put the battery back in and unplug the charger, put the pc charger in and flash ur old rom....hope this helps, because it worked for me! Good Luck!
Arjun
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damn it...didnt work. splash screen keeps appearing and disappearing and no bootloader screen.
Thanks,
Mike
HA....all is good.
I just followed these instructions from this thread and got bootloader to come on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294107
Basically, the only thing I did was remove my SD/MMC card and it went through no problem.
I flashed 2.19 Radio Rom back on my MDA so hopefully, everything is good.
Thanks for trying to help....
Regards,
Mike

help...bootloader keeps "rebooting" during flash

Hi all...
First of all... i've searched in the forum but couldn't find the answer.
I have a G3 CID unlocked phone; and flashed many custom roms all with success...
This morning i saw the new TNT 4.0 and off course i wanted to try this one.
Flash went well through 100%; and at the end i saw a block from mcafee service center that there was a blocked item; and if i wanted it to be stay blocked or remove block. (i don't know what the blocked item was unfortunatelly)
The update was cancelled and the device stays in bootloader mode (so that's good i guessed.)
When i try to reflash (have tried TNT4.0 reflash, tried buttom rom flas, tried stock rom flash) the progress bar appears.
Then thew bootloader suddenly ""reboots" and the flash terminates.
I think i tried everything now... anyone a suggestion what to do?
IPL/SPL 3.08 and radio 2.0.19 dutch ship
thanxx
ow yeah... i've also tried another computer with no mcafee security center on it...
hmmm I think I found the answer....
Rebooting is caused bij an low battery.... battery had been charged whole night on USB... so he said it was fully charged...
I've put the phone on the wallcharger; and the bootloader appears... the led doesn't show it is charging (i can imagine that this is controlled by the OS) but when i charge the battery for 3 minutes the flash goes up to 100% and then reboots again... so I think it has something to do with the charging. I will charge the battery for a little longer and try the flash again.
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Ok and that was the answer... charged for about 15 minutes with the wall charger and it flashed.
maybe if someone else has the same issue he/she can take its advantage
thanxx anyways
mouragio said:
Ok and that was the answer... charged for about 15 minutes with the wall charger and it flashed.
maybe if someone else has the same issue he/she can take its advantage
thanxx anyways
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I have a similar problem, I'll try this in an hour or so, wizard is n the wallcharger right now.
Thanks for the advice...
I am in believe that my battery has to be replaced... when the phone is 100% full; it drops to 50/60 within the hour; and then suddenly he can/will be completely discharged....
At this moment i am in search for a new battery in the netherlands (for an reasonable price....

kaiser not booting - says battery empty while it isn't

Hello good people,
I've been searching the forums but i don't seem to be able to find a solution for my dead kaiser.
I'll explain the problem:
When i push the power button on my Kaiser, it start's booting the first part, displaying the "smart mobility" slogan by HTC, after a few seconds, some data appears in red, in the right lower corner of the screen, this is what is says:
R 1.27.12.11
G 22.45.88.07H
D 1.56.00.00
After displaying this for a while (about 1 min.) it goes to the Windows Mobile Splash Screen.
After displaying this for a few seconds (5 to 10 secs) it makes the "empty battery" sound and shuts down.
Can someone help me ?
*** And NO, the battery is NOT empty ... i've charged it over night, and the power light was green. ***
I've tried booting with and without SIM and MicroSD cards ... makes no difference.
ttenhag said:
..snip*** And NO, the battery is NOT empty ... i've charged it over night, and the power light was green. ***
I've tried booting with and without SIM and MicroSD cards ... makes no difference.
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Will it boot with the phone plugged in to power?
Bill
Yeah, try booting with the charger on. Chances are that your battery' life is out..
Reagdrs,
Carty..
I have had the same thing and wondered if it was the battery... except that sometimes it will stay on for about 2 minutes, sometimes half an hour... but most of the time as soon as it goes to the Today screen, I get the battery dead sound and then it turns off. I am going to try to use another battery to see if that makes a difference.
it's not the battery
I've tried with the power cord on the phone, it does 2 things:
1. The same thing as i said before
2. Doesn't boot at all, it halts on the screen where the red data shows up and stays there until you take the power cord off and the battery out.
It does one of these things, randomly.
I've also tried with another battery from my friends kaiser which works perfectly.
So i guess it's not the battery, anyone another idea what it could be?
Might be something wrong with the firmware or anything? problem is, i can't flash it if it doesn't boot can i ??
any ideas ?
Today i managed to get my hands on a brand new kaiser battery, my uncle has a brand new kaiser and i borrowed his battery.
His battery was full, i put it in my kaiser and tried booting, same problem as above.
I've tried with the power cord plugged into the phone, the charging led went on, and i tried booting, same as above.
Later i've tried with the USB cable connected to the phone and the computer, still the same.
I've also tried soft&hard resetting with the new battery, no succes.
So therefore, i believe it's not a battery or a power problem, it must be firmware corrupted or something of the hardware broke ?
Does anyone has any idea how i can try to re-flash this thing ? to find out if that might be the problem ?
It's not the battery. Could be a bad flash or something. Try to reflash it. Yes, it will reflash even though it won't "boot" as you say. Try to reflash and then report back. Remove the memory card for now.
Also, what Rom and SPL are you using?
Ur going to have to force it into the bootloader to flash it, no biggie. Just hold down the power and camera buttons, and hold the soft reset button with the stylus, untill you get the tri color boot screen. Then flash away! I would flash a stock rom until u can tell weather your problem is hardware related or not. If hardware related keep the stock rom and spl, and try to warrenty return it.
O.k., this just happened to my Brand New kaiser last night too, WTF! Was running fine when the low battery icon came up with half battery life n shut down, now it wont start up at home screen for more than 3 secs before it shuts down and says the battery is dead even while its plugged in! There's no way to reflash or hard reset since it doesn't stay on long enough to do so. Just ordered my replacement, but reading different forums, it seems many people have experienced this with Kaiser and most around the same time, again, WTF!!!
kaalgoosy said:
O.k., this just happened to my Brand New kaiser last night too, WTF! Was running fine when the low battery icon came up with half battery life n shut down, now it wont start up at home screen for more than 3 secs before it shuts down and says the battery is dead even while its plugged in! There's no way to reflash or hard reset since it doesn't stay on long enough to do so. Just ordered my replacement, but reading different forums, it seems many people have experienced this with Kaiser and most around the same time, again, WTF!!!
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Does it power off while beeing in bootloader? You doesnt have to start the device up to get into bootloader you know. Try checking if it shuts down while beeing in bootloader, if its not just reflash. Another thing, what spl and rom are you guys having this problem using?
It's alive!!!
Finally got it to bootloader mode before it dies and reflashed and it seems to be running just fine now. Using spl ver.1 with schaps 4.30 wm 6 (although users running the stock rom had the same experience). Got the "smart chip not provisioned mm 2" message most likely from at&t killing my sim card from a reorder as they did when I Returned the Iphone which is a rediculous policy(policing); having to constantly contact at&t to update to a new sim. Still, it makes me wonder what caused this defunct in the first place, and if it'll happen again tomorrow or the next day. Reflashing and reinstalling cabs is a Real *****, especially for a pda where people use their device for business and gather a collection of missed calls and lost connections when the Os decides to randomly crash. As much as I dig htc's devices, it's kinda strange how HTC, with such a huge marketshare with pda's, is so quiet about updates or firmware fixes. Anyways, long live the only source for htc fixes, XDA!!
Mine is still completely in the state in which i got it.
Just the stock HTC Firmware, rom's and loaders
Okay, a little update.
How the hell can i flash this thing if it keeps on bugging me with the "Wrong vender ID" message when i try to flash it ?
I know, install HardSPL ... but how can i ? without a possibility to connect ActiveSync?, you'll have to start the device for that and run activesync, but i can't because it won't even boot.
Is there any other way of getting this device to allow me to flash without needing to boot it up fully.
I have no problems getting in to the Tri-Color bootloader, but no further.
When updating it gets to 1%, then my PC gives the message: "Wrong vender ID, please use your own device's update utility" and the phone stays at 1% till i rip out the battery.
ok guys I have the same problem with two of my kaiser's
I can power them up but in aproximately 1 minut goes off, no matter if the charger is plugged or not, it doesn't make a difference
I can put the phone in tri-color screen and stays there with no problem
and I can flash them with no problem because they are olipro already
but after flash them with anything still the same problem ???
so if anybody has a clue or maybe a rom to fix this would be great
thanks
best regards
linterna
One more thing. I have the same problem but mine when starts flashes Blue LED when was good hasn't. I Started few times and it works for 2-3 weeks and again. Best to do is to not use camera. Every time it happends i ise my camera and battery was middle-low. I think its some problem with camera. Many times it don't want to start up or saids that there is no memory for saving photo. Maybe i should flash rom from wersion without cameras.
im having the same problem, has anyone solved this?
Yeah solve . HTC as a kids toy .
Buy Nokia! Or SonyEricsson.
I won't buy smartphone ever again.
Does not boot to the OS
I have the similar problem...... My kaiser is dead not even booting with battery only (not plugged to the PC or external charger).
However when I plugged it to the power source it boots up and continue to the OS and boom (shuts off) in split of second.
I tried different flash and it propelry boots and got windows up and running when plugged to the PC with the old ATT test ROM which I got from the xda threads.
But with the latest roms it wont boot to the windows , it dies before that.
Anyone having idea what could resolve this.
any update on this? i am having the same problem. i tried a hard reset already with no success it goes to the splash screen and says "the device is clearing the storage. please wait" then pings and turns off
r 1.65.21.18
g 25.88.40.05h
d 3.57.00.00
my phone is completely stock and has never been unlocked or messed with. found an updated at&t rom, i ran it and none of the numbers change in the bootup, then goes to the splash screen and says again "the device is clearinng the storage. please wait" and then pings and turns off.
also i have been searching for the oilpro or jockeyw hard spl files on google and on here but have found nothing, the search function doesnt seem to be able to find much.
any help would be appreciative, thanks in advance
Don't mean to hijack but didn't want to make my own thread when this one was here. I'm not having exactly the same problem as everyone else but I am having a battery issue. It works fine and says it's charging when plugged in but when I unplug it the battery goes down fast (like 1-4 % a minute) and when it hits around 70%, it shuts off. Then whenever I turn it on, it immediately shuts down before the Today screen fully shows (like others are mentioning here). I have to plug it back into the charger to get it to turn on again.
Could this be a bad flash too..? I know I did one of the latest HardSPLs and tonight I just now updated to the latest stock AT&T ROM. But it can't be a flash because the night I got it (bought it used on eBay), I was playing with it not plugged in using Skype and it shut off on me. I didn't think much of it and had always had it plugged in since then.
I'm assuming I simply need a new battery.. I've emailed the original owner and she says she never had any problems with it like this.
Zerxer said:
Don't mean to hijack but didn't want to make my own thread when this one was here. I'm not having exactly the same problem as everyone else but I am having a battery issue. It works fine and says it's charging when plugged in but when I unplug it the battery goes down fast (like 1-4 % a minute) and when it hits around 70%, it shuts off. Then whenever I turn it on, it immediately shuts down before the Today screen fully shows (like others are mentioning here). I have to plug it back into the charger to get it to turn on again.
Could this be a bad flash too..? I know I did one of the latest HardSPLs and tonight I just now updated to the latest stock AT&T ROM. But it can't be a flash because the night I got it (bought it used on eBay), I was playing with it not plugged in using Skype and it shut off on me. I didn't think much of it and had always had it plugged in since then.
I'm assuming I simply need a new battery.. I've emailed the original owner and she says she never had any problems with it like this.
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I've just started having the same problem as you. Very annoying. Mine phone is a year and a half old now, so i'm assuming the battery is coming to an end.
Charge battery, will last a while, but goes down to around 80-70% and then it says plug power in blah blah blah and dies. Then when you charge it, it stays on one or 2 bars for a bit and then jumps to 100% fully charged.
Saw a procedure to "reset" the battery. Supposedly have to take the battery out for a bit then plug in and charge fully over night with the phone OFF. None of this seemed to work for me... I'm due for an upgrade in January, so is it really worth paying for a new battery... hmmm

Total Phone Failure?

I installed my first rom from the step by step guide yesterday. The phone has been having tons of problems, everything from sound not working when I start speaking, to the radio not working, to the cingular cabs not configuring... anything.
I plugged in phone to my computer's USB tonight and left it to charge and get above 50% battery so I could flash a different rom.
I came back from the bar and the phone was off. No green or yellow charge light.
I tried to turn it on and it turned on for a second and died. No lights. I tried hard resetting, loading the boot loader, removing the battery, tried a wall charger, nothing at all is working.
What the heck happened here?? How do I fix this, or diagnose this? It sounds like the battery to me, but with my first rom install a day ago it seems too coninsidental...
Further info needed
r2tincan said:
I installed my first rom from the step by step guide yesterday.
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Which ROM on what model of Kaiser and using what Radio/SPL (read the wiki further if you don't know what this means). People won't be able to help unless you provide further information. Did you hard reset the phone after the ROM flash (as per good practice)? As the flash process has no moving parts (well not in the ordinary sense), something else will now be causing your phone to not run at all although it may be related to the flash (eg battery drain issues. Can you still get the battery charging orange light when the Kaiser is plugged into a charger (after taking the battery out for a few minutes and then reinserting it)?
I guess this is usefull in that it lets newcommers know that the wiki is not intended as a hand-holding step by step guide for every single part of ROM/RADIO?SPL flashing but as a source of general info about such things (well at least thats my view).
Sounds to me too as if your battery is dead. Do you get any LED lights when connecting the wall charger?
Using ATT Tilt, Hard SPL 3.29, AthineOS latest build. No lights at all when taking battery out for 30 minutes and plugging into (non HTC) wall charger.
Update... I just got the phone to turn on, but it absolutely will not charge.
Tried USB and wall connections.
Why wouldn't the phone charge? No light comes on.
If you still have enough power left, try to flash your phone back to its original shipped ROM by following the SD FLASH METHOD. If your phone still won't charge then most likely your USB is dead (at least the charging part).
Junner2003 said:
Sounds to me too as if your battery is dead. Do you get any LED lights when connecting the wall charger?
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i have a set in this condition
only green light is on while pressing power
customer brought this set in this position... what it could be???

almost dead blueangel

NEVER MIND. I BOUGHT A NEW ONE. (at least i'll have spares)
i we had my blueangel for about a year now and i while back it started shutting down randomly and didn't boot. so i got pissed and started using another phone instead. but now i want to fix it. so the problem is:
randomly flashing blue light and no bootup. somtimes the redlight flashes too.
sometimes the screen shows ROM but crashes. (no backlight)
and with my other battery i just get a glowing red light or simply nothing.
i overclocked it in the past, any chance the the OC killed it? highest was 570 something but only for a short period.
when it started crashing i figured the rom was corrupted or somthing and i wanted to upgrade it to wm5 or 6. but it died like 10 seconds before i plugged it in and it's havent worked since.
i've noticed something though. i charge it with my qtek 1010's charger 5v 1A however on the blueangel its 5v 2A. but i worked fine for about 6 months.
any thoughts? is it gone for good?
EDIT: i almost forgot. bootloder mode doesnt work either. when it finally starts all i see is the t-mobile logo an rom version.
EDIT2: a quick ansver would be great becouse there is an mint condition blueangel for sale and i'll probably buy it if i cant save my current one. however i would save a lot of money if i fixed this one.
You've probably flashed wrong or bad rom, so the device is doing god-knows-what when you turn it on Maybe there's a way to flash some working rom to it?
in never made it to the flashing. i plugged it in and it was dead. so i never had time to flash it, i died before i tried.
did you have the red light when you put your BA in charge ?
Because in my case, when i don't use my BA and my battery is empty, i need to charge at least 30mn my BA and after i remove the battery and soft reset the phone for restart my BA. This is the only way for restart my BA.
The charger 5v 1A is not a problem but if your BA crash during the upgrade of wm5 or 6 is not good.
in first try to start your phone and go in bootloader.
you should only flash your device, when the battery is full, because
1. the device is not being charged while upgrading, and so it could switch off during upgrade if the battery is not full.
2. there are rumours, that the battery state during the upgrade is recognized as 100% after upgrading and if that is not true, your battery state is all messed up and you could harm your battery while charging afterwards.

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