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[Q] Completely drained external/internal battery?

I've looked all over. And I've tried everything.
This is what happened to my Xperia. it was 29% before I went to bed. When I woke up the next day, it was completely dead. No lights, no anything. I've tried charging it for 24 hours, I've tried charging the battery through an external charger, I've waited 2 days to power it on again. I've also tried that hard reset trick on one thread here. No go. I'm frustrated. Does anyone know any way this could be fixed and why did this happen?

13 views and no reply... I'm gonna shamelessly beg now.. anyone?

since you have tried hard reset,and it doesnt work
i prefer theres something wrong with your battery

leonuxury said:
since you have tried hard reset,and it doesnt work
i prefer theres something wrong with your battery
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Is it possible for the battery to just die like that without any warning? My battery was okay before this problem. I've tried it with an external charger and it charges.

It could be the charging circuit itself.
I recall a similar thing happening to me on another HTC phone, sorry I can't recall the details (but it was beyond my skills to repair it, and it was an old phone by then). A friendly technical centre could help you with that diagnosis.
At least you can get a desktop charger that will charge the battery up without it having to be inside the phone , if that is the case.

paul c said:
It could be the charging circuit itself.
I recall a similar thing happening to me on another HTC phone, sorry I can't recall the details (but it was beyond my skills to repair it, and it was an old phone by then). A friendly technical centre could help you with that diagnosis.
At least you can get a desktop charger that will charge the battery up without it having to be inside the phone , if that is the case.
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I've tried charging without the phone. External charger or desktop charger. Doesn't work either.

Sounds weird, but did you try to hold down the power button for a few seconds to let x1 on? Sometimes I have that too when the battery goes empty and the phone goes off. It doesnt open immediately when I press the button, but have to hold down the power button for a few seconds and than release. Try that for about 5 times. If noting happens, than its not the same problem that I have.

Jaennil said:
I've looked all over. And I've tried everything.
This is what happened to my Xperia. it was 29% before I went to bed. When I woke up the next day, it was completely dead. No lights, no anything. I've tried charging it for 24 hours, I've tried charging the battery through an external charger, I've waited 2 days to power it on again. I've also tried that hard reset trick on one thread here. No go. I'm frustrated. Does anyone know any way this could be fixed and why did this happen?
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Hi guys,
I'm having exactly the same issue as "Jaennil". My battery was at 67% when I went to bed but today morning its dead. I dont know how it happend. Usually I get around 2-3 days of battery backup(on standby). Now my xperia is not switching on. Can anyone suggest some solution for our problem...I am now charging the battery using wall charger,but i dont see any battery charging notifications.
Please help guys,
Thanks in advance.
Bobby Thomas

HELP! My phone died and now won't do anything when it's plugged in

Okay so I rooted my HTC Vivid, S-Off, etc and it's been fine for 2 weeks. I'v elet it die all the way before and never gave me any trouble turning back on. I let it die lastnight, and i forgot to plug it in while at work today so when I got home it was dead, as I expected. I plugged it in while i took my dog out and when I came back, it won't do anything. I didn't pay attention before to see if the charge light came on (i was in a hurry). the charge light now comes on a for a couple seconds and then goes off, and CWM recovery screen comes up. I held the power button down and then the HTC screen came up and hasn't gone beyond that. It's plugged in and I don;t see the charge light at all. What could have happened? Please help me

I would pull the batt then plug it in and see if the charge icon comes on if so let it set about ten min then turn it on

Bigtjmc said:
I would pull the batt then plug it in and see if the charge icon comes on if so let it set about ten min then turn it on
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I just tried, nothing happens

I did mean pull it and put it back and try . If that is what you did then I would wait for one of the more experienced users to reply I'm sure its something easy .

suprastar932jzgte said:
I just tried, nothing happens
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Try a new battery. I have seen a lot of posts from people who let the battery die and it was never able to charge again. That is not normal behavior for a battery, it is defective. Several people have gotten new batteries by taking them in for warranty service. If you don't feel you can do that, Amazon has many batteries that work fine.
Until I get a spare battery, I will not let mine go to zero. I plug it in before it gets below 2%.

optimus black doesnt come on unless charger is plugged in

hey guys, my rooted 2.3.4 stock gingerbread optimus black doesn't come on unless plugged in to the charger. the issue started 3 days ago when i was playing virtual tennis sega and it was connected to the charger. at first my phone got very hot and then it restarted.i continued playing the game after it restarted and it later got hot and again went off, but this time blinking as it went off. i removed the battery and put it back but it remained same. i later removed the battery for a whole day and inserted it back the next day but it remained the same. i later plugged it to the charger and it came on and booted all the way to my home screen. i could even use the phone normally, but anytime i remove the charger it goes off. also, anytime i put on the camera while its plugged in it goes off and shows the battery icon charging. i have done a factory reset but its still the same. please help me.

Try another battery
I think it might be loose or dead
If it was software...it would have turned on

could be your battery, hard to tell though, what if it's pluged to the PC?

obiwannn said:
hey guys, my rooted 2.3.4 stock gingerbread optimus black doesn't come on unless plugged in to the charger. the issue started 3 days ago when i was playing virtual tennis sega and it was connected to the charger. at first my phone got very hot and then it restarted.i continued playing the game after it restarted and it later got hot and again went off, but this time blinking as it went off. i removed the battery and put it back but it remained same. i later removed the battery for a whole day and inserted it back the next day but it remained the same. i later plugged it to the charger and it came on and booted all the way to my home screen. i could even use the phone normally, but anytime i remove the charger it goes off. also, anytime i put on the camera while its plugged in it goes off and shows the battery icon charging. i have done a factory reset but its still the same. please help me.
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I had the same issue.. i lost the warranty due to "bad use" and send the phone to a repair center.. It has a broken wire of the USB connector.

If your phone still turns on while pluged to the computer you can use smartflash to go back to stock rom and this will get you back to warranty

phone still wont come on without charger
ErnuB said:
If your phone still turns on while pluged to the computer you can use smartflash to go back to stock rom and this will get you back to warranty
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Thanks man, my phone doesnt come on with usb oh...it used to before but doesnt anylonger.
i also noticed that when am using it with the charger connected and its 100percent full, and i remove charger, it blinks and goes off
upon replacement of the charger, it shows a lower percentage battery. sometimes 2% other times from 60 to 80%, it even showed 99% one time.
mind u, i can do everytin with my phone except snapping a pic as it turns of my fone....
am gonna unroot my fone this night so i see wat i can do at the service center tomorrow...any help is appreciated

obiwannn said:
Thanks man, my phone doesnt come on with usb oh...it used to before but doesnt anylonger.
i also noticed that when am using it with the charger connected and its 100percent full, and i remove charger, it blinks and goes off
upon replacement of the charger, it shows a lower percentage battery. sometimes 2% other times from 60 to 80%, it even showed 99% one time.
mind u, i can do everytin with my phone except snapping a pic as it turns of my fone....
am gonna unroot my fone this night so i see wat i can do at the service center tomorrow...any help is appreciated
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I wouldn't know how to help you, good luck at the service center

try another battery first
i dont think its rom related at all not a board problem
test the battery on another phone

theaks30 said:
try another battery first
i dont think its rom related at all not a board problem
test the battery on another phone
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thanks theaks,
i reflashed with stock rom so i can unroot but still no headway. optimus black users aint common around here if not i would have tested with a diff battery or tried the battery on another fone.
am going to the place i purchased my phone from tommorw, since i nw have my warranty regained.......lemme hear what they have to say about it.

Yes i understand it may aswell be another problem...you got a point but bear in mind that waranty service takes a lot of time

theaks30 said:
Yes i understand it may aswell be another problem...you got a point but bear in mind that waranty service takes a lot of time
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Thanks theaks, turns out to be a good battery issue...... Didn't know that warranty doesn't cover battery...... Optimus works fine now.... ICS on my mind.

[Q] XZ died when unplugged ! HELP!

Guys, I need help here ..
So my phone was okay, until three days ago when I accidentally left it at the office and it drain itself to die .. on the next day, I tried to charge it by using its wall charger but doesn't seems to work, did not even see a red led although I can feel that the battery is getting warm.
Out of curiousity I plugged my XZ to my laptop to see if I still can recover something and then suddenly the red led appears and I can turn it on like normal and the battery charged without problem.
Now the funny part is, when I unplugged my XZ out of my laptop, it dies .. like totally dead, I can't turn it back on and I can't even charge it by using its wall charger. So the only way to operate my XZ is by turning it on WHILE plugged it in to my laptop.
I did tried flashing firmwares a few times, followed [NUT]'s Disaster Recovery Thread but the result is still the same so I suspect that it got to do with the hardwares, but still unsure and haven't got the guts to mess with the hardwares ..
Do you think my battery gone crazy or something else? Anybody else ever had the same problem as me and get through it?
Oh and I cant take it to the service center because I bought my XZ overseas and almost all service center in my country is total piece of s#it ..
Please help ..

Could it be by any chance, that your wall charger is damage?
I don't think it has anything to do with softwares tho, hardwares maybe but I doubt it since you can operate your XZ with no issue through laptop.
I've faced similar incident like you before, I left my phone at home and it drained itself to 0. It took like a minute or so for the red LED light to appear when I tried to charge it with my wall charger. Probably drained too much haha.

Boneztee said:
Could it be by any chance, that your wall charger is damage?
I don't think it has anything to do with softwares tho, hardwares maybe but I doubt it since you can operate your XZ with no issue through laptop.
I've faced similar incident like you before, I left my phone at home and it drained itself to 0. It took like a minute or so for the red LED light to appear when I tried to charge it with my wall charger. Probably drained too much haha.
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Wall charger was good, I tried my friend's charger and I even tried using my iphone's charger and all doesn't work .. Something I really wonder is, if its my battery then why did XZ works when I plugged it into my laptop .. This is so weird *duh
This wasnt the first time I drained my XZ, but this time my XZ playing jokes on me ..
I guess I'll have to try to replace the battery, we'll see if it works ..

valpraiso said:
Wall charger was good, I tried my friend's charger and I even tried using my iphone's charger and all doesn't work .. Something I really wonder is, if its my battery then why did XZ works when I plugged it into my laptop .. This is so weird *duh
This wasnt the first time I drained my XZ, but this time my XZ playing jokes on me ..
I guess I'll have to try to replace the battery, we'll see if it works ..
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Uh oh x.x Might be your battery then. It can't handle anymore pressure~
All the best to you! I hope your XZ works after you replaces the battery! :victory:

Leave it on the wallcharger for 24 hours. It should be working fine again then.

I have had the same issue last year, i left it on the charger for a full day and my XZ came to life again. I had the same worries as you, and i still avoid draining my battery to 0% and shuts down automatically. If that doesn't help it might be a death battery.

St.Jimmy90 said:
Leave it on the wallcharger for 24 hours. It should be working fine again then.
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And I already did, but still the phone does not start but the battery is warm. The only way to operate it is by plug it in to laptop. Weird isn't it?
lalilaloe said:
I have had the same issue last year, i left it on the charger for a full day and my XZ came to life again. I had the same worries as you, and i still avoid draining my battery to 0% and shuts down automatically. If that doesn't help it might be a death battery.
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I replaced the battery but still messed up, I tried quickstyler's method of hardware fix here and now my phone doesn't wanna start at all
Hahaha damn it this is totally sucks ...

Z1 Sudden Death!

Hello!
Yes, it's right. I guess it's my turn to get the sudden death of my beloved Xperia Z1.
It's dead, but I don't think it's completely dead and I'm hoping for some help from tech navy's around here and from other people who got the sudden death issue so here's what happened:
I woke up early in the morning at around 8 am and the battery was at 9% and I had no time to put it on charger because I'm in a hurry, so I said I'll put it on charger in car same as always. I use the magnetic cable that I removed from the dock (cuz my sis lost my charging cable, I have to use my magnetic one every time) and I almost always charge my phone in the car with that cable. The phone was working perfectly so I locked the screen and connected the magnetic charger and the charging light didn't come on so I wanted to check if it's charging.... and found out that it's dead (no charging LED, not turning on, no Power + Volume up vibration, no nothing) so I went back to the house and put it on my mother's charger (Micro USB) and got a red LED light as if it's charging, but it's not. still doesn't power up and everything and yes, I've tried the reset button near the SIM card, nothing wants to work.
I took it to Sony service center later that day and they said it will take 3 days because of the traffic they're having, and I have no warranty because I bought it on release which is more than a year ago. After 3 days, they told me that it's a motherboard problem and it got water damaged (while the last time I put it in water was about 2 weeks before that day, and he saw that the white thing is red) and it can't be fixed pay some money and take a new one (just phone no boxing no nothing) and I said no thanks and took the phone to another shop and he checked it and told me that he can't fix it.
I cracked open my phone and I can't see any water damage in it, everything seems to be perfectly fine. I've tried everything I could think of, everything I read on the internet, but nothing seems to work, and the pc doesn't even notice that I connected my phone, I've tried connecting it in fast boot, and flash mode, but nothing works it just keeps the red LED light on. Disconnecting the batter didn't help at all.
I called Sony service center and asked them if I can buy a motherboard from them and they said that they don't even have replacement parts for any Z series phone because they're not authorized by Sony to repair the waterproof/resistant Z series phones (The service center here isn't Sony, but it's an authorized service center by Sony) so at that point I lost hope to get it repaired.
All that happened back in January, but now that summer is here, I want to fix it somehow. But I have no clue where to start, and I'm not sure how to confirm that it's the motherboard that's damaged. is there a way to find exactly where the problem is? I have a soldering iron and everything needed to repair the phone, all I need is to know where's the problem! I can buy parts off of internet, and I will if I need to, but I'm not gonna buy a whole motherboard from ebay because I simply can't trust that motherboard.
Sorry for the lengthy post, and thanks for any help you'll give.
Regards,
~J2C

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leave your phone for a weed and try to charge it . if your phone still led light I think your battery die not your phone .

Your battery is dead, if you have taken it apart already just buy a new battery or buy a micro usb lithium battery charger from ebay and hook it up to your battery (by itself) I posted about my experience here http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z1/help/red-led-flashes-charging-solution-t3141345 If you have access to voltmeter you can check the battery voltage, it is like 2.6v or there abouts. Your phone will not charge a battery this far gone.
Nz

thaiminh40 said:
leave your phone for a weed and try to charge it . if your phone still led light I think your battery die not your phone .
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Huh? I don't get it. btw we don't have weed here in my place.
notzippy said:
Your battery is dead, if you have taken it apart already just buy a new battery or buy a micro usb lithium battery charger from ebay and hook it up to your battery (by itself) I posted about my experience here http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z1/help/red-led-flashes-charging-solution-t3141345 If you have access to voltmeter you can check the battery voltage, it is like 2.6v or there abouts. Your phone will not charge a battery this far gone.
Nz
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I don't think that the battery is dead, because:
1- I get a STABLE red light when I put it on charger or connect it to PC.
2- I've tried a method that's said to revive a dead battery on a Z1 (or Z series) and it didn't work.
3- If it was really the battery, then this should've worked! But no, When I connect the motherboard with test point properly connected, the PC just doesn't recognize the phone.
Regards,
~J2C

Just2Cause said:
I don't think that the battery is dead, because:
1- I get a STABLE red light when I put it on charger or connect it to PC.
2- I've tried a method that's said to revive a dead battery on a Z1 (or Z series) and it didn't work.
3- If it was really the battery, then this should've worked! But no, When I connect the motherboard with test point properly connected, the PC just doesn't recognize the phone.
Regards,
~J2C
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I followed all those methods as well and none worked for me either. Measure your battery voltage with a voltmeter, it is the cheapest way to verify if the issue is battery or something else.
Nz

notzippy said:
I followed all those methods as well and none worked for me either. Measure your battery voltage with a voltmeter, it is the cheapest way to verify if the issue is battery or something else.
Nz
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Hello!
I finally got access to a multimeter today and checked my battery's voltage and it was about 3V so I can confirm that the problem is not the battery.
It must be some kind of hardware problem, and I don't think that you really did try the test point fix and you just said yea yea bla bla YOUR BATTERY IS THE PROBLEM! No, it's not.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
Regards,
~J2C

3v is still to low in my opinion
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3v is still to low in my opinion
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I've charged it, and still not working.

Bumping cuz I want my good ol' Z1 back

I've experienced a "sudden death" once, it was really scary to me.
I've flashed a custom rom, rebooted and went to bed directly without waiting "android is upgrading" or whatever.
The next day I saw that my phone was not opening. There was no red led to indicate low battery, I plugged to charger for some seconds and didn't see a red light to indicate "charging" so it was weird to me. The solution was to charge it for more than 30 minutes and afterwards it went to 1%! Maybe you should try to charge with the cable like normally and wait for a while
Source: http://support.sonymobile.com/global-en/xperiaz1/faq/I-cannot-power-on-my-device/
Hope it works! 30 minutes was so long and worrying though :silly:

TFutoMaki said:
I've experienced a "sudden death" once, it was really scary to me.
I've flashed a custom rom, rebooted and went to bed directly without waiting "android is upgrading" or whatever.
The next day I saw that my phone was not opening. There was no red led to indicate low battery, I plugged to charger for some seconds and didn't see a red light to indicate "charging" so it was weird to me. The solution was to charge it for more than 30 minutes and afterwards it went to 1%! Maybe you should try to charge with the cable like normally and wait for a while
Source: http://support.sonymobile.com/global-en/xperiaz1/faq/I-cannot-power-on-my-device/
Hope it works! 30 minutes was so long and worrying though :silly:
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Nope!
You obviously had a dead battery, and I've already left it on charger for 2 continuous days.
I clearly have a hardware problem. Probably a dead chip as the phone died the moment I connected the magnetic charger.

Just2Cause said:
Nope!
You obviously had a dead battery, and I've already left it on charger for 2 continuous days.
I clearly have a hardware problem. Probably a dead chip as the phone died the moment I connected the magnetic charger.
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If u disasassembled your phone then simply disconnect battery, connect phone to pc (with disconected battery) with pressed volume button down, if phone working u should see blue led light (flashmode)-if this happen then your battery is fault (maybe not, try to flash stock rom if u see flashmode), if not then it is mainboard.

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If u disasassembled your phone then simply disconnect battery, connect phone to pc (with disconected battery) with pressed volume button down, if phone working u should see blue led light (flashmode)-if this happen then your battery is fault (maybe not, try to flash stock rom if u see flashmode), if not then it is mainboard.
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I don't think that you actually read the first post, but no problem.
The computer doesn't recognize the phone at all, with or without battery. And I've posted a link a couple of posts back that leads to a "hard brick fix" thread and even that didn't work for me.
Anyways, I just tried what you told me to try, but no. No flashmode, no fastboot, no nothing.

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I don't think that you actually read the first post, but no problem.
The computer doesn't recognize the phone at all, with or without battery. And I've posted a link a couple of posts back that leads to a "hard brick fix" thread and even that didn't work for me.
Anyways, I just tried what you told me to try, but no. No flashmode, no fastboot, no nothing.
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Yes i actually read your post but sometimes phone will not be able to connect with pc if battery is fault, it happens when user have Sleep of death, thats why i say to connect withouth battery to pc.