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Nightmare.
Got my Diamond today, and charged it up.
It ran out 5 minutes ago, so I plugged it into the mains charger.
It vibrates, shows HTC and then gets stuck in a constant reboot. It's like it gets a little charge, uses it, then restarts the process.
I guess the battery is so dead that even the mains charger cant give it enough boost to start charging.
Help Please
If you only got it today then id be sending it back as it seems to be a faulty unit. Perhaps someone can give you a fix but if it was me, id be demanding a new working unit...you just never know what other faults the phone might have.
Good job I didn't Hard-SPL it straight away.
Damn, Always happens to me.
Are you trying to charge it with the wallcharger or by usb to a computer.
Beacuse if you are doing it by the computer there is an option on the phone that disables charging when conected to the computer.
Good luck dude.
Definately wall charger.
I think it's f(***d
I'll go back to my Kaiser and wait for the Raphael I think.
i would first try to charge the battery device turned off!
i noticed that the led in center button does not blink in the beginning but it should charge!
after a while try a hard reset!
Tried the following:
I cant switch off the device as soon as power is applied via USB it switches on. Tried holding the power button down but nothing.
Tried entering bootloader but same reset loop.
Tried hard reset, gets to grey screen with blue text but then reset loop again.
I tried leaving the battery out for half an hour and trying again but soon as usb is in it powers up and reset loop.
I put a multimeter on the battery and it is dishing out 3.7v as expected.
I think the device is knacked, even though I was using it for most of the day.
laporte said:
i would first try to charge the battery device turned off!
i noticed that the led in center button does not blink in the beginning but it should charge!
after a while try a hard reset!
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Usually a hard reset solves everything (hopefully)
Sergio PC said:
Usually a hard reset solves everything (hopefully)
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Tried hard reset, gets to grey screen with blue text but then reset loop again.
Nope
leave it charging for at least 10 minutes before turning it on.
bakman said:
leave it charging for at least 10 minutes before turning it on.
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I cant switch off the device as soon as power is applied via USB it switches on. Tried holding the power button down but nothing.
don't even touch the power button!
the device should not start if you touch nothing and just plug the powercable!?
i don not think that you press the powerbutton accidentally while plugging the cable, i hope i'm right?
Without touching the power button, I plug in the charger and the phone vibrates and starts.
From dead:
1. Plug in charger
2. I get 2 swirls of white on the round button thing
3. Phone vibrates
4. Smart mobility logo shows
5. Phone reboots
GOTO 1:
i miss the touch diamond screening with rom version etc.
normally it shows up before the htc smart mobility screen.
i don't think the battery is the badguy. seems more a fault in ipl or spl?
You're right.
I was wrong when I said smart mobility.
It comes up with TOUCHDiamond across the centre of the screen and right where the little red numbers USUALLY appear in the bottom right, it reboots before that.
To perform a hard reset
1. Pull out the stylus.
2. With the device turned on, press and hold the VOLUME DOWN and ENTER buttons, then press the RESET button with the stylus tip.
3. Release the RESET button, but continue pressing the VOLUME DOWN and ENTER buttons until you see message on the screen
4. Release the VOLUME DOWN and ENTER buttons, then press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset
save this info on your computer
Sorted!
I left the battery out overnight, and when I came to work this morning, I plugged it into the charger and it didn't automatically start up so it got a good 3/4 hour charge which then enabled me to fire it up for a full charge.
congrats! i hope for you that this problem doesn't come back!
Sounds to me like it also could have been the power button was jammed pushed in. Maybe leaving it for a while without pushing the button did the trick, allowing it to release itself.
In case that was the problem, keep an eye on the power button in case it seems to be a bit dodgy. If it is going to do it again, then you want to swap it immediately for a replacement brand new unit. After a while, if you try to swap it out, they will give you a refurbished unit, not a brand new one!
Of course it could have just been a software bug, that was cleared by letting it fully power down (as others have said).
Just make your decision quick before you end up with a refurbished model for replacement.
Just to let you all know.
Over the weekend I fully charged my Diamond, and without even making a phone call or using WiFi, Bluetooth or anything the battery lasted 1.5 hours.
It's gone back to clove now for a replacement.
I've seen a few people having this issue so I advise getting it back for replacement asap.
My diamond got very hot during normal use (without charger). Is that normal? Not the battery but the actual device.
Hello. This morning I've turned off the alarm, turned on WIFI and went back to sleep. I can't tell for sure, but I think the battery was low. During the next 2 hours I checked the time several times. I don't remember accepting any OTA. Eventually I got up, tried to check the time and the phone was off. I tried to turn it on, no effect. No matter how many times and for how long I pressed and held the power button, the green LED only flashed for a split second and that's all. I plugged in the charger, and the LED stayed lit -but- there was this barely noticeable flickering. Charged it for about 30, 60, 120 minutes, didn't start plugged or unplugged. I went to work, 8 hours later (phone was unplugged) I tried to turn it on again, this time the LED doesn't even flash, but when charging there is no flickering. No combination of buttons works. Windows doesn't find the device, neither does RSD.
I've never done anything 'custom' to the phone. The last change I made was setting the alarm to turn off by shaking (yesterday, never used this option before).
Is it dead?
Try taking SD card out and holding Vol down and then Power for 20 secs, then let go of Power,
Already done that, nothing. No matter how long I charge it now, after unplugging and pressing power button the LED doesn't even flash. Could it be a battery problem (before its death, it would last for a day)? Is there any way of recovering my data without buying a new one?
Try opening and disconnect battery for a bit.
I'll do that as a last resort, on weekend maybe since I don't have the tools with me. Any other clues?
Nobody knows how to help me?
I'm going to make a factory cable. Will this alone allow me to recover the data? Or if I'll be able to flash the phone, can I recover the data afterwards?
Also, I'm not sure if I understand correctly: does the factory cable recharge the battery or not? Is there a way to recharge it when removed from the phone?
Try to use medfield unbrick script. If You have only green led it seems to be bootloader error so this script should bring Your phone to life or Your phone has broken emmc and You can start looking for a new logic board. Good luck.
I've installed the drivers, but Windows and XFSTK don't recognize my device at all. Factory cable also didn't help. I liked my phone very much. :angel:
Did You enter medfield mode using combination with camera button??
By a combination you mean holding the camera button and connecting the phone to a pc? I tried that.
Disassembe Your phone, pull out battery, push power button for a 10 sec, plug in battery, push camera button and connect USB. If it wont help You I don't see any hope for Your phone.
Well, new option to try is a new hope. I'll try that on the weekend. Could you please be more specific:
1. Pull out the battery.
2. Press the power button and wait 10 seconds.
3. Insert the battery: should I be still holding the power button at this moment?
4. Press the camera button.
5. Plug in the usb cable (factory? regular?) - should I be still holding the power and camera buttons?
Battery trick is only to discharge capacitors. Sometimes even phone is dead it can turn on in some strange mode and then You can't boot it to flash. Thats why You need to pull out battery, push power for a few sec to completely discharge motherboard and just release this button. After that You can just plug in battery and continue normal unbrick process - so hold camera button only and connect regular usb cable.
You can also try reset option instead of pulling battery out. To do that do not disassemble Your phone but just plug in regular USB, when phone starts (green led) hold power and vol- until green led goes off and then quickly start holding only camera button.
I have no more ideas.
Ok, I've tried everything. Nothing brought my phone back to life.
Thanks for all your help.
I've had my Droid 4 completely lose battery on one or two occasions where I wasn't paying attention to it while doing something else.
It turns out that I have to plug it in and wait until the battery is at 100% to get it to start up again. What is the way around this? Just holding the power button turns the phone on, shows the motorola boot logo, and then shows the battery at whatever percentage it's currently charged to. How do I bypass this and start into the ROM and then just charge from there?
In an emergency when I'm waiting for a call or something, this is something I need to be able to do.
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It turns out that I have to plug it in and wait until the battery is at 100% to get it to start up again. What is the way around this? Just holding the power button turns the phone on, shows the motorola boot logo, and then shows the battery at whatever percentage it's currently charged to. How do I bypass this and start into the ROM and then just charge from there?
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The power button on my phone is completely non-functional, so I have to plug it into a charger to "kick-start" it on the rare occasion that it's completely shut off; which, more often than not, is when my now rapidly-aging battery craps out and I don't catch it in time. So I face this every now and then.
The solution:
Let the phone charge enough to safely boot; 10% oughtta do it. It seems that the phone does charge whenever power is being supplied regardless of its state, but the amount of drain while booting means your charger by itself probably won't keep up
Unplug the phone; this should make it shut off
While holding Vol+ and Vol-, plug the phone back in (you may be able to use the power button instead of plugging in, but I wouldn't know). This will bring up the menu of which the name escapes me at the moment
Unplug the phone (may or may not actually be necessary for success, but I always do)
Select Recovery (Vol- navigates, Vol+ selects); this will get you into the 96% useless stock recovery
Press Vol+ and Vol- together until the menu comes up; this might take several tries because either the phone is fidgety or the timing is stupid-precise
Select Reboot (either Enter or Ok on the keyboard to select, I forget)
The phone should reboot properly, skipping the forced charging thing. You can (and should) plug the charger back in anytime after you hit Safestrap/the post-SS kexec buzz if you have the custom SS installed which disables the popup at boot.
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The power button on my phone is completely non-functional, so I have to plug it into a charger to "kick-start" it on the rare occasion that it's completely shut off; which, more often than not, is when my now rapidly-aging battery craps out and I don't catch it in time. So I face this every now and then.
The solution:
Let the phone charge enough to safely boot; 10% oughtta do it. It seems that the phone does charge whenever power is being supplied regardless of its state, but the amount of drain while booting means your charger by itself probably won't keep up
Unplug the phone; this should make it shut off
While holding Vol+ and Vol-, plug the phone back in (you may be able to use the power button instead of plugging in, but I wouldn't know). This will bring up the menu of which the name escapes me at the moment
Unplug the phone (may or may not actually be necessary for success, but I always do)
Select Recovery (Vol- navigates, Vol+ selects); this will get you into the 96% useless stock recovery
Press Vol+ and Vol- together until the menu comes up; this might take several tries because either the phone is fidgety or the timing is stupid-precise
Select Reboot (either Enter or Ok on the keyboard to select, I forget)
The phone should reboot properly, skipping the forced charging thing. You can (and should) plug the charger back in anytime after you hit Safestrap/the post-SS kexec buzz if you have the custom SS installed which disables the popup at boot.
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Yes... this is the method I remember using once, but I couldn't get passed the useless stock recovery this time around so I thought maybe I was just dreaming. I guess my timing was just bad this go around.
Thanks again, Septfox!
My DROID 4 is like my DROID 3. When the battery completely dies, you cannot press the power button while it's plugged in.
So, Dead phone. Plug it into the charger. Wait a couple minutes, so it gets some charge. Unplug the charger, Hit the POWER button, then plug it back in.
It won't work if it's plugged in, dead, and charging. You gotta unplug it to turn it on, then plug it back in to continue charging.
That is happening not only with this model phone. On other brands is the same.
Seems like my 3T does not turn off when I turn it off via pressing the power button. When I have a charger connected it's easy to spot when the vibration goes off, but the charging light keeps lit - even when I remover the charger. It's also apparent that the device won't turn on when pressing the power button for three seconds. I need to press it about eight secs and then another two to turn it on.
Turning off works when rebooting the phone and turning it off from the bootloader (my device is unlocked) or when turning it off at the pin entry (have boot pin set).
Can anyone confirm?
Tested with clean system (no root, no Xposed) and still happening...
Turning off with the power button works on my device, powering up DOES take some time, 5-8 seconds of holding the power button down.
Seems like forever holding that power button!
Maybe I need to be more precise. Yes, I can "kill" the phone just holding that button for about ten seconds. But that's not the point. I suspect it does not power off properly.
To test, hook it up to the charger. Press power for about three seconds. Select "Turn off". Wait for the phone to vibrate. Charging light is on. If it'd be powering off correctly, it would kind of turn on again to show you the charging screen (battery symbol, then dash symbol). Does not do this for me. Instead it sits there... black. When I remove the charger, the charging light stays on.
To turn the phone on again, I then have to press power about ten seconds (turning it off), and then again to turn it on.
I tried your exact method, and my device shuts down (connected to the power cord, plugged in) normally, and them restarts while holding down the power button in 3 seconds.
When not connected to the dash charger, my device does power down very slowly as described in my earlier post (stock kernel)
My devices is rooted with the blue spark kernel though--so maybe that has some baring in my "normal" shut down/startup behavior.
I have the same bug to you... So I disconnected the cable...
Just wait for the future updates....
Hi,
My Mi5 won't start now. It was having about 60% when I switched on NFC for the first time. I may have switched the NFC on and off a couple of time. Then I inserted the phone into its case , and by mistake the wrong way which might have pressed the power button / volume button , while I was inserting the phone into the case I noticed the phone was turning off. Quickly I realized the phone went the wrong way into the case and I removed and reinserted it and then pressed the power button, but nothing happened. Tried pressing volume up / down / power button but no use. But the phone was warm.
Now, the only sign of life in the phone is when charging it using the regular original charger. The light is initially purple and then turns to green but then it switches off. Tried connecting it to laptop but does not show anything. Also, the safe mode boot method does not work. So, the phone does charge but pressing power button does not turn it on but just makes it warm (some kind of startup loop)
I've been using the phone for last more than 2 years and it has original setup and updates are automatic and regular.
Just don't want to trash the phone if it can be revived.
Looking for advise.
Thanks