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[Q] Phone thinks it is charging

the sgs, when switched off, thinks that it is connected to a charger and that big battery screen shows up, at first the phone wasnt turning off after that.
ive since flashed using odin and 3 files hoping it would help. the phone now turns on but once switched off it continues to think that it is charging.
when i try and reboot, which i must do by plugging in a charger then pressing the power button once charging actually starts a minute later, the phone goes into a boot loop. Once it managed to get through after around 15mins.
I can get into both download and recovery mode. main problem is that the phone doesnt ever turn off (charging screen comes on), and that booting up is difficult and is hit or miss.
I have looked for other threads on this but havent found anything, so any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Felleese

Try a factory reset...

Thanks for the tip but it hasn't helped.
Anything else I should try?
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Dead Battery issue (minor freak out)

I just wanted to recap my experience for the benefit of others. I am running the latest rum runner ROM with CWM 5.0.x.x. I have not updated my CWM yet because I do not have an external sd card right now, and don't want to upgrade until I do, since 5.5.x.x mounts external sd, not internal.
So yesterday I let my phone completely die before I got home for the night. I plugged it in, and it booted straight into recovery as soon as I booted. If I chose reboot option in recovery, it would just reboot back into recovery again. If I unplugged my phone and chose reboot option, it would just shut the phone off. Plug charger back in, and phone would turn itself on and back into recovery. After letting it sit on the charger in recovery (which does not show a charging light btw) for about 30 minutes, it was still doing the same thing. After about another 30 minutes on the charger, I tried it one more time before I was going to start thinking of other options. I guess it built up enough of a charge to boot without being plugged in, and since it was not plugged in, it booted normally.
I just wanted to share my experience in case this happens to anyone else. Just leave the phone on the charger sitting in recovery mode. Even though there is not light on, the phone is still charging.

I'm glad someone posted this. The very samething happened to me and I was freaking out too. I knew the phone wasn't bricked bc it would always boot back into recovery but it just wouldn't boot into the rom. I too left on the charger for about an hour until it finally booted back up. I'm not running a custom rom but I am rooted.

That is an issue with the 5.5 rec. It's causing devices which are off and plugged in to boot to rec.
Just let it charge for a few minutes to make sure it has some juice, then pull the battery and unplug it. Then turn it on, wait ten seconds to get past the initial bootup, and then plug back in. Also I think you can avoid it all by using fastboot in settings/power.
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I guess it is an issue in the 5.0 recovery too. I guess the best thing to do is to just shut your phone off once it hits a couple of percent

I am also using CWM 5.0. I haven't upgraded to 5.5 yet.

I upgraded using ROM manger and let my phones battery die and now it will not charge. So now that my battery will not charge my phone will not turn back on. I have tried every thing I can think of and nothing is working. Anyone have any ideas?
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Neodous said:
I upgraded using ROM manger and let my phones battery die and now it will not charge. So now that my battery will not charge my phone will not turn back on. I have tried every thing I can think of and nothing is working. Anyone have any ideas?
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Did you read what the OP had posted??
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I did read that but I was not getting into recovery. But now I did get the phone to boot into hboot. Tired to flash the old cwr but it tells me that the battery is to low and it fails. So do you know if the phone will charge in hboot?
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I seem to have fixed the issue by using adb and booting into hboot and letting the phone charge enough to turn it on. After which I reflashed the 1st CWR that I had on the phone and now everything seem to be just fine.

[Q] Can't Boot Phone

So I've been running HoliRaider v1 and it's been working beautifully however last night my phone died, and when it dies it boots into recovery. This is usually fine however the phone will not charge in recovery but instantly boots into it if i plug it in. Basically, it's stuck there because it only charges (as shown by the orange light indicator) for a second before entering recovery. Then, it just stays there. I'm not sure if I should even restore at this point, as that wouldn't exactly work with 0 battery. If anyone has any idea what to do please let me know.

Looks like you either need to charge the battery using a stock phone from either a friend or go to the att store and see if they will let you charge your battery on their floor unit for a few
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at this point getting the battery charged is priority. this is probably your best bet without having to buy some kind of charger or new battery
ccb101 said:
Looks like you either need to charge the battery using a stock phone from either a friend or go to the att store and see if they will let you charge your battery on their floor unit for a few
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I had this happen when I first got the phone. Should you eventually get it to boot (I did after taking out the battery, putting it back in, and then trying to turn it on while plugging it in, it took many attempts), let it charge to 100%, then flash thecubed's ClockworkMod which supports chargemode when powered off. You should be fine after that.

you can flash the recovery in fastboot if the phone stays on long enough.
formicae said:
I had this happen when I first got the phone. Should you eventually get it to boot (I did after taking out the battery, putting it back in, and then trying to turn it on while plugging it in, it took many attempts), let it charge to 100%, then flash thecubed's ClockworkMod which supports chargemode when powered off. You should be fine after that.
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rft3ch said:
you can flash the recovery in fastboot if the phone stays on long enough.
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Personally I wouldn't flash anything with a battery that may conk-out mid-write.

Is My Ace Bricked? SOLVED

So I have a S5830D, and it's been working fine for the past while. It's rooted and I have this ROM on it. It was working fine, and I haven't removed any apps or installed anything for a while, but I noticed that when I tried charging it, my phone wouldn't respond to the charger(it wouldn't show as charging). Using a new outlet, and trying to charge it from my computer via USB didn't work either, so I tried turning it off, but now I can't turn it back on. I get no response at all. No Samsung logo or anything. Is my phone bricked, or is there something wrong with the hardware?
Would this work for a 5830D, or is there something else I can try to unbrick it, if it is bricked?
EDIT:I can put it into emergency download mode, and RAM DUMP ARM9?
EDIT2: Managed to turn it back on, it seems like the battery drained, and I wasn't able to charge it through my stock charger. Had to connect it to my PC for a few minutes. However, now I can only charge through my PC, and not through the normal wall outlet charger. Any clues as to how to fix this?

prolarbears said:
So I have a S5830D, and it's been working fine for the past while. It's rooted and I have this ROM on it. It was working fine, and I haven't removed any apps or installed anything for a while, but I noticed that when I tried charging it, my phone wouldn't respond to the charger(it wouldn't show as charging). Using a new outlet, and trying to charge it from my computer via USB didn't work either, so I tried turning it off, but now I can't turn it back on. I get no response at all. No Samsung logo or anything. Is my phone bricked, or is there something wrong with the hardware?
Would this work for a 5830D, or is there something else I can try to unbrick it, if it is bricked?
EDIT: I can put it into emergency download mode, and RAM DUMP ARM9?
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Try going to download mode by pressing power button+volume up+volume down keys:fingers-crossed:....if u can go then use unbrick tutorial!

Re: Is My Ace Bricked?
use another charger or try changing battery
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[Q] HTC Vivid won't charge or turn on

As the title says, my HTC Vivid won't turn on, charge or anything. The orange light that says it's charging doesn't turn on, buttons don't vibrate or anything. It shouldn't be bricked because I haven't done anything to brick it. I was using Xbox Smartglass on it, I locked the phone and went back to my game, about 15 minutes later I tried to unlock it and it did nothing. The battery shouldn't have been dead because I charged it the night before. Any suggestions or help please?

Switch to twrp from CWM...
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rignfool said:
Switch to twrp from CWM...
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I haven't done any modding to it, and I have no clue what twrp and CWM are, sorry. I'm new here.

Got a friend with a vivid?
Try their battery...
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rignfool said:
Got a friend with a vivid?
Try their battery...
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LOL The reason I got a Vivid is because he gave it to me. Sadly, I was hoping there would be a technical solution instead of trying a new battery. I've got one ordered though. :/

Some have bad batteries.
Mine started doing the same thing. For a while I thought the battery life on Vivid was horrible compared to the Aria I had at the time. Then it progressed and one day finally quit completely and would not take a charge from any charger I had. So, being a techhead I decided to probe the battery with a multimeter and it showed very little voltage, so low I guess the charger wouldn't even recognize or try to charge it.
So what I did was take a battery charger I had for a walkie talkie radio and touched the leads to the battery for 3-5 seconds or so, put battery back in phone and it would then charge. I did this a few times until I could get to ATT store and the guy ordered a new one through warranty. Haven't had a problem with the Vivid since.

Same Problem
Last night I pulled my battery at 21% after shutting the phone off to clear the memory. I put the battery back in and put it on the charger, I tried to turn the phone on and nothing. It is not showing that it is charging. I have four batteries for this phone and none of them will turn on the phone. I am at a loss here. The phone was working fine until i shut it down and removed the battery. Any ideas on what is causing this or any way to force it to turn on.

krekol said:
Last night I pulled my battery at 21% after shutting the phone off to clear the memory. I put the battery back in and put it on the charger, I tried to turn the phone on and nothing. It is not showing that it is charging. I have four batteries for this phone and none of them will turn on the phone. I am at a loss here. The phone was working fine until i shut it down and removed the battery. Any ideas on what is causing this or any way to force it to turn on.
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That sounds like a royal pain.
Could it be the changer or its USB cable? Work some contact cleaner into the power button?

I'm having this same issue. I'm not sure if it's the battery, since the phone boots to bootloader just fine. But the battery won't charge when the phone is off (red light comes on for a second, then quits) and I can't get past the HTC screen booting to ROM or recovery. Where is a good place to buy a battery?

Even if the power button was bad the phone should still charge a battery. I have a charger that will charge the batteries without the phone so I know the batteries are charged. I have several different chargers and none of them will show the phone charging. I even tried connecting it to my computer. The phone is dead, I guess I am going to have to crack it open and see if anything has come loose inside. I really like this phone and am going to hate loosing it. I paid a lot for this phone. That shinny penny I paid to get this phone was my favorite.

Have you tried plugging the phone USB into a desktop and using that to try rebooting the phone into bootloader or recovery?
Hasoon2000's Vivid All-In-One Toolkit in the dev section can do that pretty simply. i used an earlier version of that to unlock the phone a year and a half ago.
i don't remember if the phone has to have debugging turned on for the desktop to feed it commands.
Even if this works i dunno whatall it'll prove.
i like this phone too a lot, and am sorry yours seem to be having hardware problems.

stuffed_tiger said:
I'm having this same issue. I'm not sure if it's the battery, since the phone boots to bootloader just fine. But the battery won't charge when the phone is off (red light comes on for a second, then quits) and I can't get past the HTC screen booting to ROM or recovery. Where is a good place to buy a battery?
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That sounds like you lost your boot image... try flashing a new one that you know works... and if it won't charge with power off... sounds like you have CWM installed... switch to twrp...
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lowfatmilk said:
Have you tried plugging the phone USB into a desktop and using that to try rebooting the phone into bootloader or recovery?
Hasoon2000's Vivid All-In-One Toolkit in the dev section can do that pretty simply. i used an earlier version of that to unlock the phone a year and a half ago.
i don't remember if the phone has to have debugging turned on for the desktop to feed it commands.
Even if this works i dunno whatall it'll prove.
i like this phone too a lot, and am sorry yours seem to be having hardware problems.
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The phone does not turn on at all so getting to the bootloader is impossible. It does nothing. Does not even charge a battery. .

krekol said:
The phone does not turn on at all so getting to the bootloader is impossible. It does nothing. Does not even charge a battery. .
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That's the definition of a bricked phone, was what i meant. No screen, no led, no button function, no sign of life, and from no explicable cause.
Android phones don't have real on-off switches that directly disconnects the phone from power. Its failure to manifest signs of life doesn't absolutely indicate irreversible hardware failure. There's a bit of a chance it's firmware.
Aside from the power button, Android phones can be controlled thru the USB port.

I took your advise and plugged the phone into the computer and left it over night. This morning I rebooted the computer and the phone screen lit up. I got all excited and tried to use adb to reboot into bootloader, Of course the phone was not found. I took the phone off the cord and the screen shut off. I pushed the power button and the screen lit up. Let go of the power button and the screen goes off. I tried another usb cord and now the screen no longer lites up. Maybe there is hope for this phone.

If the screen lights up like that... there is power to it...
Sounds like you have dirt in your power button... or the button isn't making contact...
Time to disassemble and check the power button...
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krekol said:
This morning I rebooted the computer and the phone screen lit up. I got all excited and tried to use adb to reboot into bootloader, Of course the phone was not found. I took the phone off the cord and the screen shut off. I pushed the power button and the screen lit up. Let go of the power button and the screen goes off. I tried another usb cord and now the screen no longer lites up. Maybe there is hope for this phone.
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Yeah, that part where the phone was seen by the desktop, and then not, can have something to do with the Windows drivers. Most of the folks on these forums know what's with this stuff better than me; i usually have to tell windows to stop the hardware, disconnect and reconnect the phone USB and start the connection up again, every time before i do one set of commands, like put the phone into bootloader and download a kernel image into it.
There's a Vivid unbricking project over in the dev subforum, you must've seen that. Whether or not you get your phone working again, i hope it'll be a productive journey for you.
i was perfectly happy just messing with apps until i bricked my tablet; that got me into all this device unlocking and rom burning and fun stuff. It's too bad the Vivid isn't simpler to hack.

my phone cant boot to desktop after i flash the kanel
my phone cant boot to desktop after i flash the kanel please can you help me

9 times out of 10, if the phone will not turn on at all it is the battery. For some reason, the Vivid will occasionally stop seeing the battery. I have fixed this on mine when that happened by using an external charger. That worked because my battery was actually OK, the Vivid just wouldn't charge it or even see it. Once it was charged it was fine. If your battery really is dead (sounds like it might be the case), get a new battery. There is a 2000 mHr battery on Amazon that is not too much worse than the original (when new).

I had the same issue once, it turns out that I fixed it using a external charger