Hi all. I'm new here, so I hope you can help me out. I've done a model search and read the suggested threads, so if this question has been posted before, kindly forgive the duplication.
I have an Incredible S S710a (Bell Canada). I bought, from ebay, a 3500mAh extended battery. I realized after it's arrival that this battery is compatible with the S710e (Europe). I know, I should have read more carefully. My phone will power on, but there is an exclamation point (!) over the battery icon and no cell signal at all. This is after turning the phone off, installing the new battery and back cover, and turning the phone on again. And off again and on again. So will a difference within a model, (a instead of e) really cause the battery not to work properly, or do I have a dud?
When I go back to the original battery and cover, it works great again. Thank you.
canadiac said:
Hi all. I'm new here, so I hope you can help me out. I've done a model search and read the suggested threads, so if this question has been posted before, kindly forgive the duplication.
I have an Incredible S S710a (Bell Canada). I bought, from ebay, a 3500mAh extended battery. I realized after it's arrival that this battery is compatible with the S710e (Europe). I know, I should have read more carefully. My phone will power on, but there is an exclamation point (!) over the battery icon and no cell signal at all. This is after turning the phone off, installing the new battery and back cover, and turning the phone on again. And off again and on again. So will a difference within a model, (a instead of e) really cause the battery not to work properly, or do I have a dud?
When I go back to the original battery and cover, it works great again. Thank you.
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On the S710a, the antenna is built into the battery cover. Does the extended battery cover have metal contacts on the inside like your original cover? If not, that is why you aren't getting a signal.
The s710e also has antennae built into the battery cover.
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If i am not wrong try to wipe your battery status from recovery .......or if you are new and do not know the procedure then follow the steps........
1. power of your device take out battery for 5 seconds and put it back.
2. hold down the vol down + power button together
3. select recovery to push vol down once then press power (it will reset your device into recovery mode)
4. select advanced in the menu at the end/bottom and then select wipe battery status.
5. Lastly go back to main menu and select system reboot.
Or if it is too much difficult for you to do that then or your are curious just reset your phone from ' settting / sd and phone storage / factory data reset '
Hope it will work for you.
arif01 said:
If i am not wrong try to wipe your battery status from recovery .......or if you are new and do not know the procedure then follow the steps........
1. power of your device take out battery for 5 seconds and put it back.
2. hold down the vol down + power button together
3. select recovery to push vol down once then press power (it will reset your device into recovery mode)
4. select advanced in the menu at the end/bottom and then select wipe battery status.
5. Lastly go back to main menu and select system reboot.
Or if it is too much difficult for you to do that then or your are curious just reset your phone from ' settting / sd and phone storage / factory data reset '
Hope it will work for you.
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Thanks to all who replied. I tried the above, and all was well till the end of step 3. The power up, which would be the beginning of step 4, gave me what looks like a cell phone in the background, with a red triangle and red exclamation point in the foreground. I left it for several minutes but no other menu appeared.
I am hesitant to do a factory reset, as I have a few paid apps. I do have access to another new phone (friend who works in an electronics store), so I will try the battery in a brand new handset.
I basically want to know if the battery is incompatible or defective, so we'll see what happens later today. An extensive google search hasn't given any answers, so this will be a good contribution to the knowledge base if we can sort it out.
I'll report back tomorrow. Thanks again.
m using this kind of back cover (with htc/google logo at back cover ) or refer here
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-HT...602077?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4cf8146a9d
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so far it's working good & using it for 3 months now !! of couse it's metal connector..
The red triangle is normal its just the stock recovery. Press vol up and power to get out of it. Then select reboot.
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Bingo! Thanks for all the great help. This worked and I'm up and running again.
One thing to note -- my indoor reception isn't as good, so it's probably the antenna on the extended back door. Outdoor reception works as normal.
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Yesterday I followed all posted procedures in this and other forums without any luck. BUT this morning...
1. I removed the battery.. Removed SIM and SD cards, then placed the battery back in.
2. Pressed on the ON/OFF and the OK opposite side button at the same time. 3. Pressed on OK button by itself.
4. Removed battery.
5. Pressed on the OK button by itself. ( Battery is out)
6. Placed battery back in.
7. Pressed OK again. Kept on clicking it five times.
8. Pressed the soft reset once followed by another, second soft reset press I held the stylus in for 5 seconds.
8. Pressed On/Off and phone green LED light is on.
9. Phone turns on and two pop ups, the first one was telling me it was booting in "Safe Mode". The 2nd was after booting was complete that says No SIM inserted.
10. I turned the phone off using the Off button.
11. Placed the SIM and the SD card in and turned phone back on.
I have a working phone, however the Safe Mode error MSG appeared, then it said Booting In Normal Mode.
Did a soft reset and the Booting In Safe Mode Error MSG did NOT appear again.
Whatever I did in the steps mentioned above might not be of significance, however I must have prompted the phone to boot in Safe mode to clear the safety shut down RLOD.
We need someone to expand on "Booting in Safe Mode" procedure. This will fix your RLOD issue guaranteed.
Linking to a thread that resolved many RLOD issues, including mine. If the above doesn't work for you, consider this alternate solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2023559#post2023559
OMG My phone is working again.
Skyfire drained my battery dead. THen i got the red light. then after searching and searching I found out about the rapid remove of the battery in and out and it works . I use my GPS all day long i need my phone. so releaved. WTF is this .
OMG I did the same thing, but left the battery out after doing the method described above...
My phone now works.. wtf?
Edit: It seems now that my radio will not connect though...
I don't think I have yet to read of anyone having the RLOD who gets their phone functioning properly ever again.. either the battery drains really fast or random things don't work.
Don't work for me....i've green led but no safe mode... :s
not working for me either, my phone is on charge the thing goes red.
This don't worked for me, i can't boot on safe mode my elfin. But i boght a new battery to dealextreme, and when i put in my elfin and sitched on it just came back to life!!!!.
For some one that dind't help this method can try to change to a new battery.
See you.
Hi people I know this has been discussed in other threads but in my case the problem is a little different. If I do a hard reset the phone goes into serial mode. If I then flick the battery lock on/off while holding down the power button and then release it the phone will then start to go through the setup procedure. Now when you get to the end and get the choice of FINISH or CANCEL, pressing either will result in the phone going back into serial mode. If you tap the X (top right corner) instead the screen will close and you get the O2 menu, the phone is now usable.
Any thoughts on this will be of much help.
I've tried the SD reboot thingy and nothin...
I'e experienced before.
Waht I did was -
1)Let back up battery flat ( save your important data before doing so
2) Flash ROM
Hope this will help
sorry if there is an answer somewhere, couldn't find it.
my power button on the N1 broke and yestarday I had to turn it off. the battery trick (plug in the phone, take out and re-insert the battery a couple off times) worked once before but now the phone simply stays off.
warrenty is not an option anymore for me.
Is there any another way to turn the phone on without using the power button?
thanks in advance
Edit: just in case, my N1 is an SLCD model and its running 2.3.4.
Wow, I'm having the same problem and was about to make a thread like this.
Running CM7, the phone crashed on me last night and I had to turn it off. I tried the battery trick, but it's never worked for me. The few times I've had to turn the phone off, I was lucky and the power button worked after mashing it for a couple of minutes, but now it's completely dead.
I'm under warranty, but right now I'm without a phone and and need it back up ASAP..
(Mine is also the SLCD model, if it makes a difference.)
Edit: Managed to mash the button to life once again; My phone is back. I think I need to give HTC a call.
Try pulling the SIM and SD, as well as the battery, and re-inserting them all...
The other option - I read a post by a guy whose power button was stuck in the closed position, and he had to open the phone and separate the contacts to get the phone to start...
Also if you are anything into some DIY repair work, there is always a spare part for this http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_kw=nexus one power flex
With the right tools, it shouldn't be to much of a problem replacing this part.
Okay so my power button just randomly stopped working after some random time. it doesnt work ANYWHERE. to lock my screen, to unlcok my screen, in recovery mode i cant press anything cuase it doesnt WORK. i no its a hardware issue becuase of this. i did google this but found nothing. what can i do to fix it.
i tried a battery pull and putting it back and going to recovery to factory reset but as soon as i put my battery in my phone starts up. i can enter recovery but the power button doesnt work so i cant press anything.
my warranty is over by a long shot ( had it since it released) so cant return it.
any help would be appreciated. all i need is a way to turn my phone on and off nothing about the recovery and stuff. but if you do find someting for it that would be even more amazing.
and has this happened to anyone else, just wondering is all if this is common or rare.
thnx in advance.
it has happened to many captivates. search 'captivate power button' on xda.
What ROM are you running on your phone?
Answer to that question has a lot to do with your next steps for software workaround.
One approach; you could read up on ways to clean the power button and see if that works. Or send it off to mobiletechvideos.com and he will fix it for a reasonable fee.
laughingT said:
it has happened to many captivates. search 'captivate power button' on xda.
What ROM are you running on your phone?
Answer to that question has a lot to do with your next steps for software workaround.
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i am running Aocp 5 android 4.2.1
hve been running it for a few weeks now and no problem till now
Okay, start by seeing if you can clean the power button, that may fix it for now. Again, search 'captivate power button' to find some threads about ways to clean it.
With the ROM you are running, I believe you have a version of CWM that allows to use the Cappy's dedicated menu keys, menu, home, back and search, to navigate and select recovery items.
Assuming your power key is stuck on, remove the battery, hold the up and down volume buttons and reinsert the battery to get into recovery. This will allow you to test keys, wipe, and any other function in CWM.
With the phone on and fully booted into JB, go find volume rocker wake in the system setting options and make sure it is active. Hitting the up/down key will wake the screen when it sleeps. Add the sleep/lock toggle to your notification bar menu and you have a way to instantly lock the screen without the power key.
If you still have a bad power button stuck in on position, then you will need to take out the battery to turn it off.
Hope this helps.
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With the ROM you are running, I believe you have a version of CWM that allows to use the Cappy's dedicated menu keys, menu, home, back and search, to navigate and select recovery items.
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Thnx for the help but Which button does what?
Menu = Down. Home = Up. Back arrow = Back. Search = Select.
This is the way it is in KK4 Corn Kernel. Not sure about the recovery in AoCP though... Home may = Select. ??
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THANK YOU!!!!!!
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Menu = Down. Home = Up. Back arrow = Back. Search = Select.
This is the way it is in KK4 Corn Kernel. Not sure about the recovery in AoCP though... Home may = Select. ??
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THANK YOU BOTH (4-2ndtwin AND laughingT) SOOOOO MUCH
IF I HAD THE CHANCE I WOULD DONATE TO YOU BUT I CANT CUZ IM ONLY 14
SRY.
No prob. Glad to help.
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No prob. Glad to help.
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Now to turn off phone?
I hope im not bothering you or anything but is there a way to turn off the phone. As i said before i cant remove the battery and put it back in because the phone automatically restarts. Is there a way to turn the phone off with out taking out the battery?
thnx again.
Jack Jake said:
I hope im not bothering you or anything but is there a way to turn off the phone. As i said before i cant remove the battery and put it back in because the phone automatically restarts. Is there a way to turn the phone off with out taking out the battery?
thnx again.
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Get a app or widget for it.
Jack Jake said:
I hope im not bothering you or anything but is there a way to turn off the phone. As i said before i cant remove the battery and put it back in because the phone automatically restarts. Is there a way to turn the phone off with out taking out the battery?
thnx again.
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This is happening because your power button is stuck in the on position. Did you try to clean it as suggested earlier.
BWolf56, I'm not aware of an app or ROM that completely prevents power up on insertion of battery when the power button is stuck on. If there is such an app, I'd like to hear about it. I think maybe the power switch goes to the broadcom power management chip, so I don't understand how the app could work unless the phone never came on at all. SOD symptoms would be the result.
laughingT said:
This is happening because your power button is stuck in the on position. Did you try to clean it as suggested earlier.
BWolf56, I'm not aware of an app or ROM that completely prevents power up on insertion of battery when the power button is stuck on. If there is such an app, I'd like to hear about it. I think maybe the power switch goes to the broadcom power management chip, so I don't understand how the app could work unless the phone never came on at all. SOD symptoms would be the result.
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Oh that would be impossible, the OS isn't loaded so even less the apps
I was suggesting a app to turn off the phone/lock screen. There are widgets for that in the market.
Jack Jake said:
Okay so my power button just randomly stopped working after some random time.
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I had a very similar problem with my Epic 4G Touch (Sprint S2) - my phone would randomly reboot, and it kept getting worse and worse. Thought it was the ROM, the overclock, etc. I flashed back to (almost) stock, went back to original clock speeds. Eventually, I noticed that even brushing past the power button would wake the screen, and about 10 seconds later the phone would reboot.
Long story short, I bought a replacement power switch, soldered it in place, and have had zero problems since!
Several eBay sellers offer the switch you'll need.
(They don't include the skills needed to solder it in place. It's a tiny switch - about 4mm x 2mm x 1.5mm, and you'll need a good quality fine-tipped soldering iron and a steady hand. Do you have a friend who's good at soldering?)
awoolf said:
Long story short, I bought a replacement power switch, soldered it in place, and have had zero problems since!
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well thanks for the reply, but i dont need it anymore. my friend conveniently had a GNex (old) and gave it to me as a present. so i dont use my captivate that much anymore.
Hi, I am using a galaxy Note in India and it is about 14 months old. I was working on internet and it freezes in between, so this time it wont even turn off or give any option when I pressed power button so I took the battery off after about waiting for 10 min. Then I turned it back ON It gave me error Encryption Failed Reset your phone.
I again tried to restart the phone, Still the same error. I again tried to restart and this time it wont even start Nothing happen just a dead screen.
1. Battery charge is full
2. it wont turn on and when pressing vdown + middle button + power button nothing happens just black screen always.
3. Taken the battery off number of times and then also tried, No Luck.
4 Even the computer wont even recognize it.
Its just a Dead Screen no movement in screen tried all possible step No luck , it all happened suddenly.
Its just the same as it came from company (No Root not even opened its just like new phone.)
Not able to understand what can be the issue, Please help..!!!!
Thanks
Ankush
Ankush911 said:
Hi, I am using a galaxy Note in India and it is about 14 months old. I was working on internet and it freezes in between, so this time it wont even turn off or give any option when I pressed power button so I took the battery off after about waiting for 10 min. Then I turned it back ON It gave me error Encryption Failed Reset your phone.
I again tried to restart the phone, Still the same error. I again tried to restart and this time it wont even start Nothing happen just a dead screen.
1. Battery charge is full
2. it wont turn on and when pressing vdown + middle button + power button nothing happens just black screen always.
3. Taken the battery off number of times and then also tried, No Luck.
4 Even the computer wont even recognize it.
Its just a Dead Screen no movement in screen tried all possible step No luck , it all happened suddenly.
Its just the same as it came from company (No Root not even opened its just like new phone.)
Not able to understand what can be the issue, Please help..!!!!
Thanks
Ankush
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Ankush bhai.. Take it to service centre
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salilpune1 said:
Ankush bhai.. Take it to service centre
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Its not in warranty ...I am just not able to understand that it was working fine and suddenly its all dead..
Ankush911 said:
Its not in warranty ...I am just not able to understand that it was working fine and suddenly its all dead..
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On which rom u were?
Try vup+home+power
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How are you sure that the battery is good and charged. Normally after one year if the usage is heavy, the chances of battery down happens. So make sure battery is good. Secondly you mentioned volume down button, how about vol up button ie recovery mode?
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dsmas said:
How are you sure that the battery is good and charged. Normally after one year if the usage is heavy, the chances of battery down happens. So make sure battery is good. Secondly you mentioned volume down button, how about vol up button ie recovery mode?
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Yes The battery is fine and fully charged I tried another Note's battery : No Luck
I tried pressing Vol up button as well with the combination : No Luck in that as well.
Got encryption failed error for two time in start up after that its all dead..No luck
I dont know about the ROM its same as it came from samsung..
Not able to understand what can be wrong.
Today, this sudden happen to me. But, my m devices cannot be turn on, charge but screen didnt turn on at all. Did u succesful fix ur device?
looks like u need to replaced a new motherboard.. it looks like SDS syndrome to me.
jasonkhoo87 said:
Today, this sudden happen to me. But, my m devices cannot be turn on, charge but screen didnt turn on at all. Did u succesful fix ur device?
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This happened to me as well last week. Tried everything but failed.
I did below steps and my phone is up & working
1) Remove the battery and keep it in a dry place for 4-6 hours (Very important step to make this work)
2) Place the battery back into computer and do not turn ON the phone
3) Plug the phone to wall charger and charge the phone for at least an Hour (I kept for 2 Hrs)
4) Remove the charger and gently press the power button for 15 secs
5) This should turn the phone back ON
Above steps helped for me. Let me know if this worked for you also :angel:
Regards,
Israr
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Ankush911 said:
Hi, I am using a galaxy Note in India and it is about 14 months old. I was working on internet and it freezes in between, so this time it wont even turn off or give any option when I pressed power button so I took the battery off after about waiting for 10 min. Then I turned it back ON It gave me error Encryption Failed Reset your phone.
I again tried to restart the phone, Still the same error. I again tried to restart and this time it wont even start Nothing happen just a dead screen.
1. Battery charge is full
2. it wont turn on and when pressing vdown + middle button + power button nothing happens just black screen always.
3. Taken the battery off number of times and then also tried, No Luck.
4 Even the computer wont even recognize it.
Its just a Dead Screen no movement in screen tried all possible step No luck , it all happened suddenly.
Its just the same as it came from company (No Root not even opened its just like new phone.)
Not able to understand what can be the issue, Please help..!!!!
Thanks
Ankush
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Ankush,
In your case I can think of only 2 things
1) If you have CWM installed then
press and hold "Volume UP Key + Power Key + Home Key" all together for 30 secs (may be a min) and see if you get recovery screen
If yes then all is ok & you just need to flash a new ROM
2) If you do not have CWM then
press and hold "Volume Down Key + Power Key + Home Key" all together for 30 secs (may be a min) and see if you get a custom screen
If yes then you can install custom ROM (or original ROM) using ODIN.
Let me know if anything helps you here
Regards,
Israr
khanisrar said:
This happened to me as well last week. Tried everything but failed.
I did below steps and my phone is up & working
1) Remove the battery and keep it in a dry place for 4-6 hours (Very important step to make this work)
2) Place the battery back into computer and do not turn ON the phone
3) Plug the phone to wall charger and charge the phone for at least an Hour (I kept for 2 Hrs)
4) Remove the charger and gently press the power button for 15 secs
5) This should turn the phone back ON
Above steps helped for me. Let me know if this worked for you also :angel:
Regards,
Israr
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This step kinda weird.. Since I my note never get wet. I hope it will work.. I tried it later.. I dont have much budget to upgadet to Note 3 now. :crying:
Same kind of error
Over the night my phone closed. When I try to open it, on the screen apeared "Insert PIN to decrypt your ~something~ ". I never encrypted my phone so I tried to restart. I got stuck on the samsung logo. Then I removed the battery and put it back in and my device never started again. I have 2 batteries and none of them worked. I can charge the batteries independently and this is not the issue.
sebastost said:
Over the night my phone closed. When I try to open it, on the screen apeared "Insert PIN to decrypt your ~something~ ". I never encrypted my phone so I tried to restart. I got stuck on the samsung logo. Then I removed the battery and put it back in and my device never started again. I have 2 batteries and none of them worked. I can charge the batteries independently and this is not the issue.
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Have the same problem right now.. did you find a solution eventually?
Same happened to my device today. Had trouble with some apps before. Wanted to play back a two days old backup. But my phone never woke up again. Shut down forever. Never got to recovery. Had the latest cm11 nightly. Now its dead! RIP. My dear friend. We've gone a long way together. Never intended to replace you anytime soon. But I can't be without a Phone. Moving on to Galaxy S5 now. Hope it can fill the gapp.
Same here, completely dead after a reboot. I took it apart but I see no damage or signs of burn damage anywhere on the motherboard or other components. Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot and find out specifically what happened?
i am not sure, mayb the phone is design to last for only certain years, new apps launch make the phone in applicable for be running with latest apps and everything. Or mayb the phone is design with a timer to self destroy its chip or component after specific numbers of days being used??