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[Q] Phone completely dead. Any ideas?

Today my phone suddenly died on me and refuses to boot up. I came home from work and the phone was working fine. Made a few phone calls, checked a few apps etc. Battery was about 70%.
I left the phone aside and when I picked it up at bed time, it had shut down. Now it doesn't boot at all. I thought maybe the battery had suddenly died down and put it to charge but it isn't turning on at all. Can't even get to the LG logo. Anyone have any clue what to do?
I thought I was one of the lucky few to get a handset which didn't reboot
Edit: Thought I should mention that I was running stock ROM, rooted, with CWM recovery installed

Can you bring up recovery mode? Did you try NVFlash?
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Remove and replace the battery first and then try charging trough your usb cable and pc. Let it charge for a few minutes and try to boot.
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mparack said:
Today my phone suddenly died on me and refuses to boot up. I came home from work and the phone was working fine. Made a few phone calls, checked a few apps etc. Battery was about 70%.
I left the phone aside and when I picked it up at bed time, it had shut down. Now it doesn't boot at all. I thought maybe the battery had suddenly died down and put it to charge but it isn't turning on at all. Can't even get to the LG logo. Anyone have any clue what to do?
I thought I was one of the lucky few to get a handset which didn't reboot
Edit: Thought I should mention that I was running stock ROM, rooted, with CWM recovery installed
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had the same problem.
nvflash fixed it, once the problem was solved I kept getting reboots 20x a day so I nvflashed again and flashed CM7 and havent had a reboot/ BSOD since. I also thought I was one of the lucky ones that didn't reboot at first btw

Thanks guys. Wouldn't power up at all in normal or recovery so couldn't nvflash it. Tried usb, charging etc etc.
However after countless battery pulls just started up again and working perfectly since. I've powered up my trusty htc magic as a backup meanwhile. No idea what went wrong at all.
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by recovery you ment CWM or Upgrade mode? (that is remove battery, hold volume down button and plug in usb while holding it)

mikee2185 said:
by recovery you ment CWM or Upgrade mode? (that is remove battery, hold volume down button and plug in usb while holding it)
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Not tried upgrade mode just the volume+power. Maybe something to keep in mind for next time.

ok, i just wanted to make sure that upgrade mode works even if the phone is completely ****ed up

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.

Strange behavior charging the phone.

Hello.
I have my Vivid with everything working good, S-OFFed and rooted. I have a stock ICS rom which works fine for my needs. The thing is I never leave the battery to completely die, everytime the phone warning me about low battery, I plug the AC charger or just the USB cable to my PC and then charge the battery.
However last night I fell asleep and the battery went down to 0% and the phone turned off. Now it seems that the phone isn't able to wake up the battery. I don't know how, but the battery got like 1% of charge and the phone woke up. Once it woke up, it get the charge perfectly but I took off the charger to go to my room and then the phone turned off, it seems it could not stand with such a little charge. Now I connect it to AC or PC and turn on the orange LED by 3 seconds, then the LED turn off, then the screen goes from black (turned off) to grey (on, but showing no image) and the LED blinks on orange to green. In AC is the same, and in USB you hear the usb-on sound but in the phone the behavior is exactly the same.
Obviously the battery isn't getting an initial charge and that's why the phone never wake up.
Why is happening this? Is there a way to fix it?
Help please!

Try to borrow a friend's battery and flash a different recovery. When my phone wouldn't charge while powered down, it was because chargemode was broken in my recovery.

formicae said:
Try to borrow a friend's battery and flash a different recovery. When my phone wouldn't charge while powered down, it was because chargemode was broken in my recovery.
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Yes but, any suggestion about a good and stable recovery?
You're 100% this thing is because of that?
Thanks in advance.

Nothing's 100%, but I had the EXACT same problem as you described. Worse, I didn't know anyone with a Vivid at the time, so instead I kept plugging it in and unplugging it, getting that one second of charge until I was able to boot the ROM and let it charge to 100%. It took forever.
I've been using WCX recovery since the first version WildChild released, I've never had a single problem since I switched. I don't think you can get it here anymore, though, you might have to find his forum (it's distributed with his ROMs).
Edit: Looks like the All-in-one tool in the Dev forum contains a WCX recovery you can flash.

formicae said:
Nothing's 100%, but I had the EXACT same problem as you described. Worse, I didn't know anyone with a Vivid at the time, so instead I kept plugging it in and unplugging it, getting that one second of charge until I was able to boot the ROM and let it charge to 100%. It took forever.
I've been using WCX recovery since the first version WildChild released, I've never had a single problem since I switched. I don't think you can get it here anymore, though, you might have to find his forum (it's distributed with his ROMs).
Edit: Looks like the All-in-one tool in the Dev forum contains a WCX recovery you can flash.
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OK thank you so much... I'll look someone with a Vivid.

formicae said:
Nothing's 100%, but I had the EXACT same problem as you described. Worse, I didn't know anyone with a Vivid at the time, so instead I kept plugging it in and unplugging it, getting that one second of charge until I was able to boot the ROM and let it charge to 100%. It took forever.
I've been using WCX recovery since the first version WildChild released, I've never had a single problem since I switched. I don't think you can get it here anymore, though, you might have to find his forum (it's distributed with his ROMs).
Edit: Looks like the All-in-one tool in the Dev forum contains a WCX recovery you can flash.
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you can download the WCXJB root pack from the superguide thingy in the development forum.. its in there

XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
you can download the WCXJB root pack from the superguide thingy in the development forum.. its in there
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Thank you so much man, I'll do it right away.
The thing is I have no friend with an HTC Vivid. Is there a way with 2 wires and a 9v AC adapter to give some charge to the battery and then put it in the phone and then still charging from the OEM AC adapter?

formicae said:
Nothing's 100%, but I had the EXACT same problem as you described. Worse, I didn't know anyone with a Vivid at the time, so instead I kept plugging it in and unplugging it, getting that one second of charge until I was able to boot the ROM and let it charge to 100%. It took forever.
I've been using WCX recovery since the first version WildChild released, I've never had a single problem since I switched. I don't think you can get it here anymore, though, you might have to find his forum (it's distributed with his ROMs).
Edit: Looks like the All-in-one tool in the Dev forum contains a WCX recovery you can flash.
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I flash the WCX recovery, but I'm still having this issue. After flash it do I must do something? Like run the recovery or something?
Thanks.

Well, I would try to go into recovery to make sure the flash worked.
If you're running a working chargemode recovery and your phone still isn't charging while powered off, I don't know what the problem could be. Have you tried a different cable/charger?

formicae said:
Well, I would try to go into recovery to make sure the flash worked.
If you're running a working chargemode recovery and your phone still isn't charging while powered off, I don't know what the problem could be. Have you tried a different cable/charger?
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Well right now I'm in the recovery and it says in the bottom:
Code:
RA Revamped
Build : Made for WCX ILLUMINATI SERIES by GINM
So I assume everything has properly flashed.
Beforeflash the recovery I've tried with several chargers.

[Q] Phone won't start, but buttons vibrate

Now I experiencing a major problem
the phone battery died on me earlier tonight, I tried one time to see if i could of get it on but no juice
Now I get home it's not coming on at all
I have it plugged in one time was able to get to the boot loader screen bow nothing
and when i touch the buttons in front I feel the phone vibrating but nothing comes on not even the charging light
what do you think is the problem?
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You are using clockworkmod...
Switch to twrp
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rignfool said:
You are using clockworkmod...
Switch to twrp
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How do I do that if I can't get it on?
Or will I be able to still accedd the bootloader if I plug it up to the PC to flash it?
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positiveg said:
How do I do that if I can't get it on?
Or will I be able to still accedd the bootloader if I plug it up to the PC to flash it?
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Nope - you'll need to charge it externally, then you need to get new recovery. CWM doesn't support off mode charging, so if your battery dies, you have to charge it out of the phone. Go to ATT store and ask them if they can charge it for you for a while

Just a question what is off mode charging?
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Ok guys I think I got it.
What I did was
Take out the battery
Put the batter back in
Plug in the charger
When the light come on hold down Vol down and power button
When phone boots to bootlader choose recovery
you will get white HTC creen, leave phone plugged in for a while 30 mins or so
then while leaving charger plugged in attempt to power phone pn
phone should boot regularly
Finally.... don't let phone battery run down or get external charger or change to twrp as one person suggested.
I'm just glad that I was able to get my phone booted, as I live outside the US can't go to an ATT store and HTC phones aren't the most popular here.
I'm wondering if I should order a battery from Amazon just in case :silly:

[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