[Q] Why won't my Dream won't turn on? :( - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I just purchased a used htc dream because it was cheap, it's a neat phone, and I love tinkering. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to turn on. When I plug it in the red led turns on solid. When I press the power button to turn it on, the light goes out and won't turn back on until I pull the battery and replug. Is this a bad battery? Is it worth buying a new battery to find out? It has proper voltage when i tested it with a multimeter.... Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.

Broken battery, might be. Try charging the battery at least for half an hour / an houre before switching on the phone.
Another possibility: broken backlight. In that case it seems switched off, because the screen stays very very dark, but the phone is booting up and working.
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does it vibrate shortly after you attempt to turn it on? if it does chances are lcd or flex cable, the usual culprat being the flex
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I did charge it for several hours and the light turned green. Same results when trying to turn it on. No vibrate or sounds. perhaps the next time i order parts from china I'll get a battery if it is cheap enough.

In my opinion, the backlight is dead...if the battery LED indicator, after u charge it several hrs turns green then ur phone is turning on but u cant see it working...

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will atrix hd run plugged in but without battery?

I'm asking this because my phone spent whole night in some strange looking juice. In the morning when I switched ii on there was a msg about cooling down and since then it never started again.
So after one week I opened it and cleaned each possible part (there was a lot of dry greenish liquid everywhere).
When I put back all together again nothing worked - the green led was off - power button did nothing (only battery inside, no charger)
When I plugged the charger the green light was on but again nothing worked. Power and volume down buttons ddid nothing - only the led blinked once and than stayed continously lit.
I'm 90% sure that battery is dead because when I check voltage on that sticking ribbon one of 4 connection points shows nothing.
So I removed the battery and plugged the charger - and again nothing worked - only the green light was on.
so please somebody tell me that it should be that way I mean atrix hd will not run when plugged in but without battery - so I will still have some hope that only battery is kaput)
thank you in advance.
Why do you switch it on after its been in juice?
well that's a good question
didn't I mention there was a party that night? - well I just did swich it (without too much thinking)
i took my atrix hd apart and removed the battery. my green ligh comes on when the battery is out as well. however, it will not power up. so my question is the same as the op is there any way to test the phone to be sure it is the battery and not the phone? im willing to buy another battery if i know for sure.
thanks!

[Q] Nexus one wont turn on

hi all.
I have a nexus one which run cyanogenmod 7 in 1 year. Until last month. Suddenly i couldn`t turn it on. I though the battery was very low, so i charged for hours without any help.
I have disassembled the phone and checked the power button, but it was ok.
I found also out that the phone can be turned on even the power button is broken, but it didnt helped at all.
If i plug the charger in to the phone, the charger led lights on ( orange), but nothing on the screen appears, no response at all.
Now the battery is full i guess since the led is green.Sometimes the led blinks when i take the battery in and out. (Blink orange-green-orange...)
Is that something that can be functionale again ? it was my first smartphone and would like to see alive again
I found out the power button flex print was almost cut-all-the of the pcb.
I was managed the solder one of them together, and woo hoooo it turned on
But the digitizer doesnt work now it starts correctly op , but screen doesnt give response back

Turn Atrix HD withouth LCD Working

Hi, i have an Atrix HD and its LCD got broken when it fell from 3 ft high.
The Glass is ok and the phone kept working for a while with a black triangle on top, the touchscreen kept working with no problems.
After a second fall from the bed the LCD went completely black, but the phone kept working (using a HDMI cable to check messages and touchscreen vibrating feedback kept working so i could answer calls).
I let the phone battery die and now it wont turn back on, the charging light turns on, when i plug it on a USB port on Windows i get a connected beep followed by a disconnection beep, as if the phone were detecting the LCD not working and turning itself off.
Is there a way to bypass that? i need to connect the phone to get the files from the internal storage.
I ordered a new LCD but will take a long time to arrive (normally 2-3 months, sometimes longer since a live in Brazil).
JVGA said:
Hi, i have an Atrix HD and its LCD got broken when it fell from 3 ft high.
The Glass is ok and the phone kept working for a while with a black triangle on top, the touchscreen kept working with no problems.
After a second fall from the bed the LCD went completely black, but the phone kept working (using a HDMI cable to check messages and touchscreen vibrating feedback kept working so i could answer calls).
I let the phone battery die and now it wont turn back on, the charging light turns on, when i plug it on a USB port on Windows i get a connected beep followed by a disconnection beep, as if the phone were detecting the LCD not working and turning itself off.
Is there a way to bypass that? i need to connect the phone to get the files from the internal storage.
I ordered a new LCD but will take a long time to arrive (normally 2-3 months, sometimes longer since a live in Brazil).
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Have you tried charging it from an outlet for a couple of hrs first?
palmbeach05 said:
Have you tried charging it from an outlet for a couple of hrs first?
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Yes, also tried turning it on with the charger on and hdmi on as well.
Ok, i tried using mythtools but it acts as if the phone is not connected, same as above, windows reacts as if i was connecting and disconnecting a flash drive so the phone has some response.
anybody has any idea on what i could do?
Ok, the screen arrived, i installed it, but seems to have the same problem
Can someone please help me out here, when i connect it to the charger, the green light comes on, and then off, is my phone dead?
JVGA said:
Ok, the screen arrived, i installed it, but seems to have the same problem
Can someone please help me out here, when i connect it to the charger, the green light comes on, and then off, is my phone dead?
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just leave it alone, maybe battery is 0% charged and it will take few mins for it to be able to turn it on
TecknoFreak said:
just leave it alone, maybe battery is 0% charged and it will take few mins for it to be able to turn it on
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I'm leaving it connected until the green light comes on continuously, after the post i saw that it was turning on and off in a period of minutes... Also i saw a old post of someone that had to charge for 3 days, monday ill check it again.
Another Thing, what you guys think i should use, Motorola original charger or LG G3 charger (1.8 mA).. ?
JVGA said:
I'm leaving it connected until the green light comes on continuously, after the post i saw that it was turning on and off in a period of minutes... Also i saw a old post of someone that had to charge for 3 days, monday ill check it again.
Another Thing, what you guys think i should use, Motorola original charger or LG G3 charger (1.8 mA).. ?
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Always use what the phone brings on box as accessories. This case will be Moto original charger
Also by now you should be able to turn your device on. Just remove charger and re-plug again and try to turn your phone on
TecknoFreak said:
Always use what the phone brings on box as accessories. This case will be Moto original charger
Also by now you should be able to turn your device on. Just remove charger and re-plug again and try to turn your phone on
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The phone is in the charger for 3 days, now the light is not turning on again, when i hold down the power + vol down the green light blinks fast, i guess ill see if i can find a battery that is compatible to test, since the Atrix HD was not sold in Brazil, the Razr or Razr HD is right?
JVGA said:
The phone is in the charger for 3 days, now the light is not turning on again, when i hold down the power + vol down the green light blinks fast, i guess ill see if i can find a battery that is compatible to test, since the Atrix HD was not sold in Brazil, the Razr or Razr HD is right?
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AHD and RHD batteries will work with the AHD. Remember, we do have the EB40 battery (RHD battery) mod that works with our device, and ours shipped with the EB20 (AHD battery).
palmbeach05 said:
AHD and RHD batteries will work with the AHD. Remember, we do have the EB40 battery (RHD battery) mod that works with our device, and ours shipped with the EB20 (AHD battery).
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Wow, i forgot the phone was there charging, after a week the alarm sounded, now it's turning on again, BUT the LCD is not, i tried disconnecting and connecting the lcd cable but did not solve it.
Another thing, after more than a week charging, only 17% charge, weird.
Maybe the LCD is not working? or the problem may be on the board.
I have this same issue. Except for the broken screen. My phone just stopped coming on. I did all the key combinations. Even opened it and removed the battery. Tested the voltage in the battery itself and it was fully charged. I tech on the Moto site told me it sounds to him like a LCD issue. I replaced the LCD and still nothing.
I plug my phone to the wall and get a green light for about 7 seconds or so. Then its off. A short time later,(couple min) it comes on again for a few seconds then off again. I plugged it to my PC and get the green light for the same seconds. The PC makes the chime that it would normally do when something is plugged into the USB. No changes done on the PC though. Doesn't try loading drivers or anything. After a few seconds, it chimes again and the green light goes out. Repeats about every 2 min.
Anyone found the issue?

[Q] HTC One

I have an HTC One. I was using it normally today, but got home and it was one percent. I plugged it up to charge and went to check a notification I had, and it turned off. It has happened before, and the charge light was on and it went straight to the screen where it shows the red battery and percent below it. This was normal - like I said, it's happened to me before. Then, it completely turned off instead of charging. A short time later, the orange charging light went off.
I plugged it up into the wall as advised a forum I was looking at for this problem, and apparently it is a common thing with these phones. I've let it charge for about an hour and it still isn't turning on and both the charge light and the red LED light have not come on at all. I tried to trick where I held it under my lamp light and held the power button and both the up and down volume buttons but it still hasn't turned on. Maybe I just haven't left it plugged up long enough?
Any advice? I use my phone a lot, so I really need it!

Phone won't boot after screen and battery replacement

Hey guys, two days ago I found my htc picking up dust and decided to buy a battery and a screen replacement, that means the whole front with screen and digitizer, the battery works fine(creation date was from this year!)but found out that the new screen was with the led broken. So I went back with the old one which still works, suddenly after screwing every screw, I connected to charge and the screen didn't turn on, the notification light was the red charging status. Weird. After that I tried to turn on the phone, I received the vibration but not the screen welcome, didn't turn on, tried to turn off and saw both bottom buttons flash repeatedly. And that it's. What could it be?
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