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[Q] Milestone dead, no power

I was flashing the latest iceandfire rom, did a reboot and the Moto logo came up but it never booted. Holding the power button didn't do anything so I pulled the battery. Now there's nothing. The LCD never comes on, can't get into recovery or boot loader. No charging light, nothing...
This has happened to me before and I had it sent back to Motorola. They were able to reflash the phone, I know because I got the same phone back. How they managed to flash it without it powering up is a mystery to me but I know it's possible. Has anyone managed to do this? I would send it back to Moto again but this time, it's out of warranty.

Did you charge with USB cable? I had this once where USB charge completely failed. I just had to use my car charger and that fired the phone back up.

I had this happen to me also...use a Motorola brand (no copies) wall or car charger and leave it plugged in. My MS does this when it gets really close to 0% charged...
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I don't think the battery is dead, it was full and I was plugged in while I did the flash. The charge light flicks on and then goes out when I plug any cable in but I'll give it a shot with the moto charger when I get home.

yeah, the phone's bricked... using all factory chargers and cables, it still doesn't power up.

I give up... tried all night to get it to the boot loader. I guess I'll be selling this thing for parts and use this iphone4 I got through Fido retentions until I figure out my next phone

Before you throw it away:
Try getting another (full) battery or another Milestone (to charge it), or something like this: (I am not allowed to post a link, so google: UNIVERSAL BATTERY CHARGER, select the first video in results).... charge it, then re-insert the battery and try to power on device holding d-pad UP + pressing power button.... it should bring you to bootloader mode, then connect usb cable and use RSDLITE to flash the appropriate SBF for your device and region..... and for ROMS (SBFs) google: milestone sbf, select the first link in results.... hope it helped... cheers....

Does the "McGiver" jumpstart thing using a usb cable with the device end cut and keeping some of the wires connected to the device in the battery compartment work on Milestone? I know a friend that could "unbrick" his Defy using this method....

Do you have a link? I remember reading this somewhere as well. It's worth a shot, not like the thing can be more dead. I still don't think it's the battery tho, it was full when I performed the flash.

Nevermind.... I found it, it didn't work... lol... oh well..

Sometimes the batteries memory will glitch

Not the battery, it was full when I did the flash and I tried jumping the battery terminals with a USB cable. It was good while it lasted but I already picked up a BNIB Captivate for $300 off Craigslist.
Anyone know what a Milestone sold for parts would be worth? It's about a year old and I would say the condition is 8.5-9.0/10

baoli said:
Not the battery, it was full when I did the flash and I tried jumping the battery terminals with a USB cable. It was good while it lasted but I already picked up a BNIB Captivate for $300 off Craigslist.
Anyone know what a Milestone sold for parts would be worth? It's about a year old and I would say the condition is 8.5-9.0/10
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Before you sell it, take out the battery, SIM card and memory card, then leave it for AT LEAST 5 days. Then try again.
I have a similar problem with my milestone, at first I thought it was dead, then after a week I tried again (just on the off chance) and was able to get into the bootloader menu and reflash it.
There is something inside the Milestone that holds charge for several days, and pulling the battery for at least 5 days seems to clear it. This has happened 3 times with mine, and each time I was able to get it started again.
This may not work for you, it depends on exactly whats wrong with yours, but its worth a try.

there is a post from a guy looking for the motherboard... u might want to see that... sorry for ur device

[Q] Droid 3 bricked wont charge

So i bricked my droid 3, cant get it to charge, it just boot loops. It wont charge in recovery mode either. Is there any solutions to this, i cant get into clockworkmod recovery of course otherwise this would not be a problem. If anyone could help i'd b so happy. Until then i will be cutting myself with a rusty butter knife in solitude.

What were you doing when you bricked it?

i must have flashed a bad steeldroid 3 rom now just bootloops

I cannot use rsd because my battery is dead, and will not charge.

Well, then you kinda gotta either buy another battery and pray it has a decent charge or a TBH factory cable.
Sent from my DROID3 using xda premium

Similar problem
I tried to root my phone but it froze during the root stage (using Pete's root tools v1.06). Now its bricked.
Background:
D3, recently upgraded OTA to 5.6.890
Tried resetting by holding power button and x- doesn't turn on at all.
Any suggestions? I'm going to try this recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255198

thanks for the help, this is what i feared. I guess i was just hoping for some fantastic alternative. I read somewhere that a verizon store could charge my battery, not sure though. What is this TBH factory cable you speek of. Any idea where to get one.

well i read into it, and ordered a TBH factory cable, it was a good bit cheaper than another battery. Thanks to anyone who even took the time to glance at this post. I will post again if and how i get this beautiful brick functioning again. Looks like the cable is the ticket though

dannyblast said:
well i read into it, and ordered a TBH factory cable, it was a good bit cheaper than another battery. Thanks to anyone who even took the time to glance at this post. I will post again if and how i get this beautiful brick functioning again. Looks like the cable is the ticket though
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Why not get a battery dock like this one?
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Battery-Dock-Charger-Motorola-Atrix-4G-Droid-X-BH5X-/00/$(KGrHqEOKjUE3B,zI6T8BN1pZr2qgQ~~0_35.JPG

If you have a spare USB cable that you don't care if you never use it again:
Cut it in half, and strip the sheath from the cable on the end that usually plugs into the computer
Cut the white and green wires off (or white and blue)
There should be two remaining wires, red and black, strip them so there is just the actual wire (the metal strands)
Now look at your battery, there will be four notches, in it, one will be marked (+) and one will be marked (-)
Fold the wire inhalf from the red wire so it is a bit thicker, and just twist it a bit so it hugs itself, SLIDE THE RED WIRE INTO THE SLOT MARKED (+)
Fold the wire inhalf from the black wire so it is a bit thicker, and just twist it a bit so it hugs itself, SLIDE THE BLACK WIRE INTO THE SLOT MARKED (-)
Use some tape to make sure the wires don't touch each other and are secured in place, then, plug the USB plug into your computer
the battery will start charging, it will take about 2 hours to fully charge, it is almost impossible to overcharge the battery as they have a built in overcharge protection circuit.
*intermission music*
~ about 2 hours later ~
Congratulations! Your battery is charged! You can now do stuff that you need a charged battery for.
WARNING I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING EVER PERIOD

Who cares about what happens to a cable thoug
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Thanks for the help, after reading about the TBH factory cable I want it whatever the outcome. I am trying the usb to battery trick right now, lets see if i can manage not to f that up. Thanks for all the input. I will post again if i get this usb battery trick completed

does it have to be a phone usb or can it be any old usb, im using an old printer usb. will the battery get warm, beacuse i tried it once for a hour the checked to see and its still dead. trying again double checking my connect and tape jobs.

Well, I'm cleaning off my rusty butter knife and putting it in the drawer. There is no more reason to cut myself, this brick be a phone again. Thanks so much for all the help from everyone. Fix it by using the usb straight battery charge trick, then used rsd to flash the swu recovery files(after many failures, then worked with no change in what i did). Anyway i feel i can breathe again, i'd smoke a bowl with everyone who helped if i could.

Same thing happened to me!
I overnighted this bad boy. http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Multi-P...32KY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317611805&sr=8-2
Charged the battery enough to RSD the files back. Radioshack didn't have any extra batteries or external chargers nor did Verizon. The assistant manager told me to go on Ebay for a battery. The link above saved my life essentially.

dannyblast said:
does it have to be a phone usb or can it be any old usb, im using an old printer usb.
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Nope, can be any USB cable that has the power wires and a plug that plugs into your computer.
dannyblast said:
will the battery get warm, beacuse i tried it once for a hour the checked to see and its still dead. trying again double checking my connect and tape jobs.
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It depends, if the battery is VERY flat, and you have pretty much nothing else plugged into your computers USB ports it may get warm - or if you put it in the wrong slots on the battery.
The flatter the battery, the more current it will require to charge, especially initially.
The less devices on your computers USB, the less of the current coming from the internal USB hub is used. Each power on a computer is rated for 5v @ 500mAh, but there is generally only one polyfuse for all the USB ports on the computer, meaning if you have 12 USB ports in total on the computer you could probably draw 5v @6Ah from a port - not that I would ever recommend this.
The more current, the more heat.
If you put the wrong wires in the wrong slots, it shouldn't matter, the batteries protection circuit (and the polyfuse in your USB controller) would save most mistakes. Generally, the batteries IC will prevent them from providing more than 1A at the batteries current voltage, and using more than 1A, as well as preventing them from going below a minimum discharge voltage (generally around 3.6-3.7v), and a maximum overcharge voltage (4.2v)
dannyblast said:
Well, I'm cleaning off my rusty butter knife and putting it in the drawer. There is no more reason to cut myself, this brick be a phone again. Thanks so much for all the help from everyone. Fix it by using the usb straight battery charge trick, then used rsd to flash the swu recovery files(after many failures, then worked with no change in what i did). Anyway i feel i can breathe again, i'd smoke a bowl with everyone who helped if i could.
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Glad I could help.

I have good news none of your phones are bricked just follow my instructions...
GET ALL THE FILES NEEDED FROM LINK BELOW!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255198
HOW TO FIX YOUR SOFTBRICKED DROID 3
Files Needed:
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1.RSD LITE 5.4.3 OR LATER
2.XML FILE and all Partitions in image form
to obtain these just download my package below.
Flashable Zip:
You will still be able to update if you flash this file.
Software version: cdma_solana-user 2.3.4 5.5.1_84_D3G-55 110812 release-keysMDM6600BP_N_03.18.29P (Software and Radio versions in bold) aka Release version 5.6.890
http://www.necrotania.com/Download/swu.zip
MD5SUM: 09069555efc6c49b537f49db782a1c94
Verizon/USA and production keys signed. It is not modified in any way. Hopefully it can help unbrick some people/prevent future bricking fears =)
Attached file is the xml from the zip
Moto-fastboot
You will need a different version of fastboot to flash larger files like the system.img. Moto-fastboot allows flashing files over 256 or so MB.
Windows: Moto-fastboot for windows thanks to romracer. Direct Download Link
Linux/Mac: Moto-fastboot for linux in several flavors thanks to eval-.
RSDLite 5.5.0:
http://mophoforum.com/the2dcour/RSDLite5.5.rar RSDLite 5.5.0 Download
It's a new version. I haven't seen a newer version posted though I think up to 5.5.x exists already. DOWNLOAD ALL THESE FILES!
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Step1, Open the zip with the xml and partitions put them in a folder named XT862
Step 2. Turn your phone on, Hold both Volume buttons while turning on press Vol - until you get to AP Fastboot then press Vol +
Step 3.Plug the phone to your computer by usb while in AP fastboot mode
Step 4. Open RSD lite and select the phone, and the file to flash is inside the XT862 folder you just made, Select the XML file, i believe it will be the only file you can select out of that folder in RSD.
Click START and in about 5 mins your phone will be as new on the latest firmware as of the time of this posting.

bgdwiepp said:
WARNING I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING EVER PERIOD
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yes...you..are....

You cant flash the sbf on rsdlite?

[Q] Fastboot Flash Failure: Battery Low, Cannot Program

I Just bought a nice new Droid 4 and figured I would go about removing all the bloat from the hardware following a root.
I should preface this post by saying that I had an overclocked, rooted, custom romed phone prior to this, so I'm comfortable working with these things.
After the removal I installed SafeStrap and tried to flash Eclipse.
This did not take so I figured I would just use the default recovery and just re flash the stock rom.
The problems began here.
The battery keeps dying before I can Decompress and flash and the phone shows Fastboot Flash Failure: Battery Low, Cannot Program before it goes to black.
Now on any other device I would pull the battery and charge it externally until I had enough juice to complete the flash.
As we all know Moto in their infinite wisdom glued our batteries in.
Does anyone know if the device is actually charging when the green LED is on (when I have it plugged in) with the OEM cable.
If the device is NOT charging do you guys have any ideas about how I can get enough juice into the battery to complete the flash?
Any ideas, related stories, or assistance anyone could throw at me would be a big help.

Nnewsad said:
I Just bought a nice new Droid 4 and figured I would go about removing all the bloat from the hardware following a root.
I should preface this post by saying that I had an overclocked, rooted, custom romed phone prior to this, so I'm comfortable working with these things.
After the removal I installed SafeStrap and tried to flash Eclipse.
This did not take so I figured I would just use the default recovery and just re flash the stock rom.
The problems began here.
The battery keeps dying before I can Decompress and flash and the phone shows Fastboot Flash Failure: Battery Low, Cannot Program before it goes to black.
Now on any other device I would pull the battery and charge it externally until I had enough juice to complete the flash.
As we all know Moto in their infinite wisdom glued our batteries in.
Does anyone know if the device is actually charging when the green LED is on (when I have it plugged in) with the OEM cable.
If the device is NOT charging do you guys have any ideas about how I can get enough juice into the battery to complete the flash?
Any ideas, related stories, or assistance anyone could throw at me would be a big help.
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with green led the battery is not charging.
You should create a motorola factory cable to be able to flash with low level battery (but I had no luck with my own, it worked with motorola photon, but never with droid 4, don't know why - other people said here, that factory cable works fine) - it's your way.

Thanks Mate!
olegfusion said:
with green led the battery is not charging.
You should create a motorola factory cable to be able to flash with low level battery (but I had no luck with my own, it worked with motorola photon, but never with droid 4, don't know why - other people said here, that factory cable works fine) - it's your way.
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I headed over to Team Black Hat and ordered up an adapter that changes my OEM usb to a "Factory USB" by adding that last pin.
I cannot link to them because this is a new account but their address is shop(dot)teamblackhack(dot)info/main(dot)sc
I don't have the patience or low enough blood pressure to pin one out right now so we'll see if this works.
I thank you again for the info, lets hope this resolves my error.
Invalid FLash Mode (S) (Boot Failure)
0A.6C
To return to normal mode - first press power key to power down
I hope this works for someone else if not for me!
I will update the post when it arrives in the mail, I did overnight postage so we will see how fast they are.

Nnewsad said:
I cannot link to them because this is a new account but their address is shop(dot)teamblackhack(dot)info/main(dot)sc
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Here ya go scrub
http://shop.teamblackhat.info/main.sc

Good luck! The adapters work very well and are a proven solution for this problem.

It worked like a charm, I flashed the stock ICS Blur rom: VRZ_XT894_6.7.2-180_DR4-16_M2-37_1FF.xml to it and its working again!
Now If I can figure out how to run that script that removes the bloat. I dont understand how to put the files on the internal sd.

[Q] XT894 Charging Issue

I'm new to this forum, and am in dire hopes that a workaround can be resolved for my issue. I've read a lot of posts here, and I've found people definitely know what they are doing here.
I have an XT894 (So I believe this is the right place).
I had this issue before, and I just ended up replacing the battery for a quick fix. The fact that it happened a second time makes me want to have a possible understanding of what I did, and if there's a workaround that doesn't involve me shelling out another 50$ for a new battery.
This is what had happened in the chain of events leading to this (Starting from JB Upgrade):
1) Rooted, and installed a generic Cyanogen mod on my original droid 4 (with Safestrap)
2) Randomly bricked, tried to take out battery without realizing that there were screws holding the flex cable in place.
3) Leaving incriminations out, I attained a second one.
4) Rooted it again using windows utility, and installed Liquidsmooth (Safestrap again)
5) Had the issue again, and bought a factory cable from a vendor in China. Was having a pile of driver issues throughout all this (got a new usb data cable, and used a specific port in the back of my pc that it liked.)
6) Factory cable booted it was able to get it back to normal while it was plugged in. Then swapped the battery the right way, used RSDLite, flashed Stock Rom, and got it working. Several times I've had to reflash.
7) Rooted again, safestrap, then flashed Liquidsmooth again. I had to reflash a few times with safestrap. I am using Rom slot 3 also.
Yesterday I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Liquidsmooth. I did not uninstall the operating system before flashing, and I'm pretty sure I completely ignored the fact the battery was under 1/4th charge.
So aside from all that, this is where I stand:
When using a standard data cable in the favored USB port of my PC, the screen stays blank, but a little green light appears in upper-left corner of the droid.
When using the factory cable in that port it boots, but will not charge. I was able to use AP Fastboot to reflash stock this way. I tried flashing the stock JB ROM with RSDLite initially, and it had an error on stage 6. But I was able to get it using the Windows Utility.
Now the issue is when plugged in the power charger it shows the Motorola logo, disappears, then again non-stop in an endless loop.
I have another charger coming on the way from Amazon (one usb, and one wall one), so that's going to be my next step.
If anyone has any little hidden secret or suggestion that will fix this problem that I am not aware of, please please by all means throw it out there! I would be eternally grateful.

the charge mode is software controlled, if the rom is not correct, battery will not charge
Sent from my XT862 using Tapatalk 2

Re: XT894 Charging Issue
Ah, that came to mind. Thanks for clarifying that. That's definitely a good sign.
What actions do you suggest I take to get that part of the phone back to normal again?

try wiping data in android recovery
Hard Reset (Alternate method)- DROID 4 by MOTOROLA - Verizon Wireless Support
if that doesn't fix
reflash stock rom, using .xml file and rsd lite
follow my instructions
How to Use RSD Lite to flash a .XML Stock Rom
also check for Motorola/windows Driver issues

Same issue still
I did the following:
Used RSD Lite, had a successful flash this time using 4.1.2_2.
Took it off factory cable (which always immediately powers off on removal, is this normal?)
Tried booting it off power, no go.
Plugged it into the charger, same issue.
Tried factory reset, couldn't get it passed the Android Andy.
After that, I tried flashing the 4.1.2_1 xml.
Had a successful flash.
Tried to get in recovery, and held both volume buttons. Didn't work.
Then I went into security settings and did a full wipe. Still didn't change anything.
Flashed same rom again, and then was able to get passed Android Andy by holding both volume buttons unlike last time where it was unresponsive.
I wiped the cache, and chose factory reset.
Powered it up again, and still had the same issue.
To clarify a bit on the factory cable: I've used it on 2 separate xt894s. Both devices always powered off on removal even on ones that were working fine. As I asked above: is that normal?
To recap again: it's showing the red circle with the M when plugged into the adapter. Then the screen goes blank. Then while the droid is in the charger, and I tap the power it up again it shows that, goes blank, and again in a non-stop loop. I've also tried holding the top button down as well with no different results.
The battery feels cold (I have air conditioning on), and when it's not plugged into anything the phone pretty much acts as if it is bricked. No red flashing light is shown on charger either, in fact no LED is lit up at all. The red blinking LED only shows on factory cable. I've tried two separate outlets in the room I'm currently in which power up other devices, and that's a no go.
The last time I bricked this phone didn't have that charger. Instead it had a USB charger with the adapter (was the default Verizon one). That one had the same results as the USB data cable I'm using now (a green light that did not flash). I had the battery completely removed, and the factory cable did the same thing as it's doing now.
Also around the time that this happened in Liquidsmooth, the icon showed that the power was charging (but the battery kept getting lower which makes me feel skeptical). Several days ago I left it in the charger for roughly two days as well.
I only have charged this phone with this current AC charger after the brick (I would link it, but the forum claims I don't have 10 posts). It does state that it is legitimately for XT894.
I'm going to leave it in that one for a few hours, and see if anything different happens. I never was able to get the M logo last time which is the big difference.
I ordered a second factory cable just to see what happens then.
Anyhow, does this seem more like a dead battery after my results, or is there another option I can try software wise? Or am I doing something incorrectly?

[bricked phone] Green LED, phone can't start

Hi guys,
I've got a problem with my droid 4. 2 days ago, the battery went to 0% and i had nothing to plug my phone to. So after 20/30 with the phone at 0%, i plugged it to charge it. After an hour, i looked at my phone again and i saw it was stuck on the 'Motorola dual core technology' logo. I rebooted it and went to safestrap. safestrap was saying 99% of battery so i was like "meh, it's full, i can unplug it". I did so, reboot again and then it went down while loading cyanogen. I tried to replug it, go back to safestrap and reflash the rom. but the phone went off while flashing and from now on, it doesn't start anymore. So yeah, i know, this is kinda normal, no more system fail flash blablabla.
Here is the weird point. When i plug my phone in, there is first a GREEN LED with no light on the screen for a couple of minutes, and then i got stuck again on motorola dual core logo. I can acces the AP fastboot mode but it keep saying "low battery, cannot program" even after a full night plugged in. All others options goes directly to motorola dual core logo and then got stuck (even the recovery option is doing this). I've found many topics about it but i'm not very sure where is the problem coming from.
Can you guys explain more to me about this problem ? how can i fix it ? do i need to go McGyver ?

Several possible problems
1. safestrap often does not report correct battery charge
2. if battery is too low, phone can not run charging software.
3.. if software is corrupt , phone can not charge battery.
Don't use use pc to charge, if you have a 5v 1amp/1000ma wall charge or better use that.
you can use the MacGyver method, but there is a risk of frying the phone and/or battery.
You can buy and external universal charger like this , but you will need to remove battery.
If it's a corrupt software issue, you can reflash with a fastboot/factory cable TBH Factory Cable Adapter, or Fastboot Motorola Factory Cable-ebay
see if you can get back to safestrap with, with power off, hold both volume buttons, press power button, at Boot Mode Selection Menu> Scroll down with volume down button, to BP Tools, Select with Volume UP button, should boot directly to SafeStrap.
see if battery will charge.

sd_shadow said:
Several possible problems
1. safestrap often does not report correct battery charge
2. if battery is too low, phone can not run charging software.
3.. if software is corrupt , phone can not charge battery.
Don't use use pc to charge, if you have a 5v 1amp/1000ma wall charge or better use that.
you can use the MacGyver method, but there is a risk of frying the phone and/or battery.
You can buy and external universal charger like this , but you will need to remove battery.
If it's a corrupt software issue, you can reflash with a fastboot/factory cable TBH Factory Cable Adapter, or Fastboot Motorola Factory Cable-ebay
see if you can get back to safestrap with, with power off, hold both volume buttons, press power button, at Boot Mode Selection Menu> Scroll down with volume down button, to BP Tools, Select with Volume UP button, should boot directly to SafeStrap.
see if battery will charge.
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Thanks for your reply.
Here is some more informations i might have forgot in my first message (or maybe it wasnt clear).
1) Batttery is too low, and it can't run the program to reflash a motorola ROM. This is 100% sure.
2) Software might be corrupt since it first went blackout when flashing. I need to reflash, but back to #1 i can't flash since no battery.
3) I tried to recharge it with a 5V/2A asus tablet charger, and even after a couple of hours, no ****.
4) i can remove the battery. I have already done it. No problem.
5) i can't get back to safestrap : every time i choose an option other than "AP fastboot" i got stuck on the motorola dual core boot image.

rubixcube said:
Thanks for your reply.
Here is some more informations i might have forgot in my first message (or maybe it wasnt clear).
1) Batttery is too low, and it can't run the program to reflash a motorola ROM. This is 100% sure.
2) Software might be corrupt since it first went blackout when flashing. I need to reflash, but back to #1 i can't flash since no battery.
3) I tried to recharge it with a 5V/2A asus tablet charger, and even after a couple of hours, no ****.
4) i can remove the battery. I have already done it. No problem.
5) i can't get back to safestrap : every time i choose an option other than "AP fastboot" i got stuck on the motorola dual core boot image.
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I would use a TBH adapter/fastboot cable to flash firmware, or use a universal external battery charger.

sd_shadow said:
I would use a TBH adapter/fastboot cable to flash firmware, or use a universal external battery charger.
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And what if i buy another battery ? like for example and extended battery from mugen power, usually those batteries come with 50% of charge, and this could be enough to flash no ?

An extended battery should have enough charge to boot to safestrap or flash firmware.
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thanks for your answers

im now flashing with McGyver !

Yay its working again !

Solucion
yo lo solucione cargando mi pila manualmente y flaseando por RSD lite ,pero se me quedo el modo fastboot como arranque inicial algien sabe como quitar eso?

Spanish? "I troubleshoot loading my stack and flaseando manually by RSD lite ,but i was the fastboot mode as initial start someone knows how to remove that?"
So you Flashed a xml/firmware file with red lite?
Which one? Which ap fastboot version is on phone?
It's stuck in ap fast boot? Any errors?
Sent from my Amazon OtterX using Tapatalk

Well i got some more work for you sd_shadow, even if it doesnt really have nothing to do with flashing.
It appears that the connectors of my battery were completely dead. I bought a new one. I just put in it and reflashed all the stuff. Looks like it works but ... I have problems getting an image on the screen of my phone !! Is it a problem with flash, a hardware problem ? a problem with battery ?
EDIT : just found it is a bad contact. Got to deal with it i guess ... but any hints to repair it are welome !

to be more accurate, the screen doesnt show anything when the phone is closed but works perfectly fine when open ... this is driving me crazy.

Could be a bad flex ribbon cable
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sd_shadow said:
Could be a bad flex ribbon cable
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I suppose this it. What is the solution, changing the whole screen ?

rubixcube said:
I suppose this it. What is the solution, changing the whole screen ?
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You might want to read this thread on the defective screen: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552978 although it does not show a solution for it (yet).

the flex cable can be replaced, and is likely problem, when it only works when the keyboard is in a specific position.
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Original OEM Motorola Droid 4 XT894 Main LCD Flex Cable Ribbon
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Droid 4 take apart

sd_shadow, i request your help !
So, this morning, i finally had the new flex cable and the T3 corkscrew, so i started to open up my phone to change this damn flex cable.
And if i am posting now, it is because i am stuck. After i got the back of the screen off, i started to take up my actual flex cable.
Here are my questions.
Do i need to heat the screen and take it off to take the flex cable off ?
How do i manage to change the cable where it is connected to the screen ? (Look at the 2 pictures i have uploaded).
I hope to have an answer quick. And i hope i can fix it.

Did you watch the video? http://www.repairsuniverse.com/motorola-droid-4-take-apart-repair-guide.html
it's for replacing the LCD, but shows most of the flex cable take apart.
only need to heat when replacing the LCD.

sd_shadow said:
Did you watch the video? http://www.repairsuniverse.com/motorola-droid-4-take-apart-repair-guide.html
it's for replacing the LCD, but shows most of the flex cable take apart.
only need to heat when replacing the LCD.
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Yeah i have already watched it but i don't know what to do to with the part of the flex cable that connects to the screen cable.