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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...
Sent from my Milestone using XDA Premium App

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

Won't boot / turn on / or charge

New to the bionic. Not my main phone.
Not new to flashing but mostly Samsung stuff.
Read up as much as i could before flashing.
Had upgraded this bionic to ics and was working ok , tried it couple different ics ROMs, was in process of upgrading to jellybean,, battery was over 80% @start,
Something happened,,, seemed as though battery died early in process... Black screen,,, can't get to boot anymore.
At best i can only get it to show a white ( low battery?) Led light in upper right corner
I have the factory battery charger dock.
Charged many times and retried many times with no luck... Bought a different but used battery, same thing... They show as needing and taking a charge,, light goes from Orange to Green.
Even bought a team Black Hat factory adapter to supposedly allow me to get past this, but i still have same results.
Although can't get it to show white led on phone while using adapter at all
Even tried a hacked USB cable taped to the battery.
Any suggestions, what am i missing?
Can't get into fast boot, pc doesn't recognize
Bricked right now
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With the TBH Factory Adapter connected it should flash a white light once immediately when connected and then the phone should boot up.
If the OS is corrupt then it will go to the fastboot bootloader screen and can be flashed with a full XML.zip using RSD Lite or manually with fastboot.
If the bootloader is corrupt it should do the single white flash and then cycle through attempts to load the OMAP Flash interface in Windows with repeated up/down beeps while connected.
This can be fixed using Linux and the omapflash-lnx binary if we had the bootloader repair kits for the latest bootloader revision, but the only repair kits I have seen in the wild are for the older ICS builds.
If nothing happens at all when the TBH adapter is connected, then you have a hardware damaged device or true "brick".

@cellzealot thanks for the great explanation. Was kinda hoping it would let me do these things...
I'll go back n double check, but I'm pretty sure only white light i could get is ~ without ~ the adapter :banghead:

[Q] Flashing Red LED, phone will not boot but I can flash firmwares, help please :*

My Xperia Z will not boot; the red LED flashes three times when I attempt to turn it on. I have tried resetting using the power button and volume up (most of the time it does not produce a response, but if it is plugged into my computer it will, where the LED will only turn off for maybe two seconds before coming back on), I have tried unplugging the battery (I have done this multiple times and on two occasions left it unplugged for over a week), I have tried flashing multiple different firmwares through Flashtool (they flash successfully but the phone still does not boot) and I have tried charging it for days and even a week one time with different chargers, but it still refuses to turn on.
This issue first occurred after I replaced the antenna flex cable and the buttons/microphone flex cable due to accidentally breaking them whilst replacing the LCD. I think this issue may have started because the battery was only on 7% when I disconnected it to replace the two parts, but I fail to see how this would discharge the battery so much? I am willing to purchase another battery if I can be certain that it will fix this issue.
Unlike some on this forum in other threads I have read through, the Sony logo does not come up at all, the screen is black the entire time. Also, when plugged into my Windows 8.1 laptop the computer tries to install drivers and says that it does not recognize the device "USB device not recognized" "The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it". When now attempting to put into flashmode connecting it to a USB 2.0 port the phone does not respond for five seconds, then the LED flashes green then red immediately after, before the LED goes off again, then the firmware is flashed (successfully). Attempting to put the phone into flashmode when connected to a USB 3.0 port will only result in the LED turning red.
Thanks for your time, this is really frustrating me, and any help would be greatly appreciated

Help please, anyone?

Sometime i wake up and my phone is turned off , when i try to turn it on it flashes 3 red lights , charging would make it turn on , so 3 red flashes is from battery and since you can successfully flash frimware than it is not bootloader problem , it is either battery or something else is destroyed inside your phone , first try another ftf

elias234 said:
Sometime i wake up and my phone is turned off , when i try to turn it on it flashes 3 red lights , charging would make it turn on , so 3 red flashes is from battery and since you can successfully flash frimware than it is not bootloader problem , it is either battery or something else is destroyed inside your phone , first try another ftf
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Thanks, I have tried two alternate ftf files with no luck, but I will try a third and see how that goes Yeah, it's okay if the current battery is faulty and buying a new one that will fix the problem, but I don't want to waste money if that isn't the problem

Do you have 12v car charger. Try to charge with it. Helped to wake up my phone last week after too much drain to the battery

My phone was not entering flashmode just before when I was trying to flash a different ftf file, so I wondered what would happen if I disconnected the battery, and then tried it. I first just connected the phone without the battery and got a solid blue light from the LED. Then when I tried entering flashmode without the battery connected it worked! So since I can successfully flash ftf files without the battery connected I'm assuming the issue is the battery, or could it possibly be the part of the motherboard which the battery connects to like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/help/hardware-fix-xperia-z-charging-booting-t2760911 ?
indycar said:
Do you have 12v car charger. Try to charge with it. Helped to wake up my phone last week after too much drain to the battery
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I do have one somewhere, but I think it's broken The issue must be related to the battery or battery connection now, so I need to figure out which of the two it is before I take any further steps to fix it?

So I ordered a replacement battery and when first connected the phone would not turn on. After charging for a little while the LED went red, and the phone now vibrates when I attempt to turn it on and also when I try to reset it. So the vibrations feel correct (it vibrates once when turning on, once when volume up and power have been held for five seconds, and three times when volume up and power for ten or so seconds), but it still refuses to boot. I have tried three different chargers for extended periods of time, disconnecting and reconnecting the battery multiple times and have flashed a different .ftf file, but all to no luck. My Windows 8.1 laptop computer still says that the USB device is not recognised and nothing seems to be progressing
Is there anything more that I can do from here to try to fix it? Anything would be so greatly appreciated

Bump :fingers-crossed:

Mainboard may be broken.
I had this problem after flashing a wrong recovery but the symptoms were the same. I sent it to a repair center and they changed my mainboard and it worked fine so it could be possible that you've broken your mainboard in a way. (The reparation bill was paid by the warranty *horray*)
I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say.
Off topic: yay, it snows!

Will only boot to fastboot mode

Hi everyone. my z3 compact got wet... waterproof phone supposedly but it soon turned itself off. i've had it in rice for a while but it wont boot up. I've used the yellow reset button and it vibrates 3 times and does nothing. when I plug it into the computer tho I am able to get fastboot mode. I'd rather not have to send it back to Sony as I am without a phone. anyone have any idea how I can get it to boot normally. I'm presuming as it goes into fastboot mode the hardware isn't bricked? thanks for any advice you can give me.

Did you already tried to flash full stock TFT via FalshTool (and Phone in FlashMode)?

I'm currently waiting for a password for the flashtool..... I tried running repair phone on sony pc companion and the pc seemed happy but the phone still wont start. 3 vibrations when I try. currently the phone is plugged into the wall hoping it will charge. it is showing the red battery icon that flashes. I suppose the first hurdle is to get the thing to charge altho last night before I tried the repair phone option when plugged into charger it did say 100% charged.

crampy said:
I'm currently waiting for a password for the flashtool..... I tried running repair phone on sony pc companion and the pc seemed happy but the phone still wont start. 3 vibrations when I try. currently the phone is plugged into the wall hoping it will charge. it is showing the red battery icon that flashes. I suppose the first hurdle is to get the thing to charge altho last night before I tried the repair phone option when plugged into charger it did say 100% charged.
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Waiting for a password for the flashtool? It's free and shouldn't need any passwords, unless you mean password from Sony for unlocking your bootloader? I hope not.
Three vibrations means turning the phone off. Two vibrations is on.
Try the power button while plugged into a PC to see if any USB functions start when the phone boots up. If the phone can be seen in your PC but nothing on the phone, then the screen is duff.
I think the next stop is Sony repair centre, or if it's out of warranty, $80 on a genuine screen on ebay, a guitar pick and a hair dryer.

thanks guys. ok i've done some googling. seems I have been looking at the wrong flashtool. I was looking at one called Emma..... the official sony one. I'm now presuming I should be using the one at flashtool.net? I'll have to download that at home later. works pc has all sorts of blocking things on it. the screen was working yesterday as I could see the fastboot screen but that was all I could get. Am I right in saying the led ligghts blue when it goes into flash mode?

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thanks guys. ok i've done some googling. seems I have been looking at the wrong flashtool. I was looking at one called Emma..... the official sony one. I'm now presuming I should be using the one at flashtool.net? I'll have to download that at home later. works pc has all sorts of blocking things on it. the screen was working yesterday as I could see the fastboot screen but that was all I could get. Am I right in saying the led ligghts blue when it goes into flash mode?
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Good news, if the screen comes on and it goes into flashmode then it should be possible to rescue it.
I'm still puzzled as to why the partitions/system would be corrupted from water damage, unless it's something to do with the motherboard itself.

I have had the phone plugged into the original wall charger for a while now. the screen goes from blank to the battery charging icon every 3 or 4 seconds. The battery is red showing low charge and doesn't seem to be going up at all. If the water indicator shows red (which it does) will this void my warranty with Sony? I'm going to leave it on charge here all afternoon at work til I go home. That will have given it about 5 hours on charge so if the battery isn't improving by then it isn't looking good is it..... I've managed to get flashtool on the pc here and it has detected a device in fastboot mode. Don't know if this is a good sign or not as without the battery charging it's useless

Just get an full stock FW (TFT-File) and put it in the correct folder for FlashTool.
Then flash the full tft rom - HowTo here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-stock-roms-t2240614
To get into Flashmode (not Fastboot Mode) push Vol Down (hold it) and then plug in USB (while phone is off!)
But do this first if the Flashtool program ask you to do so...

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I have had the phone plugged into the original wall charger for a while now. the screen goes from blank to the battery charging icon every 3 or 4 seconds. The battery is red showing low charge and doesn't seem to be going up at all. If the water indicator shows red (which it does) will this void my warranty with Sony? I'm going to leave it on charge here all afternoon at work til I go home. That will have given it about 5 hours on charge so if the battery isn't improving by then it isn't looking good is it..... I've managed to get flashtool on the pc here and it has detected a device in fastboot mode. Don't know if this is a good sign or not as without the battery charging it's useless
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You are right to be worried about trying to flash the device with a low battery. If power fails during the flash it really will become a brick.
Don't try a flash unless you have at least 7% battery.

Thanks for all your help. Battery won't charge at all so it looks like the only option is a repair shop..... Like you say it really isn't worth risking bricking it.

Droid 4 won't turn on, but recognized by computer?

I have a stock Droid 4 with a mugen power extended battery. Last night I got a vibration that felt like a Facebook notification on my Droid 4. I pulled it out of my pocket and tried to turn it on, but the screen remained black. I tried holding the power button to reset it, but there was no response. I tried plugging it into my wall charger that usually works with a usb cable that also usually works, but even after an hour, there were no signs of life. I tried plugging in the cable to my tablet, and it charges just fine. I've used other cables and chargers, still no luck.
I tried plugging in into my laptop with the cable I normally use for charging and my laptop picked up that a device was connected. I looked in My computer to see if I could access the phone internals, but I just saw a drive letter with motocast, and 2 other drive letters that told me to insert disks in to them. The motocast drive letter had what looked like motocast system files, but that was it. I had an SD card in my phone, but no drive letters that came up when I plugged the phone it let me access it. When I went to safely remove it, I saw in the device manager that it correctly identified that a Motorola XT894 had connected to it, and I safely removed. I've tried doing a soft reset, holding the power down+vol down button for 10 secs, but that does nothing. There are no lights at all, not even when I plug/unplug it from the charger.
I'm planning on going to a cell phone repair place today to have them remove and troubleshoot the battery ( I don't have plastic torx and I'm afraid of short circuiting the motherboard)
I feel that there is some hope for fixing the problem or at least data recovery since windows recognized my phone and I could at least get to the motocast folder on it. I do wonder why my phone is able to be recognized by my computer but still show no signs of life otherwise. Any ideas?
I love this phone, but it sucks with this happening around the holiday season.If it can't be fixed, I'd at least like to get my data off it. Please help!!
Is there any way to fix this? Would physically removing and reinstalling the battery work? Do I have any options for file recovery off my phones internal storage, especially since it seems windows recgnizes that my phone is connected?

UPDATE: Got it to power on and boot normally once. Enabled USB debugging when I had the chance.
Got back from the cell phone repair place this morning. He said the battery was definitely bad, drawing zero amps. He also said he was getting weird voltage spikes throughout the board, and I think he said something about the PCMI power management chip being bad and that the phone was done for. I told him that I could plug the phone into the the computer and it recognized it. He said my best bet might be getting a battery off eBay that would power my phone long enough to get everything off of there. I asked if it could also be USB cord related as I tend to have horrible luck with them. He said it could be and that the reason that I was able to have the phone recognized by USB but not charge is due to different pins communicating during USB connection. I'm including these details so you can gauge this guy's expertise. He did go from saying the phone was done to suggesting a new battery/USB cord, and I was able to power it on after using said cord.
I went and bought a new USB cord and plugged it into my inverter I had in my car. To my surprise after a few seconds, the phone was showing the charge screen with the battery at 70%. It still wouldn't boot up so I kept it plugged in for about 5-10 mins. Eventually it did boot up. I immediately went in and enabled usb debugging. All my data was there. For a brief bit the date and time was off, but even that corrected itself. I played a song from my music collection on my SD card to make sure that was OK. The song played, and shortly thereafter it looks like the phone powered back off as it had originally done. I hooked it up to my computer and my PC started installing new hardware, it said something about xt894(my phone) a couple of disk drives and a CD ROM drive, and something about adb. The furthest they got were as unknown devices, so I disconnected them and reconnected them a couple of times, eventually the install icon went away. It still recognizes the phone and even recognizes there is a storage device with the phone in the device manager menu, but it still says "please insert a disc into drive (letter)" The drive with just motocast is still there, and I think there was another CD ROM that was recognized, said to insert a disc same as the drives. I threw it on my wall charger for a few minutes, but it still wasn't powering on. I then realized that charging it could exacerbate the voltage spikes the guy was talking about, and I didn't want to risk it especially after seeing all my data there, so I unplugged it.
I do have the battery that the extended battery replaced. It had to be pretty much tied to a charger, but it did work if only for less than half an hour. So there is the option of using that to temporarily power the phone.
My new questions are:
Am I at risk of further board damage if I charge/power on the phone? What about charging the degraded but functioning battery?
Now that I know I have USB debugging enabled and my computer still recognizes my phone, how do I go about backing up the contents of my internal storage?
Could this all be effectively solved by just getting a new battery? What about what he was saying with the weird voltage spikes and PCMI chip?

RyanV-M said:
UPDATE: Got it to power on and boot normally once. Enabled USB debugging when I had the chance.
Got back from the cell phone repair place this morning. He said the battery was definitely bad, drawing zero amps. He also said he was getting weird voltage spikes throughout the board, and I think he said something about the PCMI power management chip being bad and that the phone was done for. I told him that I could plug the phone into the the computer and it recognized it. He said my best bet might be getting a battery off eBay that would power my phone long enough to get everything off of there. I asked if it could also be USB cord related as I tend to have horrible luck with them. He said it could be and that the reason that I was able to have the phone recognized by USB but not charge is due to different pins communicating during USB connection. I'm including these details so you can gauge this guy's expertise. He did go from saying the phone was done to suggesting a new battery/USB cord, and I was able to power it on after using said cord.
I went and bought a new USB cord and plugged it into my inverter I had in my car. To my surprise after a few seconds, the phone was showing the charge screen with the battery at 70%. It still wouldn't boot up so I kept it plugged in for about 5-10 mins. Eventually it did boot up. I immediately went in and enabled usb debugging. All my data was there. For a brief bit the date and time was off, but even that corrected itself. I played a song from my music collection on my SD card to make sure that was OK. The song played, and shortly thereafter it looks like the phone powered back off as it had originally done. I hooked it up to my computer and my PC started installing new hardware, it said something about xt894(my phone) a couple of disk drives and a CD ROM drive, and something about adb. The furthest they got were as unknown devices, so I disconnected them and reconnected them a couple of times, eventually the install icon went away. It still recognizes the phone and even recognizes there is a storage device with the phone in the device manager menu, but it still says "please insert a disc into drive (letter)" The drive with just motocast is still there, and I think there was another CD ROM that was recognized, said to insert a disc same as the drives. I threw it on my wall charger for a few minutes, but it still wasn't powering on. I then realized that charging it could exacerbate the voltage spikes the guy was talking about, and I didn't want to risk it especially after seeing all my data there, so I unplugged it.
I do have the battery that the extended battery replaced. It had to be pretty much tied to a charger, but it did work if only for less than half an hour. So there is the option of using that to temporarily power the phone.
My new questions are:
Am I at risk of further board damage if I charge/power on the phone? What about charging the degraded but functioning battery?
Now that I know I have USB debugging enabled and my computer still recognizes my phone, how do I go about backing up the contents of my internal storage?
Could this all be effectively solved by just getting a new battery? What about what he was saying with the weird voltage spikes and PCMI chip?
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Have you tried it without the extended battery. That could be the culprit of all this going on. If your original battery is bad get a new one and charge it. I had the same problem with a battery till I bought a new oem battery. After I charged my Battery I had to go to fastboot to get device to boot with a fastboot cable. Then while connected to that cable I backed up my contacts. Then while still connected to fastboot cable I flashed stock firmware and started all over again havnt had a problem since.

I'm waiting on an OEM battery to arrive. I was able to save everything off my SD card that was in the phone, so I am increasingly hopeful. Do you have to go into fastboot if your phone is stock? What is fastboot even?

RyanV-M said:
I'm waiting on an OEM battery to arrive. I was able to save everything off my SD card that was in the phone, so I am increasingly hopeful. Do you have to go into fastboot if your phone is stock? What is fastboot even?
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AP fastboot mode is where where you flash stock while connected to rsd lite via usb or fastboot cable. It is part of bootloader. You hold down all three buttons to get to boot menu scroll down to ap fastboot then hit the vol. up button then connect to computer after you have rsd lite active. then flash stock firmware. If you get a battery that doesn't charge have them send you an other one that has happened to me a few times but not many. Remember when you scroll in boot menu you only have a few seconds to pic what you want to do or the device will try to boot.

The OEM battery I ordered finally came yesterday (no thanks to USPS). I tried multiple chargers and outlets with a good cable, and still nothing. I have another non-OEM battery arriving tomorrow, hopefully this one was just a D.O.A battery.

RyanV-M said:
The OEM battery I ordered finally came yesterday (no thanks to USPS). I tried multiple chargers and outlets with a good cable, and still nothing. I have another non-OEM battery arriving tomorrow, hopefully this one was just a D.O.A battery.
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It was probully a dead battery. It sat for to long. If you had a fastboot cable cable you wouldn't need a battery to flash it in rsd lite or just to see if it would boot. There was this one time I had to order 3 battery's just to get one that worked. Sometimes they been sitting for to long being the device was made in 2012.

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It was probully a dead battery. It sat for to long. If you had a fastboot cable cable you wouldn't need a battery to flash it in rsd lite or just to see if it would boot. There was this one time I had to order 3 battery's just to get one that worked. Sometimes they been sitting for to long being the device was made in 2012.
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So your saying if I had a FastBoot cable I could boot my phone without a battery in the phone? Would it wipe my internal data/OD?
Update: I have had a BIN-TEK battery charging for several hours, still nothing. Good cord and charger too. The only other options I have is the extended battery that crapped out on me but powered on briefly, or the puffed out factory battery it replaced. Things are looking bleak

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So your saying if I had a FastBoot cable I could boot my phone without a battery in the phone? Would it wipe my internal data/OD?
Update: I have had a BIN-TEK battery charging for several hours, still nothing. Good cord and charger too. The only other options I have is the extended battery that crapped out on me but powered on briefly, or the puffed out factory battery it replaced. Things are looking bleak
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It is so you you can get to fastboot mode so you can flash. It is usable with a low battery or no battery at all. When you first connect it to computer it will automatically start booting. Here is a link for one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00K...boot+cable&dpPl=1&dpID=41ep3FoxgHL&ref=plSrch
If it boots to your ROM when you first connect it then you have battery problem. If it does not boot to rom then you should leave it connected and flash stock firmware from fastboot mode witch you will need rsd lite to flash. If it boots after that then it us just a battery problem. If nothing happens then you probully need a new droid 4. Remember once you disconnect fastboot cable device will go off. So don't disconnect until you are done with everything being that you don't have a good battery.

I have a fastboot cable now. Haven't tried anything yet but I plan to today. I've looked around XDA for firmware If I need to flash stock firmware, I found several versions for the Droid 4 here:https://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-4/general/droid-4-xt894-firmware-mirrors-2015-t3004048 how do I know which firmware is correct?
Also, am I good to disconnect the fastboot cable from the PC as long as I am NOT in the process of flashing firmware?
I have ADB debugging enabled on my phone, and last I checked my computer recognized my phone, just couldn't access internal files on my phone. (Had "Please insert disk into drive x" message) Any options there?

RyanV-M said:
I have a fastboot cable now. Haven't tried anything yet but I plan to today. I've looked around XDA for firmware If I need to flash stock firmware, I found several versions for the Droid 4 here:https://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-4/general/droid-4-xt894-firmware-mirrors-2015-t3004048 how do I know which firmware is correct?
Also, am I good to disconnect the fastboot cable from the PC as long as I am NOT in the process of flashing firmware?
I have ADB debugging enabled on my phone, and last I checked my computer recognized my phone, just couldn't access internal files on my phone. (Had "Please insert disk into drive x" message) Any options there?
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You have the right index get the one says
4.1.2 - VRZ_XT894_9.8.2O-72_VZW-18-8_CFC.xml.zip just in case you need to flash. just connect cable and see if device boots if not flash the firmware with rsd lite. never umplug cable unless you want the device off because when cable is is pulled the device will go off.

I connected the fastboot cable without a battery in the phone. Held power button, computer detected it. Said it had found an XT894 and Motorola Network drivers or something like that. Said my installed hardware was ready to use. Noticed in device manager and network connections that Motorola USB networking driver #3 was installed. Under My computer, didn't see any new hard drives. I have RSD lite and the firmware you told me to get. RSD light shows my phone model, imei, software, ect and says that I am connected. But there has been no activity on my phone's screen. No Motorola logo, no menu's, nothing. I would feel more comfortable if I could pull my data off before I flash the phone as I have read horror stories of flashing gone wrong. Is there some way I can access my phone's memory since the computer recognizes it and backup my files before I flash?

RyanV-M said:
I connected the fastboot cable without a battery in the phone. Held power button, computer detected it. Said it had found an XT894 and Motorola Network drivers or something like that. Said my installed hardware was ready to use. Noticed in device manager and network connections that Motorola USB networking driver #3 was installed. Under My computer, didn't see any new hard drives. I have RSD lite and the firmware you told me to get. RSD light shows my phone model, imei, software, ect and says that I am connected. But there has been no activity on my phone's screen. No Motorola logo, no menu's, nothing. I would feel more comfortable if I could pull my data off before I flash the phone as I have read horror stories of flashing gone wrong. Is there some way I can access my phone's memory since the computer recognizes it and backup my files before I flash?
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When the device is off just connect the device to your machine and it will boot to your rom thats it. It will do it automatically. No need turn it on yourself. If it wont boot then something is wrong with the rom. If that happens and you were running a custom rom and not stock go to safe strap if you had it installed and use that to boot back into stock rom slot. Now you have two scenarios you can use. Do the first one I wrote first. If you Have safestrap installed then do that if it wont boot. Dont forget to have to have the drivers installed for the device on your windows machine. On windows based systems you have to have the drivers installed installed before using rsd lite. Just in case I forgot to mention that.

My ROM and phone is stock
Another update: I'm trying to use ADB to backup my phones files before I flash. Here is what happened:
Sorry for the lack of updates, been busy. Anyways, I got adb installed, plugged in my phone, did adb>devices, didn't show up.I got the newest version of Motorola device managermanager and had it update. Plugged in my phone again, computer said it found an XT894 and Motorola USB networking device, told me to restart my computer. Restarted, tried to see if adb detected it, nothing. It shows up in my device manager under networking devices, it even says the location is an XT894. But adb still doesn't see it.
The weird part is that RSD can see my phone too along with device manager. I'm planning on flashing to see if I can unbrick my phone, however I want to try and backup my files on there just in case the flash wipes my phone.
Is there a way I can have my computer recognize my phone as a drive instead of a networking device so I can get my files?
Is there any way to get my data off my phone before I flash?

RyanV-M said:
My ROM and phone is stock
Another update: I'm trying to use ADB to backup my phones files before I flash. Here is what happened:
Sorry for the lack of updates, been busy. Anyways, I got adb installed, plugged in my phone, did adb>devices, didn't show up.I got the newest version of Motorola device managermanager and had it update. Plugged in my phone again, computer said it found an XT894 and Motorola USB networking device, told me to restart my computer. Restarted, tried to see if adb detected it, nothing. It shows up in my device manager under networking devices, it even says the location is an XT894. But adb still doesn't see it.
The weird part is that RSD can see my phone too along with device manager. I'm planning on flashing to see if I can unbrick my phone, however I want to try and backup my files on there just in case the flash wipes my phone.
Is there a way I can have my computer recognize my phone as a drive instead of a networking device so I can get my files?
Is there any way to get my data off my phone before I flash?
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The only thing I can think of at the moment is safestrap If you had it installed before you bricked the device then you could try booting to safestrap and then mount device in safestrap and copy and paste all your internel sd stuff you want to keep. If you did not have safestrap installed then make sure you have correct drivers for device installed and try the adb command again and see if it reads. I'v been in your situation thats why once a month I now back new stuff up. When I had the s3 I bricked during bootloader unlock. Took me three days with an image file to get it to boot. Then I reflashed the stock and didnt need the image file any more. That was long time ago. i learned to back my stuff up after that. I just thought I would mention that just so you could have a food for thought. Also data will be lost is another reason to back stuff up.