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[Q] Can't Boot Phone

So I've been running HoliRaider v1 and it's been working beautifully however last night my phone died, and when it dies it boots into recovery. This is usually fine however the phone will not charge in recovery but instantly boots into it if i plug it in. Basically, it's stuck there because it only charges (as shown by the orange light indicator) for a second before entering recovery. Then, it just stays there. I'm not sure if I should even restore at this point, as that wouldn't exactly work with 0 battery. If anyone has any idea what to do please let me know.

Looks like you either need to charge the battery using a stock phone from either a friend or go to the att store and see if they will let you charge your battery on their floor unit for a few
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at this point getting the battery charged is priority. this is probably your best bet without having to buy some kind of charger or new battery
ccb101 said:
Looks like you either need to charge the battery using a stock phone from either a friend or go to the att store and see if they will let you charge your battery on their floor unit for a few
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I had this happen when I first got the phone. Should you eventually get it to boot (I did after taking out the battery, putting it back in, and then trying to turn it on while plugging it in, it took many attempts), let it charge to 100%, then flash thecubed's ClockworkMod which supports chargemode when powered off. You should be fine after that.

you can flash the recovery in fastboot if the phone stays on long enough.
formicae said:
I had this happen when I first got the phone. Should you eventually get it to boot (I did after taking out the battery, putting it back in, and then trying to turn it on while plugging it in, it took many attempts), let it charge to 100%, then flash thecubed's ClockworkMod which supports chargemode when powered off. You should be fine after that.
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rft3ch said:
you can flash the recovery in fastboot if the phone stays on long enough.
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Personally I wouldn't flash anything with a battery that may conk-out mid-write.

mysteriously dead IncS

Yesterday my phone shutted because my battery, I connected to my car and charged a while, I got out from charging and using 2-3 minutes more and battery died again. When I got home I connected it to AC power and powered on, It was working without problem. I left my phone maybe 1 hour charging and when I took it again it was dead: screen dead, no life signal, just the led blinking slowly when connected to power (either AC and USB)...tried to take off battery but nothing. Today I connected it to PC and windows has recognized it but cannot identify it (on the PC the classic USB device not recognized error with yellow triangle on top) and the led is always blinking.
Any idea? should I have to buy a new phone?
thanks

Sounds like your battery is dead. Try replacing your battery
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mohdsubaie said:
Sounds like your battery is dead. Try replacing your battery
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Do you think is a battery problem? phone should boot even without a battery when connected to power...or not?

ledzgio said:
Do you think is a battery problem? phone should boot even without a battery when connected to power...or not?
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Try Running some POST tests. As in, Power off your device and wait for few seconds. Then Press and hold your power key and your volume down key. You should be able to access your Bootloader. (If you have Rooted your device, you could access your recovery and clear the battery stats although your device's condition seems peculiar/critical). Its worth a shot If you ask me.

I have already tried it but nothing, cleared dalvik and battery stats..I cannot understand whats going on. Now phone is working again but it cannot maintain battery, I mean I kept it in charge all the night but when I power on the phone it shuts down just when it starts android (thats strange because I went to a store yestarday and tried a new battery but it didn't worked, when got home I tried to power on it again and it started)...this is driving me crazy!!
edit: I turned it on, plugged in AC charger and phone after some minutes told me that (I don't remember the exact message) power needed by the phone is more than the charger could provide...
edit2: now it is on and it is charging (USB) and it doesn't charge more than 21%...really strange

Odd that this hasn't been mentioned but perhaps try a different usb cable? Different port? Seems obvious but you never know. Cables can deteriorate.
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TheMegosh said:
Odd that this hasn't been mentioned but perhaps try a different usb cable? Different port? Seems obvious but you never know. Cables can deteriorate.
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I have tried 3 different cables and 2 different computers...same result. I have flashed a new ROM, plugged in for charging and now is stuck on 15% battery (5 minutes aga was 16%, it discharges while plugged in).

Ok maybe here is a solutions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26492940#post26492940
What do you think about?

[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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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

HTC One wont charge HELP!!!

After flasing cm10.1 and reverting back my nandroid back up the phone worked fine for about 5 hours, now my phone just shutoff saying it had 0 percent battery when like 5 min before it said 65 percent, now it doesnt want to charge at all. i plugged with 5 different chargers in 5 different outlets....please help

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After flasing cm10.1 and reverting back my nandroid back up the phone worked fine for about 5 hours, now my phone just shutoff saying it had 0 percent battery when like 5 min before it said 65 percent, now it doesnt want to charge at all. i plugged with 5 different chargers in 5 different outlets....please help
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I dont know if there is any kind of help if the phone wont power on. you can try to power it on in safe mode by holding the vol+ and power buttons, but if the battery really is dead all i can say is there is a trip to the sprint store in your future. Good luck

wranglerray said:
I dont know if there is any kind of help if the phone wont power on. you can try to power it on in safe mode by holding the vol+ and power buttons, but if the battery really is dead all i can say is there is a trip to the sprint store in your future. Good luck
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its weird because the phone will stay on when i got to fastboot mode but as soon as i reboot to system it will say 0 percent and it will shut off

looks like it's time for a ruu

Back to stock for you.. It's always fun to start over.
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I just relocked the bootloader and it started to charge again
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help my htc one wont charge at all it died while running cm10.1 and wont charge at all any help please

Alex1123 said:
help my htc one wont charge at all it died while running cm10.1 and wont charge at all any help please
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Can you be a little more specific as to what you've tried that's not letting it charge at all?
Unless you guys were messing with fast charge or something's seriously wrong with the CM10.1 kernel/you made an error while flashing, you really shouldn't be able to disable your device from charging, so much as just mess up how your OS is measuring charge...do you not see the notification light?

Rirere said:
Can you be a little more specific as to what you've tried that's not letting it charge at all?
Unless you guys were messing with fast charge or something's seriously wrong with the CM10.1 kernel/you made an error while flashing, you really shouldn't be able to disable your device from charging, so much as just mess up how your OS is measuring charge...do you not see the notification light?
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no led light and idk if fast charge was enabled i highly doubt it it was taking a while to charge no errors while flashing either

Alex1123 said:
no led light and idk if fast charge was enabled i highly doubt it it was taking a while to charge no errors while flashing either
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Fast charge is a kernel option that's included as a quick toggle/option in a lot of custom ROMs. It doesn't necessarily mean your phone will charge any faster-- it usually disables a phone's USB functionality so that it charges about as fast on USB as it does on AC (not really, but that's a good enough working explanation).
Have yo ujust let the phone sit for a while before trying to restart? If so, and you'r estill having trouble, can you get into fastboot or a recovery?
This should also probably be in the Q&A section, by the way-- you're more likely ot get a response there.

Rirere said:
Fast charge is a kernel option that's included as a quick toggle/option in a lot of custom ROMs. It doesn't necessarily mean your phone will charge any faster-- it usually disables a phone's USB functionality so that it charges about as fast on USB as it does on AC (not really, but that's a good enough working explanation).
Have yo ujust let the phone sit for a while before trying to restart? If so, and you'r estill having trouble, can you get into fastboot or a recovery?
This should also probably be in the Q&A section, by the way-- you're more likely ot get a response there.
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the phone is complety dead i left it on the charger for a while and nothing yet no led or splash screen and usb fast charge wasnt enabled not that i know of i tried two differnt chargers and plugged it into a computer still nothing

Alex1123 said:
the phone is complety dead i left it on the charger for a while and nothing yet no led or splash screen and usb fast charge wasnt enabled not that i know of i tried two differnt chargers and plugged it into a computer still nothing
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Then I'd suggest you post in the Q&A/troubleshooting forums, or the dedicated thread for the ROM you downloaded. At this point, it's probably time to look into something a little more complex than what I (or others) should be posting in this particular forum.

omfg...what did you do?!?!?
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the phone is complety dead i left it on the charger for a while and nothing yet no led or splash screen and usb fast charge wasnt enabled not that i know of i tried two differnt chargers and plugged it into a computer still nothing
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Im having the same problem as you and it only started last week...did you resolve it?

bendersauce said:
Im having the same problem as you and it only started last week...did you resolve it?
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No only thing to do was get a replacement
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Same thing happened to my one...it got extremely hot to the point where the red LED was flashing... Phone died even though charging light was on...next day nothing...oh well..I returned it so i can get the one max instead and alls I'm stuck with now is this galaxy S4
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Interesting...
Mine got hot and light was blinking red. Wifi gps screen on in a low signal area....
Powered it off....let it sit for a few minutes. Plugged it in. Charging.
Powered it on....Charging fine. the Red light must be an overheating warning system?

oops
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2440524
This what i had to do hope it helps

OB left in sun..doesn't stay powered on

Hello.
I've left my phone in the hot sun for some time and it's not working anymore. When I try to power it on, the LG logo appears and screen+buttons flash continnously as if it's struggling to start but can't. *this is on battery, not plugged it.
When I plug it in charger It powers up, everything is working but it eventually reboots by itself. Sometimes it stays on 3 seconds, other times 2-3 mins, then reboots.
I've tryed wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, reinstall ROM, wipe battery stats..nothing works.
So basically if I plug out the charger it instantly shuts down and starts trying to power up in a continnous loop.
Is the battery dead?
Thanks

I think so... You could try another battery but it is possible that you may have fried some guts as well. Was it on when you cooked it in the sun?
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OptimusDan said:
I think so... You could try another battery but it is possible that you may have fried some guts as well. Was it on when you cooked it in the sun?
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It was charging, forgot it on the balcony. When I found it, it was shut down, I don't remember if I left it on or off when I plugged it.

...try plug the charger....it will go in charge mode. ..then press power button for few secs. .it shud boot completly....
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rajeshmk2012 said:
...try plug the charger....it will go in charge mode. ..then press power button for few secs. .it shud boot completly....
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It boots when I power it on charger, but if I try to make a phone call or 'stress' the phone, it reboots. Without charger it does not boot.

muscallu said:
It boots when I power it on charger, but if I try to make a phone call or 'stress' the phone, it reboots. Without charger it does not boot.
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Already tried a different battery? Its quite cheap and I guess some power cells might have died and that would explain the malfunction, when you "stress" the phone and it needs more power. Maybe it is able to deal with low power, but high output simply takes it down.
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N00BY0815 said:
Already tried a different battery? Its quite cheap and I guess some power cells might have died and that would explain the malfunction, when you "stress" the phone and it needs more power. Maybe it is able to deal with low power, but high output simply takes it down.
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I didn't buy a battery yet because I can't find one. I'm on vacation (Italy) and at the local phone service they told me they don't know this phone and asked me where it's from :laugh:. and if I want a battery they have to order it and it takes time.
That's why I came here, hoping for a nice "custom" solution for the problem.
I think the battery does not know how to charge anymore, anyone knows a good clean wipe/format for the battery? besides discharge it complety and wipe stats.(because I cannot discharge it, when it's plugged in it says 100% and if I plug out the charger it dies)
thanks for the replies mates.

muscallu said:
I didn't buy a battery yet because I can't find one. I'm on vacation (Italy) and at the local phone service they told me they don't know this phone and asked me where it's from :laugh:. and if I want a battery they have to order it and it takes time.
That's why I came here, hoping for a nice "custom" solution for the problem.
I think the battery does not know how to charge anymore, anyone knows a good clean wipe/format for the battery? besides discharge it complety and wipe stats.(because I cannot discharge it, when it's plugged in it says 100% and if I plug out the charger it dies)
thanks for the replies mates.
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You can get one for less than 10 bucks on ebay :angel: