I'm trying to diagnose an issue with my moms LG Revolution, and I was wondering if anyone here could tell me if this phone will boot without a battery (while plugged in, of course). At the moment it doesn't appear to turn on at all... there's nothing on-screen nor is there any audio/vibration cue to indicate that it's booting. Any help?
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Hey all, thanks for taking your time to read and possibly help me out with my problem. Yesterday I've tried rooting my droid in order to put cyanogen mod on it later. The reason I was interested in doing that was because I felt as droid was not working to it full potential and constantly crashing apps on me (browser, games, weather, etc). A friend of mine suggested cyanogen as he himself owns it. Being that I've did plenty of CFW on PS2, psp, xbox and mp3s/ipods, I thought there shouldn't be a hassle with this.
I followed the procedures listed on cyanogen's wiki page in order to complete the rooting process. But on the step where it asked to instal .sbf file trough RSD lite and wait till it says "pass" I've ran into trouble.
During the unpacking of that file to the phone using RSD lite the phone was undergoing several reboots, and after finally finishing the reboots on my PC screen in the RSD Lite window it showed 100% complete "please reboot the phone manually". I had no idea how to do that manually as the phone just kept going on and off by itself. (also for some reason it kept saying "error" force close/wait/send notice. But I thought it was probably just the process. After trying to reboot the phone a couple of times nothing worked. I didn't receive any "pass" signs on the droid screen.
I've got a little worried about the whole process and decided to shut the phone off and during that close the RSD Lite on my computer. Doing that made no further improvements for me. The phone just kept going on and off like crazy while in USB and not turning on at all while not plugged into either USB or AC. I've decided to go to recovery mode and just reset everything to stock as I was running out of time and had to get some sleep before work next day. After reseting the cache/data files I rebooted the phone but the same things kept happening to it. Now it was asking me to reconnect with gmail account and all that intro stuff. But the phone would always end up locking up and shutting off somewhere in the process of reconnecting the account.
Fast forward to today I've read that its possible to complete reset everything to stock version trough .sbf file once again. But now the problem consists of the phone not having enough batter life. (I'm not sure what the screen is called where the process of dumping .sbf trough RSD lite starts) but that screen keeps saying battery is too low to do anything with it. And mind me it has been charge for a very long time now in the AC adapter.
Now it also appears as the problem has worsened. The phone does not start up at all in either USB or without connection. It only starts up in AC adapter but then it shuts off in 2 minutes and back on and off , on and off. Recovery mode can't be accessed in any way, at least any way known to me. The black .sbf screen can only be accessed while the phone is not connected to anything but still keeps saying the battery is too low. And I've noticed the phone getting extremely hot during AC charge. (another small detail that sometimes when the phone does turn on and goes to home screen opening up the landscape view does not increase the length of the top (pull down) bar in horizontal view.
I've tried taking out both battery and sdcard and putting them back but no luck. I'm really lost as to what I can do next in order to fix this problem.
If you need any further information please let me know and thank you again for trying to help me!
I don't really see how you managed to get a fc with rsdlite.
Did you reboot your phone (turn off) then boot into usb recovery (power on while holding up, for the droid)?
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I am by no means an expert and could be just wasting your time but in the absence of expert opinions something is better than nothing right? It sounds to me like maybe you have a bad battery that as luck would have it failed during the update/rewrite. Have you tried getting into recovery with the battery pulled running straight off the ac adapter? Hopefully you made a clockwork/nandroid backup before you started?
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I'm not an expert either, but having just successfully rooted my droid and installed cyanogen I feel the need to ask: did you hold up on the d-pad while RSD rebooted the phone the first time? If not then you needed to immediately restart the process.
I think you need to use a separate battery charger (meaning that charging battery without a phone) to charge the battery.
Sometimes, battery won't hold a charge when your phone is a brick.
BTW, it appears that you are having the same issue with mine.
(I can't post a URL because I am new here, but you can take a look at my article in this section, called "[S.O.S] A rare MILESTONE brick situation". )
I had the same problem (battery won't charge and phone won't start-up), I had to purchase a separate battery charger, and then flashed another SBF, to make the phone charging normal. (Although my phone is still a brick, but not a problem with battery. )
Hi there,
my brother's Milestone doesn't boot at all, not even the "M" logo at the beginning. It's a rooted phone, with stock 2.2
He was using it (with enough battery) and it suddenly switched off.
I have tried with the battery of my own Milestone, but still his phone doesn't boot up at all.
Is there anything I can do to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
plug it into a wall charger without a battery.. see if anything happens
Thanks. While light surrounds the microUSB connection in the phone, but screen doesn't show anything.
what if you tap the power button and hold it down?
Does the screen light up a little or is it pitch black?
Nope, screen doesn't light up at all. Guess there's no home-made solution then.
Dunno... I guess you tried holding x or camera with it plugged in and no battery?
Normally you can get to recovery without the battery when plugged in
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Exactly, tried all that altogether with power button, but ... nothing.
It's not a problem during the flashing process, which can be usually fixed by that, is just that it doesn't do anything anymore.
Guess I'll send it to Motorola. Maybe I'll get "lucky" and get a Milestone 2 in exchange as someone else in the forum.
I helped my friend update his HD+ to CM11 the other day, exactly the same way I have my own set up, but the moment he plugged it in to charge it it shut down. This was demonstrated repeatedly. I'm unsure if it has anything to do at all with installing CM11 on it, because it will not charge (the light won't even come on) when it's shut down and it will shut it off even moments after boot, before cyanoboot even shows up. Has anybody ever experienced this before, and if so what did you do to solve it?
There is a little more to it than just the title says. Here is some background on the phone. I'm a rooted user with MotoWPNoMo. I also have Xposed Framework installed as well.
All this problems started to happen on day after I let the battery drain to 0%. I tried charging it with my car computer and even a wall charger nothing seem to bring it back to life. I got luck when I had just left it plug into my computer for a few hours when it randomly decided to boot up. Since then I haven't wanted to turn it off. Additionally I have had some issues with it where the screen will turn and then I'm unable to turn it back on with the power button. While everything seems to be going smooth now, I fear it will be short lived.
What kind of issues would cause these kinds of problems? Can this really be triggered from the battery going down to 0% just once?
Thanks again in advance to anyone who offer any kind of help.
Hey XDA!
Got a problem with my Xperia Z1. It was working fine before the battery swap, aside from a problem with the battery (failing to hold more than 5% charge), hence the swap.
But after removing the old battery and attaching the new one, the phone will not boot, and when plugged into a wall socket, it flashes the red LED in 1~ second intervals. The pow+volume up combination doesn't result in any changes or "3 vibrations", and it won't enter flashboot mode. When plugged into a Windows PC, it registers it being connected, but when the LED turns off, the "disconnected device" sound plays, and it does this every time the LED comes on then off again.
Worst part is that hooking the old battery up doesn't work either!
I'm fairly certain I'm royally screwed but I cannot see clearly why; I checked the phone and anywhere I touched, and I can't see anything wrong. It could be that I was sent a faulty battery replacement and it broke it, or I installed it slightly incorrectly that resulted in the same thing.
Has anyone got a potential solution or am I well and truly screwed?
Cheers!