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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

Dead Droid 4?

Ok guys, I bought a Droid 4 with a "battery problem" the battery flex cable was ripped so I tought just a new battery and the phone would be ready to go, without battery I connected the phone to the usb port of my PC and a green led appears, that was good news, a sign of life of the phone.
I received the battery today, i connected it and the problem was worse, I have no video, no sound, neither the led light, the digitizer keys and the keyboard doesnt turn on, I tought the battery came DOA, but when I connected the phone to the PC was recognized by the PC because the Motocast partition appeared, the somehow i just managed to boot on fastboot, and is working too... but, then, what exactly is the problem?
I dont have:
No Lights (led, keyboard, digitizer)
No Screen
No Sound
No vibration
No touch feedback
I have:
Power
Can enter Fastboot
Maybe its bricked and just flashing ICS would resolve the problem?? I have no warranty, so i don't have nothing to lose (only money from the phone and the battery lol), the phone doesn't have water damage, its in excellent condition, the phone doesn't have signal to be opened before, but still is a probability because the battery was originally rippered... and maybe that is a signal that the previous owner was someone like us and the flashed GB when he was on ICS and maybe the bricked the phone? I don't know... I'm going to flash the fastboot ICS to see if maybe can come to life, but i need to work now... maybe later.
UPDATE:
OK, ITS BRICKED, I dont know how, but Its bricked, since i can't see nothing i booted in fastboot and then tried to flash the stock .217 ICS firmware with RSD Lite, but i'm getting errors... and I have low-battery, and tried to flash using The Project's Eternity EPRJ_Fla****RZR_Windows, but still with the low-battery issue, i removed the battery and plugged to a universal charger to gain some charge and try later... maybe I can rescue this phone.

Have you tried using a fastboot cable? If the battery is low and you are using a normal cable, it won't (sometimes) charge and definitely won't let you flash anything in fastboot.
VZW recently sent me a replacement D4 with a very low battery, and when I plugged it in it would not charge (!). Hooked it up with a fastboot cable and it started right now, charged it, and good to go.

The problem is not the battery, I thinked about getting a fastboot cable, but instead of spending $10, y just unplugged the battery and putted on a universal charger, it worked, i entered to fastboot mode, i flashed .217 firmware, and also used the Droid 4 ICS Utility to flash .217 firmware again and WIPE all data. But again i tell that I have NO DISPLAY, NO VIBRATION and NO LIGHTS, the led lights works sometimes, but no display, vibration and keyboard lights is weird, i connect the phone to the PC and can access to MOTOCAST... but why??? maybe I need a HDMI cable to see outside the display, maybe the LCD and digitizer are broken, but no, they are on excellent condition and the ribbon cable between the two bodies are intact... nothing is loose inside.

[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
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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?

[Q] Droid 3 bricked

My droid 3 will not boot, if I plug it in to my computer, it will not turn on and it will show no screen, it all happened after I restored my phone on a low battery. It is missing certain files like the bootloader so i can't restore the rom on the phone. What should I do?

trevorjanssen12 said:
My droid 3 will not boot, if I plug it in to my computer, it will not turn on and it will show no screen, it all happened after I restored my phone on a low battery. It is missing certain files like the bootloader so i can't restore the rom on the phone. What should I do?
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Maybe it needs to charge. Plug it into a wall socket.

Well I need to get the phone back up and running and the bootloader as well as the charging program is missing. I have a brand new battery for it. It is fully charged.

I got the phone up and running

trevorjanssen12 said:
I got the phone up and running
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So what was the problem

jithudigitised said:
So what was the problem
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The problem was when I originally tried to flash it... it failed due to dead battery... WORST MISTAKE EVER... so I purchased a fastboot cable and tried to get the phone up and running but it was mounting the device in windows as OMAP4430 so I tried again last month and I got it back up and running with the latest version of android... the one that came with the device.

I AM SO ANGRY AT THIS PHONE.. IT WILL NOT EVEN BOOT IN TO ANDROID!

trevorjanssen12 said:
The problem was when I originally tried to flash it... it failed due to dead battery... WORST MISTAKE EVER... so I purchased a fastboot cable and tried to get the phone up and running but it was mounting the device in windows as OMAP4430 so I tried again last month and I got it back up and running with the latest version of android... the one that came with the device.
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I'm having a similar issue with trying to fix a friend's phone that only displays the "Dual Core" logo when plugged into the computer. The computer itself doesn't appear to register that the phone is connected so doesn't show up in device manager that I can see. Plugging into a wall outlet doesn't light the device screen up, only the computer (Win7 box). I believe he dunked the bootloader, and it's bricked, but I'm trying to fix it anyway. Anyone reading this, I would appreciate any useful pointers or suggestions. Thanks all.

bwpoersch said:
I'm having a similar issue with trying to fix a friend's phone that only displays the "Dual Core" logo when plugged into the computer. The computer itself doesn't appear to register that the phone is connected so doesn't show up in device manager that I can see. Plugging into a wall outlet doesn't light the device screen up, only the computer (Win7 box). I believe he dunked the bootloader, and it's bricked, but I'm trying to fix it anyway. Anyone reading this, I would appreciate any useful pointers or suggestions. Thanks all.
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battery maybe dead, if software is corrupt/soft bricked, phone will not charge battery
get a Motorola Factory Cable Adaptor by Team Black Hat or Battery Desktop Charger for Motorola Droid 3 XT862

sd_shadow said:
battery maybe dead, if software is corrupt/soft bricked, phone will not charge battery
get a Motorola Factory Cable Adaptor by Team Black Hat or Battery Desktop Charger for Motorola Droid 3 XT862
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That occurred to me as well, I'm going to first see if the local Verizon store can charge it (or even replace it) for free. My friend actually did manage to score a power cable, but I'm not convinced yet that that is what I need (since I'm getting nowhere with it). I'd like to eliminate the battery as an issue if possible first before spending any money.

bwpoersch said:
That occurred to me as well, I'm going to first see if the local Verizon store can charge it (or even replace it) for free. My friend actually did manage to score a power cable, but I'm not convinced yet that that is what I need (since I'm getting nowhere with it). I'd like to eliminate the battery as an issue if possible first before spending any money.
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Verizon will not replace battery for free, if phone is more than 1 year old
The software that charges the battery is very easily corrupted, can be reflashed with firmware, but need a charged battery.
The TBH factory cable adaptor will power the phone direct from usb port, no battery is even needed, then firmware can be flashed and charging will work again.

sd_shadow said:
Verizon will not replace battery for free, if phone is more than 1 year old
The software that charges the battery is very easily corrupted, can be reflashed with firmware, but need a charged battery.
The TBH factory cable adaptor will power the phone direct from usb port, no battery is even needed, then firmware can be flashed and charging will work again.
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I've actually gotten a battery in the past for an obsolete phone, but out of packaging and possibly used. My friend acquired a power cable (not sure from where) which just lights the screen as described above (with or without battery installed), but turns off as soon as I unplug it, so I have my suspicions about the usability of his cable. I struck out with the local Verizon store, so will just order the wall charger and charge the battery next. Crossing fingers... Thanks for supplying that link tho, that's the one I will use.

Follow-up: It took 3 weeks to receive that battery charger from Singapore of all places, but it worked. I didn't charge it up all the way, maybe just to 50%. The phone with battery immediately was able to boot into fastboot. Using rsdlite and motohelper installed, I had the phone back to fully functional within 15 minutes.
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Great, thanks for the update.
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One thing you should check.
Is the battery bulged on one or both sides?
If you lay on a table, does it spin like a top?
If so battery should be replaced.

sd_shadow said:
Great, thanks for the update.
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One thing you should check.
Is the battery bulged on one or both sides?
If you lay on a table, does it spin like a top?
If so battery should be replaced.
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No, the battery was/is fine (in fact, fully charged afterwards it lasted 2 days on standby). I think my friend probably was just trying to flash a new ROM and didn't notice he had such a low charge. Still not sure why the cable he bought didn't provide the necessary charge to recover, but that's what you get sometimes with aftermarket equipment I guess. Still, it's good to know that is a possible solution for someone else down the road.

sd_shadow said:
battery maybe dead, if software is corrupt/soft bricked, phone will not charge battery
get a Motorola Factory Cable Adaptor by Team Black Hat or Battery Desktop Charger for Motorola Droid 3 XT862
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I already have this and I did not get it working so I got a DROID 4

[Q] Help please - Phone Bricked

I bought a Moto G 2014 Dual Sim XT1068 back in November and hadn't had any issues with it until today. I bought an anger 3000MaH portable battery pack and was amazed at how quickly it charged my phone. I used it yesterday and charged it overnight. I used it throughout today. I turned it off around midday and plugged it into my charger. When I attempted to turn it on later nothing happened. No, please charge, no **** has crashed, just nothing. The screen just stays dark. My computer no longer recognises it as a device and my portable charger will no longer recognise it as a phone to be charged, I know this because it worked with a friends phone, but not mine, and it still has battery (the charger)
What should I do?
Do I use ADB, ask Anker, return it, what is my best course of action?
If anyone knows what to do please reply as until this is fixed I do not have any ideas.
PS; No rooting, bootloader unlocking, or use of custom ROMs has occurred, the phone is completely using stock android.

Motogsecondgen2014 said:
I bought a Moto G 2014 Dual Sim XT1068 back in November and hadn't had any issues with it until today. I bought an anger 3000MaH portable battery pack and was amazed at how quickly it charged my phone. I used it yesterday and charged it overnight. I used it throughout today. I turned it off around midday and plugged it into my charger. When I attempted to turn it on later nothing happened. No, please charge, no **** has crashed, just nothing. The screen just stays dark. My computer no longer recognises it as a device and my portable charger will no longer recognise it as a phone to be charged, I know this because it worked with a friends phone, but not mine, and it still has battery (the charger)
What should I do?
Do I use ADB, ask Anker, return it, what is my best course of action?
If anyone knows what to do please reply as until this is fixed I do not have any ideas.
PS; No rooting, bootloader unlocking, or use of custom ROMs has occurred, the phone is completely using stock android.
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I soft-bricked mine yesterday because TWRP kept crashing when I flashed my ROM. During my search for a solution I ran into a post from a guy with a similar problem of yours. His phone wouldn't charge at all.
He solved his problem by pressing PWR+VolDwn for 3 minutes. Then plug it in to a charger and leave it be. And make sure to use a proper charger (cable straight from the wall preferably)
Give that a try. Try ruling out a hardware problem. And return it as a last resort. Good luck

Ogglord said:
I soft-bricked mine yesterday because TWRP kept crashing when I flashed my ROM. During my search for a solution I ran into a post from a guy with a similar problem of yours. His phone wouldn't charge at all.
He solved his problem by pressing PWR+VolDwn for 3 minutes. Then plug it in to a charger and leave it be. And make sure to use a proper charger (cable straight from the wall preferably)
Give that a try. Try ruling out a hardware problem. And return it as a last resort. Good luck
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TRY this plug in charger and hold power for 2 mins+ to force a reset and forced boot up - holding for 120 seconds + is the key and repeat charger cable must be plugged in.
- power and volume down is normally to get to AP fastboot flash mode, agreed a good wall charger is needed not usb port power.

reefuge said:
Searching google
Cant remember but i thought it was plug in charger and hold power for 2 mins+ to force boot up - power and volume down is normally to get to AP fastboot flash mode, agreed a good wall charger is needed not usb port power.
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Okey, you are probably right. I was quoting from my foggy mind