OK so I got a first gen moto x with 4.4.4. Unlocked boot and it started to randomly shut off. Most of the time would not turn back on unless plugged into charger for extended period then just turn on over night sometime. The last time it was dead for days would not charge our anything unless on PC charge them green flashing light behind speaker would flash but even after a day still no go. Read in a couple of places that this meant the battery was not so low it could not charge ( so that was a couple opinions) just replaced battery and wouldn't turn on using power button plugged into PC to see if that would help, no green light this time, them after about 4 minutes it just powered on as if nothing wrong. Turned screen off by accident after disconnecting from PC and attempting to plug in, but instead of being screen off the phone was off.
Have not been able to find any solid info as to why our what was bad in the first gen to cause motto to make the second gen.
So is there any hope to get this going again our do I just bite the bullet and scrap the phone and find a used one with an unlocked boot?
Any help would be great, sorry for making long just wanted to answer any ? That are commonly asked as to not waste your time.
It could be a failing battery, or cell in the battery.
As for "Have not been able to find any solid info as to why our what was bad in the first gen to cause motto to make the second gen" Who said their had to be something "bad" about the phone? Have you considered a yearly upgrade cycle maybe? Like faster processor, bigger screen, etc. Think about how Samsung upgraded the Galaxy S4 to the Galaxy S5 to the Galaxy S6 every year. Apple upgrades the iPhone every year... HTC upgrading the ONE (M7, then M8, now M9), etc. Was there anything really wrong with the older model? No.
Upgrades for size, performance, etc are scheduled every 9-12 months now. I remember in the old days phones would stay on the market for two years before being upgraded/replaced.
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Well, I'm baffled.
Last night I looked down to see my Bionic bootlooping. I let it do its thing and after a few reboots it stopped. Whatever, it's android, it's buggy.
Then when I picked it up, I realized it wasn't even on anymore. I tried to turn it on, nothing. So, I pulled the battery for a minute, popped it back on, and... still nothing.
Long story short, I ended up going to Verizon, trying different batteries, chargers, etc, and I can't get an inch of life out of the phone.
I can see a white LED light up when the phone is connected via the stock USB cable. No other cable will do it, and the wall charger won't do it. I don't know if this really indicates anything or not...
Is there anything else I can even try? It won't even boot into recovery - I never see the red M at all, the screen doesn't so much as even flicker. Unfortunately I bought the phone second hand from an iPhone 4S switcher, so there's nothing I can do to get a warranty replacement.
It's back to my original Droid for now...
I had the same problem Sunday night. Called tech support and they overnight-ed a replacement.
Try holding Volume down + power from the off state for a few seconds then letting go.
Or try Both Volume buttons + Power.
If those do nothing, it sounds like you have a very expensive paperweight. You need a replacement, sorry.
Whatever you do, DO NOT send the phone into Verizon!
Make up some excuse like you lost it or someone stole it or something.
Had my first Bionic do this I said I lost it claimed on my insurance but new one acts up also usually when it's overheating got my old one to fastboot did a complete restore to stock tested it by steaming netflix that lasted for about half an hour now it's just a paper weight!
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Would Motorola honor the 1 year warranty?
cryptiq said:
Would Motorola honor the 1 year warranty?
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If it covers your excuse, yeah.
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If it covers your excuse, yeah.
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Based on what details we have from the OP, it doesn't sound like he did anything to damage or modify the phone. So if the phone is stock he should be able to get help from Moto I presume?
what i did was
i had the verizon rep patch me straight through to insurion and got my o.g droid replaced.
I tried to get into recovery with no luck.
Unfortunately I'm not the original owner, so I can't send a receipt or anything Motorola's way. I do have the original box, though, and the original owner had it all of three days...
My phone was rooted to freeze some bloatware, but still on the stock ROM. It was running that way for weeks, so there's no way that would have caused it. I've never seen a phone just... completely keel over before. I'm half tempted to just use my original droid for 2-3 weeks and grab the nexus when it comes out.
If you haven't messed with any system files and you're completely stock, you can take the phone in for repair.
It's rooted, but there's no way for them to tell if it won't boot.
Motorola's live chat rep offered to let me send it in for RMA repair. The fine print says, though, that the repair stops being free the second they see anything that voids the warranty. My assumption is that they'll never be able to tell it's rooted because they will need to just send a refurb if it's shorted out, but should I bother risking it?
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I tried to get into recovery with no luck.
Unfortunately I'm not the original owner, so I can't send a receipt or anything Motorola's way. I do have the original box, though, and the original owner had it all of three days...
My phone was rooted to freeze some bloatware, but still on the stock ROM. It was running that way for weeks, so there's no way that would have caused it. I've never seen a phone just... completely keel over before. I'm half tempted to just use my original droid for 2-3 weeks and grab the nexus when it comes out.
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Did you try calling Moto? It would be one thing if the phone has been in the market for say 16 months and then the 1 year warranty period would come into question, but in this case the phone hasn't been out for more 3 months so it should be covered. I could see where they would require a receipt to make sure it was purchased from an authorized reseller vs. a grey market seller, but it's worth a shot to give them a call.
Any chance you can get in touch with the person that sold you the phone?
Same thing happened to me...
Was tethering my bionic to PC for web access when it died. It was really hot so I thought it was some sort of safety measure to keep the processor from frying and I tried all of the stuff lots of you proposed in addition to letting my phone lie on a heat sink to relieve some of that heat.
I know you mentioned that you took it to a store and tried all sorts of chargers, but did you try leaving it plugged in to a wall/car charger for a while? That's what did it for me after leaving the batteries out of the unit overnight (I don't think that part is necessary... I was just fed up messing with it and went to sleep hoping it would be magically fixed by some house gnomes) - after plugging the batteries back in that morning and having it still not work, I switch to a car charger (which is rated 1a - higher than the included 850ma charger) and on in the middle of a trip to the Verizon store it simply turned on displaying 5% power on battery.
Odd thing is, before it was tethered the last night, it was at 100% power. So either somehow phone got shorted and drained the battery really fast, or the bionic simply eats so much power with that LTE that even when being supplied power from the PC, it still drains the battery. And from reading some of the other stuff online after googling "white light droid on," it seems that white light indicator is some sort of charge indicator and that the OS won't show if the battery is less than 5%.
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Was tethering my bionic to PC for web access when it died. It was really hot so I thought it was some sort of safety measure to keep the processor from frying and I tried all of the stuff lots of you proposed in addition to letting my phone lie on a heat sink to relieve some of that heat.
I know you mentioned that you took it to a store and tried all sorts of chargers, but did you try leaving it plugged in to a wall/car charger for a while? That's what did it for me after leaving the batteries out of the unit overnight (I don't think that part is necessary... I was just fed up messing with it and went to sleep hoping it would be magically fixed by some house gnomes) - after plugging the batteries back in that morning and having it still not work, I switch to a car charger (which is rated 1a - higher than the included 850ma charger) and on in the middle of a trip to the Verizon store it simply turned on displaying 5% power on battery.
Odd thing is, before it was tethered the last night, it was at 100% power. So either somehow phone got shorted and drained the battery really fast, or the bionic simply eats so much power with that LTE that even when being supplied power from the PC, it still drains the battery. And from reading some of the other stuff online after googling "white light droid on," it seems that white light indicator is some sort of charge indicator and that the OS won't show if the battery is less than 5%.
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Yeah your computer USB port does not provide enough power to compensate for the draw you will get off LTE. Your phone will eat much more juice than you are giving it. Leaving the battery out allows the phone to fully discharge any built up charges (ever had this with a laptop? Looks like a bad motherboard but you pull out the battery ans hold the power button down to drain the capacitors and then reinstall the battery and instant boot.) Same thing happening here would be my guess.
Leave the battery out overnight or hold the power button down for about 30 seconds. Put the battery back in and let it charge for awhile. Profit?
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My brother has a Nexus One and just yesterday the power button of the device decided to stop working. The problem is that being a total dumb ass, he decided to turn off the device so he could take the sim card and put it in an other phone. So even though I could just install an app on his phone and call it a day, now I'm stuck with a turned off Nexus that I can't get to power on.
I tried the battery removing and re-inserting trick several times to no avail. I plug it to a usb slot on my pc (I also tried with a charger), and when a green light appears, I remove the battery and insert it back but nothing happens. I tried different timings (as fast as possible, wait for the green light to shut down, wait for the blinking orange/green to come out) but still the phone remains dead. So what on earth am I doing wrong? Also on my Xperia Play the charging light is orange, is the light on Nexus different or does it simply refuses to charge the battery?
Is there a different way to power on the device? If not (and since I absolutely SUCK at soldering) can I just replace the faulty part with this one:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HTC-Nexus...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item3a6d7d3d29
From what I saw in some videos, the above part is easily accessible simply by removing the battery tray. But still I would prefer avoiding opening up the device since knowing my brother he will probably bust the phone in a couple of months anyway.
Not a single reply? Come on fellas, was my question so difficult?
I had multiple nexus ones that had this problem and never found a way to power them on. The last time it happened I warranty claimed it and sold it since I didn't want to deal with this problem once I was out of warranty.
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Your battery is charged, so the light is green.
First plug in the charger, then put in the battery.
Yes, you can replace the flex cable, power button is on it.
All simple answers, if you searched - you should definitely know them. It would have saved you a week of waiting for me to write it.
For me the battery trick only works after the charging light has changed to green and has been green for at least a couple of hours. For me it only works withe th charger plugged into a wall socket never worked when using a multi plug. Also if it doesnt work first go then i have to wait another couple of hours. Oh and the method that works for me is, pull th battery just slightly, green light goes out the quickly slip battery back in.
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I had mine go out on me a few months ago and after a month of pins and needles and keeping a usb battery on hand for those "in case of" moment I just bought a new flex cable. Took all of 30 mins following a guide on youtube and it works great now. It all depends on how long you plan on keeping the nexus one. For me, I had 4 to 5 months until my upgrade, so it seemed worth it. Seeing as there is no news on the GN coming to tmob anytime soon, I might have to hang on a little longer.
Other than that, take the back off and fiddle around with it. Only help I can offer.
I'll start off by saying that I sell phones for a living, so I probably see a higher concentration of problems per phone. I'm a pretty big fan of the AHD and highly recommend it since I own one. Last week was just weird though.
Is anyone having an issue with their device just randomly powering off and not coming back on? Last week I had 5. Count it 5 AHDs come in the store that randomly powered off while being used with a charge and would not turn on. Most would show a green light when charging, but it would come and go. I used the power + volume button method to fix all but 2 of them. Absolutely stumped as to what's going on.
Any input guys?
You're saying it was plugged in and charging when the problem occurred? It may be that you are using the wrong charger. The charger that comes with the phone is rated for 5.1V output so you have to use that or plug it into a computer USB port. I had a weird issue that sounds similar to your problem when I inadvertently plugged my Atrix HD into a Samsung charger.
No no, I meant that the phone was charged, and that it didn't die because the battery went dead. They all claimed they were using factory chargers, and I know for a fact that one I couldn't revive was using a factory charger.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1876036&highlight=green+light
maybe?
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I'll start off by saying that I sell phones for a living, so I probably see a higher concentration of problems per phone. I'm a pretty big fan of the AHD and highly recommend it since I own one. Last week was just weird though.
Is anyone having an issue with their device just randomly powering off and not coming back on? Last week I had 5. Count it 5 AHDs come in the store that randomly powered off while being used with a charge and would not turn on. Most would show a green light when charging, but it would come and go. I used the power + volume button method to fix all but 2 of them. Absolutely stumped as to what's going on.
Any input guys?
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Mine had the same problem, but it started after I tried taking the battery out and ripped the connector on it. The battery wasn't the issue though, I tried two other batteries and had the same problem.. Sometimes it wouldn't turn on at all and just show the green led. I flashed the stock ics sbf hoping for something and It kept doing it daily for about a week but it slowly started doing it less and less. Now it just doesn't happen at all anymore. Very strange.
Hi people. It's my first post here, so if I'm doing something wrong, I would gladly hear any words, that could improve that situation.
Anyway - my Droid 3 died today. At least, it behave in kinda strange pattern. Yesterday's night it drained battery to 1% (fully normal way of discharging, nothing suspicious),so I decided to gave it about 30 minutes of extra charging time. Then I used phone for rest of the day (again to 1%), so when my phone turned off I was like "ok, time for proper charging".
However - no charging comes. Screen is still black, no signs of charging have been observed. Everytime, when I used this phone (around 2 years) - pluging a wall charger ALWAYS give white light from diode (for around a sec), then screen shows "dual core tech" and animation of charging started. Now - no such things. Different battery (unused of over a year) doesn't show any signs of possitive behaviour (might be charged too short, tbh), fastboot mode (power off, music down key, power on for 5-6 sec, relase power, release music) doesn't show up. Also - either battery doesn't force white diode near usb/hdmi slots to glow,when wall charger is put.
Only thing I have is white diode glow for 3-4 secs, when I'm pluging my phone into USB PC cable. No extra signs from PC itself, no extra action from myself (including different key wariations).
Could it be that phone simply died? It has been watered around 7 months ago, after screwing it down into pieces and putting pieces together (no extra cleaning or stg like this) became to work again, until now.
I haven't been mixing anything with kernel or core since few months (I'm using 2.3.6 with polish language as a swap from...spanish I think). Any extra data about stuff might be hard to get, since phone is "dead" (or dead).
I'll try now to leave it with old, wattered battery (or should I rather swap it for unused one?) to see, how things will work (if they do).
I've checked few other topics here - one was typed with so mysterious "english" that I couldn't get anything useful out of it, the rest contains mostly things connected with some software. I'm simply hoping that phone coulnd't just bricked itself on his own with no particular reason. Or, mine new app (newest, Google Play's version of ColorNote) is behind this?
Thanks for all kinds of help, I'm hoping that I've put here all info You wanna know. Oh, by the way - I'm the third owner of the phone - first was from USA, then Polish guy, then me. I'm using it almost 2 years now, had to change LCD screeen tape in summer 2013, phone has been wattered in summer 2014 (after some ressurection work, it worked normally, but water testers are red now).
@sd_shadow maybe, you can help him(?
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Hi people. It's my first post here, so if I'm doing something wrong, I would gladly hear any words, that could improve that situation....
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This is a XT862?
I suspect bad charging port, or bad charger.
Old battery likely needs to be charged or failed from water damage.
Have you connected to PC?
tried more than one charger?
I recommend getting a fastboot cable or spare battery charger, but if you are outside USA, may not convenient.
some links in my Low battery options
Hi!
About 2 years ago, I was using Chrome on my Nexus 6 and the network icon became a black square. The phone froze, and after few seconds, it turned off. That was the last time I see my beloved N6 on.
Tried to charge it overnight, with low current (powered by a PC), turn it on with volDown; nothing.
I went to a phone service; they have never seen a N6 before (I live in a ****ty country), but they were enthusiastic to dissect one. They said that will try to charge the battery externally; a thing that eventually worked with N5s. I said that the battery was almost full when died, but they reply that sometimes blablabla. They asked me for about usd 200 to open it and see what could be. I said thanks, but that was too much. Back to a generic android phone until got the chance to own a Pixel XL.
The N6 was in a drawer until today. With the help of some YT videos, I open it and change the battery (got a generic EZ30). Sadly, nothing changed; still not having signals of life. No charging, no power; completly unresponsive. I must confess that isn't impossible that the volume cable was semi damaged in the process (I had to tape the intersection were it used to be a connector, but I think that all pins are in contact).
Any suggestions?
Thanks!!
Luigi