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Hello all,
while in the US last week I bought a brand new AT&T Tilt and had it unlocked right after.
Having used it two days long (a lot of configuration and flashing) it worked just fine. This until today: the phone was sitting unused on the table for the afternoon and when I tried to make a call in the evening the phone was dead. No reaction through power-on or reset (soft, hard, whatever).
Battery was fully charged and just to check I connected it to power but that doesn't change anything. Charging light goes on but that's it.
Is there anything I could try out to revive it? Since I'm now back in Europe I would appreciate not having to find someone to bring it for me to AT&T (will they just exchange it without requiring it for days?)
Any help really appreciated.
Pierre
risingphoenix said:
Hello all,
while in the US last week I bought a brand new AT&T Tilt and had it unlocked right after.
Having used it two days long (a lot of configuration and flashing) it worked just fine. This until today: the phone was sitting unused on the table for the afternoon and when I tried to make a call in the evening the phone was dead. No reaction through power-on or reset (soft, hard, whatever).
Battery was fully charged and just to check I connected it to power but that doesn't change anything. Charging light goes on but that's it.
Is there anything I could try out to revive it? Since I'm now back in Europe I would appreciate not having to find someone to bring it for me to AT&T (will they just exchange it without requiring it for days?)
Any help really appreciated.
Pierre
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It makes a difference what colour the charging light is. Is it Red or Orange?
Mike
Thanks for the reply.
The charging light is red.
I think you have that red point of death or whatever they call it and i recall the only way fixing it is getting a new one.
Sometimes you can get it going by the following if I remember right.
1. Remove the battery and let the phone sit for half and hour or more.
2. Plug in the phone WITHOUT the battery installed.
3. Let the phone sit for half and hour and then plug the battery into it and let it charge for a few hours.
PsyOpWarlord said:
Sometimes you can get it going by the following if I remember right.
1. Remove the battery and let the phone sit for half and hour or more.
2. Plug in the phone WITHOUT the battery installed.
3. Let the phone sit for half and hour and then plug the battery into it and let it charge for a few hours.
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sounds like antique witch's beliefs to me
Seriously talking, don't you think it may be due to the poor quality Qualcomm chips?
Hope you'll come up with a solution Pierre...
Its a hardware issue of the phone itself, not the battery at all.
I had the same thing...
You need to return the phone before the warranty dies out.
Thanks all for your help. Going to try to return the phone... Wish me luck
please join the thread at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1783005&posted=1#post1783005
by adding your build date info and any additional info that we can use to get an idea of whether or not this was just one batch that came out bad or something else. Thanks
Hi guys!
After replacing the lcd display the phone turned off normally but crashed then during the boot.
Since there i've got a red light of dead.
I did the similiar solution but nothing happend
I wrote with Mike Channon too, but he dont' have any idea what i could do.
There's a video from my phone:
http://www.youtube.com/user/1337tmracer#p/a/u/0/7A9o0qDZ078
Thank you a lot!
Just a few points from looking at your vid:
-Looks like a loose connection inside your phone. Have you opened her up and had a look for anything obviously loose? Are you sure you installed the screen properly? Maybe you nudged something loose.
-That looks like an unofficial battery. Has it worked with that battery before? Does it have the same connections as the official battery? Maybe the device starts up, checks the battery, see's it not the right one, then switches off after the check.
-If the light is actually red and not orange than that's odd. If however it IS orange then that's just the charging light when it's plugged in. I've never known there to be a red led on the left at the top like that. Anyways looked orange in the vid to me, which is normal. Does the battery have a decent charge?
the light is red (bad video)
I checked all connections inside my phone ~5 times?
There is all ok i think.
It's an unoffical battery (my s710 is working very well with it).
With broken screen i could turn on the phone with this battery and could charge the battery too. So i think the battery is ok.
Battery have got 4,17 V, i think that is enough!?
If your battery worked with the kaiser before you changed the screen ignore me.
Here's a pic of a couple of my batteries for comparison:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2803/4166955430_9ddf8216f3_o.jpg
Looks like 4.2 is fine.
Anyways sorry I can't be any help. Good luck figuring out the problem.
My Tilt is actuaLLy a survivor of the RLOD. There was a post up here that gave sum suggestions on how to bring life back to your fone by jumping the battery. But since that has happened to my fone the battery life afterward hasnt been the same :-(
but this different solutions don't work for me :/
Has anyone brought the extended battery for there 02 HTC HD2 phone. i have just brought mine, and i cant get the thing to charge up in my phone. i have tried using the battery in my mates phone and it works fine no problem, its charges up using both our leads, but as i soon as i put it in mine, it doesn't charge, and i get a orange then green light flash every 3 secs.
Firstly i want to know if anyone else has the extended battery working in there phone??
and secondly after speaking to HTC, they said try doing the rom update and see if that works, if not then it may be a case the o2 branded phones cannot charge the phone due to software etc. is that even possible??
any Help is much appreciated,
kind regards
Shane
Funny you should mention this Shane, last week I bought the extended battery with kickstand cover and had the same "unable to charge" problem with the lights flashing green and amber.
I've sent the battery back and should get a replacement in the next day or two.
I've also upgraded to the latest stock O2 ROM from HTC's site in the mean time, so I'll let yo know how I get on when the new battery comes (it had better be here before the end of the week as I'm away for 2 weeks, hence the need for the battery!).
Of course if the new battery works, then I won't be able to say if the ROM fixed it or not, but it'd be worth applying it anyway if the battery does work.
i am at this exact moment doing the update as we speak, so i will be able to tell you if that works, but i cant see how o2 branded phone could really stop the device from using the extended battery, because after being on the phone to a very helpful guy at HTC he did say if this doesn't work, then it could be that 02 have done something to stop the extended battery from charging. but i cant see how, and see if its even possible, software blocking hardware from charging??
Edited, oh i forgot to mentioned i tried the exact same battery in my mates phone, which is bog standard HTC not branded, and it worked fine in his phone, charged no problem with both my cables and his, but as soon as i tried it in mine, it didn't work. so that would suggest that maybe its the o2 branded phones??
Woop woop it works, i have no idea why, but updating the ROM made it work. So it was never the battery it was the phone, im so happy I've been trying for the last 2 weeks non stop trying to get the thing to work or find out why it wasn't working but its all charging fine now =]
That's a really interesting one!
I do have a laptop at home where the battery will only charge until Windows starts, then it stops charging, so software can affect the ability to charge.
Definitely one for the hints and tips section!
Pesky O2 eh?
It could be that their modification of the ROM messed up the charging tables or whatever is used to work out how much charge is left in the battery, and the latest ROM fixes this.
Just off the top of my head, could it be that with a certain charge rate, it expects the battery to fill up at a set rate, and with it being twice the capacity it's charging half as quickly so throws up an error?
So the phone is saying "I know I'm getting 1A in, so the battery should be at 40%, 44%, 48%, 52%, but hang on, it's actually at 40%, 41%, 42%, something's wrong, best start flashing those lights!"
no problems with my extended battery on my o2 hd2 although.the last time it ran a stock o2 rom was about 2 weeks after i got it and that was in november LOL.
I have exactly the same problem. Lights are flashing and after about 15 hrs of continuous charging the battery state said 85%. I have contacted HTC support but no reply yet. Phone is O2 branded unlocked to all networks.
It's a documented issue with the HD2 and older ROMS. Please update your roms to the latest builds available or go the cutom rom route and it'll work like it's supposed to.
FOR REFERENCE ONLY: (Your Device might not support this ROM) http://www.htc.com/europe/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=297&cat=2&dl_id=856
Check out Point #2 under Improved Functions
BTW, this needs to be in the Accessories section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689067
Two threads for the same problem? You could have just bumped the other one.
Thank you man! I have done the upgrade and everything works as it should. I also received a reply from HTC support saying to return tha battery to my retailer and buy a different one... So they obviously don't have a clue..
Looking for a Ext battery with a regular cover
any with 1400 or 1500 - usa site
thanks
Hello, I first wish to say that I did a basic search and didnt find any info. maybe I searched wrong since this is first time this has happend to a phone I know of.
second I don't have time to do a full extensive search, sorry if it looks like I didnt search but I did.
Anyways here to the problem:
What happend? Well the Note just died. from simple usage. the screen is all black, won't boot at all, can't even see any lights. (Got Desire HD, Tho I don't remember this phone had a charging/signal light, but I believe it has)
The Note is my mothers so she wanted me to look at it.
There were no problems during flash or, rather it wasnt me who flashed it. but got it pre-flashed of tradera (part of ebay) and nothing was wrong besides old rom, was waiting for full drivers ICS since I havn't seen one for the N7000 so I havn't flashed a ICS rom since my mother needs the most support but anyway
I tried taking the battery of and putting it back again (Fixes 90% of my problems!), I tried fail-safe booting it. I am kinda stumped on what to do, so if know whats the problem and if its a cheap one I will be happy to do it. hopefully its not a motherboard replacement... :-( then I will cry...
Edit:
It turns out it started working with 25% battery after being having battery taken out for 1 hour, and was in the wall socketed charger for 7 hours. YAY!
So it just died in middle of using it normally?
You didn't do any wipes or such in recovery and then it didn't start after that?
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I am not sure there is enough detail here to be able to help. But if it does not go to download mode with the usual ways or with a USB jig, then it will need to go to samsung repair centre, or you could try to JTAG first.
But if it is a result of a bad bootloader flash, then JTAG might work. If its due to a bad ICS kernel flash, then motherboard replacement is most likely.
Hope it works out.
First of All, it doesn't have ICS yet. (since i havnt found a good kies ICS yet that everything works on yet, havnt checked the past few weeks)
Second, it died in standby mode, during work when she was gonna take a picture for her work (she has card that allows usage of camera during work place in volvo)
Third, it wasnt during flash or anything. I will have to check the phone with shidapu when he wakes up... ARGH HIM! for not having normal mornings where you wake up around 6 or 7am...
I believe it didn't die during middle of usage but when the phone was in power save or whatever its called when the screen is black and not phone in use but in operations
I guess JTAG is the only option, but how does that work exactly, if possible please do link
because my computer can't even see the note when I am connected to it with USB. can the battery died? since I don't know if the note can be powered up without battery. *tried connecting without battery but no luck :/
Try to remove the battery for a couple of minutes and then insert it again and connect the wall socket charger and wait up to one hour. The Note has a charging animation but if the battery is totally drained i think it won't show directly.
If you having troubles finding another battery to test with you can always come by Astra in Mölndal and try mine as i see that you are living in Gothenburg.
Jtag is a service in that someone solders small cables to the mainboard and reflashes the bootloader on a low level. But this is only if you know that you have failed a flash or such, don't think this is the case here.
I did send a SGS2 to mobiletechvideos in Texas for that service, and i really do recommend them and thier great service.
Good luck.
qsec said:
Try to remove the battery for a couple of minutes and then insert it again and connect the wall socket charger and wait up to one hour. The Note has a charging animation but if the battery is totally drained i think it won't show directly.
If you having troubles finding another battery to test with you can always come by Astra in Mölndal and try mine as i see that you are living in Gothenburg.
Jtag is a service in that someone solders small cables to the mainboard and reflashes the bootloader on a low level. But this is only if you know that you have failed a flash or such, don't think this is the case here.
I did send a SGS2 to mobiletechvideos in Texas for that service, and i really do recommend them and thier great service.
Good luck.
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if shidapu can't fix it that is (irl mate of Shidapu) he know a bit more than me about Droids
sadly don't have have a extra battery I believe, but I do what you said, I will pull the battery off for now, and when I see the phone next time I will put it in and wait a hour. if all above fail, I might P.M. you that i might be visiting you =)
edit, connected to a wall socket, does it make any differs if I use my HTC wall socket charger?
umm..mind if i say something....?
well u can use any charger since u need to give charge to the battery.. but recommended is charger for note.
Next i had a problem with my battery as well. try to put the phone on charging (there ain't any charging light on this phone ) but you'll see an animation of battery. if it shows up don't worry your phones safe but not the battery but if it doesn't then i think there's some problem with the bootloader or the kernal ...
Hiya guys, after having the Note on charger for like who knows 7 hours or so...
I actually could boot it! YAY! got into the droid as usual.
But there is one wrong thing... it says 25% battery left. orange...
now it says 26% =)
Well I guess I have to reset the state of the battery? (battery-memory wipe or whatever its called?) if thats possible, if so is just simple CWM? (does Note even use CWM?, I am a HTC user and it wasnt me who rooted that device as I mentioned earlier so I dunno what recovery software there is for samsung)
Well Anyways, might be just some faulty battery. guess I have to order a new one if it does it again.
maybe u should take the battery off the phone for a while and try to charge it without booting the device . maybe then it will work fine. just do it three or four times whenever you charge your battery. this way the battery will charge efficiently without it's use on the phone... i hope you got it since i am not able to type well today as i am right now a lil bit anxious about my notes problem
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maybe u should take the battery off the phone for a while and try to charge it without booting the device . maybe then it will work fine. just do it three or four times whenever you charge your battery. this way the battery will charge efficiently without it's use on the phone... i hope you got it since i am not able to type well today as i am right now a lil bit anxious about my notes problem
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I believe i mentioned it started working. Charging it after removed battery for a hour or so fixed it. took a long time tho, 7 hours for 25% full battery. (26% short after, well samsung are known for their extreme long battery load times... galaxy tab 10.1... that was a device that took over 2 hours to charge...)
It might need a new battery.
The same thing happened to my Note yesterday. It was last charged on Saturday and, with light use, after three days it still had around 50% battery charge remaining when I went to bed on Tuesday night. Yesterday (Wednesday) morning I tried to wake the Note and it was completely dead. Of course I did not expect a flat battery, given the usual discharge performance of my Note. I removed and replaced the battery and hit various buttons and absolutely zip. I connected the charger and again no response. Nothing lit, no beep, nothing.
It's probably worth mentioning that I'm on the latest stock Samsung ROM and unrooted. I really thought it was FUBAR and would need to be sent off for repair. Anyway, I do have a jig so I plugged that in and the screen woke up, so I knew there was some sign of life. But still it would not boot.
Anyway, to cut the story short the battery was as dead as a dodo. I don't know why. It should not have been. I left it on charge from the AC charger and after a short while (a minute or two maybe) the charging symbol appeared with a hazard triangle upon it. It took over 4 hours to finally make it to a fully swollen 100%. The phone is almost exactly six months old and this is the first real scare I've had with it.
I only bore you with the tale because it might give hope to people who think their phone is bricked when the fact is that nothing worse has happened than the battery has gone (unexpectedly) very flat. Right now, 27 hours after I finished fully charging it the battery is down to 92%. That's the sort of performance I am used to. I will leave it without further charge for another few days to see if a similar thing happens again. Hopefully not.
yes i know u said that it started working. What i am saying is that whenever u want ur phone to charge switch it off and then charge(this way it will charge efficiently) . just follow it 3-4 time when u charge it and your battery will be on the right track(i hope that works). my note takes upto 1.3 hour (nearly) to charge completely from 10%. and when it's switched off it does the same in 45 minutes... what a difference!!!
try it and if it works for u then this way would be a best alternative to replace battery for charging issue (of course if ur device is still under warranty you should opt for a replacement).
Hi XDA folks,
I request your help because something weird happened to my Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), and I need your suggestions for a repair.
What happened :
The phone seems hard-bricked, it doesn't turn on anymore.
No access to download and recovery mod. No charge icon anymore.
It is not the battery, direct charging didn't work.
How :
That's the problem : I don't know : it's a sudden death.
Last evening, I charged it up to 100%, removed the cable, sent some sms, then shut down the screen and went to sleep. At the next morning, the phone was dead.
The phone never fall, nor try to be a submarine.
The phone is almost 2 years-old, but only used those last 4 months.
The phone was never rooted and was under ICS (last samsung update in Belgium).
Request :
Does anyone have an idea about what happened ?
Any suggestion ? Any test to try ?
Is it a known bug fixable ? - or - Can I start sparing for a new phone ?
Thank you very much in advance,
Stefouch
Im the 2 today just a minute ago mine is dead 2.
Have to do a lot of reading here and when i succeed i will let it know.
First of all: test with a different and fully loaded battery.
stefouch said:
Hi XDA folks,
I request your help because something weird happened to my Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), and I need your suggestions for a repair.
What happened :
The phone seems hard-bricked, it doesn't turn on anymore.
No access to download and recovery mod. No charge icon anymore.
It is not the battery, direct charging didn't work.
How :
That's the problem : I don't know : it's a sudden death.
Last evening, I charged it up to 100%, removed the cable, sent some sms, then shut down the screen and went to sleep. At the next morning, the phone was dead.
The phone never fall, nor try to be a submarine.
The phone is almost 2 years-old, but only used those last 4 months.
The phone was never rooted and was under ICS (last samsung update in Belgium).
Request :
Does anyone have an idea about what happened ?
Any suggestion ? Any test to try ?
Is it a known bug fixable ? - or - Can I start sparing for a new phone ?
Thank you very much in advance,
Stefouch
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Like ThaiDai mentioned, try with a different battery. You could be having the same problems that I had.
My battery was swollen. (Due to excessive charging, this reduces battery life like crazy, 70% jumped to 1% in a second.
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The circuit board of the my charging board is burnt so adb and direct charging doesn't work.
Cost me about $100 to fix them. $50 for each component. Ouch..
If your phone works after using another battery works, you might wanna look into the two problems I mentioned.
To Stefouch ,
Is your phone still dead?
I did not read your first post that good and saw later you cant get to download mode any more.
At first it looked I could not get into download mode , but I had to press those buttons for a longer time ( 30 sec + ).
After all I get my phone working again with a firmware and flash with Odin.
If want to try again to get into download mode by holding the buttons for a longer time I post again.
ThaiDai said:
First of all: test with a different and fully loaded battery.
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Already done, still dead.
x33eraser said:
Like ThaiDai mentioned, try with a different battery. You could be having the same problems that I had.
My battery was swollen. (Due to excessive charging, this reduces battery life like crazy, 70% jumped to 1% in a second.
PLUS
The circuit board of the my charging board is burnt so adb and direct charging doesn't work.
Cost me about $100 to fix them. $50 for each component. Ouch..
If your phone works after using another battery works, you might wanna look into the two problems I mentioned.
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As mentioned previously, I tried direct charging on the battery connectors but it changes nothing. The battery is not involved.
I also changed the circuit board in a repair shop, unfortunately it didn't reanimate my samsung.
The tech said he can't do anymore unless putting a new Note mother board, but that's almost 300 bucks.
annoniem said:
To Stefouch,
Is your phone still dead?
I did not read your first post that good and saw later you cant get to download mode any more.
At first it looked I could not get into download mode , but I had to press those buttons for a longer time ( 30 sec + ).
After all I get my phone working again with a firmware and flash with Odin.
If want to try again to get into download mode by holding the buttons for a longer time I post again.
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I didn't try to press longer, I will try this one this evening and keep you informed.
Thanks all for your help,
Regards,
Stefouch if you do not get it running others cant even.
Take it to the shop where you got it from , there is a 2 year warranty on your phone.
And you have nothing to loose its dead now.
Yesterday I went to my bathroom and light still working , today its not.
Did not do anything wrong , its how electronics works
eMMC brickbug Micro USB module Note N7000 hot
stefouch said:
Hi XDA folks,
I request your help because something weird happened to my Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), and I need your suggestions for a repair.
What happened :
The phone seems hard-bricked, it doesn't turn on anymore.
No access to download and recovery mod. No charge icon anymore.
It is not the battery, direct charging didn't work.
How :
That's the problem : I don't know : it's a sudden death.
Last evening, I charged it up to 100%, removed the cable, sent some sms, then shut down the screen and went to sleep. At the next morning, the phone was dead.
The phone never fall, nor try to be a submarine.
The phone is almost 2 years-old, but only used those last 4 months.
The phone was never rooted and was under ICS (last samsung update in Belgium).
Request :
Does anyone have an idea about what happened ?
Any suggestion ? Any test to try ?
Is it a known bug fixable ? - or - Can I start sparing for a new phone ?
Thank you very much in advance,
Stefouch
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Got like the same problem with N7000. Phone in use for about 11 months. Dropped it more then once but not last few months, find it hard to believe you didn't ever drop in in almost 700 days, but ow well you must be that one in a million guy, hèhè. Anywhooo... Phone was fully charged overnight. It had been of charger for only few hours. Got a call from friend, but I was buzzy, so ignored it. When I wanted to call him back an hour later phone didn't respond in any way. Went to store, they said it wasn't battery but most likely the power-grid or something like it he said. Spoke about changing a module. But as there are signs of damage on the outside they said warranty is no longer valid. He to said the micro USB did not go well in the port of the phone, which he connected to the failure of the phone. To my disappointment I can say, this flaw was present when I got the phone (new!). I figured getting it in difficultly was normal cause I had nothing to compare it to. But feel pretty screwed by my provider. So now I think about changing that specific module, but the guy from the store spoke about billing me around 90 euros (like $130) for the repair. So now feel double screwed by Vodaphone because: The module itself is for sale online between 23,95-32,95 euro, so they wanted to charge me 60 euro for 5 minutes work. I'm totally broke right now so can't tell you if this is gonna work. And with a week waiting till my pay-check is gonna make me whole again, I got the opportunity to learn from other peoples experience. So perhaps this is something for you to try?
I know for sure I got this eMMC Brickbug (tested it with the app) and I'm not sure I updated my Note the right way last year.
So...
Is it possible a new (automatic) update screwed me over and most of all: screwed the hardware?
Other QUESTIONS:
Could it be the Micro-USB module?
I used the phone much for online gaming, so it got pretty hot at the back sometimes. Did you have the same? Can anyone else relate to this?
annoniem said:
Stefouch if you do not get it running others cant even.
Take it to the shop where you got it from , there is a 2 year warranty on your phone.
And you have nothing to loose its dead now.
Yesterday I went to my bathroom and light still working , today its not.
Did not do anything wrong , its how electronics works
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If you take a light bulb connect it to power and shake it, the inside wiring will reconnect when it makes contact and work again. So changing the bulb is mostly because we THINK it's not fixable or being lazy. Most things we can fix ourselves or with a little help from our fellow users.
If there is still warranty left you should indeed try to take advantage of that. But please ask the guy that fixed it what was wrong and what was replaced and share it with us.
Hope you too will be able to fix it cheap.
Thanks all in advance!