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[andymac111]

My Droid Razr Maxx seems to not be able to charge its battery. I am rooted and running AOKP in ROM Slot 2. I have not had any issues like this. This morning, I downloaded a few new apps and that seems to be when it started. I downloaded LightFlow Lite and gave it root access in the process. I also downloaded ActiveNotifications. The reason I think it has something to do with one of these two apps is because my LED is flashing while plugged in and it never did this before. I have gotten it to charge up and boot up but it won't stay on. I had cleared the Cache and Davlik Cache. When I got back into ROM Slot 2, I went ahead and restored from a previous backup (using SS 3.11). I then was about to reboot and it indicated no ROM installed. I don't know why it got deleted. When I try to flash the ROM back into the slot, it can't finish. I then have deleted ROM slot 2 and re-created it. Now, I can't even get it to boot into stock. It starts the stock boot animation and immediately shuts down. 

Any ideas of what I can do? I have Matt's utility 1.82 downloaded but don't want to attempt a data wipe and flash of Jellybean unless I can get it to hold a charge. I am not sure what to do next. I probably won't be able to check in here until alter today. I am going to just leave it plugged in and hope it charges for the next few hours. 

Ugh. 

 

[johnthehillbilly]

Ok..... are you still on ICS? Or updated to JB..... if you are updated you don't want to use the 1.82 utility ... you will want to use this one

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[cmh714]

I use LightFlow and have not had any problems. As for the charge light, in LightFlow you can enable or disable that feature. I dont use ActiveNotifications.

 

And what John said....

[andymac111]

Sorry. I should have put the right utility in there. I do have this one downloaded. I am running JB. Since it seems I may be bricked, i am assuming I want to use option 1 and wipe data and flash JB.
My issue right now is that I can't get it to even startup. When it was sill working, even when it was plugged in, it kept loosing juice. It actually got to 0 and kept running. I am now posting from my wife's phone.

[cmh714]

Your phone may be running....try holding power and vol down for 8 or so seconds. If it blinks, then you should be able to get it started again.

 

As for the battery, you may need to buy a Factory Adapter, or you can try the various methods we have in the Help thread.

[cmh714]

If you do get it started, you can try to do a Wipe in Recovery and see if that helps since I didnt see you try that.

[johnthehillbilly]

When trying to charge .... are you using a wall charger and not plugged into computer?

[andymac111]

It is running then. I can boot into safestrap but can go anywhere from there. It just shuts down. Its like something hijacked my phone and won't quit running ;-)
What do you mean by a factory adapter?
I will have to check the help threads for battery related issues.

[andymac111]

I meant "can't" go anywhere from there.

[andymac111]

Wall adapter

[johnthehillbilly]

I would run the utility option 1.... but first power off and plug in to wall charger see if the charging animation comes up

[johnthehillbilly]

If it does.... let it charge fully before running utility....

[andymac111]

Cmh, should I try to wipe the stock slot? Should i even bother with the safe side at this point?
Thanks for all the advice

[johnthehillbilly]

No.... don't wipe stock slot

[andymac111]

What if the charging animation never shows up? It hasn't yet.

[andymac111]

Ok. I will continue to work with safe side only.

[andymac111]

Ok. I am going to let it sit and charge while I am out for a while. I will see what happens when I get back.

[johnthehillbilly]

If you quickly press and release the power button.... the animation should show up... if its charging

[andymac111]

Earlier when I did that, it would just boot up. Not sure why I couldn't get charging animation.

[cmh714]

If needed, this is a Factory Cable/Adapter:

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