Accidentally fell asleep last night while I was restoring back to .744 with RSD. The flash didn't complete for whatever reason, even though I had a full charge. I woke up at about 4am 'cause my laptop was still on. My phone was in AP Fastboot and it said the battery was low, and RSD wouldn't flash. Great. So I headed over to XDA and read Moto's thread on how to build a factory cable. I didn't have a female mini usb to male micro usb adapter, so I improvised.
1. Cut the MICRO end off of my charger cable that came with the phone.
2. Took my knife to end I had just cut off. Removed the rubber housing, removed the glue seal around all the wires, and pulled back the metal casing away from the charging port.
3. I noticed that there is an empty pin (pin no. 4) that wasn't wired. Following the tutorial, I ran a jump between the wire for pin 1 and connected the jump to pin four.
4. Soldered each wire to its respective wire on the end I had clipped.
5. Plugged it in, and it was good to go!
So my question now is this: the phone booted all the way, but it will not charge with this factory cable. I unplugged the factory and plugged in a normal one and obviously the phone shut off, and now there is just a white LED. Not enough charge to complete a boot sequence? Should I leave it plugged in for awhile? or is something really really wrong with my phone?
Factory Programming Cable
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, Jan 16 2012 09:52 AM
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 09:52 AM
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 09:56 AM
Give it some time. It should charge with the factory cable, but if you have it attached to your computer you are limited to .5A (generally) while the proper charger is 1A or greater.
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 10:54 AM
with a factory cable it will not flash. you need to run rsd or flash a system img . what ever you got to do to fix your phone then put it on the wall charger. it will charge like normal
if it does not charge. If it has a ? mark on the battery then you fried your battery.
if it does not charge. If it has a ? mark on the battery then you fried your battery.
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 01:00 PM
So I made the factory cable and flashed it, and then just left it on the charger, and eventually it took a charge. She's all booted back up now. I'm glad cause my phone is wayy too young for an insurance replacement.
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 12:57 AM
My phone did the same thing with the white LED. However, I didn't do anything to my phone exept plug it in using another charger at a friends house. I plugged it in and it instantly shut off. It never took a charge after that. I took it home and plugged it in with the factory charger it came with and left it there........for 3 days! I got nothing. It was completely dead and nothing I did would turn it on. I took it to the Verizon Store and they said that it was a gonner. They didn't have any in the store to replace it that day and to call Customer Service and have a new on shipped. Since my phone is a necessity for my job, I can't go without and I already lost 3 days, so not wanting to wait for a new phone, I thought I would try one more thing. I took the back panel off and pulled the battery. Well, you actually don't even have to pull the battery. Just unscrew one of the 2 screws holding it in and wiggle the pull tab and TADA, booted right up. Now I don't know if this voids the warranty, but I was desperate. Also, when I went into the Verizon store, they did pull off the back panel to check for damage. They did not pull the battery out, but was approved for a new phone under warranty. I'm sure there was nothing really wrong with my old one, but I figure they approved a new phone under warranty, why not. Not taking any chances, I sent for a new phone with no down time till my new one came in the mail.
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 09:08 PM
My phone did the same thing with the white LED. However, I didn't do anything to my phone exept plug it in using another charger at a friends house. I plugged it in and it instantly shut off. It never took a charge after that. I took it home and plugged it in with the factory charger it came with and left it there........for 3 days! I got nothing. It was completely dead and nothing I did would turn it on. I took it to the Verizon Store and they said that it was a gonner. They didn't have any in the store to replace it that day and to call Customer Service and have a new on shipped. Since my phone is a necessity for my job, I can't go without and I already lost 3 days, so not wanting to wait for a new phone, I thought I would try one more thing. I took the back panel off and pulled the battery. Well, you actually don't even have to pull the battery. Just unscrew one of the 2 screws holding it in and wiggle the pull tab and TADA, booted right up. Now I don't know if this voids the warranty, but I was desperate. Also, when I went into the Verizon store, they did pull off the back panel to check for damage. They did not pull the battery out, but was approved for a new phone under warranty. I'm sure there was nothing really wrong with my old one, but I figure they approved a new phone under warranty, why not. Not taking any chances, I sent for a new phone with no down time till my new one came in the mail.
That sounds familiar, although I didn't have my Torx to test that theory .
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