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hey guys i have an htc hero cdma of course i think its a refurb from sprint, anyways i just got it other one crapped out, i rooted it and flashed it to run the freshrom 2.0d works amazing, but i noticed it gets really hot when its charging and last night it had a blinking orange and the battery icon was flashing so
is it a problem with the phone? should i change the radio? battery? thanks!

first of all, i'd like to say that your post is kinda confusing.
but with your question, are you tethering?

zeeyo987 said:
hey guys i have an htc hero cdma of course i think its a refurb from sprint, anyways i just got it other one crapped out, i rooted it and flashed it to run the freshrom 2.0d works amazing, but i noticed it gets really hot when its charging and last night it had a blinking orange and the battery icon was flashing so
is it a problem with the phone? should i change the radio? battery? thanks!
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mine got hot for awhile after i first rooted it, but i stuck it in the freezer for awhile and been fine since.

sdotcarlisle said:
mine got hot for awhile after i first rooted it, but i stuck it in the freezer for awhile and been fine since.
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you put your phone or the battery in the freezer?
OP: sounds like a bad battery man, id buy a replacement or look into the 2000mAh extended one.

yea im hoping its just the battery i switched it with my brothers tp2 battery and changed the charger too, hopefully well see something, any other suggestions?

zeeyo987 said:
i noticed it gets really hot when its charging and last night it had a blinking orange and the battery icon was flashing so
is it a problem with the phone? should i change the radio? battery? thanks!
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Are you using it while charging as you mentioned? If so is the screen set to full brightness?
Have you checked your uptime vs. awake time? it should be awake 15% at max...menu>settings>about_phone>battery
Do you live in an area of fringe reception?
Are you using any high power draw apps? e.g. something is using wifi or searching for gps indoors?

zeeyo987 said:
yea im hoping its just the battery i switched it with my brothers tp2 battery and changed the charger too, hopefully well see something, any other suggestions?
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yeah i forgot the tp2 battery fits the hero too.

The other day while at was at work my phone started getting hot. I pulled it out and was like "What the Hell." It said I was roaming. I was standing outside at a location I'm always at. Turned it off and turned it back on and it fixed it. Could be a possibility.

Hot Hero
Mine was also getting like that. I thought it was the battery because while charging it would be very hot and would not go above 19 percent charge. I took it into Sprint Repair and they checked the battery and said it was "fine". She told me that the Hero was Known for having "low battery" issues. LOL, I told her that this was not the Low Battery issues they were speaking of. Anyways, came home and found my usb chord for charging had a knick in it, so switched it out and been pretty good since.
Long Story, eh? I guess I wanted to say, check the charger for any damage.

ferfy67 said:
Mine was also getting like that. I thought it was the battery because while charging it would be very hot and would not go above 19 percent charge. I took it into Sprint Repair and they checked the battery and said it was "fine". She told me that the Hero was Known for having "low battery" issues. LOL, I told her that this was not the Low Battery issues they were speaking of. Anyways, came home and found my usb chord for charging had a knick in it, so switched it out and been pretty good since.
Long Story, eh? I guess I wanted to say, check the charger for any damage.
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most htc phones are famous for having crap battery life. they cram more & more higher specs in the phones and give us small batteries. thank god for ebay!

yea so i changed chargers with the tp2 also, hmm, yea the phone gets hot while its off and charging, reception in this area is pretty good and its not looking for gps cuz when i was using the phone the only thing i was doing was talking which does make it hot but yea nothing else like no wifi or anything, the tp2 gets hot when theres like tethering or when someone is talking on it but its pretty cool otherwise and that screen is huge!

X10 doens't turn on/charge

Hello everybody... Well, my X10 doens't power and charges... It simply blinks a red led 3 times and start to get hot... I looked for this on google and just found a problem like this on X1. I removed the battery for some time, and now placed it again and started to charge... the red led blinked thousand times, but now stopped. But the phone didn't boot and still getting hot.
Someone can help with that?

ip_flores said:
Someone can help with that?
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How long have you left it to charge?

For like 30 minutes now...

ip_flores said:
For like 30 minutes now...
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Is the green led on?

XperiaX10iUser said:
Is the green led on?
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No... The red led was blinking 3 times... and now, no led light. Everything is black.

Are you using an 'official' SE battery? For my x10 I have three batterys, one which came with the phone ( the official one that has sony ericsson printed on ) and two fairly cheap ones I got from ebay which are ' 3rd party cheap replicas '.
The only way I can get my cheap ones to charge is by having them in the phone cradle I got off amazon where you can stand the phone and behind that there is a slot for a spare battery to charge without it being in the phone.
I hope this makes sence so far lol
So anyway I always have one battery charging, one ready to use when the one runs out in the phone and swap them around in a cycle as I need.
If I try and charge the cheap batterys in the phone the phone will just constantly turn itself off and on until the battery is completely drained.
I would recommend getting one of the cradle chargers and make sure it has the spare battery slot at the back, mine was around £10 - £15 I think.
Iv tried to be as clear as possible and I hope this helps if its not an official battery you have
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I have a same issue
I have Xperia.
But mine one is even not starting up.
nothing happen when I put on charge.
Help some one.

ravespandya said:
I have Xperia.
But mine one is even not starting up.
nothing happen when I put on charge.
Help some one.
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Xperia is the type of phone you have. Take out the battery and look at it and tell me if it says sony ericsson clearly on the battery itself with a hollogram or just bst-41 with a few pictures.
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Youd have to rule out the charger itself first by using another one. If that works then your sorted. If it doesnt then its either the phone or battery.
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johndub71 said:
Youd have to rule out the charger itself first by using another one. If that works then your sorted. If it doesnt then its either the phone or battery.
Very true but like I mentioned and somehow 2 / 3 of batterys won't charge in the phone, they have to be charged in the cradle.
Works fine for me.
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Well, my phone red led now stopped blinking, and dont blink in any situation... =/

Thatl be because the battery is drained completely. Look at my previous posts and read carefully what iv said and you shall hopefully find some answers.
EDIT: one last thought before I go. Turn on your pc or laptop and try charging through a usb port on there or try the mains charger instead.
I'm off to bed now so good luck and if your still stuck I'll try and help more tomorow, seriously read what iv said slowly and take it in.
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I have this same problem. For me, it happened when the battery (yes, official SE OEM battery) got fully discharged when I was unable to get to a power source on Saturday night, and since then, the battery will not take a charge. Worse, AT&T says they have no replacement batteries in stock, their warranty department found none in any of the AT&T online stores, and when they contacted SE for me, SE offered to send a replacement...in 5-7 business days! So, for now, I have a (fairly lightweight) brick after owning the device for a mere 34 days (4 days, by the way, after I could send it back to AT&T with a big middle finger for them to shove up their noses).
Ugh.
Does the X10a any key combinations that would allow the device to "reset" the battery memory?

x10i not working

can someone please help me? i just got my xperia x10 which is sent by my uncle from uk and I dont know what's wrong but it's not working, besides no one will pay for a lot of cost to send a junk via dhl. can someone please help me?
i tried charging the phone battery but there's no light indicator to tell me that its charging, i even charged the battery alone thru clipped charger but the whenever i try to open the phone it will only vibrate a little and will never open

just leave it charging for an hour or so.

will try to do so...thanks

If the battery has completely run out of charge then you will never be able to charge it again.
A new battery is only a few dollars off Ebay.
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no it's not completely drained cause i tried to touch it with my lips wet and i felt a little ground from the ions.

immafreebeetch said:
no it's not completely drained cause i tried to touch it with my lips wet and i felt a little ground from the ions.
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jezzz ... you try to kill battery finaly...
Put it on clip charger for over night

i have charged it with a clip charger and yes the phone hasn't turned on yet. Now I'm not interested anymore to have it back to life but I will never ever buy any SE phones again. And warn my friends who thinks of buying an SE phone to buy Blackberry or Iphone instead. I am really disappointed with this product.

This is what happend to mine, one day it was fine then it just would charge or turn on, I managed to get SE to send me shiny new one as it was still under warranty, if it is a UK one and under 2 years old take it to the Carphonewarehouse and ask them if it can be repaired under the manufactures warranty

Just go and buy a new battery.

Woke up to a [possibly] bricked Atrix :(

Yup. Left phone on charger overnight - woke up and the camera was flashing every 2 seconds. That's all it will do. Whether it's hooked up, unhooked. As long as the battery's in that's what it does. No rom changes in over 2 weeks. No damage of any sort.... no recovery or anything

Well you can probably do a warranty exchange.
I voided my warranty and your mum.

I had something similar with my nexus one. Except it wasnt the camera but the trackball... changing kernels around seem to help a bit but eventually i took it for water damage. Take the battery out and let it dry off for a day or two. You can also try to pry it open and have your hand at any corrosion if you find any. However i wouldnt recommend that unless you know what yer doing.
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guybanda said:
I had something similar with my nexus one. Except it wasnt the camera but the trackball... changing kernels around seem to help a bit but eventually i took it for water damage. Take the battery out and let it dry off for a day or two. You can also try to pry it open and have your hand at any corrosion if you find any. However i wouldnt recommend that unless you know what yer doing.
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He said it was left on the charger, not fell in water.
I'd crap my pants if this happened to me.
CM7 Drugged

ac7brier said:
He said it was left on the charger, not fell in water.
I'd crap my pants if this happened to me.
CM7 Drugged
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I realize that but like i said i had the same experience and my phone didnt get noticably wet at any time could have been a single drop of water and corrosion takes a while to build up.
Still...
Im wondering if you used your original charger when this happend because i can personally say ive seen my atrix behaving strange when connected to some cheap random charger (touch screen not working for example). Didnt believe it could cause permenant damage though.
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guybanda said:
I realize that but like i said i had the same experience and my phone didnt get noticably wet at any time could have been a single drop of water and corrosion takes a while to build up.
Still...
Im wondering if you used your original charger when this happend because i can personally say ive seen my atrix behaving strange when connected to some cheap random charger (touch screen not working for example). Didnt believe it could cause permenant damage though.
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It was hooked up with a Blackberry charger, actually.
Still acts the same.

Check the charger to see if its power ratings are different than your otiginal one.
Also... does the device boot up in any way or is the screen simply black and the flash flickering no matter what?
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guybanda said:
Check the charger to see if its power ratings are different than your otiginal one.
Also... does the device boot up in any way or is the screen simply black and the flash flickering no matter what?
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Looking at it today, I noticed that the charger port (or inlet if you will) is very structurally loose. The voltage on the blackberry charger is about 3/5 that of the stock Atrix charger, if memory serves me - somebody at work switched out the chargers the day after I got the phone. It took a good 6 hours to charge...
ATT said that it would be full cost of phone, because it's personal damage.
I'm looking into the Mi-One.
EDIT: No, the screen will not even begin to come on. Camera flashing is the only indicator of any power. Used an external battery charger, and two different batteries.

The MI-One looks sweet!!!!

smoothtaste said:
Looking at it today, I noticed that the charger port (or inlet if you will) is very structurally loose. The voltage on the blackberry charger is about 3/5 that of the stock Atrix charger, if memory serves me - somebody at work switched out the chargers the day after I got the phone. It took a good 6 hours to charge...
ATT said that it would be full cost of phone, because it's personal damage.
I'm looking into the Mi-One.
EDIT: No, the screen will not even begin to come on. Camera flashing is the only indicator of any power. Used an external battery charger, and two different batteries.
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Moto will probably either fix it or send you another phone. I know people who bricked from trying to downgrade and they got another phone. I'm sure you could too. I would try that before you buy another phone.
ETA: Now that I think about it not being able to put the rom back to stock would probably be an issue if they can get it to turn on but if they can't they might replace it.

smoothtaste said:
Looking at it today, I noticed that the charger port (or inlet if you will) is very structurally loose. The voltage on the blackberry charger is about 3/5 that of the stock Atrix charger, if memory serves me - somebody at work switched out the chargers the day after I got the phone. It took a good 6 hours to charge...
ATT said that it would be full cost of phone, because it's personal damage.
I'm looking into the Mi-One.
EDIT: No, the screen will not even begin to come on. Camera flashing is the only indicator of any power. Used an external battery charger, and two different batteries.
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I also think you should bring it up with motorola. Waking up to find your phone bricked is hardly what id call personal damage. You also shouldn't bring up the charger issue. And as for the usb port i'd say it would take too much effort to discern the connection with that and the phone acting as it is, and im sure they would rather just send a replacement unit.
A usb port malfunctioning is hardly an account for personal damage. The usual case is they simply stop working, but definitely not brick your entire phone.
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Phone burned through cable

Has anyone had this before?
My phone burned through the cable I received with it.
http://imgur.com/ZLXNU8E
I tried charging it today, but the charging light didn't turn on. Didn't think much of it, but when I removed it from the charger after 10 minutes, I smelled burned plastic. And part of the cable got stuck in the phone. Had to pry it out with pliers.
Phone doesn't charge anymore, but it still works.
Really glad I noticed it in time, otherwise I could have had a fire on my hands... Was really hot
Sucks pretty hard to be without a phone for the time now.
Guess I'll start annoying the hell out of google and LG until they fix it?

Yes, a couple people have had this already:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3265816
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Yes. I have heard of this.
And it scares the h*ll out of me!

I'm not a fan of fast charging due to this issue. I've seen it happen on other devices as well. Batteries are not meant to charge at such rates. I'd rather have a slower charge personally

This is why whenever I charge my phone, I keep the AC/Cooler/fan on of that room, keeps the phone temp low and helps in faster charging.

Whut? This is actually very concerning....is this a usb type c problem you think? Or does this happen with other phones too?
You should report this to LG

This needs more media attention. I don't think anyone has zeroed in on what's causing it yet. This could happen to all of us for all I know.
Need a response from Google.

Definitely not charging my phone over night anymore, Google and LG need to look into this.
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ACHILLES R32 said:
Definitely not charging my phone over night anymore, Google and LG need to look into this.
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I never charge overnight. I don't trust chargers enough lol
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I absolutely adored my galaxy note 2 back in the day, probably would have kept it for another two years had it not burnt to a crisp overnight. I woke up and my bedpost was smoking, almost burnt myself touching the note 2 when I woke up. Took off the back and it was absolutely destroyed, some parts completely burnt. Shame this is happening to people, its a scary thing to wake up to
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I suspect this isn't very widespread, but it's kind of scary. I've always charged my phones overnight, and don't really want to stop now.
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grabber5.0 said:
I suspect this isn't very widespread, but it's kind of scary. I've always charged my phones overnight, and don't really want to stop now.
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Then don't.
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can you give us the batch number of your phone?because iam interesting to buy it.

wtoj34 said:
I absolutely adored my galaxy note 2 back in the day, probably would have kept it for another two years had it not burnt to a crisp overnight. I woke up and my bedpost was smoking, almost burnt myself touching the note 2 when I woke up. Took off the back and it was absolutely destroyed, some parts completely burnt. Shame this is happening to people, its a scary thing to wake up to
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I had this happen with my old HTC Desire way back when. Woke up in the middle of the night to a burning smell. Could hardly touch the phone it was so hot. Battery was swelled up to the point it was deforming the back cover of the phone.

Firipu said:
Has anyone had this before?
My phone burned through the cable I received with it.
http://imgur.com/ZLXNU8E
I tried charging it today, but the charging light didn't turn on. Didn't think much of it, but when I removed it from the charger after 10 minutes, I smelled burned plastic. And part of the cable got stuck in the phone. Had to pry it out with pliers.
Phone doesn't charge anymore, but it still works.
Really glad I noticed it in time, otherwise I could have had a fire on my hands... Was really hot
Sucks pretty hard to be without a phone for the time now.
Guess I'll start annoying the hell out of google and LG until they fix it?
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i just purchased the 5x on saturday and paid for 1 day shipping so hoping to get it tomorrow. but this is making me worried... i might get a usb type c charger thats rated at much lower current to help prevent this instead of using the included 3A charger. or get a standard usb to type c cable and use a regular 1-1.5A charger.

darkmage1991 said:
i just purchased the 5x on saturday and paid for 1 day shipping so hoping to get it tomorrow. but this is making me worried... i might get a usb type c charger thats rated at much lower current to help prevent this instead of using the included 3A charger. or get a standard usb to type c cable and use a regular 1-1.5A charger.
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I use a USB-A to Type C cable with a Samsung 2.0A charger for overnight. Just cause I don't need to fast charge while I'm sleeping.
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Same thing happened to my LG nexus 5x. The phone works but does not charge anymore. Very bad as LG claims that it is out of warranty due to customer usage. Really bad!!

rosopomat said:
Same thing happened to my LG nexus 5x. The phone works but does not charge anymore. Very bad as LG claims that it is out of warranty due to customer usage. Really bad!!
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Yeah sure.
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Speaking generally, this almost always has happened, for years, to people who pull the cord by the wire, not by the plug. My wife is terrible about this and she goes through 3-4 cords to my one.
Anyway, that may not fully explajn this problem, bug it'll sure makd it more likely.

Well. I just googled and I found this article. My nexus 5x just burned yesterday and the worst was that everything was wood, even the floors. It almost started a fire at my home yesterday and I am mad because of that.
There is a picture I attached and I'm returning it tomorrow because I had it for almost 3 weeks now.