My Razr will not turn on

[706woodman]

Sure you can,just get your fingernail in a crack for the rear cover.then just run it around the rear cover and it will come right off.with the cover off and the phone face down look at the let rear of the phone and you will see a lil red cover. Remove that, it just pops right off. It's a battery terminal cover,you dont have to remove the battery if you make something like i did and its very simple. Just make sure red +& black negative, if you look close it will tell which is which .oh the cover will be stuck with sticky tape just pull slow. This was made from a old phone charger.

[anoopch]

I have one wall charger that will give me a flashing white light for a minute or two before going away. If I plug it into my laptop it will give off a solid white light. I've left it on the charger for hours and hours at a time and it's still seemingly not picking up a charge.

Flashing White light Denotes a Low voltage Low Amp charger connected. Connect a Charger with 1A or 1.5A to charge. It takes atleast 3 hours to charge if you use a 1A charger....

[anoopch]

I've tried about every method under the sun except taking the cover off to directly charge the battery, but that is just something I'm not sure I could manage.

You should try the Motorola Factory Adapter which is better than the Factory cable in terms of faults. I have used it for my bricked Droid 4 a while ago.
Here is a link if you need. Just 10$.. Before opening up try this.
Motorola Factory Adapters

[XxDerpxX]

One suggestion is to get a flashlight and magnifying glass and lok in the USB charging port on the phone. IMHO, the way the charger plugs in puts the pins at risk of being bent when the phone is moved around while plugged into the charging cable. (i've thought about getting a dock just to avoid the risk) You'll want to look at all the pins and make sure none are bent or pushed in too far. I'll try to take a picture of what mine look like and post it for a reference.
Any pins that are bent will prevent charging and any pins that are shorted out will cause all sorts of other problems.

Hope that helps.

David

I was having the same problem. I had a dock lying around too. I plugged my phone into the dock and it charged.