Ok...this is REALLY odd...I hope someone else has seen this and knows what's going on here.
A few weeks ago, I flashed my Bionic to .905 - it was the version leaked by the soak testers, not the official OTA, but they're the same. After upgrading, I started to notice an odd behavior. If I shut down my phone, it would just go dead. It wouldn't reboot. It had about 50-60% charge left when I shut it down. I monkeyed with it for about 20 minutes doing various combinations of battery pull/plug/unplug wall charger and eventually got it to do 2 things:
1) got the red M boot screen, went into "charge mode" and died again
2) booted normally, and showed 50-60% battery left
about a week later, I rebooted my phone again and again, it wouldn't come back up. I played with battery pull/plug/unplug charger/remove SIM card, but it wouldn't boot. This time it was after charging all night and was well over 90% when I rebooted. I took it to the Verizon store where the clerk pulled the battery, put it back in, and phone booted! Then we rebooted it several times and it seemed fine. This happened the next day as well...wouldn't boot for me, took it to Verizon and the clerk was able to boot it after a simple battery pull (which didn't work when I did it).
Next day the same thing happened. At one point, When I plugged in the charger I got the white blinking light, which eventually went solid, but even after several hours in the charger it wouldn't boot. Eventually, I got it to boot with a random combination of battery pulls and charger plugging.
Next, the ICS leak came out. I figured maybe there was something wrong with the update I had so I SBF's back to .902, updated OTA to .905 and flashed ICS leak 3322. So far, so good...while I was running the root script, on the final reboot the phone died again and wouldn't reboot. I didn't have my charger so I just started doing batter pulls and pushing the power button until about 20 minutes later, the phone booted....and showed plenty of battery left.
So, every time I reboot my phone I don't now if it's going to come back up of if I'm going to be pulling the battery and rebooting it for the next hour....anyone experience anything like this? I ordered a new OEM battery, but it hasn't gotten here yet, but I'm not sure if this is even a battery issue....
help!
A few weeks ago, I flashed my Bionic to .905 - it was the version leaked by the soak testers, not the official OTA, but they're the same. After upgrading, I started to notice an odd behavior. If I shut down my phone, it would just go dead. It wouldn't reboot. It had about 50-60% charge left when I shut it down. I monkeyed with it for about 20 minutes doing various combinations of battery pull/plug/unplug wall charger and eventually got it to do 2 things:
1) got the red M boot screen, went into "charge mode" and died again
2) booted normally, and showed 50-60% battery left
about a week later, I rebooted my phone again and again, it wouldn't come back up. I played with battery pull/plug/unplug charger/remove SIM card, but it wouldn't boot. This time it was after charging all night and was well over 90% when I rebooted. I took it to the Verizon store where the clerk pulled the battery, put it back in, and phone booted! Then we rebooted it several times and it seemed fine. This happened the next day as well...wouldn't boot for me, took it to Verizon and the clerk was able to boot it after a simple battery pull (which didn't work when I did it).
Next day the same thing happened. At one point, When I plugged in the charger I got the white blinking light, which eventually went solid, but even after several hours in the charger it wouldn't boot. Eventually, I got it to boot with a random combination of battery pulls and charger plugging.
Next, the ICS leak came out. I figured maybe there was something wrong with the update I had so I SBF's back to .902, updated OTA to .905 and flashed ICS leak 3322. So far, so good...while I was running the root script, on the final reboot the phone died again and wouldn't reboot. I didn't have my charger so I just started doing batter pulls and pushing the power button until about 20 minutes later, the phone booted....and showed plenty of battery left.
So, every time I reboot my phone I don't now if it's going to come back up of if I'm going to be pulling the battery and rebooting it for the next hour....anyone experience anything like this? I ordered a new OEM battery, but it hasn't gotten here yet, but I'm not sure if this is even a battery issue....
help!
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