TP2 Keeps Rebooting

[Access_Denied]

So I've had my Sprint TP2 for about 6 months now. During the first few months, I played a lot with customs ROMs. Well about 2 months ago, I gave up on Windows and moved to Android (SD boot). I haven't touched the ROM on it in 2 months. Well now all of a sudden I have these rebooting problems. I turn it on and it shows me the white screen with 'HTC' written on it, then it turns off and repeats this cycle. Holding down the volume down button to get to recovery mode does the same thing, I see the recovery screen for about 2 seconds, then it reboots.

Also, I think the battery may be dead, so my first thought was to charge it. But I can't charge it because it instantly tries to boot up when I plug it in, then gets stuck in this reboot cycle.

There's no SIM card in it and I pulled out the SD card as well. I'm using the factory USB cable and tried charging from both the wall and my PC. I have a feeling that it might just be my battery being dead, and it not having enough power to boot, but how am I supposed to charge the battery when it quits charging on every reboot? (The orange light goes off when it boots, then turns on when the phone shuts down.)

It might help to note that before this started, I tried to boot Android and Haret.exe got stuck somewhere along the process, so I took out the battery, and that's where I am now.

Also, that was posted last night on XDA, so since then, the battery was out of the phone the entire night. I also called HTC and they sent me to warranty claims, and my warranty ends Monday. Sweet deal, but it does have the custom ROM on it, so I don't know if they'll find that or not. :/

Anyway, I'd be happy to provide more information. Also, I thank you guys for your help in advance.

[elesbb]

def sounds like a battery problem .

[aedon]

I had this issue as well.

If the battery is FULLY dead, theres absolutly no way to charge it.
I fought with it for a few hours while at work.

On my lunch break I went to the sprint store and said AI had an issue and I might have a deffective battery, they swapped it out and said have a nice day

free.

Give it a shot.

Theres no other way to charge it, i have tried...

If they give you a new battery, make 100 percent sure not to let it die again.

I use the droid dual boot too. It drains the battery faster and takes it to absolute ZERO charge if it dies.

Windows will leave it at like 1 percent even though it ses dead.

And the reason it wont charge after that because for it to start up, it turns the charge cycle off for a few seconds... and unfortunatly that uses up all the battery it had accumilated since the last boot loop


I was told befor that rubbing the battery in your hands till its warm will help it suck up more charge but it never worked for me,

[shaggylive]

Originally Posted by aedon

I use the droid dual boot too. It drains the battery faster and takes it to absolute ZERO charge if it dies.

Windows will leave it at like 1 percent even though it ses dead.

And the reason it wont charge after that because for it to start up, it turns the charge cycle off for a few seconds... and unfortunatly that uses up all the battery it had accumilated since the last boot loop

cool info, now I know. I always use my backup tp2 in a stock config to fully drain then charge my battery's every few weeks. that way the meter percentage is more accurate in the 10% and higher levels.

Originally Posted by aedon

I was told befor that rubbing the battery in your hands till its warm will help it suck up more charge but it never worked for me,

actually a cool battery will charge quicker, but a warm battery helps the tiny amount of current that's left to flow easier.

[Access_Denied]

Originally Posted by aedon

I had this issue as well.

If the battery is FULLY dead, theres absolutly no way to charge it.
I fought with it for a few hours while at work.

On my lunch break I went to the sprint store and said AI had an issue and I might have a deffective battery, they swapped it out and said have a nice day

free.

Give it a shot.

Theres no other way to charge it, i have tried...

If they give you a new battery, make 100 percent sure not to let it die again.

I use the droid dual boot too. It drains the battery faster and takes it to absolute ZERO charge if it dies.

Windows will leave it at like 1 percent even though it ses dead.

And the reason it wont charge after that because for it to start up, it turns the charge cycle off for a few seconds... and unfortunatly that uses up all the battery it had accumilated since the last boot loop


I was told befor that rubbing the battery in your hands till its warm will help it suck up more charge but it never worked for me,

This is exactly what I was thinking. I was going to go to the Sprint store earlier after shopping, but I forgot to. I'll be going tomorrow and I'll let you know if it works. If it does, I'll probably buy a battery charger.

[Access_Denied]

Well, I went to the Sprint Store and the lady put a new battery in it. She said that the phone booted fine for her, but that the charging port was bad. But whenever I plug in the phone, the orange charging light comes on. Also, I can't get it to turn on at all now. Not even any rebooting. I don't know what's wrong, but my warranty ends tomorrow, so I'm just going to send it in to get it fixed. Thanks for your help guys.

EDIT: Weird, as soon as I posted this, it booted up. :/ Still not sure if it's charging though. Anyway, this thread is pretty much solved now. Just wanted to post this to let people in the future know.

Answer: Get a new, charged battery. That should work. Good luck guys.

[aedon]

Originally Posted by Access_Denied

Well, I went to the Sprint Store and the lady put a new battery in it. She said that the phone booted fine for her, but that the charging port was bad. But whenever I plug in the phone, the orange charging light comes on. Also, I can't get it to turn on at all now. Not even any rebooting. I don't know what's wrong, but my warranty ends tomorrow, so I'm just going to send it in to get it fixed. Thanks for your help guys.

EDIT: Weird, as soon as I posted this, it booted up. :/ Still not sure if it's charging though. Anyway, this thread is pretty much solved now. Just wanted to post this to let people in the future know.

Answer: Get a new, charged battery. That should work. Good luck guys.

Cool. I dont think the charging port is bad, I thinknshe just had to give you a reason for it not working
(Even though we already know its cause android killed it lol)

But just make sure to always keey it charged. You should have any issue

It might not have booted up cause it had to charge a bit. It happens every now and then on mine, even though i dont let it die, if it gets with in 5 percents, it wont start for around 10 mins of charging when connected to a wall charger.

I dont thin kyou have anything to worry about..

And if you were to send it in.. They would only send you a refurbashed one and look in every nook and cranny of your phone to see if they could possibly blame you for anything and charge you for the replacment.

But in anycase, keep in mine that the android port can be anywhere up to 10 percent off when telling power level.

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by aedon

Cool. I dont think the charging port is bad, I thinknshe just had to give you a reason for it not working
(Even though we already know its cause android killed it lol)

But just make sure to always keey it charged. You should have any issue

It might not have booted up cause it had to charge a bit. It happens every now and then on mine, even though i dont let it die, if it gets with in 5 percents, it wont start for around 10 mins of charging when connected to a wall charger.

I dont thin kyou have anything to worry about..

And if you were to send it in.. They would only send you a refurbashed one and look in every nook and cranny of your phone to see if they could possibly blame you for anything and charge you for the replacment.

But in anycase, keep in mine that the android port can be anywhere up to 10 percent off when telling power level.

did u make this post on the TP2 screen kb? yea that android port was horrible with battery power at least the SD one was I don't know about the NAND port.

[aedon]

Originally Posted by eric12341

did u make this post on the TP2 screen kb?

Um.. Im not sure if I did or not.
But yea, I use the SD card, never tried the NAND