Needless to say I feel like a part of me died. Anyways, should I go to a VZW store for servicing or can I go back to where I purchased it (Walmart) and get a new one? Also, how do I back up all my apps?
No not at all. (I guess I shuda explained this part in my first post) I didnt charge the phone last nite because I left my charging cable at school. So during the day I had it one and it died on me. So when I got back to school, I found the charging cable and plugged it in to the computer and it turned on as it was supposed to, everything booting up fine. I was browsing the market and posting some comments and then suddenly BAM it turned off. So i was like hmmm let me hit the power switch....but nothing....i even removed the battery but still nothing! So thats why I'm not sure where to head with this. I dont want to show up at VZW just for them to tell me its not our problem return the device. At the same time I have no idea how to back up my stuff also when its plugged in the white light still next to the usb port still comes on.
Yeah, sounds like a trip to VZW to me. I use Lookout Mobile Security for backup, but maybe your account stored all your apps or something. Good Luck!
Try recharging with your regular adapter and cable. It's possible the computer just didn't feed enough power to the battery. A good many computers now just don't put enough power out through the USB ports for charging this kind of a device, especially if what we're talking about is a laptop or an all-in-one desktop.
Yes, what photoeditor said. Several reports of usb charging not being able to bring back a dead droid.
My first droid had this problem. Only way I could get it to turn back on was to remove the battery, hold the power button for like fifteen seconds, and replace the battery. Eventually just got it replaced.
Assuming you can't bring it back to life, where you take it depends on how long since you purchased it. If you purchased within the past 30 days you would take it back to Wal-Mart and they should give you a brand new one. If you bought it more than 30 days ago you would contact Verizon Wireless for a certified like-new one. If you had auto-sync turned on all of your market downloaded apps will automatically redownload once you sign in on the other Droid. I would leave it plugged into a wall charger for at least a few hours to try to bring it back up.
Well I guess I jumped the gun . Vzw rep explained that I needed to charge it with the adapter which made me feel a bit silly. And here I am on my droid posting on phandroid forums. On a side note I asked the rep about battery conditioning and he said that wasn't neccesary and it doesn't help. Now what would make him say that?
Your PC probably didn't have enough juice to charge it AND run it... so it shut off. Charge it up at home and THEN see what it does.
Ooo i remember reading thread on battery conditioning for the Droid is a good thing..... I guess you can't believe EVERYTHING on the internet yea its charging with the wall charger and it works fine now. Thanks for the tips everyone!
Just wanted to add that by "new" he means lithium ion batteries don't have the memory effect and are a newer technology. You can buy a new NiCd battery and it will still have the memory effect because it is an older technology.
Here is a good website that will tell you pretty much anything you need to know about the batteries in our phones Welcome to Battery University
I never conditioned my battery and I get 12 hours with lots of use, easy. I think its a placebo effect.
I'm not sure i noticed my battery charged ALOT faster today. Tomorrow I will check and see how long it can run for.
Good point. That's what I meant. I guess if you're buying "new" batteries for "old" tech, they're "new-old" batteries. Most new stuff comes with lithium based batteries.
Still, I liked one of the original questions... if it could not have been resurrected, could the personal info and stuff have been transferred from the dead one to a new one?
Old Lithium Ion batteries had "memories" that required a full discharge every 30 cycles or so to help the battery remember what the "maximum and minimum" charge points were, basically its capacity. The Droid uses a Lithium Ion Polymer battery which is trickle-charged as you cannot overcharge these types of battery without damaging it. Also the USB remarks are spot on, definitely all 1.1 (and most 2.0) USB ports cannot supply enough power to charge and have the phone on and operating at the same time from a "cold start." Many iPod users will remember the days of their iPods dying then giving you the bootup screen and dying again as the hard drives required more power than a USB current could deliver to sustain a HDD spin-up. Plugging into a wall outlet was the only option. From what I've read here on the forums it sounds like when you plug in a Droid it automatically starts up too, you can't charge it just while it's off, so make sure to always keep a wall charger with you should you run into a dead Droid!
According to the user guide, Motorola recommends you let the battery die, then charge it until its full and let it charge an additional two hours after that (from a wall charger I believe). Then they say to repeat this process twice. Supposedly you will experience increased battery life. I've read that you don't need to condition this battery, but this is straight from the horse's mouth.
Um,.. I'm wondering about the app back up too. If your phone is really "bricked" it might be to late,.. However,.. I think/hope there's an app to back your apps up to your sd card. I hope to back my apps up to the SD card before having a dead droooid
I'm not sure how going from one phone to the next would work but I know that I was having some issues with my Droid and I did a hard reset. Once I signed in to gmail, programmed my phone everything came back including all my downloaded apps automatically. Seems it's probably tied to your gmail account.
I have reset my phone to the factory settings, I lost all my apps in the process. How did you keep yours? Where in google do the apps get stored? curious.......
