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Help Droid will not turn on

I just had the same thing happen to me. I just got the refurbished phone today, and I swapped everything over. After playing on it for awhile the screen wouldn't wake up. I pulled the battery over 20 times, and did the whole process that everyone said above and still nothing. It just randomly started working again once I plugged it into the wall (on like the 10 try). Ughhh...
 
I charged my Droid yesterday morning and when I went to bed last night it was fine. This morning when I woke up, it would not turn on and reseating the battery didn't work.

I plugged it into the charger thinking that the battery must have drained, and sure enough, once the battery charged back up to 5% life the phone automatically turned on.

There must have been some apps running in the background that caused the battery life to drop so drastically. I have never had this problem before.
 
my droid did this for the first time today batt died and i let it sit for an hour

went to put it on charge nothing

i tried removing the batt and restarting nothing.

tried the hold power and x method nothing

ended up putting it on the wall charge and it seems to have worked just fine
 
I let my battery accidentally drain last night and when i connected to wall charger all it did was reboot again and again and it freaked me out. I installed a different battery and all is fine. Anyone else heard of this happening???
 
1 month after 2.1 update screen would not turn on (fully charged). The logo showed for 5 sec, then go off, then showed the logo again - for eternity. Getting the battery out did not helped.
 
CR@P Well my Droid seems to have taken a GIANT LEAP. Went to bed last night... Phone was fully charged. Got up this morning and nothing... The phone powered down last night and did not come back up. Did a battery pull... Nothing... pluged it in and I got the "Eye" thingy and it is stuck there!!!

Looks like I am heading back to Verizion :mad:
 
My friend has had a droid since early March of this year. First time he dropped it and had to have it replaced. Then the last two phones have had issues with the screen randomly messing up. First time it was replaced. Second time we are now dealing with. I had looked on this forum and was able to get it working again with no problems. Lately he was on the phone with a friend and it randomly muted and the screen crapped out. I havent been able to get it working since. I tried plugging it up to the wall charger that he normally uses yet that has not worked either. Is this going to continually be a problem with the Android. I figured they would have had the glitches fixed. He's had no other problem than this.
 
Droisuser985 said:
My friend has had a droid since early March of this year. First time he dropped it and had to have it replaced. Then the last two phones have had issues with the screen randomly messing up. First time it was replaced. Second time we are now dealing with. I had looked on this forum and was able to get it working again with no problems. Lately he was on the phone with a friend and it randomly muted and the screen crapped out. I havent been able to get it working since. I tried plugging it up to the wall charger that he normally uses yet that has not worked either. Is this going to continually be a problem with the Android. I figured they would have had the glitches fixed. He's had no other problem than this.
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Android is the Operating system, not the phone.

DROID is the phone.

(Just wanted to make that clear - this thread has seen 38K views, so for all folks who come in here wanting to know more about the phone versus the OS....)

And my suspicion here is that after the initial phone he has had nothing but refurbished phones - and there is always the chance that there may not be something 100% correct with those phones.

Since the DROID is not longer manufactured, he may finally get a new phone as a replacement - another user (a few actually) have started saying that they are now receiving DROID 2 as a replacement....
 
It has been said here in different ways but Moto and Verizon confirmed that their phones (and most smartphones today) will NOT BOOT if they have less than 5% power even if it's plugged in.

Also, supposedly computer-based USB charging is not as efficient as using the wall charger (so they say) and will take longer to get the unit out of deep freeze (+5% charge).

Be patient, plug in and wait. You will see it boot up automatically and be back in business.

As for why these phones are going below 5% - they are power hogs and you need to plug it in overnight or it will likely drain. Cellular antenna signal weakness is the biggest drain and so are WiFi and other net-centric apps.

I was about to order a replacement when my Droid came to life in front of me!!

Good luck.
 
bigbarryq said:
It has been said here in different ways but Moto and Verizon confirmed that their phones (and most smartphones today) will NOT BOOT if they have less than 5% power even if it's plugged in.

Also, supposedly computer-based USB charging is not as efficient as using the wall charger (so they say) and will take longer to get the unit out of deep freeze (+5% charge).

Be patient, plug in and wait. You will see it boot up automatically and be back in business.

As for why these phones are going below 5% - they are power hogs and you need to plug it in overnight or it will likely drain. Cellular antenna signal weakness is the biggest drain and so are WiFi and other net-centric apps.

I was about to order a replacement when my Droid came to life in front of me!!

Good luck.
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It happened again last night... Although this time it looks like the battery went below 5%.

I had the same issue a couple of days ago and when I got the phone to come back up it showed the battery was at 70% power.
 
Hi, I just got my first android OS phone on friday, and though it's not a moto droid, I had this issue occur about 20 minutes ago. I have a brand new kyocera zio running on crickets network. I came home from work, put my phone on the table, ate my steak egg and cheese on a bagel, picked up my phone and it did nothing. I freaked out for a second, tried holding the power down and got nothing. Then I tried removing the cover and taking out the battery and putting it back in. The phone came to life before I even had the cover back on it. I wanted to see if anyone else had this issue and found this thread. Perhaps this is an OS specific issue and not a carrier or hardware issue.
 
Just happened to me. Was just trying to send a text message and all went blank. Could not get it to come back on. Plugged it into wall and came back on by itself after about 15 minutes!!! Not acceptable!
 
Sorry to post on your question but it seems like me posting my own isnt an option.
Last night my Droid died and it wont come on now. This happened to me one other time and it took me 4 hours to get it back working. Last time i took the battery out and put it back in.. didnt work. i let the battery sit out for about 30minutes and put it back in and it still didnt turn on. i kept messing with it until the Motorola M screen popped up and finally got it on.. since then ive kept it charged but last nite it died and it wont come on. i tried the same method and nothing works. when i plug in the charger the white light flashes and sometimes stays solid like its charging but it wont come on. Me taking it to the verizon store isnt a option so if anyone has any ideas other than taking it in.. please help.
 
redstevie said:
Badly need help, please ....
While installing new ROM, I fell asleep without realizing that the battery was low.
Now charging with wall charger, but just freeze. Only showing Motorola logo.
Tried pushing any button you all recommended, but nothing works.
:(

EDIT:
never mind. found the solution on other site.
had to flash it without battery.
the bright side is, i used 2.1 ESE53 sbf file.
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plz help me i have the same problem!!!!!
 
Okay, I've gotten some great tips off this forum and thought I'd jump in with this. I recently had this issue. My droid was about 50% charged, had nothing to do with battery strength. I have had multiple instances where the device had no display, and simply reseating the battery has always worked. This time though, I had no luck, and for 3 days tried everything short of a hard reset. I took out the SD card to back it up (using a micro card reader) in prep to do a hard reset. After re-seating the SD card and, putting in the battery, and (just in case) plugging into the wall outlet, the darn thing powered up and booted fine. All the texts and missed calls form the past 3 days pulled in.

So, I'm thinking this has more to do with an un-seated SD card, and the reason re-seating the battery sometimes works is that it shoves the SD card in at the same time. (Yes, I had tried starting it without the SD card in place first, also didn't work). Definitely worth a try before hard-resetting and losing data/apps.
 
I activated & fully charged my new Droid 2 last night, accidentally left the phone on overnight... no phone this morning, plugged it into the computer,see the white charge bar is solid, after an hour nothing, still black screen. Immediately came here and searched. I've now got the phone charging at the wall outlet and it's at least telling me it's charging. I can see that it's going to be very important to charge this phone at the wall nightly & to manage settings to conserve the battery. I will also try reseating the battery to see if this helps.
 
Ok... so my droid is dead for the ~5% sleep. The problem is that my wall charger in three counties away. I use my laptop to charge the phone at night. Anyone else have any luck getting the phone to wake up besides the wall charger?

UPDATE: usb charging apparently takes 1000x as long to charge than the wall charger. My droid just came back on. *finally*.

Very disappointed with the battery life and manual keyboard (which I never use anyway) on the Droid, otherwise very happy.
 
My screen wont come up. Ive tried to reseat the battery mutiple times. Plugged the phone up to the wall with no result. I know the battery is charged. The only thing i am getting is an off center motorola symbol when i press the power button to turn on. I know the phone is booting up all the way because the led is flashing telling me i have a new notification. but the screen does not come up. Ive tried everything on this thread with no result
 
quads06 said:
My screen wont come up. Ive tried to reseat the battery mutiple times. Plugged the phone up to the wall with no result. I know the battery is charged. The only thing i am getting is an off center motorola symbol when i press the power button to turn on. I know the phone is booting up all the way because the led is flashing telling me i have a new notification. but the screen does not come up. Ive tried everything on this thread with no result
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I'm having the same problem. I have the off center symbol, and I know it's working because I memorized where my house speed dial is on one of the pages, and made a call. I have a feeling it's the screen, somehow, even though the symbol is still appearing, or maybe the graphics processor. I'm going to take mine into the Verizon store tomorrow to see what the deal is
 
Having the same problem, no screen its blank. Backlight is working, icons light up, no Motorola symbol nor eye.

Pulled battery multiple times, no screen at reboot.

Would do a reset but I cannot see anything to scroll by.

Any help?
 
i dropped my droid in a bath but pulled it out quickly, it still played and when i went to do my screen code it went black. . .a day later, so yesterday i put everything back in after i let it dry the screen was on the off? then i played with it and it styed on then after bout an half hour it went off. then couple hours later it came baclk on then shut off and now is off. i can get to my music or calls by memory but the the screen wont come on but everything else does???? any suggestions
 
Benzizz said:
Having the same problem, no screen its blank. Backlight is working, icons light up, no Motorola symbol nor eye.

Pulled battery multiple times, no screen at reboot.

Would do a reset but I cannot see anything to scroll by.

Any help?
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Make sure you try the wall charger... plugging it into a USB port didn't work for me.
 
I can't get the droid2 to hard reset. I have
pressed "x" and power'd on where I get the triangle with the exclamation however I can't get to the menu.
I have pushed the volume up and camera button in a number of combinations and nothing.
Any suggestions???
I have a new "refurbished" droid on the way but I want this one to work. $250 for a refurbished phone is not my idea of good customer service.

ginigma said:
Try a battery pull.
If that doesn't work, try a Hard Reset.

Hard Reset
1. Power off phone
2. Use hardware keyboard
3. Press and hold the 'X' key and Power button until you see a screen with an exclamation point inside a triangle
4. Press and hold the Volume Up key then press the Camera button (I had to do this twice) to get menu screen (Linux back-end becomes VERY apparent here)
5. Using the D-pad, select one of the Wipe options (specifically Wipe Data/Factory Reset)
6. Confirm your selection and wait for it to complete
7. Reboot the device
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