I decided to go back to my old Motorola RAZR V3M but after turning it
on after a month sitting in the drawer it says "Invalid Battery"
regardless of whether plugged in or not. The battery symbol doesn't
even show.
What's going on with this phone, can you tell me please?
"mike" <into_action@aabigbook.com> wrote in news:xn0gc82ggcvuovw000
@news.albasani.net:
> I decided to go back to my old Motorola RAZR V3M but after turning it
> on after a month sitting in the drawer it says "Invalid Battery"
> regardless of whether plugged in or not. The battery symbol doesn't
> even show.
>
> What's going on with this phone, can you tell me please?
>
>
Remove the battery, let sit a minute....
Plug the battery back in but don't boot the phone, leave it off.
Plug in the charger and run it until the battery recharges fully.
Turn on the phone and all should be well as the battery's IC has reset to
the full charge state from its state of confusion.
The IC in the battery talks to the phone over that third contact. It's
telling the phone jibberish, which is an invalid battery because it's not
what the phone is looking for.....
The phone won't charge or use an "invalid battery" which may destroy it, so
you get no battery symbol.
If this doesn't work, replace the bad battery with a new one. They're
really cheap off the net, especially the recycled ones from recycled
phones, which are usually just fine.
Bon Appetit!
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Larry
If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?
> "mike" <into_action@aabigbook.com> wrote in news:xn0gc82ggcvuovw000
> @news.albasani.net:
>
> > I decided to go back to my old Motorola RAZR V3M but after turning
> > it on after a month sitting in the drawer it says "Invalid Battery"
> > regardless of whether plugged in or not. The battery symbol doesn't
> > even show.
> >
> > What's going on with this phone, can you tell me please?
> >
> >
>
> Remove the battery, let sit a minute....
>
> Plug the battery back in but don't boot the phone, leave it off.
>
> Plug in the charger and run it until the battery recharges fully.
>
> Turn on the phone and all should be well as the battery's IC has
> reset to the full charge state from its state of confusion.
>
> The IC in the battery talks to the phone over that third contact.
> It's telling the phone jibberish, which is an invalid battery because
> it's not what the phone is looking for.....
>
> The phone won't charge or use an "invalid battery" which may destroy
> it, so you get no battery symbol.
>
> If this doesn't work, replace the bad battery with a new one.
> They're really cheap off the net, especially the recycled ones from
> recycled phones, which are usually just fine.
>
> Bon Appetit!
"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> "mike" <into_action@aabigbook.com> wrote in news:xn0gc8c2vd8wzjd000
> @news.albasani.net:
>
>> Thanks! That seemed to do it.
>>
>>
>
> Great! Glad it worked for you.....Just needed a battery reboot...(c;]
>
>
>
> --
> -----
> Larry
>
> If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
> is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?
I'll bet in your early ET days you never thought we would be rebooting
batteries. I never would have thought so.
"John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:h2vvcu02sjd@news6.newsguy.com:
> I'll bet in your early ET days you never thought we would be rebooting
> batteries. I never would have thought so.
>
>
>
hee hee....we rebooted lots of batteries. They're strewn on the seabed
floor for some future archeologist to turn into a government grant he can
bottom feed off of.
I remember when a 12 pound, OD Green battery would make about 5 minutes of
transmit before another 12 pound, OD Green battery would be replacing it.
Of course, that was true in my "Carphone", too. When you pressed the dial
button on one of the 8 channels, you could hear the motor-generator high
voltage power supply winding up in the trunk, added to the vibrator supply
the receiver was using.....(c;]
At least now we can make phone calls WITHOUT the engine running....
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Larry
Noone will be safe until the last lawyer has been strangled by the entrails
of the last cleric.
"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> "John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:h2vvcu02sjd@news6.newsguy.com:
>
>> I'll bet in your early ET days you never thought we would be rebooting
>> batteries. I never would have thought so.
>>
>>
>>
>
> hee hee....we rebooted lots of batteries. They're strewn on the seabed
> floor for some future archeologist to turn into a government grant he can
> bottom feed off of.
>
> I remember when a 12 pound, OD Green battery would make about 5 minutes of
> transmit before another 12 pound, OD Green battery would be replacing it.
>
> Of course, that was true in my "Carphone", too. When you pressed the dial
> button on one of the 8 channels, you could hear the motor-generator high
> voltage power supply winding up in the trunk, added to the vibrator supply
> the receiver was using.....(c;]
>
> At least now we can make phone calls WITHOUT the engine running....
>
>
> --
> -----
> Larry
>
> Noone will be safe until the last lawyer has been strangled by the
> entrails
> of the last cleric.
>
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