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Guest frank.lui

I need some advice.

Yesterday I pluged my Mini S to mains adapter (original) for recharging. Because I palyed a bit of overclock befoe that, I decided to switch off the phone before charging so that the overclock can be reset to original.

This morning, I found the phone was dead. There was no sign of charging. All indicators are dead. The phone cannot be switched on. I took off the battery and left it for a while. Then I put it in. The phone started and showed O2 logo. Then the whole screen just faded off. And the charging/power indicator flushed couple of time as 'red' before screen turned completely dark.

I used multi-metre to measure the battery and got 3.2V. I guess what happened was I forgot to switch on wall plug so mains adaptor over-drew the battery.

I know there is a hot discussion about this overdrawn issue, as below

http://www.modaco.com/Warning-Battery-Chargin-t233233.html

But I do not know how to do it. Can someone give a tip? There are 6 electrical contact pads on battery. Which ones I should go for? Using the phone's mains adaptor or car battery as someone sugested?

Cheers

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Guest frank.lui

Well, it's Friday afternoon. Experts either work hard in the office or diving in pubs so no one gave the tip.

I told myself the battery is dead so why not do a DIY? What I could lose?

(1) First found a tunable DC adaptor and sent to 6V.

(2) Connected to the battery, with a multimeter to monitor voltage. The voltage started from 3.2v and increased slowly.

(3) After 2 minutes, I was a bit fade up with the progress so I change the output to 9V. Battery voltage increased much quickly.

(4) When voltage arrived 3.9v I was a bit of nervous. I wanted to save the battery not making a bomb. So I stopped.

(5) Put the battery back to phone and switched on.

(6) O2 Logo...WM Logo....no fading off, good sign. I connect PC' USB cable to the phone and the orange indicator was on! Bingo!

(7) After the phone booted up, it showed battery had 29% power. Then I change to Mains adaptor and it continued the job so it should be not a faulty.

Hopefully this accident did not cause permanent damage to battery.

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Guest Element1
Well, it's Friday afternoon. Experts either work hard in the office or diving in pubs so no one gave the tip.

I told myself the battery is dead so why not do a DIY? What I could lose?

(1) First found a tunable DC adaptor and sent to 6V.

(2) Connected to the battery, with a multimeter to monitor voltage. The voltage started from 3.2v and increased slowly.

(3) After 2 minutes, I was a bit fade up with the progress so I change the output to 9V. Battery voltage increased much quickly.

(4) When voltage arrived 3.9v I was a bit of nervous. I wanted to save the battery not making a bomb. So I stopped.

(5) Put the battery back to phone and switched on.

(6) O2 Logo...WM Logo....no fading off, good sign. I connect PC' USB cable to the phone and the orange indicator was on! Bingo!

(7) After the phone booted up, it showed battery had 29% power. Then I change to Mains adaptor and it continued the job so it should be not a faulty.

Hopefully this accident did not cause permanent damage to battery.

Yes, some time phone doesn't start to charge after battery went down, USB charge will not help, not enough current.

I tried regular power supply and after an hour it started.

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Guest Swampie
Yes, some time phone doesn't start to charge after battery went down, USB charge will not help, not enough current.

I tried regular power supply and after an hour it started.

What I found with my old Wizard when it was completely drained and wouldn't appear to charge via USB, was to just leave it connected for a while and do something else. Came back and it turned on fine - must have been charging even though the charge light didn't come on.

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