No Power/Charge

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I've been given an XDA with both currupted Radio and CE.

The real problem is the thing will only charge (red LED) until the device powers on to the red/green/blue display. Once this screen appears the LED goes out, and it starts to discharge.

There isn't enough power at this point to allow a new CE image to be loaded from SD card.

Anyone know a way of forcing the charge so it doesn't stop when the device powers on ?

Maybe I can try hooking up something to the additional battery connector on the back. Anyone know the specs of this ?

You can try replacing the battery (but just as a last resort).

And don't trust the LED, the charging logic is afaik Radio independent (not on it's ROM), and the LED is controlled by the GSM part.

I have another fully working XDA, so swapping the battery might be an option. Is it difficult to get to and swap ?

Well, you void warranty... and the battery itself is quite fragile in a way...
How long did you try to charge it? Don't trust the LED...

I know its not charging once the LED goes off, because it will soon discharge, bringing up the Red LED again, then charging until power up. It just goes round in a loop.

I manged to swap the battery, which is part of the back cover, with the other XDA.

I'm now atempting to fix the Radio with the autorun file posted/linked to here.

The RSU fix didn't work, it fails at 77%.

We really need a GSM option added to XDArit, so we can have a Boot Loader/SD card radio fix.

For those of us with broken GSM's it won't do any harm trying.

Please XDA-Developers, tell us it's on it's way.