I have a Verizon Droid Incredible 2. I have loved the phone — it’s fairly slim and has a good set of features.
I moved recently from Texas to Tennessee and started having problems with the phone. I plugged the USB into my computer and it didn’t seem to hold a charge all that well.
After a couple of weeks I went to check it while it was charging and it wouldn’t turn on. It wouldn’t do anything. I was upset.
I checked online and people said they pulled the battery for a while with mixed results. I left the battery out overnight and the phone still wouldn’t start the next morning. It wouldn’t do much of anything. I would try to power it on and the Verizon “red eye” would show and not go one step further.
I was bummed. I hadn’t gotten it wet. I hadn’t done anything funky with it. And the phone just died.
So I asked myself what had I done differently lately that could be pissing off my previously flawless phone. While at my house in Texas I had always charged from an electrical outlet. After a few days in Tennessee I started charging from my computer USB . That was the only change I could come up with.
So I took my basically dead phone and plugged it in to an electrical outlet. It powered up and after charging has behave perfectly as it always has. My assumption, and I could be wrong, it did NOT like charging from a USB.
My phone could be an anomaly, I could be some bizarre exception — but if I owned a problematic Droid Incredible 2 that wouldn’t start I would be to try charging from an electrical outlet and see if that resolved the problem.
Personally — I won’t be charging my Droid Incredible 2 from the computer USB except in emergency situations.
