Droid X won't load, says "Bootloader"

[DroidIX]

Alright, so today I was downloading some apps (WinAMP and Firefox) to my Droid X and it was on low battery, so I plugged it into the computer. All of a sudden, the phone reset and went into an all black screen, so i pulled the battery and now it comes up: BOOATLOADER 30.04 Low Battery Can't Charge or something similar. Now, everything i have looked up said i "bricked" the phone and mentioned things about rooting the phone. I have no idea how to root the phone and i was not trying too. Now my phone won't work, is there a way to fix it?

[Wildman]

Try powering the device down and charge the device from a wall plug because the device will not charge from a usb when the devices battery is to low.

Allow device to charge for a few hours before trying to power the device.

[mortb]

What Wildman said is true. When the battery goes to 15% or lower, a computer charge is useless. Use a wall plug and give it at least, at a minimum, four hours before you try to do anything with it.

[crb79]

Wildman is dead on.  You are getting that error because a USB connection has to have enough of a charge to be able to complete the USB handshake with the computer in order to charge.

You are not bricked, just give it a few hours charge with the wall charger and you should be back in business.

[pool_shark]

You cannot charge the device at all when it is in the bootloader. You will have to use another battery or get a battery charger for your battery.

[Wildman]

Actually under this situation if the device is powered off and the user has exit bootloader mode the device should charge because the user hasn't installed a rom or anything to damage bootloader.... Bootloader mode has a safty programming that kicks in on device when the device power is to low.

I believe they should be ok after a good charge.

But if you have a spare battery that should work also...

[crb79 · Accepted solution]

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pool_shark wrote:
You cannot charge the device at all when it is in the bootloader. You will have to use another battery or get a battery charger for your battery.

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It is possible to get your battery too low for the phone itself to charge it back up.  Generally though you can get it charging by pulling the battery and reinstalling it a couple of times while the charging cable is connected.

[JoeL_VZW]

Thanks to the community for all your responses.

Did charging the battery with a wall charger fix your issue?