This has just happened to me,
i try to turn on - nothing no blinking green led either,
i plug into charger, notification led solid RED now im panicking,
I try to turnon - nothing no blinking green led either,
Now head in manual trying to find a hint to a red led,
2mins later, PING, it boots up, led changed to orange,
after boot i check the battery and its on 0% now at 5,
all is good, god you gotta love perminant memory!!!!!
Thought i'd share my coronary
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I know my mda has a red - orange - green (bi)LED and a blue LED.
Yesterday my battery was very low, but i couldn't charge it because i wasn't home. I thought that it wouldn't be a problem, i 've backups at home, etc, so i didn't worry... When i was back home i tried to charge it, but when a do so, a red light shows up and after a while it changes to blue.
Does anyone know what's wrong or at least know what the different colours mean?
tested the battery -> full
tested my battery in another phone.. was completely full, so the charging is not a problem, but i'm afraid my phone is dead...
I just got the Huawei IDEOS X5. Once the battery ran low, I plugged it to the charger. The problem is that the Led Status Indicator (above the screen on the front of the phone) doesn't become orange (it is green). According to the instructions this Led should be orange while the charge is in progress, and become green once the phone is fully charged. This behavior does not follow the info described in the manual of the phone.
Has anyone had the same problem? Do you know why this is happening? Should I return the phone back to the seller?
Thanks
khtc
Led burns green, when the battery is above 90% or so. Under that should be orange. Sometimes when you plug in the charger, it takes time even to start charging (Led is green then). I'd say try to observe more
I thought the same when I first start charging my device, but when the device was fully charged I realized that the led(which seems to me green) wasn't.
The orange color of the led it's not so orange(like was on other devices) but is more close to green(again the green on other devices). On ideos the the green led it's not so light and yellowish, it's more deep like trees green.
And what sanpsa says happens also after 90%
Thank you guys. You were 100% right both!
Dunno, whether it depends of soft or not, but when battery below 15% (or 10%) LED should be red. For mine device it's so.
DTSpawn said:
Dunno, whether it depends of soft or not, but when battery below 15% (or 10%) LED should be red. For mine device it's so.
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Thats true...
So my phone is doing quite a weird thing. Let me go from the start.
I was waiting to finish a TV Show to check my voicemail, but every minute or so my phone would buzz, but wouldn't show any notifications. So when the show finished, I went to check the voicemail, but the phone was out of batteries. No problem, it was at 4 percent last time I looked, it must have just gone through that last bit of battery quick, maybe it had to do with the weird vibrating. So I plugged it in and went to the bathroom.
When I came back, it was charging with the red LED on iirc. I pressed the power button and the big battery icon came up and showed it was charging, so I held down the power button to turn it on and went to the kitchen while it booted up. When I came back though, it wasn't booted up, and the red LED was flashing.
This is the weird part though. All those red LED of death threads say the LED was flashing on and off, red to black. Mine is flashing red to red. Like a bright red to a slightly dimmer red. If I hold down the power button for a while, it starts flashing on and off red, but faster than I've seen it before, like when the battery gets completely discharged.
Does anyone know what is going on?
TL;DR: My phone is flashing a bright red to dim red LED while it's plugged in, instead of the normal on-off red led. It won't turn on. Help!!
How long have you had it charging? And is it charging though a wall charger or usb?
If it's been over two hours, have you tried turning the phone on when unplugged?
kpjimmy said:
How long have you had it charging? And is it charging though a wall charger or usb?
If it's been over two hours, have you tried turning the phone on when unplugged?
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Yeah, eventually after a whole bunch of different combinations I was able to turn the phone on and get it charged up ok. Thanks!
The phone was 96% battery, and then it suddenly turn black, and I can't turn it on again and cannot boot into the bootloader.
When I plug it to the charger, no matter what combination of buttons I tried, my nexus 4 only get a blink red light (no light when charging, only holding the button and charge at the same time will get a blink red light)
I have search over the forum and internet, and tried all their suggestion, all I get is just "only holding the button(no matter what combinations) and charge at the same time will get a blink red light. Any idea?
p.s. the blink red light became "not blink" when I tried the following:
1. Disconnect phone from charger
2. Hold power and volume up for 1 minute
3. Keep holding the two buttons and charge
4. Start blinking red light, after a while it doesn't blink, only red light on
However, when I repeat the above steps, it still blink only.
p.s.2 when plug into the computer, and holding power and vol-, red light is on, no blink, but after a while, the light will turn off
right7left said:
The phone was 96% battery, and then it suddenly turn black, and I can't turn it on again and cannot boot into the bootloader.
When I plug it to the charger, no matter what combination of buttons I tried, my nexus 4 only get a blink red light (no light when charging, only holding the button and charge at the same time will get a blink red light)
I have search over the forum and internet, and tried all their suggestion, all I get is just "only holding the button(no matter what combinations) and charge at the same time will get a blink red light. Any idea?
p.s. the blink red light became "not blink" when I tried the following:
1. Disconnect phone from charger
2. Hold power and volume up for 1 minute
3. Keep holding the two buttons and charge
4. Start blinking red light, after a while it doesn't blink, only red light on
However, when I repeat the above steps, it still blink only.
p.s.2 when plug into the computer, and holding power and vol-, red light is on, no blink, but after a while, the light will turn off
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Dude, dont worry.
You were doing some procedure when it happened?
If you were doing some flash procedure, then you will have to do the process again.
The computer recognizes it?
davidbranco said:
Dude, dont worry.
You were doing some procedure when it happened?
Se você estava fazendo algum procedimento de flash, então, terás de fazer o processo novamente.
If you were doing some flash procedure, then you will have to do the process again.
The computer recognizes it?
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I was using a weather app, and it suddenly turn off.
I cannot boot to bootloader / recovery.
Computer cannot recognize it.
I find another post having the same issue (still no solution:crying: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262276
right7left said:
I was using a weather app, and it suddenly turn off.
I cannot boot to bootloader / recovery.
Computer cannot recognize it.
I find another post having the same issue (still no solution:crying: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262276
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2347060 your solution, be happy *-*
(It worked for me, when I installed the ROM Nexus 5 4 ...)
AndreyVilella said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2347060 your solution, be happy *-*
(It worked for me, when I installed the ROM Nexus 5 4 ...)
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I cannot boot into any mode...
Anyway thanks for your help!
right7left said:
I cannot boot into any mode...
Anyway thanks for your help!
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Sound like the red light of death? leave it plugged into the charger for a few hours preferable overnight and see if it comes back to life,
I wouldn't open mine up like the suggestion here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40761156 until it was a last resort, but if you cant get a replacement from Google then maybe worth a try.
At last I sent my phone to LG, they said it was the motherboard problems.
Thanks for the help!
Okay. All you have to do is make sure it is charging while the red light is blinking because that is what fixed my phone. If it was at a really high level of battery when you were last using it, then it might be a battery problem.
iycchan said:
Okay. All you have to do is make sure it is charging while the red light is blinking because that is what fixed my phone. If it was at a really high level of battery when you were last using it, then it might be a battery problem.
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Why reply a post which is 4 years old? That guy might have new phones by now.
Nitin
Hi all,
My Nexus 4 just shut down after going really hot. I cannot turn it on anymore, when I press the On/Off button with our without the volume buttons nothing happens, except if it is plugged in.
In that case, after about 15 sec I have a blinking red led.
I think the problem is material, but I don't know if the problem comes from the battery or something else. I don't want to buy a new battery if my Nexus 4 is dead... So I am trying to figure out if the problem is about the battery or not. I think not because even when plugged in, nothing shows on the screen when I try to turn it on.
What do you think ?
Thanks very much for your help,
Guillaume.
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GrIc said:
Hi all,
My Nexus 4 just shut down after going really hot. I cannot turn it on anymore, when I press the On/Off button with our without the volume buttons nothing happens, except if it is plugged in.
In that case, after about 15 sec I have a blinking red led.
I think the problem is material, but I don't know if the problem comes from the battery or something else. I don't want to buy a new battery if my Nexus 4 is dead... So I am trying to figure out if the problem is about the battery or not. I think not because even when plugged in, nothing shows on the screen when I try to turn it on.
What do you think ?
Thanks very much for your help,
Guillaume.
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When you get the blinking red led while on the charger, how many time does it flashes ?
Is it the same as this:
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By red flashing light, I mean: Hold power for 12 secs with good charger connected gives flashing red light: one short, pause circa 2 sec, 11 flashes at one per sec, pause under 1/4 sec, one short dim flash, pause c. 2 sec, repeat. This is the notification LED directly above the USB socket.
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cxda48 said:
When you get the blinking red led while on the charger, how many time does it flashes ?
Is it the same as this:
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By red flashing light, I mean: Hold power for 12 secs with good charger connected gives flashing red light: one short, pause circa 2 sec, 11 flashes at one per sec, pause under 1/4 sec, one short dim flash, pause c. 2 sec, repeat. This is the notification LED directly above the USB socket.
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Hi cxda48,
I have the exact same behaviour : 11 flashes, a short pause followed with one short flash, then repeat.
You have an idea of what it means ?
Thanks !
I had a similar problem. The phone will not start and when you put the red light blinking loaded several times. My Solving: I opened the phone and pulled the battery pins. I connected the battery and the phone started normally.
anetgrup said:
I had a similar problem. The phone will not start and when you put the red light blinking loaded several times. My Solving: I opened the phone and pulled the battery pins. I connected the battery and the phone started normally.
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*similar* but not the same I guess.
It seems like the IC that turns on and off the LED is the PMIC ("Power Management Integrated Circuit"). When something goes wrong, this IC has got some intelligence to give out some information about what is wrong (a bit like the bios on a PC). So 11 red LED flashes is an error code I guess. When the battery is disconnected it's 1 red LED flash (that error code probably means battery not present/worng) in my experience.
I know at least that with the 11 flashes issue, changing / reconnecting a charged battery does not solve this issue
Would anyone have information about what these codes mean ?
this just happened to me. Any solutions?
jimmy2823 said:
this just happened to me. Any solutions?
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I thought I should give some feedback on how I sorted out this problem:
After discussion with google after-sales, I sent it for repair to the official LG repair contractor in the UK (SBE Ltd, based in Ashford, UK).
I precisely chose to go through LG repair rather than google because google warned me they would replace the nexus4 so I would
1) loose my data
2) get a potentially worse phone(refurbished) than mine (which is really mint with outstanding battery life)
I sent the phone with instructions on what I think needed done : replacement of the PMIC and *not* a swap of motherboard. When the nexus4 was back, I noticed they ignored my message & swapped the motherboard .
They kept my housing but they also swapped the battery(was not required) and now the battery life is very poor ! I am still in communication with LG regarding the battery issue