I charged my phone before I went to bed last night and then left it unplugged (not charging) when I went up stairs to sleep. When I woke up this morning my phone was off, so I tried turning it on and I kept getting 3 blinking red lights on the power button. I tried it several times and it wouldn't turn on, just blinked at me. So I held the button down for about 10 seconds, after about 3 or 4 more of the 3X blinking red lights I get no response. Just that dead feeling you get when one of your electronics no longer works.
So I go down stairs and plug it in to charge and leave it for a bit, a while later I was able to turn it on. Found the battery at 2%, thought that was odd since I was at 100% when I went to bed and had the screen off all night (to my knowledge).
Is the blinking red light serious or does it just mean "your battery is so low your phone can't turn on"?
If the light blinks red it can mean several things. In your case it is not serious, i had this problem myself and i have searched for it, i found threads of people having the same issue and their phone came back to life after a few hours of charging.
So actually its just the battery being dead, it needs more charging even too show the charging progress screen lol.
In my experience the light also blinks red when you flash a firmware version of the xperia arc on your xperia play (lol XD).
The blinking red lights are an indication that your phone battery is drained and needs to be charged before the phone can switch on. There's nothing wrong with your phone.
thanks for the reassurance guys
rveens said:
If the light blinks red it can mean several things. In your case it is not serious, i had this problem myself and i have searched for it, i found threads of people having the same issue and their phone came back to life after a few hours of charging.
So actually its just the battery being dead, it needs more charging even too show the charging progress screen lol.
In my experience the light also blinks red when you flash a firmware version of the xperia arc on your xperia play (lol XD).
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I was using flashtool to flash the official firmware and then BAM! my phone died, so I then tried to turn it back on and it wouldnt, I also tryed to put the phone into flashmode so I can re flash it but still nothing, my play comes up as an unrecognised device on the PC
anyone able to help
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I was using flashtool to flash the official firmware and then BAM! my phone died, so I then tried to turn it back on and it wouldnt, I also tryed to put the phone into flashmode so I can re flash it but still nothing, my play comes up as an unrecognised device on the PC
anyone able to help
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same happend to me after flash, any idea to fix my old ultra z? I need it for testing an old app
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I don't know what happened , I left the phone to charge last night , and just this morning , it refuses to start up .
There is a red light flashing repeatedly
I removed the battery and put it back in
Final state : Red light
This is terrible , not even 1 week in owning it , and it dies (I think)
Any opinions / Suggestions on how to recover / what to do ?
Thanks
arcxenos said:
I don't know what happened , I left the phone to charge last night , and just this morning , it refuses to start up .
There is a red light flashing repeatedly
I removed the battery and put it back in
Final state : Red light
This is terrible , not even 1 week in owning it , and it dies (I think)
Any opinions / Suggestions on how to recover / what to do ?
Thanks
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Try a different battery if not send it back, have you rooted it at all? May have trouble if you have when sending it back if,
You could also try flashing the phone and see if that gives you any joy
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If LED blinks 3 times in a row when you try to turn the phone ON - that means the battery is dead.
It's a common problem for me. Had it both on X8 and now on Play:
Phone dies because battery goes down to 0%. Then I plug it in to the charger and now LED blinks red - no offline battery charging on the screen. I thinks it's a kind of phone's bug or something. I have to unplug it and plug it again, then it's charging - LED constantly shows RED colour, then ORANGE and finally when battery is almost full - GREEN and battery animation is showed on the screen.
You probably had the same problem as me with that offline charging.
Hello! A friend of mine owns a SE Xperia X10i. A few days ago he forgot to put the phone on charge and it stopped. Since then he has not managed to start the phone. A red LED flashes briefly three times but the screen lights up. What could he do? Please note that he previously installed a custom rom, but I don't know what rom.
Charge the phone to wall charger 2-3 hours the phone will start and then keep it charging...
The phone does not want to charge ... Red LED flashes 3 times, but nothing appears on display
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The phone does not want to charge ... Red LED flashes 3 times, but nothing appears on display
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It happens if 2-3 hours of wall charge also nothing on screen then new battery or u can also try a external battery charger maybe...
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Usually I dont use caps in titles or "help" "urgent" etc but something has happpened to my Desire Z and now it just wont turn on.
Basically I left it charging with the green led on and when I went somewhere I noticed that the green led wasnt on but I supposed that it was actually blinking notifing me of some notification so I didnt even look. When I got to my destination, I went to turn it on and usual way a press of the power button. The screen didnt light up. I supposed it was some kernel panic or something so I simply took out the battery and put it back in and pressed the power button to turn on. This is when I started to worry: It didnt turn on. I again took it out and in and still nothing. Only at ONE point did it show the white HTC logo booting then it went black again and still nothing.
I came back home and plugged it into the charger, another fear: No LED at all. Im trying it with and without the battery and it seems like nothing. Seems dead.
Is there any other test I can do or something? Im worried about it....
Also, it is rooted so if I return it, I have the warranty problem of not serving rooted devices. And I cant unroot it since it wont turn on.
Please some help
Thanks!
After about 30 minutes without the batter inside, I reinstered it and it was plugged into the charger and orange LED went up I turned it on and it turned on
Relieved but....I do want to know the reason behind this just in case next time....My warranty expires May 5 so.....
On that last note, should I unroot it and return it just to get a refund? Scared something like this may rehappen.
By default, on a nightly, it was on the interactive governor when it has always been on ondamand. After reading a description, Ive changed it to ondamand just in case...
No one answered cause this is really common and you would have found hundreds of these threads if you had searched.
Next time it happens:
Take the battery out
Wait 5mins (not 5 seconds)
put battery in
hold the power button for a few seconds
plug in the charger after the screen has light up (NOT BEFORE)!)
Phone will boot and be charging
If that doesn't work, try again but leave the battery out for 30mins.
If that doesn't work you need a new battery.
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No one answered cause this is really common and you would have found hundreds of these threads if you had searched.
Next time it happens:
Take the battery out
Wait 5mins (not 5 seconds)
put battery in
hold the power button for a few seconds
plug in the charger after the screen has light up (NOT BEFORE)!)
Phone will boot and be charging
If that doesn't work, try again but leave the battery out for 30mins.
If that doesn't work you need a new battery.
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Even though it is common, why does this happen?
The technical details behind it always help resolve a problem in the future.
Phone was on about 60%. Plugged in the charger, downloaded Bricked Kernel to add to my r11 Modaco Cyanogenmod rom. Ran antutu and the screen went to the charger symbol. Pressed the power button then the charger symbol went and the red light started flashing.
Read up on here and tried the volume up + power for 60 seconds and plugged in the charger. Nothing
Tried volume down + power for 60 sends and plugged in the charger - Google symbol then into bootloader. This allowed me to get into teamwin, where I could recover my backed up image. Pressed reboot. Nothing just the red light again.
Been on a 1.5a charger for over an hour and still flashing
I'm now trying the charger in recovery mode.
I would take the back off and disconnect the Battery but my darling Mrs has had a clearout so I don't have the right screwdrivers :/
Anyone had this particular combo?
Had the red led ligth too after flashing some roms and testing it out. It powers off and shows the red led. Nothing works. I noticed that my n4 was very hot so i let it cool down for about 3 hours. After that all was fine and my n4 booted up normal. Had a heart attack as i see this red led. I think it is becouse the n4 is overheating but dont know. Hope that helps you
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ChaosChris said:
Had the red led ligth too after flashing some roms and testing it out. It powers off and shows the red led. Nothing works. I noticed that my n4 was very hot so i let it cool down for about 3 hours. After that all was fine and my n4 booted up normal. Had a heart attack as i see this red led. I think it is becouse the n4 is overheating but dont know. Hope that helps you
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I did notice it was hot when it first happened. Its been a while now though and certainly feels cool to touch.
When I do boot into bootloader or recovery, as soon as I unplug the charger it turns off again. :/
Perhaps I'll leave it longer (in the fridge ) and try it again
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I did notice it was hot when it first happened. Its been a while now though and certainly feels cool to touch.
When I do boot into bootloader or recovery, as soon as I unplug the charger it turns off again. :/
Perhaps I'll leave it longer (in the fridge ) and try it again
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It sounds that your battery seems to be defect. I know that some one on xda says that removing the backcover and then remove the battery and plug it in again solve that for him. Dont have the link right now but there is a thread about the red led issue. Try to Google it a bit
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Thanks again
I found that thread but am currently missing the right screwdrivers to remove the back. That's for tomorrow when I can pick some up from the phone shop. Damned piece of crap LG nonsense. First no USB OTG and now this!!
Battery is definitely munged. Whenever I manage to get into Recovery (TWRP) tha clock is always back at 12:00.
Soon as I unplug the charger, even after an hour or so, it shuts down. After a full night just on charge, just the flashing red light, no response to pressing the power button.
Just gone through the Google replacement process, but being Thursday evening it will probably be Monday at the earlier before it turns up.
On a lighter note I stuck CM 10.1 on my wifes SGS. Apart from being smaller, slower and with a quarter of the memory, the Helium back restored without a hitch and I have virtually the same experience .....
Hi guys,
Before anyone says anything, I have already searched google/xda for this issue and found the common fix for the red light issue which involves opening up the phone.
However, before I go about performing an open heart surgery on my phone I just want to confirm that it is the same issue and hence I have made this thread.
So here's the story:
Last night my phone gave me the 15% warning but I was too damn sleepy to plug in my phone so I just slept. Next morning I wake up and plug it in only to find the blinking red light. I left it in for an hour and removed it to find it incredibly warmer than normal and of course, it still was not coming on.
So I unplugged it and replugged it into the charger. This time the red light blinked twice and then the white battery sign came up. Only difference is that now a fully charged white battery sign keeps blinking (no red light anymore). When I try to turn it on it reaches the Google Logo before shutting down again.
Would like advice on if I should go about opening up my phone (I prefer not to obviously) or just charge it for 8 or so hours before taking any further action.
Thanks in Advance
EDIT:
I used http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-4/312151-solved-nexus-4-wont-turn-charge.html and was able to boot into bootloader mode however, it still doesn't go past the google logo when I select the 'Start' option.
EDIT 2:
Revived phone using above. Close thread.