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My G1 can't power on

Hello.
I've been a G1 user for about three monthes. It's really powerful and I can't live without it.
Unfortunately, My G1 can't power on since last week.
That day, I powered off my G1 as normal when I went to sleep. The next day, My G1 can't power on, only with a flash screen, then turn off immediately.
I tried to press "Power on" and "Camera", it can be boot into flashboot mode, but if I release the "Camera" button, it power off immediately.
I don't know why it became like this, I wonder whether a little water has entered G1.
I've recorded a video about my G1, Please give me suggestions, Thanks!
The video link: http://vimeo.com/6262827
BTW: I'm in China.

If you think it might be water damage you can look inside and see the water damage stickers and see if they changed colors. But most likely it looks like it might be hardware related.

I dropped my phone in a heavy rain storm and didn't know it. Went back and found it 15 minutes later when I realized I didn't have it. I had the same issue with it booting then turning off immediately.
I took out the battery, and slid the screen open then put it in front of a fan over night. The next morning it was fixed and working properly. Hope this works out for you.

Thank you for your replies!
I will have more research. Hope it will work soon.

[Q] No WiFi yet problem: Screen Locked

I got my Transformer last night, plugged it in for 8 hours, then started configuration. No dock yet. I discovered I have misplaced my password for my wireless. Set it about 6 years ago. So I will call Belkin this week to see if it can be recovered or if I need to reset. But would prefer not to since it works perfectly with my computer. Thus, I deferred setting up any WiFi while doing initial configuring. When screen first came up, was "normal" as per pictures of same. However, it powered off after several seconds. When I powered on, I saw the visual "Lock" plus the words showing no WiFi connection. The apps were also gone! My day/time setting was correct, but no weather since no WiFi. There were no buttons on the lower screen other than a no bars and a blue light with the words "No Internet connection." I tried 1] changing orientation several times and 2] powering down, waiting a minute, the powering on. Same problem. Even if I can get my wireless password back, or get a new one, how can I gain access to my configuration settings to input same? I just had a thought: I will go to a local coffee place w/Transformer and see if their WiFi connection works. I'll report back on that. Thanks in advance for any responses. I feel pretty stupid about this.

I just came back from Stir Crazy. Coffee was good but I went crazy. I clicked on the padlock icon. For a few seconds the concentric circles expanded and contracted. I assumed the Transformer would pick up the local WiFi signal and take me to the appropriate screen, where I could then enter the password. Wrong! Nothing. Went right back to locked screen presentation with no applications showing. I should note that when I went through the initial configurations, I saw my local "Sid" home network showing, but when I realized I did not have the password for same, I hit "Skip." The Transformer clearly noted that you could enter your password later in the Configuration settings. However, the unfortunate result of doing this is that I can not figure out how to get to my configuration settings at all. I noticed there is another thread here regarding a blank screen, which problem may/may not be resolved by draining the battery and trying once again. One problem I have is that the screen blanks out after around 20 seconds or so. How long will it take for my battery to totally drain? What I might try tomorrow is to run my Transformer directly from a power strip. But I seriously doubt that this will resolve the problem, since I do not have a blank screen issue.

uhh you are unlocking the device when you 'turn it on' by dragging the lock to the ring outside it?

/facepalm
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Thank you, Johan!!! Your suggestion worked. I knew it had to be something totally stupid on my part due to my complete lack of familiarity with both a tablet and this type of operating system. I also confess I refused to asked my grandson! Of course, my daughter and her family all use an unnamed competitor's products. But I am bound and determined to get the hang of this Transformer so I can surprise them with it the next time I am over. Thanks again. Now off to a local Barnes and Noble to check out the wireless. OFF TOPIC: Listening to that lovely guitar piece. Set it to repeat. As per other commentators, no left speaker unless I use headphones; then both speakers. Sound quality is apparently fine. No hiss, rumble, snap, crackle or pop.

[Q] (Edited) Okay, so its not in APX Mode? Would like help recovering data

Hello, first let me apologize for making another thread on a possibly bricked tablet. Also I apologize if I didn't post this in the right place, being new and all. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to look at this.
My situation:
My tablet has been working fine until last night; it's been dropped once before from a substantial height (over 5 feet), and luckily only my screen cracked, which I replaced. This time however it fell about 2-3 feet from my bed, most likely landed on the power button side, and now it won't turn on.
The Power Light comes on
It vibrates
The backlight does NOT come on. No words. No logos. Nothing.
I tried plugging it into my computer but nothing happens. It's not rooted (as far as I know), and I don't think I had debugging on. It had Android 3.2.1 on it I believe; my computer is Win 7 64.
Edit: I was able to get another computer to recognize it, a Win 7 and 8. They both have it pop up as "Acer ICONIA TAB A500" and as a portable media device, but when I open it it says its Empty... no folders, nothing.
At this point I would just like to know if there is anyway to get the personal data off of it, there are a few documents that I had not backed up yet that I would really like, that were not on my external SD card. If its possible to get it working again that would be great too, but I've come to terms with the fact it might never. (I'm half tempted to strip it to the screen again and put it back, just to see if that might make it work...)
Edit 2 (sorry if anything sounds confusing): I don't know if this is helpful or not, but the tablet "sounds" like it goes to my lock screen (powers up, vibrates, wait a minute or two and then really softly vibrates again), although I still can't see anything. The power light then goes out, but if I put my ear to the open back I can "hear" it working. If I leave it alone and plugged in, the power light will flash from orange to white every couple of minutes (it will also do this unplugged). Also if I press the power button it will turn white, acting like its sleeping and I've woken it (this occurs whether plugged in or not), but I still have a black screen. Does this mean it might not be dead?
Can the screen be broken with no visible cracks or damage inside?
Another note, when I replaced my cracked screen when it fell those 5 feet about a year ago, I never changed the green piece (which I am assuming is the touch screen controller?) with the new one that came with the new screen+digitizer. Could that be acting up now?
I'll try and see if I can get my hands on a micro HDMI to test and see if it will show up on my TV/Computer. It should just be plug and go right? No setting that needs to be turned on?
Any help is greatly appreciated, and thank you for your time.

S4 randomly shutting off and not turning back on.

A friend has an S4 GT-I9505. It was bought second hand few months ago.
Lately it has been acting up. Shutting down randomly but now it won't turn back on. We sometimes manage to get it back on, but no always.
It isn't the battery since I have inserted my battery into the phone and it still won't turn on. It won't turn on even when connected to the charger.
We figured it might be the power button so we took it to a guy to check it out. The guy took the phone apart looked at the button and said the button is ok.
He put the phone back together and it somehow worked without problems for a few days (up until now).
He said that the phone might be shorted somewhere. The thing that led him to that conclusion is that he noticed that when inserting the battery the phone would try turn on without pressing the power button.
He also said the boot might be dead because the phone won't go into recovery nor into download mode. Even if it manages to boot into them, it will turn off almost immediately sometimes.
The phone is running 5.0.1 GPE custom rom with Googy-Max kernel. No tweaks or mods.
I know this sounds a lot like a hardware problem. The only thing that makes me have doubts is that it works occasionally without any problems.

He looked at the power button. Honestly it's no surprise he didn't find anything wrong with the power button because the problem with the power button is inside the tiny metal casing making up the button, and it's something that can't be seen.
Get a second opinion from someone other than the guy you took this to. However, I believe this to be a power button issue, easily fixed by replacing the button.

As I said, He took the phone appart, took the motherboard-logic board, whatever you want to call it, out and looked at it. He also took that tiny metal casing that forms the power button out, leaving a tiny white "something" exposed. I guess that's what you're talking about
But I really hope you're right and it's the power button.
Edit: We were the whole time there while he took the phone apart and looked at it. So we saw everything he did. And he didn't do anything special except take it apart and put it back together and it somehow worked for a few more days.

I guess it really is the button. I managed to change the rom, kernel, bootloader. The phone booted up. I pressed the button once to lock the screen but nothing happened. 1 second after that the boot menu appeared. The next second the phone shut down and now it won't turn on again. Except for a brief moment to show the S4 screen and then turns off again.

Screen completely black

Hello,
I have a Moto X Play which is in great condition, I use a case and a screen protector.
Today I went for a walk and grabbed my phone which I hadn't touched in awhile. Once I got outside I realized it wouldn't turn on no matter what I did. Strange, maybe I left an app on.
I get home, plug it in, and it's at 75%. I play with it a bit and put it back in my pocket.
A few minutes later, I can't get the screen on again. I figure, I'll plug it in, reboot it to clear the glitch, it's all good.
It just won't light up.
I can locate it, it's updating its location, I can call it, it vibrates, it responds to buttons (but not the screen) Nothing seems to be wrong with it other than the screen.
I've tried everything to do a reboot, I've plugged in the short circuit usb dongle thing that usually puts an android device right into debug mode. I think it is rebooting but no screen action.
I have the latest OS for the device (whatever the not-so-new one is) and I am unrooted, locked, whatever I haven't messed with anything like that.
What can or should I do? I am just recently out of the 1 year warrantee.
Thank you,
-Phil

Hold down your power and volume down buttons until it turns back up(night take some time) into the bootloader screen and try to factory reset it.
Sent from my Moto X Play using XDA Labs

I've tried this, so far no luck. A bit of an update:
I brought it to a shop, they gave it a light twist and the screen came back fine and was in the setup wizard (as I had remotely reset it). They said the display port may have plugged back in, gave it back free of charge. By the time i got back home it was off again. I brought it back in to have them open it and reattach it for real. This didn't help. They tried attaching a brand new screen, same issue. The screen doesn't light up for reboots, not for factory reset, nothing. I am guessing this is an issue on the motherboard but the fact that a light twist "fixes" the issue suggests to me a light soldering could solve the issue. The repair shop gave it back to me as unfixable but I don't want to give up on it yet. I did have an opportunity to get a Nexus 5 in good shape for 140$ so I did that for now. This gives me time to mess with the Moto X Play. Any ideas?

pcaston2 said:
I've tried this, so far no luck. A bit of an update:
I brought it to a shop, they gave it a light twist and the screen came back fine and was in the setup wizard (as I had remotely reset it). They said the display port may have plugged back in, gave it back free of charge. By the time i got back home it was off again. I brought it back in to have them open it and reattach it for real. This didn't help. They tried attaching a brand new screen, same issue. The screen doesn't light up for reboots, not for factory reset, nothing. I am guessing this is an issue on the motherboard but the fact that a light twist "fixes" the issue suggests to me a light soldering could solve the issue. The repair shop gave it back to me as unfixable but I don't want to give up on it yet. I did have an opportunity to get a Nexus 5 in good shape for 140$ so I did that for now. This gives me time to mess with the Moto X Play. Any ideas?
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Sent from my Moto X Play using XDA Labs

Ive been having the same issue with my x play, so try this out. turn it on, and have a look at the screen under a bright light, see if you can make out anyting. The backlight might not be coming on, but the screen will still 'turn on' so to speak, you can still make out whats on the display, touch input works etc. I have an issue with the display connector, with a bit of pressure it will work then not work, almost as if the backlight shorts out. it took me awhile to find out that that was the problem. as for a fix, if its the same problem I'm having, then you'd probably need a new mainboard. I've tried everything, new screen, new battery, swapping covers etc.. I have 2 x plays to tinker with and swap out parts.

I've tried using my new phone's flashlight to illuminate the screen with no success (though I will try again tonight, I'm not 100% sure it's on). Looks like mainboard run somewhere around 120$ before the repair cost, seems like it's not worth it. I'll post back after I double-check to see if the screen is there or not.
If it's shorting, I would think it could be fixed with some careful soldering? I do know that when I turn my phone on (remember it's been hard reset and has no SIM card) it vibrates every few minutes, I have no idea why. That's the only odd behavior it's been experiencing aside from the display not showing up.

I tried to look for any sign of the screen showing up by using string light and I didn't see anything that might suggest anything is showing up.