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Phone vibrates 5 times and has a green LED light that stays on. I was running Dark Unicorn v2 before this. It was on Safe Mode. I rebooted into recovery, and now the phone vibrates 5 times and a green light appears. VOL DOWN + POWER does not do anything besides that green-light five-vibration thingy.
Any ideas?
From what I read before, it's not dead. It put itself on some kind of mode. I don't remember where I read about this but let me do a quick search. In the mean time, have you tried adb?
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siloner said:
From what I read before, it's not dead. It put itself on some kind of mode. I don't remember where I read about this but let me do a quick search. In the mean time, have you tried adb?
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I've been reading a lot about it. There was something called safe mode. From what I've read, it seems to be a problem with my volume button (perhaps the phone believe the volume up button is being pressed).
I cannot use ADB as the computer does not detect the phone/SD.
Does your volume up button feel like it's going out? Also try a battery pull then Vol down + power
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siloner said:
Does your volume up button feel like it's going out? Also try a battery pull then Vol down + power
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "going out", but from the outside there doesn't seem to be anything physically wrong with it. I also never had any problems with it while I was using the phone normally.
The battery pull and VOL DOWN + POWER gives me five vibrations, and then a permanent green LED. I can't get the phone exchanged because I'm in India, and my warranty has already expired.
Well sorry but I'm out of ideas man. I'll keep searching for an answer and if I find something I'll let you know. Hopefully someone else sees this and has a solution
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Your emmc chip has died this happened to me a while back that's all it has nothing to do with the buttons. I had mine for only a month and it happened to me so you will need another phone its nothing you can do with that device now
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tvotony said:
Your emmc chip has died this happened to me a while back that's all it has nothing to do with the buttons. I had mine for only a month and it happened to me so you will need another phone its nothing you can do with that device now
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Thank you for the information. Guess there's really nothing I can do to save my phone then...
Well, at least I will be out of the T-Mobile contract in February. Then I can get a new phone, and use a temporary crappy one until then.
DKMikey said:
Thank you for the information. Guess there's really nothing I can do to save my phone then...
Well, at least I will be out of the T-Mobile contract in February. Then I can get a new phone, and use a temporary crappy one until then.
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If you have insurance they will replace it I used to have this phone back when I was a tester for team royal back in the glory day of this device
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This happened to me and I kept trying to boot into clockworkmod recovery. No matter what I did, it wanted to either do as you stated above or it would immediately try to load off the sd card my pd15img. I simply turned off the phone, pulled the sd card out, and when the phone went to the hboot screen with a volume up and power, or volume down, I then put the sd card back in and selected recovery. I don't know if this is what's wrong with yours, but I definitely had that 5 vibration flashing light issue.
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tony6083 said:
This happened to me and I kept trying to boot into clockworkmod recovery. No matter what I did, it wanted to either do as you stated above or it would immediately try to load off the sd card my pd15img. I simply turned off the phone, pulled the sd card out, and when the phone went to the hboot screen with a volume up and power, or volume down, I then put the sd card back in and selected recovery. I don't know if this is what's wrong with yours, but I definitely had that 5 vibration flashing light issue.
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Tony
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If you can get to the hboot screen you should load the pd15img. It would hopefully start you over un rooted
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What does the phone do when its plugged in? I only ask because mine was doing this same thing and it turns out it was a problem with my battery. I got a new one from Ebay for about 5 bucks but I also convinced T-Mobile that it was my phone and got it replaced. I had Insurance on it of course.
DKMikey said:
Phone vibrates 5 times and has a green LED light that stays on. I was running Dark Unicorn v2 before this. It was on Safe Mode. I rebooted into recovery, and now the phone vibrates 5 times and a green light appears. VOL DOWN + POWER does not do anything besides that green-light five-vibration thingy.
Any ideas?
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I had that happen once also, I did the following and it booted up.
1) take battery out for at least 15min, (I don't know why, but it worked)
2) then do the volume-down+ power it should come right back up.
3) If I remember right, the battery that was in the unit giving me problems, was less than 20%, that very well could have been the real issue. Find a way to charge the battery then pull it.
TheAxman said:
I had that happen once also, I did the following and it booted up.
1) take battery out for at least 15min, (I don't know why, but it worked)
2) then do the volume-down+ power it should come right back up.
3) If I remember right, the battery that was in the unit giving me problems, was less than 20%, that very well could have been the real issue. Find a way to charge the battery then pull it.
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1 + 2 tried, but didn't work.
Maybe I will try it with a new battery. Thanks for the information guys!
Edit: I do not have insurance (1 year is done)
The PD15IMG I had on my card was the original stock Ginger bread I think and I would had to have re-rooted.
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fried eMMC on MyTouch 4G
I'm also having this issue, got confirmed that my MT4G is dead, but I got it revived using this method here, it is not intended for MT4G, but i got it working...I temporarily using it, while waiting for fix (if there is any) and finding mainboard for my device.
chleoj said:
I'm also having this issue, got confirmed that my MT4G is dead, but I got it revived using this method here, it is not intended for MT4G, but i got it working...I temporarily using it, while waiting for fix (if there is any) and finding mainboard for my device.
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Problem is, my phone doesn't even go into recovery...or hboot.
Any solutions yet? I've been reading this and have done everything here.
I've bought myself a new replacement battery off eBay. Charged it over night and still nothing. Powering up the phone, it vibrates. After powering up the phone and left it on for 5 min, I waited to see if it'll recognize my phone through the computer so I can check if it's the phone or the lcd, but still nothing. Any suggestion will be really grateful! And I have no insurance. Bought it used over Craigslist.
Sorry, I'm not trying to jack anyone's thread. Just didn't want to start a new one with almost the same problem.
I think your volume button is stuck was reading somewhere that someone fixed it by taking his volume button apart and it was stuck pressing up I think and that's y it was doing that not sure if this would help u at all but you might wanna try that
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29650107
Read that post it shows that the volume up button is stuck. The vibrations happens to me to if I power my phone down and then hold the up button and try and power on so I think that's the cause of all this
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Hello, my Nexus 4 is dead since last Saturday. It happened when I was in a club, and I was taking picture then a couple of times camera's flash froze after I took pictures then I restarted it and same scenario happened again. Finally it turned off and did not turn on again. Is anybody able to help me?
Recharge your phone then press the power button with volume buttons
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Mine dead too, but in a diferent way, but I have to say that the same problem with the flash happends to me...
My nexus 4 got overheat A TON then, I turn it off... charging was slow... and finally ir ran out of battery and never turn on again...
I RMA... thats the way.
O_Hussam said:
Recharge your phone then press the power button with volume buttons
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Nothing works even I plugged it it doesn't get any charge and on that day it had 82% charge
D3m0x said:
Mine dead too, but in a diferent way, but I have to say that the same problem with the flash happends to me...
My nexus 4 got overheat A TON then, I turn it off... charging was slow... and finally ir ran out of battery and never turn on again...
I RMA... thats the way.
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So what did you do?
elastiboy said:
So what did you do?
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He RMA-ed :angel:
Unjustable said:
He RMA-ed :angel:
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I have another question, did you take pictures or work with your Nexus 4 in the loud area? I mean some place such as clubs or etc
OK guys, woke up the other day to find the Nexus 4 with a solid (not flashing) red light and couldn't get it to boot or fastboot or anything, whether plugged into PC or not. Phoned google (they didn't ask about root or bootloader or anything) and they have sent a replacement. I will be sending my broken one back to them soon, but is there any chance I'll be able to relock it first? Does anyone have experience of this kind of situation before?
dannycorker said:
OK guys, woke up the other day to find the Nexus 4 with a solid (not flashing) red light and couldn't get it to boot or fastboot or anything, whether plugged into PC or not. Phoned google (they didn't ask about root or bootloader or anything) and they have sent a replacement. I will be sending my broken one back to them soon, but is there any chance I'll be able to relock it first? Does anyone have experience of this kind of situation before?
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Don`t think they will be able to see or take the trouble to check if the phone`s unlocked. No, you cannot flash a image to a dead phone, if you could do that it wouldn`t be bricked
gee2012 said:
Don`t think they will be able to see or take the trouble to check if the phone`s unlocked. No, you cannot flash a image to a dead phone, if you could do that it wouldn`t be bricked
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Well I hope you're right - would be frustrating to be punished for what is clearly a hardware issue!
And of course you can't flash a dead phone, I was wondering if there was some magical key combination that might reach fastboot that I haven't already tried or something like that :laugh:long shot I know...
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Well I hope you're right - would be frustrating to be punished for what is clearly a hardware issue!
And of course you can't flash a dead phone, I was wondering if there was some magical key combination that might reach fastboot that I haven't already tried or something like that :laugh:long shot I know...
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Volume down while inserting USB cable.
Does it for anything?
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mariosraptor said:
Volume down while inserting USB cable.
Does it for anything?
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Absolutely nothing, although I'd not heard that one before so thanks - with any luck it will just be checked for powering up and then wiped at Google once they can't get it on. I'm sure people must have sent phones to them in this condition before?
Usually by opening the phone and disconnecting the battery you can fix your red light issue, google it, it's pretty common.
yes but that also voids the warranty.
m4r0v3r said:
yes but that also voids the warranty.
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Not if you do it right
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dannycorker said:
Absolutely nothing, although I'd not heard that one before so thanks - with any luck it will just be checked for powering up and then wiped at Google once they can't get it on. I'm sure people must have sent phones to them in this condition before?
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Follow iFixit guide or one similar. You won't void your warranty by taking off the back cover and unscrewing the screws that holding the battery connector.
Then remove and replace battery connector and undo all previous steps.
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Volume up and power for 30 sec then power again does nothing?
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jonapunk said:
Volume up and power for 30 sec then power again does nothing?
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No, no response at all from it whatever I do - might leave it a couple of days to see if the battery fully discharges, seen that in a couple of places as potentially helping. Wouldn't be too keen on taking it apart, seems like tempting fate regarding the warranty to be honest.
No just RMA it
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As the topic says, holding the power button doesn't work.
So I can't switch it on nor off.
Any ideas.?
Unrooted stock 4.3
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gonna need more info, what state is your phone in now? is the battery charge?
claudiuslu2011 said:
gonna need more info, what state is your phone in now? is the battery charge?
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Switched on and fully charged
I can turn the screen on and off, but holding it does nothing
I cannot switch off the phone, or take screen shots
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AndroidReborn said:
As the topic says, holding the power button doesn't work.
So I can't switch it on nor off.
Any ideas.?
Unrooted stock 4.3
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what do you think? is the problem in hardware or in software?
if the problem in software, there are a lot of apps doing what you want (on off restart whatever) , and you can install one of them.
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AndroidReborn said:
As the topic says, holding the power button doesn't work.
So I can't switch it on nor off.
Any ideas.?
Unrooted stock 4.3
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If the button itself is defective and you are not under warranty you may be able to find a replacement on ebay. I have seen various phones being parted out there and the button should come with a replacement rear cover. If it is the actual switch on the motherboard you have a different problem though. Have you removed the rear case to test that switch? It can be done with a torx t5 screwdriver, a couple of guitar picks and a half hour of patience.
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nexuses said:
what do you think? is the problem in hardware or in software?
if the problem in software, there are a lot of apps doing what you want (on off restart whatever) , and you can install one of them.
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Normal press works..I. e screen turns off.. but holding doesn't. I guess it is with the software
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lalec said:
If the button itself is defective and you are not under warranty you may be able to find a replacement on ebay. I have seen various phones being parted out there and the button should come with a replacement rear cover. If it is the actual switch on the motherboard you have a different problem though. Have you removed the rear case to test that switch? It can be done with a torx t5 screwdriver, a couple of guitar picks and a half hour of patience.
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it seems to me something went wrong with your rom.. try to reinstall it by N-cry toolkit.. and then install one of those apps which gives you no need to this button anymore. just like what I do.
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try long pressing the power button, for 15+ seconds. does it power off? if it powered off, boot it back up.. did it fix your issue?
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try long pressing the power button, for 15+ seconds. does it power off? if it powered off, boot it back up.. did it fix your issue?
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Done.held it for what seemed like 30 seconds and it rebooted itself.
Strange. It didn't happen when I tried today afternoon. Anyway problem solved
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AndroidReborn said:
Done.held it for what seemed like 30 seconds and it rebooted itself.
Strange. It didn't happen when I tried today afternoon. Anyway problem solved
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this same thing happened to me a while back. and force rebooting fixed it right away. it was just a software derp, hasnt happened since.
Last night, my back buttons stopped working. I was worried it somehow got water damage or something, so I turned my phone off and put it in rice overnight. Now I can't turn on my phone. The notification light was flashing red. When I plug it in, a short vibrate occurs, the LG screen comes on, and the charging screen appears. Is there any way I can start my phone from my computer or something? I don't know what to do! Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFtnZZ7I1U
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFtnZZ7I1U
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
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That would not work for me, it seems all of my buttons have stopped working. Can I issue some command from my PC to power on the device?
Your have tried holding the power button down for 20 seconds?
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gentlemandroid17 said:
Your have tried holding the power button down for 20 seconds?
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Yeah, I can't get any button holds to register, it's driving me crazy. I'm pretty sure none of the back buttons are functional right now.
Does your computer detect your phone
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Does your computer detect your phone
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My computer makes a noise like it detects my phone when connected via USB. But, I can not see any other indication of detection. Is this because my phone is off maybe?
I think its done. If the rear buttons do not work at all something shorted. May want to keep it in rise a few days.
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gentlemandroid17 said:
I think its done. If the rear buttons do not work at all something shorted. May want to keep it in rise a few days.
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OK, thank you for your help.
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OK, thank you for your help.
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I could be wrong. I actually hope I am. Sorry dude.
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The battery might be dead, as in it can't be charged, therefore the device can't power on.
MalignantQuechnitlan said:
The battery might be dead, as in it can't be charged, therefore the device can't power on.
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The battery is working! The battery indicator/screen comes on when charging, it says I have 70%. I think my phone will be usable if I could power it on somehow.
Sorry for bumping, any other thoughts?
Tried powering it on while it's on the charger?
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Tried powering it on while it's on the charger?
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Yeah, my power button and volume buttons just seem unresponsive. When I plug in my phone, it vibrates once, the LG splash screen comes up, then the charging screen with the battery percentage comes up. I just can't get the darn thing to boot up!
I had the same thing happen after I changed the build.prop. I fixed it by unplugging, power off by holding power and vol down, then boot into recovery, and finally restored backup. It has to be unplugged to fully power off. I wasted nearly a hour before I figured it out.
Good luck
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ffejy462 said:
I had the same thing happen after I changed the build.prop. I fixed it by unplugging, power off by holding power and vol down, then boot into recovery, and finally restored backup. It has to be unplugged to fully power off. I wasted nearly a hour before I figured it out.
Good luck
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I have tried that, but it appears to be a hardware problems where my buttons are completely unresponsive. I think I'm screwed
Crikey... I'm sorry...
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my phone just did the same thing.. cut off with plenty of battery remaining, flashing red LED when i plug in the charger or usb to my laptop. i don't get any function from my screen, it came on one time showing 54% battery for a couple seconds then i tried to power it on and it died. t-mobile is sending me a new one but i want to save my pics and stuff from this one somehow