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[Q] Nexus 10 wont turn on.

I placed my nexus 10 on charging yesterday, and after a while (2-4 hours later) when i came back, i found the device to be turned off, I tried the power button in all the combination with volume buttons, but still no luck (even held the power button for 3mins) I searched online, and couldnt find any help on other forums. Some said to keep it on charging overnight and then try powering it up. But still no luck.
I dont get any notification when i connect it to charger, although when i press the power button while connected the screen lights up, and battery charging sign shows up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

epicbearman said:
I placed my nexus 10 on charging yesterday, and after a while (2-4 hours later) when i came back, i found the device to be turned off, I tried the power button in all the combination with volume buttons, but still no luck (even held the power button for 3mins) I searched online, and couldnt find any help on other forums. Some said to keep it on charging overnight and then try powering it up. But still no luck.
I dont get any notification when i connect it to charger, although when i press the power button while connected the screen lights up, and battery charging sign shows up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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So you cannot even get to the recovery?
You ether over charged it (very unlikely to happen) or you have a faulty N10.
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andyabc said:
So you cannot even get to the recovery?
You ether over charged it (very unlikely to happen) or you have a faulty N10.
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No, can't even get to recovery. But i have been using the device for over two months now, nothing like this ever happened. What about the charging sign when i press the power button. It might be some kind of a sleep mode or something, no?

epicbearman said:
No, can't even get to recovery. But i have been using the device for over two months now, nothing like this ever happened. What about the charging sign when i press the power button. It might be some kind of a sleep mode or something, no?
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Could be a bootloader corruption, software issue, hardware issue or some part of the hardware "thinks" that it is still on when it is not causing it to not switch on.
Have you noticed any issues before it just came off like extreme overheating?
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andyabc said:
Could be a bootloader corruption, software issue, hardware issue or some part of the hardware "thinks" that it is still on when it is not causing it to not switch on.
Have you noticed any issues before it just came off like extreme overheating?
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Well, yes the tablet was getting overheated after a long session of hd videos, or games, but that use to happen all the times.

I believe this is normally called a "Sleep of Death" or sometimes "screen off death". Hold power + vol up + vol down at the same time for 5 seconds and you should boot into fastboot. From there hit the power button to turn the tablet on. Then go about finding a better ROM/kernel combo that doesnt give you this problem.

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I believe this is normally called a "Sleep of Death" or sometimes "screen off death". Hold power + vol up + vol down at the same time for 5 seconds and you should boot into the bootloader. From there hit the power button to turn the tablet on. Then go about finding a better ROM/kernel combo that doesnt give you this problem.
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Like i said, its not working i tried using that combination, it wouldnt budge. Screen wont even turn on.

EniGmA1987 said:
I believe this is normally called a "Sleep of Death" or sometimes "screen off death". Hold power + vol up + vol down at the same time for 5 seconds and you should boot into the bootloader. From there hit the power button to turn the tablet on. Then go about finding a better ROM/kernel combo that doesnt give you this problem.
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You just need to press power and volume down to enter the bootloader.
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epicbearman said:
Like i said, its not working i tried using that combination, it wouldnt budge. Screen wont even turn on.
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Try press and holding the power button for around 10 seconds and then try powering it up again.
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Are you using the charger/cable that came with your device?

Its working.
Weird how it was taking any input from the power button though. I kept the tablet on charging over night and i tried turning it on in the morning and it worked.
Thank you all.

epicbearman said:
Its working.
Weird how it was taking any input from the power button though. I kept the tablet on charging over night and i tried turning it on in the morning and it worked.
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I've had my Nexus 10 for less than a week, and this morning I encountered this problem. I was working on setting up syncing through an app called FolderSync and SugarSync. Syncing of one of the folders seemed to go into a loop. The device locked up completely a couple times. I got the process running again and left it running while I went for a workout. When I came back no way could I get it turned on.
I had tried all the things suggested here before checking here for help. I'll try your "solution" of leaving the device on charge overnight. If I can't get it going tomorrow morning I'll return it to Staples, where I bought it.
I have an iPad and have never encountered anything even close to these problems. Bought the Nexus 10 specifically to run the Vim Touch app for Android. The only Vim app for the iPad is horribly crippled.
Sounds like this thread pretty much exhausted the possibilities by the time epicbearman discovered his "solution," but if by chance anyone has any further suggestions I would be grateful.
Thanks,
Eric Weir

I had the exact problem as the OP and none of my chargers worked. I then googled and found someone that said to try to charge via their PC USB instead of the wall charger. I left it plugged into the USB for a couple of hours and the charge went to 4% ( so it must have been very dead ) and all is well.

I charged it via the usb charger, and connected it to my pc overnight. Try doing that.

Take off the back and disconnect the battery and reconnect it
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IRX120 said:
Take off the back and disconnect the battery and reconnect it
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Thanks. If I'd gotten this in time, I suspect it would've worked. But when I couldn't get it started after trying everything else and leaving it on charge overnight, I returned it to Staples.
Will order a Nexus 7 from Google. If I can get Vim Touch running successfully---my reason for wanting an Android tablet---and I find the screen to small for heavy writing---I want to get by with a soft keyboard---I'll order another 10 and give the 7 to my daughter.
Thanks again,
Eric Weir

[Q] Nexus 7 won't turn on/charge!

Hello everyone.
My Nexus 7 tablet battery drained and when I went to charge my tablet, nothing would come up.
I've tried holding the power button and volume down for 30 seconds and still no luck. My tablet backlight only turns on and then fades away after a few seconds. I've tried all other solutions with the buttons and timing it with my USB charger cable, plugged via wall charger and USB with computer.
Urgent help needed!
Thank you in advance.

Open your n7, unplug battery for a minute, then reconnect battery and charge it.
This may help, if not I am wrong.
Here is video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHLHn9fctU

Hold down volume up and down and the power button. When you get into the bootloader use the volume up/down key to select power down. Power it down and then plug in and let charge. Should work. It did for me.
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We have a sticky for this.
Hope it helps!
-bk

Nexus 7 not turning on - GF pretty pissed!

Hello everyone,
Need some guidance. Was trying to setup Nexus Photo Viewer on my GF's Nexus 7 2 32GB Wifi as described here: http://nexususb.blogspot.ca/2013/07/android-4.html
After about 5 reboots, as recommended at the end of the post, I got the idea of trying to access the Bootloader by pressing Vol-Up-Dn simultaneously with the power button. Result was the tablet is not turning on at all.
Device was at 100% battery. I tried to plug in the charger and press the power button, but nothing happened either. Can't even see the charging status.
Any suggestions will be appreciated as I am now close to having my ass spending the night outside on the cold dark curb.
Thanks!

You access the boot loader by pressing volume down only (noy up and down together) and power. You have to hold it for quite awhile sometimes (30 seconds). I'd do it with the tablet plugged in just to make sure its not dead.
Repeat above 2 or 3 times. It should turn on.
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Press and hold the power button by itself for 60 seconds.
If that doesn't work, plug in to charger for an hour and repeat.

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Thanks for the suggestions. This morning I pressed the power button and the tablet booted after about 10 seconds. Not sure why it was unresponsive yesterday.
My partner in crime is debating if we should return it for another as it is only 6 days I old.

Smurfjet said:
Thanks for the suggestions. This morning I pressed the power button and the tablet booted after about 10 seconds. Not sure why it was unresponsive yesterday.
My partner in crime is debating if we should return it for another as it is only 6 days I old.
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Mine did this once when it was brand new. Hasn't done it since.
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Your gf is gonna kick your ass! =P

[SOLVED] Help - Brand new N7 having boot issues

Hacking noob here. As in never. Sorry if this is "yet another annoying noob" issue.
I just got an N7 today and I'm having boot issues. I was able to use the device initially, I got it setup and it charged to 100% earlier. Then I did my first shutdown in order to investigate the bootloader. Since then it has been difficult to get it to power on.
The device is brand new, stock, and nothing done to it, other than user setup, and USB Debugging has been enabled. And I haven't dropped it or gotten it wet or dusty or anything fail you might be thinking of. No crazy apps, not rooting ,etc.
Reading up, it sounds like I need to power off the device, then simultaneously press Vol Up, Vol Down and Power (for some amount of time) in order to get into the bootloader /recovery menu.
This does not happen. Nothing happens.
So I tried to power the device back on. It doesn't.
I plug in the USB cable and I don't see the charging icon appear.
I notice a possible discoloration near the usb port, which could simply be the spot where the notification led is, but there is a visible "spot" that can be seen there. Wondering if this is an indicated that something is fried?
After messing around with cables and random button pressing I have gotten it to boot a couple of times, and seen the charge icon a couple of times, but I'm starting to suspect that this device is effectively DOA. Its been charged sufficiently (>60%) ever since I got it.
1. Anyone have any advice on this? I have no plans to wipe the device, I wanted to actually investigate sideloading the OTA. Answer - Ignore this.
2. Am I missing something? Is there a different/specific order of operations to start it? Answer - Bobos will fail.
3. Does it matter if USB power is connected while trying any of this? I've tried 3 different sources. And none provide a consistent state. Answer - No.
4. Can anyone else confirm this "discoloration" is visible at this spot? (halfway between the bottom center and the display area) Answer - Its just the notification led.
UPDATE: Turns out that pressing all 3 buttons causes a portal to another planet to open over Manhattan. Do not do this.
Instead simply press Power + VolDown to get to the bootloader.

I expect you have a defective device. However, you might just be doing weird things with your buttons.
To get to the bootloader, you just need to hold down the power button and volume down button. You don't need to have the microUSB cord plugged in.
For simply booting up the system: there have been times when I've had to hold the power button down for a while in order to get the device to boot up.
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You need to hold the power button down a few seconds to turn on.
Boot loader is Power+VolDown
The discoloration is the notification led.

Thanks for the replies! I was able to finally get into the bootloader menu by following xdhall's instructions. And from there, into Recovery. Since using this method I'm not having any power on issues. It may be a "bug" in how it registers button presses, because it definitely isn't acceptable to have my experience occur (no usb charge, etc)
On to trying to update to 4.4 via the OTA recovery method. Google can't stop me now.
Thanks to sfhub for speaking to the discoloration. I really wasn't sure if I saw it before this issue started. Better to panic and ask, then assume and fail.
Oh yeah, don't press down all 3 buttons for 10 seconds from power off, it does wierd things.

I have issues getting it to power on once in a while too. Have to leave it for a while or put it on charge for a while and then the power button works.
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I was just about to ask a similar question. Many thanks to zenrage for doing the work for me.
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BreakShadow said:
I have issues getting it to power on once in a while too. Have to leave it for a while or put it on charge for a while and then the power button works.
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If you get the blinking LEDs, that is because the power is drained too low.

No blinking LED,just doesn't boot always at any battery level whatsoever. No issues with the buttons, they work fine when on. Untouched and locked system.
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BreakShadow said:
I have issues getting it to power on once in a while too. Have to leave it for a while or put it on charge for a while and then the power button works.
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I had that too...returned it.
It was totally random...and would shut down by itself at random even though I charged it recently. I think it's an issue w/ the battery level sensor because to get it to boot, I'd have to plug it in for 15min, then power it up...
My old N7 2012 never had that quirk

I'm glad you were able to solve your problem with your nexus 7! I hope you enjoy it!
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[Q] Help! Nexus7 won't turn on!

Totally new here. got my nexus 7(2012) since nov 2012. This morning, I was chatting with friends and my device suddenly froze for 10 mins. i couldnt wait long so i restarted it by holding the power button. now it won't open even if i did the power + volume keys, nothing appears. even when i plug it in the wall charger or on my pc and laptop. still no charging logo or any indication it was on and my laptop says installing new device but always ends up failing so i cant back up my files from my device. I'm not a techy person so i made absolute no effort to root my device. just chatting and some occasional gaming. Please help can't afford to buy a new device for a long while
*btw its a 32gb nexus 7(2012). not sure if this additional info is helpful or not.

Do you get any sort of screen when you try to turn it on ? I.E. do you see the Google logo for a few seconds? Or do you see nothing?
My guess is with a hardware failure or your battery has come loose. When my battery becomes unplugged, I will see the Google logo and then a bunch of funky colors and it will reboot constantly when plugged in. It dies if unplugged, and It also turns on the second it is plugged in.
So if you suspect the battery, there are videos on YouTube to walk you through popping the back off along with pushing the battery back in. I used black electrical tape to hold my battery in place better once I confirmed that was what my problem was.
Merrell
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I would check to see if the battery connection came loose. Its an easy fix to try and was your tablet overly hot or any bulging?
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Dark Jedi said:
I would check to see if the battery connection came loose. Its an easy fix to try and was your tablet overly hot or any bulging?
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i am so sorry for not replying. i know its too late now because i was asking this info on another thread. i i already tried removing and reinserting the battery on my device.
the nature of my device is that its all black screen. even when you charge it, theres no charging animation that shows or any backlight. its like its really off without anything plugged.
when i plugged it in the pc under device manager, it says apx mode. kinda depressed cuz i think the device is already dead cuz i cant even do the power button + vol down thingie :crying:.

Try pressing and holding in the power button for a long time, up to a minute.
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