Hey guys. My girl dropped her phone in a cup of water. Halfway the phone was in it. So the screen wont come off but the led blinks red. I have the phone on a bowl of rice. Been there for 12 hours. Still wont come on but it vibrates and the red light blinks. I was wondering if that is what would called lights of death? So what you guys recommend? Leave the phone on rice more time? Open it?
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Buy a new phone. It's likely fried.
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Blinking red light means the battery is too low to start the phone up
Follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250454
You might as well clean up any moisture that might be present inside while you're doing that
You're fault for having a girl
You'll probably have to replace a few things. Check YouTube for an N4 teardown video.
Alternatively, you could sell it for about $150 on eBay and cut your losses.
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Forgot to mention. Kids talk your childish comments somewhere else. The screen wont come on. Will put it on charge all night tonight. I was just wondering if the phone can be save though the led light comes on. Then the phone should be fine right?
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gypsy214 said:
Forgot to mention. Kids talk your childish comments somewhere else. The screen wont come on. Will put it on charge all night tonight. I was just wondering if the phone can be save though the led light comes on. Then the phone should be fine right?
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If it does get past the red light, you may still have more issues with the device, but it should at least attempt to boot.
lopezk38 said:
If it does get past the red light, you may still have more issues with the device, but it should at least attempt to boot.
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Cant get past the red light. Its been 5 days now and now the red light flashes when its plugged in. Not sure if it will ever come to life. I tried to go into recovery and nothing. I wonder if its bricked completely. But its a shame that I couldnt save it. Maybe a JTAG repair may fix it
You might have to do the fix where you open the phone and manually charge the battery. Someone posted a link to that thread in this thread already, just go to the 1st post of that thread.
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So I accidentally depleted my phones battery low enough that when I plugged my phone in to charge it, it was blinking red. But it charged and is back working again, so its all good. But now when I turned my phone on, there's a Google watermark Almost on my screen. I've taken screen shots and looked at them on my computer and it didn't have it, so it much be the screen? Its in the same spot and size as the Google logo when you start up. I only let it charge for about an hour, and the first time I turned it on, it was on its charger and I didn't get the boot animation, the screen was off, I could tell because it was really black, if I display a black screen on my phone while its on, I can still tell its on because of the backlight. Did I break it... ?
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It's definitely burned into the LCD, was the phone heated up when it happened? were you using intensive tasks? though, Either way it wouldn't matter. The only thing you could do about it currently is to take it back to LG for them to replace your screen.
What charger you used ? Stock ?
I'd give it about a week to return to normal.
The phone was warm, but not hot. I used stock charger and stock cable. Its actually gone already. I can't notice it at least.
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just factory resest your phone...or better yet use a toolkit to return to stock image..the mark will go away..this happens something is seriously wrong with nexus 4..its get loads of issues...!
@zander, which kernel are you using?
naveediftikhar said:
just factory resest your phone...or better yet use a toolkit to return to stock image..the mark will go away..this happens something is seriously wrong with nexus 4..its get loads of issues...!
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Huh?!?!
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Looks like a screen burn in.. You probably have really high brightness? Or your device was taking long during the boot up at the Google icon stage?
naveediftikhar said:
just factory resest your phone...or better yet use a toolkit to return to stock image..the mark will go away..this happens something is seriously wrong with nexus 4..its get loads of issues...!
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What? No amount of factory resets will fix LCD burn in.
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joshnichols189 said:
What? No amount of factory resets will fix LCD burn in.
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Lol. I love XDA. : puts gun to head :
Guys ive had this issue..lolz anyways ur phn ur call!
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This happened to me when an app required to restart my phone and a weird static image showed up on my screen. The Google logo was temporarily burned in. I shut the phone down for a few minutes, turned it back on and it was gone
I was playing around with my Nexus 4. It fell in a glass of water. I took it out within 2 seconds. Phone booted up and worked fine except Camera and the earpiece. Those started to work fine after around 5 hrs automatically. I flashed Stock Android 4.2.2 via Fastboot after everything was working fine. It failed while flashing bootloader and then the phone went completely blank. I did 30 mins of work and google search and I was trying all sorts of combinations and the phone booted by luck. After then it went in Blank many times showing *white* LED. I was always able to take it out of that by some combinations. Now the phone got stuck in bootloop. I switched off the phone and plugged it for charging. It charged upto 100%. My mom took my phone and locked in the cupboard (due to exams) I got it today (after 2 days) and when I try to boot then it just shows *Red* LED for some time and then goes off. If I plug it to a wall charger then the Red LED lasts merely a second.
Please help me guys.
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I was playing around with my Nexus 4. It fell in a glass of water. I took it out within 2 seconds. Phone booted up and worked fine except Camera and the earpiece. Those started to work fine after around 5 hrs automatically. I flashed Stock Android 4.2.2 via Fastboot after everything was working fine. It failed while flashing bootloader and then the phone went completely blank. I did 30 mins of work and google search and I was trying all sorts of combinations and the phone booted by luck. After then it went in Blank many times showing *white* LED. I was always able to take it out of that by some combinations. Now the phone got stuck in bootloop. I switched off the phone and plugged it for charging. It charged upto 100%. My mom took my phone and locked in the cupboard (due to exams) I got it today (after 2 days) and when I try to boot then it just shows *Red* LED for some time and then goes off. If I plug it to a wall charger then the Red LED lasts merely a second.
Please help me guys.
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Take out the battery and reinsert it,i have seen people complaining of red blinking led issue,but in their case,the phone shut down due to 0 battery,and when try to turn on by connecting wall charger,the issue showed up.If there's a possibility that the phone got completely discharged in cupboard(due to low or no signal),then that might be ur issue as well.
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Take out the battery and reinsert it,i have seen people complaining of red blinking led issue,but in their case,the phone shut down due to 0 battery,and when try to turn on by connecting wall charger,the issue showed up.If there's a possibility that the phone got completely discharged in cupboard(due to low or no signal),then that might be ur issue as well.
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The phone was powered off in the cupboard
ashishv said:
Take out the battery and reinsert it,i have seen people complaining of red blinking led issue,but in their case,the phone shut down due to 0 battery,and when try to turn on by connecting wall charger,the issue showed up.If there's a possibility that the phone got completely discharged in cupboard(due to low or no signal),then that might be ur issue as well.
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I am afraid taking out the battery. What if voided the phone ?
If the phone has been water damaged, warranty won't help you anyway so you haven't got anything to lose! Just a reminder, if you drop your phone in water, turn it off (take out the battery if possible) and put it in a bowl of rice for 12-48 hours to help dry it out, do not turn it on before then!
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I am afraid taking out the battery. What if voided the phone ?
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You are already voided due to water damage.....
BigDig said:
You are already voided due to water damage.....
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And btw no international warranty for this phone.
But it is already worked completely fine after around 5 days. I also instantly blew a hard dryer on it and it go to work. It shows no signs of Water Damage
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And btw no international warranty for this phone.
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I can ship it back to US. I bought it from Indian site which ships phone to US if any problems come and will deal with RMA.
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I can ship it back to US. I bought it from Indian site which ships phone to US if any problems come and will deal with RMA.
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Which site?I used ppobox.
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Which site?I used ppobox.
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Also when it fell in water it had the cover on and the screen protector over too.
Was going to sell and buy HTC One and Google trolled me
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I am afraid taking out the battery. What if voided the phone ?
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The phone isn't really hard to take apart, I posted a video on YouTube a while back showing how to take apart the phone and replace the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aiut8RXhc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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The phone isn't really hard to take apart, I posted a video on YouTube a while back showing how to take apart the phone and replace the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aiut8RXhc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Will try then
I have a complete set of screw drivers. None worked on the Nexus 4 :/
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Dropped phone in toilet. 2 seconds max. Didnt have luxery of a torque screw or pop open capabilities threw the N4 in bag of rice. 4 days later. it turns on and the screen looks fine, but auto shut down right when main screen loads. Checked for water damage on the inside: void stickers were pink, but phone seemed fine and no sign of water damage, until I took out the battery. it looked a bit damaged. I replaced it today and I am still getting the same issue. Right when I am taken past the Cyanogenmod loading screen, the main page loads and says "shutting off" or "powering down" whatever it says. The battery seems to always be between 16-18% also. Anyone ran into a situation like this or have any suggestions? please!!!! thanks!
Hello,
Please dont burn me since this topic has a lot of threads already. I live outside the USA and will be visiting US for a few weeks and am planning on getting the nexus 4. After reading through dozens of threads, the general conclusion seems to be that its a hardware problem which can be temporarily fixed by unscrewing the back plate and whatnot.
My question is that is this problem present only in the first few batches of nexus 4 devices? Do you think google must have fixed it by now and cranking out fixed hardware this time?
If so anyone who has recently bought the nexus can confirm? Or is there any link which confirms this?
I only ask because I dont want to be stuck with a dead phone sixteen thousand miles away :/
Thank you!
Life is a gamble. Having said that, chances are a million to one that your brand new n4 will have the battery problem.
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Life is a gamble. Having said that, chances are a million to one that your brand new n4 will have the battery problem.
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Do you think nexus support will comment on this if I call them up in US once I land?
I recently bought a N4 in the USA, not my usual place of residence. It no longer works - the dreaded red light of death. I have no idea how it happened, but that I let the battery run very low and when I plugged it in to charge it froze and then never turned on again.
I've tried various things, but the screen never displays anything, there's no vibration, etc. I've charged it for a long time and to no avail. Strangely, when I plug it into my computer I immediately get a warning about "Unsafe device removal"
I'm either going to pay to get it fixed, or RMA it when I make it to the USA next.
There's a way to fix. You have to remove the back cover and unscrew the two screws that is holding the battery pins. Once you have taken off the screws you have to lift the pins off just a little bit. Don't take the battery off. Then place the pins back and rescrew them in. That should work.
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Just so you know, I have one of the first batch Nexii, have had mine since mid-November, and have never had this issue. They don't all have the problem.
I just freaking experienced this. I reading something, while sitting near my charger, and I forgot to plug my phone in. Then the phone died, so I pluged it in, and there it was, the infamous red light :/ I scared the sh*t out of me. But after unpluging and holding all 3 buttons at once for a few sec, it booted.
I am so freaking lucky
I was on the latest PA rom
Ps. I bought my phone in January, so its from the 3rd batch (ordered in december in germany)
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So I see this is a common but no one has mentioned static on the screen. When I plug it in, it boots as normal with the nexus animation etc. When it starts it immediately says shutting down, and turns off. However, while it remains plugged in the static on the screen is there and a very very faint buzzing sound from the top/back of the tablet.
Anyone had similar? I've searched and searched but nada.
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So I see this is a common but no one has mentioned static on the screen. When I plug it in, it boots as normal with the nexus animation etc. When it starts it immediately says shutting down, and turns off. However, while it remains plugged in the static on the screen is there and a very very faint buzzing sound from the top/back of the tablet.
Anyone had similar? I've searched and searched but nada.
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It might help if you plug it in while off then press power and vol down and hold, it should go to a screen where you can scroll with vol down to shut off.
Then unplug and replug into wall, let charge for while then boot up
Seems to be a common fix, hope this helps
Here's the full collection of "fixes" this issue and those closely related.
Hope it helps!
Thanks for the replies guys, I just took it back and had it replaced where I bought it since I had it less than 12 months. It was a 16GB but they only had 32GB in stock, so guess what I got?!
DannyDrama said:
Thanks for the replies guys, I just took it back and had it replaced where I bought it since I had it less than 12 months. It was a 16GB but they only had 32GB in stock, so guess what I got?!
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Hey - I guess there's something to say for buying tech gear at local bricks/mortar places.
Yours is the best "fix" of all!!
Be aware that your reported issue might very well happen with your new N7 as well - it's typical, in fact. One great way to avoid that issue (it's listed as a fix in my Sticky that I refereced earlier) is to occasionally just turn it off - for an hour or two. You can charge it during that time if you wish.
Good luck with your new *better* N7!!
Don't I know it, man! The first one I knocked very gently, yet the screen cracked pretty badly. The second burned out so hopefully this one will be lucky.
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Don't I know it, man! The first one I knocked very gently, yet the screen cracked pretty badly. The second burned out so hopefully this one will be lucky.
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Damn good luck, getting a new one with double the gb's, def best solution!
Well just a quick update. The new one also broke, I went to turn it on and it was dead. Did think about getting a nexus 10 but since brick and mortar stores don't sell it, it will be too much effort to return when I inevitably find a light bleeding issue. So F google, I'm typing this from my new iPad!
hello all
my n4 got wet two days ago. since friday i didn't manage to power it on.
today, after i opened it and put it in a bowl of dry rice (heard it can absorb the fluids) i connected it to the charger and after i pressed the power button for few seconds it the green led light popped, but turned off after few seconds. when i press it for few sec and it turns on and afrterwards turns off.
now it's connected and i managed to keep the green light on for the last 0.5 hour. do i still have a chance to save it and what should i do, or it lost?
i'll mention i don't have an app about the lights and didn't root my phone. i also looked it up in the forum and didn't find a similar problem.
thank you very much for the effort.
You should of placed it in rice has soon has possible.
The green LED means fully charged.
When you mean by turns on do you mean it shows the Google splash screen and if so then when does it come off?
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andyabc said:
You should of placed it in rice has soon has possible.
The green LED means fully charged.
When you mean by turns on do you mean it shows the Google splash screen and if so then when does it come off?
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it show's nothing. the green led is not constant, i have to press about 10 seconds in order to get it.
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it show's nothing. the green led is not constant, i have to press about 10 seconds in order to get it.
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Then it seems that the water damaged some components but somehow the phone does switch on for a bit with a working LED, does the screen light up when switching on?
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Then it seems that the water damaged some components but somehow the phone does switch on for a bit with a working LED, does the screen light up when switching on?
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the screen doesn't light at all.
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the screen doesn't light at all.
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Oh dear, unfortunately it seems that there is a power fault.
Basically your phone is dead. D:
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andyabc said:
Oh dear, unfortunately it seems that there is a power fault.
Basically your phone is dead. D:
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it doesn't sounds good. that's what i was afraid of. thank you.
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it doesn't sounds good. that's what i was afraid of. thank you.
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after another few hours in the rice i closed the back cover of the device and i succeeded to power it on!
but... i have a constant green light on. no matter what i do. so the phone is warming at this area, front and back.
how can i fix it?
anyone please?
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after another few hours in the rice i closed the back cover of the device and i succeeded to power it on!
but... i have a constant green light on. no matter what i do. so the phone is warming at this area, front and back.
how can i fix it?
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If I were you I would try rooting the phone and installing Slimbean or another rom that lets you disable the LED light. That could shut it off for good hopefully unless the LED lost all connection to the motherboard and it's only getting power now.