Hi guys ,
I have nexus 4 that suddenly turned down and won't boot since then (around a week ago) .
It seems like the "red light of death" syndrome , but i'm not sure :
Holding the power for some time and connecting charger results in flashing red light , (sometimes it's solid for few seconds and then goes flashing again) . I never managed to get a solid red light that stays or even a flashing one without holding the power and charging at the same time.
Before the phone died I had more then 90% battery so I doubt it's a battery drain issue .
I tried all the suggestions and keys combinations that I found and nothing helped yet .
I still haven't tried opening it up because I still have a slight faith that maybe warranty might help (bought 3 month ago from Google store and then shipped it internationally , so I don't know how the warranty thing will go.
Any help will be appreciated !
(I'm also wondering assuming I open the phone and nothing helps , will battery replacement do the trick or is it more a motherboard issue ?)
Thanks !
That's RLOD for sure. The problem didn't come from your battery. The problem is the undervolting or overclocking settings that you have apply to your CPU. Don't know about warranty. But if you want to get your device working again asap just open it, detach the battery connector, attach it again and charge it/power on the phone.
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Background:
I have had MANY PPC's (so many I can't even count them) and I've loaded many different cooked ROMS and such on most of them so I'm not a complete noob on these things (don't claim to be an expert either).
However, my most recent acquisition is an HTC Advantage bought at CompUSA. I've read most of these came with a test ROM and mine was no different except for the fact that when I attempted to update the ROM to the "official" one provided to me by HTC it would not work. I always got the error "Connection lost" about half way through the process. I tried it numerous times and it never worked. On some occasions it would get stuck on the bootloader screen but I was able to get it back to working status (still on the test ROM).
I decided to try installing step 1 of Ollipro's SPL to see if that would help loading the HTC ROM. Turns out that wouldn't work either. It would get stuck at step 1 where it would ask if "PPC gone idle and didn't work or to wait 30 seconds". Tried it many times and would try to get it to keep going but the grey box on the bottom left would say the "parameters were incorrect" and would give me the option to quit, which I would. No problem, at least my 7501 was still working.
After that I tried the official HTC ROM again and I got the same "connection lost" error I had previously, except this time I didn't get anything on my PPC screen, just a black screen, not even the battery charging light behind the joystick lights up anymore. Soft reset...........nothing. Bootloader reset....................nothing. Hard reset.......................nothing. No lights, nada. The only flicker I get is if I try a reset wheen the power cord is connected. A red light flickers behind the joystick whenever I click the reset button. Any ideas or any help?
Sounds to me like the battery is just dead. I bought one at CompUSA (had the test ROM also) and I got the red ring around the joystick too when I tried to turn it on in the store. I left it plugged in awhile and it finally booted up okay. I then replaced the test ROM with the one and only available for the X7501 on HTC USA's web site. Good luck and I hope you get it working!
I think it could be battery related as well but it had a full charge when this happened. For some reason the unit has lost communication with the battery. I'm at a loss.
I got the same problem like you man !!! but i bad luck and so stupid man , i did with HTC X7501 then it dead after that i bought the X7500 then did it again , holy "... " it dead again....man ...So how your phone now bro ????
I left out the battery a half day and tried it again but still dead. Then I left it charging overnight and tried it again but still dead.
I can't believe this. I've never had a bricked device that can't be revived but after so many have seen this post and still no solutions I'm guessing it's no hope.
I met the same situation when I started to unlock Athena ( TMobile Ameo) within not fully charged battery ( less then 70%).
Solution ( try to make BL mode) with connected wallsocket charger ( not connected to PC USB slot) or find 100% charged battery. It helped me two times.
After many tries it changed to BL mode .
Now I didn't start unlock/change ROM without 100% charged battery.
I have the same BIG Problem, only red fliker when soft reset when AC conected. I wanted to update rom from russian to english and phone stoped working (black screen), and battery heats when inserted in phone . nothing to do? i read everything but i have not got any solution. I think it may be bios dead. helap us please
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I have the same BIG Problem, only red fliker when soft reset when AC conected. I wanted to update rom from russian to english and phone stoped working (black screen), and battery heats when inserted in phone . nothing to do? i read everything but i have not got any solution. I think it may be bios dead. helap us please
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"heating battery" (i.e. discharging when inserted, you mean?), no charge led = dead bootloader indeed.
I get the same problem. My device is work, but not charge. Also like yours i have red ring around the joystick when the battery is taked out. And if battery inside, when i make a softreset it blink one time, continued to load but not charge.
You`r speaking all wonderful. But have anybody found the solution?
Hearing these stories makes me nervous. I'm on the stock ROM (mine came from CompUSA with the latest ROM and I don't have an urge to try the cooked ROM yet). I've been using my Athena daily for 4 months, it charges correctly from several different chargers I have (car, computer USB, stock wall charger, aftermarket wall charger).
However, one day 2 weeks ago I went to make a call in the middle of the day and my Athena was dead. D-e-a-d. Usually I can make it back home at night and still have 90-100% on the battery meter, so with no use in the middle of the day and a dead battery, this was weird. It wouldn't turn on, no soft boot, took the battery out and put it back in, and always got nothing.
I bring this up here because when I plugged it in, I encountered similar problems that others here are describing. It wouldn't turn on, and it didn't give me the orange charging light behind the joystick. I ended up leaving it plugged in for a while and finally I got a red ring, not the usual orange. I've only seen red when the battery was almost dead and the unit was on. Then after some more time the ring turned orange and at this point it would turn on again. I still have no idea why my battery died so fast and hard.
So, is there a problem with the battery charging system that is starting to crop up in units that have been used a while???
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I get the same problem. My device is work, but not charge. Also like yours i have red ring around the joystick when the battery is taked out. And if battery inside, when i make a softreset it blink one time, continued to load but not charge.
You`r speaking all wonderful. But have anybody found the solution?
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Hi i am no expert but i had simaler problem no display or no lights round ring no responce to any commands (ie hard reset and bootloader ) only red light flickred on reset button all i did was removed battery while pressing reset button and placed new battery and left it on wall charger for couple of hours and before doing hard reset i pressed reset button 2 to 3 times and green light round the battery came up so i tryed bootloader and it worked and insted of flashing it with pc i just loaded the img in sd card and flashed it while whole thing was on charge (i had tmob test rom before ) which i think is best way to do no hassle of losing connection or failing in half way and it works like a charm
hope this helps
and ya if you have a spare battery it dose help
New battery?
I'm a wizard user (and lots of former PDAs) looking to buy and Athena, maybe.
Has anyone tried a new, right out of the envelope, battery? these issues sound like worn out Li-Ion batteries to me. I've had them completely conk (won't take a charge at all) if I let them go completely down, and I've had them wear out and stop taking a full charge (down to maxing out at about %20, but sometimes showing %100 depending on ROM status) when I kept charging them while they're already charged.
Li-Ion batts don't sit for long periods too well, either, so if they're sitting on the shelf at the store/warehouse, they may be suffering even more than one that has been used since earlier in its childhood.
Perhaps the answer is a switched charger that stops charging when the battery (not the ROM/unit reading) gets to %100. ???
I didn't see anything like this posted. I'm terribly curious to see if anyone can resolve it.
nother AMEO dead
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1859021#post1859021
Red ring comes for a sec only try to RESET the device with Charger connected
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same here,
i am afraid i got a dead athena too, did you guys found any solution?? i tried switching batteries. this is my first experience with a windows mobile device not powering on, in inrepairable condition.
found another member with similar problems- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1639311&postcount=24
No genius,s on here,just insults
i have read every page on the advantage x7500,being such an old phone you would thin the genius,s on here could sort it out in seconds,but all they do is insult you.i tried to update from windows 6 on radio 1.20 to michys radio 6.5
it got to 94 percent then crashed, now when i boot up i just get a black and white screen,which then turns white,if it try to reinstall advantage 6.0 the phone reets after 2 or 3 percent..will anyboby help by giving simple term advice to unbrick it? NO.will they provide links to there advice no.THEY JUST INSULT YOU AND SAY ITS IN ONE OF THE THREADS.well im a computer tech and if anybody wants there pc or laptop fixing.guess what i will return the favour with computer speak,THAT YOU CANT UNDERSTAND
I have searched everywhere on xda and all over the web but I just can't find a solution. This is my brothers tablet and he just can't fix it. He bought it new from Comet and used it for a few months and then rooted it. Then a few months later it wouldn't upgrade the android version. It downloaded it OTA and when it tried to install it said error. I ended up flashing the latest version which ended up unlocking the bootloader. All was fine for a while until the stock usb cable had broken, charging worked very slowly when it was in a certain position. So I tried using some other usb cables and it said it was charging but it was ridiculously slow. After several hours it only went up a few %. Then the problem got worse, the tablet said it was charging but it never seemed to go up in battery. I bought a new usb hoping it would work and nothing seemed to have changed. He kept playing on it untill the battery was so low it powered off. Then we tried charging it without powering on and it looked like it was working (black screen with a charging icon). When we tried powering on the battery icon was empty and it went back to square one in a sort of loop. I had looked everywhere and some said we had to hold power down for 30 seconds but it just did this loop over again. Holding power and volume down did nothing, so we were at this one point and it was charging for ages and I gave it another go. Still nothing and after a few attempts it just went completely black and nothing appears on the screen at all. I opened the back without tampering anything at all to see if the battery had come loose and evrything looks ok. I know the warranty has been voided by rooting, unlocking bootloader and opening the back so returning it wont help, and comet shut down a while ago so they cant help. It was quite expensive for us so I don't want to give up just yet. I hope the xda community can help
Sounds like a bad USB port.
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So you don't think the battery has any problems? If not how can I solve this problem? Can i replace the USB port or can i buy any docks?
Hello,
I know, there are several threads about this issue, and I checked them all, tried all what they wrote, still nothing changed.
Yesterday I've installed KitKat on my mobile. I've tested it for an hour than installed CM 10.1.3 back. At first, I had no Wi-fi, neither for second try. I read that I need to flash a modem.zip to fix that. So I did that, reinstalled CM again and on system reboot, my phone didn't turn back on.
I doubt its battery issue cause it was on charger and was around 74% (after I couldn't do anything, I left my Nexus on charge whole night, but nothing changed).
The red light appears when the phone is plugged and I press the buttons for 15/60 secs, than fades after few seconds.
Have you got any idea? I can't enter recovery, nothing at all.
After trying every solution - and when I say every, I mean that all possibilities found over the whole internet - the only thing I could do is giving a call Google support. Since I bought my phone in SF, my warranty is up only there (and I live in Hungary).
Luckily, they send me a new one, but only to an US address, else I should call LG for help.
About the issue:
the red light - also called as the red light of death - is a known Android bug. The OS it self lowers the battery's strength, so the phone gets a very few energy which causes that you are not able to turn on the device. When I mentioned this red light thingy to the support, she only said "ahh, that..." and asked me if I want a new Nexus 4 or I want my money back.
Sounds like your phone is bricked.
Generally Google/LG is fine with rooted phones, at least in my case. I'd give It back and get a new phone.
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So what you say is that after you flashed the Modem fix zip your phone went into red light mode?
Maybe you flashed a wrong zip file, which bricked your device? What zip file did you flash?
I fixed mine. You must be plugged in to a charger. Turn off. Which it should be already. Then press power button for long enough go the red light to turn green. Then yank off the USB. The phone thinks its out of juice. It is and does happen. But I got mine working this way. Timing is key.
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leave it on the charger for a while.
but, the only 100% method to get your phone back is to take the back off, remove the battery, then plug the battery back in. the "resets" your battery. this would be a normal battery pull for a device with a removable battery, but since the n4 doesnt have a removable battery..
Guys, I've tried all these and nothing helped. It happened a week ago, so the battery had time to go on 0%, I've charged it and still no life signals... I even removed the battery - nothing.
Meanwhile, Google decided to screw me up, so we keep trying to resurrect the phone...
About the modem.zip: doubt it was a bad zip, cause others used it before me also. I had a bad luck, happens...
hello all,
i have a nexus 4 whit 4.4.2, mahdi rom last build and the AK karnel; I run antutu and my phone went into a coma, no button combos were working and when I plugged in my phone I got the flashing red ligh ( like my video)
plz any one can help my??
i have traid this but no result :crying::crying::crying:
1. Unplug phone from charger
2. Press and hold the volume UP button plus power button for 60 seconds.
3. Release buttons.
4. Plug into charger
5. Wait about an hour for it to charge.
That's it. This is a documented and published fix from LG and Google. The pressing of the buttons does something to simulate a battery pull - probably some sort of flushing of any remaining current out of the phone or tripping some sort of e-fuse like feature.
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tell my if there is another solution aside from this http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/final-fix-nexus-4-red-light-death-t2250454
You're phone looks still to be active. Just press the power button on for 10 seconds.
Hopefully it should start.
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i hope thet you're right
i presse it for 1 min but no thinks, no reponse
Its the red light of death, i and other uses have experienced it and i fixed mine using the steps you posted above (took me quite a few attempts though)
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i do it 2 times but no thinks happen, the flashing red ligh still here :'( :'(
dastane said:
i do it 2 times but no thinks happen, the flashing red ligh still here :'( :'(
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you will need to remove the battery and charge it for at least half hour, then connect it back to the phone.
check this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/final-fix-nexus-4-red-light-death-t2250454
Leave the phone on the charger for an hour....your battery may be completely drained to 0%
my friend's asus memo pad turned itself off from 60% to 0% because of wakelocks and it took it 1 hour to fill up from 0% to 5%
I was afraid of this method! but I played all out
the point is that my phone is saved!
thank you very much to you too
I'm glad your Nexus is still alive. Cheers
Model: Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360
Running Custom: Hyperion 9 GM Final Build Final Rev + Update-01
Situation: So I've successfully flashed the new ROM a week ago. It was great, I must say, I really loved it. But yesterday, when I was on my way home, I found out that the phone wasn't starting up, even after I held the power button for more than 10 seconds.
I assumed that maybe the battery got drained, so I charged it as soon as I got home. The problem is, it's not charging. I even left it overnight to charge only to discover that it didn't.
I tried three different chargers and I even tried charging it by connecting it to my laptop but none of it worked.
I tried pressing the Volume Up+Menu Key+Power Button but to no avail. I can't even access the Download mode.
I can't open nor charge my phone and the buttons give no response at all.
So, any idea what the problem might be? Is it caused by the new ROM or is it hardware failure? Or is my phone bricked?
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Model: Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360
Running Custom: Hyperion 9 GM Final Build Final Rev + Update-01
Situation: So I've successfully flashed the new ROM a week ago. It was great, I must say, I really loved it. But yesterday, when I was on my way home, I found out that the phone wasn't starting up, even after I held the power button for more than 10 seconds.
I assumed that maybe the battery got drained, so I charged it as soon as I got home. The problem is, it's not charging. I even left it overnight to charge only to discover that it didn't.
I tried three different chargers and I even tried charging it by connecting it to my laptop but none of it worked.
I tried pressing the Volume Up+Menu Key+Power Button but to no avail. I can't even access the Download mode.
I can't open nor charge my phone and the buttons give no response at all.
So, any idea what the problem might be? Is it caused by the new ROM or is it hardware failure? Or is my phone bricked?
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Is there any light (i.e) black screen with dim light? Or your phone doesnot give any response like a dummy?
either
your battery is dead
the charging pin is faulty
the motherboard is faulty
the power button is faulty
the screen is faulty
take it to a repair shop for diagnosis
use a universal charger so you can know if your battery's dead or not.. I had the same problem before my phone just died and won't turn on I bought a universal charger and found out my battery's dead..
Thank you for the response.
Just figured out the problem, guys. The problem turned out to be the battery.
I used my friend's phone battery (Both of us owns a SGY) and my phone finally opened!
What confused me, though, is that my friend used my phone battery on her SGY, it worked just fine! My battery hates meh. :v