Okay guys, So My nexus 4 power button is broken, and the digitizer is kind of broken near the nav bar and a few other places. So I basically got stuck in Recovery because the nav buttons wouldn't work and the power button was broken, so I had to wait till the whole battery drained. Then the phone wouldn't charge or start. I waited almost a week, opened up the back and tried to remove the battery. I ended up stripping a screw. And that's when I gave up and tried plugging the wall charger again, hoping it would charge and I got a blinking red light! I was able to get the phone to charge.
Unfortunately, flashing the rom failed and now im back to square one, no red light or chargin and opening the back doesn't seem to fix my phone. What do I do guys, Im desperate!
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You need to fix a few things really. Need to either get your battery charged or replace it. Also you're gonna need to fix the power button, part is cheap.
Were you having any problems charging the phone before the battery drained?
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Hi. I recently bought of ebay an almost new XDA Exec, but when I got it it doesn't want to turn on. The guy who've owned this one doesn't understand anything from hardware. I think the device has stayed without the main battery for a while (after being charged) .. let's say 2 weeks. I've plugged in the battery and charged for 1 hour already, but when I press the POWER button nothing happens. Any ideas how could I fix this? (With turn on I mean absolutly nothing happens when I press the power button)
Bloody well send it back & ask for your money back!
'nuff said?
Hi i-nZ,
Does the LED light come on to indicate that it is charging when it's plugged in?
kelford said:
Hi i-nZ,
Does the LED light come on to indicate that it is charging when it's plugged in?
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No light. If I remove the battery while charging there is red light and if I do a soft reset there is a red light blink again. What light should I expect?
When it's plugged in with the battery, there should be an orange or green light (orange if it's charging, green if it's fully charged) in the upper left along the hinge in pda mode. No light when it's plugged in would seem to indicate that it's not charging, so it wouldn't be surprising that it didn't do anything after being plugged in, even for an hour. I haven't had a battery die on me yet, but I'm wondering if that might be the case here.
The red light that comes on after the battery is removed is throwing me as I wouldn't have expected it to do anything when the battery wasn't in. I guess that's a warning that there is no battery?
Have you contacted the seller about this yet?
Hmm. I think it is a warning that there is no battery and it is charging, so this is actually great news, cause this means the charging plug is not damaged(i think :S). I will receive my secondary battery soon. The problem with contacting the seller is that it will take ages for him to reply and such. I will surely get a refund for the dead battery if that's the issue, but I must travel in a few days, so I need that gadget working
I've got a brand new replacement battery and it doesn't work again! Again there is no green/orange/red light. Any ideas what could be possibly broken?
i-nZ said:
If I remove the battery while charging
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Sorry to say, but I think you just killed it by doing this. I believe I read it from the manual that you are not supposed to plug it in without the battery on it.
I've been actually told that the battery has been charged, so it's not a dead battery
I know this might sound stupid; but can you get it into boot mode?
The first xda exec I got had a fault where it wouldn't turn on, however if you pressed the reset button it would come on.
Of course this one went straight back to the shop. My advice is to try and return it.
trapper said:
I know this might sound stupid; but can you get it into boot mode?
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When i press the POWER button nothing happens. Dunno how to get into boot mode...
Tried to do a hard reset by pressing the two buttons with horizontal line and poking the reset meanwhile, but it doesn't seem to react...
It's the power button, light button and soft reset all at once.
Also what happens if you try and charge it off of a USB connection minus the battery?
Red light, but if with battery - no light.
P.S: Did the light + power + reset. Nothing happens. There is no light blink or something (as I Had on an old pocket pc of mine).
I think it is time to return it and get a refund. Any way you just bought if right? Better do it as early as possible otherwise whoever sold you the device might not take the responsibility.
OMFG!!! The reset button was stuck... Found that myself
All fixed now?
What happened here as the fault looks exactly the same as my current issue....
My friend's been using my Nexus one since I've been playing with the new iPhone...
He told me this morning, while it was on the charger, he was sending a text when the phone powered off. Hasn't powered on since...
I tried removing the battery and re-inserting, removing the battery plugging it into the wall and putting the battery in... tried holding trackball + power to turn on... nothing...
Now it just sits here with the orange charging light.... if on the wall adapter without battery it blinks between green/orange...
Any ideas how to bring it back to life? I can't call HTC because I did a DIY digitizer replacement...
sounds like he broked somethinger.
I'm hoping not... light turned green showing battery is charged but still no luck...
I hope I'm not out of an expensive phone haha
Maybe he dropped the phone and the dispkay rattled and got partially unhooked.
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I'd disassemble and check all connections. Your DIY job could easily have left loose connections which your friend could have caused to come free.
Don't know if this will help you, but my power button is broke, so I can only cut the phone on if I insert the usb cable, wait for the light to come on, pull the battery, and as soon as the light goes out put the battery back into the phone, and it will cut on after a second or two.
So this is what happened:
the phone discharged fully and i connected it to charge. then i got a flashing red led. seeing this as a bad omen i tried to turn my device on - no luck - it wasn't responding.
i unplugged the charger and plugged it back in and again the same result, then again..... and i got a solid red light. so after a few times of messing about with it , trying out a few sources of power and such i got it charging (the battery logo appeared). The charging lasted for ~30 sec and it went black.
So after that the n4 is completely unresponsive. No flashing leds no backlight on screen, NOTHING.i tried out a few chargers and cables and beside those i used a genuine n4 charger (it's 100% working - i tried to charge another device). i left it there for the whole day to charge thinking that maaaaaby the battery ran to a complete 0 and i just need to give it time, as you probably guessed it, that did nothing.
In fact, i think the phone is not charging at all. The reason i think so is because the wall charger is emitting a faint high-pitch squeal regardless of the fact that the phone is connected (it should be squealing only when it's plugged into socket and the phone is not plugged in it)
so TL DR:
n4 is completely dead, no signs of life. The things that were tried:
a handful of chargers and cables that are 100% working on other devices
trying to boot with a combination of volume buttons pressed
holding the power button for 60 sec. while plugged in
prolonged charging (~7 hours)
verbal threatening to sell the damned thing if it's a serious problem
so that's that. i should get my tools back from a friend on monday. i'll try to take it apart, maby there's a loose connector here or there or something. Any ideas what i could try before that?
Some searching around the forums wouldn't hurt. Try this for example.
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Some searching around the forums wouldn't hurt. Try this for example.
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thanks for the link, that seems to be worth a shot.... i'll be able to take the phone apart on monday, that's the earliest i will be able to try it. i was wondering if there is anything i can do until then to remedy the situation. I mean i'm really getting a kick out of my old sony erricson k300 but i kinda prefer the nexus and would prefer to fix it asap.
ok i fixed it
i used a 3v source and held the contacts manually for 5 min. that returned it to the red blinking led state and after leaving it to charge for 5 min it returned to the battery icon on screen. thanks for the info again.
Hey guys
I just had my digitizer and LCD replaced. My battery appeared to be damaged when I ripped it out, and the back cover was cracked extensively from the drop.
I got the phone back from the repairer with just a new screen/lcd in it, who said he had troubles powering it on. I got it home and charged it for half an hour and it would get to the google circles spinning and it would cut out and go back to the charging screen.
I ordered a new battery and installed it this afternoon, about an hour or so ago.
When I plug the phone in to the power, the light flashes orange for less than a second and it stops. No buttons are responsive.
If I hold down the vol-down button and insert the micro usb, it goes to the bootloader menu and stays there. If I select start it shows the 'Google' screen then cuts out and the light flashes orange once. If I hold vol-up when inserting, it shows the battery charging icon for a few minutes and then cuts out, and when it does the light flashes orange once.
I've left it sitting for about half an hour now and it's still not responsive.
Anyone have any ideas whats going on before I put the original battery back in?
Put the old battery back in with the same results.
What the hell is going on :/
Hello everyone,
I was going for a swim in the pool three days ago and have forgotten to put my Nexus 4 in my duffel bag. The phone was submerge along with my swimming short for over 30 seconds :crying:. I dried off the phone, opened it up to removed the battery, and dried it off with a hair blow dryer for five minutes continuously. Then I put my phone in a bowl of rice. Its been two days hoping that the moisture is gone, I plugged it to a wall charger and have gotten the "blinking red light of death". Next, I removed the battery and charge the phone with out it, giving me a boot loader screen with the green android and the Google logo. But putting the battery back and turning it on only giving me that annoying blinking red light. I hope all the phone component is still good. So at this stage can you guys tell me if the battery is dead and would purchasing a new battery resolve this issue? Any input to resolve this red blinking light would be helpful, thank you for reading.
This worked for me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/final-fix-nexus-4-red-light-death-t2250454
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This worked for me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/final-fix-nexus-4-red-light-death-t2250454
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I have charge twice and installed the battery back and still get the blinking red light. As you have done this before, how did you go about doing it? Was the battery suppose to be "hot" when its being charge? Did you soldered the charging cable "hot and neutral" to the battery positive (+) negative (-) as shown in step 7?
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I have charge twice and installed the battery back and still get the blinking red light. As you have done this before, how did you go about doing it? Was the battery suppose to be "hot" when its being charge? Did you soldered the charging cable "hot and neutral" to the battery positive (+) negative (-) as shown in step 7?
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I'm not sure the battery was hot during the process #7..
I took some old phone charger, cut the two wires apart (the positive and negative), and just made them touch the relevant spots on the battery (no soldering was made).
Did you wait more than 15 minutes during this charging?
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I'm not sure the battery was hot during the process #7..
I took some old phone charger, cut the two wires apart (the positive and negative), and just made them touch the relevant spots on the battery (no soldering was made).
Did you wait more than 15 minutes during this charging?
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Thanks for your reply. I also used an old lg charge with the right amount of Voltage ouput. I think it was 5 Volt or something and just split the cable, made it touch the relevant spots and used it electrical tape to secure the the charging charging cable making sure that the wire made contact with the positive and negative spot. Im not sure which cable was positive or negative, so I had to swap cable around and recharge every 15 minutes trial. I know my connection looks messy but thats the best i could do to make sure the make contact at the charging point on the battery. Is this how you do it? lol
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Basically it seems fine.
There are two more things I recommend trying:
1. Try charging it for 30 minutes.
2. When plugging the battery back, just plug it, and don't screw the two screws of the battery.
Try these two things - and keep updating if the red light still shows
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Basically it seems fine.
There are two more things I recommend trying:
1. Try charging it for 30 minutes.
2. When plugging the battery back, just plug it, and don't screw the two screws of the battery.
Try these two things - and keep updating if the red light still shows
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I have tried charging twice with 30 minutes cycle on each attempt, and have installed the battery back to the phone without the screw of the battery. I tried turning the phone on by holding down the power button for 10 seconds, but there was no Google logo splash screen. The same thing happen on my second attempt, no Google or boot-loader screen. I plugged in the wall charger and let it sit for over two hour and still cant turn it on, only the blinking red light. Removing the battery, charging directly from the cable, and holding the power volume button down at the same time gave me a boot-loader screen and Google logo but the phone immediately shut off. Any ideas what else I could try? Could you tell me about where my phone is damage base on the picture from my earlier post?
If you see Google's logo, your phone can run fine. The problem is probably the dead battery. Consider replacing it with a new one.
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If you see Google's logo, your phone can run fine. The problem is probably the dead battery. Consider replacing it with a new one.
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Thanks i just order a new one yesterday, just thought I give it a shot instead of buying a new phone. Lets hope its as you say. Thanks for your input.
Ordered a new battery, and it booted up fine. The important thing is that the blinking red light of death is gone so far.. thank goodness! Looks like the battery shorted out when my phone was submerge in the water. There is one small yellow streak line on the bottom right of the screen now but I can live with that. Glad nothing else is damage Thank you for all of your help! Cheers!