Galaxy S4 GT-i9505, all stock, no custom roms, no rooting. With battery at approximately 15% phone died. First thought: battery dead. But phone not charging at all. Current problem: Sim+SD removed, insert battery, phone shows logo for 1 second, then dies, tried rebooting but nothing happens. Battery removed, after inserting WITHOUT pressing power button the same: logo 1 second and dies. Battery removed again, insert tried entering recovery mode, phone shows logo and blue letters "recovery booting" but after 1 second dies. When connecting charger nothing at all happens, no power up no logo nothing. Any thoughts? Searched forum but found no solution.
Sounds to me like the battery is completely dead. Try leaving it on the charger for a while? Try another battery?
It's the power button. It's stuck, that's why the phone turns off after 1 second and why it turns on when plugging it in.
Try to wiggle the button unstuck. You can soflty hit it with your finger.
If all else fails take it to have it checked and repaired. But I'm 90% sure it is the button. Had a similar problem on another S4.
Tried another battery. Nothing. When connected to charger also no red light to indicate charging of the battery. And no booting when charger connected.
if you have a multimeter, you could test the board connections on the power button.
1st. replace the battery.
Also not boot......??
Then Flash bootloader and fresh Firmware
Good Luck??
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Hi, hope someone can help. Baterry went dead whilst on a call, it was low. Tried to recharge through USB "device not recognised". Tried power and Orange LED comes on momentarily then phone cycles through booting. Sometimes you can see the boot screen other time just the vibration is felt. Tried soft reset hard reset every which way power on whilst connected, power off etc. Removed battery tried again, same. Left battery out for 30 minutes, same. It now appears to be stuck in bootloader screen and still cycling. How long does one have to leave the battery out? What else can I try???
Jerry rigged another destop charger so I could align the contacts and got some charge in the battery. Put it back in and charging normally, phone booted up as though nothing had happened. No hard reset evidence.
Noticed my E900 was unexpectedly powered off. Tried to switch on and got the LG logo for 3-4 seconds, then... nothing. Seems to power off. Failed to boot?
Subsequently, power button did nothnig. After removing/replacing battery and powering on, I get the same LG logo for a few seconds, then nothing.
The LG logo tells me it isn't a dead screen. Connected to PC/Zune and nothing seen.
Are there any button combinations to do a reset?
I have ordered a new battery, but I think that's unlikely to help.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Mark
I had already tried charging the phone of course, and had left it plugged in for several hours. No change, still as dead as ever.
But later I connected to a PC. No sign of life from there, but I happened to leave it connected. An hour or so later I noticed it was displaying the almost-full-screen picture of a battery, with a small fraction of green at the bottom.
So it seems the battery had been totally drained to the point it was (almost) unrecoverable. Perhaps it was the low-current trickle from USB that got it going again.
Back up and running now. Glad I didn't panic and buy a new phone!
I recently acquired a Defy and immediately installed CM11 on it. My main phone is a Nexus 4 and one of its best features is that even if the battery is completely drained, if plugged into the wall charger it will immediately boot up. The iPhone I had before would show a low battery screen until it reached around 10%, at which point it would finally boot.
It seems that when the Defy battery drops below 15-20%, it will not boot at all - pressing the power button does nothing. I plug it into the mains and the usual white light does not show. It still seems to charge and I can eventually boot into recovery to see that power has reached around 20%. At this point if I disconnect from the charger the phone usually boots up. I haven't had it long enough to troubleshoot extensively but I think that while plugged into the wall it is less likely to boot successfully. An unsuccessful boot starts with the Motorola logo, then the screen goes black and the buttons flash once, at which point the boot fails.
Is this at all similar to the experiences of anyone else, or could it be a battery / firmware problem?
Thanks
Have you tried to remove battery, insert it again and then try to boot?
I had the same problem once, I'm on cm10.2. Maybe we should replace the battery, I always charge it before reaches 30%
So, My phone doesnt seem to boot when i hold power button. When I plug in the charger, my battery starts charging from 0% (Although it boots when i hold power button when charging.) Well, it also boots if i enter download mode and press down button (to restart) and the phone just starts again. but then again my battery is at 0%. when I Plug in the charger, it charges but the charge doesnt go up from 0%. I flashed new rom, tried changing battery. but nothing worked. i tried changing usb socket as well. my phone is not under warranty. (When I use this battery in another phone, it shows 100% battery since I have charged it.)
Hi all. my Samsung S7 Edge was working fine albeit a bit sluggish at times but it was okay. I was down to 14% charge and so connected it to its Samsung charger with a non stock cable which is its usual charging process. It was otherwise okay and the screen went off so it was completely black, the red charging LED came on and I left it like that for a little while. It is still in that precise state and no sequence of button pressing for any amount of time gets any response at all. Nothing, no vibrate, no charging indicator, no flicker - absolutely nothing changing. Red LED and blank screen, no response. I would like to discharge the battery asap and have clamped the Vol- and on/off button pressed for 20 minutes and it is not connected to anything. It is not rooted and there is no response if I connect it to a computer. Is it bricked? How can a phone 'brick' while working as it should?
So I removed the back, disconnected the battery for a minute or so and reconnected it. The red light had gone off and now nothing, no light at all and it is connected to the charger with the Samsung cable. I have tried a different charger - my laptop. I happen to have an unused battery I was going to replace this one with so I have now also tried another battery. The phone is just dead and no response at all so I guess there is only one option - bin it!
Well I happened to have a smashed S7 Edge so a working motherboard which I replaced and obviously cured it. Restoring as much as I can remember but can anyone still suggest anything I can do that may kick start this motherboard?
The same happened with my S7 Edge, yesterday. Just a blinking blue led and I couldn't turn it on. So I waited till the battery was empty and tried to recharge it. No red led no button combos are working, nothing. The phone is dead.
Was there an update?