So I dropped my Nexus 6P and cracked the screen. Phone still receives calls and works properly but I cant see anything on it.
I bought a replacement LCD digitizer to replace myself.
Only problem is that I can't turn the phone off and it has still has power for dam near 10 days lol.
Is there a way to drain the battery before I take the phone apart?
just hold the power button for about 20 seconds
it will reboot after around 10, then when you keep holding it it will power off
flex360 said:
just hold the power button for about 20 seconds
it will reboot after around 10, then when you keep holding it it will power off
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Didn't really work. It just restarted the phone after 20 secs.
However I was able to replace the screen while the phone was powered on Lol.
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Anyone else have an issue with having to long press the power button 20+sec after powering down for more than a few minutes to get it to turn on?
Just returned an 8gb unit for screen lift and wanting a bigger storage capacity. Know its hard to get a perfect unit and I have found a perfect screen but now every time I power down I have to long press the power button to turn it on. My other unit turned on within a few seconds. Normal?
I've had that happen on 3 of them already. I've just learned accept it as normal behavior. Some days it powers on quickly some days i have to power it by holding the power button for 20 seconds.
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How often do you power down your device? I probably never, unless have to.
Btw, I don't need ours the button for that long
Every Android device I have had expects a long press to power on.
Nexus 7 is one of the faster - mine takes about 4 seconds.
I expect the delay is to keep a momentary press from accidentally turning it on (pocket call).
I was panicked yesterday. After powered down, I could not turned it on.
Usually it will take a few seconds, but yesterday was about 20 seconds.
So I guess it is "normal".
I will no longer freaking out next time
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Happens to me too. Every time it takes about 10-20 secs to power on. Generally I switch it off at night!
Yes there are times when I just press for 2-3 seconds and its powers up. Sometimes, it just doesn't power up even after 10 second... But I got used to this issue and I just keep trying again and again.
This is something Google should fix
- Charles
Just bought one today and have this issue, about 10-15 seconds. Weird randomness. The first boot it only needed a few seconds. When you're travelling like I am atm its good to be able to power off if i dont know when i can charge it the next time. I wonder if its hardware or software. Nice device anyhow, the screen is so so but at this price i wouldnt expect better.
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gogol said:
I was panicked yesterday. After powered down, I could not turned it on.
Usually it will take a few seconds, but yesterday was about 20 seconds.
So I guess it is "normal".
I will no longer freaking out next time
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I had the same issue and thought my battery died, but the weird part is if I plug it into the oem charger it wouldn't show anything either. Don't know if that's normal or not.
mertzi said:
Just bought one today and have this issue, about 10-15 seconds. Weird randomness. The first boot it only needed a few seconds. When you're travelling like I am atm its good to be able to power off if i dont know when i can charge it the next time. I wonder if its hardware or software. Nice device anyhow, the screen is so so but at this price i wouldnt expect better.
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Same here, I purchased it, held the power for a few seconds to power it on and it worked. After a few days I decided to turn it on one day and it wouldn't power on til I googled the answer LOL
mine booted up super quick at first, started loading it up with apps, and after my 2nd full battery discharge i noticed that it took 10-20 seconds to turn on. i have a C8OK, very very slight left side lift (not enough to be a bother) and i had super minor flicker at low levels of brightness. Funny thing, i got LUX brightness app with the free 25$ and use the "sub zero" brightness setting, i like to save battery and keep it dim, this has eliminated ALL flicker for me. i was thinking it was hardware doing this as other tegra devices had flicker, but now i think it is something with droid settings/software. i would suggest all those with flicker to try this app.
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I had the same issue and thought my battery died, but the weird part is if I plug it into the oem charger it wouldn't show anything either. Don't know if that's normal or not.
Same here, I purchased it, held the power for a few seconds to power it on and it worked. After a few days I decided to turn it on one day and it wouldn't power on til I googled the answer LOL
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Are you talking about boot up time or time it takes holding the power button before the device switches on
For switching on it should only ever maximum take 10-15secs of holding power as holding power for 10secs simulates a battery pull
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I think I have fried my Nexus 7.... didn't even think about what I did how stupid am I....
I decided to wire up a Hella connector to a USB cable the idea being to plug it into my phone for charging on the road... I then had a not so smart idea to use my OTG cable to connect the USB A connector to my Nexus 7 to see if it worked...
Nexus 7 booted past the bootloader and then nothing.... I realised then how stupid I had just been...and still nothing...
Presumably I've run a shed load of power down one of the data line..... what a fool.....
ARGH!!!!!!! anything I can possibly do to salvage it.... please!! :crying::crying::crying:
you could try something ASUS support told me, press all buttons (volume + & -, power) for 30 seconds, and if it won't boot after that, you should get a RMA
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you could try something ASUS support told me, press all buttons (volume + & -, power) for 30 seconds, and if it won't boot after that, you should get a RMA
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Going the RMA route would be costly. If it is dead, he'd be better off just bring a new N7.
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Thanks for the suggestion but no it hasn't worked...
I've had the N7 plugged into the charger for the last 30 minutes or so and when I went back to it the screen backlight was on slightly (you can see if you look at the screen from the side)... but the whole unit was really really hot... I've obviously disconnected it but now can't get the thing to turn off, if I hold down the power button the screen flicks off but then back on.
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Going the RMA route would be costly. If it is dead, he'd be better off just bring a new N7.
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I would think that "broken display” units on eBay/CL probably have working mobos and batteries, as the owners are trying to dump them because of the broken screen. But, buying used is a crap shoot.
Nice that Google is selling N7s at cost (or even a loss) - but it does mean that any oem component replacements will be a significant fraction of the original price.
I was reading in Play Books when my N7 shut down due to low battery. I plugged it in and it wouldn't charge or boot and I noticed a faint light bleed and faint dots streaming from right to left on the display. I tried things like holding the power button for 30 seconds to reset, holding vol down and power to try to get to recovery, but it wouldn't take. Finally, with it plugged in, I held down the power button for just about 10 seconds and backlight and dots stopped. A few seconds later without pressing anything, it booted up. It would start to charge, but if the screen timed out, I was back to the earlier state and it wouldn't come on. So I got it started again and immediately went to developer options and checked Stay Awake while plugged in. Eventually the charge built up and I'm back to normal, at least my N7 is normal. I only mention this because the OP talked about the faint backlight and it may be worth trying.
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Thanks for the suggestion but no it hasn't worked...
I've had the N7 plugged into the charger for the last 30 minutes or so and when I went back to it the screen backlight was on slightly (you can see if you look at the screen from the side)... but the whole unit was really really hot... I've obviously disconnected it but now can't get the thing to turn off, if I hold down the power button the screen flicks off but then back on.
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A standard hella charger outputs 5V at 2A which is the same as your N7 original wall charger.
I doubt your problem came from the charger, it might be softbrick at an unfortunately moment.
I came across a similar problem when i was editing a custom kernel.
If you tried every method to shut down the device and failed do the following:
1. Open the case (it's quite easy to open with a plastic card)
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+Nexus+7+Battery/9895/1
2. Unplug the battery and hold the power button 30 seconds (with the battery detached)
3. Let it soak for 10 minutes
4. Reconnect the battery and close the lid.
5. Put your nexus 7 in the wall charger, and you should see the battery bar on the screen.
After that, let it charge a few minutes and boot the device.
It won't turn on even the battery icon is absent when I try to charge it. Also when I hold the power button for 15 seconds it only blinks/pulse 3 times(notification light). I bought this tablet at Best buy...and it's over 15 days now.
Can I still return. This one or get a replacement from Bestbuy/Google? My tablet isn't rooted yet with locked boot loader too.
Thanks.
Hold the power button for longer, like 30-60 seconds.
If that doesn't work, connect to charger and let it sit for a while, then repeat.
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Hold the power button for longer, like 30-60 seconds.
If that doesn't work, connect to charger and let it sit for a while, then repeat.
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Thanks...it works now...and the battery was so drained it didn't power up for a couple of minutes ... . I checked the battery section and it was mainly caused by Vonage app...I don't know why ...it should consume about 50% of the battery... I just used it once . :/
I'm having the same problem I am completely stock with a locked boot loader. I had just took my device off the charger and it powered on and I saw Google so I thought it was starting up, when I looked back the device was off I've tried holding power for 30 seconds and even tried putting it back on the charger,but its not even showing the charging indicator.
Edit:I got it to work, I left it off the charger for 5 minutes and then tried charging it again and It started charging. I turned it on and it said I had 65% battery so I find it kind of weird that it didn't start up.
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.
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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.
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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
Okay, here's the story. My Nexus 7 Gen 2 went into the water for half an instant. However, when I tried to turn it off immediately, it wouldn't turn off. I put it in a container of rice for a couple of days and eventually, it turned off - the battery died, I'm sure. Anyway, now, when I plug in the charger, I get the battery charging symbol, however, it will still not turn on. I've tried some of the button combos mentioned (hold power for 30 seconds, hold power and volume up for 15 seconds, hold power and volume down for 15 seconds, even hold power for 2 minutes), yet nothing seems to work. But as soon as I unplug it and plug it back in the charge symbol appears. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Chris
tchudson said:
Okay, here's the story. My Nexus 7 Gen 2 went into the water for half an instant. However, when I tried to turn it off immediately, it wouldn't turn off. I put it in a container of rice for a couple of days and eventually, it turned off - the battery died, I'm sure. Anyway, now, when I plug in the charger, I get the battery charging symbol, however, it will still not turn on. I've tried some of the button combos mentioned (hold power for 30 seconds, hold power and volume up for 15 seconds, hold power and volume down for 15 seconds, even hold power for 2 minutes), yet nothing seems to work. But as soon as I unplug it and plug it back in the charge symbol appears. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Chris
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Please post in the Nexus 7 2013 forum as this is the incorrect section.
Thanks.
KawaiiAurora said:
Please post in the Nexus 7 2013 forum as this is the incorrect section.
Thanks.
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Yikes! My bad. Will do.
Chris