S5 wont charge or completely turn on.... - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

just out of the blue yesterday, my phone quit working properly. it will not charge, well, sort of. when i plug it in, it starts to charge, and the battery symbol shows up, then turns off. and repeats that over and over. it doesnt get to the percent charged battery screen. just the very first one. i have powered it on a few times, but, no matter how charged it says it is, be it 2 or 20%, it shuts down after about a minute. it will not show the charging symbol no matter what type of charge i have it on. ive checked the battery with another s5, and it charges fine. ive hooked it up to my laptop, but get nothing different. i was able to start it in safe mode, but after about a minute, it shuts off. i got it into recovery mode as well, and wiped the cache partition, but dont want to lose everything on it, of course, so im not sure what to try next.
i appreciate any help i can get. thanks.

missTnA said:
just out of the blue yesterday, my phone quit working properly. it will not charge, well, sort of. when i plug it in, it starts to charge, and the battery symbol shows up, then turns off. and repeats that over and over. it doesnt get to the percent charged battery screen. just the very first one. i have powered it on a few times, but, no matter how charged it says it is, be it 2 or 20%, it shuts down after about a minute. it will not show the charging symbol no matter what type of charge i have it on. ive checked the battery with another s5, and it charges fine. ive hooked it up to my laptop, but get nothing different. i was able to start it in safe mode, but after about a minute, it shuts off. i got it into recovery mode as well, and wiped the cache partition, but dont want to lose everything on it, of course, so im not sure what to try next.
i appreciate any help i can get. thanks.
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This may well not be right but I was just wondering if it could be a faulty power switch?

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Charging Issue

Has anyone ever had an issue where by their battery life is at say 59% and when i plug it in to charge rather than the blue charging icon appearing it just showing the battery being 100% and the LED doing successive double flashing as opposed to a static LED like i should be if it was charging?
I've not installed anything, flashed a new rom etc, was fine yesterday.
All i did was have a little play with CHTEditor.
somethings not right, it must be something to do with me messing about with CHTEditor
out of the blue my lock screen had gone, and it says i have a voice mail waiting when i dont. haha
Hard reset i think
update...
hard reset not worked...uhoh
Same problem here
I was in a phone call an al of a sudden everything just went black and rebooted. Turns out the phone stopped charging and flasing green and red. Battery ran out of power and the phone shut down. After the reboot the phone charged normally again
Another situation:
Phone started acting up again and endend in a reboot. Battery was empty and i made a phone call on the charger. during the phonecall the same problem happend again, but the battery was at 9%. I intended to unplug the charger and plug it back in, but after the unplug the battery jumped to 0% and shut down.
So, i think the battery is acting up. Having to charge the thing every damn day is finally taking it's toll.
Wizzkid007 said:
Same problem here
I was in a phone call an al of a sudden everything just went black and rebooted. Turns out the phone stopped charging and flasing green and red. Battery ran out of power and the phone shut down. After the reboot the phone charged normally again
Another situation:
Phone started acting up again and endend in a reboot. Battery was empty and i made a phone call on the charger. during the phonecall the same problem happend again, but the battery was at 9%. I intended to unplug the charger and plug it back in, but after the unplug the battery jumped to 0% and shut down.
So, i think the battery is acting up. Having to charge the thing every damn day is finally taking it's toll.
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The phone seems to charge ok when switched off, i will leave it as it is till im home from work and wil have a tamper with it.
phone is now charging ok, just need to get rid of this voicemail notification now.
hmm and everything back to normal. must be its time of the month
djchubbs said:
Has anyone ever had an issue where by their battery life is at say 59% and when i plug it in to charge rather than the blue charging icon appearing it just showing the battery being 100% and the LED doing successive double flashing as opposed to a static LED like i should be if it was charging?
I've not installed anything, flashed a new rom etc, was fine yesterday.
All i did was have a little play with CHTEditor.
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tis happens to mine (not allways) hd2 when using non htc battery.
do you have original batt?
bRkiX said:
tis happens to mine (not allways) hd2 when using non htc battery.
do you have original batt?
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yep, using the original battery, it seems to be ok now, charging as it should.
ahh well. cheers for the reply
one last this, how the hell to i get the lock screen back, i think im being dim.
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sorted
I have a program BsB Tweaks that has a setting for the lockscreen. Try that.
My phone is also charging fine when turned off, also it functions fine at the moment. i think it has something to do with overloading the device when the battery is low. Based on that its not possible to turn on any phone when the battery is in attached but the power is, i think everything is drained from the battery while charging it and that when overloading the battery just doesn't pull it anymore.
i don't have a alternative battery, mine is original.
What are the symtoms when the battery is at the end of it's life? does it do this, or is it supposed to give a warning or something?
edit: i am unable to find a manual page describing the different modes the LED could be blinking. I'm curious what is says about the red and green blinking mode. Does such a page exist?

Won't Boot

So my phone died earlier today and I left my charger in my friend's car. When I got it back, I tried to plug it in and turn it on, but nothing happened. I know sometimes you have to wait until it has a certain % charge before you can turn it on. I made and hour trip back home and when I got back I still couldn't get my phone to turn on.
When it's not plugged in nothing happens at all. When it is plugged it it repeats the boot logo thing over and over and over and eventually goes black. I can't get to any kind of menu. I've tried the X+Power option. Nothing.
Any help?
mistermartian said:
So my phone died earlier today and I left my charger in my friend's car. When I got it back, I tried to plug it in and turn it on, but nothing happened. I know sometimes you have to wait until it has a certain % charge before you can turn it on. I made and hour trip back home and when I got back I still couldn't get my phone to turn on.
When it's not plugged in nothing happens at all. When it is plugged it it repeats the boot logo thing over and over and over and eventually goes black. I can't get to any kind of menu. I've tried the X+Power option. Nothing.
Any help?
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You might try and swap batteries with someone with a D2 or D1 to see if your battery is messed up other than that I'm not sure what to do because it sounds like you don't have enough power but if it's not charging you could have a software issue, because the D2 won't charge without software.
Does your white charging light on the side turn on when it's plugged in?
Are you running a Custom ROM?

[Q] Mytouch 4g died in sleep?

So, this phone was working without any problems but then my wife turned it off and left it in the drawer for about 3 weeks when she went overseas. When she got back and tried to turn it on it wont turn on. We figured it might have drained the battery so we plugged it in but now its not charging either! When I unplugged and plugged in, the LED blinked orange once but now it wont even do that either, no power, no LED, not charging either. I have tired everything, left it disconnected, battery out for an hour, then put it together and tried to charge, still nothing.
Any ideas? It is already out of warranty so talking to T-Mobile is out of question.
Nothing has been done to it, it is physically fine, it was just off for a long period and not it just wont respond.
Edit: Fixed it! I don't know what, I was almost giving up, but I took the battery out and blew hard on the battery contacts in the phone and in the charging port then plugged everything in and put it back on charger, orange light started to blink and then went solid and now its charging. I just turned it on. This phone is dodgy, no other phone hard bricks like this if you leave it off.
Some phones don't function with completely discharged battery. Actually, most of newer phones. You need to leave the battery inside and the phone connected to charger for some time, till the charging light shows up. MT4G is very far from being "dodgy", doesn't differ from many other phones that behave the same, and you were nowhere near "hard brick".
Good luck in powering up Motorola Defy with completely discharged battery.
Recoverable problem
syl0n said:
So, this phone was working without any problems but then my wife turned it off and left it in the drawer for about 3 weeks when she went overseas. When she got back and tried to turn it on it wont turn on. We figured it might have drained the battery so we plugged it in but now its not charging either! When I unplugged and plugged in, the LED blinked orange once but now it wont even do that either, no power, no LED, not charging either. I have tired everything, left it disconnected, battery out for an hour, then put it together and tried to charge, still nothing.
Any ideas? It is already out of warranty so talking to T-Mobile is out of question.
Nothing has been done to it, it is physically fine, it was just off for a long period and not it just wont respond.
Edit: Fixed it! I don't know what, I was almost giving up, but I took the battery out and blew hard on the battery contacts in the phone and in the charging port then plugged everything in and put it back on charger, orange light started to blink and then went solid and now its charging. I just turned it on. This phone is dodgy, no other phone hard bricks like this if you leave it off.
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Had a similar problem. Phone died while using it then wouldn't light up when plugged in. Left it plugged in for half an hour wouldn't seem to charge via wall or car charger. Tried doing a hard reset with/without the battery & plugged in/not plugged in in various combinations. Got nuthin. Drove around for hours looking for a replacement or open T-Mobile place, until it got too late and I went home. Live chat with T-mobile rep was a waste of time. Plugged it in the wall and left it, as this once brought back a G2 battery that I thought was cold dead. Five hours later it was lit up and charging, showing 40% charge on the battery indicator app once I turned it back on. "HTC Sense" crashed immediately on boot then recovered. Seems to be fine so far.
- Suggestion; plug it in and leave it overnight if it seems cold dead and doesn't appear to be charging. It seems to need to hit some critical threshold before it will work again (as indicated by previous poster). Also pick up a couple spares off amazon or newegg if you don't have a second phone available.

Help (again!) RLOD & can't seem to sort it : (

Hi all. Yet again my n4 has wet itself, big time.
Thanks to Simms I got it going the last time by shutting down phone, waiting for charging graphic, then all was good.
This time, I can't turn on the phone for any length of time enough to turn off properly.
It reboots, google logo comes up, then phone shuts down again.
If I try and boot into recovery, same thing happens. Robot image appears for recovery mode, then before I can do anything it shuts down again, briefly shows charge animation then goes back to flashing red dot.
I left it plugged into mains charger for 6 hours, no change.
Is it dead????
Right. By getting into recovery mode and really quickly managing to shutdown, it showed charging animation, then it disappeared and red dot has stopped.
Tried to turn on again and briefly showed battery icon and start red dot flashing again : (
forcedairinduction said:
Hi all. Yet again my n4 has wet itself, big time.
Thanks to Simms I got it going the last time by shutting down phone, waiting for charging graphic, then all was good.
This time, I can't turn on the phone for any length of time enough to turn off properly.
It reboots, google logo comes up, then phone shuts down again.
If I try and boot into recovery, same thing happens. Robot image appears for recovery mode, then before I can do anything it shuts down again, briefly shows charge animation then goes back to flashing red dot.
I left it plugged into mains charger for 6 hours, no change.
Is it dead????
Right. By getting into recovery mode and really quickly managing to shutdown, it showed charging animation, then it disappeared and red dot has stopped.
Tried to turn on again and briefly showed battery icon and start red dot flashing again : (
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leave it on the charger for a while, then try again. i mean leave it on the charger for an hour or two before you try again.
simms22 said:
leave it on the charger for a while, then try again. i mean leave it on the charger for an hour or two before you try again.
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Thanks Simms. I left it on for 6 hours last night but still flashing red.
Now I can't manage to get to shut down in time before it powers off.
What worries me is that last time I had RLOD, I could still navigate around the phone while it was plugged into power..
forcedairinduction said:
Thanks Simms. I left it on for 6 hours last night but still flashing red.
Now I can't manage to get to shut down in time before it powers off.
What worries me is that last time I had RLOD, I could still navigate around the phone while it was plugged into power..
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your phone probably thinks it has less then 0% battery. keep trying to get it into the bootloader so that you can power it off. try like 3-4 times in a row, then let it sit plugged in for some time and try again. you can always try the disconnect the battery then reconnect the battery method to fix rlod.
simms22 said:
leave it on the charger for a while, then try again. i mean leave it on the charger for an hour or two before you try again.
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Dare I say, it may be ok. This time it started, google logo came up. Waited for it to shut off but it continued to fully start.
Went to shutdown in power menu, phone switched off. Charging animation came on.
Sorted!!!!!
Simms thanks for your help bro.
I'll let you sleep, then ask somewhere Q's about RLOD later mate
Cheers
forcedairinduction said:
Dare I say, it may be ok. This time it started, google logo came up. Waited for it to shut off but it continued to fully start.
Went to shutdown in power menu, phone switched off. Charging animation came on.
Sorted!!!!!
Simms thanks for your help bro.
I'll let you sleep, then ask somewhere Q's about RLOD later mate
Cheers
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good night

Phone Will Not Boot. Stuck at Battery Icon.

A few days ago while charging my Moto X Pure, it suddenly turned off. I was not using the device, it was just lying on a table charging. When I go to turn the phone back on, it goes to the battery icon percentage screen and turns off again. I have no idea what happened. I tried to enter recovery mode and do a factory reset but it wont go into recovery mode either. It's the most bizarre thing that has happened and I have no idea what is wrong. The phone seems to work because it indicates that it is charging but it doesn't do anything else past that. PLEASE HELP.
Also, the phone doesn't turn on (and by turn on I mean go back to the battery screen) unless it is plugged in. That made me think it was a battery issue, but I don't understand if it was a battery issue, why it would restrict the phone booting regularly while it was plugged in.
uncalex said:
A few days ago while charging my Moto X Pure, it suddenly turned off. I was not using the device, it was just lying on a table charging. When I go to turn the phone back on, it goes to the battery icon percentage screen and turns off again. I have no idea what happened. I tried to enter recovery mode and do a factory reset but it wont go into recovery mode either. It's the most bizarre thing that has happened and I have no idea what is wrong. The phone seems to work because it indicates that it is charging but it doesn't do anything else past that. PLEASE HELP.
Also, the phone doesn't turn on (and by turn on I mean go back to the battery screen) unless it is plugged in. That made me think it was a battery issue, but I don't understand if it was a battery issue, why it would restrict the phone booting regularly while it was plugged in.
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Try charging it with laptop / desktop for a while 30 /40 mins.
Then try to boot into bootloader.
If you are successful then disconnect the USB and connect your turbo charger and start the phone.

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