So my phone was at around 40% today, when it decided to die on me. In my pocket, don't know what happened, or how. I have tried charging it, and trying to get to twrp, but with no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I don't know if I should try taking out the battery, or for how long i should charge it?
Have you tried just holding the power key down for 15-30 seconds? Could just be SOD...
acejavelin said:
Have you tried just holding the power key down for 15-30 seconds? Could just be SOD...
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I have tried that, and no response, phone also does not heat up when plugged in either.
What do you mean by SOD?? Is it fully dead at this point considering it shut off at 40% and now I can't get any response?
Spencervb256 said:
I have tried that, and no response, phone also does not heat up when plugged in either.
What do you mean by SOD?? Is it fully dead at this point considering it shut off at 40% and now I can't get any response?
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SOD is "Sleep Of Death"... Basically the kernel can't wake up from deep sleep, but if you held the power that long it should have forced a hard reboot.
Does it show anything at all in device manager when you connect it?
acejavelin said:
SOD is "Sleep Of Death"... Basically the kernel can't wake up from deep sleep, but if you held the power that long it should have forced a hard reboot.
Does it show anything at all in device manager when you connect it?
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Ah ok got it. But yeah i figured it should've responded to the power button being held down.
Shows nothing in device manager, and adb devices returns nothing
Spencervb256 said:
Ah ok got it. But yeah i figured it should've responded to the power button being held down.
Shows nothing in device manager, and adb devices returns nothing
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Nothing at all? Not even a Qualcomm QDLoader device? Hmm... Not good.
I would try different USB cable and charger combos... But at this point opening it and disconnect/reconnect battery might be best chance but honestly most phones in this condition never work again.
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Nothing at all? Not even a Qualcomm QDLoader device? Hmm... Not good.
I would try different USB cable and charger combos... But at this point opening it and disconnect/reconnect battery might be best chance but honestly most phones in this condition never work again.
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Nothing at all haha. It doesn't seem good at all. I'll try the battery, but you're probably right, I'm guessing it's done now and not going to work again.
Thanks for your help, most likely time for a new phone
Same happened on an s4. It was that the power button was trapped. Try to hit your phone on the power button
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Dead battery?
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Dead battery?
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I don't know if this would be the case, I'll try disconnecting the battery, but it would've been super unexpected for the battery to crap out, as it has been performing fairly well and was not really showing any age until now.
Spencervb256 said:
I don't know if this would be the case, I'll try disconnecting the battery, but it would've been super unexpected for the battery to crap out, as it has been performing fairly well and was not really showing any age until now.
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Not to get your hopes up... But sometimes you can just disconnect the battery, wait 5 minutes, then reconnect it, and it will take off.
Usuario503 said:
Same happened on an s4. It was that the power button was trapped. Try to hit your phone on the power button
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No good, nothing wrong with the power button out of the blue. Thanks though
Spencervb256 said:
So my phone was at around 40% today, when it decided to die on me. In my pocket, don't know what happened, or how. I have tried charging it, and trying to get to twrp, but with no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I don't know if I should try taking out the battery, or for how long i should charge it?
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There's always the old freezer trick. Put it in a plastic bag then into the freezer for a couple of minutes and then plug it into a computer. I've had to do this before (unresponsive after a modem upgrade) but nothing over 5 minutes. This was way back in the Gingerbread days...
I know this is probably something weird, but the same thing happened with my X Style. Phone was working fine and then suddenly stopped working after a reboot (died after turn off). Nothing helped me till now. No idea what to do.
dgadelha said:
I know this is probably something weird, but the same thing happened with my X Style. Phone was working fine and then suddenly stopped working after a reboot (died after turn off). Nothing helped me till now. No idea what to do.
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I had mine plugged in and suddenly it started flashing the white charging screen, then I tried to boot it up, and got about 0.75 seconds in when it shut off and started randomly flashing the charging screen every couple of minutes on and on... Has to have been a hardware failure, something has to have fried inside. But try what acejavelin posted a few days up, see if holding the power button 30 seconds works for it to power up. When I did that mine tried to power up, but then shut off, you will maybe have different luck though
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I had mine plugged in and suddenly it started flashing the white charging screen, then I tried to boot it up, and got about 0.75 seconds in when it shut off and started randomly flashing the charging screen every couple of minutes on and on... Has to have been a hardware failure, something has to have fried inside. But try what acejavelin posted a few days up, see if holding the power button 30 seconds works for it to power up. When I did that mine tried to power up, but then shut off, you will maybe have different luck though
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Tried everything, even putting in the freezer, even this. Nothing makes the phone wake up.
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Tried everything, even putting in the freezer, even this. Nothing makes the phone wake up.
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I just considered mine dead because of it's sporadic behaviour trying to boot up. Plus @acejavelin said most phones in this state don't come back, I actually went ahead and got a OnePlus5 and retired the mxpe
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I just considered mine dead because of it's sporadic behaviour trying to boot up. Plus @acejavelin said most phones in this state don't come back, I actually went ahead and got a OnePlus5 and retired the mxpe
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That's sad to hear. But good to see you got a OP5. I've been thinking about getting a Pixel 2 (when it launches)
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That's sad to hear. But good to see you got a OP5. I've been thinking about getting a Pixel 2 (when it launches)
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Did you try while holding the power button also pressing the volume down button 5 times fast?
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Zedik said:
Did you try while holding the power button also pressing the volume down button 5 times fast?
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Just tried, still nothing.
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Installed CM7 on the EVO 4G three days ago and everything has been working fine. Until today when I went to turn my phone on, nothing happened. It vibrated like normal when its booting up, but nothing came up on the screen. Since then, nothing is happening at all. No charging light when plugged in, no sounds, no vibrations, nothing on the screen, not showing up on computer.
What do I try to get this thing to respond?
Did I cause this or is this a hardware problem that just happened to be about the same time I rooted this thing?
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Installed CM7 on the EVO 4G three days ago and everything has been working fine. Until today when I went to turn my phone on, nothing happened. It vibrated like normal when its booting up, but nothing came up on the screen. Since then, nothing is happening at all. No charging light when plugged in, no sounds, no vibrations, nothing on the screen, not showing up on computer.
What do I try to get this thing to respond?
Did I cause this or is this a hardware problem that just happened to be about the same time I rooted this thing?
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What method of rooting did you do? You try a battery pull and hold the power button down for 15 secs with the battery out and try to boot it.
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What method of rooting did you do? You try a battery pull and hold the power button down for 15 secs with the battery out and try to boot it.
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A bricked phone will have a red triangle looking thing that won't go away lol. One that doesn't respond is usally spanked silly lol. Tho there may still be hope your's isn't try the pull method on batt.
I pulled the battery, held power button and volume down while plugged into wall, no response. Should I leave it unplugged and not try the volume button with it?
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I pulled the battery, held power button and volume down while plugged into wall, no response. Should I leave it unplugged and not try the volume button with it?
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Try it without being plugged in and with battery out just hold power button down. Usally clears some big issues. If it doesn't work then it could be spanked. Bad unit.
slackerlack said:
I pulled the battery, held power button and volume down while plugged into wall, no response. Should I leave it unplugged and not try the volume button with it?
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Do you have an extra battery to try out, or temporarily borrow from a friend? Are you sure your battery was charged up, and it didn't die? It sounds odd that it just did that out of the blue. I'd be suspicious of.a dead battery. They can die to the point that they will not take a charge, and they're totally dead.
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Do you have an extra battery to try out, or temporarily borrow from a friend? Are you sure your battery was charged up, and it didn't die? It sounds odd that it just did that out of the blue. I'd be suspicious of.a dead battery. They can die to the point that they will not take a charge, and they're totally dead.
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That's true lol SBC kernels can spank battery quicker. Id try new battery if it's not it then Id swap it out at sprint.
I do not have another battery to test with, I will have to go to a sprint store to do that. I dont have the unit with me to test tonight, but I will take these suggestions home with me. Thanks guys. Lets hope I didn't brick my girlfriends two week old EVO. She loved the Cyanogenmod that I put on there.
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I do not have another battery to test with, I will have to go to a sprint store to do that. I dont have the unit with me to test tonight, but I will take these suggestions home with me. Thanks guys. Lets hope I didn't brick my girlfriends two week old EVO. She loved the Cyanogenmod that I put on there.
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So what kernel were u running?
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I was charging my phone on my computer when it just froze and turned off.
After that, I was trying to turn in back on, so I pressed the power button = nothing happened.
I then proceeded to charge it back on the usb charger, hoping that it will turn on or the led light will. Nothing happened.
I don't really know what happened with my phone.
Can someone help me please?
Might sound of obvious but your battery is in correctly right?
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Might sound of obvious but your battery is in correctly right?
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Yes it is. I don't know what just happened. I'm like really panicking right now.
Take everything out..battery, sim...leave it out for like 5-10 minutes then try it again.
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Take everything out..battery, sim...leave it out for like 5-10 minutes then try it again.
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I did that as well. I actually left it for 3 hours. Still, nothing happened.
Does the indication light come on when plugged to the charger?
Maybe a bad power button?
If the light comes when charging, I've read you can power on by holding down the home button.
Glacier (duh)
CM7.0.3 (winning!)
Faux 2.5.2 LV (blazing)
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Does the indication light come on when plugged to the charger?
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No, it didn't. Its just dead.
I just returned it to Costco. Thankfully, they were lenient with the return policy because I missed it by 4 days and they still accepted.
Still, I don't have an idea on what happened.
having had my phone for about a week so far. been having great experience with it. then BAM! The phone just won't turn on anymore. looks like its completely dead. i mean literally dead. no led light flashing. holding down power button doesnt work either. what should I do now? contact google? is it a defect phone? There was no rooting no flashing. phone is completely stock. and no physical damage at all.
waited 2 month for something like this. I am really helpless and disappointed!
For how long did you hold down the power button?
I had the same issue with the nexus 7 and I fixed it by holding down the power button for 30 seconds or more...
Use an AC power socket and leave it charge for hours. Then try again. Then RMA is its still not coming on.
Blink191 said:
For how long did you hold down the power button?
I had the same issue with the nexus 7 and I fixed it by holding down the power button for 30 seconds or more...
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Use an AC power socket and leave it charge for hours. Then try again. Then RMA is its still not coming on.
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thanks guys. I managed to turn it back on. but what could have triggered this shutdown? there was no notification whatsoever. if the battery dies there should have been a notification or something right? could there be anything wrong with the phone?
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thanks guys. I managed to turn it back on. but what could have triggered this shutdown? there was no notification whatsoever. if the battery dies there should have been a notification or something right? could there be anything wrong with the phone?
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I had a similar issue with mine about two weeks ago and again twice today. 2 weeks ago and today, the phone was on the charger and seemed to go into a deep freeze. My alarms didn't go off as scheduled, and I was only able to turn the phone back on with a very long pressing of the power button. Then just a few minutes ago, I noticed my phone was unresponsive and had to do the same thing.
The phone is not rooted, and the battery was not dead during any of these episodes. In fact, it was on the charger overnight the first two times.
I'll probably call customer support tomorrow.
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I had a similar issue with mine about two weeks ago and again twice today. 2 weeks ago and today, the phone was on the charger and seemed to go into a deep freeze. My alarms didn't go off as scheduled, and I was only able to turn the phone back on with a very long pressing of the power button. Then just a few minutes ago, I noticed my phone was unresponsive and had to do the same thing.
The phone is not rooted, and the battery was not dead during any of these episodes. In fact, it was on the charger overnight the first two times.
I'll probably call customer support tomorrow.
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I just got mine yesterday, got it all setup. awesome. Put it on the charger overnight, with an alarm set....woke up just before my alarm to a phone in deep freeze...long power press (over 30sec) and then tried to turn on regular, and it worked fine.
Is this a defect, or just quirk..
This happens to my phone too but once. My nexus 7 keeps on doing it randomly.. But I had to hold my power button pass a minute..
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Blink191 said:
For how long did you hold down the power button?
I had the same issue with the nexus 7 and I fixed it by holding down the power button for 30 seconds or more...
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thanks man :good: the 30 seconds power button also worked for me i also have this problem but the difference is that my phone freezes after i played a newely installed game .. it happened twice in a row now and can somebody give me a solution for this ?
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thanks man :good: the 30 seconds power button also worked for me i also have this problem but the difference is that my phone freezes after i played a newely installed game .. it happened twice in a row now and can somebody give me a solution for this ?
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I haven't seen this... I haven't tried games yet on nexus 4, but on my Evo LTE it got quite warm with games... maybe wait till it's cooled down and try again. What game is it...maybe it's poorly programmed and uninstalling would help most...
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I haven't seen this... I haven't tried games yet on nexus 4, but on my Evo LTE it got quite warm with games... maybe wait till it's cooled down and try again. What game is it...maybe it's poorly programmed and uninstalling would help most...
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yes at first the newely installed games like muffin knight and other umpopular games... but now even my game blood and glory(whos i installed from the first day i had my n4) also causes freeze in my phone .. it happened to me 4x now and i really dont know what to do ... maybe its already a hardqare failure since my b and g caused freeze ..
Volume UP + Power button for less then 5 seconds solved the problem for me.
I placed my nexus 10 on charging yesterday, and after a while (2-4 hours later) when i came back, i found the device to be turned off, I tried the power button in all the combination with volume buttons, but still no luck (even held the power button for 3mins) I searched online, and couldnt find any help on other forums. Some said to keep it on charging overnight and then try powering it up. But still no luck.
I dont get any notification when i connect it to charger, although when i press the power button while connected the screen lights up, and battery charging sign shows up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I placed my nexus 10 on charging yesterday, and after a while (2-4 hours later) when i came back, i found the device to be turned off, I tried the power button in all the combination with volume buttons, but still no luck (even held the power button for 3mins) I searched online, and couldnt find any help on other forums. Some said to keep it on charging overnight and then try powering it up. But still no luck.
I dont get any notification when i connect it to charger, although when i press the power button while connected the screen lights up, and battery charging sign shows up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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So you cannot even get to the recovery?
You ether over charged it (very unlikely to happen) or you have a faulty N10.
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andyabc said:
So you cannot even get to the recovery?
You ether over charged it (very unlikely to happen) or you have a faulty N10.
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No, can't even get to recovery. But i have been using the device for over two months now, nothing like this ever happened. What about the charging sign when i press the power button. It might be some kind of a sleep mode or something, no?
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No, can't even get to recovery. But i have been using the device for over two months now, nothing like this ever happened. What about the charging sign when i press the power button. It might be some kind of a sleep mode or something, no?
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Could be a bootloader corruption, software issue, hardware issue or some part of the hardware "thinks" that it is still on when it is not causing it to not switch on.
Have you noticed any issues before it just came off like extreme overheating?
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Could be a bootloader corruption, software issue, hardware issue or some part of the hardware "thinks" that it is still on when it is not causing it to not switch on.
Have you noticed any issues before it just came off like extreme overheating?
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Well, yes the tablet was getting overheated after a long session of hd videos, or games, but that use to happen all the times.
I believe this is normally called a "Sleep of Death" or sometimes "screen off death". Hold power + vol up + vol down at the same time for 5 seconds and you should boot into fastboot. From there hit the power button to turn the tablet on. Then go about finding a better ROM/kernel combo that doesnt give you this problem.
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I believe this is normally called a "Sleep of Death" or sometimes "screen off death". Hold power + vol up + vol down at the same time for 5 seconds and you should boot into the bootloader. From there hit the power button to turn the tablet on. Then go about finding a better ROM/kernel combo that doesnt give you this problem.
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Like i said, its not working i tried using that combination, it wouldnt budge. Screen wont even turn on.
EniGmA1987 said:
I believe this is normally called a "Sleep of Death" or sometimes "screen off death". Hold power + vol up + vol down at the same time for 5 seconds and you should boot into the bootloader. From there hit the power button to turn the tablet on. Then go about finding a better ROM/kernel combo that doesnt give you this problem.
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You just need to press power and volume down to enter the bootloader.
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epicbearman said:
Like i said, its not working i tried using that combination, it wouldnt budge. Screen wont even turn on.
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Try press and holding the power button for around 10 seconds and then try powering it up again.
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Are you using the charger/cable that came with your device?
Its working.
Weird how it was taking any input from the power button though. I kept the tablet on charging over night and i tried turning it on in the morning and it worked.
Thank you all.
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Its working.
Weird how it was taking any input from the power button though. I kept the tablet on charging over night and i tried turning it on in the morning and it worked.
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I've had my Nexus 10 for less than a week, and this morning I encountered this problem. I was working on setting up syncing through an app called FolderSync and SugarSync. Syncing of one of the folders seemed to go into a loop. The device locked up completely a couple times. I got the process running again and left it running while I went for a workout. When I came back no way could I get it turned on.
I had tried all the things suggested here before checking here for help. I'll try your "solution" of leaving the device on charge overnight. If I can't get it going tomorrow morning I'll return it to Staples, where I bought it.
I have an iPad and have never encountered anything even close to these problems. Bought the Nexus 10 specifically to run the Vim Touch app for Android. The only Vim app for the iPad is horribly crippled.
Sounds like this thread pretty much exhausted the possibilities by the time epicbearman discovered his "solution," but if by chance anyone has any further suggestions I would be grateful.
Thanks,
Eric Weir
I had the exact problem as the OP and none of my chargers worked. I then googled and found someone that said to try to charge via their PC USB instead of the wall charger. I left it plugged into the USB for a couple of hours and the charge went to 4% ( so it must have been very dead ) and all is well.
I charged it via the usb charger, and connected it to my pc overnight. Try doing that.
Take off the back and disconnect the battery and reconnect it
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Take off the back and disconnect the battery and reconnect it
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Thanks. If I'd gotten this in time, I suspect it would've worked. But when I couldn't get it started after trying everything else and leaving it on charge overnight, I returned it to Staples.
Will order a Nexus 7 from Google. If I can get Vim Touch running successfully---my reason for wanting an Android tablet---and I find the screen to small for heavy writing---I want to get by with a soft keyboard---I'll order another 10 and give the 7 to my daughter.
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Eric Weir
Hope anybody can help with this. My phone will no longer turn on or charge at all. Not even the indicator light is lighting up when on the charger. Ive tried resetting the phone, holding down the power button and using my computer to see if it recognizes it. Nothing has worked. Does anybody have any suggestions?
You say you've tried holding down the power button; have you tried holding down the power button AND the volume down button? I'd try that first, as the phone is plugged in. If that doesn't do anything, I'd try with a different cable.
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You say you've tried holding down the power button; have you tried holding down the power button AND the volume down button? I'd try that first, as the phone is plugged in. If that doesn't do anything, I'd try with a different cable.
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Yes, have tried both of those. Still no dice
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Hope anybody can help with this. My phone will no longer turn on or charge at all. Not even the indicator light is lighting up when on the charger. Ive tried resetting the phone, holding down the power button and using my computer to see if it recognizes it. Nothing has worked. Does anybody have any suggestions?
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There is an earlier thread with many ppl claiming that holding only the power button down for an extended time brought the phone back. They were talking 1-2 minutes and the phone popped back on. Were you not experiencing any issues before it happened out of the blue, or was there a weak battery or phone heat issue first?
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There is an earlier thread with many ppl claiming that holding only the power button down for an extended time brought the phone back. They were talking 1-2 minutes and the phone popped back on. Were you not experiencing any issues before it happened out of the blue, or was there a weak battery or phone heat issue first?
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Heat issue popped up first. Let it cool. And it was on and still working. I rebooted it and this happened
Sorry to hear that man. Leave it on the stock charger a few hours/overnight and try again? RMA for battery/repair if eligible. If not, try to locate a decent replacement battery.
Talked to a Google rep and got a free replacement thankfully. Wonder what did it though. Only a year old too
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Talked to a Google rep and got a free replacement thankfully. Wonder what did it though. Only a year old too
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There are a lot of hardware issues with this phone, unfortunately. At least you were lucky enough that Google helped you out. If that happened a few months later you might not have been so lucky. Did they replace the phone or the battery?
Same thing happened to me and Google took care of me. So glad I bought through Google originally.
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