I'm running Omni rom with eas kernel and just yesterday my phone ran out of battery, and now I can't turn it on at all. At first when I held the power button, the phone would vibrate after about 15 seconds but it wouldn't do anything. Now it doesn't vibrate or show any signs of life at all; no charging led no nothing. If anyone knows a way to get into recovery or fastboot that would be enough for me to flash a new rom but I can't even get it to fastboot or recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
What happens when you have the charger plugged in? Is it stock charging cable and brick? Have you tried checking what happens when you plug into a computer? If it is the stock cable check the end of the cable (phone side plug) to make sure there are no burns.
You can try holding the volume-down + power.
TeeDiddyDizzle said:
I'm running Omni rom with eas kernel and just yesterday my phone ran out of battery, and now I can't turn it on at all. At first when I held the power button, the phone would vibrate after about 15 seconds but it wouldn't do anything. Now it doesn't vibrate or show any signs of life at all; no charging led no nothing. If anyone knows a way to get into recovery or fastboot that would be enough for me to flash a new rom but I can't even get it to fastboot or recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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It has been charging for hours on the stock cable and brick. There are no signs of burns anywhere, plugging it into the computer doesn't change anything either. The computer doesn't detect that it is even plugged in.
Ran out of battery? Like 1% was left? That's no good. You're never supposed to let a lithium-ion battery get that low. You might have to replace the battery. Just keep attempting to charge it and boot it up again, use different outlets, different cables and adapters, etc. This is a common issue--people are stupid and just let their phones die instead of being vigilant about charging them. And there's plenty of stories about and advice for Android phones that won't turn on after being completely drained of battery life. Google is here to help you.
Did you try what slgooding suggested?
I tried holding down the power and volume down button. I usually don't let my phone die but I went camping and left my phone in my car and I forgot to power it off I guess. Still I've never heard of this happening to anyone else.
TeeDiddyDizzle said:
I tried holding down the power and volume down button. I usually don't let my phone die but I went camping and left my phone in my car and I forgot to power it off I guess. Still I've never heard of this happening to anyone else.
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This is a real bummer. I would suggest trying another power brick and cable. That may be your best bet. See if it has any indication it is charging.
Try a different cable to charge and press and hold that power button till it boots(2,3, 5min...) it happened to me the other day... I love my LP3 keeps me entertained...lol
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Hello guys, first than nothing, sorry for my bad english, isnt my native languaje. I got this problem yesterday in the night of the new year!!!!!!!:crying: I was rooted, using Xylon and Faux Kernel, but the problem appears from nothing!!
The first thing that I detected was, the phone take a WHILE!!! for charge.... then, out of the power, the phone get overheating and discharging so fast, never in life that happends, when N4 got discharged i try to turn on again but download mode appers in the screen, finally I get in the recovery, then I did a wipe cache/system and factory reset. Install again the Xylon... but when phone finally turns off, when I plugged in to AC absolutelly nothing happends, the led just turn in red, and the N4 dont start in FB, dont get charge, dont do a sh*t !!!! I conect it to the PC but also nothing appends, the N4 doesnt appear in my device list.
So... my N4 its broken?
There was possibly something wrong with the kernel and rom combination that caused your phone to overheat. I think eventually the heat may have damaged your hardware. Sorry but, if something was wrong in the first place it was not a good idea to reinstall the same thing that was causing the problem, if I were you I would have flashed a stock ROM. My only advice now would be to RMA it and pray
EDIT: I found this if it helps at all:
If you are unable to access the settings menu of your device, you can still reset your phone by performing a Hard Reset. Here are the instructions:
If your phone is on, power it off.
Press and hold Power until the device powers on, then immediately press and hold Volume Down (while still pressing Power). You will see the word Start with an arrow drawn around it.
Press Volume Down twice to designate Recovery mode.
Press Power to restart into Recovery mode. You will see an image of an Android robot with a red exclamation mark.
While holding down Power, press Volume Up.
Use the volume keys to scroll to "wipe data/factory reset" and press Power to select it.
Scroll down to "Yes - erase all user data" and press Power to select it.
Note: If at any point during the above steps your phone becomes unresponsive, you can restart it by holding down the power button for several seconds.
Before you try anything else, try and leaving it plugged in for a while and then try turning it on. Or leave it plugged in to a computer then try turning it on.
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Before you try anything else, try and leaving it plugged in for a while and then try turning it on. Or leave it plugged in to a computer then try turning it on.
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Try this. I haven't had it happen to me, but I do have a friend who this exact same thing happened and he thought it was bricked. He left it plugged into AC over night, and in the morning it would turn back on.
First than nothing, thanks for reply, I appreciate your intentions to help me.
I will leave it charging all the night and while Im working too... I hope after that, the phone at least turn on.
I dont install the STOCK ROM because I dont have it in my internal memory and I was in my girlfriend house, the night of the 12/31/12, there is not much to do...
I did the same post, but a little bit more explained
Its here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36165434&postcount=2708
(In case you want to know all details about this problem..)
And Thanks againf for your help!
got the same ****
have a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050811&highlight=bricked+
we are not alone with that problem
some more people have the same problem
i did not even overclocked or benchmarked..
read this post, maybe its helpfull for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011328
battery
It could be bad battery, how long did bought of you had working phone, how many times did you charge?
Did you use out of the box charger?
Did you have problems with usb jack?
kibox said:
It could be bad battery, how long did bought of you had working phone, how many times did you charge?
Did you use out of the box charger?
Did you have problems with usb jack?
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I bought it the 13/nov..
I received it 29/nov.
I ALWAYS use stock charger, only 1 time i try to charge it in my car, but it was less thant 5 minutes, I decided dont charge with the car because the energy variates when I accelerate...
After that, I use my phone quiet normal.
I had this problem with my nexus 7. I think my battery died all the way and it couldn't charge. The stick charger wasn't doing anything. But I plugged it into my computer for a few minutes and tried turning it on. Then when the loading screen appeared I ran it to it's stock charger and charged it to full. Your battery probably died. Try different combinations of ways to get it to take a charge. Just long enough to turn on then plug it into its charger. Though the overheating could have fried it
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So I was using the new Hangout app to video chat, ignored the 4% battery warning, and eventually the phone shut off due to low battery.
After that I attempted to charge it all night, using various USB cables, wall units, the charging orb, and without, and a PC, and nothing happened after leaving it all night.
Holding the power button does nothing, trying to load the bootloader nothing, and holding both volume buttons and power does nothing. Simply unable to boot it or turn it anyway on.
Plugged into the PC also shows nothing.
I called google and requested an RMA, but I'd like to see if there was a way to backup some pictures from it.
Is there any known solution for this? I feel like the battery died beyond the point of no return or something.
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So I was using the new Hangout app to video chat, ignored the 4% battery warning, and eventually the phone shut off due to low battery.
After that I attempted to charge it all night, using various USB cables, wall units, the charging orb, and without, and a PC, and nothing happened after leaving it all night.
Holding the power button does nothing, trying to load the bootloader nothing, and holding both volume buttons and power does nothing. Simply unable to boot it or turn it anyway on.
Plugged into the PC also shows nothing.
I called google and requested an RMA, but I'd like to see if there was a way to backup some pictures from it.
Is there any known solution for this? I feel like the battery died beyond the point of no return or something.
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Try charging it and see what happens. Good luck
Sinfamy said:
So I was using the new Hangout app to video chat, ignored the 4% battery warning, and eventually the phone shut off due to low battery.
After that I attempted to charge it all night, using various USB cables, wall units, the charging orb, and without, and a PC, and nothing happened after leaving it all night.
Holding the power button does nothing, trying to load the bootloader nothing, and holding both volume buttons and power does nothing. Simply unable to boot it or turn it anyway on.
Plugged into the PC also shows nothing.
I called google and requested an RMA, but I'd like to see if there was a way to backup some pictures from it.
Is there any known solution for this? I feel like the battery died beyond the point of no return or something.
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It is really drained then... You can fix it by Manually applying current to it so it can charge a little. That's the only fix I can think of. And if I remember correctly there is a thread here on XDA which demonstrates the procedure.
Charge it for 5 mins, unplug it, then plug it back in.
I heard an answer to this somewhere, if you browse the N4 forums for a while you might find it, bit I think it was charge it for a few hours via normal USB, then hold power for 30 seconds to a minute? You might need to charge it for a few hours again after and hold power for 30s again. Good luck
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Tom540 said:
I heard an answer to this somewhere, if you browse the N4 forums for a while you might find it, bit I think it was charge it for a few hours via normal USB, then hold power for 30 seconds to a minute? You might need to charge it for a few hours again after and hold power for 30s again. Good luck
Sent from my CM10.1 Nexus 4
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Same thing Happened to me.. it died overnight and I plugged it in in the morning and now I checked a few hours later and it didn't charge! Wont turn on, I've tried various button combos and different chargers and cables.. Help!!!
I'm alive! Phew. So After trying all the combos with it plugged in.. I eventually waited an hour or 2 hoping it would charge.. and then tried the same thing after unplugging it ( after giving up and running out of ideas). With the phone unplugged I did power+volumne down and within a few seconds I felt a buzz and got into the bootloader.. then I rebooted. Phone booted up but battery was at 0 so it shut off instantly. But now when i connected the charger back I got the battery icon - Yay, it started charging!
This worked for me so just putting it out there in case it can help someone else
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I'm alive! Phew. So After trying all the combos with it plugged in.. I eventually waited an hour or 2 hoping it would charge.. and then tried the same thing after unplugging it ( after giving up and running out of ideas). With the phone unplugged I did power+volumne down and within a few seconds I felt a buzz and got into the bootloader.. then I rebooted. Phone booted up but battery was at 0 so it shut off instantly. But now when i connected the charger back I got the battery icon - Yay, it started charging!
This worked for me so just putting it out there in case it can help someone else
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Yea, I got it working the same way also, why is it so iffy? The phone shouldn't even need a battery to boot if it's plugged in.
It should be able to bypass the battery power check to USB, and charge the battery in the meantime.
It appears dead. It's late at night so i've yet to try googling about recovery through a pc of some such, truth be told while i can flash a rom with instructions, i'm no guru or anything. It was running CM 10.2? the latest stable release for N10, think that's the one.
I was just browsing a forum, and after posting, the disply started to stutter as i scrolled up, when i stopped scrolling, the stuttering decreased, and then as i scrolled and scrolled fasster, the stuttering increased until display turned black (stoned curiosity...) and now i can't get anything out of my N10. Holding power, trying to reboot into recovery. Nothing. No lights, sounds, vibrations. None of the normal stuff.
anyone got any ideas for me to awke up to? I think that if i can't get any life out of it, then would it be a case of trying to sideload or such with ADB? as i say, i'm a complete rookie, just a couple of flashes under my belt.
Second question, i probably have the answer to, but am i right in thinking custom roms void the warranty?
edit: Plugged it into the wall a few minutes ago. It had had about 40% remaining, but when i plugged it in, i got the battery simbol on the screen (big white battery charging in center) and any time i press or hold the power button, or with volume buttons, i get nothing but the icon. I'll keep it plugged in for now and see what happens. But by the look of i assume if it can do that when plugged into the wall i sohuld hpoefully be able to connect via my computer in some manner
If by stuttering you mean blinking, this has happened to me when my N10 was on charger with a dead battery and it drew more power than what the charger could provide. When you scroll, the CPU frequency gets bumped up and the tablet consumes more power. After a while it just turned off for me (when I changed to an other app I think), when there just wasn't enough power.
So I would suggest leaving it on charge for a few hours, then try holding all buttons and see if you can get into bootloader. I've had the battery levels not display correctly on some custom ROMs, (for example I would do a reboot at 60% battery and after it reboots it only said 13%) so just charging it a bit might solve the problem.
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If by stuttering you mean blinking, this has happened to me when my N10 was on charger with a dead battery and it drew more power than what the charger could provide. When you scroll, the CPU frequency gets bumped up and the tablet consumes more power. After a while it just turned off for me (when I changed to an other app I think), when there just wasn't enough power.
So I would suggest leaving it on charge for a few hours, then try holding all buttons and see if you can get into bootloader. I've had the battery levels not display correctly on some custom ROMs, (for example I would do a reboot at 60% battery and after it reboots it only said 13%) so just charging it a bit might solve the problem.
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Thanks. As of 5 minutes ago it got back to life. All battery apps showed 40 odd. Strange.
i think your battery has gone/ on its way out, exact same happened to mine, you need a pogo charger and the original wall adapter to provide enough power to switch it on. Only thing which worked for me, hope it works for you.
hellomynameistj said:
i think your battery has gone/ on its way out, exact same happened to mine, you need a pogo charger and the original wall adapter to provide enough power to switch it on. Only thing which worked for me, hope it works for you.
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Might be the battery, might be glitchy software. Plugged it in via USB and it worked sometime later. Will be keeping an eye on it.
It will probably be fine. I thought I had a bricked N10 but turns out the battery was dead. It is fine now. THought I had a bricked N7 also, turned out the battery plug got loose, (screen would flash every 2 seconds with static on the screen) popped it open and oushed the plug in and that is fine now too.
If it continues to die around the 40-50% mark, you'll need to send it in for repairs. Make sure they don't just try replacing the USB port on it, the battery itself is the culprit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44068051#post44068051
Hello everyone,
First of all my problem. My nexus 7 is dead . the battery got too low as the charger was busted and it switched off and now its not turning on. I got the OEM nexus USB cable, OEM charger and have followed almost all the troubleshooting tips on this forum and elsewhere.
Now I dont know if the problem lies in the charging point or the battery.
My question to anyone who has the idea is that, IF i charge the battery in another Nexus 7, or with an external charger, will it work?
I want to fix this( i am in Nepal) and there is no way I can get a warranty in this. So I am in DIY mode
If the battery is dead and I cant boot into the bootloader anymore, is the above idea a possibility?
Thank you
reganEZ said:
If the battery is dead and I cant boot into the bootloader anymore, is the above idea a possibility?
Thank you
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Does it do anything when you first plug it in to charge?
As in does it start to show the charging screen and power off immediately? Does it start to boot then turn off?
Was having an issue with my wife's n7 where she let it discharge all the way to dead and would not take a charge or turn back on.
There is a trick you may be able to save it without doing much at all.
Plug it in to a wall charger and immediately, or as quickly as you can, hold power and volume down to try and get into recovery mode or bootloader. Needs to be almost instant.
If you can get into recovery or bootloader select power down (in bootloader use volume keys to navigate, power button to select).
Unplug the power cord and plug it right back in. You should hopefully see the charging battery screen.
Hope this helps.
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Does it do anything when you first plug it in to charge?
As in does it start to show the charging screen and power off immediately? Does it start to boot then turn off?
Was having an issue with my wife's n7 where she let it discharge all the way to dead and would not take a charge or turn back on.
There is a trick you may be able to save it without doing much at all.
Plug it in to a wall charger and immediately, or as quickly as you can, hold power and volume down to try and get into recovery mode or bootloader. Needs to be almost instant.
If you can get into recovery or bootloader select power down (in bootloader use volume keys to navigate, power button to select).
Unplug the power cord and plug it right back in. You should hopefully see the charging battery screen.
Hope this helps.
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I have already tried the above method. The good news is I went to a repair shop and asked them to charge the battery externally. My nexus did start. But it seems like I damaged the USB port somehow, so it is either a POGO pin charger or have to get the port frm smwhere..hmmm
Recently my n4 has been giving me a flashing red light whenever i turn it on. No matter what combination of buttons i press, it doesn't do anything. Please help! Using a 1 amp charger.
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Recently my n4 has been giving me a flashing red light whenever i turn it on. No matter what combination of buttons i press, it doesn't do anything. Please help! Using a 1 amp charger.
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There have been many cases like these. I think you will get enough hits if you use the search button. I had it myself recently, though the solution seems not to be very solid.
The best way to get it to work is to try different cables/chargers (via PC/Wall Chargers etc) and let it charge for a half hour, and try to start it. If it doesn't start, try another combination. Rinse, repeat.
A stronger charger seems to work better most of the time (2A for example).
In the end I got it to work with the 2A charger of a colleague that he always carries with him. I am assuming that there is nothing wrong with your battery besides it being completely drained.
Im not really sure though. Is that what the flashing red light means?
Open the phone up, pop off the battery connection, put it back, then try to reboot (you can reboot with the cover off). I got the red light after my N4 crashed doing an Antutu test after OC'ing it to 1.9GHz (yeah...don't do that), and after "resetting" the battery, it booted up just fine.
I had ever occur this issue and tried any fix from internet, finally completely battery died, so just buy a new one of battery .
Your battery is discharged to a critical level (1-2%) and the phone performed a shutdown to save itself.
Connect your phone to the charger and press POWER + VOLUME DOWN, to enter recovery. Then reboot from recovery
I had the RED LIGHT flashing and this is how i fixed my problem. No need to buy a new battery
Ur phone can't boot up cuz there is not enough energy from ur battery, so just charge ur phone for a while then u can boot up ur phone again red light issue usually for low battery and the phone can't booting up
i doubt it if mine is power issue. I've charged for long periods several times, i've tried several things i could find on the internet, i used a working battery, still no show. light blinks for a while and goes off when plugged to electricity. I'm thinking this could be a different problem entirely