Phone Won't Charge - Essential Phone Questions & Answers

My Essential Phone for some reason yesterday thought the battery was at 100% all day long, no matter how much I used it. I plugged it in and it didn't charge. Now this morning the phone is dead and won't wake up. Any help in getting it started?

What have you already tried?
-another cable?
-another charger?
-another wall outlet for the charger?
-does the notification LED light up when it is plugged in?
-have you plugged it into a computer, to see if it gets detected by the computer?
-> if you have done this and it fails, have you tried other cables? other ports?
Some more info would be helpful.

Are you rooted?
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As it turned out, the answer was to hold my power button for 10 seconds to force a reboot. Apparently once the phone had shut off it started charging normally. The software is now reporting battery usage as normal after the reboot. However it's still a strange bug.

Zen00 said:
As it turned out, the answer was to hold my power button for 10 seconds to force a reboot. Apparently once the phone had shut off it started charging normally. The software is now reporting battery usage as normal after the reboot. However it's still a strange bug.
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I can't even guess how many glitches I've gotten out of That way? That literally would have been the very first thing I tried.
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[Q] HELP!!!! n10 died and now wont turn on

Ok my n10 is rooted and romed with CARBON rom, no problems nothing, but today I had an email come in I looked at it set It down left the screen on a second later it just died. so I plugged it in back on it comes. later same thing almost dead checked new email, set it down screen on then death.....plugged it in again, now nothing except a flashing battery charging symbol. been charging for 10 min. tried power, power volume down, nothing....got a different cable...nothing.....my computer wont pick it up either. what do I do?????
PLEASE HELP!!!
I just had this same problem with mine; because of the strange battery issue where my battery would read 90% when it was actually empty and slow charging once it was plugged in... The resolution for me was to plug it into the charger for 5 minutes and not touch it and then try a power on.
bigdogjt said:
I just had this same problem with mine; because of the strange battery issue where my battery would read 90% when it was actually empty and slow charging once it was plugged in... The resolution for me was to plug it into the charger for 5 minutes and not touch it and then try a power on.
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Thanks Ill give it a go!!
Plug it in to the wall charger, not a computer. Let it sit for 30 minutes and then hold all buttons down at the same time. This should let the tablet boot now and will bring you into fastboot mode. It defaults to "Start" so just hit the power button and the tablet will boot like normal. Once you verify the tablet will boot fine, shut it down and leave it plugged into the wall charger until the tablet is charged all the way.
Dont know if it is a coincidence or not but this is the 3rd time I have heard the same story and all people were using the Carbon ROM.
Thanks guys for the feedback, definitely will be switching roms and buy the pogo charger!
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Battery Hit 0%, Won't Turn Back On

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.
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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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
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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
vikramkhalsa said:
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.

Nexus 4 Died?

So i was playing a game called The room battery was at 1% but was connected to a charger and it suddenly powered off and a red light started to blink then the light disappeared and now it is connected to the charger and has no response, is my phone dead? :S i'm so nervous.
The device may not respond until it is fully charged. I think it's best if you wait until it's charged fully and see what goes from there.
zzuurraa said:
So i was playing a game called The room battery was at 1% but was connected to a charger and it suddenly powered off and a red light started to blink then the light disappeared and now it is connected to the charger and has no response, is my phone dead? :S i'm so nervous.
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Maybe it's the adapter that's broken? Try changing adapter/cable or try charging using your PC
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So many threads on this. Charge your phone overnight. Not working? Rip off the back cover and disconnect and reconnect it. That's a no go? Check another thread.... Wish you luck
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When I have get the red light I have to keep trying to power it on taking the charger in and out. Last time took 30 mins for it to go away of continuously trying to power on and taking charger in and out. The reason I do this is because if you leave it on charge with the red light on the phone will not charge. You can leave it over night and the red light will still be there and your phone won't be charged! It will only charge if you get the charger screen up and the red light is off.
Happens to me if don't have much battery and I try to watch something on the TV with slimport connected
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plug it in, and press and hold volume up plus power for 60 seconds, then release. It should then power up automatically or press the power button again. This key combination is the equivalent of a battery pull, which is what you have to do when it gets locked up like that or battery drains too low.
none of those worked i tried it's bricked i guess
zzuurraa said:
none of those worked i tried it's bricked i guess
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Your phone's fine. The reason it powered down even though it was plugged in is because it was at 1%, and considering you were playing a game your phone was probably expending power faster than it could charge.
When there's absolutely no power left it won't respond no matter how long you hold down the power button. Just plug it in & let it charge for a few hours don't worry.
source: this happens to everybody who uses their phone extensively at some point
zzuurraa said:
none of those worked i tried it's bricked i guess
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It's not bricked, there are a lot of threads about it around here. You have to charge the battery, and keep trying with vol down + power, until it takes you to recovery. From there choose reboot.
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you have to disconnect the battery and charge it withe external charger for an hour then reconnect your battery . i hope this help you .

Phone won't turn on, no charging indicator

Hey All,
I have bought a used leeco pro 3 off swappa. Unfortunately I didn't get the phone until much later after delivery (had to have someone bring it to me). In photos the phone works fine, but when I got it it won't turn on and there's no indicator that it's charging at all. When I do plug it in, the phone does get warm though.
Any thoughts what the problem could be?
Have you tried another USB-C cable? Apparently the stock OEM one sucks.
sk8223 said:
Have you tried another USB-C cable? Apparently the stock OEM one sucks.
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I have another leeco and I tried that charger still nothing. I've been reading and wondering if the battery drained. I'm going to leave it plugged in for awhile to see if anything changes. I plugged it directly into my laptop and it made that noise that it recognized something was plugged in but it didn't turn on or anything like that.
phillytemptation said:
I have another leeco and I tried that charger still nothing. I've been reading and wondering if the battery drained. I'm going to leave it plugged in for awhile to see if anything changes. I plugged it directly into my laptop and it made that noise that it recognized something was plugged in but it didn't turn on or anything like that.
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You should to try this, hold the power button more than 1 min, or hold Volume down+power until display show up then hold the power again util it reboot.
hearnfar said:
You should to try this, hold the power button more than 1 min, or hold Volume down+power until display show up then hold the power again util it reboot.
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Tried both, still nothing.
phillytemptation said:
Tried both, still nothing.
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Press power button 2 minutes or longer, sometime the phone will come alive I did it couple of times before.
If not work try this tread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/how-to/guide-hard-brick-fix-qualcomm-hs-usb-t3492949
Plug in charger know hold down power and volume push it down a hold for 15 seconds you may need to repeat this.
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Moon75 said:
Press power button 2 minutes or longer, sometime the phone will come alive I did it couple of times before.
If not work try this tread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/how-to/guide-hard-brick-fix-qualcomm-hs-usb-t3492949
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Hmm any ideas on what files I would need for the leeco pro 3? It indeed shows up as Qualcoom HS loader on my computer.
mchlbenner said:
Plug in charger know hold down power and volume push it down a hold for 15 seconds you may need to repeat this.
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I'll keep trying but doesn't want to turn on. Interestingly though, when it's plugged into my laptop at least I can hear the phone being disconnected via USB when I hold the power button down. It just doesn't seem to boot up.
When you plug it does it show it charging.
You must push power and volume button at the same time.
Never buy from them.
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phillytemptation said:
Hmm any ideas on what files I would need for the leeco pro 3? It indeed shows up as Qualcoom HS loader on my computer.
I'll keep trying but doesn't want to turn on. Interestingly though, when it's plugged into my laptop at least I can hear the phone being disconnected via USB when I hold the power button down. It just doesn't seem to boot up.
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Try use different cable connect phone to computer. For the phone show as Qualcoom HS loader on pc, I just can remember did not format it or anything like that and the phone was fine working again.
I'm having a similar problem, I bought a new leeco pro 3 charger today, original, plugged it in charged until led was green. An hour later noticed fingerprint scanner not working, so i discovered the phone is off, now I can't turn on. I had AICP ROM, the latest one from 21 january.
same problem,dead
i have the same problem i just press the power button with level down(-) audio more than 2 minutes and it boot up. try to press it more than two minutes
rudolph323 said:
I'm having a similar problem, I bought a new leeco pro 3 charger today, original, plugged it in charged until led was green. An hour later noticed fingerprint scanner not working, so i discovered the phone is off, now I can't turn on. I had AICP ROM, the latest one from 21 january.
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Did you get this working?
mchlbenner said:
Did you get this working?
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This doesn't happen anymore, it seems. I charged to 100% a week ago (with leeco QC 3 charger) and it didn't turn off.
rudolph323 said:
This doesn't happen anymore, it seems. I charged to 100% a week ago (with leeco QC 3 charger) and it didn't turn off.
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It actually happened just now. I charged from 38% to 95% I disconnected non-QC charger and went into AccuBattery app looked at the stats and the phone just shut down... Now I can't turn it on. Nothing happens.
I was on the latest AICP ROM
EDIT: I hold down the power button and connected the phone to PC, it turned on to LEECO screen and now red LED is blinking.
rudolph323 said:
It actually happened just now. I charged from 38% to 95% I disconnected non-QC charger and went into AccuBattery app looked at the stats and the phone just shut down... Now I can't turn it on. Nothing happens.
I was on the latest AICP ROM
EDIT: I hold down the power button and connected the phone to PC, it turned on to LEECO screen and now red LED is blinking.
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Try holding volume up see if you have fastboot.
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Any help?
Hello, I have very similar problem. My Leeco le pro 3 don't charge I try diffrend cables and chargers but when plug-in only orange diode start to blink. Do you have any other ideas what to try?
same problem here. LeEco shut down because of low battery. After plugging the charger in it, the LED only blinks red. Then it vibrates, turns off and starting into the charging mode without charging. Starting TWRP or dotOS is not possible because it shuts down.
nocturnoz said:
same problem here. LeEco shut down because of low battery. After plugging the charger in it, the LED only blinks red. Then it vibrates, turns off and starting into the charging mode without charging. Starting TWRP or dotOS is not possible because it shuts down.
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Mine is installed the same rom, and today It had the same problem.
mmcarvaxd said:
Mine is installed the same rom, and today It had the same problem.
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Problem is "solved". I was able to boot inti TWRP and charged from zero to 10%. After that after few trys it was possible to boot into the ROM to charge the battery to 100%.

Keeps turning on when charging, how do I stop it?

I ran my phone down to empty battery, so I went to charge it. As it was already powered off I left it because, surely, it would charge faster that way.
When I came back to take it off the charger I discovered the phone powered on, display on full brightness, WiFi on and everything, and the phone hadn't charged sufficiently at all.
I never told it to turn on but it does this every time, and even when I turn it back off it turns back on again!!! ???
Thanks for your answers! ?
The same thing happens to me... no offline charging on our G6's, at least not after reaching around 5% of battery.
So when I want to charge my g6 faster, I will plug it in and make sure it's charging and then I will power it off. It will act like it's booting back up but it won't.
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jurington said:
So when I want to charge my g6 faster, I will plug it in and make sure it's charging and then I will power it off. It will act like it's booting back up but it won't.
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Yeah but it just turns back on again for me... ?
MDW 100 said:
Yeah but it just turns back on again for me... ?
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Hmmm that's weird, I don't know what to say.
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You can't change that. The only workaround is to turn it off after you have connected the charger. Since I use wireless charging, that is a difficult option for me so I just gave up.
You can't ffs, it has auto boot after 3-4% of charging. And thats not even a bad thing. If you want charge it faster turn airplane mode on, on charging.
devaa01 said:
You can't ffs, it has auto boot after 3-4% of charging. And thats not even a bad thing. If you want charge it faster turn airplane mode on, on charging.
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"ffs"? I don't think it was that unreasonable to ask. Don't be rude. I already know about airplane mode.
HI !1
when i put my G6 on charge it mostly show high temperature detected and shutting down message and power off .. what should i do i face high temperature message after 24 hrs .. although my phone is on normal temp and no heat on its body ?
Maybe a software thing? Im on 20G oreo canadian unbranded sim unlocked. I powered down at 2 percent and plugged in charger and my phone stayed off untill i powered up ag 100 percent. Just my observation
naeembabakheil said:
HI !1
when i put my G6 on charge it mostly show high temperature detected and shutting down message and power off .. what should i do i face high temperature message after 24 hrs .. although my phone is on normal temp and no heat on its body ?
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Try factory reset first. If still the same then it sounds like a battery failure, which can be replaced but not easily.
boomboomer said:
Try factory reset first. If still the same then it sounds like a battery failure, which can be replaced but not easily.
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it also shutdown 2 time a day ??
so its battery problem ?
naeembabakheil said:
it also shutdown 2 time a day ??
so its battery problem ?
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Sounds very much like it to me
MDW 100 said:
Sounds very much like it to me
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when i plug into charging it shutdown sometime with heat temperature warning sometime without ..i think its not battery issue ..as other people also face different issue like when they plug in device tirn off it automatically turn on when plug in ..
by the way why there is option in USB debuggin menu for Unlock OEM and usb debugging as it cant be unlocked :crying:
naeembabakheil said:
when i plug into charging it shutdown sometime with heat temperature warning sometime without ..i think its not battery issue ..as other people also face different issue like when they plug in device tirn off it automatically turn on when plug in ..
by the way why there is option in USB debuggin menu for Unlock OEM and usb debugging as it cant be unlocked :crying:
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That option in settings is there whether you can OEM unlock the device or not... Also, most or at least some G6 models can be OEM unlocked.
That temperature warning is still probably your battery. Batteries can get extremely hot when they malfunction (much more so than the other components alone) so I'd get it checked out or you may have a Note7 in your hands
MDW 100 said:
That option in settings is there whether you can OEM unlock the device or not... Also, most or at least some G6 models can be OEM unlocked.
That temperature warning is still probably your battery. Batteries can get extremely hot when they malfunction (much more so than the other components alone) so I'd get it checked out or you may have a Note7 in your hands
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thanks for info .. lets see i got new battery
So still no fix for the issue? Mine is turning on when charging as well, I mainly use wireless charging but it happens when charging with the USB cable AND when charging wirelessly. The phone will not stay powered off. Any suggestions? I have the most recent Android 8.0.0 update, VS988 on Verizon. I've never had an issue like this on Android, very frustrating.
I also found this link from LG. It seems to be software based, why would they do this?
https://www.lg.com/hk_en/support/product-help/CT20136018-1439979129988-others
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In my case I drained the battery during usage thus not performing a graceful shutdown. When I try to charge into the wall it displays the charging icon on the screen and runs out of power and shuts down again-->Won't Charge.... I plugged the cable into my computer which seems to perform a slower charge --> the battery icon does not display and I am able to charge... this is silly as as a workaround solution. How to prevent the battery icon from display during charge?
This worked for me and it was so simple. I was looking in the wrong place for an answer.
On the plug end, where the USB cable is plugged into the plug, I noticed that the cable did not seem to be pushed in all the way. I pulled it out of the plug, then reinserted it as far as it would go.
Voila! The problem went away. I can now turn off my phone, insert the charging plug, and the phone goes into fast charge and, most importantly, stays powered OFF. Try it. this might work for you as well.
This worked for me and it was so simple. I was looking in the wrong place for an answer.
In the plug end, where the USB cable is plugged into the plug, I noticed that the cable did not seem to be pushed in all the way. I pulled it out of the plug, then reinserted it as far as it would go.
Voila! The problem went away. I can now turn off my phone, insert the charging plug, and the phone goes into fast charge and, most importantly, stays powered OFF. Try it. this might work for you as well.

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