Hey guys
I was super happy with my Australian Telstra M9 until an hour ago. I plugged it with 3% of battery in for charging and turned it off to speed the process up. When it was off the charging icon showed up just as usual. After a few hours I came back, unplugged the phone and it flashed 100% for a second. After that - nothing! It just won't turn on! I pressed every button and every possible combination of those. I plugged it back in for a bit and connected it to my laptop. But it's not even recognized. I googled for a bit but found no solution. I rooted the phone a couple of weeks ago but didn't do anything like that today. No updates, no new apps only some WhatsApp and 9gag.
What do you reckon? Is it bricked? Will I get a replacement and how long will that take? I have to leave Australia in 9 days so I'm quite on a schedule. -.-
Does anyone have any advice?!
Cheers Max
Edit: is there a chance to recover the data? I'm traveling and forgot to back anything up. Some of the data is quite important. And do you think I'll get into trouble because of the root?
No clue, try a different charger maybe.
I tried three different charges plus my laptop. Neither of them worked. Is there gonna be any way to rescue the data from the internal storage or will the just wipe it after they repaired it?
I would try holding the power and volume up button for at least 2-3 minutes. If it does come on, as soon as you feel it vibrate, move your finger down to the volume down button and hold it until you get into download mode. Then boot to the bootloader and then recovery and restore a nandroid.
Oh my god!!! Thank you so much! I have no idea why but after a minute it booted up just fine an all my data are still there. I'm never ever gonna forget a backup anymore. But what happend? Why did it start again? Battery is down to 50% so it seems it has been running all night and was stuck at some point. What can I do to avoid this from happening again? I don't wanna get a heart attack every time the phone won't turn on
But for the moment I'm alright! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
MrDuvet said:
Oh my god!!! Thank you so much! I have no idea why but after a minute it booted up just fine an all my data are still there. I'm never ever gonna forget a backup anymore. But what happend? Why did it start again? Battery is down to 50% so it seems it has been running all night and was stuck at some point. What can I do to avoid this from happening again? I don't wanna get a heart attack every time the phone won't turn on
But for the moment I'm alright! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Hold power + volume up button will work in most cases.
TBH, don't really know what happened to you. Did you flash custom rom, recovery? or only root?
I didn't know that. I only new power + vol down. And I didn't hold it for a minute. I did nothing but flashing TWRP and root the stock rom. I didn't even change much with the root and only use it for titanium backup and adaway. That's why I was so baffled, when the phone suddenly "broke" because I didn't do anything unusual to it.
MrDuvet said:
Oh my god!!! Thank you so much! I have no idea why but after a minute it booted up just fine an all my data are still there. I'm never ever gonna forget a backup anymore. But what happend? Why did it start again? Battery is down to 50% so it seems it has been running all night and was stuck at some point. What can I do to avoid this from happening again? I don't wanna get a heart attack every time the phone won't turn on
But for the moment I'm alright! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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I'm glad you got your phone up and running. I know exactly how you feel, I had the same thing happen to me. I thought mine died when the screen went black after I flashed a kernel. Its always scary when the phone won't respond.
The phone was likely frozen. Power + Volume Up forces the phone to reboot after being held for a while. It could be some weird software issue due to the rooting and TWRP, but no one can say for sure. It might happen again but now you know how to reboot it If you really want to avoid the possibility of problems, you probably want to run stock and not root the phone or change bootloader... but what's the fun in that?
You're right no risk no fun. I'm actually waiting for cm so running stock is no option anyway
Thanks for saving me lots of headaches
FYI - I thought I had bricked mine as well - no flashing activity in a couple of weeks, all good chargers. Even made an appointment for repair.
Read the "hold power and vol up for a minute or two," and was like... nooooo... 10 seconds is the max you'd do that for... but tried it... bam, worked like a charm at ~45 seconds for me. Got into HTC FTM mode in which no option worked (reboot to bootloader, simlock, couple of others seemed to just pop immediately back to this weird non-download menu). Holding power for a while after that reset the device. Working now.
Thanks for the thread... been doing this for five years and this is the first no-charge no-response event I've had
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I would try holding the power and volume up button for at least 2-3 minutes. If it does come on, as soon as you feel it vibrate, move your finger down to the volume down button and hold it until you get into download mode. Then boot to the bootloader and then recovery and restore a nandroid.
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Worked like a champ, thanks a ton! :good:
Hi All,
About a week ago my M9 powered down while on charge and then wouldn't power on again. No response at all from the standard power button but only holding it for a few seconds at a time.
I knew the buttons to hold to enter bootloader and after several tries it powered on again.... It then ran for a couple of days with no issues.
Then a couple of days later had to power off the phone on a flight - same issue - wouldn't power on - dead.
It took several attempts to bring it back to life. I'm now in a position when every time I power off the phone it just doesn't want to come back on? Thought that it may have been a custom rom issue or a kernel issue - have tried changing both (painful experience by the way - having to wait for the phone to decide when its ready to wake up "when it feels like it after each new installation) but the problem is still there.
I have also found that entering bootloader using the power button and volume button isn't the only solution to "waking up" the phone. Just holding the power button for 10-60 seconds has the same effect - but it sometimes takes several attempts over several minutes - its very random.
Does anyone else have this recurring problem every time they power off? Does anyone on "stock" have the problem?
I'm starting to think that maybe its hardware rather than a software issue?
Try turning off the phone, plugging in the charger, and holding all three buttons for two minutes.
HTC has recommended this as a fix for battery issues like the slow charging bug. Apparently it clears all the battery settings and recalibrates it. The phone will reboot repeatedly while you're doing this, but that's normal. Keep holding the buttons.
I have seen HTC phones do this in the past when the battery system gets confused.
Bricked M9
iElvis said:
Try turning off the phone, plugging in the charger, and holding all three buttons for two minutes.
HTC has recommended this as a fix for battery issues like the slow charging bug. Apparently it clears all the battery settings and recalibrates it. The phone will reboot repeatedly while you're doing this, but that's normal. Keep holding the buttons.
I have seen HTC phones do this in the past when the battery system gets confused.
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My M9 is not quite 6 months old - ALL stock. Went to bed last night , M9 quick charger plugged in with green light and phone power on - just in airplane mode. Woke up 4 hours later and found the phone dead.
I tried 1 button, 2 button, and 3 button holds for 5 minutes each, plugged in and not plugged in - still dead!
Any help would be appreciated.
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My M9 is not quite 6 months old - ALL stock. Went to bed last night , M9 quick charger plugged in with green light and phone power on - just in airplane mode. Woke up 4 hours later and found the phone dead.
I tried 1 button, 2 button, and 3 button holds for 5 minutes each, plugged in and not plugged in - still dead!
Any help would be appreciated.
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Best to run a logger like BetterBatteryStatsor GSam Battery Monitor to find out what is draining it
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Best to run a logger like BetterBatteryStatsor GSam Battery Monitor to find out what is draining it
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I am unaware of any way to do this if the phone wont turn on - it's dead.
aairlinepilot said:
I am unaware of any way to do this if the phone wont turn on - it's dead.
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Ah you cannot even get it charged anymore?
I know HTC phones had an issue that when they are completely drained, they seem to be dead, even not charging or anything. Yet if you keep them in the charger, eventually they would show as charging and being able to turn on again.
aairlinepilot said:
My M9 is not quite 6 months old - ALL stock. Went to bed last night , M9 quick charger plugged in with green light and phone power on - just in airplane mode. Woke up 4 hours later and found the phone dead.
I tried 1 button, 2 button, and 3 button holds for 5 minutes each, plugged in and not plugged in - still dead!
Any help would be appreciated.
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Leave it in connected to the stock charger overnight and see if that helps. If not, you might have a hardware fault and need to return it for warranty service.
I too thank you most profusely!!
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i have a a100 with the latest flexreaper rom installed and im stuck with a pretty serious issue:
a couple of days ago the tab was acting real slow and sluggish and getting bad battery life didnt think nothing of it so i just rebooted a couple times and left it alone . all was good untill the battery hit 10% and i plugged it up using the factory ac adapter. the next day (maybe 6-7 hours later) i went to turn it on and nothing no vibrate no screen flash nothing; other than the power button turning blue as i pressed it and it would stay on for a couple hours but still no other response from the tablet.
im at my wits end on what could be wrong and now i got my wife with her foot on my neck till i get it fixed. can anyone help me?
ive tried to do a hard reset with the reset button tried to boot into recovery /bootloader no dice
(also my home button flashed a couple time i pressed the power button) dont know if its relevant but wanna get as much info out as possible
wondering if anyone can help me...
frenize said:
wondering if anyone can help me...
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It may take awhile for someone to see this and form something to try, random bricking for no reason is rare, its almost always some error by the user. However have you attempted adb connection to it? Leave it powered off, connect to the PC you used to unlock the boot loader then power on. Does the PC make the USB connect sound? Does the Acer vibrate? Did the home key blink again?
It really sounds like your boot partition is wrecked which wouldn't normally happen outside of flashing. If boot loader is trash then it won't know what to do and just sit there. No recovery or anything else.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
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It may take awhile for someone to see this and form something to try, random bricking for no reason is rare, its almost always some error by the user. However have you attempted adb connection to it? Leave it powered off, connect to the PC you used to unlock the boot loader then power on. Does the PC make the USB connect sound? Does the Acer vibrate? Did the home key blink again?
It really sounds like your boot partition is wrecked which wouldn't normally happen outside of flashing. If boot loader is trash then it won't know what to do and just sit there. No recovery or anything else.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
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it made something like the connect sound but instead of the regular duh doom sound it did a dadadoom (kinda hard to describe the sound) but it was faster than ive ever heard the connect sound before which is weird. the tab didnt vibrate and it seems the home button blinks when the tab is dead and needs recharged
frenize said:
it made something like the connect sound but instead of the regular duh doom sound it did a dadadoom (kinda hard to describe the sound) but it was faster than ive ever heard the connect sound before which is weird. the tab didnt vibrate and it seems the home button blinks when the tab is dead and needs recharged
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Yeah I know that sound it means USB connected but error for some reason. Its been shown if this thing dies all the way down it wont read the battery correctly and probably needs to be sent in. Before that I personally would unplug it open it up and remove the battery for awhile, maybe an hour then put it back and plug it in. But thats me, not the advice I'm giving. If you have warantee on it use that.
The batteries on a lot of devices and laptops etc have something of a fail safe, if the voltage drops below a certain point it trips to prevent cell damage, however it renders the battery useless.
I haven't searched out much past that if a reset is possible by us, but it seems the pack is trash after or needs sent in.
Since this is a sealed unit you void warranty opening it (well unlocking the boot loader did too) so you can't send it in for repairs without paying for it.
I hope someone can jump in and help figure this out, and prove me wrong.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
Weird, This exact same thing happened to me. Used it in the morning and now after work it won't turn on. I had already tried disconnecting the battery, but hadn't thought to leave it disconnected for an hour. My tablet has been running the leaked ICS since it came out and The last factory reset it had was about a month ago. It was working fine up until this. The power button seems to be responding correctly, the issue is that after the LEDs light up, there is no vibration or display. I hope someone can help us with this issue.
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It won't connect in ADB mode. It will only appear on my computer as an APX device and since there is no vibration I am unable to boot into fastboot. Any help or suggestions? All the threads I have found have involved booting into fastboot.
i am also having this problem. i set ti backup last night to save to box i turned it on this morning it.worked set it on the charger came back to a frozen screen. I turned it off now just a black screen it turns on or the home button dose but nothing comes up on the screen
same thing here.
max69power said:
i am also having this problem. i set ti backup last night to save to box i turned it on this morning it.worked set it on the charger came back to a frozen screen. I turned it off now just a black screen it turns on or the home button dose but nothing comes up on the screen
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I have been using ICS the leaked one, and last night I was goint to check my email and it did not turn on, I though the battery died. I plugged to the charger and this morning I tried to turning it on but it failed. I did the reset pin but nothing. I connected to the computer and it was recognized as a APX device and installed a driver ACER Picasso USB recover but i cant access anything. I am a nob. Thanks
A100 blackscreen
i am also having this problem. last night. just a black screen it turns on or the home button dose but nothing comes up on the screen. :crying: Help!!!!!!
Has anyone tried holding the power button for a while? Laptops do this too, if someone felt ventures, try taking the battery out and hold the power button. No promises, might work.
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same here
Having the exactly same issue, here...
I also tried to hit the hardware reset button and it does not help.
If the screen is blank while powered on its in failsafe mode, in other words is bricked, has to go to Acer.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
This just happened to me a few weeks ago as well. If you are still under warranty send it in to Acer, thats what I did. I just got an email saying they had fixed it and were sending it back for free!!
At the time I was on the 9/02 JB build. I wonder if this issue is caused by faulty hardware or if it is an issue that was made by rooting and unlocking it? I don't know enough about this stuff to answer that though, but it does make me think whether I should root/unlock it when I get it back or leave it stock.
Also thanks Pio_masaki for helping me a few weeks back wasn't sure if I was even going to send it in until you said they most likely won't be able to tell.
I highly doubt they even CARE when sending these in. They will void for physical damage most likely.
tshm55 said:
Having the exactly same issue, here...
I also tried to hit the hardware reset button and it does not help.
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Ohmygod,
Same here, but it's 3 years ago. Sorry for digging the topic. Still no hope? I still keep the tablet and have just buy another refurbished mainboard to replace but still no vibrate and blacksreen still there.
Hi,
I'm having the (common?) problem, that the power button doesn't work any more. You can press it as long or often as you want, it doesn't do anything.
So -- big mistake -- I took of the battery and tried to restart. But the power button seems to be broken (hardware), so I now cant even turn on the phone to make it connect to e.g. adb...
Is there any way, to get the phone (without using the power button :/) able to talk to the adb / fastboot interface? (or better, boot it completely)
Need to get some data off it before sending it in for replacement..
thanks !
take the battery out and plug into usb (connected to computer). put the battery back in and when you see the battery charging on the screen remove the battery again. On mine the battery image starts flickering. at that point i put the battery back in and it rebooted.
This has worked for me a few times. Once rebooted you will be able to see your device using adb and then fastboot.
i got the idea from this post but found the timing i used worked better than his random attempts while holding the x key on the nexus one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524858
good luck
I've been searching the web for days looking for a way to turn on my Galaxy Nexus without using its broken power button, and your timing trick got it working. Thanks!
Thank you, i searched for a whole night during my night shift for this and it worked, lets hope i won't turn it off again :fingers-crossed:
Rooted?
If you have a rooted phone you can use AOKP ROM or any other roms that has volume wake in its settings. If your kernel supports it you can do what I did and use PGM Nexus from the market, basically what it does is let you lock and unlock your screen by swiping from left to right and right to left for each action (it keeps your touch controls on even when the screen is off and it doesn't use that much battery ) Hope this helps.
Rookie_One said:
Thank you, i searched for a whole night during my night shift for this and it worked, lets hope i won't turn it off again :fingers-crossed:
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Is there some trick here guys? My phone has a busted power button and I need to get some data off it before repairing. I've tried this timing method but it doesn't seem to do anything. A charging icon shows up, I pull the battery and replace it, and then the full icon shows up and eventually disappears.
if you go to the phones main settings, security, lockscreen, then press none, youll be able to wake the device with the volume buttons. its a built in feature, no app needed.
cohrs said:
take the battery out and plug into usb (connected to computer). put the battery back in and when you see the battery charging on the screen remove the battery again. On mine the battery image starts flickering. at that point i put the battery back in and it rebooted.
This has worked for me a few times. Once rebooted you will be able to see your device using adb and then fastboot.
i got the idea from this post but found the timing i used worked better than his random attempts while holding the x key on the nexus one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524858
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I love you mate. Now I can use my phone again.
Oh thank God it WORKS! thanks to you man, your post is really helpful. thanks to everyone who have shared this idea!
Let me explain in detail how it works on mine:
1. battery pulled (if possible, the battery shoulldn't be too full to allow the charging animations to appear)
2. connect phone to usb that is connected on pc (without the battery inserted) n wait like 1 or 2 seconds before inserting the battery
3. insert the battery now
4. wait for the battery lightning logo to appear
5. once appeared, wait for the battery lightning logo to disappear (it took me almost 10 seconds.. might vary with yours)
6. once the battery lightning logo disappear, wait for the charging animation to appear (almost instant)
7. when the charging animation appears, kindly pull the battery now.. hehe.. it doesn't matter if you wanna pull it immediately after the charging animations appear or not as long as the animation is still playing..
8. this is the point where it should work or not:
A: sometimes the animation will continue to loop 3 times n nothing happen. Repeat process from step 1.
B: there's a split second static lines on the screen (static as in the iPhone 5 keyboard static) and then the battery animation got stuck. just wait. n then it turns off. n then it vibrates. n then, it boots! =D
P/S: This is NOT MY GNex. My GNex is fine right here with me. The GNex in description here belongs to my friends' aunt. she bought the phone based on my recommendation. the phone is only 4 months old. Mine is 7 months old. luckily the phone is still in warranty so she'd be able to get it fixed soon for free. I'm gonna give the phone back to her so that she could backup every single pictures n videos coz she never did any sort of backup since the phone was bought.. *gasp*
IMPORTANT!
since i have my own GNex, I emptied my battery (i left it only around 10% or so) n put it in her GNex so that the charging animations will appear when i try to revive it using the method above. coz before this, her GNex's battery was full n once the battery lightning logo disappear, only the battery full logo appears afterwards, meaning no animations is shown. n i don't know whether this affects anything at all. just thought i'd mention it. =)
actually I didn't even know the power button is problematic. I thought it was bricked or something. i've even used the omapflash thingy.. lol.. i even considered the odin method n stuff.. luckily i came across this thread..
thanks again everyone.
=)
please!!
cohrs said:
take the battery out and plug into usb (connected to computer). put the battery back in and when you see the battery charging on the screen remove the battery again. On mine the battery image starts flickering. at that point i put the battery back in and it rebooted.
This has worked for me a few times. Once rebooted you will be able to see your device using adb and then fastboot.
i got the idea from this post but found the timing i used worked better than his random attempts while holding the x key on the nexus one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524858
good luck
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i tried following this tutorial anyway and it did not work my phone does not boot at all it is Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus GT-S7500 the battery tested on other phones and it worked and before my phone goes to this state of no booting before it happens 8 hours ago i restarted my phone the Samsung name and site appeared then the screen started to give me lots of colorful lines then it got fully white i removed the bat for 3 minuets then i put it back then i pressed power button it should vibrate but it did not any way Samsung logo and site appeared then nothing i waited for 15 min and nothing i tried to restart my phone but the same result so i shut it off then i went to sleep then i woke up to run it don`t run at all even my PC +Charger does not detect my neither my phone does not detect them at all what shall i do
Works
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cohrs said:
take the battery out and plug into usb (connected to computer). put the battery back in and when you see the battery charging on the screen remove the battery again. On mine the battery image starts flickering. at that point i put the battery back in and it rebooted.
This has worked for me a few times. Once rebooted you will be able to see your device using adb and then fastboot.
i got the idea from this post but found the timing i used worked better than his random attempts while holding the x key on the nexus one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524858
good luck
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I use this method to my i9001 and works like charm!!! I believed that something was wrong with my i9001 but nothing was wrong!!!!!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Just replace the power button. I did on mine.
ethanmars said:
Oh thank God it WORKS! thanks to you man, your post is really helpful. thanks to everyone who have shared this idea!
Let me explain in detail how it works on mine...
=)
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Thank you!!!!
The timing was the issue. Tried everything before finding your post. You saved me!
Mixu
cohrs said:
take the battery out and plug into usb (connected to computer). put the battery back in and when you see the battery charging on the screen remove the battery again. On mine the battery image starts flickering. at that point i put the battery back in and it rebooted.
This has worked for me a few times. Once rebooted you will be able to see your device using adb and then fastboot.
i got the idea from this post but found the timing i used worked better than his random attempts while holding the x key on the nexus one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524858
good luck
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Thanks a million, man. You totally saved my bacon with this trick. :good:
My Galaxy Nexus is up and running again after about 5 minutes of pulling and inserting the battery I finally got it booted up.
My power button's been broken for a few weeks and I installed an app to turn my screen on using the VOL button but I was out all day today and made the mistake of letting my battery completely die and of course it powered down - OOPS.
Guess I'd better get that power button fixed.
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Thanks a million, man. You totally saved my bacon with this trick. :good:
My Galaxy Nexus is up and running again after about 5 minutes of pulling and inserting the battery I finally got it booted up.
My power button's been broken for a few weeks and I installed an app to turn my screen on using the VOL button but I was out all day today and made the mistake of letting my battery completely die and of course it powered down - OOPS.
Guess I'd better get that power button fixed.
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which app was it ? was looking for one rly long time.
Yuvalyo said:
which app was it ? was looking for one rly long time.
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There's a number of them on Play Store but I went with this one:
Button Savior
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart.swkey&hl=en
ethanmars said:
Oh thank God it WORKS! thanks to you man, your post is really helpful. thanks to everyone who have shared this idea!
Let me explain in detail how it works on mine:
1. battery pulled (if possible, the battery shoulldn't be too full to allow the charging animations to appear)
2. connect phone to usb that is connected on pc (without the battery inserted) n wait like 1 or 2 seconds before inserting the battery
3. insert the battery now
4. wait for the battery lightning logo to appear
5. once appeared, wait for the battery lightning logo to disappear (it took me almost 10 seconds.. might vary with yours)
6. once the battery lightning logo disappear, wait for the charging animation to appear (almost instant)
7. when the charging animation appears, kindly pull the battery now.. hehe.. it doesn't matter if you wanna pull it immediately after the charging animations appear or not as long as the animation is still playing..
8. this is the point where it should work or not:
A: sometimes the animation will continue to loop 3 times n nothing happen. Repeat process from step 1.
B: there's a split second static lines on the screen (static as in the iPhone 5 keyboard static) and then the battery animation got stuck. just wait. n then it turns off. n then it vibrates. n then, it boots! =D
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I followed the same basic procedure (thanks!), but wanted to add a couple notes.
1) I wasn't having much luck after step 8 until I actually put the battery back in as suggested by the second post in the thread -- that seems to trigger the boot process more consistently.
2) If the process is not working, try a different USB cable. I tried a number of times with one cable to no avail, then finally got desperate enough to try another cable, and it worked the very first time.
3) Once the phone is actually booted, here are a couple other apps that can help with the lack of functioning power button:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ponury.pgm2free --- For those who are rooted, you can use this (or the paid version with more features) to slide your finger across the turned-off screen to wake the phone. It can be a little finicky in my experience, sometimes pressing the volume button after swiping seems to do the trick:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock -- Lets you turn off the screen via a shortcut; I have a shortcut on my home screen and in my notifications.
rjax said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ponury.pgm2free --- For those who are rooted, you can use this (or the paid version with more features) to slide your finger across the turned-off screen to wake the phone. It can be a little finicky in my experience, sometimes pressing the volume button after swiping seems to do the trick:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock -- Lets you turn off the screen via a shortcut; I have a shortcut on my home screen and in my notifications.
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+1 try PGM......its rockz big time!
be sure to have a PGM compatible kernel though
Recovery mode from power button hold??
PLEASE HELP!!! So I happened to push the recovery mode on my galaxy nexus by holding the power button and selecting reboot then recovery....... I think that's why my 2,500 song and many pictures are gone??. D: >_<.. if that is the case is there anyway for me to get my music back without have previously saving it on my computer???????????????
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PLEASE HELP!!! I pushed recovery option the power button reboot option from holding the power button down. and I think that's why I lost all my music and pictures.:'(. can someone please tell me how to get it back or do I have no hope.. I just don't want to give up.......
Hey All,
I'm currently on the CM11 04/22 nightly, and have made it all the way up to the 04/27 nightly to try and resolve this issue and have not been able to. Basically - the sudden death issue has been hitting me very hard - I can't use my phone at all.
I understand the 04/11 nightly is stable and doesn't have this issue, howevery CyanogenMod does not have this on their website.
Does anyone have this install available? (CM-11-Nightly-20140411-D2LTE.zip)
Thanks so much in advance
SLiK
please explain what you mean by sudden death? thanks
rkant18 said:
please explain what you mean by sudden death? thanks
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I'll be using the phone (say checking my Instagram or reading a book on Play Books) and the screen may be on for about 5-6 minutes. The phone will suddenly shut off on its own. I'll start it up and then shut down again when the phone is loading. It will also sometimes say it has 1-2% battery when it really has 45% (which is what it shows when I plug the phone in).
Hope this clears it up.
SLiK786 said:
I'll be using the phone (say checking my Instagram or reading a book on Play Books) and the screen may be on for about 5-6 minutes. The phone will suddenly shut off on its own. I'll start it up and then shut down again when the phone is loading. It will also sometimes say it has 1-2% battery when it really has 45% (which is what it shows when I plug the phone in).
Hope this clears it up.
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I had the same issue a week back. Was the most frustrating thing ever...
I finally narrowed it down to the power button. It actually had to do with the power button switch which is soldered to the motherboard. The power button was super sensative, therefore being engagded at all times, causing the phone to hard shutdown every time I tried to turn the phone on.
How I fixed it:
1. Opened my phone up
2. Broke the switch off
3. Done
Now I use my phone without a functioning power button but it was a quick and free fix so it doesnt bother me.
If I decide to do so in the future, I can also solder a new switch back and get the power button working again.
DO NOTE: This might now be the issue you may be facing, so do your research
Finally, I watched this YT video which showed me how to break the power button switch and eventually fix my phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Glllc7bEJs
Good Luck
imcol said:
I had the same issue a week back. Was the most frustrating thing ever...
I finally narrowed it down to the power button. It actually had to do with the power button switch which is soldered to the motherboard. The power button was super sensative, therefore being engagded at all times, causing the phone to hard shutdown every time I tried to turn the phone on.
How I fixed it:
1. Opened my phone up
2. Broke the switch off
3. Done
Now I use my phone without a functioning power button but it was a quick and free fix so it doesnt bother me.
If I decide to do so in the future, I can also solder a new switch back and get the power button working again.
DO NOTE: This might now be the issue you may be facing, so do your research
Finally, I watched this YT video which showed me how to break the power button switch and eventually fix my phone:
Good Luck
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I'm fairly confident that this isn't the power switch. And if it were I'm not sure how comfortable I would feel breaking the power switch off.
The thing that begs me to think this is a software issue is that I'll have 45% battery, the phone will die, and then I'll try to turn the phone on again only for it to tell me I have 1% battery left. I'll put the phone on charge (after it dies again) and it will say charging - 45%.
Anyway I've rolled back a few updates and it seems to be fairly usable now...
Try cleaning the USB port real well and don't use a cheap cable. Use a needle and make sure there is no lint packed in there. These things can cause the phone to cycle itself even when not plugged in. I've fixed several doing exactly what you describe.
I have an ATT LG G3 yesterday it the phone suddenly won't turn on. It was on with mostly full battery and now won't turn on and is competley unresponsive. When I plug it in, no charging light comes on. Additionally I tried the hard reset by holding down power and down volume key; this gave me nothing.
Thinking that it might be a battery problem, I left it plugged in all night. But still nothing.
Any ideas?
Had the same problem
cajer said:
I have an ATT LG G3 yesterday it the phone suddenly won't turn on. It was on with mostly full battery and now won't turn on and is competley unresponsive. When I plug it in, no charging light comes on. Additionally I tried the hard reset by holding down power and down volume key; this gave me nothing.
Thinking that it might be a battery problem, I left it plugged in all night. But still nothing.
Any ideas?
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I had the same problem yesterday. It kept playing the boot tone every 2-3 mins but the display and buttons were dead. I removed the battery and reinserted it. Voila. It works
srivas95 said:
I had the same problem yesterday. It kept playing the boot tone every 2-3 mins but the display and buttons were dead. I removed the battery and reinserted it. Voila. It works
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I tried that and it didn't work. My phone gives no response without even a boot tone
HEEELP!
cajer said:
I have an ATT LG G3 yesterday it the phone suddenly won't turn on. It was on with mostly full battery and now won't turn on and is competley unresponsive. When I plug it in, no charging light comes on. Additionally I tried the hard reset by holding down power and down volume key; this gave me nothing.
Thinking that it might be a battery problem, I left it plugged in all night. But still nothing.
Any ideas?
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I have the same problem..have you found a solution aside from bringing the phone to the service center? I would appreciate your help.
Thanks!
solution
ladyashiree said:
I have the same problem..have you found a solution aside from bringing the phone to the service center? I would appreciate your help.
Thanks!
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I had the same problem and pulling the battery wasn't cutting it. This worked for me:
1. Take out the battery
2. WITH THE BATTERY OUT OF THE PHONE AND NOT PLUGGED IN, press and hold the power button for about 15 seconds.
What this does is it drains all the power stored in the phone and takes the power source away so the phone can fully reboot and refresh the power cycle.
3. Replace he battery and plug in the phone to the OEM LG Charger that came with the phone.
4. Let the phone charge for about 15 minutes then try to turn it on.
This worked for me but some phones are DOA being the phones are still in early production. It takes a few months before they work out all the Kinks.
I figured I'd add my two cents. I had the same issue with my D851 (T-Mobile) version. I was copying a file over my from computer and halfway through the phone shut off. I thought the screen timed out, but it wouldn't turn back on. I pulled the battery, tried holding the power button without the battery for 60 seconds, putting the battery back in, charging without the battery... nothing. The LED would never light, and the phone would never turn on. I contacted LG and it's currently on its way back to them for replacement.
I work for a wireless service provider and not only sell this phone but own one. I also had the problem and unfortunately the battery out power combo did not work for me either and swapping the battery was to no avail. I have seen one other DOA as well. I have noticed the new LG models have had some significant flaws and lemons when they've first come out but I feel the specs and price you get are worth the risk so if this does happen to you I wouldn't throw in the towel on LG quite yet. However the way LG reacts to this will speak volumes to the company's overall success in the industry.
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I had the same problem and pulling the battery wasn't cutting it. This worked for me:
1. Take out the battery
2. WITH THE BATTERY OUT OF THE PHONE AND NOT PLUGGED IN, press and hold the power button for about 15 seconds.
What this does is it drains all the power stored in the phone and takes the power source away so the phone can fully reboot and refresh the power cycle.
3. Replace he battery and plug in the phone to the OEM LG Charger that came with the phone.
4. Let the phone charge for about 15 minutes then try to turn it on.
This worked for me but some phones are DOA being the phones are still in early production. It takes a few months before they work out all the Kinks.
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I've tried this, and worked for me just now, but when i try to turn it on, it happens the same thing, wont turn on at all, no lights or anything.
Is this a abttery issue?
Heeelllppppp
So last night I let my battery on my ATT LG L3 VIGOR die out like an idiot but when i plugged it in to charge it would show that its at 0% then try and turn on but right when the boot up starts, it freezes and becomes completely unresponsive -_- I don`t know what to dooooo :[
people who are having booting problem with their lg g3 at&t can try this to solve it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gLenUZPWvs
Hey! This is happening to mine right now! Did you ever figure out a solution? I really would loveeee to know if you did! Thanks!
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DerpTheBuddy said:
So last night I let my battery on my ATT LG L3 VIGOR die out like an idiot but when i plugged it in to charge it would show that its at 0% then try and turn on but right when the boot up starts, it freezes and becomes completely unresponsive -_- I don`t know what to dooooo :[
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Did you figure somethingg out? This just happened to mine!
Montana15 said:
Hey! This is happening to mine right now! Did you ever figure out a solution? I really would loveeee to know if you did! Thanks!
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Did you figure somethingg out? This just happened to mine!
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what would happen if I tried returning my phone with root and another rom on it and it won't turn on?
I tried manually going to twrp but went to recovery instead, restarted phone and now it won't turn on. I've tried the suggestions in this thread to no avail.
Won't turn on
My LG G3 D855 first had this problem of restarting on its own when I play with its camera and while restarting, the phone is getting warmer. And now, it wont turn on. I press the power button while it is off, it tried to turn on until the LG logo screen and then it shuts down on its own and restarting non-stop until that LG logo screen and turning off again. When I plugged in a charger, it manages to turn on but only to the pass code part and then it turns off again and the battery charging screen when phone is turn off, is displayed. The battery showed was higher than the battery showed when during the pass code stage. Is it the battery problem? I haven't send the phone to be check yet, I hope its the battery..
Clearing phone
My won't turn on either. I filed an insurance claim and am getting a new one. But I have to send my old phone in. I was wondering how I can get all my info off of the old phone before I turn it in. I don't want some one to get my info that is on that phone. How do I clear it all with it not turning on. Is there a hard drive from the phone I can remove?
yes for i have solution if u want to turn on your phone ...
First put phone on charging and then turn it on after 10sec (dont remove from chargning ) when its completelty on ... then remove from charger ...
naeembabakheil said:
yes for i have solution if u want to turn on your phone ...
First put phone on charging and then turn it on after 10sec (dont remove from chargning ) when its completelty on ... then remove from charger ...
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The plan: Put the phone into recovery and then push " power on".
The method: To get into recovery, push power and volume down together until you see "system recovery" ( it will take a while- maybe more than a minute) and touch "continue power up" by depressing the power key.
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The plan: Put the phone into recovery and then push " power on".
The method: To get into recovery, push power and volume down together until you see "system recovery" ( it will take a while- maybe more than a minute) and touch "continue power up" by depressing the power key.
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h! i have rooted my G3 and insatll TWRP it works .. but when i press volume down+power button it wont boot to recovery. ? i can easilt boot to recovery using ADB .. but how can i boot to recvery using power and voulme keys ..
http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root-tutorials/how-to-manually-boot-into-cwmtwrp-recovery-on-lg-g3/ Said better than I can. Be sure that you are firmly pressing both on the power and volume down keys, at the same time, don't give up- To be sure I have constant pressure, I take off the case. I do this each time I restart the phone.
Oh awesome. I was browsing the web having the same problem and this totally fixed it for me. Cheers!
motoxmadman said:
I had the same problem and pulling the battery wasn't cutting it. This worked for me:
1. Take out the battery
2. WITH THE BATTERY OUT OF THE PHONE AND NOT PLUGGED IN, press and hold the power button for about 15 seconds.
What this does is it drains all the power stored in the phone and takes the power source away so the phone can fully reboot and refresh the power cycle.
3. Replace he battery and plug in the phone.
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Just wanted to say this worked for me. Thanks.
So, I decided to flash and use the only single rom that was posted in the development section. It was working great.
Today as I got into my car, and started driving, the screen went black. Battery was charged at the time to 80% or so.
I cannot get into fastboot, recovery etc.
Tried different combinations
Power vol +
Power vol -
power only
power vol - and vol up then plug cable
There is no vibration, sound, image. Nothing it was dead.
I get back home, throw it on the wireless charger and it boots up to the rom where I left off, no problem.
Rebooted to bootloader, flashed the latest december image just in case, rebooted fine. Then i went to turn the phone off regularly. Then it won't boot back on.
I tried to search if it was stuck on something like EDL and found nothing. The computer is not detecting anything when I plug it. I tried a few blind tests to run fastboot commands after different variations and no luck.
I tried to plug it in, and put it on the pixel charger stand again, and nothing is turning on. I took it off for a few minutes, put it back on and nothing.
I think it may be a case of checking the last flash-all log and all flashed on slot b, maybe that's the issue. I am trying to get back to fastboot with no luck!
Any advice on what's going on over there?
Mine did the same thing when I used a custom ROM. The screen went completely black and there seemed to be no response from the key combinations.
Thanks to a write up by CZ Eddie I held the Power and Vol - for about 25 seconds and saw the fastboot screen flash. I then did it again and the same thing happened with the fastboot screen flashing and disappearing. I just kept doing this key combination over and over and finally the fastboot screen stayed there. At that point I was able to flash the stock December patch. I was still having intermittent issues and had to do a clean instill (with the -w intact).
Thanks to CZ Eddie as I never would have persisted.
You can read his write up in the guides section under "[WARNING] Do not boot TWRP to inactive partition".
Hope this helps!
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Mine did the same thing when I used a custom ROM. The screen went completely black and there seemed to be no response from the key combinations.
Thanks to a write up by CZ Eddie I held the Power and Vol - for about 25 seconds and saw the fastboot screen flash. I then did it again and the same thing happened with the fastboot screen flashing and disappearing. I just kept doing this key combination over and over and finally the fastboot screen stayed there. At that point I was able to flash the stock December patch. I was still having intermittent issues and had to do a clean instill (with the -w intact).
Thanks to CZ Eddie as I never would have persisted.
You can read his write up in the guides section under "[WARNING] Do not boot TWRP to inactive partition".
Hope this helps!
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Thank you. I have tried, nothing is flashing and no response what so ever. I did read his post before I posted here.
How long before waiting each time for the combination do you remember?
It was always around 20 to 30 seconds.
Be patient and keep trying, you have nothing to lose. :good:
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It was always around 20 to 30 seconds.
Be patient and keep trying, you have nothing to lose. :good:
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Yeah, i've been trying, left on the charger overnight and no luck. tried about 300 times or something!
Hold vol+ and power for 60 seconds
AnierinB said:
Hold vol+ and power for 60 seconds
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That totally didn't work
Hold power and both vol + and - at the same time.
matteosaeed said:
That totally didn't work
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Oh well thought I'd suggest it as it works on some devices
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Oh well thought I'd suggest it as it works on some devices
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Thanks for suggesting. It seems like its totally out. I even tried the qualcomm driver just in case, and nothing is detected. This sucks!
Similar (but not identical) bricked Pixel XL 3
So as of an hour or two ago, I now own a completely bricked Pixel 3 XL.
I had not tried to root or sideload or do anything custom to it. It was working fine (today) and suddenly, wouldn't wake up out of sleep with either the power button or the fingerprint sensor. I've plugged it in using the charger and cable that came with it, no response in anyway. I've put it on the official wireless charger stand, where the light briefly comes on when doing so, but quickly turns off again. I've tried various combinations of holding buttons down for over 30 seconds each (power + voldown, power + volup, power + voldown + volup), but still nothing. I have let it charge for over 30 minutes, but still nothing. Plugging into my laptop has no response on either device.
I hadn't been notified about the December 2018 update as yet, but I suppose if that had started automatically downloading just before it bricked, even without actually installing it, that could have somehow caused the issue?
I also had a problem about 48 hours ago, for a period of around 18 hours, where every app would have its visible page/tab/screen refreshed by the OS at random intervals, (similar to what happens when the Play Store app is updating apps, after it installs the new version of each app). I have no idea if this could be related.
Anyone have any other suggestions of things to try? I'm obviously pretty unhappy about this, and weirdly it happened just as I was putting the device packaging away, thinking that everything would be fine with the phone, having already owned it for about a month.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is when doing the button combinations you need to release the power button first once the fastboot screen pops up.
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned is when doing the button combinations you need to release the power button first once the fastboot screen pops up.
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Thanks but nothing comes up on my screen at all, whatever I hold down.
Went to bed last night with the Pixel 3 on the wireless charger, dead this morning. No charging light, no vibration, no power. I've let it charge for hours all day on different chargers, including the original. Called Verizon, they are sending a new one. I've tried all of the usual tricks, no luck.
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Went to bed last night with the Pixel 3 on the wireless charger, dead this morning. No charging light, no vibration, no power. I've let it charge for hours all day on different chargers, including the original. Called Verizon, they are sending a new one. I've tried all of the usual tricks, no luck.
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Pixel Stand or other wireless charger and if different, which one?
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It was always around 20 to 30 seconds.
Be patient and keep trying, you have nothing to lose. :good:
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Thanks man, I almost send back my Pixel 2 to RMA, but this returned fastboot so I can continue flashing.