I was charging my phone connected to my laptop, the phone was powered off. I unplugged it and it just stuck like it was still plugged in charging. The charging light is on but trying to rest or boot does nothing. Just makes the charging light turn off for a second then back on.
Is it bricked? What should I do?
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I let the battery drain out overnight and plugged it into the wall socket this morning. Now the charge light blinks but no charge icon pops up and it still doesn't power on. When trying to boot it into recovery, the icon pops up again. When I unplug it from charging, the charge light still blinks and the icon stays still. I think it is going to have to be a paperweight.
Anyone ever had this happen?
mkbeyer said:
I let the battery drain out overnight and plugged it into the wall socket this morning. Now the charge light blinks but no charge icon pops up and it still doesn't power on. When trying to boot it into recovery, the icon pops up again.
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First, let the phone charge on wall socket for several hours. This is sometimes needed if the battery is allowed to drain to shutoff, and there is unsufficient battery voltage to boot/power-on the phone.
There is no button combo to directly access recovery on this phone, so I think you mean you tried to boot to bootloader (power+vol down). In some conditions like this (battery drained, stuck on boot screen, etc.), you will need to hold button combos for a minute or more before it will reboot. So try to just hold the buttons longer. Also try to do this (hold for a minute+) for power+vol up (this button combo forces a reboot in most situations) or simply just the power button ("regular" power-on).
Power + vol up would have been the best way to force a reboot (works in virtually every condition short of a true brick), rather then let the battery drain to shut-off. Letting the battery drain to shutoff is never a great idea, if it can be avoided, for the reason already mentioned.
redpoint73 said:
First, let the phone charge on wall socket for several hours. This is sometimes needed if the battery is allowed to drain to shutoff, and there is unsufficient battery voltage to boot/power-on the phone.
There is no button combo to directly access recovery on this phone, so I think you mean you tried to boot to bootloader (power+vol down). In some conditions like this (battery drained, stuck on boot screen, etc.), you will need to hold button combos for a minute or more before it will reboot. So try to just hold the buttons longer. Also try to do this (hold for a minute+) for power+vol up (this button combo forces a reboot in most situations) or simply just the power button ("regular" power-on).
Power + vol up would have been the best way to force a reboot (works in virtually every condition short of a true brick), rather then let the battery drain to shut-off. Letting the battery drain to shutoff is never a great idea, if it can be avoided, for the reason already mentioned.
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Oh man! I was freaking for a while. I tried like everything except holding the buttons down so long. That reset it. It booted. When it booted up I tried to update the with the OTA in settings and it locked again on bootscreen. I did the hard reset again. It didn't update. I want to update it to Android 6.0, but it keeps running into problems some error "unexpected contents on partition - installation aborted." Something like that.
Thinking of trying to flash the OTA or RUU. Do you think that is a good idea?
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Oh man! I was freaking for a while. I tried like everything except holding the buttons down so long. That reset it. It booted.
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I did the same a while back. Found my M8 had powered off overnight. Tried the button combos, which didn't seem to work, and thought it was spontaneously bricked. Finally just tried holding power (or maybe power+vol up, don't remember exactly) for a long time, and it finally booted, leading to much relief.
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Thinking of trying to flash the OTA or RUU. Do you think that is a good idea?
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Flash the OTA how?
RUU should be fine, if you version has an RUU.
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I have an ATT Tilt 2, approx 7 months old. I was running the EnergyROM, but I forget which one. This morning, the battery died, I plugged it in too charge on my laptop. I got a dialog box that said the charging power was insufficient to run the device, and it turned itself off. I let it be for a while (hour or so) then tried to reboot. It would not respond to the power button, so I hit the red reset button with my stylus. It booted, but not successfully. The phone got caught in what I can only describe as a loop. It would start the boot animation, then fail. It would stay turned off for a few minutes, then spontaneously try to boot again.
I held down the reset button again........nothing. Power button.......nothing. So then I tried to wipe it, using my micro SD card. I was able to get the phone into bootloader mode, and told it to apply the update by pressing the volume key. However, it still loops, except now it goes into the bootloader, except there is an error message in the bootloader screen, buried under the text. FWIW I am using the Olinex HardSPL.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated
EDIT: This only happens when it is plugged in. When it is on battery, it is completely unresponsive. No power button, no reset button, nothing. All i get is the amber charge light
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I have an ATT Tilt 2, approx 7 months old. I was running the EnergyROM, but I forget which one. This morning, the battery died, I plugged it in too charge on my laptop. I got a dialog box that said the charging power was insufficient to run the device, and it turned itself off. I let it be for a while (hour or so) then tried to reboot. It would not respond to the power button, so I hit the red reset button with my stylus. It booted, but not successfully. The phone got caught in what I can only describe as a loop. It would start the boot animation, then fail. It would stay turned off for a few minutes, then spontaneously try to boot again.
I held down the reset button again........nothing. Power button.......nothing. So then I tried to wipe it, using my micro SD card. I was able to get the phone into bootloader mode, and told it to apply the update by pressing the volume key. However, it still loops, except now it goes into the bootloader, except there is an error message in the bootloader screen, buried under the text. FWIW I am using the Olinex HardSPL.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated
EDIT: This only happens when it is plugged in. When it is on battery, it is completely unresponsive. No power button, no reset button, nothing. All i get is the amber charge light
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That means the phone is NOT charging the battery. Did you try using another USB cable? If so, did you try another battery? If you tried that too and it still doesn't work, that may mean that the charging circuit is dead and you will have to either get that one repaired or get a new phone
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I have an ATT Tilt 2, approx 7 months old. I was running the EnergyROM, but I forget which one. This morning, the battery died, I plugged it in too charge on my laptop. I got a dialog box that said the charging power was insufficient to run the device, and it turned itself off. I let it be for a while (hour or so) then tried to reboot. It would not respond to the power button, so I hit the red reset button with my stylus. It booted, but not successfully. The phone got caught in what I can only describe as a loop. It would start the boot animation, then fail. It would stay turned off for a few minutes, then spontaneously try to boot again.
I held down the reset button again........nothing. Power button.......nothing. So then I tried to wipe it, using my micro SD card. I was able to get the phone into bootloader mode, and told it to apply the update by pressing the volume key. However, it still loops, except now it goes into the bootloader, except there is an error message in the bootloader screen, buried under the text. FWIW I am using the Olinex HardSPL.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated
EDIT: This only happens when it is plugged in. When it is on battery, it is completely unresponsive. No power button, no reset button, nothing. All i get is the amber charge light
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Try charging it from the wall plug. Your laptop port is not putting out enough power. Let it charge until the green light comes on.
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That means the phone is NOT charging the battery. Did you try using another USB cable? If so, did you try another battery? If you tried that too and it still doesn't work, that may mean that the charging circuit is dead and you will have to either get that one repaired or get a new phone
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Can the charging circuit be replaced? Can i repair it my self (buy parts on ebay)? Would you happen to know much will it cost to repair it from AT&T?
star2gates said:
Can the charging circuit be replaced? Can i repair it my self (buy parts on ebay)? Would you happen to know much will it cost to repair it from AT&T?
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So I take it it never worked when on the wall charger?
ok there are far too many topics about people who think they have bricked their HOX.
not to say i told you so but its a bit of a stupid idea to be flashing things with a low battery anyway
well here is what to do to get it charging
1. hold power button for 10 seconds to power the phone off
2. power on with volume down held to enter Hboot
3. press power button to enter Fastboot
4. scroll down with volume down and select Power Off
5. Plug you phone into the wall and you will see the red charging light come on
6. wait a few hours or until you get green light
now you can do whatever it was you was trying to do before
flash rom / fastboot flash recovery / flash ruu (whatever)
that technique does nothing, now my battery is too low to do anything, wtf
chukwu77 said:
that technique does nothing, now my battery is too low to do anything, wtf
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Plug it in and leave it like that. When my phone was discharged fully, red light didn't light up for first 15 mins (or more) of charging.
i left this thing on the charger all night, it will first open the fastboot screen about 5 secs after i plug into the wall, then the red light will blink but nothing charges. On what screen do i hold down the power button for 10 sec? i can only do anything on the fastboot screen. and from there as i said, I get NOTHING.
And even with the phone off, it turns on the bootloader as soon as i plug it into a charger
Yep. In my case, when it was fully discharged, I plug cable in, there is no red light. Then, after some time, red starts blibking. After some more time, it stops blinking and continues to charge.
ok i will give it another go. was the wall charger making your bootloader start each time? Even when i power it down, if i plug in wall charger it goes to bootloader
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ok i will give it another go. was the wall charger making your bootloader start each time? Even when i power it down, if i plug in wall charger it goes to bootloader
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No, I discharged completely to 0%, then phone shut off by itself.
Then I plugged in, nothing happened. No bootloader, no red light. But it was charging. After some time, red light started blinking. After some more time, red stayed lit. Thats when I turned it on manually. And it continued to charge to 100%.
So if your phone turns on, do not unplug. Try to shut off somehow, by some menu option to shut off or by press-holding power for 10 secs.
So i left the phone for a couple of hours, i come back and still nothing, no red or green light. only thing that happens is the bootloader will load and the red light will flicker on and off. it does not stay turned off no matter what i do if i plug in my wall charger
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So i left the phone for a couple of hours, i come back and still nothing, no red or green light. only thing that happens is the bootloader will load and the red light will flicker on and off. it does not stay turned off no matter what i do if i plug in my wall charger
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And no way to shut down the phone from boot loader?
If not, someone said that if you unplug and re-plug charger, red light will blink again and it will charge some more. and you keep doing it until there is enough charge to flash. That's what I read on one of the posts.
Get into recovery and plug up to ac power. The light comes on for a min. Or so then goes off. When it goes off unplugg it then plug it back in. Keep this up till you have some juice. Then fastboot flash the stock recovery relock bootloader, then get ruu 1.26.707. Run that ruu and it should boot. After that you can flash all the roms you want.
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well it does say Power Down. but that doesnt do anything as soon as its plugged in bootloader will start back up
chukwu77 said:
well it does say Power Down. but that doesnt do anything as soon as its plugged in bootloader will start back up
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even if you power down while still plugged in?
If i power down while still plugged in nothing happens, it just sits there. i waited about half an hour and still didnt see any lights come on.
Well if i power down it actually will boot all the way to the screen unlock but will read 0% battery and shut off
Solution:
If you have a working ROM and your battery is at 0, just wait a bit until the LED flashes red. After a few minutes it will go solid. Then turn on the phone and boot into the ROM so your phone can charge. Do not turn device off while charging.
If you do not have working ROM, boot into fastboot, flash stock recovery (this will allow charging while phone off). Turn phone off from fastboot menu, and let charge. Then when LED goes green, flash clockwork and then flash ROM.
I have been in both scenarios so if you need help let me know.
dortok said:
Solution:
If you have a working ROM and your battery is at 0, just wait a bit until the LED flashes red. After a few minutes it will go solid. Then turn on the phone and boot into the ROM so your phone can charge. Do not turn device off while charging.
If you do not have working ROM, boot into fastboot, flash stock recovery (this will allow charging while phone off). Turn phone off from fastboot menu, and let charge. Then when LED goes green, flash clockwork and then flash ROM.
I have been in both scenarios so if you need help let me know.
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i dont get this, im running offical CWM and can charge whilst off, i wrote this guide as that is the steps i perform
phone unplugged > boot to hboot > go to fastboot > select power off > wait for phone to power off then plug mains adapter in > charging light comes on & phone stays off
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i dont get this, im running offical CWM and can charge whilst off, i wrote this guide as that is the steps i perform
phone unplugged > boot to hboot > go to fastboot > select power off > wait for phone to power off then plug mains adapter in > charging light comes on & phone stays off
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Just because the charger light comes on doesn't mean its charging. I thought it was charging while off but then my phone drained to 0
Iii goooootttt the reeeeddd liiiiggghhhhtttttttttttttttttt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thaaaankkksss!!!!
...it's really NOT possible to charge the phone atm when you flashed a custom recovery. Doesnt matter, if you are in hboot/fastboot/recovery or shut down your phone.
And yeah, also when the LED is red means NOT that its charging.
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...it's really NOT possible to charge the phone atm when you flashed a custom recovery. Doesnt matter, if you are in hboot/fastboot/recovery or shut down your phone.
And yeah, also when the LED is red means NOT that its charging.
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FUUUUUUUUUU!!!
What can i do now?
wolfraim said:
FUUUUUUUUUU!!!
What can i do now?
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you can still boot up your phone, right? but its constantly rebooting because teh battery is too low when its booted up!?
...I heared reports that its possible to boot into recovery, and put the charger in.
Led shall light up but goes off immediatly then, put it out and tehn in again...repeat that several times...seems that it charges the phone for a bit while you pluggin it in.
j4n87 said:
you can still boot up your phone, right? but its constantly rebooting because teh battery is too low when its booted up!?
...I heared reports that its possible to boot into recovery, and put the charger in.
Led shall light up but goes off immediatly then, put it out and tehn in again...repeat that several times...seems that it charges the phone for a bit while you pluggin it in.
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Now im testing if i can charge when the splash screen is ON, because i install VILLAIN ROM, so it show LOADING. text, in this screen i connect it to the power and it still showing up the screen, so i thinks it is charging i will wait for a couple hours to try a RUU (because my HOX is RELOCKED).
Thanks!!
Screen went black during phone call, audio still present. Then the phone shut off and refuses to turn on, no charging led when connected to power supply. Battery still had 75% charge during call
Have you tried holding the power button down for 10 seconds?
John.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
Have you tried holding the power button down for 10 seconds?
John.
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Thanks. This has also happened on my girlfriends device numerous times.
Similar thing happened to me, i was charging my One X while it was off (the battery completely depleted).
The notification LED was on (red) indicating it was charging, the LED turned off after about an hour of charging, i tried to turn it on and nothing, absolutely no reaction.
I've tried holding the power button for 10 seconds, also tried a vast combination of buttons;
Volume up + power.
All three buttons at once.
Any suggestions before i take it to the shop?
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5 minutes after posting this the LED light turned on, i tried to turn the device on and it did, so everything seems to be fine now, i just don't get how after an hour on the charger, when i turned it on just now my HTC One X battery was at 2%
In any case I won't be letting the battery deplete to 0% anymore
@dusan do you have CWM as recovery? It is known that battery-charge is broken, even when the device is off, when cwm is flashed.
Try to get into fastboot after some while, flash the stock recovery as fast as possible and turn the device off again for charging.
That would explain it, I do have CWM, I don't know how but I guess it charged just enough juice for me to turn the device on.
If I flash stock recovery will I be able to recharge the phone with the device off ?
Also would I lose root in that case?
I know there are other posts about this but my battery won't charge. I rooted it and it completely died. Now when i plug in the stock charger, it turns on, boots up, then dies, and repeats. I plugged it into my computer, and the orange light is dim. After about 20min, I got a message from fff saying: "Battery is too low to power on, wait a few minutes and try again." or something like that. After that it just stays dim and when i press the power button nothing happens. This has happened to me before, but i rebooted the system(with TWRP) and then i got the same message, but it charged fine. Please help.(BTW i am using it USB right now, because Stock charger still wont charge it.) Please help!!!
EDIT: Right now it goes to the Screen indicating that it needs to be charged and then it continues charging. After awhile, it will turn on to that same screen(charging screen) and i realized the backlight was lit after the indicator turned off and i cannot turn it off!!! Ive done the 20sec. hard reset but still it stays on. Help needed!!!(BTW it is the FFF bootloader i think)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694798
Maybe try booting into twrp and then when its fully charged boot it again to system. Can you boot into twrp or does it instantly just go to that screen again? I dont want to start speculating about the condition of your bootloader or anything else based on the info you have given. All I know for sure is theres an indication that it needs to charge. I would try quicky plugging it into the wall charger from a powered off state. I would hold the power button for 20 seconds to verify that it is indeed powered off. Most of these are likely gestures of futility. I can only say what I would do myself. Lastly I would remove the back and unplug the battery then after 5 mins or so plug it back in or plug it in via usb without the battery in and if it booted correct carefully reconnect the battery but Im not recommending you take this approach. Give it time charging via usb hopefully it will somehow break from this cycle that what the bootloader is supposed to do in the event the battery has been drained to below 4%.
Whether it is stuck like that I cannot tell you.
I've been scouring threads and trying to solutions for this problem for the last 3 days.
After wiping the ROM and restoring the stock OS, I was about to run the Amazon update to restore the stock bootloader but as I was charging it past the 40% point, it turned off without warning. It was at 37% charge at that point. Now when I turn it on, the blue/white logo shows up and then the device shuts off almost instantly after that.
The only thing I think might've caused it is that in order to charge the device recently, I've had to wiggle around the power cord a LOT to get it to the charge, and the device turned off while I was doing do.
What happens if you go to recovery? Does it remain booted? If so do a wipe factory reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvik then select reboot. See if it will boot to the system from there.
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What happens if you go to recovery? Does it remain booted? If so do a wipe factory reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvik then select reboot. See if it will boot to the system from there.
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I can't get to ANYTHING, it turns off literally 2 seconds after powering on.
Are you positive it shuts off and doesn't just boot to a black screen? Some of this sounds like a 5 second bootloop but not entirely http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244 from what your describing it should have more charge. Turn it off plug it in via USB describe what happens.
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Are you positive it shuts off and doesn't just boot to a black screen? Some of this sounds like a 5 second bootloop but not entirely http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244 from what your describing it should have more charge. Turn it off plug it in via USB describe what happens.
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Yeah, I've read that. I hit the power button, the blue/white Kindle Fire logo shows up (at the bottom it says press the power button for the menu) but then it shuts off right after that.
You say you restored stock by what you're saying this was a backup correct?
Yeah...what's getting me is that it was all working fine until I tried to charge it by the aforementioned wiggling the power cord in the charge port. Unless that was just a coincidence and is irrelevant.
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Yeah, I've read that. I hit the power button, the blue/white Kindle Fire logo shows up (at the bottom it says press the power button for the menu) but then it shuts off right after that.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26262986&postcount=177
HunterEX said:
Yeah...what's getting me is that it was all working fine until I tried to charge it by the aforementioned wiggling the power cord in the charge port. Unless that was just a coincidence and is irrelevant.
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My thoughts..
1) Its just a coincidence
2) Did you try charging the kindle overnight and then try running the KFU and change the bootmode to normal
I think Kinfuans is trying to tell you that your battery is flat. Power it off by holding down the power button for twenty or so seconds, plug it into your computer, set your computer to avoid sleeping then let it sit a few hours or overnight. It should eventually boot.
As soon as I plug it into the USB, it goes into an endless cycle of powering on and off. Even if it's off already, plugging it in makes it attempt to turn on.
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As soon as I plug it into the USB, it goes into an endless cycle of powering on and off. Even if it's off already, plugging it in makes it attempt to turn on.
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With the device turned off completely, plug it in and let it power on. Immediately hold the power until it shuts off. If you're lucky, it will power off completely, then you can leave it alone to charge.
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With the device turned off completely, plug it in and let it power on. Immediately hold the power until it shuts off. If you're lucky, it will power off completely, then you can leave it alone to charge.
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Not so lucky as it just immediately tries to turn back on. I think the thing is just toast.
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Not so lucky as it just immediately tries to turn back on. I think the thing is just toast.
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You're plugging into USB correct?
Correct.
Well, getting it to shut down while plugged in, might be your only option toward getting it to charge. I've had that same problem and that's how it got fixed. You might want to leave it alone for a while and try it again. Just remember to hold the power button as soon as you plug it in, and hold it for at least 30 seconds.
No joy, whatever I do to make it power off so I can charge it is useless; it just automatically tries to power up as long as it's plugged in. I think the charge is too damaged or something.
Hey keep it on charge..sometimes it happens cos of low battery..
If u charge it enough it will work
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i am having almost the exact issue. except i didn't do anything rootwise or anything really. i used it as i normally would (facebook, web browsing etc.) battery got to like half so i plugged it into a wall charger and left if for a few hours. came back and it had turned off. now it will only turn on if it is unplugged with the same results as op. 1.4a blue and white logo screen for like 2 seconds then it turns right back off. i can't get to recovery i can't do anything.
edit: when it is plugged in i can't turn it on at all.
edit2: i let it charge overnight on my computer, still the same thing. this is very disheartening.
sevine said:
i am having almost the exact issue. except i didn't do anything rootwise or anything really. i used it as i normally would (facebook, web browsing etc.) battery got to like half so i plugged it into a wall charger and left if for a few hours. came back and it had turned off. now it will only turn on if it is unplugged with the same results as op. 1.4a blue and white logo screen for like 2 seconds then it turns right back off. i can't get to recovery i can't do anything.
edit: when it is plugged in i can't turn it on at all.
edit2: i let it charge overnight on my computer, still the same thing. this is very disheartening.
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Did u try letting it charge overnight on the stock charger given by Amazon.. sometimes it works