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I got it rooted, I got a custom rom, didn't realize I needed to mount the system (never had that step before), then it got stuck at "Samsung" so tried going back to stock, and apparently flashed the wrong md5 file, or didn't flash all of them? I wasn't sure why four downloaded, and then bricked it. I've tried every trick I can find, battery, sd card & sim card out, plug into computer, hold down volume buttons, plug battery back in, nothing. It's simply not responding to anything. I did contact Samsung, since I read somewhere here someone else did a serious hard brick and Samsung replaced it for them, but also I was wondering about this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242466
Has anyone tried it? How did it go? Would you recommend sending in my phone for replacement or would you recommend trying to make it unbrickable. I would ask the help of someone I know that does a lot of tiny computer work like this.
Thanks!
tspace75 said:
I got it rooted, I got a custom rom, didn't realize I needed to mount the system (never had that step before), then it got stuck at "Samsung" so tried going back to stock, and apparently flashed the wrong md5 file, or didn't flash all of them? I wasn't sure why four downloaded, and then bricked it. I've tried every trick I can find, battery, sd card & sim card out, plug into computer, hold down volume buttons, plug battery back in, nothing. It's simply not responding to anything. I did contact Samsung, since I read somewhere here someone else did a serious hard brick and Samsung replaced it for them, but also I was wondering about this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245391
Has anyone tried it? How did it go? Would you recommend sending in my phone for replacement or would you recommend trying to make it unbrickable. I would ask the help of someone I know that does a lot of tiny computer work like this.
Thanks!
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when plugging your phone into your PC, does the PC recognize it? how about ODIN? If not (for either), try re-booting your PC and try again.
If so, then use the "return back to stock" MD5 file with PIT file via ODIN
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when plugging your phone into your PC, does the PC recognize it? how about ODIN? If not (for either), try re-booting your PC and try again.
If so, then use the "return back to stock" MD5 file with PIT file via ODIN
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No go.
Did you pull your battery
Plug into PC and use volume down to get into download mode
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Did you pull your battery
Plug into PC and use volume down to get into download mode
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Yup. Tried that too. Tried volume up, tried everything about 10x over. :/ Thanks though.
I don't mind doing warranty exchanges for legitimate hardware issues, but if it's something I caused, I don't want to abuse the system. Honestly, if you can't get to download mode, suck it up and pay for this service: http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-droid-charge-jtag-brick-repair/
I'm not sure if unbrickable mod was every fully finished on this phone, and even if it was, it isn't exactly a beginner's mod.
shrike1978 said:
I don't mind doing warranty exchanges for legitimate hardware issues, but if it's something I caused, I don't want to abuse the system. Honestly, if you can't get to download mode, suck it up and pay for this service: http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-droid-charge-jtag-brick-repair/
I'm not sure if unbrickable mod was every fully finished on this phone, and even if it was, it isn't exactly a beginner's mod.
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Yeah, I saw their service. And if I could afford them I would! One income family of 6, got my Droid Charge on CL for $65... I'll think it over though. I certainly understand what your saying!
I thought I read somewhere where you buy a Jig that you connect your phone that forces it into download mode
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Are something like that
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I thought I read somewhere where you buy a Jig that you connect your phone that forces it into download mode
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Are something like that
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As far as I understand it, the Jig only works on soft bricks, not hard bricks.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
I don't know but maybe..
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Read up you might get lucky
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No go.
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with the battery in (or plugged in) and pressing the power button, do you at least get the Samsung logo or nothing?
if nothing, the battery could be completely drained. plug it in (to a wall, not PC) and leave it alone for a good 30 minutes - then check back to make sure that it has power (you might see the battery charging icon). after then, I would let the phone fully charge up and then try the ODIN process again.
cujo6801 said:
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
I don't know but maybe..
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I'll give it a shot! Thanks!
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with the battery in (or plugged in) and pressing the power button, do you at least get the Samsung logo or nothing?
if nothing, the battery could be completely drained. plug it in (to a wall, not PC) and leave it alone for a good 30 minutes - then check back to make sure that it has power (you might see the battery charging icon). after then, I would let the phone fully charge up and then try the ODIN process again.
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My battery was at a pretty good charge when I flashed the wrong thing. And after that it would never come on or do anything again. But it's worth a shot and I'll try it!
tspace75 said:
I'll give it a shot! Thanks!
My battery was at a pretty good charge when I flashed the wrong thing. And after that it would never come on or do anything again. But it's worth a shot and I'll try it!
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then I'm pretty sure that could be the issue. that has happened to me once before where the battery just completely died on me, and not even plugging it in would cause it to boot up. give it some time...
Ok, I ordered a Jig from the guy on ebay, he makes them in the US, $5.50, free shipping, He even waterproofs them he says. I'm :fingers-crossed: it works before I try sending it off anywhere.
Charging the battery didn't produce anything :crying:
I suck!!!
I just saw (this morning) a vid of a captivate (or fascinate?) user who bricked his phone and couldn't get a response out of it. He then proceeded to rig an old charging head to run roughly 300 kilo ohms to the 4th and 5th pin. Once he plugged it in, the phone was forced into download mode immediately.
I won't be liable for anything I'm saying in this post, but I would suggest you take a look at that vid and see what you can come up with.
tspace75 said:
Ok, I ordered a Jig from the guy on ebay, he makes them in the US, $5.50, free shipping, He even waterproofs them he says. I'm :fingers-crossed: it works before I try sending it off anywhere.
Charging the battery didn't produce anything :crying:
I suck!!!
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how long did you leave it in for? since you're not doing anything with the phone anyway, might as well leave it plugged in for a few hours...
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how long did you leave it in for? since you're not doing anything with the phone anyway, might as well leave it plugged in for a few hours...
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Wrong. If the kernel is corrupted it won't charge. (at least that's what I've noticed) If you have a battery charger (I do since I keep spare batteries) that may work if it really is a dead battery.
If a USB jig doesn't work (it did for my friends Infuse, but I've never tried one on the Charge) then I'd go in and get it replaced.
Feign ignorance and tell them it won't turn on after you took the OTA.
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Wrong. If the kernel is corrupted it won't charge. (at least that's what I've noticed) If you have a battery charger (I do since I keep spare batteries) that may work if it really is a dead battery.
If a USB jig doesn't work (it did for my friends Infuse, but I've never tried one on the Charge) then I'd go in and get it replaced.
Feign ignorance and tell them it won't turn on after you took the OTA.
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still doesn't hurt to leave it plugged in overnight or for a few hours - you can't re-fry it....
but agreed on the last part - tell them that the OTA bricked/fried your device
jco23 said:
still doesn't hurt to leave it plugged in overnight or for a few hours - you can't re-fry it....
but agreed on the last part - tell them that the OTA bricked/fried your device
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Leave it plugged in overnight, then try the jig. Doesn't work, get it replaced.
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Thanks for the responses everybody. I tried leaving it plugged in to just the wall charger, but seemed like the phone was heating up and nothing else was happening after an hour so I unplugged it. I don't think anything is physically fried, just really need to get the programming worked out.
They shipped the Jig already, and it's coming from the US, so it probably won't take but a couple of days to get here. I'll let you know as soon as it does and I get to try it!
Dog gone it though, I don't have a battery charger. I've got 4 batteries, and a battery charging station for my original Droid Inc, DH is using. I wish I wasn't so low on money! I would order the battery charger today too, just in case.
Phone is currently stuck in this state. Pretty much doesn't respond to anything.
Tried hard resting, connecting it to the charger, connecting it to my laptop and those methods didnt work. I have an insurance replacement coming, but I would like to recoup the money I put down as the deductible for the new phone. Anything else I could try to get it working again?
This was my only fear about buying a phone with a non removable battery.
Thanks.
Non-removable battery has nothing to do with it. Holding the power button for about 5 seconds is the same as a battery pull, and its hard coded to work in just about any situation. If this doesn't work, a battery pull wouldn't either.
Did you try to get into bootloader? Try running the RUU?
Did you do anything to get to this state (flashing ROM, other mods?), or did it just happen randomly on its own? Is the phone stock or not?
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If you can't go into bootloader or recovery, you might try what this guy did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31138376#post31138376
Phone was rooted.
Tried to get into bootloader and that didn't work either.
What got it into how it is was me just turning the screen off.
Oh wait, you were complaining about the non-removable battery, in the event its just a bad battery? That's possible.
But can also be some other hardware failure, or software.
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Non-removable battery has nothing to do with it. Holding the power button for about 5 seconds is the same as a battery pull, and its hard coded to work in just about any situation. If this doesn't work, a battery pull wouldn't either.
Did you try to get into bootloader? Try running the RUU?
Did you do anything to get to this state (flashing ROM, other mods?), or did it just happen randomly on its own? Is the phone stock or not?
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If you can't go into bootloader or recovery, you might try what this guy did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31138376#post31138376
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Interesting. I would copy that in notepad and save as a batch file, correct?
Edit: That probably won't work as the phone is recognized by the computer. Something must have failed in it or something.
This has happened to me twice since I've owned it. Thing is fine, charged, no problems. Then I go to wake it up and it just won't turn on. I pressed the buttons for a while in no particular sequence I can recall, but it came on eventually. Maybe holding down the power and vol-down buttons for like 10 seconds. Also, never tried calling the phone when it was in that state. Would be interesting to see those results.
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This has happened to me twice since I've owned it. Thing is fine, charged, no problems. Then I go to wake it up and it just won't turn on. I pressed the buttons for a while in no particular sequence I can recall, but it came on eventually. Maybe holding down the power and vol-down buttons for like 10 seconds. Also, never tried calling the phone when it was in that state. Would be interesting to see those results.
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Been trying trying that to no avail. I guess I'll keep trying.
Leave it on the wall charger overnight. Wall charger charges faster than USB, so use the wall charger. I've seen some phones (other XDA users) come back from a state like this, after charging for several hours.
Any luck?
FYI, mine did this AGAIN two days ago at about 10am. Then later that afternoon, it rebooted for no reason. And that evening at about 7:30, it rebooted again but this time never made it past the HTC splash animation. I suspect it had something to do with one of the Wi-Fi penetration apps I installed last week - because it had been acting a little squirrelly ever since.
Fortunately I had a full backup from a few days prior. Booted TWRP recovery, wiped the caches and system, restored that backup and my phone's been smooth ever since.
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Phone is currently stuck in this state. Pretty much doesn't respond to anything.
Tried hard resting, connecting it to the charger, connecting it to my laptop and those methods didnt work. I have an insurance replacement coming, but I would like to recoup the money I put down as the deductible for the new phone. Anything else I could try to get it working again?
This was my only fear about buying a phone with a non removable battery.
Thanks.
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Doesn't seem like it's SOD but more like QHDUSB_DLOAD brick... try this or see you at HTC service centre.. just got my One V back from Service Centre... replaced motherboard and battery.... for free :angel:
Hey guys this is my first time posting.
I've rooted my One X loaded up a ROM (AT&T made sure it was right), was logging into Google, then my phone went black (it's connected to the computer) and it was making a sound like when you plug in a usb drive, then after a few minutes it stopped. The phone is not doing anything, can't turn it off or on. Tried to do a hard reset (volume down + power button for 30 seconds) that did nothing. Tried connecting my phone to Ubuntu and it did nothing. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Matt
Which Rom and were you low on battery?
omario8484 said:
Which Rom and were you low on battery?
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ROM was this "Calkulin's_One_XL_ROM_v1.2" the battery was at 85
Try leaving in wall charger for. A while...did you recently get it wet or any other hardware failure?
Any charge light if you plug it into the wall charger?
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matt.j.roell said:
Tried to do a hard reset (volume down + power button for 30 seconds) that did nothing.
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That is (mostly) how you get into hboot, not hard reset (is no button combo to reset the phone, per se).
You only need to hold the power button for about 5 seconds. Then release power only, keep holding volume down, and see if the white hboot screen comes up.
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Try leaving in wall charger for. A while...did you recently get it wet or any other hardware failure?
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I left it plugged in for a few hours and the charge light would not come on, and no hardware failure or was it wet.
Were you using a different companies charger? I've seen people brick from use of diff charger and try holding just power for 30 seconds and see if your key lights blink
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Were you using a different companies charger? I've seen people brick from use of diff charger and try holding just power for 30 seconds and see if your key lights blink
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The charger is from HTC I've tried holding down the power button for 30 seconds, when I do connect it to the computer it's trying to connect as a HID device but the computer stops trying to install the driver after a few minutes.
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Any charge light if you plug it into the wall charger?
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That is (mostly) how you get into hboot, not hard reset (is no button combo to reset the phone, per se).
You only need to hold the power button for about 5 seconds. Then release power only, keep holding volume down, and see if the white hboot screen comes up.
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No charge light, or any combination of power and or volume button holding is working.
Its not looking so good. If the phone was left on wall charger for a few hours, and no charge light, you are probably screwed. You might look into the unbricking thread in General, since you have a Linux computer.
The fact it went dark after flashing a ROM is suspicious. I wouldn't think it would boot at all if you flashed something that corrupted hboot (like ROM for the international One X). But the timing is awful suspicious. What ROM did you flash?
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Its not looking so good. If the phone was left on wall charger for a few hours, and no charge light, you are probably screwed. You might look into the unbricking thread in General, since you have a Linux computer.
The fact it went dark after flashing a ROM is suspicious. I wouldn't think it would boot at all if you flashed something that corrupted hboot (like ROM for the international One X). But the timing is awful suspicious. What ROM did you flash?
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Good news, I plugged it into the charger and held down the power button, the charge light went to blinking red, then pressed the power button and it went solid. I then was able to get it into bootloader. It was very odd, the batter is at 94%, not sure what was going on, I think it was a bad ROM. I'm going to flash it and see what happens.
matt.j.roell said:
Good news, I plugged it into the charger and held down the power button, the charge light went to blinking red, then pressed the power button and it went solid. I then was able to get it into bootloader. It was very odd, the batter is at 94%, not sure what was going on, I think it was a bad ROM. I'm going to flash it and see what happens.
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This happened to me awhile back. However, I wasn't rooted. I was complete stock. Just left it on the wall charger for an hour, held power button for about 30 econds or so and it deicided it wanted to work again. I was also on 2.20.
Last ditch effort for a solution here.
I have a 16gb white that's been performing just fine... i did unlock the bootloader and root, but had no issues. That was several days ago. Today, I installed a flashlight app from the play store. (Droidlight LED Flashlight by Motorola). Once I ran the app, the camera LED came on for about 2 seconds, and then both the LED and the screen went dark. The battery was at about 80% when this happened.
The device is now completely non-responsive. Holding down the power button and any combination of keys does nothing, and there is no charging indicator when it's plugged in. I've never bricked a device before, surprised this seems to be caused by a play store app (although if it's truly bricked, I suspect some sort of power issue).
Thanks for any advice anyone can provide before I have to RMA this thing. Any Ideas?
Can you get into the bootloader? Hold Vol down + power
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Nothing works? You might be the second brick of the day
You could try to remove the battery, maybe that'll help.
edit: ofc try RMA first.
kylgore said:
Last ditch effort for a solution here.
I have a 16gb white that's been performing just fine... i did unlock the bootloader and root, but had no issues. That was several days ago. Today, I installed a flashlight app from the play store. (Droidlight LED Flashlight by Motorola). Once I ran the app, the camera LED came on for about 2 seconds, and then both the LED and the screen went dark. The battery was at about 80% when this happened.
The device is now completely non-responsive. Holding down the power button and any combination of keys does nothing, and there is no charging indicator when it's plugged in. I've never bricked a device before, surprised this seems to be caused by a play store app (although if it's truly bricked, I suspect some sort of power issue).
Thanks for any advice anyone can provide before I have to RMA this thing. Any Ideas?
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Hook it to a charger for some time and then try to get in fastboot mode once in a while, then go to recovery and delete the cache and do a data factory reset and reboot. That is what i would do at least.
jd1639 said:
Can you get into the bootloader? Hold Vol down + power
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Nothing works? You might be the second brick of the day
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Can't get into the bootloader. I've tried the following combination of keys...
Vol+ and Power - nothing
Vol- and Power - nothing
Vol+, Vol- and Power - nothing
Power on it's own for 2+ minutes - nothing
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Contacted Google and they're getting me an RMA... regardless, I'd be careful about running that particular app, or possibly any flashlight app.
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Can you get into the bootloader? Hold Vol down + power
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Nothing works? You might be the second brick of the day
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What do you mean with second brick, does this happen, if you install a Custom ROM?
maumaumau said:
What do you mean with second brick, does this happen, if you install a Custom ROM?
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I think he means someone else started a thread as well indicating that they also had a bricked phone. I read that thread before I created this one, as mine wasn't related to fastboot or recovery. My brick occured from actions that occured during runtime, and root wasn't even acquired by the app that caused the failure.
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What do you mean with second brick, does this happen, if you install a Custom ROM?
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No it doesn't happen unless you don't do your homework and screw something up. If you read and learn it's very hard to hardbrick your phone. But this is the second one I've seen today. In both cases there are unique reasons it happened.
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No it doesn't happen unless you don't do your homework and screw something up. If you read and learn it's very hard to hardbrick your phone. But this is the second one I've seen today. In both cases there are unique reasons it happened.
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I flash my Phone with custom ROMs since the beginning of the Nexus era. To root and to flash my Nexus one took me like 2 hours to complete it (I admit, that I received some help back then).
For me it doesn't look here like it happened because of anyone's fault. The phone is available since this week and he's already rooted. He doesn't look like someone, who is new to it.
drain and recharge
if you have a secondary phone use it for a few days and leave your Nex5 to drain. Should be completely drained in 2-3 days. Then charge it up and try to enter bootloader.
PS: you could also try to open the phone and manually disconnect and reconnect the battery...
agent47er said:
if you have a secondary phone use it for a few days and leave your Nex5 to drain. Should be completely drained in 2-3 days. Then charge it up and try to enter bootloader.
PS: you could also try to open the phone and manually disconnect and reconnect the battery...
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I'm going to let the battery drain, but there's literally no power running through the phone right now, it's doing nothing. Something was fried, I'm afraid it will take a lot longer than 2-3 days for the battery to naturally drain.
I'd love to pop the back off and unplug the battery (that was my first thought) but I'm not doing anything to risk getting the phone replaced. I'll RMA it.
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I'm going to let the battery drain, but there's literally no power running through the phone right now, it's doing nothing. Something was fried, I'm afraid it will take a lot longer than 2-3 days for the battery to naturally drain.
I'd love to pop the back off and unplug the battery (that was my first thought) but I'm not doing anything to risk getting the phone replaced. I'll RMA it.
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Just rma it. It's the best you can do at this point
Replacement phone leaves the warehouse in 3-4 weeks. arggh.
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Replacement phone leaves the warehouse in 3-4 weeks. arggh.
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Scratch that, for those interested, my replacement phone is already in hand. Google moved pretty fast on this one.
Hello,
im new here.
My nexus 5 microphone was not working, therefore I opened it up, battery was around 12%; I patched it up and thereafter its not switching on. I have replaced the old battery with a new one, left it overnight on charge; still device is not getting on or responding to power or power+volume buttons booting option. My phone is not rooted. Connecting to the pc or laptop does not change anything. All I hear is a faint buzz from the open back of the phone indicating it is active. Need some help here seriously.
Do you see the charging animation when connected to a charger? Any indication the screen is lighting up? Possibly defective battery?
audit13 said:
Do you see the charging animation when connected to a charger? Any indication the screen is lighting up? Possibly defective battery?
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I do not see anything on the screen. It completely remains dark on charging (laptop/ wall sockets). On laptop under ports "device description failure" is the status.
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I do not see anything on the screen. It completely remains dark on charging (laptop/ wall sockets). On laptop under ports "device description failure" is the status.
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I have replaced the old with a new battery.
Double-checked internal connections? Is possible an internal complement was damaged during the battery swap? Tried charging wirelessly or different cables and chargers?
audit13 said:
Double-checked internal connections? Is possible an internal complement was damaged during the battery swap? Tried charging wirelessly or different cables and chargers?
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I had been careful and internal components are unharmed because battery swapping was done without removing the motherboard. I dont have wireless chargers but I have used different cables.
Sounds like the phone may be bricked. The only way to really tell would be to put the motherboard into another working phone.
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Sounds like the phone may be bricked. The only way to really tell would be to put the motherboard into another working phone.
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Since I do not have another working android phone, will it be sensible to take it to a repair shop? Will there be a chance to bring back the phone to a working mode?
You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did try try cleaning around the power button?
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You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did you try cleaning around the power button?
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You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did try try cleaning around the power button?
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You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did you try cleaning around the power button?
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Yes, i have cleaned the power button.
What happens if you put the old battery back in place? Does the phone boots up? Because it's strange that a simply battery replacement bricked the device.
Sounds like you'll need to find a way to try the motherboard in another phone.
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Hello,
im new here.
My nexus 5 microphone was not working, therefore I opened it up, battery was around 12%; I patched it up and thereafter its not switching on. I have replaced the old battery with a new one, left it overnight on charge; still device is not getting on or responding to power or power+volume buttons booting option. My phone is not rooted. Connecting to the pc or laptop does not change anything. All I hear is a faint buzz from the open back of the phone indicating it is active. Need some help here seriously.
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I've had this happen a few times. To start the phone I simply hold down the power button and the volume down button until the green robot screen shows up from which I simply start the phone. Perhaps this will work for you.