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[Q] Battery died one day and phone seems to have died with it. WTF!?!

I was away from home for 2 days and forgot my charger. Naturally the battery died.
I came home and charged the phone (plugged in the USB cable), left it for an hour or so and tried to turn it on. I got a "spinning" black and white wheel (which is actually frozen). Next comes the grey image of an empty battery which doesnt show charging (filling with green) even when the phone is plugged in. The home, back, etc. etc. buttons flash white for a moment and the phone turns off. Try again, same thing.
I thought maybe the USB wast connecting or charging so i took the battery out and charged it on an external charger which shows that it is full. Put it in, same thing.
Tried hard reset but cant complete it because samsung logo screen doesnt come on, only "empty battery" image.
Phone doesnt show up on my mac. etc. etc.
I am out of ideas...
btw no kind of water contact or dropping.
I really hope someone has another suggestion or can point me in the right direction.
Thanks for reading.

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Try going to att and use a charged battery there. Your battery may just be dead from over discharging.

RUNNERX said:
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Try going to att and use a charged battery there. Your battery may just be dead from over discharging.
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thanks. i plugged it in and will let it sit for a while. i did try to turn it on as soon as i plugged it in and still saw the battery which didnt appear to be charging, but i know from previous experiance that when a phone is really dead the battery wont start it immediately even when plugged in.
thanks for the advice. my fingers are crossed
edit: ok. i'll try that also. if i can get away with just replacing the battery thats fine

this happened to me several times as well. My fix was easy.
Plug it in and forget about it for an hour. Unplug it, power it up, plug back in as soon as you see it start to boot. Should boot and charge.
I don't know why, but when its DEAD dead DEAD, it won't boot while its plugged in, nor will it show charging.
I hope that helps!

hopeful...
madamimadam said:
this happened to me several times as well. My fix was easy.
Plug it in and forget about it for an hour. Unplug it, power it up, plug back in as soon as you see it start to boot. Should boot and charge.
I don't know why, but when its DEAD dead DEAD, it won't boot while its plugged in, nor will it show charging.
I hope that helps!
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Thank you for the advice. I am happy to know someones dealt with this before and I am not the only one.
I just want to be sure. When you say that it starts to boot up, do you mean the samsung logo or the b/w wheel with empty (grey) battery image?
I tried to plug in the USB when the empty batt. was showing but it didnt seem to respond. Also I am wondering, when it finally connects do you still just let it charge or do you fully boot it up? Also does the battery show that it was keeping a charge from the first hour you left idle or does it only start to keep the charge after youve done this process?
Sorry for all the questions. This is just a bit for me....
update: OMG! just plugged it and instead of an empty batt. it was 90% green! phone still shut off again but i am very hopeful something is going on. I am going to keep messing around
update2: thank you so so much. This finally worked. saved me a considerable amount of money and untold grief. Basically I followed your directions in hyper mode. Power on, USB (in/out/in/out/in/out), phone shuts off, immediately power on again, etc., etc., until it worked.
Thank you.

FYI, a proper charger (instead of a PC's USB port) will cause the device to go into a higher-current charging mode that MIGHT have behaved better.

You can only charge your phone when its off on stock. Being in a rom it will reboot hence your frozen spinner and grey battery. Try it now that your battery is fully charged a d it will just reboot.
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just had the same problem tonight, but when I pulled out the battery it had a fried electronics smell in the battery

Same thing happened to me driving home from Thanksgiving break. I've come to the conclusion that if you flash a non Samsung from then you have to have the infuse on to charge. Even with a dead battery I managed to get the infuse on, then immediately shut the screen off for about 30 sec before proceeding to quickly turn setcpu into power save mode before shutting screen off and leaving it off for a few hours. Should veeerryyy slowly but surely charge (stupid samsung ..... takes forever to charge and there are times when the battery goes down in heavy CPU apps or when on 4g, I noe its safer that way but its not like I'm going to have that phone for the next 5 years)
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So glad I found this. My wife's "Infused" Infuse was "acting weird" according to her. Said there was a weird "DOS" like screen for a second, then the dead/grey battery logo. Take bat out and put back in. Nothing. Plug in and start up and it either goes from the Samsung logo to off, and repeat that, or show the Dead/Grey battery thing again. Well, tried the turn on while unplugged, and immediately plug in, and it started up. Even said the batt was 96% charged! Really confusing. So are there any other ROMs usable on this thing? Infused is OK, but man, just not nearly as good as my N1 running CM7.
Thanx again for the tip!

jwrezz said:
So glad I found this. My wife's "Infused" Infuse was "acting weird" according to her. Said there was a weird "DOS" like screen for a second, then the dead/grey battery logo. Take bat out and put back in. Nothing. Plug in and start up and it either goes from the Samsung logo to off, and repeat that, or show the Dead/Grey battery thing again. Well, tried the turn on while unplugged, and immediately plug in, and it started up. Even said the batt was 96% charged! Really confusing. So are there any other ROMs usable on this thing? Infused is OK, but man, just not nearly as good as my N1 running CM7.
Thanx again for the tip!
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everything in development is.... obviously. Also, do make sure your read everything first lol it can really help you and other people at the end.

I got the infuse for me and the wife in early December. After the initial charge she used hers for about a day and half then tried to charge it.
Nada.
Tried different USB cables, swapped batteries. Turned out the USB port died. Talk about a PIA!!!
Best buy swapped it out no problem and let me keep all the stuff in the old box.

Is my Nexus5 dead or only its battery?

Howdy!
My phone doesn't work anymore, and I try to assess what's going on. I searched before posting, and I decided to post here because I found mixed answers.
Context:
I bought my phone in January 2014. I took extra care of it, it has never fallen on the ground from high, no scratch, nothing. Regarding the battery, I tried as much as possible to charge when it was close to 0%, I wasn't a heavy user of my phone, and I was turning off a lot of things so that the battery would not deplete quickly (Wifi, localisation, Bluetooth, auto-typing, et cetera...).
However, recently (the last month), I was feeling the battery was weak, depleting more quickly than before. I also felt the phone was warmer than usual. Sometimes the phone would turn off suddenly when I was short on battery (under 15%) and using a "heavy" feature (photography with flash, video game).
A week ago, the phone suddenly turned off, never to turn on again. The phone died. I was just typing a message, the phone was charging and the battery was around 60%. I was surprised.
As of today, the phone doesn't turn on. Plugged on a wall outlet or on the USB port of my computer is the same.
I tried many combination of buttons to fastboot, reboot, reset, or whatever, nothing sparked any life in my phone. (I tried holding power key for 30s+, 15s+ ; I tried holding power key + volume up for 15s+ ; power key + volume down ; power key both volume ; in fact whatever combination I could read here on XDA forums, on Reddit, on Google Forums...).
My first insight was: it's just the battery. I can buy one off the internet, and voilà!
However, when I plug the Nexus 5 on my computer via USB, the computer reacts with the sounds when you connect something. Is it just the battery then?
At first, it was saying: "QHS_USB BULK", and the computer was trying to install whatever to make that peripheral work.
When it was done, it read "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM4) has been correctly installed.
Hum, okay.
Still, nothing shows in the peripheral.
I continue to hear the plug in plug out sound when I... plug in and out my phone in the computer, but that's the only thing.
With all that, I can't really tell if all the phone is dead, something grilled inside or I don't know what; or if it's just the battery that is dead and the phone is unreachable and unrecognizable when "there is no battery" in it.
I'm not sure if I shall invest money into buying a new battery.
Do you guys can light my lantern on that matter?
I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Cheerio!

If I may just address a little bump on this very subject of particular interest to myself :3
Cheerio!

Any insights on this? mine´s doing the same. Doesn´t turn on or go into bootloader, when i connect to charge it red light blinks for like 10 sec and then goes off. Nothing happens after hours of charge.
Did you try replacing the battery as you mention on the post?

Sorry, but have to say this with caps: BLINKING RED NOTIFICATION LED MEANS ITS DEAD BATTERY. Can't be 100% sure, but usually it means that the phone doesn't have enough power to boot up. Mine did this when it drained to the absolute 0%
edit: There can be other problems with power going to phone, but if you are lucky its just the battery.

So i changed the battery. When i plugged it to charge no red lights came on, just the typical white battery with the light bolt appeared for a few seconds, after that it went on with screen off (or at least i thought it did). After 3 h of uninterrupted power charge i went to turn it on. Nothing happened. Can´t turn it on or go into bootloader.
Nothing happens on my pc when i plug it. No sound and nothing on Device manager (no drivers for nexus 5 installed, don´t know if that matters for windows to recognize it as any device even if its not as android device).
Edit: yeah, i got enlightened and literally unplugged the battery and plugged it back in and it worked like charm. I get stuck on the intro animation but i can get into bootloader and recovery just fine. Just gonna install those drivers and flash something. right? Thanks to everyone that read and even more to those who replied!

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So i changed the battery. When i plugged it to charge no red lights came on, just the typical white battery with the light bolt appeared for a few seconds, after that it went on with screen off (or at least i thought it did). After 3 h of uninterrupted power charge i went to turn it on. Nothing happened. Can´t turn it on or go into bootloader.
Nothing happens on my pc when i plug it. No sound and nothing on Device manager (no drivers for nexus 5 installed, don´t know if that matters for windows to recognize it as any device even if its not as android device).
Edit: yeah, i got enlightened and literally unplugged the battery and plugged it back in and it worked like charm. I get stuck on the intro animation but i can get into bootloader and recovery just fine. Just gonna install those drivers and flash something. right? Thanks to everyone that read and even more to those who replied!
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Yeah, search from youtube how to flash factory image nexus 5. It should make it work. And try to find video with using adb instead of toolkit, adb is way more stable/trustable. (ADB is the android debug bridge, it may look like very hard and confusing but in the end its just typing 1 command and it flashes everything needed) If you need help in flashing the image, just ask!
Try this, it installs only tools needed for adb (also drivers) http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/tool-platform-tools-adb-fasbootdrivers-t3061441
Edit: This should work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ka5dnPghzI

Battery completely dead or other hardware issue? [semi-resolved]

Hi All, my wifes s6 (using xtrestolite rom) has stopped taking a charge. Im trying to figure out what the issue is. Unfortunately im travelling for the next month so have limited trouble shooting options.
Background
- wife has been complaining that her phone battery dies quickly. I kind of dimissed her assuming it was in her head. she said it loses 10percent in standby mode in 1hr roughly. Shes been complaining about this for a week.
- yesterday at the airport her battery was at 12% and when we plugged it in to charge it wouldnt take a charge. Bolt icon did not come up and still said "connect charger" on the screen. Normally when connected the red Led comes on, but now it doesnt.
-our normal chsrging method is using and aukey 3port charger as fast charging mode.
Troubleshooting/diagnosis
- i have an s6 as well so i tested all the cables and chargers on my phone and it works. We even had the official samsung charger and cable but same issue.
- after the phone was completely dead, if you plug in the charging cable the charging bolt icon comes on for a few sec, the top left says "kernel is on seandroid enforcing" for a sec and then everything goes blank. Red charging led doesnt come on. So it seems like it detects the cable but wont charge enough to boot up.
- i was able to boot into twrp recovery but where its supposed to have a battery level its completely blank. Originally i was able to do this without any canles but then it wouldnt. My guess is that i orginally had a bit of juice and then it was completely dead.
-after leaving it plugged in for a sec, im able to turn it on where it boots and i can see it says 0% battery. It stays on for 5sec before turning off itself.
- i also tried plugging it into laptop, but laptop does not detect it. The phone does detect the power though and does the same as above but this time bolt charging icon stayes on for 1-2min before going off and seeing the "kernel is on seandroid icon". Once the seanadroid goes away nothing seems to happen. After doing this i was able to turn it on and it showed 1%. I thought this was promising but after trying this a few times ive never been able to get to 1percent again.
- with the brief charge thst i guess its getting, i was able to go i to twrp recovery and do a factory reset. This was with cable plugged in the whole time. Without cable in i dont think it would complete the action.
That about summarizes whats happened.
Ive concluded the following:
- charger and cables are ok and not the issue
- it is not the charging port since the phone does seem to be getting some juice bacause charging icon comes on for 2sec whenever cable is plugged in.
- its not a software/app issue since it wont charge even in recovery mode. Also factory reset was done and no luck.
My best guess is that the battery can only hold a 0-1% charge which is enough to register it being plugged in but not enough to do anything else. But if everything else is ok shouldnt it work when if the cable is just left in. This makes me think theres something else going on.
Any suggestions or theories would be much appreciated trying to decide if i should pay to get battery replaced.
Sorry for the long post. Figured it is best to give all info.
Thanks in advance!
Update June 3:
Hey everyone, just a correction on the above. It looks like it is able to charge in recovery (slowly). I realized that although there is no battery level during recovery, no charging led, and not booting up after being charged for a bit, maybe its just going slowly.
So i went into recovery and left it overnight on the non-fast charging and woke up after 8hrs and it was at 78percent!!!
Im not sure why it didnt go to 100% in 8hrs.
The phone still doesnt charge regularly when plugged in, so still need to fix that.
Do you guys think its a rom issue (only factory reset done before) ? I will see if i can get a rom for flashing.
Update 2:
Reflashed xtrestolite rom but still no luck. It wont charge.

Seems like a dead battery.
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Battery.

Hey everyone, just a correction on the above. It looks like it is able to charge in recovery (slowly). I realized that although there is no battery level during recovery, no charging led, and not booting up after being charged for a bit, maybe its just going slowly.
So i went into recovery and left it overnight on the non-fast charging and woke up after 8hrs and it was at 78percent!!!
Im not sure why it didnt go to 100% in 8hrs.
The phone still doesnt charge regularly when plugged in, so still need to fix that.
Do you guys think its a rom issue (only factory reset done before) ? I will see if i can get a rom for flashing.
Update 2:
Reflashed xtrestolite rom but still no luck. It wont charge

Bump.
Went to the phone store and they said its probably not the battery but the ic chip for charging? This will cost 150, but doesnt include the screen if they break it...
Does this make sense since i can charge in recovery.
Thanks. Any direction or input is much appreciated.

Go on the local store and change your battery (if isn't in warranty)

Hi all, just wanted to update the post that the issue is semi-fixed.
I brought it into a repair shop who offered to diagnose the problem for free before paying to replace the battery.
He told me there was nothing wrong with it and not sure what my issue was. Plugs in the charger and lo and behold it was charging. He said he didnt do anytning to it except blow some compressed air on the port.
Im guessing the comporessed air cleaned out a short? So now it charges properly.
The issue remaining is that the pc doesnt detect the phone. It shows as charging on the phone but no conmection. Tried to install the latest samung driver (1.5.4xxx?) but no luck. On occation sometimes it says "usb port has malfunctioned" but other times nothing.
My s6 does actually connect, so definitely my wife's s6 itself and not comp. Im tempted to buy some comlressed air and give it ankther blow, but dont want to risk messing it up again. im pretty happy that it at least charges up.
Hope this helps others that might have similar issue.

Battery dead, not charging, stuck on "low battery screen", bootloops with forceboot

Battery dead, not charging, stuck on "low battery screen", bootloops with forceboot
Hello people, this is my very first post on xda, even though I've been lurking around for about a year. The community has helped me a lot, I'd like to thank you all for that.
Back on topic though! My error seems to be very similar to the one here.
I was watching some YouTube, battery sitting on a respectable 85%, when it suddenly shut off. Not the usual "shutting down for low battery" kind of shutting down, it was istantaneous, more like the battery was unplugged from the phone. Which is clearly impossible. I tried to boot it using the power button to no avail. I connected it to the charger, and the "the battery is too low" screen popped up. I left it at that for about 45 minutes, then unplugged from the charger and tried to boot. No success. The battery didn't even charge; the charger should be is fully working.
So I tried leaving it plugged to the charger and force boot the phone via volume down and power button; it attempted to boot, but stopped midway through, bootlooping until I unplug it, at that point it shuts off again.
The loop goes like this: OnePlus white logo (normal when you boot), radioactive kernel loading, reboot and repeat. That happens, again, until I unplug it from the charger. Then it shuts off.
EDIT: If I try to get into bootloader instead (volume up + power), after about 8 seconds of me pressing the buttons the screen just shuts off and doesn't react to any more presses (even while plugged). If I unplug and replug it to the charger, I'm back to square one (low battery, please charge).
PC doesn't recognize it. It makes the "the battery is low" screen pop up, but nothing else.
Here's some phone information in case you need them.
Phone info:
Rom: NucleaRom 1.3 (+ Radioactive kernel which comes with it) got it from here
Xposed modules: Youtube Background Playback, AdAway
Root: Yes
Thanks in advance everyone.

I doubt it would be software related if it does it even when in bootloader. It could be the problem I had with my nexus 7 a few times. I needed to charge it like all day for it to even turn on. Either that or faulty phone/bad battery. I hope it's just dead

NUNsLAUGHTER92 said:
I doubt it would be software related if it does it even when in bootloader. It could be the problem I had with my nexus 7 a few times. I needed to charge it like all day for it to even turn on. Either that or faulty phone/bad battery. I hope it's just dead
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Hello there, thanks for taking the time to reply. Yesterday I worked all day to try and make sense of the problem. I could have just bought another phone but I'm fairly attached to this one so I went deep.
I was fairly sure (like you) that it couldn't be a software problem, so I looked at the logic board of the phone; turns out (correct my poor technical wording) the bracket (connector?) for the battery on the logic board was coming off from the motherboard itself (the battery was indeed attached to the bracket, the bracket was just coming off of the board). What I did was just reposition the bracket and pushed it down with a bit of force on the board, then replugged the battery in the newly restored battery plug, and tried my luck. It booted! Back at its original 75%-ish.
My only guess would be that due to a fall the bracket got misplaced, but stayed close enough for it to still make contact and never actually shut down, until yesterday. That was... Quite an interesting ride.
Thanks for replying, it was indeed a "faulty phone", but I just couldn't leave it at that without trying

I'm glad it worked out for ya

Not work at all ...
My phone its show the logo on charging or low charge but its stuck for this for while full battary is empty... When I plagued in charger the same show charging logo with indicator but not charging its suck on that logo to .......then I charged the battary externally then put the battary try to open its show only a (powered by android log ) stuck on this ......I cant go any recovery modes ..fast boot mods... Only show this one or charging logo if battary low that logo to ... I try to get adb driver on my computer its also not show because of not get recovery modes ........
Any other idea to solve this

[Q] Reviving the (possibly) dead battery

Hey guys,
I've got a Google Pixel phone today and it's having a major problem. Battery won't charge, at all. Here's what I did:
1. Checked and cleaned the USB-C port
2. Checked with 2 chargers (A normal USB 2.0 type charger and a LG G6 fast charger)
3. Tested it with 2 USB-C cables. One is from the LG G6, the other one is the original that came with the phone.
4. Tried charging it using the laptop USB ports (3.0)
5. Ran a battery tester which said the battery was alright (an apk)
Android version running: 8.1.0 with Feb. security patch
The seller also said that the microphone and possibly the loudspeaker don't work. I would love to charge the phone and try the Android P BETA program on it, see if it solves anything.
I've ordered a new battery from Sweden (possibly not original, but I've read that it's alright)
Any tips?
Thanks!
Edit: The phone indicates that the battery is charging (both when it's shutdown and plugged in). The battery is at 1% now and the phone shuts down immediately - won't power-up at all.

I have a similar issue with a Pixel I bought refurbished (might just return it) - but the battery won't charge past 75%; got up to 84% one time, though. Even plugged in, once the battery gets to its 'max', the percentage will actually go down a little, to around 70% (if it stays plugged in at >70% then it usually goes down, with screen off). I also noticed mine doesn't seem to charge at all when powered off (probably a big warning sign) and also sometimes won't charge until booted up and unlocked (sucks to pick up your phone that's been plugged in a couple hours to see 4% battery with the charging indicator on the status bar says the phone is charging....).
It WILL charge if it gets booted into (TWRP) recovery - so, if your phone stays on while connected to laptop, try booting into bootloader and fastboot boot twrp-latest.img (easy to find thread for that, or just go TWRP.me website and find it there).
If that doesn't work (locked bootloader, etc.), try charging it while in the stock recovery, but I don't think it'll give you an indicator. If all those fail to give it a charge try charging inside bootloader, plug and unplug a few times, make sure USB connectors are clean. Good luck with the replacement battery, screen/digitizer can easily get messed up during dissasembly...
Edit: noticed you said won't power on at all, if you can't even get to bootloader (vol down+power with phone off) then battery or USB assembly is probably no good. Does LED flash red on the top of phone?

dacdoug said:
I have a similar issue with a Pixel I bought refurbished (might just return it) - but the battery won't charge past 75%; got up to 84% one time, though. Even plugged in, once the battery gets to its 'max', the percentage will actually go down a little, to around 70% (if it stays plugged in at >70% then it usually goes down, with screen off). I also noticed mine doesn't seem to charge at all when powered off (probably a big warning sign) and also sometimes won't charge until booted up and unlocked (sucks to pick up your phone that's been plugged in a couple hours to see 4% battery with the charging indicator on the status bar says the phone is charging....).
It WILL charge if it gets booted into (TWRP) recovery - so, if your phone stays on while connected to laptop, try booting into bootloader and fastboot boot twrp-latest.img (easy to find thread for that, or just go TWRP.me website and find it there).
If that doesn't work (locked bootloader, etc.), try charging it while in the stock recovery, but I don't think it'll give you an indicator. If all those fail to give it a charge try charging inside bootloader, plug and unplug a few times, make sure USB connectors are clean. Good luck with the replacement battery, screen/digitizer can easily get messed up during dissasembly...
Edit: noticed you said won't power on at all, if you can't even get to bootloader (vol down+power with phone off) then battery or USB assembly is probably no good. Does LED flash red on the top of phone?
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Hey, thanks for the tips.
I unfortunately tried all of that before it wouldn't boot up anymore, so no luck there. Also, no indicator at the top, battery is probably alright, might be a software issue or something, but can't tell since I can't update it to Android P or atleast downgrade it. I guess I'll have to wait for the battery to arrive and then try it like that. Hopefully that works.