[Q] nexus 5 red light - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi guys,
2 days ago I got a nexus 5 loved it until today I was playing a game (asphalt 8) and it just turned it self off don't know why just did now all im getting is a flashing red light I was on holiday with the phone could the plane have done something to it anyway guys please help me
thanks
Prime

No, the plane didn't do anything to the phone.
Did the battery die? Did you stick the phone on a charger after it turned off?

Best guess is that it's overheated to the thermal shutdown limit.
Leave it a while then try powering it back on
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Alex240188 said:
Best guess is that it's overheated to the thermal shutdown limit.
Leave it a while then try powering it back on
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ive already tried all of that but 1 think ive not tried is a reset but I have data on my phone that I don't wanna lose can anyone help

Alex240188 said:
Best guess is that it's overheated to the thermal shutdown limit.
Leave it a while then try powering it back on
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na, when you hit the safety shutdown temp, all it does is shut down, you can boot it right after. ive reached it many times(on purpose), it works.
what the op is describing sounds like the rlod on the nexus 4(red light of death). it happens when the phone thinks it went below 0%. on the n4 there are two solutions, one works sometimes, the other all the time. the one that works sometimes is leave it on the charger for several hours, then try to boot into the bootloader, then shut off the phone from there and keep charging. the method that works 100% is to remove the back cover, disconnect the battery, then reconnect it. this is a hard reset for the battery, and works 100% of the time on the nexus 4.

simms22 said:
na, when you hit the safety shutdown temp, all it does is shut down, you can boot it right after. ive reached it many times(on purpose), it works.
what the op is describing sounds like the rlod on the nexus 4(red light of death). it happens when the phone thinks it went below 0%. on the n4 there are two solutions, one works sometimes, the other all the time. the one that works sometimes is leave it on the charger for several hours, then try to boot into the bootloader, then shut off the phone from there and keep charging. the method that works 100% is to remove the back cover, disconnect the battery, then reconnect it. this is a hard reset for the battery, and works 100% of the time on the nexus 4.
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im a newbee I cant open a phone up anyway ive tried to get in to bootloader should I just RMA the phone.

PRIME667 said:
im a newbee I cant open a phone up anyway ive tried to get in to bootloader should I just RMA the phone.
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if it was something that happened on its own(without you tinkering with your phone), then yes.

thanks
simms22 said:
if it was something that happened on its own(without you tinkering with your phone), then yes.
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right ill do that thanks for your help guys
PRIME667

You may want to give this procedure a try, its copied directly from Google's product support page for the Nexus 7.
Make sure there isn’t any dust or lint in the power port.
Using the original power adapter and USB cable, plug your Nexus 7 into a functioning power outlet. Nexus 7 has specific power requirements, and the USB cable and power adapter that are included are designed to meet those requirements.
Ensure the power cord is securely connected to the tablet and the power adapter.
After 1 minute, check to see if a battery icon appears on the screen.
If the battery icon appears, press & hold the Power button for 15 to 30 seconds to see if the device turns on.
If the battery icon doesn't appear, try accessing the Android bootloader menu:
Press & hold the Volume down button. While holding Volume down, press & hold the Power button for at least 10 seconds until you see an Android robot and the word Start on the screen.
Press the Volume down button until Power off is highlighted. Press the Power button to select that option.
Disconnect the charger and reconnect it within 10 seconds. A battery icon should appear on your screen.
Once the battery icon appears on the screen, allow your tablet to charge for at least 1 hour before turning it back on.

returned it
sluflyer06 said:
You may want to give this procedure a try, its copied directly from Google's product support page for the Nexus 7.
Make sure there isn’t any dust or lint in the power port.
Using the original power adapter and USB cable, plug your Nexus 7 into a functioning power outlet. Nexus 7 has specific power requirements, and the USB cable and power adapter that are included are designed to meet those requirements.
Ensure the power cord is securely connected to the tablet and the power adapter.
After 1 minute, check to see if a battery icon appears on the screen.
If the battery icon appears, press & hold the Power button for 15 to 30 seconds to see if the device turns on.
If the battery icon doesn't appear, try accessing the Android bootloader menu:
Press & hold the Volume down button. While holding Volume down, press & hold the Power button for at least 10 seconds until you see an Android robot and the word Start on the screen.
Press the Volume down button until Power off is highlighted. Press the Power button to select that option.
Disconnect the charger and reconnect it within 10 seconds. A battery icon should appear on your screen.
Once the battery icon appears on the screen, allow your tablet to charge for at least 1 hour before turning it back on.
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I got a new one thanks for all your help

I just had a red blinking light and no charge indicator situation, as well. Nothing seemed to work: plugged it in for 20 minutes, unplugged it for 20 minutes, plugged it back in...and after another hour on the charger I finally noticed the blinking red light had gone away, and hitting power brought up the charging indicator as normal. Booted right up and has been fine since.

My Nexus 5 just started doing this. I was in the middle of playing a game while my phone was on the charger (Brave Frontier) and suddenly the screen went dead and I had the red flashing light. I'm guessing I was using the juice faster than the charger could fill it so I killed it. I couldn't get the battery indicator to come back but as I was typing this the red light finally stopped flashing and the phone rebooted.

This happened to my N5 today. I was on a Hangouts video chat while plugged in from wall charger and I noticed the battery was actually draining rather than charging. So I figured hangouts was discharging the battery faster than the charging. Eventually it went to 0% and stayed that way for a while and suddenly the screen went off and the LED started blinking red. Followed the steps posted here, plugged in, left for a while and the blinking stops and phone boots up.
Never Hangout-ing with low charge ever! D:

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TF700 Won't Turn Back On

I've had mine about 6-8 weeks. Is unlocked and has TWRP and Zeus 3.0. Used it this morning with no issues and it was about 90% charged. Took it on the road with me and I wanted to make sure it was fully charged so I plugged it into a power inverter car charger with a USB slot. After about 1 hour, I unplugged it and turned it back on. It powered up and the first Asus screen popped up. At that point it appeared to go black and I waited a few minutes. Nothing happened. I then tried turning it back and it will not turn back on or power up into TWRP. After holding the power button, the tablet has a small vibrate after 10 seconds. Upon plugging it back into the car charger, I noticed that the light is not working. This happens on and off the dock. I won't be able to plug it into a real power outlet until I get back home, so I'm posting to get a jump start on what to do if it still doesn't work at home.
Any advice?
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Well I got home, plugged it in and the charge light came on. It still wouldn't turn on though. At that point, I figured I'd try a paper clip in the factory reset pin hole even though I read that it doesn't or shouldn't work when you're not stock. Well doing that powered the tablet back up and everything is the way I left it this morning.
Very interesting. Hope this may help others....or maybe I'm just lucky.
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So the reset button works also with custom rom. Shouldn't be a normal thing? I didn't know that with custom rom it doesn't work.
Inviato dal mio ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T con Tapatalk 2
Similar situation?
Wildcard50 said:
I've had mine about 6-8 weeks. Is unlocked and has TWRP and Zeus 3.0. Used it this morning with no issues and it was about 90% charged. Took it on the road with me and I wanted to make sure it was fully charged so I plugged it into a power inverter car charger with a USB slot. After about 1 hour, I unplugged it and turned it back on. It powered up and the first Asus screen popped up. At that point it appeared to go black and I waited a few minutes. Nothing happened. I then tried turning it back and it will not turn back on or power up into TWRP. After holding the power button, the tablet has a small vibrate after 10 seconds. Upon plugging it back into the car charger, I noticed that the light is not working. This happens on and off the dock. I won't be able to plug it into a real power outlet until I get back home, so I'm posting to get a jump start on what to do if it still doesn't work at home.
Any advice?
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Sounds somewhat similar to my tablet, had it connect to HDMI with dock it was just finished running video the low battery status prompt popped up, folded the tablet and connected with charger without disconnecting HDMI.
A few hours later unfolded the tablet and found a blank screen, first thought it had shutdown by itself, then by pressing power button it gave a short vibration feedback. With the display still blank kept on pressing power button each time it responded with feedback by vibrating and thought it is bricked.
Was wondering wildly what has happened to it, so kept on pressing and holding power button it finally reboots and vibrated long to indicate it is booting.
So it was strange why such error has occurred, and it happens it could have registered as turned ON but display ON and in reality display is really OFF.

MY Galaxy Tab 7.7 I815 is not working, please help!

I use my Galaxy Tab as a navigation in my car, last night i was watching a movie and i did not charge it, it was 8% left battery life,
This morning i mounted it in my car, put the GPS on, tried to charge it with my car charger, it kept notifying me every 5 seconds the tablet is charging, and not charging, (keeps connecting and disconnecting) till it gave me a black screen, since i was driving i ignored it.
when i reached my destination, i was able to put in download mode, by hitting volume down and power, then i hit volume down to restart. then it gave me a black screen again, tried to do the same thing then i hit volume up to get me in download mode, then i powered it off somehow, i do not remember, now i am stuck in black screen,
had it on the OEM charger for an hour, it does not seem to be charging, i am not able to get in download or recovery mode.
i have had this tablet for 3 weeks now, never flashed a custom rom or rooted it,
is there any way to put it back to life? please please help!
Excuse my English, it is not my first language
nmnm4alll said:
I use my Galaxy Tab as a navigation in my car, last night i was watching a movie and i did not charge it, it was 8% left battery life,
This morning i mounted it in my car, put the GPS on, tried to charge it with my car charger, it kept notifying me every 5 seconds the tablet is charging, and not charging, (keeps connecting and disconnecting) till it gave me a black screen, since i was driving i ignored it.
when i reached my destination, i was able to put in download mode, by hitting volume down and power, then i hit volume down to restart. then it gave me a black screen again, tried to do the same thing then i hit volume up to get me in download mode, then i powered it off somehow, i do not remember, now i am stuck in black screen,
had it on the OEM charger for an hour, it does not seem to be charging, i am not able to get in download or recovery mode.
i have had this tablet for 3 weeks now, never flashed a custom rom or rooted it,
is there any way to put it back to life? please please help!
Excuse my English, it is not my first language
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Why are you trying to go to download mode, simply plug to an AC power outlet, leave it for seconds & keep pressing the power button for around 3-4 seconds, it should boot up normally.
lsherif said:
Why are you trying to go to download mode, simply plug to an AC power outlet, leave it for seconds & keep pressing the power button for around 3-4 seconds, it should boot up normally.
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Thanks for responding, i have been plugging my tablet to a power outlet for 3 hours and it's not showing it's spring any charging animation, it looks like soft bricked, even tho i didn't flash any roms, very weird!
nmnm4alll said:
Thanks for responding, i have been plugging my tablet to a power outlet for 3 hours and it's not showing it's spring any charging animation, it looks like soft bricked, even tho i didn't flash any roms, very weird!
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did you try just long pressing the power button for some seconds ?
lsherif said:
did you try just long pressing the power button for some seconds ?
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No luck
I am taking it to Verizon, i hope they fix it, even tho i bought it brand new from craigslist
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HELP!!! Battery died yesterday and phone won't turn backon!

Last night I ran my battery down to the point where it said Powering Off or whatever. I charged it all night and nothing. When I plug it in, sometimes it has a red LED in the upper left for a econd or two, then does one vibrate, then becomes completely unresponsive.
I've tried a battery pull and hooking it up that way. Same thing - red LED, one vibrate, then nothing. Some times when it is plugged in, it will show a battery picture with no juice for just a second then it all goes blank again.
I am running AOKP build 4 with Slim Kernel.
HELP!!!!!!!!!
I would try another battery, sounds like the one that you have us showing up as dead even after charging overnight.
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Just unplug the phone... pull the battery... put the battery back in and WITHOUT plugging the phone in turn the phone back on (may have to hold the power button for a little while).
Strange plugging in the phone without a battery should bring up the charging screen with a question mark in it I think
So the problem has been remedied, though I would like a little input to better document this problem and solution...
I took the battery out, plugged the phone in, then popped the battery in. Really quickly, I got it to enter the weird screen where it is an exclamation point in a yield sign (I forget what combination of buttons I pushed to get here). It said Volume up to continue or Volume down to do something else. This is where it was fuzzy because I was freaking out about having to buy another phone.
Anyways, I hit the volume button that was supposed to reboot and it went through the boot sequence and showed me charging at 98%. This is strange because it was plugged in all night but non-responsive - not power, no heat, no nothing.
So long story short, if running this ROM/Kernel combo - DO NOT LET THIS THING GO TO 0%!!!
And if anyone can tell me what combo I pressed to enter that screen, it would be very helpful. Thanks guys!
The screen you got to is called Download Mode..
Download Mode - This is a setting in which you will put your phone when using Odin. There are other ways, but most people will reach download mode by powering down, removing the battery, and holding volume down while plugging the factory usb cord into the computer and phone. Odin can only communicate properly with your phone if the phone is in download mode.
For future reference you have to
1. hold volume down + power + home button
2. Per on screen instructions, press volume down to reboot/restart device.
This is a documented problem and one that has been posted about numerous times, glad you figured it out. Also, this will always fix the problem so you should not worry if the phone running this ROM/Kernel combo runs down to 0%.
too bad samsung doesn't have a genius bar.....lol

Please HELP ME :( "S3 will not power on due to no battery life"

Hello,
Two days ago, i was on a plane and my htc ons s S3 turn off due to battery go to less than 5% and loses all power, when i came to home i try to charge it but the LED still off and when i pressing the Power key does not turn on the device, i have left more than 5h and the issue still here.
if i remove the battery and than try to charge it with an externel adaptater sector, it will be charged or not ?
Please any idea ?
You might have to leave it alone on charge for at least 15-30 minutes until the LED shows up. Then you should be able to power it on.
djsubtronic said:
You might have to leave it alone on charge for at least 15-30 minutes until the LED shows up. Then you should be able to power it on.
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I have already leave at all the night, the LED is up but i think the phone is not charging, when i try to power on it, nothing happened.
When a put the sector to the phone, the LED flash about 10s with orange color, and than it's still off for some time and it's turn on (orange color) but no charge on the battery.
Have you tried to boot to hboot while charging(hold vol down and hold power same time).
If you plug into pc does it show up or do anything in pc.
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decievedthought said:
Have you tried to boot to hboot while charging(hold vol down and hold power same time).
If you plug into pc does it show up or do anything in pc.
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I have all ready try all no respond even vol down + power
tkitk said:
Hello,
Two days ago, i was on a plane and my htc ons s S3 turn off due to battery go to less than 5% and loses all power, when i came to home i try to charge it but the LED still off and when i pressing the Power key does not turn on the device, i have left more than 5h and the issue still here.
if i remove the battery and than try to charge it with an externel adaptater sector, it will be charged or not ?
Please any idea ?
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connect the charger wth the phone n leave it for some time n ull noice the the led would blink for some while then unplug the usb cable n then plug it back n than jst leave it for charge n when the led is stable power on the phone
Hmmy 4444 said:
connect the charger wth the phone n leave it for some time n ull noice the the led would blink for some while then unplug the usb cable n then plug it back n than jst leave it for charge n when the led is stable power on the phone
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Not working
Have you tried holding the power button down for 10+ seconds?
The only other thing I can think of is something has frozen, maybe you can leave it off charge for a day or two until the battery is really completely flat, then charge it for a few hours without turning it on, then see what happens?
Thanks for all,
It's work now
but believe me I heated my phone around 7min because I'm in a very cold city now and when i touch the phone i find it very cold so i decided to put it near from a fireplace and it's work juste after.
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[Q] Blackscreen, cant access my tablet at all

Hello, good morning.
I was using my tablet normally and left it on the desk for to cook lunch and came back finding it blacked out and doesn't respond to anything I do. Doesn't power off, nor power on, no sound, no nothing. Just the tablet as if it's closed. And no it's charged, I tried to put it on the charger as well, but nothing.
It's booted, and it's a GT-N8000.
Note: I'm a new android user.
Did the tablet recently take fall/ beating?
Try pressing the power button for about 15 seconds and seeing if it will power down so u can reboot it
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vusion said:
Hello, good morning.
I was using my tablet normally and left it on the desk for to cook lunch and came back finding it blacked out and doesn't respond to anything I do. Doesn't power off, nor power on, no sound, no nothing. Just the tablet as if it's closed. And no it's charged, I tried to put it on the charger as well, but nothing.
It's booted, and it's a GT-N8000.
Note: I'm a new android user.
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This happened to me once i freaked out.. There is a tread about this somewhere.. If your having the same issue. A app (i do not remember what one) Locked up the device while the screen was off. So i opened it disconnected the battery .
Reconnected the battery put it on the charger and hold the power button 30 seconds and it Booted right up.This was on the original firmware .You can leave it unplugged until the battery is depleted totally and should give you the same results.Well its if the same issue of course..
It didn't fall or break or anything, I didn't even install any new apps lately.
I tried to hold power button forever but nothing, as if its turned off(well its possibly turned off).
How do I take out the battery what so ever?
vusion said:
It didn't fall or break or anything, I didn't even install any new apps lately.
I tried to hold power button forever but nothing, as if its turned off(well its possibly turned off).
How do I take out the battery what so ever?
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One rare possiblity is that the battery is dead.
Use the original charger and cable and keep it connected to charging for at least 1-2 hrs and then try to turn it back on.
If the battery is fully discharged its not always possible to charge with a generic charger or generic cable.

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