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I bought a brand new Blaze a few days ago while vacationing in Florida. I neglected to check it out while i was there and Im home now (in Bermuda) checking it out for the first time and the phone wont boot! I popped the battery in and nothing happens when i try to power it on. So thinking the battery was dead, i plugged it in and now it just vibrates. It vibrates continuously every 2 seconds. buzzz...buzzz...buzzz...buzzz. The screen never powers on at all. Im guessing i have a bricked phone out of the box? Or is there a simple fix for this that i havent been able to find?
If i do return this, can it be returned to any authorized T-Mobile dealer? I wont be going back to Florida but i know someone who is visiting Boston next week.
Thanks
Jaa-Yoo said:
I bought a brand new Blaze a few days ago while vacationing in Florida. I neglected to check it out while i was there and Im home now (in Bermuda) checking it out for the first time and the phone wont boot! I popped the battery in and nothing happens when i try to power it on. So thinking the battery was dead, i plugged it in and now it just vibrates. It vibrates continuously every 2 seconds. buzzz...buzzz...buzzz...buzzz. The screen never powers on at all. Im guessing i have a bricked phone out of the box? Or is there a simple fix for this that i havent been able to find?
If i do return this, can it be returned to any authorized T-Mobile dealer? I wont be going back to Florida but i know someone who is visiting Boston next week.
Thanks
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Try tmobile customer support they have gotten a lot better the last few years
I'm not a Dev, I just flash alot.
I'd return it personally. Same goes for any gadgets that fail before the initial return policy expires. Things happen, but I never liked that feeling of doubt that happens later, when something else goes wrong with the device. You'll be thinking, "I KNEW I should have exchanged this!"
Jaa-Yoo said:
I bought a brand new Blaze a few days ago while vacationing in Florida. I neglected to check it out while i was there and Im home now (in Bermuda) checking it out for the first time and the phone wont boot! I popped the battery in and nothing happens when i try to power it on. So thinking the battery was dead, i plugged it in and now it just vibrates. It vibrates continuously every 2 seconds. buzzz...buzzz...buzzz...buzzz. The screen never powers on at all. Im guessing i have a bricked phone out of the box? Or is there a simple fix for this that i havent been able to find?
If i do return this, can it be returned to any authorized T-Mobile dealer? I wont be going back to Florida but i know someone who is visiting Boston next week.
Thanks
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Have you charged it fully? This is the default behavior if there isn't enough power to boot. Let it charge for 24 hours... then try again.
It vibrates like that when the device is plugged in and there's no battery detected or installed. My guess is the battery is defective or the orientation of the battery in the phone is incorrect (hey, it happens sometimes), or there is an obstruction preventing the pins in the phone from making contact with the battery or the pins don't properly align with the battery (defect with the phone or battery).
But I would agree that you should return it for another - especially if the pins aren't fully aligned with the battery when it's inserted.
Thanks guys, you were right, the battery was the culprit, it was dead flat.
I popped it into my universal charger, gave it a full charge and it was good to go, the phone booted and is working normally.
Thanks again.
This details is going to be long...sorry about that, but I'm extremely worried so please help me soon.
My nexus 5 is 1 year 2 months old, bought in india, currently out-of-warranty. I never ever rooted or made any software changes, it's on 6.0 Marshmallow on legit OTA software updates.
When I'd updated to Lollipop, few days it'd do random reboot, but it'd complete the reboot and the problem ended automatically in sometime.
Now, I'd installed 6.0 OTA, but now from past night the phone started doing these activities to be exact:
" While operating yesterday night, it randomly showed me 'Google' (which's shown when the phone starts) and the phone turned off. It was just a start. Today morning, it again doing same things when I turned phone on. If I press "Power+VolumeDown" it shows me the bootloader menu, but immediately switches to 'Google' screen, but here it starts showing in an infinite loop. So the "Power+VolumeDown" isn't working, only direct power button is turning phone on. Now when directly phone is turned on, if I press the power button once, it immediately goes to sleep and wakes up, I repeat this and the phone repeats this 2-3 times; if by-chance the phone sleeps by normal power button click and again if I try to turn it on, then on clicking power button it directly shows 'power off' (which is normally shown after waking up device and holding the power button, I try removing the option of 'power off' but it doesn't go and after 2-3 tries it goes, unlocks the screen, hangs for 2 seconds, shows google and repeats the same story.
Now I just did factory reset, now the phone had started but it again swiched off and now it isn't turning on again.
Please please help me what can be the problem? As in first thing I'm going service centre tomorrow morning, but as it's out of warranty how much they'll charge Idk, I mean can anyone along with solving above problem give a solution that what can be the cost, is this only a software issue (as I said I never made any roots anything, only thing phone ever might have got damaged would be by falling off from height, which last was dropped atleast 6 month ago, and I updated to 6.0 in mid-beginning of October, while this is the end, so what can be the problem exactly and only software issue it will be? What can be expected cost? In India, Mumbai and would be going to service centre tomorrow, I really don't trust Indian Service centres as they idk how much will they overcharge and how should I tackle them please tell?
Can anything mentioned till now be a hardware issue and be charged more for?
I'd also like to mention that I've absolutely zero idea about rooting and any other advance things so please don't provide any advanced resolutions which go completely above my head.
Please help me soon, I never did any modifications to the phone, and I wouldn't be getting a new one anytime soon, so I don't want my phone to be like this because i'm scare that at this moment it's either beyond repair or would be charged too much to repair..
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This details is going to be long...sorry about that, but I'm extremely worried so please help me soon.
My nexus 5 is 1 year 2 months old, bought in india, currently out-of-warranty. I never ever rooted or made any software changes, it's on 6.0 Marshmallow on legit OTA software updates.
When I'd updated to Lollipop, few days it'd do random reboot, but it'd complete the reboot and the problem ended automatically in sometime.
Now, I'd installed 6.0 OTA, but now from past night the phone started doing these activities to be exact:
" While operating yesterday night, it randomly showed me 'Google' (which's shown when the phone starts) and the phone turned off. It was just a start. Today morning, it again doing same things when I turned phone on. If I press "Power+VolumeDown" it shows me the bootloader menu, but immediately switches to 'Google' screen, but here it starts showing in an infinite loop. So the "Power+VolumeDown" isn't working, only direct power button is turning phone on. Now when directly phone is turned on, if I press the power button once, it immediately goes to sleep and wakes up, I repeat this and the phone repeats this 2-3 times; if by-chance the phone sleeps by normal power button click and again if I try to turn it on, then on clicking power button it directly shows 'power off' (which is normally shown after waking up device and holding the power button, I try removing the option of 'power off' but it doesn't go and after 2-3 tries it goes, unlocks the screen, hangs for 2 seconds, shows google and repeats the same story.
Now I just did factory reset, now the phone had started but it again swiched off and now it isn't turning on again.
Please please help me what can be the problem? As in first thing I'm going service centre tomorrow morning, but as it's out of warranty how much they'll charge Idk, I mean can anyone along with solving above problem give a solution that what can be the cost, is this only a software issue (as I said I never made any roots anything, only thing phone ever might have got damaged would be by falling off from height, which last was dropped atleast 6 month ago, and I updated to 6.0 in mid-beginning of October, while this is the end, so what can be the problem exactly and only software issue it will be? What can be expected cost? In India Mumbai and would be going to service centre tomorrow, I really don't trust Indian Service centres as they idk how much will they overcharge and how should I tackle them please tell?
Can anything mentioned till now be a hardware issue and be charged more for?
Please help me soon, I never did any modifications to the phone, and I wouldn't be getting a new one anytime soon, so I don't want my phone to be like this because i'm scare that at this moment it's either beyond repair or would be charged too much to repair..
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I had nearly the same behaviour ... changing the battery solved this for me.
Battery Charging didn't resolve
dirk0504 said:
I had nearly the same behaviour ... changing the battery solved this for me.
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I did 100% charge my phone, but nothing is helping. At this moment the phone isn't turning on and I'm waiting for battery to drain now as charge isn't helping. Even now if I put on charge, it won't charge and continuously show "google" "google" instead of charging.
Sir i think you have a problem with the power button. Its stuck. I have the same problem before. I had it fix and til now my nexus 5 is doing fine.
I have been having a similar problem for the past 3 months or so. I thought that it was my power button but I also saw in a few of these threads that it was a battery issue. My phone would act OK as long as I had 75% or more battery but once it got below that it would randomly boot loop. The last couple of weeks, when it boot looped, it would drop from +60% down to 4% after one reboot. That was when I decided to try replacing the battery even when the other symptoms seemed to point toward the power button.
I found a battery on line and changed it out last week and haven't had a problem since. I believe the phone was just getting erratic battery indication and shutting itself down thinking it was out of juice. Cracking open the phone and changing the battery was easier than expected provided you take your time and don't force anything.
Tip: There is a clip just above the "S" in Nexus that needs to be pressed back in when you put your cover back on or the wireless charging will not work.
Had this issue, replaced the battery. All is well now
As per title, I was using my stock G Flex 2 to browse the internet and had it plugged in the charger and without even a warning, the display shut off and the phone ceased to be responsive. It didn't power off or anything, just died instantaneously and I can't turn it on again no matter how long I press the power button or leave the charger in.
I tried opening the back cover and disconnecting the battery, and reconnecting it but nothing changed.
What does this mean for me? The phone is over a year old already and as such, no warranty is left. It's really disappointing LG would release a phone that dies less than 2 years in use. My previous LG device, an Optimus G, also suddenly died and became a paper weight after the first year. I feel like an idiot buying this phone now.:crying::crying:
did you changed motherboard all that time you have the phone if not thats the problem because if you bought first parts of lg g flex 2 that will happen what varriant you have
nikolas60 said:
did you changed motherboard all that time you have the phone if not thats the problem because if you bought first parts of lg g flex 2 that will happen what varriant you have
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No I have never messed with any of the internal components before. It is stock H959 model.
So what does this mean? The phone is gone??
can you go into download mode
it happen same as you. check if you can go into download mode.
shoutingtech said:
it happen same as you. check if you can go into download mode.
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Hi, I tried download mode but nothing happened. Press and hold Volume UP and connect USB to PC method.
So I guess my phone is useless now. How did your phone end up as?
That happened to mine too.
H950, flashed with 5.1.1 PR and rooted.
Was using it normally, 70% battery. Suddenly died. Got me scared, thought it had fried or something. The screen kept warm in the upper part, but no response at all.
When I arrived home, around 1 hour later, decided to mess around. Lg Pc Suite didnt recognize it, neither did the computer.
It was dead.
Then, being a bit stubborn, I decided to press both Power and Volume Down (or UP, I dont remember) buttons for a long time. After maybe 40 seconds of pressing the phone came back to life and never had problem with it since.
Danielgomes08 said:
That happened to mine too.
H950, flashed with 5.1.1 PR and rooted.
Was using it normally, 70% battery. Suddenly died. Got me scared, thought it had fried or something. The screen kept warm in the upper part, but no response at all.
When I arrived home, around 1 hour later, decided to mess around. Lg Pc Suite didnt recognize it, neither did the computer.
It was dead.
Then, being a bit stubborn, I decided to press both Power and Volume Down (or UP, I dont remember) buttons for a long time. After maybe 40 seconds of pressing the phone came back to life and never had problem with it since.
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I tried holding the buttons down in all different combinations for over 1 minute, but nothing happens. I even tried removing the battery and just using the charger to turn on the phone, also nothing happened.
So at this stage, I'm guessing most likely the hardware has failed, maybe the CPU or the motherboard or something. Because it died so suddenly, like a TV when you pull the power plug. Overheating perhaps?
plugin in it to charger?
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Hi, I tried download mode but nothing happened. Press and hold Volume UP and connect USB to PC method.
So I guess my phone is useless now. How did your phone end up as?
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anything happen when you plugin in it to charger?
mine still happens but minimized now, it happens like once or twice a day.
Just had the exact same thing happen to my H955, tried all the steps above but it's still not turning on
Nadz156 said:
Just had the exact same thing happen to my H955, tried all the steps above but it's still not turning on
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It's been three days and my phone still wont' turn on, react to charging or USB connection. For me, its probably garbage already...good luck for you though.
kakamotion said:
It's been three days and my phone still wont' turn on, react to charging or USB connection. For me, its probably garbage already...good luck for you though.
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I can get the red notification light to come on for a few seconds but it dies after that so there must be some form of life still within it.
me i changed motherboard for free with waranty same happen
nikolas60 said:
me i changed motherboard for free with waranty same happen
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Just put in a warranty repair request, do you remember what the procedure was like?
Nadz156 said:
Just put in a warranty repair request, do you remember what the procedure was like?
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you just go to the store with the warranty invoice paper you got from the store you bought it
My phone is out of warranty, and where I am located, I can't find motherboards at a reasonable price.
Can anyone please mail me their extra motherboards, even its damaged, for a small fee?
EDIT: I'm in Malaysia
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you just go to the store with the warranty invoice paper you got from the store you bought it
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I got mine from Amazon and I'm from the UK so LG have no authorised service centres here according to their website, says they'll repair it onsite but I've had no contact from them so far.
there is man in uk of course
So after playing around with it for a while, I managed to bring the 0% battery screen up (with a yellow triangle) and left it to slow charge via my laptop. After 20 minutes or so it started booting up as normal and I reached the lock screen which said it was at 5% and charging. However a few seconds later it just cut out and is back to being a brick, I'm guessing the motherboard is the problem?
Mine Too
Mine G Flex 2 (H950) died while i was using it about 2 months ago .Till now no signs of life ....
Tried to charge it ,removed battery and reinserted ,but no use,it won't show any sign of life ...Does not show up on PC when connected with a cable ....:crying::crying:
i had just replaced my battery 2 months ago before this problem ...Seems like i wasted a lot of money on this device .....No warranty more than 1 year since i got it .....I think its some motherboard problem .....
Mine used to overheat as soon as it was booted up ..
Any one knows any cause/solution for it ???
This phone is really faulty. Last month i suffered bootloop so i sent it to repair. It lasted 1 month and now its broken again, after few minutes it self-restarts because it suddenly stops reading SIM card. And its not really faulty SIM card,because it works in my second phone perfectly.
I was just using it normally today,
The battery was down to some 23%, charged it a bit to aprox 40%
then suddenly every locked up, and it went dim, and then dead
I plugged it into the Quick charger (original HTC factory and original cable), and it's still unresponsive.
it was rooted and running Viper ROM 1.4
Currently it's cold as ice, normally while charging it should be Warm.
Tried the Button Down + Power Button for 15 sec, many times unsuccessfully.
Normally that will bring it back from whatever lock up, but this time nothing, totally unresponsive.
AllGamer said:
I was just using it normally today,
The battery was down to some 23%, charged it a bit to aprox 40%
then suddenly every locked up, and it went dim, and then dead
I plugged it into the Quick charger (original HTC factory and original cable), and it's still unresponsive.
it was rooted and running Viper ROM 1.4
Currently it's cold as ice, normally while charging it should be Warm.
Tried the Button Down + Power Button for 15 sec, many times unsuccessfully.
Normally that will bring it back from whatever lock up, but this time nothing, totally unresponsive.
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Did you update to Viper ROM 1.6 and have you tried booting into Download Mode?
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Did you update to Viper ROM 1.6 and have you tried booting into Download Mode?
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it wont even turn on.
I was with HTC tech support for the past hour, and we tried everything.
so, now it's going straight for warranty
it wont charge, it wont turn on, it doesn't accept any of the known keys combinations to get it into the download mode.
the weird thing is that everything was working just fine and normal, until moments before I left office.
it was hard to turn on, so i though oh no problem, I'll just restart it.
Restart it went, it came back, but then shortly later it went again into that annoying deep sleep mode, and was able to bring it back on, once more
but by the time I walked from the office to the car, the phone turned off again, and it remained dead since then.
apparently it's a "Known Issue" since it's in the most asked FAQ list in HTC support help page.
hmm... funny they just hid that FAQ, and replaced it with http://www.htc.com/ca/contact/produ...ent=GUID-780CE6E8-1156-4527-8980-445582D60A70
there was another similar one, but it was specific to some power issues, similar to this one http://www.htc.com/ca/contact/produ...ent=GUID-599060AE-0591-4FA1-B77F-C6A635196E49
AllGamer said:
it wont even turn on.
I was with HTC tech support for the past hour, and we tried everything.
so, now it's going straight for warranty
it wont charge, it wont turn on, it doesn't accept any of the known keys combinations to get it into the download mode.
the weird thing is that everything was working just fine and normal, until moments before I left office.
it was hard to turn on, so i though oh no problem, I'll just restart it.
Restart it went, it came back, but then shortly later it went again into that annoying deep sleep mode, and was able to bring it back on, once more
but by the time I walked from the office to the car, the phone turned off again, and it remained dead since then.
apparently it's a "Known Issue" since it's in the most asked FAQ list in HTC support help page.
hmm... funny they just hid that FAQ, and replaced it with http://www.htc.com/ca/contact/produ...ent=GUID-780CE6E8-1156-4527-8980-445582D60A70
there was another similar one, but it was specific to some power issues, similar to this one http://www.htc.com/ca/contact/produ...ent=GUID-599060AE-0591-4FA1-B77F-C6A635196E49
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It does sounds like a hardware problem. I hope they send a replacement phone soon.
ShyamSasi said:
It does sounds like a hardware problem. I hope they send a replacement phone soon.
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That's the thing that sucks
it's already after 30 days, so they can't do a straight swap
that means i'll need to mail it in for warranty repair, which takes several weeks, plus the shipping back and forth that's at least 6 to 8 weeks down time
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That's the thing that sucks
it's already after 30 days, so they can't do a straight swap
that means i'll need to mail it in for warranty repair, which takes several weeks, plus the shipping back and forth that's at least 6 to 8 weeks down time
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It has been 6.5 weeks for me. Had to send it in two weeks after receiving it with a different problem. Repair actually took 2.5 weeks, while the spare parts sent right from Taiwan needed 4.5 weeks to arrive in Europe.
Return period in Germany is only 14 days so I had to take the warranty repair as well.
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It has been 6.5 weeks for me. Had to send it in two weeks after receiving it with a different problem. Repair actually took 2.5 weeks, while the spare parts sent right from Taiwan needed 4.5 weeks to arrive in Europe.
Return period in Germany is only 14 days so I had to take the warranty repair as well.
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where you have bought ?
andrea1493 said:
where you have bought ?
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o2 Germany. Repair center is in Poland.
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AllGamer said:
That's the thing that sucks
it's already after 30 days, so they can't do a straight swap
that means i'll need to mail it in for warranty repair, which takes several weeks, plus the shipping back and forth that's at least 6 to 8 weeks down time
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I think if you make enough noise at the support or escalate it maybe through Social media, then they might send you a replacement device instead of a repair. Sometimes these support centers would have escalation processes in place for such situations but won't really honor it until the customer start making noise. Especially HTC would try and minimize bad PR.
Yesterday the same happend to me.
I had the feeling that the battery connector wasn't properly connected/disconnected, so I searched for a picture to see if by pushing on the back of my device i could reconnect the battery connector (see this pic and this pic). Luckily this worked for me so now i can backup my data and exchange it (also luckily, im still within the voluntary 14 day returning period of my provider).
Hope this helps someone else too.
Mine is gone 2 days ago too.
When I woke up in the morning, I saw it's still on the charger, but soon I found the device is gone and I checked some log (I have configured Syncthing to do some backup to my PC, unfortunately, I only paired the device but no task is configured yet.) and found the device is just gone around I woke up.
Tried all combinations including vol+ & vol- & PWR for 30secs~2mins, none of them work. Pressing around battery connector doesn't work still.
Its cold as a brick. No response when I plug it to my MacBookAir, but shown as an unknown device on my Windows7 Desktop.
Now I'm waiting for it self recovery since I still not backed up my internal storage yet, and my data won't be guarantee if I send it back to HTC.
No solution yet. Just an echo for the topic.
A small update.
So, after I sent it in for Repair... damn HTC finally fixed the phone and send it back to me after 6 months.
The worst experience ever.
I got the same issue as well. My phone just went dead on me today. It does response to anything at all. May I know from those who experienced before what is the cause of the problem? What did the service center do to help out?
Happened to me today. After having it 5 months,warranty exchange.
Mine HTC U 11 turned off since 23-01-2019. Not charging . not turning. Nothing is working. I am from India. I could not find any authorized service center for HTC here too. .
What to do now.
Please suggest me what to. If any one can.
Mail : [email protected]
I purchased my Google Pixel (first generation, regular (ie: not XL)) about a year and a half. It's been rooted for most of that time and I recently updated to Pie. When I woke up this morning I found that the phone had restarted on it's own. After a few minutes I noticed that it was running slowly and, eventually, to the point of non-responsive. I forced the phone off (held the power button until it turned off) and turned it back on. It seemed to load okay, but a few minutes later the phone was off again (which it did on it's own) and I cannot turn it back on. Holding the power button doesn't do anything and plugging it into be charged doesn't show any indications that the phone is charging. I haven't installed anything in at least a week and until this morning I didn't notice any problems with the phone. Any thoughts as to how to get the phone back on and what the problem might be?
If it won't turn on even when plugged in, something might be fried. I know batteries can start acting weird and causing problems after a few years too, but I think this is something else.
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I purchased my Google Pixel (first generation, regular (ie: not XL)) about a year and a half. It's been rooted for most of that time and I recently updated to Pie. When I woke up this morning I found that the phone had restarted on it's own. After a few minutes I noticed that it was running slowly and, eventually, to the point of non-responsive. I forced the phone off (held the power button until it turned off) and turned it back on. It seemed to load okay, but a few minutes later the phone was off again (which it did on it's own) and I cannot turn it back on. Holding the power button doesn't do anything and plugging it into be charged doesn't show any indications that the phone is charging. I haven't installed anything in at least a week and until this morning I didn't notice any problems with the phone. Any thoughts as to how to get the phone back on and what the problem might be?
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Maybe, but I got it brand new from Google a bit over a year ago (06/2017), making me generally hope it isn't something related to 'natural causes'. I think what bothers me the most about this is that I don't know what went wrong and can't think of anyway to check. Plugging it into a wall plug to charge doesn't do anything and when I plug it into the computer my computer doesn't see that anything is plugged in (as I have installed upgrades via my computer, it definitely has the right drivers and everything to see it...).
The slightly paranoid side of me recalls back a few days ago to an article I was reading about malicious apps using phones to mine cryptocurrency, sometimes leading to those phones wearing down enough that they could even brick. Logically I'm almost positive this isn't happening for two reasons. The first being that I haven't installed anything for about a week (and the phone was working fine until this morning) and secondly because I had an app that monitored my network traffic and there wasn't nearly the throughput I'd expect for that kind of processing. Still, I can't think of what else might have happened...
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If it won't turn on even when plugged in, something might be fried. I know batteries can start acting weird and causing problems after a few years too, but I think this is something else.
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You would have noticed massive battery drain if your phone was mining cryptocurrency. Try putting it into a freezer for a bit, then see if you can get any reaction when plugging in. If not, my guess is a catastrophic hardware failure, like a bad battery which leaked & fried the board, or something like that.
If you're in the US, contact uBreakiFix (Google contracts warranty repairs through them). I've read reports of them making repairs for free, even outside of warranty.
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You would have noticed massive battery drain if your phone was mining cryptocurrency. Try putting it into a freezer for a bit, then see if you can get any reaction when plugging in. If not, my guess is a catastrophic hardware failure, like a bad battery which leaked & fried the board, or something like that.
If you're in the US, contact uBreakiFix (Google contracts warranty repairs through them). I've read reports of them making repairs for free, even outside of warranty.
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Thanks for the freezer suggestion (I recall that trick for old hard drives, but never used it myself). How long you thinking for that to do anything? I tried about 10 minutes and didn't see any difference (not sure if I should be doing something closer to an hour or more?) I did Google support (online chat) and ubreakifix was one of two other options they suggested. It looks like they're a little bit of a drive for me, but I'll see if I can't stop by in the next couple of weeks. My old Galaxy S5 will have to do in the meantime (which is slow with poor reception at this point, but it functions as a phone, so I've got that going for me
I'll try to update if/when I get details from the repair guys.
If the freezer trick did anything, it would likely be temporary (possibly enough time to get data off of it). It would really just confirm a hardware failure, which at this point is my working hypothesis.
One day my pixel randomly shut down, unresponsive, holding power button did nothing, same when I tried to plug it to a pc or when plugged in.
It restarted when i pressed power + vol- (fastboot mode) for about 40secs - I know, it's a lot, never knew what happened.
Then it just worked normally