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Nexus S won't start

I was in recovery when starting to flash a new rom, and suddenly the phone shut down and now it will not start. What should I do?

dark'em said:
I was in recovery when starting to flash a new rom, and suddenly the phone shut down and now it will not start. What should I do?
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i brick my phone too...
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just i get i black screen

leap_ahead said:
i brick my phone too...
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just i get i black screen
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I restarted recovery and took the battery out just as the phone was supposed to restart, and I think I burned the battery pin connectors, I'll buy a new battery today and see if the phone charges, I'm hoping for the best

dark'em said:
I restarted recovery and took the battery out just as the phone was supposed to restart, and I think I burned the battery pin connectors, I'll buy a new battery today and see if the phone charges, I'm hoping for the best
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when you turn on you dont see light on screen ?

leap_ahead said:
when you turn on you dont see light on screen ?
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No it doesent turn on and I connected the battery to a PC speaker that I have and the sceaker made that sound that it usually does when connected to a power source so it is definitly not the battery problem, it's something to do with the rest of the phone. Since it doesent do anything I think it's dead :crying:

My phone died on me too, the last rom I installed on it was the cm-10.2-20130907-NIGHTLY-crespo.zip

I also have a similar problem - when traveling on a plane recently I pulled the battery. Since then the phone won't start - If i plug the charger in the screen flashes once briefly and then turns off without displaying anything. To make things worse the power button broke months ago.
Does anyone have any suggestion what to try before going to have it serviced?
Cheers

Hard Bricked...

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.

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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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.

maumaumau said:
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.

jd1639 said:
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.

kylgore said:
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.

kylgore said:
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.

Battery issue (battery indication level stuck at 20%)

After a shut down due to low battery, I powered up my Xperia Z5 while charging it and the battery has been stuck at 20% every since. I tried doing a factory reset and also letting the battery discharge until it power offs and charge until the battery seems full (roughly 2 hours for quick charge), but the battery level is still stuck at 20% not even budging at all. I removed the battery icon from the status bar and re-added it but it still remains as 20% (when I press battery usage I would only see a horizontal line at the 20% mark). My phone is not rooted, what should I do that might work..? I purchased my phone from Taiwan and I'm currently in the states so requesting for an RMA would be a pain.:crying::crying:

Press volume up or down(can't remember which one) together with the power button till the phone give 3 vibration.
Or repair your phone with pc companion,backup your data first.

gm007 said:
Press volume up or down(can't remember which one) together with the power button till the phone give 3 vibration.
Or repair your phone with pc companion,backup your data first.
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I think it's volume up! I already tried repairing my phone and also hard reseting the phone (pressing volume up with the power button till phone vibrates 3 times.. ):

So is it fixed after the repair?

gm007 said:
So is it fixed after the repair?
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No, it's not

Try to charge your phone while power off.
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gm007 said:
Try to charge your phone while power off.
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I tried depleting my battery completely twice and charged the phone while it was off for a few hours (making sure that's its getting a full charge) and both times when I turn on the phone it still remains at 20%

Think you have bad battery and need replacement. Hope I'm wrong.
You can try to go into service menu there is something about charging try it.
It is Factory charging.
*#*#7378423#*#*
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gm007 said:
Think you have bad battery and need replacement. Hope I'm wrong.
You can try to go into service menu there is something about charging try it.
It is Factory charging.
*#*#7378423#*#*
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Okay, I'll try it whenever I get back to my phone! I might have to send this phone back to Taiwan just for a replacement/repair though since it's not even out in the US yet.. Tried calling Sony Mobile yesterday and they said they can't do anything about it..

HI. i'm having the same problem and searching for the answer. hope you'll update battery issue. tnx.

Try to do simulated battery pull.. Turn off your phone then press volume - and power button and count to 20 then release and start up your phone.

Same problem here
gm007 said:
Press volume up or down(can't remember which one) together with the power button till the phone give 3 vibration.
Or repair your phone with pc companion,backup your data first.
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I'm having the same problem with my Sony Xperia Z5. Just bought it May this year. It just happened Tuesday this week. I charged it but it went only to 20%. Tried charging it the next morning but it's still the same. I am now doing what you advice to vfyk. Hope it will fix my problem tonight. I'll get back to you after charging it for 1 hour and see what will happen.
Thanks gm007!
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sonyxperiaz5_TR said:
I'm having the same problem with my Sony Xperia Z5. Just bought it May this year. It just happened Tuesday this week. I charged it but it went only to 20%. Tried charging it the next morning but it's still the same. I am now doing what you advice to vfyk. Hope it will fix my problem tonight. I'll get back to you after charging it for 1 hour and see what will happen.
Thanks gm007!
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Aw... Done with the instructions unfortunately, no progress made. Maybe I'll try the *#*#7378423#*#* you suggested. I saw some menu in their. Customization Settings-Reset Customization. I'll try resetting it. Maybe it'll work.

Hard reset didn't solve the problem
Hey guys. Just an update. I already tried hard reset for my sony xperia z5 but it didn't solve the issue. This is my first sony phone and I'm having a bad experience. Anyone can help me there? Thanks!

Did you ever solve this? Having the same problem with a Z5 compact.

svejav said:
Did you ever solve this? Having the same problem with a Z5 compact.
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If Phone is rooted, try battery calibration app or wipe battery stats in recovery if available.

Case solved!
sonyxperiaz5_TR said:
I'm having the same problem with my Sony Xperia Z5. Just bought it May this year. It just happened Tuesday this week. I charged it but it went only to 20%. Tried charging it the next morning but it's still the same. I am now doing what you advice to vfyk. Hope it will fix my problem tonight. I'll get back to you after charging it for 1 hour and see what will happen.
Thanks gm007!
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Aw... Done with the instructions unfortunately, no progress made. Maybe I'll try the *#*#7378423#*#* you suggested. I saw some menu in their. Customization Settings-Reset Customization. I'll try resetting it. Maybe it'll work.
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I read some instructions regarding this last year and it helped. I forgot where did I search it. Just open the port where sim card and sd card is, then press the yellow tiny button inside simultaneously with the power button until it vibrates for sometime until it ends. It didn't work for just one time, you'll have to do it over and over again until its fixed. The next day, I tried it again and voilà! Battery level tells the truth again! I'll try to find who gave this instruction for you to have the full details, and also to thank him.

You have to delete "/data/system/batterystats.bin" file, WHEN your charge 100%.
Shutdown your phone charge until 100%, then follow one way..
Two possible way to delete this file.
1-)Rooted Device (with file manager like Root Explorer)
2-)Flashing stock FTF with select all WIPE options on Flashtool.

Case solved! Full instructions...
sonyxperiaz5_TR said:
I read some instructions regarding this last year and it helped. I forgot where did I search it. Just open the port where sim card and sd card is, then press the yellow tiny button inside simultaneously with the power button until it vibrates for sometime until it ends. It didn't work for just one time, you'll have to do it over and over again until its fixed. The next day, I tried it again and voilà! Battery level tells the truth again! I'll try to find who gave this instruction for you to have the full details, and also to thank him.
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Okay, here it is, the full instruction.
*It will take several attempts but be patient. Hold down the red/yellow button (whatever the color is, I can't see it clearly with my xperia z5 because I previously used a ball pen with it and it tainted mine) inside the sd slot and hold down the power button at the same time. When it hits the last vibration (1 buzz then some buzzes=1) do this until it vibrate three times then plug the charger. Leave it within 5 mins, and if it has not done anything different, repeat.
I got this instruction (*with some minor edits) directly from a member in another site (talk.sonymobile.com). The name is "metalfacemegan". Well, there you go! Goodluck!
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svejav said:
Did you ever solve this? Having the same problem with a Z5 compact.
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Just made some recent posts. Try following the instructions and hope you get the same result. Follow the thread. Thanks!

This tiny yellow button help to reset phone, if it freeze and won't shutdown because of the static electric. I never used but it may format all data on your phone? sonyxperiaz5_TR, you used that before. It was delete data or not?

The button
sceryavuz said:
This tiny yellow button help to reset phone, if it freeze and won't shutdown because of the static electric. I never used but it may format all data on your phone? sonyxperiaz5_TR, you used that before. It was delete data or not?
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It didn't reset mine and yes I used that before, like several times when I was fixing the battery issue. As far as I know, all the data of my phone were not deleted including the internal storage. All is good for me.
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sonyxperiaz5_TR said:
It didn't reset mine and yes I used that before, like several times when I was fixing the battery issue. As far as I know, all the data of my phone were not deleted including the internal storage. All is good for me.
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Maybe you should back up first your data on the internal memory just to be sure. When I did it to mine, all apps, messages, logs, calls, and etc. were fine.

Gear 2 Touch screen not working..

Hi, I have a problem with my touch screen.
When i boot it up it's working but when i press the standby button screen is off and then press it again its turning on but touch it's not working anymore and i need to reboot it :/
Someone know why it happens?
I already removed everything from it, And it's still not working.

I have the same issue. When factory reset, everything works fine. After a moment on standby mode, screen does not seem to acknowledge touch. Instead it seems to sense a touch that is not there. Sounds like a software issue to me. I plan on rooting my gear 2 and trying to upgrade the firmware. Maybe that will help
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Just to add a little info, my gear must have accidentally updated while my phone was in my pocket. It was stuck in bootloop, did that until it died, then after 2 days of charging it, only for it to not hold a charge, I finally was able to put it into recovery mode. This all worked fine until it went into standby. I will play around with it a little this weekend and see if I can get us an answer.

Usb came out half way through flashing stuck with a black screen and green light

My cable came unplugged and now i think my phone is stuffed. It just a green light and i can do anything. Is there another way to fully power down without volume up and power as me volume up doesn't work. I hope i haven't just stuffed my phone completely.

leemo89 said:
My cable came unplugged and now i think my phone is stuffed. It just a green light and i can do anything. Is there another way to fully power down without volume up and power as me volume up doesn't work. I hope i haven't just stuffed my phone completely.
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Try pinching the screen and back next to the volume up key while pressing it and power to shut down. I had a broken volume up for a long time and this is what I did to enter fastboot and force shutdown.
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And don't worry too much if the cord came out, my laptop battery ran out once while flashing and my xzp still works

I just waited until the battery died and it has come back on. now to try and install nougat to see if i can stop it freezing and restarting