So I decided to update to OTA 4.1 today and finally got everything to work (but did not connect to the internet). I got home, connect to my home wifi, and left to charge. Came back from dinner with a dead tablet without a battery charging screen nor ability to turn on the tablet (long hold power or long hold power + vol down). any suggestion on what I can try to do?
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Left the tablet plug in over night..seems to be fully charged, per the green LED charge light. However, still refuses to power on. This is the old B1 battery tablet. Assuming that I forgot to flash the nomoreota.zip and the kill switch is activated, will the tablet refuse to turn on?
Grooby97 said:
This is the old B1 battery tablet. Assuming that I forgot to flash the nomoreota.zip and the kill switch is activated, will the tablet refuse to turn on?
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Technically, the tablet does turn on, but the kill switch modifies the staging partition so it can't boot anything.
darn.
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I was taking a video, and finished it, when suddenly the phone froze up and turned off. I've been using MIUI, and while it's mostly pretty stable, reboots and crashes happen, so I just rolled my eyes. But since then it's been completely dead. I couldn't turn it on, even after taking the battery out several times, can't put it into recovery or download modes, and it's been connected to the charger for about ten minutes now and still nothing.
I haven't flashed anything for ages, haven't done anything odd with the phone at all, I have no idea what could have provoked this. Please help, I can't imagine what I'd do if my phone was permanently dead.
Samsung Galaxy SII with MIUI weekly ROM (currently 2.4.27)
Things I have tried:
Long press power button to turn it on (obviously)
Same thing after taking the battery out for ages
Press Vol up + Home + Power to put it into recovery
Press Vol down + Home + Power to put it into download
Plug it into charge
Plug in data cable connected to computer
Take out battery for a while, then replace, plug data cable into computer (but not phone), hold volume buttons while plugging in phone (internet guy told me to)
Everything above shows absolutely nothing on screen. Charging heats it up a little.
Hi,
I've been running Megatron ROM for the last couple of weeks with no issues. Tonight when I turned on my tablet it offered me a ROM update to 1.1.3, so I downloaded the update, rebooted into recovery and installed the zip.
When the tablet restarted it kept saying "unfortunately system ui has stopped" and I couldn't access the menu buttons at the bottom of the screen. I managed to get the tablet to power off and I was going to boot into recovery, wipe and reinstall the full ROM again but I couldn't get the tablet to power on.
I plugged it into the wall charger and managed to get it to boot (system ui crashed again) so I powered it off again and now it's completely dead.
I've tried to power on with all combinations of the Vol Up/Down and power button, nothing.
I guess I wait for the battery to discharge and try again?
Any other ideas? Am I bricked?
1.1.3 is a update only. Install 1.1.2 from the thread and then 1.1.3
and delete this directory "/data/data/com.android.providers.media"
I can't get the tablet to power up, it's dead!
I'll wait until the battery has discharged and try to power on.
mappy24 said:
I can't get the tablet to power up, it's dead!
I'll wait until the battery has discharged and try to power on.
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connect the charger. if it doesn't power up, hold the power button until it does
I held the power button for 5 minutes, nothing.
Will try again tomorrow, the battery was at 45% when it died.
Still couldn't get it to turn on this morning, i'll keep trying over the weekend.
If I still can't get it to turn on after a few days I'll try charging it overnight to see if I can revive it. It's looking very bricked at the moment though
Let sit for a full day or so
Plug in the charger to the tf but not the wall and ground it somehow (piece of metal etc.)
Hold the power button for 3-5 mins (to discharge)
Shout, PRAISE ODIN!
Plug in tf to wall for a minute.
Unplug
Hold power.
This is how I revived a Sph-d700 that I had in a really bad state, the odin step is crucial. Good luck.
Is it not even possible to boot into the recovery mode when you only plug the tablet to the PC?
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last case scenario, try and boot into APX and use adb to reinstall your system
I had it attached to my pc last night and tried all combinations of vol-up/down and power, the tablet never appeared in device manager. I understand that APX mode the screen stays blank but something should appear in device manager, right?
I'll see if I can get any life out of it tonight and if not, i'll give it a charge and try again tomorrow.
Thanks for the advice everyone.
Guys, after a 1 hour charge i've managed to get the tablet to boot again.
System UI stops on loading.
I've used adb reboot to get into CWM, the up and down buttons work but the power button doesn't respond. I can't choose any options in CWM.
How should I proceed to get the tablet usable again?
mappy24 said:
Guys, after a 1 hour charge i've managed to get the tablet to boot again.
System UI stops on loading.
I've used adb reboot to get into CWM, the up and down buttons work but the power button doesn't respond. I can't choose any options in CWM.
How should I proceed to get the tablet usable again?
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You can use the "touch" recovery. Use the repacked by Roach.
It only read from the internal SD card so put all your files you need to flash there.
Just DON'T use a superwipe script or you'll have nothing to flash.
Right, i've managed to flash Megatron 1.1.2 again, the system ui error is gone.
However, it looks like my power button has failed which would explain why I couldn't turn the tablet on or work with CWM.
I guess I try and flash to stock and contact Asus....
It looks like the power button isn't broken, it just needs to be pressed harder than usual to get the tablet to turn on. I've changed the settings so that the volume rocker wakes the tablet.
Flashed Megatron 1.1.2 then 1.1.3 and we're back in business
Edit: PRAISE ODIN!
Just a quick update, I noticed that my power button was at a slight angle, it looks as though it had slipped and the bit of plastic behind the button was sitting below the actual button on the tablet, meaning that I had to push the button harder to turn it on (if that makes sense).
I got a small bit of blu-tac and pulled the button up, which appears to have reseated it and it's now working as it was before.
Glad to here everything is working again. The question now is why this happened in the first place?
Did you go from 1.0.4 to 1.1.3? I am on 1.1.3 with no issues but as said in the Megatron thread, you have to fully wipe coming from 1.0.4 plus 1.1.2 has to be installed before installing the 1.1.3 update.
I don't know, I was on 1.1.2 and installed the 1.1.3 update then when I rebooted I started to get the UI error. That's really the only problem that I had with Megatron, it would have been easily fixed by just wiping and reinstalling.
It was just at that point that my power button started to play up which confused the issue.
Hallo everyone,
I have a motorola Xoom wifi (mz604 i guess)... Once (almost 1 year ago) i installed the touch recovery and a ICS stock rooted rom.
It worked always fine.... today I went to check my email, and the xoom was off and i couldn't turn it on... I thought it was the battery, but when the battery is empty, when you try to turn the xoom on you see a red blinking led on the top (next to the front camera)...
But i put the xoom to charge, (the white led on the bottom went on) and when i came back home the led was green.
I tried to turn the xoom on, but surprise, nothing, no reaction, then y plugged the charger once again, and the bottom led went green, but i still can't turn the tablet on.
I tried all keys combinations that are possible.... Power + Volume up, Power + Volume down, Power + Volume Up and Down, Just volume down, Just volume Up, both volume keys...
Then i tried to connect the xoom to the PC, and also no reaction, nothing in the Device Manager.... (i have Windows 8)
Someone have an idea to solve this problem? Or is my tablet really dead?
Thank you very much.
Luinwethion said:
Hallo everyone,
I have a motorola Xoom wifi (mz604 i guess)... Once (almost 1 year ago) i installed the touch recovery and a ICS stock rooted rom.
It worked always fine.... today I went to check my email, and the xoom was off and i couldn't turn it on... I thought it was the battery, but when the battery is empty, when you try to turn the xoom on you see a red blinking led on the top (next to the front camera)...
But i put the xoom to charge, (the white led on the bottom went on) and when i came back home the led was green.
I tried to turn the xoom on, but surprise, nothing, no reaction, then y plugged the charger once again, and the bottom led went green, but i still can't turn the tablet on.
I tried all keys combinations that are possible.... Power + Volume up, Power + Volume down, Power + Volume Up and Down, Just volume down, Just volume Up, both volume keys...
Then i tried to connect the xoom to the PC, and also no reaction, nothing in the Device Manager.... (i have Windows 8)
Someone have an idea to solve this problem? Or is my tablet really dead?
Thank you very much.
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Might sound a bit basic, but when you did the key combinations, did you hold the buttons down for 5-10 seconds? I think power plus volume up is reset button.
Ravens97 said:
Might sound a bit basic, but when you did the key combinations, did you hold the buttons down for 5-10 seconds? I think power plus volume up is reset button.
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Yes, for more dan 30 secs....
Murderer!!! JK
.....and you're making sure to press Volume up and then Power?
Hi Luinwethion,
My Xoom is in the same state you described. It happened this morning. There is a white light while charging and a green light after some time. I didn't get any response, with any keys combination.
Have you fixed yours?
Can you send me any tip to bring it to live again?
Thanks in advance.
JP
Take the back cover off, on the bottom side of battery there are two wires-black&red- take them off the socket for 10minutes, when you connect it back again xoom should work!
Quick q: do you hear that click sound when pressing power button?
I have the same problem , my xoom went off without doing anything and it doesn't boot up!
does the disconnecting battery fix the problem ?
What rom you;
new-noob said:
Take the back cover off, on the bottom side of battery there are two wires-black&red- take them off the socket for 10minutes, when you connect it back again xoom should work!
Quick q: do you hear that click sound when pressing power button?
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I'm in the same boat - the Xoom (USA WiFi) hung up while playing music - I rebooted it (power+up volume) it recovered, but then all the apps started crashing - I rebooted it again and it did not boot - just a blank screen. Battery light shows a charge when connected to a charger.
Does someone have instructions on how to remove the back cover?
Tom
tadiv said:
I'm in the same boat - the Xoom (USA WiFi) hung up while playing music - I rebooted it (power+up volume) it recovered, but then all the apps started crashing - I rebooted it again and it did not boot - just a blank screen. Battery light shows a charge when connected to a charger.
Does someone have instructions on how to remove the back cover?
Tom
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It looks like the latest Google Play Services updated has dropped support for our Xoom's
Mine loads, then more GAPPS errors thank you can shake a stick it - if i let the screen time out following a forced reboot it doesnt come back on.
Gutted.
Hello,
I flashed the latest LRX22C image on my nexus 5 today.Had flashed it clean,wiping data,cache and system etc except the Internal Storage.Then I flashed the SUPERSU 2.37 ZIP .Everything was fine for about 4 hours.Then suddenly when I pressed the power button to turn the screen off,it was not turning off and the "Switch off" mode was popping up instead .Then, when I got a call,it switched off.The phone won't turn on again.It starts,the Google Boot Splash appears and the bootanimation starts for like 2 seconds and it switches off.Same thing for bootloader mode.
Please Help me!
EDIT: Now its turning on by itself and switches off in 2 seconds!
Sounds like a bad power switch to me, but of course that is just my opinion. :good:
sounds like a mech issue.
legit isue
I have the same problem on mine now... Basically my phone powered down around 45%. Battery. At the time i thought it was dead... But it wasnt. When i would plug into external power, either usb or through wireless charging it would power cycle continuously at the android splash screen.... (1 to 2 second intervals - even if i booted into fastboot) Interestingly it would never go to the battery charging mode. But automatically boot on charge... It did this for about 6 hours then i gave up and left it unplugged for a day. I plugged it back in and it started power cycling again, however this time on its third boot it came back to life . thats when i discovered i still had 40% battery... I dont know what exactly made it boot but it did. Oddly also on boot, it started optimising apps and finishing install again. I checked the md5 before I installed the update so no issue there. Since it powered up i have powered the phone off using the power button long push and let the phone power down. After doing this when i plug the phone in to usb charge it goes to the charge screen. No issue. That said, if i try to power up while tethered and charging it will not allow it. It just stays at the charge screen. As soon as i unplug the usb the power button allows the phone to power up and work... When booted up it charges as normal when plugged in. Im convinced there is an issue with the power management drivers or drivers for the button controls. My phone worked fine until the 5.0.1 update was installed. On my nexus 5. Anyone else or just us two? Ive had a hard time finding people posting on this issue.
Long story short. I finally got brave enough to root my phone. I did it successfully. then I think I killed it . http://forum.xda-developers.com/dro...-droid-razr-m-xt907-183-46-15-t3030852/page58
Then, while trying to get the Verizon wireless hotspot hack to work following these directions, http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr-m/general/guide-faq-how-to-root-boot-unlock-t2869432, I got to step 2 and for some reason the changes wouldn't save. so after doing some searching, I read that another person had tried another superuser app and was able to save their changes. So, I downloaded the superuser app and took off the original super SU. Then I kept getting an error that said, I didn't have root access. So I downloaded the original app. I had before from the play store and proceeded to replace it. The app installed fine and then said that the device needed to be rebooted. I hit okayand the phone turned off.
It never turned back on. Pressing the power button for any length of time will not turn on the device. When I press the power button along with the down volume button and hold them after releasing the Motorola logo comes up and then the phone goes dark again. like it's off. It doesn't have any blinking indicator lights nothing. When it's connected or disconnected from the computer. My PC makes chiming sounds like normal, even though the phone looks like it's completely off.
When I plug it into a charger, it stays completely dark, with no indicator lights like it's off. While its plug-in if I push and hold the power button still nothing. if I push and hold the power button and the volume down button, while it still plugged in,the Motorola logo comes up and then nothing again like it's powered off. The second time I repeat that procedure. The battery indicator comes up showing that it's charging. And just to let you know that the first time when all this happened and I saw the battery indicator it was charged at 80% still, so that's not the problem.
so my question is, did I brick my phone? is it permanently bricked? Is there anything I can do about it? or should I just look for a new one?
thank you for any help you could offer.
rahmyers said:
Long story short. I finally got brave enough to root my phone. I did it successfully. then I think I killed it . http://forum.xda-developers.com/dro...-droid-razr-m-xt907-183-46-15-t3030852/page58
Then, while trying to get the Verizon wireless hotspot hack to work following these directions, http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr-m/general/guide-faq-how-to-root-boot-unlock-t2869432, I got to step 2 and for some reason the changes wouldn't save. so after doing some searching, I read that another person had tried another superuser app and was able to save their changes. So, I downloaded the superuser app and took off the original super SU. Then I kept getting an error that said, I didn't have root access. So I downloaded the original app. I had before from the play store and proceeded to replace it. The app installed fine and then said that the device needed to be rebooted. I hit okayand the phone turned off.
It never turned back on. Pressing the power button for any length of time will not turn on the device. When I press the power button along with the down volume button and hold them after releasing the Motorola logo comes up and then the phone goes dark again. like it's off. It doesn't have any blinking indicator lights nothing. When it's connected or disconnected from the computer. My PC makes chiming sounds like normal, even though the phone looks like it's completely off.
When I plug it into a charger, it stays completely dark, with no indicator lights like it's off. While its plug-in if I push and hold the power button still nothing. if I push and hold the power button and the volume down button, while it still plugged in,the Motorola logo comes up and then nothing again like it's powered off. The second time I repeat that procedure. The battery indicator comes up showing that it's charging. And just to let you know that the first time when all this happened and I saw the battery indicator it was charged at 80% still, so that's not the problem.
so my question is, did I brick my phone? is it permanently bricked? Is there anything I can do about it? or should I just look for a new one?
thank you for any help you could offer.
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Hello! Can you get into recovery or bootloader screen?
StrangerWeather said:
Hello! Can you get into recovery or bootloader screen?
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no I can't
rahmyers said:
no I can't
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Without access to the bootloader it is going to be difficult. I recommend you post your question in the dedicated help forum for your device, in case you can get some help from there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr/help
Good luck!