My Moto G 4G won't boot up. Last night I forgot to charge my XT1045 and woke up to it bricked. Plugged it in and went back to sleep. A few hours later, I turned it on and it worked fine. Later, the screen froze and I turned it off by holding power until it turned off. Now, for whatever reason, it won't turn on again. I've had it plugged in for nearly 12 hours and have tried the "power + vol down for 120 seconds" suggestion to no avail.
What's interesting is that when I plug it into my computer, I can hear it being removed/recognized at around the 120 second mark but it doesn't go into the bootloader -- the screen stays black. It also doesn't show up with adb devices, which isn't surprising since it doesn't actually show up as recognized, the audio notification is all I can go off of. Am I completely screwed? Any ideas? It's rooted running the optimized stock 5.1 and stock recovery. Thanks!
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I've been running the latest CM10 M release for a couple weeks now. Today I upgraded to the latest modems. Everything was working great for a few hours when my phone randomly shut off and now won't turn back on.
I've tried pulling the battery and charging. Can't ever see anything on the screen although it does vibrate sometimes when I hold the power button. LED will turn on when charging.
Any ideas or suggestions?
See if you're able to boot straight into download or recovery, thus will show intact boot and recovery systems.
One other test, pull battery and with phone off plug into your PC if it shows a red light its likely hard bricked.
I had the unfortunate experience of flashing wrong kernel and bricked my phone was not going to recovery or download. However if you can get to these then it may be a soft brick and restore with odin
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One my phone got stuck
jerhurwitz said:
I've been running the latest CM10 M release for a couple weeks now. Today I upgraded to the latest modems. Everything was working great for a few hours when my phone randomly shut off and now won't turn back on.
I've tried pulling the battery and charging. Can't ever see anything on the screen although it does vibrate sometimes when I hold the power button. LED will turn on when charging.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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Once my phone got stuck because I flashed a new recovery that wasn't compatible with my phone so each time I tried to boot into recovery or tried to turn on the phone nothing would happen. The only thing that got my phone working again was to go into download mode (Odin) by holding power, volume down and home buttona and than canceling it. from there the Rom started working again. I don't know if it will help in your case but you can always try.
That was a strange experience. Left it plugged in for a few hours. Came back, and was able to boot normally... although the battery was extremely low despite being plugged in for a few hours. No problems since then.
Congrats =)
Seems like disaster was avoided.
jerhurwitz said:
That was a strange experience. Left it plugged in for a few hours. Came back, and was able to boot normally... although the battery was extremely low despite being plugged in for a few hours. No problems since then.
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Do you know what percent your phone turned off at? Around what percent? Was it 23-25%?
If this thread is more appropriate in another section, mods please move.
I'm by no means a lost newbie, having run a rooted & rom'd Epic 4G since release date and flashed it many times, modded, customized, etc, etc.
However, this dang Photon is giving me hell..
Just got the phone yesterday, unlocked the Bootloader, rooted, etc, etc. Tried updating the phone before realizing it doesn't work without stock recovery, so restored the phone back to stock'ish using some TWRP stock dumps someone posted. Flashed stock recovery back, booted, got the phone to download and apply the update, flashed TWRP back, rooted, booted, everything is good. Ok, finally I can get to restoring some data using Titanium. Restored a few things, it was getting late, and I knew it would take a while to restore my SMS/MMS messages so I kicked that off before going to bed. Phone was plugged into the charger all night. Woke up this morning and the phone was only at 50% and the SMS/MMS restore in Titanium seemed to be hung. Phone was still fully responsive, accessed the market, checked emailed, then I shut the phone down via the power menu in order to un-hang that Titanium restore...phone turns off, then shows the unlocked bootloader screen, then shows a backlit black screen and will do nothing else. Won't turn off, no combination of vol up/down and power will get into recover or fastboot. Phone has just been sitting there for about an hour now with a blank/black (but backlit so it is powered on) screen.
Any thoughts or suggestions or am I screwed at this point?
I don't know why I'm having such issues with even mildly modding this phone...
Ok, after about an hour and a half of just sitting there, the phone showed to be fully shut down. Was able to boot in to TWRP, so I then exited and rebooted and it booted all the way into the OS.
Not sure what happened or why, but I hope I'm good now.
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Ok, after about an hour and a half of just sitting there, the phone showed to be fully shut down. Was able to boot in to TWRP, so I then exited and rebooted and it booted all the way into the OS.
Not sure what happened or why, but I hope I'm good now.
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When you powered off the device was it still on thee charger? When I power off and mine is on the charger it does the same thing. I just unplug the powr and then use poer button and vol dwn at same time to pwr off. Just threw that out there just in case it happened again.
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It was plugged in when I did, but a few moments later after it did what it did I unplugged it, still was unresponsive to any power key / vol key combo, tossed it in my pocket & left for work. Tried it a few more times on the way to work, still nothing, tried it again when I go to work, still nothing, then grabbed the phone to check on it about another 30 mins later and it had fully turned off on it's on.
Who knows...been fine since.
Device Info:
VZW Moto G (1st Gen)
Android 4.4.4. KitKat (Stock)
No root, bootloader locked, never tampered with
Problem:
I set my phone down on the kitchen table and left it there a while. When I came back the notification light was blinking so I tried to turn on the screen, but nothing happened. Eventually I hard reset the device (held down the power button until the device started to reboot). The phone showed the white boot up screen with the planet Motorola logo, but rather than continuing with the boot animation, it hung there for a while before going to a black screen. I have left it for hours, it never progresses past this point. Sometimes it will reboot itself and try again to no avail. I was not installing any updates when this took place.
Attempted Solutions:
I held down the power and volume down buttons and went to bootloader. The battery was listed as low. I let the battery charge overnight and tried the bootloader again. The battery is now listed as OK, but the phone still won't boot. To be extra sure it isn't a battery issue I tried different chargers, outlets, and laptop USB ports for long periods of time. I am convinced this is not the usually "phone will not charge when turned off" problem. I also attempted to hold the power button down for long periods while on and off the charger. No results.
Resigned to take drastic measures, I tried first recovery and then factory reset from the bootloader screen. Each time I am returned to the white screen and then the black and nothing happens. I do not get the distressed android logo at all. I tried to unlock the bootloader to install a custom or factory image, but this is not allowed for the Verizon version of the Moto G.
I am out of ideas, having tried everything I've read on other posts with similar issues. What can I do?
So on Saturday i decided to update my Moto G (XT1032) to 4.4.4 KitKat so i could upgrade to Lollipop.After the update was over the phone immediately shut down and wouldn't boot up, so i left it charging overnight.In the morning(Sunday) the phone didn't boot up either so i left it to discharge until the next morning(Monday).So i leave it charging while i was out and when i came back i tried to do the solution provided by Motorola and a white LED started blinking but other than that the phone didn't boot up.Is there anything else i can try or am I missing something here?(p.s i handed it over to a friend and he disconnected the battery from the board and since then the LED started blinking)
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So on Saturday i decided to update my Moto G (XT1032) to 4.4.4 KitKat so i could upgrade to Lollipop.After the update was over the phone immediately shut down and wouldn't boot up, so i left it charging overnight.In the morning(Sunday) the phone didn't boot up either so i left it to discharge until the next morning(Monday).So i leave it charging while i was out and when i came back i tried to do the solution provided by Motorola and a white LED started blinking but other than that the phone didn't boot up.Is there anything else i can try or am I missing something here?(p.s i handed it over to a friend and he disconnected the battery from the board and since then the LED started blinking)
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trying pressing all the keys (volume up + volume down +power button) for 5 seconds and release it to get in to the bootloader, so then you can adb a custom recovery
I cant get into the bootloader
When you connect it to a Windows machine, is it recognized in device manager as something resembling "qhsusb_bulk"?
If it is, it is hard bricked.
Was the phone's bootloader unlocked? Were you running a custom recovery or rooted?
The PC recognizes the phone(like Moto G) and yes the bootloader was unlocked but i was running stock both firmware and recovery
Also no i wasnt rooted
The PC recognizes the phone in its current state as a moto g? That's good. Maybe you need to let it charge again and try to get into fastboot.
I let it charge for like 15 hours and still only a blinking light...well at least it aint dead
It doesn't seem to want to charge and it's recognized as a moto g when connected to your computer? I'd bet it isn't hard bricked, just soft bricked.
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I let it charge for like 15 hours and still only a blinking light...well at least it aint dead
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Try a different charger because sometimes I can't charge my phone when its empty with a certain charger but once I use a iPad power adapter it works and then I can charge using my usual charger
Funny thing is that both of my chargers are Apple chargers(with the original motorola usb cable ).So should i just leave it for like a week discharge or let it charge until it finally powers on?
Also if it is a soft brick what would you recommend?
I'd say left it charge over night.
Is the bootloader unlocked?
Yes the bootloader was unlocked
Any luck getting into fastboot?
No luck...still the only thing that shows up its the LED light
When you connect the phone to your Windows computer, is it seen as qhsb or some sort of weird device? If it is, it sounds like it is hard bricked.
Actually i was asked about this in this post (1st page)and no it doesnt show anything like qhsb
I asked again because things may have changed.
I'm at a loss as to why it is recognized as a Moto G by your computer even though it won't turn on.
I tried the freezer thing and the LED stopped blinking for a while and was stable
Is it recognized by your computer as a moto g? I'm not sure how it could since it can't be turned on.
So my friend gave me her old Motorola Moto G 1st generation and it was fine for a few months, then a couple of days ago it wouldn't turn on. So I plugged it in and held down the power button then the down volume, and went into flash boot mode. (i think its called that). And did normal startup and everything worked fine. The next day it did the same thing and i tried to do normal startup, but it froze on the blue M screen, so i did it again but tried with recovery mode, the results was blue M screen then a black screen with the back light on. I have tried doing that many times but all i get is blue M screen, vibration, then the black screen. I have let the battery drain and charged it, to see what it would do. No progress. The battery is dead right now. Please Help.