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I can't turn on Droid

My wife put her phone to charge as usual as soon as there were only 3% left and found it in an hour and a half turned off. now it does not turn on. What had happened? How to turn it on? I put it to charge some more, but nothing changes.
It was 100% stock recently updated to the latest FW via OTA.
What a hell???

What is the charge percentage?
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bwheelies said:
What is the charge percentage?
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It was 13% before we plugged it in... Now it does not show anything, I cant turn it on. I've tried to charge it a home for 3+ hours, but nothing changed.

First try holding down the power button for 2 seconds. Let go and count to 2 again and re-press the power button for like 30 seconds.

Dragon31337 said:
My wife put her phone to charge as usual as soon as there were only 3% left and found it in an hour and a half turned off. now it does not turn on. What had happened? How to turn it on? I put it to charge some more, but nothing changes.
It was 100% stock recently updated to the latest FW via OTA.
What a hell???
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Try holding down the down volume button and power button for a few seconds at the same time and release it and check if u enter the bootloader menu.. If that works then press the Volume up button to confirm the normal power up...

I've tried all combinations, hold power, power + vol down, power + vol up, each up to 20 seconds. They were not able to turn it on in Verizon store as well. Luckily they just replaced it for me.
SO be careful with Droid minis...

Did they plug it in in the store?
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They tried as hard as the can but none of them in Verizon store was able to turn it on.
And yes, they tried plugging it to the energy bank and to the wall outlet.

Hopefully by now you have a replacement.
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Dragon31337 said:
My wife put her phone to charge as usual as soon as there were only 3% left and found it in an hour and a half turned off. now it does not turn on. What had happened? How to turn it on? I put it to charge some more, but nothing changes.
It was 100% stock recently updated to the latest FW via OTA.
What a hell???
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Had a similar problem with my first maxx. After charging all night, unplugged phone and used it for 30 min. Picked it up, pressed power button and nothing. Plugged power cord to phone and moto icon would appear and disappear repeatedly. Plugged in moto factory cable from PC to phone and it booted up. Got a message saying phone would shut down in 10 sec. due to over heating. Either a bad battery causing problems or faulty circuitry.
Got a new phone overnighted.
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i had a scray problem today with my ultra .
i just put my sim card in it . and phone freez in circle locker and nothing els .
i very affraid
but i just search and then just keep power for 20-30 sec .
after 3 try this method my lovly ultra turn on sucsefuly .
i love my ultra . its super phone (

I don't think you are supposed to be inserting the sim card while the phone is running.
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So...How did I brick my N5?

I am not inexperienced when it comes to ROMs, rooting, flashing, etc. Been doing it since my Droid X, X2, Gnex and now n5.
So pretty much I installed purity ROM and franco kernel. I was really tired when I was flashing it last night so as soon as I saw it boot up I let myself fall asleep. The last thing I saw was the setup screen asking me what language to select. I woke up this morning and tried to turn the screen on. nothing. held the power button for 10+ seconds then tried to boot again. Nothing. FYI the phone was fully charged last I saw. I have the heat on so it's kind of warm inside. I left it outside on the patio for about 20 minutes to cool down. Still gets nothing. No response what so ever. No vibration, the backlight of the display doesn't come on....nothing. I tried plugging it in the charger, nothing. The battery icon doesn't show up. The backlight doesn't come on. I left it on the charger for about 20+ minutes. Nothing. Plugging it into my computer does absolutely nothing. It doesn't show ANYTHING connected AT ALL. So no fastboot no adb (cant even get to recovery or bootloader) odin is out too. Literally 100% unresponsive.
Didn't think you could do that to a nexus honestly. Especially after all the hackery I did on the GNex. I didn't even do anything funny. Just flashed Purity + Franco (r14) I was waiting on r15.

Try charging it for a few hours (overnight).
I've seen this happen to a lot of people in the nexus 4 section.
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I assume after charging you held the power button for at least 10 seconds?

RoyJ said:
I am not inexperienced when it comes to ROMs, rooting, flashing, etc. Been doing it since my Droid X, X2, Gnex and now n5.
So pretty much I installed purity ROM and franco kernel. I was really tired when I was flashing it last night so as soon as I saw it boot up I let myself fall asleep. The last thing I saw was the setup screen asking me what language to select. I woke up this morning and tried to turn the screen on. nothing. held the power button for 10+ seconds then tried to boot again. Nothing. FYI the phone was fully charged last I saw. I have the heat on so it's kind of warm inside. I left it outside on the patio for about 20 minutes to cool down. Still gets nothing. No response what so ever. No vibration, the backlight of the display doesn't come on....nothing. I tried plugging it in the charger, nothing. The battery icon doesn't show up. The backlight doesn't come on. I left it on the charger for about 20+ minutes. Nothing. Plugging it into my computer does absolutely nothing. It doesn't show ANYTHING connected AT ALL. So no fastboot no adb (cant even get to recovery or bootloader) odin is out too. Literally 100% unresponsive.
Didn't think you could do that to a nexus honestly. Especially after all the hackery I did on the GNex. I didn't even do anything funny. Just flashed Purity + Franco (r14) I was waiting on r15.
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Doesn't sound like it had anything to do with flashing anything, especially since you saw it go tot he language screen.
You've tried holding the volume keys while turning it on?
I honestly may have just been a faulty battery in the device. ran out of juice fast and now won't charge or power it.
I'd still try more holding power button remedies, etc.
Not sure that Odin would have ever helped you anyways considering this is not a Samsung phone.
Worst case RMA it through Google..

Chromium_ said:
Try charging it for a few hours (overnight).
I've seen this happen to a lot of people in the nexus 4 section.
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It was fully charged when it booted before I fell asleep. I will leave it on the charger though. Thanks for the suggestion.
jd1639 said:
I assume after charging you held the power button for at least 10 seconds?
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See OP, yes.
orangekid said:
Doesn't sound like it had anything to do with flashing anything, especially since you saw it go tot he language screen.
You've tried holding the volume keys while turning it on?
I honestly may have just been a faulty battery in the device. ran out of juice fast and now won't charge or power it.
I'd still try more holding power button remedies, etc.
Not sure that Odin would have ever helped you anyways considering this is not a Samsung phone.
Worst case RMA it through Google..
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Yes, tried every button combo. True about odin, just making a point that a computer and fastboot/adb/toolkits would not work.

RoyJ said:
It was fully charged when it booted before I fell asleep. I will leave it on the charger though. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Yep its happened a few times with people with the nexus 4 too. The battery is at a decently high charge and suddenly it acts as if the battery is dead.
I have seen people fix it by charging the phone for a few hours though. Do you get an LED light when its plugged into the wall charger?
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Absolutely nothing. Completely 100% unresponsive. I think it's done for.
Edit: Purchased from T-Mobile, not Google directly. I pay for insurance on the device. Stinks, but I think I'm going to have to file an insurance claim

Why do insurance when you can just do warranty claim at the store? Just take it back to them (especially since it hasn't been 30 days yet) and replace the device.

Did you try plugging it into a car charger in your car?
For some reason that sometimes works. I don't know why, maybe higher amperage or something.
You should try it!

This happened with my Nexus 4, All I did was leave it charging and that worked after quite a bit. At the time I re flashed it back to stock, not sure if it helped or not but I never had the issue again.

OP, have you solve your problem? my nexus 5 just dead when I rebooted my phone. now, i does not have any idea to turn it back on again.

kizaros2g said:
OP, have you solve your problem? my nexus 5 just dead when I rebooted my phone. now, i does not have any idea to turn it back on again.
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What did you do before you rebooted?

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What did you do before you rebooted?
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before reboot, i'm flashing the new bootloader and radio that come with 4.4.1.. i got those two zip somewhere in the xda. but i think there is no problem with twrp. now I cant go into fastboot mode or recovery mode. there is no response when pressing the power button + volume button.

[Q] battery fully drained and phone isn't charging or powering on

My Moto G which I bought from Saudi Arabia 2 days ago before coming back to Egypt for good has the following scenario:
Note: I'm using the original moto g charger "500 mah" that came in the box with my phone.
1st 100% charge overnight, then lasted almost 14 hrs.
2nd overnight charge, only did 95% "even tho it was plugged for 7-8 hrs" and lasted 7 hrs before battery go to zero level and device shut down.
when my phone shut down, it got stuck at the coma status, I tried every method mentioned in this post but the "waiting till the next day method" and nothing did work.
methods I used: freezer, fridge, 18 sec power on, 1 minute power on, 2-3-4 minutes power on and even the exact method on Motorola website and that method one member suggested to blug in the headphone while trying to power on or charge.
chargers I used with every method: Moto G 500 mah, Alcatel 550 mah, Galaxy Tab 7 2ah and Blackberry USB cable on computer.
result, nothing! phone still dead, and i can't return it cause I'm in a different country now and we don't even have it yet here.
my Moto G is 16GB, dual sim and running stock Kit Kat 4.4 which is available for the phone. no modified roms or any other dev setting was applied, the phone wasn't rooted. it's just like out of the box, few apps installed "some of them are downloaded from the internet" and stock upgraded to kit kat.
before hitting the zero level, the phone was charged for few minutes on a samsung charger, most probably it's for a note 3. when it went off I tried a car charger "bleackberry" for few minutes which gave me 3 pulse led white notification and nothing else.
I guess this shouldn't be related to the situation, but I'm using a data sim as sim 2 for internet and sim 1 for calls only. phone internet is running on H+ most of the time, 3G the if not H+.
I'm going to wait till tomorrow and try again, hopefully it works. but if anyone got any ideas or solutions PLEASE go on and reply with it even if you're not sure or if it's a crazy idea out of the box.
I only used the phone for 2 days :crying: I had VERY high expectations for this phone :crying:
(Update 1) I left the phone unplugged for 12 hours, plugged it in the 550mah charger for 2-3 hours, pressed the power button 1-2-3 minutes and no results still. also motorola Asia didn't reply to my email yet.
(Update 2) I unplugged the battery and put it back on, still nothing. some guy told me to connect it to a box and restore the software back to Jellybean and that the box should be capable of booting the phone up. will try that and refer back to you.

I really hope you find a solution for this, since I'm an Egyptian too who is interested greatly in moto g and may take the plunge of buying it from amazon, this really freaks me out.
I haven't read all the posts in the other topic on this subject but from what I read on other websites and could be mentioned before, you can try the following:
Plug a higher mAH charger (suggested 850 for example or 5V 2A charger) as it was probably with your blackberry car charger, then hold the power button for 2 minutes, If the LED blinks keep it charging for 10 minutes.
No idea If it would work or not of course.

I did so
Mamoun14 said:
I really hope you find a solution for this, since I'm an Egyptian too who is interested greatly in moto g and may take the plunge of buying it from amazon, this really freaks me out.
I haven't read all the posts in the other topic on this subject but from what I read on other websites and could be mentioned before, you can try the following:
Plug a higher mAH charger (suggested 850 for example) as it was probably with your blackberry car charger, then hold the power button for 2 minutes, If the LED blinks wait 10 minutes after that.
No idea If it would work or not of course.
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Thank you bro, I know u get the whole pic.. I did actually try the car charger for almost 30-40 minutes but nothing.. only 3 blinks and that's it.. it didn't even keep the led on for few seconds,, just the 3 blinks and when I tried to turn it on, nothing!
btw, from the past 2 days, it's a great phone.. only this issue.. also the official kit kat update is a poor one, missing a lot of features but works GREAT on the phone.. u can get the phone from UAE or KSA.. the 16GB dual sim card is being sold for 900AED or 900SAR which is actually a TRUE bargain. also the charger u get with the phoneis 500 mah, so you better use another one that can charge faster cause this one is REALLY slow. you can use up to 1500mah
hopefully tho i get a decent reply from motorola for this issue.. no high hopes tho since it's not available in Egypt. :crying:

Yes, the price to value ratio for the moto g is incredible, it's really unfortunate that it wasn't/won't be released in Egypt.
Well, If I were you I would have tried the only suggestion remaining: to leave the phone for 24 hours without plugging it in or trying to power it on, then attempt again to charge it the next day. I really wish you luck in fixing this.
In the meantime, I will keep looking for any other suggestions and If I find any I will post here.

yeah!
Mamoun14 said:
Yes, the price to value ratio for the moto g is incredible really, it's really unfortunate that it wasn't/won't be released in Egypt.
Well, If I were you I would have tried the only suggestion remaining: to leave the phone for 24 hours without plugging it in or trying to power it on, then attempt again to charge it the next day. I really wish you luck in fixing this.
In the meantime, I will keep looking for any other suggestions and If I find it any I will post it here.
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that's actually what I'm doing, I've unplugged the phone and will re-plug it again when I wake up in 10-11 hrs..
and Ma'mon, check you private msg inbox..

I was thinking of buying this
I really need a Android Kitkat phone that isn't too expensive, I saw the Moto G and thought about buying one but if this happens then I wont

i guess.
JamesDoesCoding said:
I really need a Android Kitkat phone that isn't too expensive, I saw the Moto G and thought about buying one but if this happens then I wont
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well, the phone is amazing, really fast and good in every way except few things, some basic not very important features are missing and this drained out not charging issue.
on this post everyone was able to fix their issue, except me.. so it seem fixable 99% and u can also skip this issue if u simple shut down your phone when it reach 3-4% and turn it on again when the charger is there.. i guess.
btw, I had an S4 LTE before the moto g, and I'll never pick the S4 again. i enjoyed the moto g more and the S4 sucked in many ways like over heating and battery life time which was 6-7 hrs and the cheap housing materials "screen cracked when had a slight fall and fixing it was half the price of a new S4"

Im having the same problem as you, i tried every method as you. The 24hours method i havent fully tried it yet. I left it for 24 hours and when i plugged it in the charger I still have the same problem. The people in motorola told me to leave it for 2-3 hours on charge and that's what exactly what im doing. I will get back to you if anything happens.

I did that
Dilanwizzy said:
FadyGZ said:
My Moto G which I bought from Saudi Arabia 2 days ago before coming back to Egypt for good has the following scenario:
Note: I'm using the original moto g charger "500 mah" that came in the box with my phone.
1st 100% charge overnight, then lasted almost 14 hrs.
2nd overnight charge, only did 95% "even tho it was plugged for 7-8 hrs" and lasted 7 hrs before battery go to zero level and device shut down.
when my phone shut down, it got stuck at the coma status, I tried every method mentioned in this post but the "waiting till the next day method" and nothing did work.
methods I used: freezer, fridge, 18 sec power on, 1 minute power on, 2-3-4 minutes power on and even the exact method on Motorola website and that method one member suggested to blug in the headphone while trying to power on or charge.
chargers I used with every method: Moto G 500 mah, Alcatel 550 mah, Galaxy Tab 7 2ah and Blackberry USB cable on computer.
result, nothing! phone still dead, and i can't return it cause I'm in a different country now and we don't even have it yet here.
my Moto G is 16GB, dual sim and running stock Kit Kat 4.4 which is available for the phone. no modified roms or any other dev setting was applied, the phone wasn't rooted. it's just like out of the box, few apps installed "some of them are downloaded from the internet" and stock upgraded to kit kat.
before hitting the zero level, the phone was charged for few minutes on a samsung charger, most probably it's for a note 3. when it went off I tried a car charger "bleackberry" for few minutes which gave me 3 pulse led white notification and nothing else.
I guess this shouldn't be related to the situation, but I'm using a data sim as sim 2 for internet and sim 1 for calls only. phone internet is running on H+ most of the time, 3G the if not H+.
I'm going to wait till tomorrow and try again, hopefully it works. but if anyone got any ideas or solutions PLEASE go on and reply with it even if you're not sure or if it's a crazy idea out of the box.
I only used the phone for 2 days :crying: I had VERY high expectations for this phone :crying:
(Update 1) I left the phone unplugged for 12 hours, plugged it in the 550mah charger for 2-3 hours, pressed the power button 1-2-3 minutes and no results still. also motorola Asia didn't reply to my email yet.[/QUOTE
Im having the same problem as you, i tried every method as you. The 24hours method i havent fully tried it yet. I left it for 24 hours and when i plugged it in the charger I still have the same problem. The people in motorola told me to leave it for 2-3 hours on charge and that's what exactly what im doing. I will get back to you if anything happens.
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I've already tried leaving it on a charger for 2-3 hrs, but nothing did happen. hope it work with you buddy.. mine is from the asian market, you think it differs?
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FadyGZ said:
Dilanwizzy said:
I've already tried leaving it on a charger for 2-3 hrs, but nothing did happen. hope it work with you buddy.. mine is from the asian market, you think it differs?
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It shouldn't make a different, but i hope it does work. I was so getting into this phone as well. If it does work i will make sure it never reach 0% again.
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Dilanwizzy said:
FadyGZ said:
It shouldn't make a different, but i hope it does work. I was so getting into this phone as well. If it does work i will make sure it never reach 0% again.
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thanks man, I really recommend you this phone, as I see this issue very easy to cross and maybe motorola will issue some update where they fix this issue..
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I hope your phone works
FadyGZ said:
well, the phone is amazing, really fast and good in every way except few things, some basic not very important features are missing and this drained out not charging issue.
on this post everyone was able to fix their issue, except me.. so it seem fixable 99% and u can also skip this issue if u simple shut down your phone when it reach 3-4% and turn it on again when the charger is there.. i guess.
btw, I had an S4 LTE before the moto g, and I'll never pick the S4 again. i enjoyed the moto g more and the S4 sucked in many ways like over heating and battery life time which was 6-7 hrs and the cheap housing materials "screen cracked when had a slight fall and fixing it was half the price of a new S4"
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Thanks for the reply, I hope your moto g works again soon
Motorola should test the battery's before shipping a phone

Ballo
I faced the same problem once. When I plugged it to charge it's battery was about 80%. Then suddenly it went to 0% and it was automatically shut down. After charging it further 30 miss, it was still 0%. I turned it off, after removing back cover I pressed battery a little. Turned it on and the problem was solved. It happened 10 days back and never again. I am totally satisfied with moto g. It's a great phone.

-connect your phone to a charger
-hold the power button for 2-3min (led should blink few times)
-leave the phone connected for 1hour
-unplug it and hold the power button for 20-30 seconds and it should turn on.

ballo508 said:
I faced the same problem once. When I plugged it to charge it's battery was about 80%. Then suddenly it went to 0% and it was automatically shut down. After charging it further 30 miss, it was still 0%. I turned it off, after removing back cover I pressed battery a little. Turned it on and the problem was solved. It happened 10 days back and never again. I am totally satisfied with moto g. It's a great phone.
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I agree with you it's a great phone, i really liked it the 2 days i had it working.
I didn't try pressing the battery, but I've sent it to a local mobile shop to unplug the battery and plug it in again, hopefully it work. thanks tho for the advice.

ManBearrrPig said:
-connect your phone to a charger
-hold the power button for 2-3min (led should blink few times)
-leave the phone connected for 1hour
-unplug it and hold the power button for 20-30 seconds and it should turn on.
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did that in every possible way and nothing, when I plug the charger the led turn white for few minutes, then when it go off whatever i do it never turn on or blink.

goldisingh57 said:
This seems to be a critical issue. Try discharging the battery to full when in use and then charge again. Repeat this several times.
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it ran out once and it's not getting up again

FadyGZ said:
did that in every possible way and nothing, when I plug the charger the led turn white for few minutes, then when it go off whatever i do it never turn on or blink.
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it should go off after few blinks. just do the procedure. it should work.

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it should go off after few blinks. just do the procedure. it should work.
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okay!

Any updates on this?
Is your Moto G working now or not?
If so, how did you fix it

[Q] Phone doesn't start up after update

So I've the MOTO G 4G LTE.
Yesterday I was able to update to Android 4.4.4, so today, I decided to update it to Android 4.4.4.
When the update was downloaded, I clicked install and the phone shut down (Which is normal, says the Motorola website).
After 8 min. I tried to start the phone, but no reaction. The screen was black.
Now 30 min. later, the screen is still black and I still can't start the phone, charging the phone doesn't work either.
I've tried to connect with the Motorola Chat, after waiting for like 30 min. it said there were no Agents available
I hope some of you have a solution, thanks.

That's because MOTO G's charger is very bad, try using another charger.

Cheddart said:
That's because MOTO G's charger is very bad, try using another charger.
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I'm already using another charger, thanks anyway for the tip
I fixed it, I pressed the power button and volume down for 2 minutes. And chose reboot. After this, the phone started and after 10 seconds it shut down itself again, but this time. It's updating :good:
My MOTO G 4G LTE is now updated
Thanks anyway

[Q] How to revive Moto G? Only LED blinks

Something bad happened to my Moto G. Something really bad. After flashing GPE 4.4.2 ROM (everything went fine), system downloaded an update to 4.4.4. After reboot the update screen show up, but the progress bar was moving very slow. After about 30 minutes it was 75% done, and the screen wend black (the phone was 80% charged before the update start). Moto is not responding, completly brick. When I press the power buton for a few seconds, LED blinks two times. After holding power+Vol.down for 10 sec or 2 minutes, LED blinks, but there is no other reaction. I tried also to charge the phone for 8 hours with 5V charger. Nothing.
After searching the solution and watching some youtube videos I decided to remove the bettery and try to boot it on cable. Nothing. When I plug the charger (no battery), LED bliks, it's like a Morse code, and thats it.
Please, advice me, what to do with my Moto Brick? Help!

Try holding the power button for at least 30-50sc

we have a same problem dude
and theres is no way , to make it "alive"

Mee_Go said:
Something bad happened to my Moto G. Something really bad. After flashing GPE 4.4.2 ROM (everything went fine), system downloaded an update to 4.4.4. After reboot the update screen show up, but the progress bar was moving very slow. After about 30 minutes it was 75% done, and the screen wend black (the phone was 80% charged before the update start). Moto is not responding, completly brick. When I press the power buton for a few seconds, LED blinks two times. After holding power+Vol.down for 10 sec or 2 minutes, LED blinks, but there is no other reaction. I tried also to charge the phone for 8 hours with 5V charger. Nothing.
After searching the solution and watching some youtube videos I decided to remove the bettery and try to boot it on cable. Nothing. When I plug the charger (no battery), LED bliks, it's like a Morse code, and thats it.
Please, advice me, what to do with my Moto Brick? Help!
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Have you tried Moto Flasher?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/orig-development/bootloader-tool-motoflasher-t2959076

@Mee_Go - Did you upgrade the phone to Lollipop at any time?

lost101 said:
@Mee_Go - Did you upgrade the phone to Lollipop at any time?
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Yes, before flashing GPE 4.4.2 there was Cyanogenmod 12 installed on the device.

Mee_Go said:
Yes, before flashing GPE 4.4.2 there was Cyanogenmod 12 installed on the device.
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Looks like you are hard-bricked. You will have to wait with the others in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/how-to-revive-hard-bricked-moto-g-t2833798

lost101 said:
Looks like you are hard-bricked. You will have to wait with the others in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/how-to-revive-hard-bricked-moto-g-t2833798
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i have read that flashing gpe 4.4.2 and then updating to 4.4.4 causes hard brick and so i think your moto g is dead
i too have a brick but that is a wierd one. I am able to get into fastboot but system files flashes with an error IMAGE IS TOO LARGE