Hey,
Last week, my Nexus 5 did not want to respond to the power button. I had the issue before and wanted to send it in to get it fixed. But my warranty was over, and I wasn't planning on spending 80-150 euro's for a phone over 2 years old.
So what I did was open up the N5, removed the motherboard and took a look at the button itself. It looked like there was a bad contact with the motherboard. So I took my soldering iron, touched the contact and I saw the solder paste spread better. I closed up the N5, booted it up and magically, the problem was fixed.
But now for some reason, the phone does not want to charge. It was at 0% and I kept it in the wall socket for a full day, but it did not charge a single percent. So I figured, maybe I broke the battery, so I ordered a new battery (not the biggest cost). Now I just placed the battery in, but it still does not charge.
Then I thought, maybe I could measure the voltage on the old and new battery, and they both give just around 4V, so conclusion, I bought a new battery for nothing.
Now the real question, is there something I can do to fix this not-charging bug without sending it in for repairs or having to buy a new motherboard?
Great thanks!
Erates
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So my nexus 5 took an unfortunate trip into the ocean with me a month back. It was fairly dead. I couldn't get it do much of anything, even after complete disassemble, a flush with distilled water, then alcohol, and an extended multi day drying time that started with 4 hours in direct sun, then 44 hours in a rice bag.
I was messing around with it the other day, and got it booting, but the touch screen was dead. I was able to use if fully with the help of an OTG cable, usb hub, keyboard and mouse. I decided since everything worked great, I would order a new screen and a new battery(since the battery was draining very fast).
So i ordered a completely front panel assembly, including bezel, touch screen and LCD and I ordered an OEM battery. I installed the parts carefully once they arrived, everything was working fantastic! Well..... almost. The battery drain was still there. I would loose 4%-8% in airplane mode, and had 0 wakelocks. So i disassembled again, cleaned all the boards again in warmed distilled water and a tooth brush, then flushed with alcohol, and put in rice for about 48 hours. I reassembled, did a complete format from fastboot and reloaded everything from a google factory image. The battery still drained 4%-8% per hour, even in airplane mode. I disassembled again, and disconnected everything besides the battery, the charge board and the LCD cable. Performed a factory reset, booted up and didn't log into anything or touch anything. Put the phone in airplane mode again, still draining 4-8% per hour, with NO screen on time and no wake locks.
I figure 4 things could be going on.
1.) Main board is fried
2.) Charge board is fried.
3.) The original OEM battery was draining fast because the LCD was water damaged, and this "OEM" battery is a really bad fake with extremely small capacity?
4.) This LCD is somehow causing a battery drain even with screen off because if a cheap fake?
Having said that, the LCD looks and works great, and the battery looks great, just like an OEM battery.
If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.
Better off replacing water damaged phones
He's right this time. Could be almost anything, especially after exposure to salt water.
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Op did you buy the moto maxx?
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dicecuber said:
Op did you buy the moto maxx?
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I take it you saw my thread over at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/dro...xt1225-umts-hsdpa-bands-t3106760#post60811984
Not yet, I am worried about that 900mhz band support and can't find a clear answer. It looks like it does work on 900mhz UMTS, but that its just not advertised in Brazil. I want to be sure though, its an expensive phone.
Wanted to add, i narrowed the nexus 5 issue down to a mainboard issue. I setup airdroid on the phone, powered off, disconnected there screen and charge cable, powered back on and accessed the phone via airdroid.
Still drained just as fast, so the issue must be mainboard or battery. And since it did it with the old battery, i assume its the main board. I would love to find one for cheap, but they seem scarce.
If anyone has a D820 main board, or knows where I can find one, let me know. I would pay 80 bucks. Would pay 50 dollars for one with a dead ESN number so long as everything else worked.
My girlfriend (about 8 months the ago) dropped her S6 in water. In her "wisdom" decided putting it straight on charge would help dry it out
I have since explained why that was bad.
I've found the phone, in my broken phone drawer and decided to look inside, expecting to see a swollen battery or something. My question would be; what's likely to have gone poof? Battery, lcd, motherboard or all the above?
8 months later, there's no LED's that light up, nothing appears on screen and charging it heats it up quite fast. I've also tried wireless charging, that does the same but slower.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Edit - phone was 4 days old
Not rooted, fully stock
irscotty said:
My girlfriend (about 8 months the ago) dropped her S6 in water. In her "wisdom" decided putting it straight on charge would help dry it out
I have since explained why that was bad.
I've found the phone, in my broken phone drawer and decided to look inside, expecting to see a swollen battery or something. My question would be; what's likely to have gone poof? Battery, lcd, motherboard or all the above?
8 months later, there's no LED's that light up, nothing appears on screen and charging it heats it up quite fast. I've also tried wireless charging, that does the same but slower.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Edit - phone was 4 days old
Not rooted, fully stock
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Most likely the motherboard has short circuited, lcd may be intact but for sure battery and motherboard would need to be replaced. But as with water damaged phones, it's a bit of a throw of the dice as you won't know if one thing is fixed until you fix another.
Thanks for the response.
Im just trying to gage whether or not repair is worth while to sell the phone. The mother board alone is between £50 & 170,with the 50 pound option rated as a test only piece. I think I'll just get rid, thanks!
Original battery.
Stock 5.01 (still) rooted.
The battery is fully charged.
LG logo, AT&T logo (and sound) then reboot. Repeat.
Just under a year ago, I bought 2 new batteries with external charger (Power Bear) because I felt the original battery was not lasting as long as it had previously. The new batteries seemed to deliver about the same time as the original so since then I've been rotating the three- charging using the external charger exclusively.
Around six months ago, I noticed that when the battery would reached to about 6,7 or 8%, I would be at risk for a "spontaneous" reboot, then a boot loop as described above. (this can occur w/the new batts too)
I quickly determined it was time to swap the battery and that's it.
In the past two months, THAT behavior has began to sometimes manifest itself with between 15-19% battery life. I thought, 'OK. Move on, the battery gauge is probably not accurately reflecting what's really left in the battery any longer.'
NOW, the original battery, though fully charged, is causing the circular reboot upon being inserted.
Can a battery "go bad" in this type of manner? Without really exhibiting significant "performance loss" (read: usage time)?
I'm thinking the orig battery can no longer deliver the proper current, or something like that.
To be clear, the other two batts work fine.
Anyone ever heard anything like this?
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An interesting piece of info: If I leave the phone plugged in to the charger, it DOES boot up fine and stay up. The second I PULL OUT THE PLUG, it reboots, and so on....
Yes it’s very very common. And is usually a battery issue. When it comes to the G3 anyway
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Did you ever figure it out? If it's not a battery issue maybe it's an LG motherboard issue, like everyone else who's had their G3 close to 4 years. In that case, do what I do, stick the LG G3 motherboard ONLY into the OVEN and BAKE it for 10 mins @ 360 degrees. Believe it or not, baking solves many of the problems, not charging, boot-loop, not turn on, blue screen, freeze ups, etc. I have 2 LG G3's, 1 AT&T and 1 TMobile, that I do this with. I can go weeks without having to bake them again but then sometimes when I'm driving and need my phone the most, it dies, won't even turn on. So it's not a permanent cure because it'll happen again, no doubt, the question is, how long...I laughed when someone said oh, just bake the motherboard. Well, come to find out the type of solder they used on the motherboard melts at a lower temperature so when it gets too hot some chips lose their connections, thus by baking it I guess it reseats the chips. Hey, it works every time after I bake it so I can't knock it.
Either way, give it a shot, it can't hurt your motherboard and if it fixes the problem, at least you'll know how to fix it and think about getting a new phone, like myself, lol. Instructions are quite simple.
1...Take back off
2...Battery out, Sim out, SD out
3...small philips head, remove 12 screws from back, the screw next to camera does not have to be removed.
4...remove both rear-housing assemblies
5...Remove motherboard by disconnecting the rear camera connector, front camera connector, lcd screen connector, and the touchscreen connector.
6...Now remove the motherboard, hold back the connectors when lifting the motherboard out. Do not bend or break the connectors.
7...Take the motherboard, piece of tinfoil or parchment paper (i prefer tinfoil), lay the tinfoil on a baking sheet/cookie sheet, and then place the motherboard on the tinfoil with
the CPU facing up. Pre-heat the oven to 360 degrees, when it beeps, put it in for 10mins. After 10 mins, pull it out, turn your oven off, let motherboard sit for 15 mins and put the phone back together. Be careful snapping the connectors back into their places.
8...Be surprised when your phone still actually works after doing something like that to it.
I actually just baked mine again last night.
Good luck.
I broke my phone into pieces a few months back, took a pretty back fall from the fourth floor window. I love this beast and took it upon myself to recover it. So I bought a new screen and frame. It looked like new. When I tried to power it on, nothing happened. I suspected the battery, which had already shown some signs of dying prior, and attributed it to months without charge. I ordered a new one, that came today...
Still no power. However something happens , like with the old one: sometimes the flashlight comes on when I tried to charge it. I can feel the heat in the motherboard.
What can I do???? ? Is it time to give up on my OPO?
This issue is related to the battery, but not the connector issue others are having. About 3 weeks ago I started experiencing erratic wireless charging. Sometimes it would be fine, other times it would just stop for no reason, or not even start charging at all when I put it on the stand discharged. Then wireless charging just completely stopped working. Cord charging always worked fine. After testing different cords and wireless chargers I determined it was the phone. I only take the case off for cleaning, but while testing the phone "bare" on the different chargers I noticed the phone was swollen and the back glass had separated from the frame. So the battery has swollen significantly, pretty much in the middle of the phone. The highest bulge is around the volume-down button. See attached photo. I'm within the one year warranty and purchased at the Google store so after an hour on the phone and several photos sent, they are cross shipping a replacement to me. They say they put a hold on my CC, but it does not appear on my statement online? Express 3-day shipping was included free. I dusted off the old P3XL, updated it to 11 and then restored my latest Google P4XL backup to it. Not real happy with getting a refurb, but what can ya do?
Oh wow. Glad they are replacing it.
As for the hold, some cc companies don't show it active on a statement. Did you verify that your available credit limit dropped?
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When you send your phone in make sure there is no way to have it get more damaged and take pictures the warranty people had me pay for a new phone.
Do you have a magnetic plate on the back of your phone or case? When wireless charging the plate can heat up and cause battery damage mine never swelled but it did eventually stop charging all together. Then google warranty claim told me the phone was too damaged for repair that I had to pay $350 for a new one. Sucks so close the 5 coming out.
I was thinking I should of asked for the phone back for further inspection but I figured there going to return it more damaged and I didn't take pictures before I sent it.
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gjkrisa said:
When you send your phone in make sure there is no way to have it get more damaged and take pictures the warranty people had me pay for a new phone.
Do you have a magnetic plate on the back of your phone or case? When wireless charging the plate can heat up and cause battery damage mine never swelled but it did eventually stop charging all together. Then google warranty claim told me the phone was too damaged for repair that I had to pay $350 for a new one. Sucks so close the 5 coming out.
I was thinking I should of asked for the phone back for further inspection but I figured there going to return it more damaged and I didn't take pictures before I sent it.
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Sounds like maybe you had the other battery problem with the connector. Your point about taking pictures is a good one, especially when trading in one Google phone for another.
No, I haven't used the metal plate with this phone. I changed car mounts to the clamp type starting on the P3XL. Maybe Google has changed protocols recently, but during the long discussion they had me take many pictures of the phone including front and rear glass, camera, etc. to prove there was no damage. Then they wanted close-ups of the back glass separation before "elevating" my case to the next tier.