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N1 won't power on, blinking orange/green

Hello,
I've just got a hold of Nexus one phone that won't start at all. I found indicator blinking from orange to green repeatedly if:
1. Battery is placed and power button pressed.
2. Phone on charger without battery.
3. Phone on charger and battery in (w/o pressing the power button).
I've tried manipulating battery/charging cable but in any way it wont start. Seeking on the web I found outdated topics that it can be either defective phone, either overheated (I doubt this one is - it doesn't getting warm at all while charging) or battery is dead.
However it is hard for me to find HTC battery that will fit on N1 (HD2 won't).
Please advice what can be the problem? Which model's battery will fit Nexus One?
Thanks.

Bricked
Sent from my Nexus One

It can't be bricked, help
My N1 is doing this. Anyone know what I can do? I need to fix it. I had Cyanogen 7 on it and it was rock solid till this morning. Thoughts advice? I've googled and searched for possible remedies.
Thank you!

Try a different battery. I picked up a battery from eBay that caused my phone to do this, even after fully charging. I swapped the battery and it worked just fine again.
I have ordered about five of these. Three worked fine, and the seller refunded the other two.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Battery-HTC-Des...006315?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item27b7995eab

Probably not bricked, try this...
Plug the phone in the computer or outlet and remove the battery. Then press the power and hold the volume button and trackball all at the same time, kinda like ctrl+alt+del. Then put the battery back in the phone. Press the power button again and maybe.....MAYBE the phone may boot up.
GL

I was pretty sure the flashing light means a hardware failure.

GldRush98 said:
I was pretty sure the flashing light means a hardware failure.
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It could be, but and I would be inclined to agree if this very thing didn't happen to me when I was flashing a kernel a few weeks ago.

OEM batterys can still be had for the N1. I'd pay a premium for one any day rather than risk ending up with some cheap, unusable rubbish. There are some sites listed in the Accessorys forum.

Phone won't stay on or power on

I'm 99% sure this isn't a failed rooting attempt.
My phone works fine *IF* I can get it to power on with the power cord. As soon as it comes unplugged it's anybody's guess as to how long it will stay on for.
After it powers off it won't turn on at all. I have to plug a power cord into it and wait for the green light to show up. (Sometimes takes minutes, sometimes takes days.)
Sometimes when it's plugged in and won't turn on if I hit the power button all the button lights come on for just as long as I press the button, I can push the power button over and over and all the buttons light up. But if I unplug it that too stops working.
When it started I had moved back from CM6 to 5.0.8.
I am on the 2.22.23.02 radio and have Rom manager with the clockwork mod recovery that it wants you to use.
I have tried multiple batteries this is not a battery issue
I'm hoping it's not a hardware problem.
Could it be the recovery or radio causing these issues? I'm afraid that if I try to reflash the radio it will power off in the middle of the flash process and really brick my phone.
Anyone have any other ideas or maybe has anyone seen this before?

xelaboy said:
I'm 99% sure this isn't a failed rooting attempt.
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I'll bump that certainty up to 100% for you. Your battery has failed. Time to buy a new one.
I realize you say it isnt, but it is.

I have 2 batteries of my own.
I took it to batteries plus to have them test it there. They had a perfectly good battery and it wouldn't power the phone on. Believe me I desperately wanted to believe that it was just a battery issue. I actually still do. But having 2 batteries myself and seeing a third not work just seems like overwhelming evidence against the battery being the problem.

You can try to wipe battery statistics, it might help you.
In AmonRA there is an option to do so, if such an option exists in Clockwork, too, I I don't know.

AndDiSa said:
You can try to wipe battery statistics, it might help you.
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That's a good idea. I hadn't thought of doing that. I'll give it a shot next time my phone allows me to turn it on.

Stuck in eternal boot loop with stock settings

I have encountered a strange phenomenon on my HTC One. I woke up and forgot to charge my phone the previous night, so I went to charge it and after about ten minutes it kept turning on and off with the HTC "quietly brilliant" screen over and over again. There is no LED light to signify a charge, and I am able to get to the bootloader screen (I hope that is what it is called) by pressing the volume down but the phone restarts and won't let me click anything. It will only let me scroll down or up once so I can't get to the factory reset. I've tried many battery tricks such as holding both volume buttons and the power button for two minutes and nothing happened. I plugged it into my computer and the same thing happened.
I tried posting a video but the forum won't let me since I'm a new user!
Hoping someone can help me out! I just want to get my photos back more than anything.
Thanks!

esdlax said:
I have encountered a strange phenomenon on my HTC One. I woke up and forgot to charge my phone the previous night, so I went to charge it and after about ten minutes it kept turning on and off with the HTC "quietly brilliant" screen over and over again. There is no LED light to signify a charge, and I am able to get to the bootloader screen (I hope that is what it is called) by pressing the volume down but the phone restarts and won't let me click anything. It will only let me scroll down or up once so I can't get to the factory reset. I've tried many battery tricks such as holding both volume buttons and the power button for two minutes and nothing happened. I plugged it into my computer and the same thing happened.
I tried posting a video but the forum won't let me since I'm a new user!
Hoping someone can help me out! I just want to get my photos back more than anything.
Thanks!
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Also, I have never rooted the phone or flashed a rom! Everything is stock.
Thanks!

esdlax said:
Also, I have never rooted the phone or flashed a rom! Everything is stock.
Thanks!
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looks like the phone doesnt have enough battery to boot, shut it down and let it charge for 1-2 hours at least. If there is no led when charging, its probably because of a bad cable or charger. You can shut the phone down from bootloader: fastboot ---> power down.

alray said:
looks like the phone doesnt have enough battery to boot, shut it down and let it charge for 1-2 hours at least. If there is no led when charging, its probably because of a bad cable or charger. You can shut the phone down from bootloader: fastboot ---> power down.
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Thanks for the quick response! I've switched out the charger to the original stock charger and I'm still having the same problem. The phone will automatically turn itself on after 10-20 mins and go into the boot loop. The other issue is I can't select anything from bootloader because it reboots again. I think the video would be helpful so I might go post on random parts of the forum to get 10 posts.

esdlax said:
Thanks for the quick response! I've switched out the charger to the original stock charger and I'm still having the same problem. The phone will automatically turn itself on after 10-20 mins and go into the boot loop. The other issue is I can't select anything from bootloader because it reboots again. I think the video would be helpful so I might go post on random parts of the forum to get 10 posts.
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is the video on youtube?

alray said:
is the video on youtube?
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Yes, I just sent it to you in a private message. And if anyone else wants it, I can send it to them.
Thanks

esdlax said:
Yes, I just sent it to you in a private message. And if anyone else wants it, I can send it to them.
Thanks
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doesnt looks good mate. Maybe an hardware defect.
Just to be sure, you can power off the phone, if you do it reboots?
Maybe a problem with the power button or the battery...

Sounds to me like a knackered battery, unfortunately, that's one of the down sides of LiPo batteries, when they die they actually still contain 5% charge, if it drops below that, they are pretty much dead and cant really be charged properly again, ive learned this experience from flying radio controlled aircraft, basically, once the power starts dying, land it and charge it, if you push it right to the end, not only do you risk the chance of an expensive crash, but you have also just killed a £70 battery.
http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz96/seanie280672/DSC00170.jpg

Seanie280672 said:
Sounds to me like a knackered battery, unfortunately, that's one of the down sides of LiPo batteries, when they die they actually still contain 5% charge, if it drops below that, they are pretty much dead and cant really be charged properly again, ive learned this experience from flying radio controlled aircraft, basically, once the power starts dying, land it and charge it, if you push it right to the end, not only do you risk the chance of an expensive crash, but you have also just killed a £70 battery.
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Oh man, that means I killed two batteries that day. I was flying my friend's quadcopter and the screen uses a lipo battery, which randomly died and now won't charge Yikes! You live and you learn. Is there anything I can do to "spark" the battery? Or more importantly any way to save my pictures? Thanks for all the replies!

esdlax said:
Oh man, that means I killed two batteries that day. I was flying my friend's quadcopter and the screen uses a lipo battery, which randomly died and now won't charge Yikes! You live and you learn. Is there anything I can do to "spark" the battery? Or more importantly any way to save my pictures? Thanks for all the replies!
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I dont think you'll be able to backup anything with the phone stuck in this bootloop. Probably the battery can be replaced wihout loosing data on the phone.

alray said:
doesnt looks good mate. Maybe an hardware defect.
Just to be sure, you can power off the phone, if you do it reboots?
Maybe a problem with the power button or the battery...
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I don't have a choice when the phone powers off, it randomly does it on its own when I'm in bootloader or if its just sitting there. I don't think its the power buttom because I can still press it, so its not jammed or anything. We have insurance on our phones so I can get a new one. I'm just looking to save the data at this point! Thanks for all your help so far!

Phone dies when it hits 5% battery

So, multiple times now my Note 5 has died within a minute or so of hitting 5% battery. The battery percentage will quickly plummet to 0 and shut down. However, when I plug it in and it shows the charging while the phone is off screen, it shows approx 5% battery. I assume this is a software bug and there isn't anything I can do about it until the next update. Either way, I wanted to see if anyone else is having this issue.

Don't let it get so low anyway. It shortens the battery life.
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Yes, thank you. The phone had only ever hit this low a small handful of times.
Regardless, the phone's behavior is not normal. It reminds me of the Galaxy S2 that I had for all of a month in which I was certain was a defective unit. The entire battery would not last more than two hours of use as it would plummet like a rock -- especially in the last 50%. Similar behavior in the note, except --thankfully-- it's only at the last five percent and the battery appears to still have that five percent inside it. The phone just seems to think that it doesn't and shuts down.

Zachhockey2 said:
Yes, thank you. The phone had only ever hit this low a small handful of times.
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Turn off your phone, and then turn it on pressing and holding Volume Up, Home, and Power button at the same time until you see a warning. Then press Volume Up to continue, and navigate using volume keys and select wipe cache/factory reset with the Home button, then reboot.
Please note that by doing this all your data will be lost.

I likely won't restore my phone unless I get super annoyed by this. I'm going to wait until the Marshmallow update to see if this improves with it.
I just watched the phone go from 8 to 1 percent. It wasn't doing anything and I was just staring at it. This was the first time I had ever plugged it in right before it turned off. When I plugged it in, it shot right to 7 percent. I then unplugged it and watched it go back down over a few minutes. This is very odd.

Zachhockey2 said:
I likely won't restore my phone unless I get super annoyed by this. I'm going to wait until the Marshmallow update to see if this improves with it.
I just watched the phone go from 8 to 1 percent. It wasn't doing anything and I was just staring at it. This was the first time I had ever plugged it in right before it turned off. When I plugged it in, it shot right to 7 percent. I then unplugged it and watched it go back down over a few minutes. This is very odd.
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Why do you damage your battery this way? Keep it topped off always as much as possible. Letting it run low shortens it's life. This is a known fact with Lithium Ion batteries.

Sounds like a bug. Easy fix with update
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Did you try just wiping the cache without wiping the whole device? My suggestion is charge it to 100%, unplug charger, wipe cache (While phone is off, press and hold Vol Up + Home + Power buttons, release Power button when you see the initial Samsung Galaxy logo), power down, plug charger back in to make sure it stays 100%, then switch phone on.

People (edit: same person both times ) need to calm down over the fact that I occasionally use my battery to 5%. I mean, really.
Yeah, I imagine it would fix with an update.
Shadow, I'll try that. Thanks.

Zachhockey2 said:
People (edit: same person both times [emoji14]) need to calm down over the fact that I occasionally use my battery to 5%. I mean, really.
Yeah, I imagine it would fix with an update.
Shadow, I'll try that. Thanks.
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Hey - just trying to offer some useful input. Do what you like my friend
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Zachhockey2 said:
People (edit: same person both times ) need to calm down over the fact that I occasionally use my battery to 5%. I mean, really.
Yeah, I imagine it would fix with an update.
Shadow, I'll try that. Thanks.
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Download Battery Calibration from Play Store.

Same **** here. So annoying!

luciferiusXI said:
Same **** here. So annoying!
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I knew there HAD to be others experiencing this. Do you have an AT&T model?
I'm currently attempting the battery calibration app route. Most seem to be root only, but I found one that didn't need that. The instructions were to charge to 100%, then use the app to calibrate, discharge fully, then charge to 100%. I'm currently on the last charge -- it discharged over night.
Hopefully this works.

It seems that the battery calibration app has done the trick.

I have this issue as well
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XT1097 turning off when the battery is less than 30%

My Moto X 2014 works perfectly, all of its features.
Only one thing is bothering me when the battery is less than 30% cell turns off and when religo it shows that it has more than 20% battery but when it finishes the boot turns off again.
Someone has gone or is going through this problem?
My phone is with the original ROM, unlocked bootloader and custom kernel to be able to root.

I had a similar problem on my XT1096 but the threshold was more like 20%. It would hit between 20%-15% and just turn off. I actually got Motorola to replace it under warranty cause I thought it was a battery problem. My replacement has done it once already. I never figured out what the problem was. A factory reset made it go away for about a month. Then it started happening again pretty regularly. That's when Motorola replaced it.

toddsts said:
I had a similar problem on my XT1096 but the threshold was more like 20%. It would hit between 20%-15% and just turn off. I actually got Motorola to replace it under warranty cause I thought it was a battery problem. My replacement has done it once already. I never figured out what the problem was. A factory reset made it go away for about a month. Then it started happening again pretty regularly. That's when Motorola replaced it.
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Thanks for your reply, awaiting more comments/solutions.

Yeah, mine did this @ 12-9% threshold... which really wasn't too bad, but not reliable for general day to day use. You can try calibrating the battery [Google: Calibrate your battery], and seeing if that helps. It didn't for me. Long story short; i went to ebay and bought a broken Moto X 2014 for $30 and i swapped it's battery in my original. I bought many "authentic" batteries on ebay and guess what, they were fakes and never worked. If you chose to go this route, the MOTO X is pretty difficult to open properly without ruining the back. I bought an additional wooden back from China via Ebay. I no longer have this problem, the phone gets to 1-2% before it dies now; which is much more reliable for my use.

wagnerdd said:
My Moto X 2014 works perfectly, all of its features.
Only one thing is bothering me when the battery is less than 30% cell turns off and when religo it shows that it has more than 20% battery but when it finishes the boot turns off again.
Someone has gone or is going through this problem?
My phone is with the original ROM, unlocked bootloader and custom kernel to be able to root.
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Charge phone to 100% leave plug in turn on phone wait till boot animation shows then hold Power button until it restarts, do this three 2 times.
Repeat later on if you have to.
It should work.

yahya1054 said:
Charge phone to 100% leave plug in turn on phone wait till boot animation shows then hold Power button until it restarts, do this three 2 times.
Repeat later on if you have to.
It should work.
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Wow, haven't tried that! I'll check it out tonight. Thanks
My solution is calibrating it with this and I get it to work again. So, is there something physically wrong with my battery and this is just some kind of patch?

MoisesPerez said:
Wow, haven't tried that! I'll check it out tonight. Thanks
My solution is calibrating it with this and I get it to work again. So, is there something physically wrong with my battery and this is just some kind of patch?
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If it's calibrated wrong this & my solution should work. Or a faulty battery is in place.

yahya1054 said:
Charge phone to 100% leave plug in turn on phone wait till boot animation shows then hold Power button until it restarts, do this three 2 times.
Repeat later on if you have to.
It should work.
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I tried this and it actually made it worse. My phone would consistently shut off at around 30% (oh, and I can get MAYBE 5-6 hours out of it before it shuts off, so I can never go anywhere without charging cords, VERY annoying!!), so I tried this. For one, the phone shuts but doesn't restart when I am holding the power button during the BU animation, it just shuts off and no matter how long I hold the power button, it doesn't restart. One of the times I did it, I DID get a green LED shining inside the slot at the top which serves as the earpiece for the phone. That time I had to hold the button a LONG time for it to restart. The end result of all of this is now my phone shuts off at around 40%!

Try downloading ampere app and seeing the health of your battery

This is definitely battery problem my friend...nothing can be done except replace battery ...my entire state doesn't have a good customer care to replace this sh#t battery and now am going to change this stupid phone ..am done charging all the day and sudden turn off s too..
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