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Droid 4 wont charge, just gets very hot

Hi, i have a big problem with my droid 4. I have tried plugging it into 2 different chargers, and it says its charging on the lock screen, but in the battery setting it says its discharging, even when plugged in. The droid also got HOT when it was connected to the charger for a while
What the heck could be wrong

are they moto chargers? could be battery, app
is phone rooted, romed?
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sd_shadow said:
are they moto chargers? could be battery, app
is phone rooted, romed?
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nevermind, it charges normally again after leaving it on the charger overnight. not sure what happened but im glad its fixed.

My daughter has the Droid 4, that is completely stock without root, and is having this problem right now. At first I thought the usb port was loose, and it was losing connection while charging. It says it's charging, but doesn't go above certain pecentages. It's all random each time it's plugged in. At first it wouldn't go above 5%, until I used the jumper method.
After I got it past 5%, I turned it on, let it charge by USB for a couple hours, and it wouldn't go past 20%. So I unplugged it, and let it go for a couple days without messing with it. I turned it back on, plugged it in, says it was at 5% again, and let it charge overnight. I got up the next day, it wouldn't even turn on, because it didn't charge at all, and discharged below 5%. Jumpered it again, this time for about 10 minutes, and got it to 60%. The battery never even got warm to the touch either time I jumpered it. I plugged it in today without turning it on, it goes to the phone off charging cylcle like it's supposed to, says it's still at 60%, but the charging animation doesn't show the battery filling up all the way, and then dropping back to 60%. The animation only goes about 5% further, and back to 60%.
This is her second Droid 4, and the first one did this too. I am hoping maybe it's something to do with the Stock ROM, and when JellyBean comes out, it will fix the issue.

The update finally came out for my daughter's Droid 4, and the update went smooth. I was able to keep it at 60% by only turning it on to check for the update. It dropped to 50% while updating.
Still having problems charging while on, or off. While on, it shows it's charging on the battery icon, and it also shows that it's charging in the battery status in settings. While off, it shows the battery charging animation as before. Once in a while it will take a bit of a charge, but not very much. I left it plugged in all night, and woke up to a completely dead phone that would not react to anything, because it's actually discharging while it says it's charging. I had to jumpstart it, let it go for 10 minutes, and it only took a 15% charge. Let it set for a while, and charged it again for a few hours, just to have it stay at 10% the whole time.
I removed everything that didn't come pre-installed, thinking maybe something was running in the background. That had no effect on it at all. Everything to do with data, wifi, and stuff that draws power has all been turned off. While off nothing should be drawing power, and it's still discharging while it says it's charging.
The chage port is a little loose, but the way I set it down the connection stays solid the whole time it's plugged in. I'm figuring something in the hardware is borked, or the battery is toast.
Any ideas anyone?

have you tried a different charger?
if so
i would do a factory reset
you may want to backup contacts, texts, call log… whatever data you want to keep
data on external sd card will be safe, but data on internal storage could get wiped
best to connect to a pc and copy everything on internal storage
pictures are in dcim/camera on internal &/or external sd card
more info on wiping data in my list
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I have tried many chargers, and cables. Stock, Samsung, Duracell, and an old Motorola data/charge cable that needed an adapter. They were all doing the same thing.
I did a complete factory reset, and let it wipe all the internal data. It went back to 4.1.2, but it didn't fix the problem.
I messed with it some more afterwards, and threw the Motorola data/charge cable for my old RAZR V9X on it with the same results. Then I got to thinking, maybe it is a loose port, it's just getting enough contact to say it's charging, and not enough to actually charge the battery. I added some weight to the cable to keep constant, not too much, tension on the cable, and it started charging. Left it overnight, and it finally took a full charge.
Off to Cell Phone Repair Shop, it goes.

24fan4life said:
I have tried many chargers, and cables. Stock, Samsung, Duracell, and an old Motorola data/charge cable that needed an adapter. They were all doing the same thing.
I did a complete factory reset, and let it wipe all the internal data. It went back to 4.1.2, but it didn't fix the problem.
I messed with it some more afterwards, and threw the Motorola data/charge cable for my old RAZR V9X on it with the same results. Then I got to thinking, maybe it is a loose port, it's just getting enough contact to say it's charging, and not enough to actually charge the battery. I added some weight to the cable to keep constant, not too much, tension on the cable, and it started charging. Left it overnight, and it finally took a full charge.
Off to Cell Phone Repair Shop, it goes.
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My Droid gets VERY VERY hot at times, my phone gets VERY slow and the same thing happens... it doesn't charge up (or takes absolutely forever to charge).
I have a widget called Battery Plus and you can see what uses the most battery and Google Plus is ALWAYS the culprit. I never use G+ (except to backup photos), but every time I go in and see what is using all my battery, its always G+. Its says taht G+ also downloads quite a bit of information onto my phone. Yesterday 10mb, today 2.5mb's or data. What is G+ doing??????

Possibly bricked my droid 4?

Hi guys, so I was trying to use "DROID_RAZR_Utility_Jellybean_XT912_WinMacLin" to upgrade my droid 4 from ICS to JB. I have a 100% charge at this point. Put my phone in AP fastboot and chose option '1' which is install JB and wipe data. Then I got the message attached. while that happened, what my phone was doing was turned off, turned on, and turned back off. After the last "waiting for device" message, it never came back on ....I tried holding volume up + down + power, hoping to get it back to the fastboot option but no success (as in phone does not turn back on, not even fastboot page). If anyone have any advise to share I'd really appreciate this, thanks!

andrep182 said:
Hi guys, so I was trying to use "DROID_RAZR_Utility_Jellybean_XT912_WinMacLin" to upgrade my droid 4 from ICS to JB. I have a 100% charge at this point. Put my phone in AP fastboot and chose option '1' which is install JB and wipe data. Then I got the message attached. while that happened, what my phone was doing was turned off, turned on, and turned back off. After the last "waiting for device" message, it never came back on ....I tried holding volume up + down + power, hoping to get it back to the fastboot option but no success (as in phone does not turn back on, not even fastboot page). If anyone have any advise to share I'd really appreciate this, thanks!
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let it drain to 0 (should take 4 days on 100) and recharge with a factory cable... this will simulate a battery pull... then you should be able to get into fastboot. next time flash jb from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_maserati/list.php
and use rsd to flash it

myfishbear said:
let it drain to 0 (should take 4 days on 100) and recharge with a factory cable... this will simulate a battery pull... then you should be able to get into fastboot. next time flash jb from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_maserati/list.php
and use rsd to flash it
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Bummer, there's no way to just pull the battery huh? really glad this isn't my main phone. Do you by any chance know what went wrong during the process? I'll let it drain and hope for the best then. Thanks!

I did the same thing the other day, phone is totally unresponsive to charging or usb. I do manage to get a green led for a bit though but not for long. I would like to know more about this factory data cable

I used the Droid 4 Script/Tool in the Dev section on my brothers Droid 4 and it worked just fine.
I personally wouldn't drain your battery to zero, I would just plug it on charge for a full hours, then hold "up+down+power" and if it should boot into an options menu, reboot system .
If you use the RSD lite method, make sure to boot into motorola recovery and perform a factory data reset after flashing the sbf file.
I just went through all of this to fix my brothers D4 after he updated via OTA.

216Monster said:
I used the Droid 4 Script/Tool in the Dev section on my brothers Droid 4 and it worked just fine.
I personally wouldn't drain your battery to zero, I would just plug it on charge for a full hours, then hold "up+down+power" and if it should boot into an options menu, reboot system .
If you use the RSD lite method, make sure to boot into motorola recovery and perform a factory data reset after flashing the sbf file.
I just went through all of this to fix my brothers D4 after he updated via OTA.
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I did plug it on charge overnight, tried hold up down power just like you said this morning, and the screen does not turn on at all, not even recovery... so I don't think I can do the RSD lite method right now.... the draining battery method seems to be the best method to try now.

kanchomaster said:
I did the same thing the other day, phone is totally unresponsive to charging or usb. I do manage to get a green led for a bit though but not for long. I would like to know more about this factory data cable
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the tbh factory cable link is in my list
sd_shadow's [Collection] of Links for Droid 4
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sd_shadow said:
the tbh factory cable link is in my list
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Basically just short pin 1 and 4 huh? simple enough. Let's hope this can my problem

OMG what have I done .... I am finally at ease that I figured out my problem. instead of using droid 4 utility, I got it mixed up with razr utility (I have both devices). No wonder my droid 4 crapped out lol. I'll wait for the battery drain and hope for the best

i just received the team black hat adapter for my droid 4 today, but when i plug it into the computer i still get nothing, has anyone else had success with this on theyre droid 4?

the tbh adapter works fine, have you checked windows device manager, to see if driver is correct
some device manager screenshots under rsd lite in my list
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i do have the latest drivers installed, i made sure of that when i was using the RAZR utility last week to re flash it. the problem is the phone died on me in the process of that. it is unresponsive to factory resets and wall charging. total black screen, the only thing i notice is plugging it in through usb i get the green led light, doesnt last all day though...i know the adapter works cuz i tested it on my droid 2 without the battery in....do i need to somehow remove the battery out of my droid 4 for this to work and if so is it not overly complicated to do so?

kanchomaster said:
i do have the latest drivers installed, i made sure of that when i was using the RAZR utility last week to re flash it. the problem is the phone died on me in the process of that. it is unresponsive to factory resets and wall charging. total black screen, the only thing i notice is plugging it in through usb i get the green led light, doesnt last all day though...i know the adapter works cuz i tested it on my droid 2 without the battery in....do i need to somehow remove the battery out of my droid 4 for this to work and if so is it not overly complicated to do so?
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+1, I am in exactly the same situation with you, I hope someone can shine us some light. I checked one place that do jtag unbrick service but he said he can't find support for our phone
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adapter by-passes the battery
if the tbh adapter does not boot phone up, phone is likely bard bricked
you could try cafefully removing battery, and charging with an external charger
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kanchomaster said:
i do have the latest drivers installed, i made sure of that when i was using the RAZR utility last week to re flash it.
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which razr utility DROID_RAZR_Utility_Jellybean_XT912_WinMacLin.zip? or DROID_4_Utility_Jellybean_XT894_WinMacLin.zip

the XT912

kanchomaster said:
the XT912
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there's a good chance phone is permanently bricked, don't flash firmware made for on device on to another
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did you just download wrong file or did someone recommend doing that? if so. post link to thread, please

damnit......well is there any tutorials you can point me to that will show me how to remove the battery

kanchomaster said:
damnit......well is there any tutorials you can point me to that will show me how to remove the battery
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http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola-Droid-4-Teardown/7759/1

no its my stupidity i didnt realize there were 2 different ones

kanchomaster said:
no its my stupidity i didnt realize there were 2 different ones
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did you check windows device manager, to see if window is finding phone?

[Q] Droid 3 bricked

My droid 3 will not boot, if I plug it in to my computer, it will not turn on and it will show no screen, it all happened after I restored my phone on a low battery. It is missing certain files like the bootloader so i can't restore the rom on the phone. What should I do?

trevorjanssen12 said:
My droid 3 will not boot, if I plug it in to my computer, it will not turn on and it will show no screen, it all happened after I restored my phone on a low battery. It is missing certain files like the bootloader so i can't restore the rom on the phone. What should I do?
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Maybe it needs to charge. Plug it into a wall socket.

Well I need to get the phone back up and running and the bootloader as well as the charging program is missing. I have a brand new battery for it. It is fully charged.

I got the phone up and running

trevorjanssen12 said:
I got the phone up and running
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So what was the problem

jithudigitised said:
So what was the problem
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The problem was when I originally tried to flash it... it failed due to dead battery... WORST MISTAKE EVER... so I purchased a fastboot cable and tried to get the phone up and running but it was mounting the device in windows as OMAP4430 so I tried again last month and I got it back up and running with the latest version of android... the one that came with the device.

I AM SO ANGRY AT THIS PHONE.. IT WILL NOT EVEN BOOT IN TO ANDROID!

trevorjanssen12 said:
The problem was when I originally tried to flash it... it failed due to dead battery... WORST MISTAKE EVER... so I purchased a fastboot cable and tried to get the phone up and running but it was mounting the device in windows as OMAP4430 so I tried again last month and I got it back up and running with the latest version of android... the one that came with the device.
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I'm having a similar issue with trying to fix a friend's phone that only displays the "Dual Core" logo when plugged into the computer. The computer itself doesn't appear to register that the phone is connected so doesn't show up in device manager that I can see. Plugging into a wall outlet doesn't light the device screen up, only the computer (Win7 box). I believe he dunked the bootloader, and it's bricked, but I'm trying to fix it anyway. Anyone reading this, I would appreciate any useful pointers or suggestions. Thanks all.

bwpoersch said:
I'm having a similar issue with trying to fix a friend's phone that only displays the "Dual Core" logo when plugged into the computer. The computer itself doesn't appear to register that the phone is connected so doesn't show up in device manager that I can see. Plugging into a wall outlet doesn't light the device screen up, only the computer (Win7 box). I believe he dunked the bootloader, and it's bricked, but I'm trying to fix it anyway. Anyone reading this, I would appreciate any useful pointers or suggestions. Thanks all.
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battery maybe dead, if software is corrupt/soft bricked, phone will not charge battery
get a Motorola Factory Cable Adaptor by Team Black Hat or Battery Desktop Charger for Motorola Droid 3 XT862

sd_shadow said:
battery maybe dead, if software is corrupt/soft bricked, phone will not charge battery
get a Motorola Factory Cable Adaptor by Team Black Hat or Battery Desktop Charger for Motorola Droid 3 XT862
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That occurred to me as well, I'm going to first see if the local Verizon store can charge it (or even replace it) for free. My friend actually did manage to score a power cable, but I'm not convinced yet that that is what I need (since I'm getting nowhere with it). I'd like to eliminate the battery as an issue if possible first before spending any money.

bwpoersch said:
That occurred to me as well, I'm going to first see if the local Verizon store can charge it (or even replace it) for free. My friend actually did manage to score a power cable, but I'm not convinced yet that that is what I need (since I'm getting nowhere with it). I'd like to eliminate the battery as an issue if possible first before spending any money.
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Verizon will not replace battery for free, if phone is more than 1 year old
The software that charges the battery is very easily corrupted, can be reflashed with firmware, but need a charged battery.
The TBH factory cable adaptor will power the phone direct from usb port, no battery is even needed, then firmware can be flashed and charging will work again.

sd_shadow said:
Verizon will not replace battery for free, if phone is more than 1 year old
The software that charges the battery is very easily corrupted, can be reflashed with firmware, but need a charged battery.
The TBH factory cable adaptor will power the phone direct from usb port, no battery is even needed, then firmware can be flashed and charging will work again.
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I've actually gotten a battery in the past for an obsolete phone, but out of packaging and possibly used. My friend acquired a power cable (not sure from where) which just lights the screen as described above (with or without battery installed), but turns off as soon as I unplug it, so I have my suspicions about the usability of his cable. I struck out with the local Verizon store, so will just order the wall charger and charge the battery next. Crossing fingers... Thanks for supplying that link tho, that's the one I will use.

Follow-up: It took 3 weeks to receive that battery charger from Singapore of all places, but it worked. I didn't charge it up all the way, maybe just to 50%. The phone with battery immediately was able to boot into fastboot. Using rsdlite and motohelper installed, I had the phone back to fully functional within 15 minutes.
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Great, thanks for the update.
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One thing you should check.
Is the battery bulged on one or both sides?
If you lay on a table, does it spin like a top?
If so battery should be replaced.

sd_shadow said:
Great, thanks for the update.
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One thing you should check.
Is the battery bulged on one or both sides?
If you lay on a table, does it spin like a top?
If so battery should be replaced.
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No, the battery was/is fine (in fact, fully charged afterwards it lasted 2 days on standby). I think my friend probably was just trying to flash a new ROM and didn't notice he had such a low charge. Still not sure why the cable he bought didn't provide the necessary charge to recover, but that's what you get sometimes with aftermarket equipment I guess. Still, it's good to know that is a possible solution for someone else down the road.

sd_shadow said:
battery maybe dead, if software is corrupt/soft bricked, phone will not charge battery
get a Motorola Factory Cable Adaptor by Team Black Hat or Battery Desktop Charger for Motorola Droid 3 XT862
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I already have this and I did not get it working so I got a DROID 4

Device not charging (bricked device)

I had an issue with my touch screen and tried multiple ROM's attempting to fix the touch screen bug and had no luck and ended up bricking my device I am trying to unbrick it but am unable to do so as my device has no juice and it will just not charge like it just stays at 0% on the battery screen or just stays at Battery Low on fastboot please help me I really need to get my phone working again as I am stuck with a terrible $50 replacement that cannot even run youtube without lag and has problems when trying to message friends and family.

Please tell me that you flashed each ROM on a full charge. You mention very little detail to what steps you took prior to this problem.
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RukusX7 said:
Please tell me that you flashed each ROM on a full charge. You mention very little detail to what steps you took prior to this problem.
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Sorry about the slow response I have been having problems with power because of a storm. I have installed each rom with at least 80% charge so there should be no problem with that, sorry I can't remember the steps I took trying to flash the last rom but I'm pretty sure it was an original rom so just guessing simple steps through bootloader, the problem is I need charge to be able to reflash a new rom. (the message I get "failed to validate system image Fastboot Reason: Fall-through from mot-charger boot mode" so it wont let me charge )

In some rare occasion while using multi ROM I had problem with battery dropping from 80 to less than 20% and stayed long time (half day) in that low battery state, solution for me was to turn off the phone, let it couple of second off and plug the charger. Sometimes if i did that after the drop starter the charging process starter where it was before

fburgos said:
In some rare occasion while using multi ROM I had problem with battery dropping from 80 to less than 20% and stayed long time (half day) in that low battery state, solution for me was to turn off the phone, let it couple of second off and plug the charger. Sometimes if i did that after the drop starter the charging process starter where it was before
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the problem is that my phone is constantly off and the only sign of life is when I plug it in

Ofikabacon said:
the problem is that my phone is constantly off and the only sign of life is when I plug it in
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i'm sure theres a forced boot method of plugin into a wall charger with dead phone and holding power button for 2+ mins or something like that - this erases user /data caches to allow fone to try to reboot from scratch - will look it up
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read this about forced booting try this then try below
this is how to force reset / wipe like I said WALL charger plugged in and hold power for 120 seconds +

reefuge said:
i'm sure theres a forced boot method of plugin into a wall charger with dead phone and holding power button for 2+ mins or something like that - this erases user /data caches to allow fone to try to reboot from scratch - will look it up
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read this about forced booting try this then try below
this is how to force reset / wipe like I said WALL charger plugged in and hold power for 120 seconds +
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still nothing

I think your battery is dead or some main board failure

Phone battery drained now won't power up

Hi all,
Last night I was using my Nexus and the battery died during use. It happens. I plugged it in to charge and got a green LED which I though was odd since I had never seen that before. After a few seconds I got the familiar battery symbol on the screen but I noticed it wasn't charging. unplugged and replugged then went to sleep. I woke up the next morning to a very dead phone. No button combination would power it back on. I thought maybe the phone didn't charge at all so I moved it to a second Motorola Turbo Charger I have and left it for an hour. Came back, nothing. I then moved it to a Qi charger to see what happens. Came back an hour later, nothing again. I've tried several other chargers, and also charging via PC USB to no avail.
When I plug it in to my laptop I do get a "device recognized" tone from Windows 10 but nothing more. Device manager doesn't show me anything. ADB devices doesn't show anything.
At this point what can I do? This is the second RMA I've had to do from Motorola, the first was a bad power button.
Help!

huitz said:
Hi all,
Last night I was using my Nexus and the battery died during use. It happens. I plugged it in to charge and got a green LED which I though was odd since I had never seen that before. After a few seconds I got the familiar battery symbol on the screen but I noticed it wasn't charging. unplugged and replugged then went to sleep. I woke up the next morning to a very dead phone. No button combination would power it back on. I thought maybe the phone didn't charge at all so I moved it to a second Motorola Turbo Charger I have and left it for an hour. Came back, nothing. I then moved it to a Qi charger to see what happens. Came back an hour later, nothing again. I've tried several other chargers, and also charging via PC USB to no avail.
When I plug it in to my laptop I do get a "device recognized" tone from Windows 10 but nothing more. Device manager doesn't show me anything. ADB devices doesn't show anything.
At this point what can I do? This is the second RMA I've had to do from Motorola, the first was a bad power button.
Help!
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try a different usb chord and try a different charger, they can "die" rather quickly sometimes.

Yep, I've tried several working chargers. No go. Including wireless chargers.

huitz said:
Yep, I've tried several working chargers. No go. Including wireless chargers.
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try this, my phone stops charging occasionally and this is what I do.. I boot into recovery(twrp recovery, it shows if charging or not), I see it charging there, then I boot back into system. if you don't have twrp recovery, try it with stock recovery. hopefully you have enough of a charge to try.

Thanks simms, still no luck. There's no charge at all on this one so I can't even get it to recovery.

Try long pressing the power button for 20 seconds...

what's odd is that it won't charge on a wireless charger. my USB is kinda broken, so I use a wireless charger. it could be that the battery itself is messed up, maybe you need a new battery. if you had it here, in NYC, I'd offer to try to fix it for you(no charge), well if it doesn't need a new battery.
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does the wireless charger have a light on it, for when its charging? if you put your phone on it, does a light go on?

Thanks simms!
Still no luck so you're probably right. Likely a bad battery. I contacted Motorola since I bought it from them directly and had me RMA it without many questions. Hopefully I have a working Nexus again in a week or so.

simms22 said:
try a different usb chord and try a different charger, they can "die" rather quickly sometimes.
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How old is the phone?

taw5150 said:
How old is the phone?
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mine? november 2014 is when i bought it. and i skipped the n6p! lol. really, i love my nexus 6. i have a feeling about the next nexus though, she will be THE BEAST.

electricpete1 said:
Try long pressing the power button for 20 seconds...
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Just wanted to make sure you have tried this

taw5150 said:
How old is the phone?
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The phone was less than a year old.
It was actually a replacement device as the original one I bought had a bad power button (it was hard to press).

electricpete1 said:
Just wanted to make sure you have tried this
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Yes, definitely tried it. Tried getting it into recovery as well without luck.