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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!
Nexus 6 works for a few minutes then shuts off unless it is plugged. This is crazy. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Phone was working perfectly for 2 months until a few days ago.
qman66 said:
Nexus 6 works for a few minutes then shuts off unless it is plugged. This is crazy. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Phone was working perfectly for 2 months until a few days ago.
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You mean it's happening for battery or it just force shutdown? If force shutdown then it's a common bug. Or else, it's different issue
Screen just goes black and it's off. Then when I turn it back on it usually makes it to the lock screen and shuts off again
qman66 said:
Screen just goes black and it's off. Then when I turn it back on it usually makes it to the lock screen and shuts off again
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Does it do this regardless of the charge level? Like it does it even at 100%?
I encountered this with my Nexus 6 last week. Whenever it was below 70% battery the phone would just shut off. Sometimes I could boot back up and use for a little while but soon it'd shut off again. On other occasions it would just think that it doesn't have enough battery to power on at all despite knowing full well it has at least 69%.
Same thing with you, when on AC power it worked fine.
I tried a few things to fix it, factory reset, alternative kernel, re-encrypt + factory reset. None of the above fixed it so I sent it back to Motorola. I'm expecting it back on Monday!
reddit and other android forums have similar posts about "randomly shutting off" so it seems we're not alone.
@qman66,
This post may help you > http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/nexus-6-shutdowns-t2997163/page3
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Nexus 6 works for a few minutes then shuts off unless it is plugged. This is crazy. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Phone was working perfectly for 2 months until a few days ago.
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i would try clearing the cache of it first and if that does not work flash the factory images you can keep you data by only flashing system then if it still does not work flash all the imgs for data and cache ect if that does not work RMA time. nexus factory images are here:https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
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Nexus 6 works for a few minutes then shuts off unless it is plugged. This is crazy. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Phone was working perfectly for 2 months until a few days ago.
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I just started having the same problem today. Battery is fully charged, then goes to 0 instantly. Wont power up unless you plug it in. Seems to do it more when watching embedded youtube videos in chrome browser.
Phone turns off when not plugged in
qman66 said:
Nexus 6 works for a few minutes then shuts off unless it is plugged. This is crazy. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Phone was working perfectly for 2 months until a few days ago.
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I have this same issue, I've tried all the "fixes" and different roms/kernals. I don't think this is the same battery issue others have reported. This happens whether I am at 100% battery or 5% and even if I plug it in, start nexus 6 up, unplug it after it's been running./charged for a while, after 30 seconds or so it will just go black and be powered off. It's the same effect if you pulled the power, since its not even going through the standard shutting down procedures like it normally would if it was just low battery.
If anyone has a fix, please let us know! I'm currently deployed so I can't even RMA the thing, had my wife send out my Nexus 5, so I'll switch to that until I get back to the states.
Adnwilson said:
I have this same issue, I've tried all the "fixes" and different roms/kernals. I don't think this is the same battery issue others have reported. This happens whether I am at 100% battery or 5% and even if I plug it in, start nexus 6 up, unplug it after it's been running./charged for a while, after 30 seconds or so it will just go black and be powered off. It's the same effect if you pulled the power, since its not even going through the standard shutting down procedures like it normally would if it was just low battery.
If anyone has a fix, please let us know! I'm currently deployed so I can't even RMA the thing, had my wife send out my Nexus 5, so I'll switch to that until I get back to the states.
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RMA. Probably related to the battery issues.
Had this exact issues on my nexus 4. Turned out the battery was swollen and damaged. I was told NOT to use it on charge as it could possible blow/leak and get a new one. Like a fool I brought a cheap but supposedly a real replacement but it lasted 2 charging cycles before stopping holding any charge I put in. By this time it had been opened up more times than a crack head whore so I bit the bullet and brought/upgraded to a nexus 6. What a Great phone. but..... Yeah, likely battery issue. FYI I got signal loss moments before it died
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Power off your phone.Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.
Hey everyone, last night I lost my phone and I'm pretty sure it died, but I got it back this morning and tried to charge it/turn it on but it wont power on. The charging icon also isn't showing. There was a green LED that was on for a little while but now its off. Not really sure what to do with it.
rumham03 said:
Hey everyone, last night I lost my phone and I'm pretty sure it died, but I got it back this morning and tried to charge it/turn it on but it wont power on. The charging icon also isn't showing. There was a green LED that was on for a little while but now its off. Not really sure what to do with it.
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put it at charging for 1-2 hours then try to power on holding the button for 5-6 seconds
Alright so I've charged it for a few hours now, still wont power on. Also, I'm not using the turbo charger that it came with if that matters, but I've had it on a regular charger for a while now.
rumham03 said:
Alright so I've charged it for a few hours now, still wont power on. Also, I'm not using the turbo charger that it came with if that matters, but I've had it on a regular charger for a while now.
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atach it to the pc and keep the power on for some seconds.
see whats happens.
if u hear some sound or something.
rumham03 said:
Hey everyone, last night I lost my phone and I'm pretty sure it died, but I got it back this morning and tried to charge it/turn it on but it wont power on. The charging icon also isn't showing. There was a green LED that was on for a little while but now its off. Not really sure what to do with it.
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From my experience the LED turns up only when there is too little power to turn on in the first place... Either u busted your Charging port or your charger! And what do u mean you lost your phone and got it back this morning? Fishy!
Alright so last night I left it on the turbo charger for about 3 hours and still nothing. Can't do a factory reset either.
Oh also, I'm pretty sure its charging because the phone does get a bit warm when I leave it on the charger.
Use your warranty.
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Use your warranty.
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Yup thats what I ended up doing, free replacement. Too bad the Turbo doesn't have availability to use sd cards so I can't keep my photos, but whatever. I suppose I'll start using verizon cloud now.
rumham03 said:
Yup thats what I ended up doing, free replacement. Too bad the Turbo doesn't have availability to use sd cards so I can't keep my photos, but whatever. I suppose I'll start using verizon cloud now.
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There's always Google plus for your pictures too.
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so when this equipments do this, we have no hope of gettin it fixed?
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.
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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.
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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!
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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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Got my mix like 1 month ago. Stock miui and recently updated it to 8.5.4.0. No mods or unlocking the bootloader or anything like that.
Today, it was at 11% so I plugged it in the charger. 5 minutes in I looked at it and it wasn't charging, so I unplugged it and then it turned off before I could plug it back in.
Now it won't turn back on, the charging light won't light up. It looks dead.
I haven't dropped it or spilled any liquids on it. It wasn't exposed to extreme heat or cold and has a case around it at all times.
WTF happened? $650 down the drain?
What are some tricks I can do to try to save it.
I had a similar problem a week ago. Battery went dead and I plugged in the charger. But I discovered after an hour that it didn't charge. I tried turning on the phone, only response was a quick flashing red light. Tried different chargers, tried holding down the power button for a long time, tried the different butto combinations, no luck. Then I just left it in the charger, and after several hours I finally got a response from my beloved Mix. I took a long time to fully charge, but now it is working normally again. Phew! No idea what went wrong. But keep trying and hoping. Good luck!
To the original poster:
Has the phone powered on now? The same thing happened to me too.
My Xiaomi Mi Mix showed low battery sign so I plugged it in to charge. The phone immediately went off. I pressed the power button to restart it, it showed the Xiaomi logo then immediately went off and since then (this was 2 days ago) it has not powered on.
Kindly note the following:
1. It didnt have water spilled on it
2. It didnt fall or have any mechanical damage
The only thing was, the battery was low, I plugged it in to charge and it went off and never came on again. I have used the same charger to charge other phones so I doubt if the charger is the source of the problem.
Kindly help, what is wrong with the phone?
thanks
pystar said:
To the original poster:
Has the phone powered on now? The same thing happened to me too.
My Xiaomi Mi Mix showed low battery sign so I plugged it in to charge. The phone immediately went off. I pressed the power button to restart it, it showed the Xiaomi logo then immediately went off and since then (this was 2 days ago) it has not powered on.
Kindly note the following:
1. It didnt have water spilled on it
2. It didnt fall or have any mechanical damage
The only thing was, the battery was low, I plugged it in to charge and it went off and never came on again. I have used the same charger to charge other phones so I doubt if the charger is the source of the problem.
Kindly help, what is wrong with the phone?
thanks
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Plug into PC and leave over night, hopefully the third party charger hasn't fried anything.
james1089 said:
Plug into PC and leave over night, hopefully the third party charger hasn't fried anything.
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How do I verify something has fried? Its the 4th day and still the phone hasnt come on
pystar said:
How do I verify something has fried? Its the 4th day and still the phone hasnt come on
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You could try unplugging battery overnight, watch a tare down first. It's not hard, I would be surprised if you have done any damage.
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You could try unplugging battery overnight, watch a tare down first. It's not hard, I would be surprised if you have done any damage.
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I havent tried any self repairs or anything funny yet the phone has remained dead.
What can I do now? This is extremely saddening
Mine just did this. My resolve was to hold down the volume up button and then plug the phone in. It should boot into recovery (down for bootloader) and from there reboot into system. I seems for some reason the bootloader is not allowing the phone to charge. You need to get around it.
Happened on mine in the first day. I even thought like why I bought a pos Chinese device. After 30 mins charging, it's started booting by power on button as it's supposed to be. Weird thing.
james1089 said:
You could try unplugging battery overnight, watch a tare down first. It's not hard, I would be surprised if you have done any damage.
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late reply but this fixed the problem. unplugging the battery and replugging it back in.
My Xiaomi Mix won't turn back on
this happened to my xiaomi mix yesterday. I was using it during dinner. Suddenly the screen wouldn't come on, flashed a bit, then shut down. I was able to hard reset it once. After that, the phone just died. and won't come back on. What do I do?
Please note: the battery was almost full. Did not drop it or get water in it.
ydiana said:
this happened to my xiaomi mix yesterday. I was using it during dinner. Suddenly the screen wouldn't come on, flashed a bit, then shut down. I was able to hard reset it once. After that, the phone just died. and won't come back on. What do I do?
Please note: the battery was almost full. Did not drop it or get water in it.
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Battery will need to be unplugged overnight, in the morning plug it back in, it won't boot or charge at this stage, leave on charge for a few hours maybe upto 12 after that it will be fine.
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Battery will need to be unplugged overnight, in the morning plug it back in, it won't boot or charge at this stage, leave on charge for a few hours maybe upto 12 after that it will be fine.
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So I'll need to let the phone's battery die first, then full charge it again and it should work again?
ydiana said:
So I'll need to let the phone's battery die first, then full charge it again and it should work again?
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No you need to disconnect it, that means removing the cover which is easy, just watch the teardown on YouTube
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No you need to disconnect it, that means removing the cover which is easy, just watch the teardown on YouTube
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Thanks so much for the help. I tried that but unfortunately it didn't work. I did feel a slight vibrate when I tried to power it on though.
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No you need to disconnect it, that means removing the cover which is easy, just watch the teardown on YouTube
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Do you know if it's a battery issue? Should I replace it with a brand new battery?
ydiana said:
Do you know if it's a battery issue? Should I replace it with a brand new battery?
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Just leave it on charge for 12 hours
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Just leave it on charge for 12 hours
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I did. I charge the phone for 24 hours but it didn't turn on at all.
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I did. I charge the phone for 24 hours but it didn't turn on at all.
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I think it's a charging issue, swap charger and cable.
Does pc recognise the phone
Have the same issue. During charging and watching youtube, it turned off. No signal since then.
Changed charger, tried PC... Also disconnected battery and charging for more than 24h.
Now have a new battery and USB board and no signal
Any idea how to get the data from it?
Thanks