Hey so I have a Nexus 5 which stopped working a while back. What happened was that it would keep restarting and upon going through countless XDA forums, I found that Nexus 5 has a flaw in the power button where it would keep on rebooting. After one point the phone totally stopped working and wouldn't even turn on. Well Fast forward today and I thought maybe I can fix it, so I bought few power buttons and tried to remove the previous power button and re solder the new one but failed miserably. I have attached a few images maybe anyone can help me figure out if I destroyed the mother board or not. The battery voltage is at 3.8 V and My laptop doesn't detect the phone. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!
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Howdy, couldnt find this in search so.. Got a bit of a problem here
My phones power button has been dying over the last month or so... Most times when i would press it nothing would happen.. id have to press it many times or harder to get it on.
Finally it came to me having to remove the backplate and pressing down on the button from the inside to get it to work.
Now it just plain stopped working.. the only way to get it on was to plug it in to usb or tell someone to call me.
Unfortunateley now I accidentley let it die so now i cant even power it on, so im curious if theres some way to power it on via usb?
phone is not rooted... time to call HTC up.
You can try removing and reinstalling the battery very quickly. Sometimes, if you do it fast enough, it will spontaneously power up. Good luck.
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I've tried all of the other fix its to get my Galaxy Tab to work. I've tried charging for 12 hrs via wall charger (no response)... I've tried holding the power button plus home key while tapping on the screen at the same time for over 2 minutes (no response) ... I've even tried putting it into download or recovery mode by holding the power button plus the volume key (up or down) for over 2 or minutes (no response) ...
If you're like me and thought the manufacturer was your only option left, there is one thing left you can try.
All I did was remove the shell and unplugged the battery for 30 mins, plugged it back up and viola!!! I have the battery charging icon. And it now boots perfectly into the OS.
Its worth a shot.... here's a video I watched to learn how to remove the shell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRaQR7RU0I
Step by step at ifixit.com
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-Teardown/4103/1
Note: you will need a tri-wing screw driver to remove the first two screws. I didn't have one and just used a precision flat head screw driver and it worked like a charm if using enough down force so you won't strip the screw.
Hope this helps someone...
Battery removal resets almost everything -- I'm grateful for your confirmation that it works on the Tab, and also for your links to the hammerless teardown.
noguru said:
Battery removal resets almost everything -- I'm grateful for your confirmation that it works on the Tab, and also for your links to the hammerless teardown.
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XDA forums has helped me so much, so I'm glad to return the favor to those that need it!
good find
not had the problem myself, but that info is now in my brain for whenever I do have a problem
Good. Thx man!!!
Many thanks man, this saved my (tablets) life. Switched off my tablet last night after charging, for the first time in weeks, just to refresh everything. Tried switching back on this morning and nothing. I've spent all day trying to find out what the hell was wrong and tried all the various button solutions others have mentioned. Nothing worked. came across your info and links and thought I'd give it a try as I had nothing left to lose, tablet was dead. Voila!...back up and running again. I won't be switching it off again in a hurry. Once again great info and much appreciated.
Nice info, really helpfull, my friend gtab p1000 have some problem, wont turn on, and i found this thread, i just try once, and amazing its working, i hit thanks to you
My have turn off and dont turn on, i wiated 2 days and plugged in wall charger, and they work again.
dead tab
still got no luck...i'm tried of your skill yesterterday n my tab still won't turn on...
thanks for the advice
hai, i saw your posting and thank god it really helpful. i own a p1010 and some how it cant turn on twice!. what ever i do, and what ever tricks available in the internet i had tried it all, all with no success. so the first time around i had to sent it for repair and because my tab's warrant had already ended i had to fork out a lot just to make it running. the repair shop just stated that the battery and the touch screen need to be replace. how stupid of me to fall for that. after that my tab is usable again. then it happend again. two days later the same problem occurred. now i know it is not the hardware but the software that causeing all this headache.
now, with your posting, i opened my tab, disconnected the battery for 15 minutes and walla my tab is ok again. phew...save me a lot of money.
i see that the problem might be in the software. i see that alot of p1010 owners face the same problem here after upgrading from froyo to GB. and i notice that the blank screen syndrome would happen if we put it in a standby mode (my standby mode would be you touch the power button once just to make the screen goes blank).
just my 2cents.
amirrash said:
hai, i saw your posting and thank god it really helpful. i own a p1010 and some how it cant turn on twice!. what ever i do, and what ever tricks available in the internet i had tried it all, all with no success. so the first time around i had to sent it for repair and because my tab's warrant had already ended i had to fork out a lot just to make it running. the repair shop just stated that the battery and the touch screen need to be replace. how stupid of me to fall for that. after that my tab is usable again. then it happend again. two days later the same problem occurred. now i know it is not the hardware but the software that causeing all this headache.
now, with your posting, i opened my tab, disconnected the battery for 15 minutes and walla my tab is ok again. phew...save me a lot of money.
i see that the problem might be in the software. i see that alot of p1010 owners face the same problem here after upgrading from froyo to GB. and i notice that the blank screen syndrome would happen if we put it in a standby mode (my standby mode would be you touch the power button once just to make the screen goes blank).
just my 2cents.
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Hi, I got same problem with you guys with my P6800. Tried all those methods (execpt those removing the casing/battery). I followed one tip and it works. Press and hold the power button for 20 second and release it. The screen displayed an image (icon?) of battery and clock. Some said it also work by pressing the button for 10 second.
thanks for the advice guys
holding the power button works
but my question is why is this happening?it wasnt happening before?
mayurh said:
thanks for the advice guys
holding the power button works
but my question is why is this happening?it wasnt happening before?
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guys
does no one know whats causing this? is it a firmware issue? or battery?
for me, this happens every time I use the Netflix app. if I don't go into task manager and clear memory after every use of Netflix, my galaxy tab will not turn back on. sometimes fully charging it will wake up the screen, but that's not helping today so I guess I need to remove the shell even though I don't want to. I miss pocket PC's with soft reset buttons!!!
dargpat said:
I've tried all of the other fix its to get my Galaxy Tab to work. I've tried charging for 12 hrs via wall charger (no response)... I've tried holding the power button plus home key while tapping on the screen at the same time for over 2 minutes (no response) ... I've even tried putting it into download or recovery mode by holding the power button plus the volume key (up or down) for over 2 or minutes (no response) ...
If you're like me and thought the manufacturer was your only option left, there is one thing left you can try.
All I did was remove the shell and unplugged the battery for 30 mins, plugged it back up and viola!!! I have the battery charging icon. And it now boots perfectly into the OS.
Its worth a shot.... here's a video I watched to learn how to remove the shell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRaQR7RU0I
Step by step at ifixit.com
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-Teardown/4103/1
Note: you will need a tri-wing screw driver to remove the first two screws. I didn't have one and just used a precision flat head screw driver and it worked like a charm if using enough down force so you won't strip the screw.
Hope this helps someone...
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Hello guys, thanks for your support and excuse me for my english but i'm the same problem with my GT-P1000(i've seen it on the back of my tab !). I've let it charging several hours and try to connect it to Odin which doesn't recognize it ! I got always a black screen and the rear flash led flashing flashing and flashing when it's connected to charger or my PC or when i keep pushing the power button ! Before the brick state i've follow the bad tutorial to root my tab and i've flashed a firmware for galaxy tab 10.1 inch ! Can i try this method?
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Hello guys, thanks for your support and excuse me for my english but i'm the same problem with my GT-P1000(i've seen it on the back of my tab !). I've let it charging several hours and try to connect it to Odin which doesn't recognize it ! I got always a black screen and the rear flash led flashing flashing and flashing when it's connected to charger or my PC or when i keep pushing the power button ! Before the brick state i've follow the bad tutorial to root my tab and i've flashed a firmware for galaxy tab 10.1 inch ! Can i try this method?
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u flashed tab 10.1 rom into P1000? oh man..
i think it bricked already.. there's nothing left that u can do, flashing back via odin, removing battery or else.. unbrickble mod method is the only way..
Sent from my GT-P1000
same problem
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Good. Thx man!!!
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i have a similar problem my grandson mess up the digitalaizer and i ordered a new one and installed my self. because the tablet been w/o charge for almost a week until i get the new parts and fixed now won't get on, i plug in to charge for 24 hours is showing the 100% battery but still won't start. i look around do different things w/o luck i press the power and the -volune key and nothing, after left ed charging again i unplug the battery for few hours and nothing. i really need help on this. tk's
Hey everybody, I have been using a refurb I9000 for over a year now. After a year of being knocked about, it's still a great phone. I'm running Slim Bean on it at the moment and its handling it great
Unfortunately, a couple months back, the power button stopped working. The phone was acting weird one weekend and stuck in a bootloop - think some water got in it on a night out. Took it apart and stuck it in a bowl for a week, which fixed it and it's been working fine ever since except for the power button.
The button works if you press it repeatedly for like quarter of an hour, but I'm scared I'm wearing it down even more by doing that. Without that button, I can't switch my phone on or do the 3-finger salute.
Right now, if I want to reboot or go into recovery mode, I have to use the buttons in the notification bar. If it runs out of battery, when I plug it in I can still get into download mode by holding the menu button + volume down. To get it into normal mode I have to plug it into a computer with Heimdall installed and get it to print diagnostics 'print-pit), which makes the phone reboot out of download mode into a normal boot. It's not an ideal solution!
When my phone dies when I'm on the road, I'm phoneless for several days.
I'm pretty confident I've voided my warranty on this phone loong ago, plus trying to get a replacement is the easy way out
I've seen custom 'battery charge mode' firmware out there- you know the screen you get when the phone is switched off and you plug it into a charger? Somebody had written a custom one of those screens with extra useful information on it. I can't remember what it was called though! Google hasn't been useful at all in finding it, either. I've also noticed the charging screen looks different on my Slim Bean ROM compared to the stock one. So it must be something that's fairly easy to customize...
With that in mind, I might try hacking the charge screen to listen to the menu + volume control buttons and be able to boot the phone that way.
Either that or I make a USB jig that can send enough bits to the phone in download mode to get it to reboot...
But as I'm only good at breaking hardware, I think I'll stick to software hacking for now.
Does anyone know the name of that custom battery charging screen I mentioned? Maybe there's more than one? If I can get ahold of them I can hopefully find out how they work.
This is a pretty specific + techy question, so apologies mods if this is in the wrong section! I don't think I'm allowed to make threads in the Android dev. forums yet though- you need to have over a certain number of posts for that, right?
- Written painstakingly on my phone and oh God I wish I'd used Tapatalk. Why is the stock browser still so crap at user input?
As the title reads I am quite sure that the power button is broke in some way or another on my HTC Desire C. I believe this since the phone is off and I cannot start it up with the power button. The reason I think that it is the power button that is broken and not something else is that when I plug it into the charger the battery shows up on the screen as always and says its charging.
Now, I wont be able to have it in for service in a couple of months and I really need the phone right now.
I could probably live with a broken power button if I just got it to boot up, which is the big problem here! I have googled for answers and found some saying for example that to charge it while popping out/in the battery in different ways will make it automatically boot up but nothing seems to work.
Is there any way to power it up without using the power button?
(Probably a good thing to say that I am not using any kind of custom rom or whatever, everything is stock)
Would be really awesome if someone could help!
So here's what happened: Today I was using my phone and all of a sudden it froze. It froze when I plugged it in to charge when I was on my main screen. I unplugged it and pressed the power button to turn the screen off but nothing happened. I pressed and held my power button for about 10 seconds and the screen shut off but now nothing is responding. I pressed and held to power button down for 20 sec and I get no response. I press and held the power and volume buttons for 4 or so minutes and I still get no response. I get no charge light when plugged in. It seems as though my phone is dead, any help in confirming this would be nice but tomorrow I might travel to the nearest BestBuy to start a claim to get a new phone. I have there fabulous insurance which is a very nice thing to have.
OK this phone is working again! It froze around 6 pm tonight and now 4 hours later its working. I may still turn it in to get replaced due to a previous incident that killed my IR port from transmitting. I just don't want to run into this problem again.
Phone dead?
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So here's what happened: Today I was using my phone and all of a sudden it froze. It froze when I plugged it in to charge when I was on my main screen. I unplugged it and pressed the power button to turn the screen off but nothing happened. I pressed and held my power button for about 10 seconds and the screen shut off but now nothing is responding. I pressed and held to power button down for 20 sec and I get no response. I press and held the power and volume buttons for 4 or so minutes and I still get no response. I get no charge light when plugged in. It seems as though my phone is dead, any help in confirming this would be nice but tomorrow I might travel to the nearest BestBuy to start a claim to get a new phone. I have there fabulous insurance which is a very nice thing to have.
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I'm also having a similar issue with my One.
Issue: Phone was streaming internet audio while on the charger, charging overnight (this is something I routinely do). Unplugged phone from charger, phone running ~ 98 degrees F. Audio stopped. Pressed power button and no response. The phone will not turn on. It appears the phone is dead.
Tried the following troubleshooting steps:
1. Long press power for 10-15 seconds. No response. No capacitive button light flash. No LED response.
2. Long press power for 10-15 seconds near a bright light. No response. No capacitive button light flash. No LED response.
3. Press power for 4-6 seconds. No response. No LED response.
4. Plug into charger. No response. No LED response.
5. Plug into computer. No response. No LED response. No device recognition.
I'm assuming my phone is dead but confirmation would be helpful.
I also wanted to see what people's experiences were with retrieving data from dead phones since I have all my apps etc. backed up on internal memory with TB. Backups are encrypted so I'm less worried about data theft, but I would like my info back for convenience purposes.
Other details:
Firmware: most recent for 4.3
Rooted, S-Off
Rom: ViperRom 3.5
Recovery: TWRP 2.6.3.0.
Please let me know if you need any more information from me or if you guys have any insights.
fatehavoc said:
I'm also having a similar issue with my One.
I unplugged it yesterday morning and went to turn it on and nothing. The phone will not turn on. I've tried holding the power button and the capacitive buttons do not flash. I've tried holding the power button with the sensors near a bright light and this also failed to work. I've plugged into a charger and no LEDs or response. I've plugged into a PC to see if ADB might work but nothing is detected.
I'm assuming my phone is dead but confirmation would be helpful.
I also wanted to see what people's experiences were with retrieving data from dead phones since I have all my apps etc. backed up on internal memory with TB. Backups are encrypted so I'm less worried about data theft, but I would like my info back for convenience purposes.
As an aside I'm running most recent firmware, rooted, S-Off, and running ViperRom 3.5. Please let me know if you need any more information from me or if you guys have any insights.
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Connect it to a PC and see if it shows QHSUSB_DLOAD your phone is bricked, probably dead motherboard. I'm starting to think that the One is a very defective phone, since there are many threads filled with dead phones and it's not even 1 year old. This is not good
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Connect it to a PC and see if it shows QHSUSB_DLOAD your phone is bricked, probably dead motherboard. I'm starting to think that the One is a very defective phone, since there are many threads filled with dead phones and it's not even 1 year old. This is not good
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Thanks for the advice. Connecting to my PC and looking at Device Manager, I'm not seeing the device at all.
A few notes: Running Windows 7 64-bit, local Administrator privileges, HTC drivers have been installed (I've run ADB and FASTBOOT commands from the machine before). I've also checked viewing Hidden devices in Device Manager with no luck.
Any other thoughts?
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Thanks for the advice. Connecting to my PC and looking at Device Manager, I'm not seeing the device at all.
A few notes: Running Windows 7 64-bit, local Administrator privileges, HTC drivers have been installed (I've run ADB and FASTBOOT commands from the machine before). I've also checked viewing Hidden devices in Device Manager with no luck.
Any other thoughts?
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Seems like it's a hrdware issue. If nothing works I'm afraid your phone is dead and all you can do is send it to HTC. Good luck keep us posted
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Appreciate the help. I'm checking different USB cables as a last ditch effort, but likely will be in touch with HTC. I'll update with results.
The general consensus seems to be that certain phones shipped with faulty heatsinks. Since they can't dissipate the heat, it all builds up and fries the motherboard. My guess is that's what happened.
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Quick update - I have TEP on my account with Sprint. Took to the Sprint store, they could not power on the phone. The tech's guess is that the battery was somehow disconnected from the phone, he said mobo issues typically give some type of error instead of no response at all.
Got them to replace the unit free of cost, just need to ship back my old device. Thanks for the help and insight everyone.
I'm glad for you. Strange though how the battery got disconnected with all that glue they put in these phones
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