Hello,
im new here.
My nexus 5 microphone was not working, therefore I opened it up, battery was around 12%; I patched it up and thereafter its not switching on. I have replaced the old battery with a new one, left it overnight on charge; still device is not getting on or responding to power or power+volume buttons booting option. My phone is not rooted. Connecting to the pc or laptop does not change anything. All I hear is a faint buzz from the open back of the phone indicating it is active. Need some help here seriously.
Do you see the charging animation when connected to a charger? Any indication the screen is lighting up? Possibly defective battery?
audit13 said:
Do you see the charging animation when connected to a charger? Any indication the screen is lighting up? Possibly defective battery?
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I do not see anything on the screen. It completely remains dark on charging (laptop/ wall sockets). On laptop under ports "device description failure" is the status.
nexus5bricked said:
I do not see anything on the screen. It completely remains dark on charging (laptop/ wall sockets). On laptop under ports "device description failure" is the status.
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I have replaced the old with a new battery.
Double-checked internal connections? Is possible an internal complement was damaged during the battery swap? Tried charging wirelessly or different cables and chargers?
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Double-checked internal connections? Is possible an internal complement was damaged during the battery swap? Tried charging wirelessly or different cables and chargers?
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I had been careful and internal components are unharmed because battery swapping was done without removing the motherboard. I dont have wireless chargers but I have used different cables.
Sounds like the phone may be bricked. The only way to really tell would be to put the motherboard into another working phone.
audit13 said:
Sounds like the phone may be bricked. The only way to really tell would be to put the motherboard into another working phone.
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Since I do not have another working android phone, will it be sensible to take it to a repair shop? Will there be a chance to bring back the phone to a working mode?
You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did try try cleaning around the power button?
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You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did you try cleaning around the power button?
audit13 said:
You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did try try cleaning around the power button?
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You could take it to a repair shop but they may do exactly what you have tried.
Did you try cleaning around the power button?
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Yes, i have cleaned the power button.
What happens if you put the old battery back in place? Does the phone boots up? Because it's strange that a simply battery replacement bricked the device.
Sounds like you'll need to find a way to try the motherboard in another phone.
nexus5bricked said:
Hello,
im new here.
My nexus 5 microphone was not working, therefore I opened it up, battery was around 12%; I patched it up and thereafter its not switching on. I have replaced the old battery with a new one, left it overnight on charge; still device is not getting on or responding to power or power+volume buttons booting option. My phone is not rooted. Connecting to the pc or laptop does not change anything. All I hear is a faint buzz from the open back of the phone indicating it is active. Need some help here seriously.
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I've had this happen a few times. To start the phone I simply hold down the power button and the volume down button until the green robot screen shows up from which I simply start the phone. Perhaps this will work for you.
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Hi all
I just bought an i9020 today and when I plugged in the USB the phone is charging but the window for mounting storage did not pop up. It acted as if i simply plugged in a wall charger. I'm sure it's not the cable or the computer's hardware problem because I have three computers and three cables and I've tried different combinations and it still did not work. The old nexus one that I had, however, successfully recognized the USB cable and was able to mount and get into debugging mode etc.
Any ideas? If the phone is charging then it would reject the possibility of a damaged USB port correct?
I can't even fiddle with the drivers at this point because the phone doesn't even show up in device manager. i have tried unplugging the battery as another thread suggested but the results are still the same.
And also another problem is that when I power off the phone will freeze when it's about to shut down. This happens when the cable is plugged and once I unplug the phone will shut down. The same thing happens in bootloader.
P.S Even in bootloader fastboot was unable to recognize the device.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ryan
Any ideas?
If it is a hardware issue I'll just send it back for a new one
This happened to me recently out of the blue. I flash a lot of ROMs so I thought maybe something on my device got messed up. I never did find a definitive answer as to why it happened, though. I also couldn't mount USB through CWM recovery.
But what fixed it was, I shut down the device, pulled the battery, waited 10 seconds, put battery back in, booted up, and I had USB connectivity again. I haven't lost connectivity since.
Since the battery pull didn't work for you, I would try and exchange the device for a new one.
tmcquake said:
This happened to me recently out of the blue. I flash a lot of ROMs so I thought maybe something on my device got messed up. I never did find a definitive answer as to why it happened, though. I also couldn't mount USB through CWM recovery.
But what fixed it was, I shut down the device, pulled the battery, waited 10 seconds, put battery back in, booted up, and I had USB connectivity again. I haven't lost connectivity since.
Since the battery pull didn't work for you, I would try and exchange the device for a new one.
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Take a pocket knife or something else thin and place it under the tab in your USB port in your phone and press it up just a little then try plugging in it
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i have the same problem
ZiggSVO said:
Take a pocket knife or something else thin and place it under the tab in your USB port in your phone and press it up just a little then try plugging in it
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Is this a hardware issue then? This worked for me but I'm not sure if it's a permanent solution. Should I still go get a new one?
if it's a hardware failure which component should be changed
ryanytchan said:
Is this a hardware issue then? This worked for me but I'm not sure if it's a permanent solution. Should I still go get a new one?
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Yes its a hardware failure. Not sure what actual component but its the USB port on the phone
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ZiggSVO said:
Yes its a hardware failure. Not sure what actual component but its the USB port on the phone
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can i change it
chungech said:
can i change it
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i've never torn my nexus apart
but I imagine that it could be swapped out. you'd probably need to know your way around a board with a solder gun lol. I would try to google that or atleast the tear down of the nexus to see what your in for and if its changeable.
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This is a 4G breakdown but I'm sure its almost the same for all variants?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127327
Phone is currently stuck in this state. Pretty much doesn't respond to anything.
Tried hard resting, connecting it to the charger, connecting it to my laptop and those methods didnt work. I have an insurance replacement coming, but I would like to recoup the money I put down as the deductible for the new phone. Anything else I could try to get it working again?
This was my only fear about buying a phone with a non removable battery.
Thanks.
Non-removable battery has nothing to do with it. Holding the power button for about 5 seconds is the same as a battery pull, and its hard coded to work in just about any situation. If this doesn't work, a battery pull wouldn't either.
Did you try to get into bootloader? Try running the RUU?
Did you do anything to get to this state (flashing ROM, other mods?), or did it just happen randomly on its own? Is the phone stock or not?
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If you can't go into bootloader or recovery, you might try what this guy did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31138376#post31138376
Phone was rooted.
Tried to get into bootloader and that didn't work either.
What got it into how it is was me just turning the screen off.
Oh wait, you were complaining about the non-removable battery, in the event its just a bad battery? That's possible.
But can also be some other hardware failure, or software.
redpoint73 said:
Non-removable battery has nothing to do with it. Holding the power button for about 5 seconds is the same as a battery pull, and its hard coded to work in just about any situation. If this doesn't work, a battery pull wouldn't either.
Did you try to get into bootloader? Try running the RUU?
Did you do anything to get to this state (flashing ROM, other mods?), or did it just happen randomly on its own? Is the phone stock or not?
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If you can't go into bootloader or recovery, you might try what this guy did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31138376#post31138376
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Interesting. I would copy that in notepad and save as a batch file, correct?
Edit: That probably won't work as the phone is recognized by the computer. Something must have failed in it or something.
This has happened to me twice since I've owned it. Thing is fine, charged, no problems. Then I go to wake it up and it just won't turn on. I pressed the buttons for a while in no particular sequence I can recall, but it came on eventually. Maybe holding down the power and vol-down buttons for like 10 seconds. Also, never tried calling the phone when it was in that state. Would be interesting to see those results.
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This has happened to me twice since I've owned it. Thing is fine, charged, no problems. Then I go to wake it up and it just won't turn on. I pressed the buttons for a while in no particular sequence I can recall, but it came on eventually. Maybe holding down the power and vol-down buttons for like 10 seconds. Also, never tried calling the phone when it was in that state. Would be interesting to see those results.
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Been trying trying that to no avail. I guess I'll keep trying.
Leave it on the wall charger overnight. Wall charger charges faster than USB, so use the wall charger. I've seen some phones (other XDA users) come back from a state like this, after charging for several hours.
Any luck?
FYI, mine did this AGAIN two days ago at about 10am. Then later that afternoon, it rebooted for no reason. And that evening at about 7:30, it rebooted again but this time never made it past the HTC splash animation. I suspect it had something to do with one of the Wi-Fi penetration apps I installed last week - because it had been acting a little squirrelly ever since.
Fortunately I had a full backup from a few days prior. Booted TWRP recovery, wiped the caches and system, restored that backup and my phone's been smooth ever since.
-V
NJGSII said:
Phone is currently stuck in this state. Pretty much doesn't respond to anything.
Tried hard resting, connecting it to the charger, connecting it to my laptop and those methods didnt work. I have an insurance replacement coming, but I would like to recoup the money I put down as the deductible for the new phone. Anything else I could try to get it working again?
This was my only fear about buying a phone with a non removable battery.
Thanks.
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Doesn't seem like it's SOD but more like QHDUSB_DLOAD brick... try this or see you at HTC service centre.. just got my One V back from Service Centre... replaced motherboard and battery.... for free :angel:
Hello,
I ordered a USB OTG cable from Amazon. It arrived within a couple of weeks from Hong Kong. It worked on my Nexus 7 great.
However, I plugged it into my SIII, and immediately, my phone shut off. It won't turn back on.
I've tried:
Pulling battery
Pulling battery and waiting 10 minutes
Pulling battery and holding power button for a few seconds, and re-inserting battery
Plugging into computer (don't see it in Device Manager)
Trying a different battery
Holding down home - volume up - power
Letting the phone sit without battery for two hours
Charging the phone (the light does not come on)
I can't think of anything else to try, but I don't know why a USB OTG would cable would do this. Does anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Hold volume button up + home and then hold power should go into download mode.
Android 4 Life
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I meant down on the volume. Sorry.
Android 4 Life
Hong Kong says it all. lol Sounds like you shorted the phone. Can you get volume down/power/home to get into download or is all black. If all black may need to send for replacement or Jtag. If fixable with Jtag should show up in device manager.
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Hold volume button up + home and then hold power should go into download mode.
Android 4 Life
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I meant down on the volume. Sorry.
Android 4 Life
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it's still all black.
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Hong Kong says it all. lol Sounds like you shorted the phone. Can you get volume down/power/home to get into download or is all black. If all black may need to send for replacement or Jtag. If fixable with Jtag should show up in device manager.
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I know, and usually I would be wary of this kind of stuff, but the product itself had pretty decent reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FUNYSA/
Nope, it's all black. Well, my phone is unlocked and rooted. It won't show up in device manager. Do you think I'll be able to send it back to Samsung for a replacement? Unfortunately, I didn't buy the phone directly from Verizon, although it is brand new. Thanks prdog for your help.
I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd post this here in case anyone else has this problem. I did the same thing to my phone and emailed mobiletechvideos to see if they could fix it. This was the reply:
Unfortunately that has been damaging many people’s phones. It damages the PMIC and the device is not repairable by any of our services or any other shop that I know of.
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So, the bad cable burns out the power management chip. Seems to be happening more than you'd think. I know it will be a while before I trust another OTG cable.
I ordered one guess im not gonna even try it lol
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Last ditch effort for a solution here.
I have a 16gb white that's been performing just fine... i did unlock the bootloader and root, but had no issues. That was several days ago. Today, I installed a flashlight app from the play store. (Droidlight LED Flashlight by Motorola). Once I ran the app, the camera LED came on for about 2 seconds, and then both the LED and the screen went dark. The battery was at about 80% when this happened.
The device is now completely non-responsive. Holding down the power button and any combination of keys does nothing, and there is no charging indicator when it's plugged in. I've never bricked a device before, surprised this seems to be caused by a play store app (although if it's truly bricked, I suspect some sort of power issue).
Thanks for any advice anyone can provide before I have to RMA this thing. Any Ideas?
Can you get into the bootloader? Hold Vol down + power
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Nothing works? You might be the second brick of the day
You could try to remove the battery, maybe that'll help.
edit: ofc try RMA first.
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Last ditch effort for a solution here.
I have a 16gb white that's been performing just fine... i did unlock the bootloader and root, but had no issues. That was several days ago. Today, I installed a flashlight app from the play store. (Droidlight LED Flashlight by Motorola). Once I ran the app, the camera LED came on for about 2 seconds, and then both the LED and the screen went dark. The battery was at about 80% when this happened.
The device is now completely non-responsive. Holding down the power button and any combination of keys does nothing, and there is no charging indicator when it's plugged in. I've never bricked a device before, surprised this seems to be caused by a play store app (although if it's truly bricked, I suspect some sort of power issue).
Thanks for any advice anyone can provide before I have to RMA this thing. Any Ideas?
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Hook it to a charger for some time and then try to get in fastboot mode once in a while, then go to recovery and delete the cache and do a data factory reset and reboot. That is what i would do at least.
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Can you get into the bootloader? Hold Vol down + power
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Nothing works? You might be the second brick of the day
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Can't get into the bootloader. I've tried the following combination of keys...
Vol+ and Power - nothing
Vol- and Power - nothing
Vol+, Vol- and Power - nothing
Power on it's own for 2+ minutes - nothing
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Contacted Google and they're getting me an RMA... regardless, I'd be careful about running that particular app, or possibly any flashlight app.
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Can you get into the bootloader? Hold Vol down + power
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Nothing works? You might be the second brick of the day
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What do you mean with second brick, does this happen, if you install a Custom ROM?
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What do you mean with second brick, does this happen, if you install a Custom ROM?
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I think he means someone else started a thread as well indicating that they also had a bricked phone. I read that thread before I created this one, as mine wasn't related to fastboot or recovery. My brick occured from actions that occured during runtime, and root wasn't even acquired by the app that caused the failure.
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What do you mean with second brick, does this happen, if you install a Custom ROM?
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No it doesn't happen unless you don't do your homework and screw something up. If you read and learn it's very hard to hardbrick your phone. But this is the second one I've seen today. In both cases there are unique reasons it happened.
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No it doesn't happen unless you don't do your homework and screw something up. If you read and learn it's very hard to hardbrick your phone. But this is the second one I've seen today. In both cases there are unique reasons it happened.
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I flash my Phone with custom ROMs since the beginning of the Nexus era. To root and to flash my Nexus one took me like 2 hours to complete it (I admit, that I received some help back then).
For me it doesn't look here like it happened because of anyone's fault. The phone is available since this week and he's already rooted. He doesn't look like someone, who is new to it.
drain and recharge
if you have a secondary phone use it for a few days and leave your Nex5 to drain. Should be completely drained in 2-3 days. Then charge it up and try to enter bootloader.
PS: you could also try to open the phone and manually disconnect and reconnect the battery...
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if you have a secondary phone use it for a few days and leave your Nex5 to drain. Should be completely drained in 2-3 days. Then charge it up and try to enter bootloader.
PS: you could also try to open the phone and manually disconnect and reconnect the battery...
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I'm going to let the battery drain, but there's literally no power running through the phone right now, it's doing nothing. Something was fried, I'm afraid it will take a lot longer than 2-3 days for the battery to naturally drain.
I'd love to pop the back off and unplug the battery (that was my first thought) but I'm not doing anything to risk getting the phone replaced. I'll RMA it.
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I'm going to let the battery drain, but there's literally no power running through the phone right now, it's doing nothing. Something was fried, I'm afraid it will take a lot longer than 2-3 days for the battery to naturally drain.
I'd love to pop the back off and unplug the battery (that was my first thought) but I'm not doing anything to risk getting the phone replaced. I'll RMA it.
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Just rma it. It's the best you can do at this point
Replacement phone leaves the warehouse in 3-4 weeks. arggh.
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Replacement phone leaves the warehouse in 3-4 weeks. arggh.
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Scratch that, for those interested, my replacement phone is already in hand. Google moved pretty fast on this one.
At night I was left with 90% battery . But at morning I found my phone on floor dead. I tried to open it , but it shows empty battery. Then I tried charging then MI logo came and again showed empty battery and phone is not charging. There is no external damage to the phone as I used a rugged cover. What can I do now? I tried force reboot , fastboot etc. But no response , just MI logo and empty battery while charging.
I think, the battery cable is disconnected. You need to remove back cover and connect it. (Back cover is glued)
hi...i get similar (weird) boot/battery loop affer display replacement.
https://mega.nz/#!i5okTYKZ!738Dd_59oapTJt8Ab-n5PpOICzV0V1QZbxkASo-jbF8
first time i connected the lcd it worled ..but as soon as i assembled it again ...it started looping
not able to go in fastboot or anything.
any ideas?
Any help guys?
update:
i noticed that if i connect the broken lcd (screen completely dark) and connect to the laptop via usb it bootloop but after some times...(30 min or more) the laptop start recognize it . at that point i connect the NEW lcd (without disconnect power) and i can see that android is up&running...but touch screen doest work.
Any idea please?
Ok..if it can be of any interest...things are emproving....
Now situation is.....if i connect the new lcd to the motherboard....connect the battery and the usb cable to my laptop.....and i leave the connection this way for around 30 min....the phone boot up and it work normally.
The only problem is when i reboot it again .because it start looping again and i have to wait another 30 min to have a mobile fully working.
In addition ive noticed that when the phone is working...the battery is instuck at 50%. And battery settings say that phone is NOT in cherge even if the usb is connected to the mobile.
I belive that the charge circuit is broken....
Now i have to pray that is just the little pcb that cost only 10 bucks...more or less.....
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Obviusly ive already tried a different battery and a different usb cable....
no ideas?
paolo764 said:
no ideas?
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It might be a faulty flat cable between the main motherboard and the small board with the usb port? Just a wild guess..
Ia it glued to the screen assembly with a strong glue? You could try using the flat cable from the old display
i will give it a try and let you know.
thx for your help
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i will give it a try and let you know.
thx for your help
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Did you manage to get your phone back working? Having the same situation here..
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Ok..if it can be of any interest...things are emproving....
Now situation is.....if i connect the new lcd to the motherboard....connect the battery and the usb cable to my laptop.....and i leave the connection this way for around 30 min....the phone boot up and it work normally.
The only problem is when i reboot it again .because it start looping again and i have to wait another 30 min to have a mobile fully working.
In addition ive noticed that when the phone is working...the battery is instuck at 50%. And battery settings say that phone is NOT in cherge even if the usb is connected to the mobile.
I belive that the charge circuit is broken....
Now i have to pray that is just the little pcb that cost only 10 bucks...more or less.....
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Obviusly ive already tried a different battery and a different usb cable....
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Both chips responsable of power management and charge are on the main board. Hope they are not "broken/burned" in your case.