I got my epic on the 27th of October, I have kept the phone stock for the whole week that I have owned it just because I like to wait for issues with rooting and for roms to really take off before I do anything with mine. Well after getting the thing I like to just use my computer to charge it while I'm home. Went to my gf's house for the weekend and found out that I had one of the "Bad" chargers where the screen would get all messed up while on there. Being the only one that I had at the time I used it all weekend because there was no sprint store close that i could get to (college town) so after using it i took it to sprint they replaced it on this past Monday. So as the week goes along my phone starts thinking it is charging with nothing plugged into it, it starts to do it more and more as the week goes on and on Friday it was just freaking out BAD, jump in the car head over to sprint, and by the time that i get there it has stopped acting up. Leave with the same phone i presume has been damaged from using the faulty charger. Get home today and it starts acting up again, it got really hot and i pulled the battery out let it sit for a bit and now all I get is a blue led no download mode no nothing at all. It smells burnt and I'm thinking about just going to a photon tomorrow when i go back i really dont feel like having another "moment" in my pocket my epic 4g was so nice so i decided to get this one and im not happy. Anything i can do do fix this thing or is it just F'd?
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My other half has just rung Vodafone to see what's going on with my non-working nexus. They said its on its way back but can not be repaired due to water ingress! I don't believe this for 1 minute, its never seen water or steam!
I have had loads of problems with this phone, soon after I got it the charging port went crazy and it thought it was on charge all the time. They 'repaired' it then when I got it back, it would not switch on. We managed to complain enough to get a replacement phone. Since then The phone sometimes didn't switch on and I had too do the USB + no battery trick to make it come to life again, and the charging port recently started playing up again, saying it was charging when it was not.
On the morning I took the phone in for repair, the battery went flat over night, but would not charge or switch on in the morning even trying the USB trick.
I still have about 12 months left on my contract so I guess they expect to give me back my faulty phone and for me to carry on paying £45 quid a month for nothing, I'm not prepared to do that at all. As an electronic engineer that has worked in customer returns departments before I don't trust Vodafone at all.
Has anyone got any advice for me before I go into the store to try and sort this mess out?
thanks
Hi all
My other half has just rung Vodafone to see what's going on with my non-working nexus. They said its on its way back but can not be repaired due to water ingress! I don't believe this for 1 minute, its never seen water or steam!
I have had loads of problems with this phone, soon after I got it the charging port went crazy and it thought it was on charge all the time. They 'repaired' it then when I got it back, it would not switch on. We managed to complain enough to get a replacement phone. Since then The phone sometimes didn't switch on and I had too do the USB + no battery trick to make it come to life again, and the charging port recently started playing up again, saying it was charging when it was not.
On the morning I took the phone in for repair, the battery went flat over night, but would not charge or switch on in the morning even trying the USB trick.
I still have about 12 months left on my contract so I guess they expect to give me back my faulty phone and for me to carry on paying £45 quid a month for nothing, I'm not prepared to do that at all. As an electronic engineer that has worked in customer returns departments before I don't trust Vodafone at all.
Has anyone got any advice for me before I go into the store to try and sort this mess out?
thanks
As the title says, my device has started doing this for about a week. I can even have a fully charged battery, but if I disconnect the charger, within 5 minutes, my device screen will make some weird glitchy thing and turn off. I've tried multiple ROMs with no dice, so it's a hardware problem. I'm hoping it's just a battery issue, as I can't really afford another device at the moment. Thank you for your time.
have you tried a different charger?,
battery issue an not hardware
I had the same problem. I bought the phone from craigslist an got an awesome deal on it. got it home started playing with it an it kept doin random reboots. after awhile it just wouldnt boot back up unless i took out the battery an reinserted it. However on the charger it worked fine. luckly i had insurance, i went to the sprint store they ran "tests" an determined the phone was bad. Cool im getting a new phone. 3 days later i go to pick up the replacement. They put my old battery in the new phone an low an behold same issue, i went on amazon bought a battery for $10, a samsung oem battery btw,, an the phone is perfect, Hope my insight helps with ur issue
On the occasion, my phone acts all wonky. This morning it was stuck on a boot loop for quite some time, but it got fixed. This morning it was plugged in and it constantly shut down and rebooted for a few hours. Sometimes when it's plugged in the touch screen is all wonky, and I can't do anything. I'm due for an upgrade some time near my birthday, but 6 days is a while to wait with a badly working phone. This morning I tried to write down some of my friends numbers because I figured this phone was on its last legs, but I only got 1 number before the phone shut down. Then I got another number, but that was it. It shut down again so I plugged it in. I drop my phone a lot too, and it recently started doing this thing where when it gets dropped, it turns off. Usually it would turn on again by itself, but one time it didn't. My dad had to hold the lock button for a few minutes just to boot it up. I might get an otterbox case for my next phone, and it's probably gonna be either another HTC or an iPhone. Also, what can I do for the time being to help keep my phone as OK as it's gonna get? Thank you in advance.
Best thing to do? Don't drop your phone. I had a Galaxy SIII and every time it had a slight shake, the display would freeze and go all fuzzy. The issue was a loose display cable that wobbled a lot. You may want to check your phone for any damaged/loose cables since it's been dropped too many times.
My G4 seemed to be running hot yesterday and I had to charge it several times more than normal. All of a sudden it shut down would not boot back up. I tried everything but it will not go in to recovery or download mode. No lights come on at all when charger is connected either. One time I was able to get the MEIE number to flash and it said press power to reboot before it blanked out again. I called Verizon and they said it sounded like a complete system/software crash. I am rooted but haven't made any changes to my phone in several weeks. Verizon overnighted a replacement to me and it should be at my house when I get home. I wonder if this is the same issue that has been happening to the Sprint version that was recalled? Possibly the phone was just mad at me because it happened an hour after I ordered my Nexus 6p......lol
Now that it's cooled off can you boot it up?
I would think you could have just rebooted it when you first noticed it was hot.
Colchiro said:
Now that it's cooled off can you boot it up?
I would think you could have just rebooted it when you first noticed it was hot.
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No it still doesn't boot up. I can get to the LG screen for maybe a second and it shuts back down. When I first noticed that it was hot I could reboot it. I let it cool off before restarting it but the problem persisted. What ever was causing it to overheat was also draining the battery. I had to charge the phone up twice by 2:00 pm. My "certified like new replacement" arrived on Friday and initially everything was good. On Saturday the Wifi disconnected and would not turn back on. The icon just sits there and blinks at me. If I go in the settings menu it is grayed out and doesn't give me the option to turn it on. I just got off the phone with Verizon and they are sending me another G4. Hopefully I will have better luck with this one. I would like to have a working phone that I can sell when my Nexus 6p arrives.
Sorry this is totally off topic but, did you have to pay a deductible to get a new phone?
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Sorry this is totally off topic but, did you have to pay a deductible to get a new phone?
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No I didn't. It was Warranty replacement so it didn't have to go through insurance.
I had a similar issue last week, no root, running 12a. Phone shut itself off during normal usage (checking football scores). Running a little hot so let cool. Never booted past Verizon splash screen. Tried fresh battery, factory reset, safe mode. Nothing. Got my "certified like new" model. So far so good, but 6P here I come.
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Hmmm well good timing if you ordered a Nexus 6P. You can sell it like new.
Haha I was just watching "The Nexus 6P will bend in half if you try to bend it in half" video. I'd be interested in a size comparison between the 2.
So this exact thing happened to me, just several days after I got it (same thing, also rooted, nothing much done to the phone).
I had figured the battery ran dead (because I knew it was low), but it just wouldn't power on. Chargers wouldn't light it up. I put it on the charger for hours, and nothing happened. Lost all hope.
Then, randomly, I decided to see if Download Mode would work on my phone. I don't know why I tried it.
I pulled battery, and put it back. I held on Volume (up?) on the phone, and plugged it into the computer.
OH MY GOD -- IT CAME TO LIFE -- ! DOWNLOAD MODE!
I shut it down from download mode, then turned it back on (I think a battery pull) and it worked again.
I was completely relieved.
This happened to me a second time, weeks later.
The same solution worked.
I hope that this helps someone.
TL;DR: Try Download Mode (pull battery and put it back in -- then, while holding the volume Up key on the phone, plug USB into your computer)