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The phone has been absolutely rock solid since the day I bought it and I love it. Today however I was using Google Navigation with Bluetooth connected to a headset so I could hear navigation prompts and phone calls. The phone was plugged into a generic Motorola microUSB car charger that I've always used for tons of phones.
The sun was out and hitting the back of the phone so the battery app I had was reporting battery temp at 45 and above.
Anyway even though the phone shows the charging icon and says its charging it doesn't seem to receiving enough juice to charge the phone? The battery kept dropping and I can't tell if this was because the phone was so hot that it stopped charging the battery like my Incredible used to do or if I just need a more powerful car charger.
Then on my second leg of the trip the phone rebooted mid navigation. Started back up and has been working fine.
Anyone have any ideas or seen something similar?
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Was listening to Bluetooth music and browsing a site and boom hard freeze and had to pull battery to get it to start. Only thing today is I installed nytimes. I'm going to try uninstalling it since I remember having issues with the app on G2X. Let's hope.
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I've had random reboots, but I'm not at all sure what's causing them.
Also, the lockscreen will occasionally become unresponsive, but it seems to fix itself if I leave it for a while.
I guess we just have to hope for a fix in an upcoming patch.
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The phone has been absolutely rock solid since the day I bought it and I love it. Today however I was using Google Navigation with Bluetooth connected to a headset so I could hear navigation prompts and phone calls. The phone was plugged into a generic Motorola microUSB car charger that I've always used for tons of phones.
The sun was out and hitting the back of the phone so the battery app I had was reporting battery temp at 45 and above.
Anyway even though the phone shows the charging icon and says its charging it doesn't seem to receiving enough juice to charge the phone? The battery kept dropping and I can't tell if this was because the phone was so hot that it stopped charging the battery like my Incredible used to do or if I just need a more powerful car charger.
Then on my second leg of the trip the phone rebooted mid navigation. Started back up and has been working fine.
Anyone have any ideas or seen something similar?
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Its common to run hot when using gps. Reboot was probably because battery too hot. Your phone did the right thing. Cool off period.
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depending on the car charger & phone use, you'll get insufficient juice to keep the battery charging. i'm assuming your moto charger is a 'rapid charger', if not.. then i would suggest trying one out.
this one is pretty decent: Motorola P513 Rapid Car Charger
if that doesn't cut it then the next step would be to use a power inverter(what i use).. only down side is they are a bit bulky & can be noisey to.. but will ensure your phone gets charged up no matter what(gps use, torrent download, etc)
Thanks I ordered the Motorola charger. It was only 5 bucks on Amazon Prime. I hope that works otherwise its inverter time
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My N1 used to get nuclear hot when using navigation. Doesn't surprise me.
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My N1 used to get nuclear hot when using navigation. Doesn't surprise me.
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That's bit a OTT, it got hot but not Nuclear.
I'm finding the GN gets hot just from using it with games/browsing.
The hot spots are on the back at the top, next to camera
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I agree, the GN does get warm often. I'm trying to get used to it. My NS never got warm.
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i'm having constant reboots. this happened to the first GNex i had. it eventually wouldn't come back on. i even waited a good 12hrs and tested it again and it still wouldn't come back on. returned it and now the people i returned it to are telling me that it's fully functional, and now i have a new one that's acting the same. i guess it's going to die too and then i'll have two lemons on my hand. thanks a lot, Google/Samsung.
I've just had my first two random reboots today. Phone updated with the volume fix ota yesterday morning.
It reboots and then gets stuck at the android updating screen.
Don't know if it is a coincidence that this has started after the bug fix.
This morning I look at my phone to see that it has not only rebooted but the default, first-time welcome message is waiting asking me to log on using my gmail account, etc.
In other words my phone got wiped over night and I don't know why. I did install some phone tracking apps yesterday but removed most of them except for PhoneLocator which I ended up paying for.
So I've spent a few hours restoring things the way they were and right before I got to work the phone did a reboot but fortunately did not do a factory reset as it did before.
I am kind of worried now, I really hope this will not happen again.
Any thoughts? Similar experiences?
I had this "problem" with my Desire. In car, connected to a charger than I know works. Phone not charging.
Basically, as mentioned, the battery will stop charging when it reaches a certain temperature. And the OP mentioned it was a hot day. Plus being on the other side of the glass amplifies the suns heat.
Also a "good" charger is specifically one that has an output of 1A. I and others have found that charger with an output of 850mA and less definitely won't cut it for GPS duties.
The reboots... may be heat. May be something else. Does it only happen when the phone is hot?
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just so you know you are not alone - i'm having the same problem with the galaxy nexus i got yesterday. it was constantly rebooting, also showing the "upgrading Android" dialog at startup.
this continued after factory reset and no additional applications installed.
i returned it, waiting for one from the next batch.
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Was listening to Bluetooth music and browsing a site and boom hard freeze and had to pull battery to get it to start. Only thing today is I installed nytimes. I'm going to try uninstalling it since I remember having issues with the app on G2X. Let's hope.
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Some of us have the GN crash on us while listening to music. There is a thread on it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379600
Got my GN Thursday morning. Since then I've had 3 Reboots.
First was actually a full power off while streaming music via Subsonic, plugged into a car charger about 10 hours after getting the phone.
Second was after viewing some flash enabled websites, so not too surprised there (reboot).
Third was just after installing and setting up Google Wallet about 45 minutes ago (reboot).
Wow years of lurking and apparently that was my fist post.
GNex Reboots and Freezes
I am in the process of exchanging my GNex replaced by Samsing. Within 48 hours after getting it in the mail (no rooting or anything, just stock) I was getting random reboots, apps crashing, black screen (unable to wake) requiring battery oull. By the next day it was just continuous soft reboots (starting at the boot animation, not the "Google" screen).
Called Google who transferred me to Samsung who said they need to repair and not replace the device quoting 7-10 days. I called Google back and they said Samsung should have offered to replace the device and the Google rep called Samsung back and got them to replace the device (apparently there's a 14-day window that the device can be replaced).
It was a Friday morning and I was told someone from another Samsung department would contact me within one business day to arrange shipping the replacement and getting my credit card details for the advance replacement. On Monday I still hadn't heard from anyone so I tweeted at @samsungsupport with my ticket number saying i was still waiting and received a call within minutes from a Samsung rep arranging the shipping of the replacement. May be a coincidence, not sure.
At this point, I was quoted Wednesday for a total of 5 days without a phone, unless it takes longer. Unfortunately I only recently switched to a GSM carrier and don't have a spare SIM card phone so the delay is inconvenient. Hoping for a better experience with the replacement device and I wish there could have been a next-day replacement strategy for DOA units.
Good luck everyone.
You need a minimum of 1 amp for the car charger, most chargers only provide 750 mA. Also check the charging method, some of the cheap chargers will not trigger AC mode (Will show as usb charging) and in those cases, you are only getting 500 mA, if this is the case, you might be able to trick things by shorting out the two data pins on the USB cable.
I picked up an iPad car charger, the older ones are 1 amp, the newer ones are 2.1 amps. Toss out the crappy proprietary cable and put in a standard micro usb. Plenty of juice for this thirsty phone.
I was hoping to turn my wife's old epic 4g touch into a cheapcast. So I bought an mhl adapter from monoprice. She hasn't used her phone in a few months so it was completely dead, so I charged it up and booted the phone and the screen was acting really funky with grey lines and such. The problem just seemed to get worse and worse over a ten minute period, and now the screen is just grey with lines sometimes, and completely grey at other times, every once in a while I can see the screen barely through the lines.
Capacitive buttons seem to still work and I can tell the touch screen is still working as I can unlock the phone, but I can't see anything on the screen at all. I did have the MHL adapter hooked up for a few minutes to verify it worked, and it did but thats it.
I seen some other threads about the grey lines being a battery issue, but I have three batteries for the phone and the same issue with all three. Two are cheap batteries and one is the original samsung battery. And I couldn't find any threads about a completely grey screen with a working touch screen.
So is it dead? Would recovery possible fix this? If so how the heck do I get to download mode without being able to see the screen?
This phone is stock unrooted with whatever the latest firmware update from sprint was. Sorry I can't give you more details, it wasn't my phone so I haven't messed with it too much.
Maybe one of the ribbon cables came loose.
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Yeah I may have to do a tear down. Just seems odd that it would slowly degrade that way. Oddly enough I tried the MHL adapter again and it will display the screen, but its pretty difficult to type on the screen that way. I would probably be golden if the phone was rooted. Then I could easily load some vnc software and be done, but alas Its not rooted...
Not sure if you know how or not. But put tge phone in download mode and use a one click version no data of the same stock version number. Now its rooted and you lost no data in the process. You can find your build version in the about phone section of your phone. So if you have fl24 look up the one click no data version
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It is likely that the battery is shot. What happens with lith-ion batteries is when they lose all of their charge, the become unstable to completely useless. When the phone dies, the battery still has about 20% charge left. Over time that charge drops to levels making the use of it inadvisable. I suggest trying a new battery first. If that does not fix it, we can work from there. Order one and check the flex cables in the meantime. An unstable battery can cause undesirable behavior of the device to include screen issues.
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I suppose thats a possibility. Unfortunately I've already done a factory reset on the phone so theres not much there anyway. I'm used to nexus phones that make it super easy to root and sideload via adb, so I'm just going to have to dig in and do some reading on this phone so I can put all the pieces together. Certainly I'll choose that option over doing a tear down. Teardown will be the last resort.
Hey Thanks GrayDiggy, Unfortunately my cheap cast project is starting to add up a tad. I was hoping with three separate batteries I could eliminate that as an issue. I'll see if i can source a new battery cheap.
My Tmo S3 is getting old and cranky apparently. Not sure what else to try, perhaps someone can weigh in?
1. I'm running CM11. I have tried other ROMs, all had the same issues.
2. It charges best with my Qi charger, as my daughter tripped on my charging cable once and it pulled out. It will still charge via USB, but slowly.
3. I have tried ART and Dalvik. No difference in battery life.
4. I've tried another battery. Also no difference.
5. I've tried Trebuchet, GNL and Nova.
6. I've tried installing Xposed with a couple of modules (not at the same time) one to help with wakelocks and one to help minimize Google's location checks.
7. I've tried taking out my Sandisk micro card. No difference.
It slows way down sometimes, generally when there are a couple of things going on but not always. For example, I got to work a few days ago, at an unfamiliar location. My phone was in the car cradle, plugged in to the car charger (bought from Tmo for the phone). Google Maps was running to nav me. I unplugged it, stopped Maps and tried to text my husband that I'd arrived. It would load Hangouts but never the conversation. Just the spinning circle. I needed to get in to the classroom. Rebooted, it booted then booted itself again, I could finally text him, but it was still hanging. When I would type, all the letters (google keyboard) would stay "lit up" so I couldn't see the keyboard.
Sometimes I get audio notifications, sometimes not. Sometimes it rings, sometimes not. Sometimes while I'm looking at the hangouts conversation it'll ding that I have a new message but the message won't show up for another minute or two.
Any other ideas? I'd really like to not have to buy another phone, but I'm beginning to wonder if this one is just done.
Frustrating because I used to run GNL, have "Ok, Google" enabled from any screen, have my Twitter update once an hour, have weather update once an hour, and now I've uninstalled Twitter, my weather updates manually (so no severe weather warnings...), I've ditched GNL and turned off "Ok, google." It isn't like my phone wasn't running these things.
Example: Today I had to go shopping for household and grocery items. Each time I was in the vehicle the phone was plugged in. The drive into town, between stores, while I ate lunch in the van. It was full 99% when I left home. 4 hours later it was at 29%...plugged in. I tried both the car charger and a brand new USB cable plugged into my FM transmitter.
I kinda have a feeling its got to do with how you're charging it. USB and car chargers generally don't push more than 500ma, where a good wall charger will be rated between 1-2A. No idea about wireless charging but I'd suspect they charge with a lower current. I could be wrong though.
Anyway, it also matters what cables you use. Many replacement charging cables won't handle the higher current. So even if you are using a good charger, a cheap cable can reduce any benefit expected. Over time, this all may have a negative effect on how much voltage the battery can push out to the device, impacting performance. Plus as the battery gets old this naturally happens anyway so the effect could be combined.
It also might help to start over fresh with your system and apps. Flash firmware via Odin first. (This would be a good time to test things while fully stock). Then reflash your ROM and only restore essential data. Reinstall everything else and start clean.
If you have the same problems, especially while stock, and a new battery doesn't help, it is possible some hardware has started to degrade due to age.
Whatever the problem may be though, backup your important data off-device soon, just in case.
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Thank you for your input, DocHoliday. I appreciate your wisdom. Up until about a month ago, I'd used the OEM wall charger and cable. We wondered about the cable so my husband bought me a good replacement. We definitely try to stuck with good quality, our phones are investments we can't afford to replace if we can help it.
I do believe we're going to ODIN to stock tomorrow. I need my husband's help on that one. I've never dealt with ODIN, only installing zip or the CM installer. If we can save it and make it stable we'll pass it to our daughter. I gave up and bought a Moto G.
I'm really interested though in what the outcome will be with stock. I have, indeed, tried what you suggested as far as starting fresh with system and apps. Yesterday I did a full wipe, wiped /system, cache, Dalvik. Signed in to Google and put only what I needed back on.
Thanks again for the advice. I'll report back after running stock a few days.
For people who have never used it, Odin can sound a lot more intimidating than it really is. It's really quite simple though, so if you find you have to do it on your own at some point, I'm sure you'll be just fine.
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Thank you for that vote of confidence. I can always cover up Touchwiz with Nova, right? ?
Yup!
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Okay, so a little background. I was at the gym last night, warming up with jogging on a treadmill. While I was running, I was listening to music through these horrible, horrible headphones. When they are plugged in, sometimes the phone will skip tracks forward or backward for no reason whatsoever, even when I didn't press a button. This was happening last night at the gym, and then all of the sudden, I heard this static crack and my phone turned off. Now my phone won't turn back on. I have tried everything. The phone was charged to about 75%, was running the new unofficial CM12 ROM, and was perfectly fine before the headphones zapped the life out of my phone. I'm almost positive it had nothing to do with the ROM. I have tried almost everything to get it to turn back on, holding the power button for a full minute, the power up and volume down combo for a hard reset, letting the phone sit for a while, even letting it sit on the charger for a while. It won't even take a charge now. It's been a full 12 hours of phone inactivity. Any suggestions?
If it still does not power up, your choices are:
Instant replacement: Verizon store
If you have 6 days with another phone: get online with HTC and get warranteed
I've had better luck dealing with HTC directly. Third party refurbs have a bad reputation
on many posts all over.
Hope it suddenly starts so you can keep trucking...
michaelbsheldon said:
If it still does not power up, your choices are:
Instant replacement: Verizon store
If you have 6 days with another phone: get online with HTC and get warranteed
I've had better luck dealing with HTC directly. Third party refurbs have a bad reputation
on many posts all over.
Hope it suddenly starts so you can keep trucking...
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So you think it's broken? It just seems weird for it to be broken after it was working perfectly fine. Plus, I am trying to buy a subsidized Nexus 6 through Verizon, but it's not in stores yet, so I don't want to get the phone replaced if I'm going to buy a new one. It's a dilemna
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So you think it's broken? It just seems weird for it to be broken after it was working perfectly fine. Plus, I am trying to buy a subsidized Nexus 6 through Verizon, but it's not in stores yet, so I don't want to get the phone replaced if I'm going to buy a new one. It's a dilemna
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Hope it doesn't come to this: if it's dead, HTC owes you a warranty repair/replace. You don't want to be left
with a doorstop. Worst case: you get it fixed, treat new one like your Princess, then sell it on Swappa or EBay
when you get your hands on the Nexus 6.
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So you think it's broken? It just seems weird for it to be broken after it was working perfectly fine. Plus, I am trying to buy a subsidized Nexus 6 through Verizon, but it's not in stores yet, so I don't want to get the phone replaced if I'm going to buy a new one. It's a dilemna
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I had the power button fail in mine. Drove me nuts too. In the end it wasn't all that terrible to replace and cost about $10. what happens if you sorta play with the power button and wiggle it etc...?
You are still getting the charge light too right?
Success! It finally charges now! It wouldn't charge before. For a whole day it wouldn't turn on with any button combo. For a whole day it wouldn't take any charge. Until now. I plugged it into my laptop and voila! The orange light started flashing, and it finally got to the point where the orange light is stable. It is currently now accepting charge from a power outlet, and I assume it will turn on. I'm not gonna push it yet though. But now it charges, so it will work! Thank god.
A valuable lesson was learned throughout this process (and it applies to daily life): never give up and always be persistent! Even if you have a good connection, and suddenly those connections break, you can still rebuild them again. You can still fix these connections (relationships in life) will a little hard work!
My phone just did this again. This time I'm guessing it is a bug with the unofficial CM12 Android 5.0 ROM on high volume. When my headphones are in and I'm playing music, usually at the highest volume, the phone sort of makes this weird static noise and then turns off. Hopefully this time my phone turns on, and hopefully it doesn't take a day and a half to accept a charge. I fixed it before by pluggin it into my laptop, but now that won't work. I guess it's a waiting game. Idk, I just hope it works
You sure its not your headsets causing the problems? I have ran the same ROM vol high using my klipsch earbuds and no issues. Will test again to see
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You sure its not your headsets causing the problems? I have ran the same ROM vol high using my klipsch earbuds and no issues. Will test again to see
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I'm not totally sure. I mean it still could be. I hate these damn headphones. It's fairly annoying though tbh. I have no idea when it will be open to accepting a charge. I just kind of have to see if it'll turn on. I guess I can check again with another pair of headphones when groupon finally sends them. I'm just nervous that if it happens again, I'll have to wait again. Let me know what happens with your phone. Also, I'm open to any suggestions on how to turn my phone back on or charge it again. Thanks.
How many songs played before your phone dies?
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How many songs played before your phone dies?
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It depends. Like the first time it shut off I was listening to one song on full volume. Then after it finally booted up, I was listening to the same song on high volume and it turned off again, but that time it booted back up. This time however, I was listening to a different song and it happened. It's not really a matter of songs played, but rather which song is played. I'm not totally sure though. It's just stupid.
OK I played 4 songs now and did hear a buzzing sound but phone didn't shut off or anything. Remember this ROM is still alpha build status. You could try backing up your phone and flash another ROM and see if you can recreate the issue. That way you know for sure if it was ROM or headphone related
I've heard this buzzing in practically every aosp ROM for the m7. It isn't often but does happen occasionally. It had never caused a reboot or shutdown. My guess is that the headphones are bad. I would stop using those lol.
I guess it was the headphones. Finally got new ones, and everything is fine. I think 5.0 definitely aided it though. My phone turned back on a few nights ago, and I forgot to mention it. Every time I've had to wait almost exactly 24 hours to charge it again. It almost seems like a defense mechanism. But alas, it worked!
My watch has entered a weird state. Probably after an update but I haven't noticed anything.
While off charger, it just tries to restart all the time. The screen is black and every 10 seconds it does once or twice a short vibration. In one case I noticed it went further with the boot up sequence and occasionally I can see bootloader / fastboot there (dark screen, small colorful text, debug info). This is happening until the battery dies off.
When I put it on charger, it usually starts booting up. It often goes up to the "Installing apps 1 of 20" screen. Very often it restarts itself during this phase but sometimes it goes beyond that and the watch actually starts. I can see the charging indicator and change it colors with swipe.
If removed from the charger, it immediately dies
What's weird that after a while, the charging indicator disappears and is replaced with the actual Android Wear interface I can interact with. I tried to go to settings and hit reset, but it just restarts the watch. Doesn't do the reset.
Usually the longer the watch sits in the charger, the worse the behavior is (ie it's just constantly restarting after a while). I get the best results when I let the battery die and then put it on the charger.
Also the watch is really really warm the whole time.
To me it seems like a software problem. If it was a phone, I'd just invoke factory reset somehow, over the cable or through boot menu. Is there a trick how to do it with the watch as well? Are there any stores with required equipment? I really don't want to send it back.
Same here mate, did you eventually solve it?? How? I really don't want to return it..
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Same here mate, did you eventually solve it?? How? I really don't want to return it..
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I did not. I used my warranty and sent it back to Motorola. I have a new watch now.
I understand that you don't want to return it. The process was extremely long, painful and annoying. They decided that I'm entitled to get a new watch pretty quickly and sent me a coupon for a new one. I never got that coupon. I spent lots of time calling Motorola trying to find out what was going on and it took a couple of weeks before they found where the mistake was. When they finally sent me the coupon, it was only for the base watch, it did not cover the metal band and the special bezel that my original watch had. So more calls and e-mails to Motorola followed...
Anyway, I know this is the last thing you want to hear but the sooner you accept that your watch is just broken, the sooner you'll get a new one I wish you more luck than I had.
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I did not. I used my warranty and sent it back to Motorola. I have a new watch now.
I understand that you don't want to return it. The process was extremely long, painful and annoying. They decided that I'm entitled to get a new watch pretty quickly and sent me a coupon for a new one. I never got that coupon. I spent lots of time calling Motorola trying to find out what was going on and it took a couple of weeks before they found where the mistake was. When they finally sent me the coupon, it was only for the base watch, it did not cover the metal band and the special bezel that my original watch had. So more calls and e-mails to Motorola followed...
Anyway, I know this is the last thing you want to hear but the sooner you accept that your watch is just broken, the sooner you'll get a new one I wish you more luck than I had.
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You're right, not what I wanted to read... I turned it off now, with the silly hope to wake up tomorrow and see it working again. While leaving it on the charger it became way too warm.
The worst is that this is my wife's watch, and she is even less patient than I am
Damn
Hello,
I have the almost the same issue. Last Friday my watch died randomly when I walked home from work. The screen went black, flashed a bit in different colors and then died. Haven't been able to turn it on since. When I try to charge it, it keeps getting stuck in a reboot loop. I can't do nothing...super annoying. It's been 10 months for me since I bought it but I guess that's out of these "6 months warranty" that then give. Crazy, only 6 months!
Same issue
Does soneone has a solition so far?
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Does soneone has a solition so far?
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have you tried getting it on to bootloader whilst on the charger just hold the power button down mine does it sometimes but it boots eventualy