So, been rooting, fiddling, installing ROMs, etc for a couple years. By no means am I an expert, I can just do research and read. I've had bootloops, and crashes, and all the same issues everyone else on this forum has had over the course of learning this stuff. So, when my phone wouldn't boot up even into recovery, I didn't sweat it at first. But, well, I've tried everything and nothing works. I can't boot, I can't charge it. Nothing works.
So, here's the breakdown.
Lt28i
Was running stock
Phone was rooted
CWM recovery
Bootloader is unlockable via regular means.
Hated it since a recent update. Phone was slow and i wanted JB. So i started the process.
I installed a new kernel, was in the process of installing a new ROM, but the instructions said to delete /system. I did.
From that point on, phone would not boot. Would not charge and would not get into recovery.
I can't connect via adb/fastboot.
It's a brick sitting on my desk. I've since gotten an HTC one, which IS AWESOME guys, but I hate having a perfectly fine piece of hardware just sitting on my desk collecting dust, (not to mention hate admitting defeat) so I'd like to get it working and either give it to a friend or sell it. Can anyone help.
Symptoms. As soon as i plug it in, the red light goes on. After about 15 minutes, the sony logo comes on with the red light off for just under 10 mins or so, then black screen and red light on. So, it's in a kernel boot-loop of sorts, but never gets past it and therefore doesn't charge. I've left it unattanded for over a week to drain the battery, hoping it'll reset, but no change. Immediately the red light goes on when plugged in. No way to boot into recovery. No way to connect to fastboot.
Any ideas?
Have tried the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
and a bunch of others. None has worked.
So your bootloader is locked?
You can't flash any custom kernel on locked bl.
First, connect your phone to a wall charger for whole night.
Then use Update Service or PCC to repair it.
Remember: do not connect your phone to PC until it ask you to do so.
Press vol down when connecting to PC.
cities516 said:
So your bootloader is locked?
You can't flash any custom kernel on locked bl.
First, connect your phone to a wall charger for whole night.
Then use Update Service or PCC to repair it.
Remember: do not connect your phone to PC until it ask you to do so.
Press vol down when connecting to PC.
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sorry, my mistake. The plan was to flash a kernel, but i never got around to it. I had looked into unlocking the bootloader, but wanted to see if I could get any good JB roms first. Sorry about that false info.
I have both let the phone die completely, or so I think, unless it keeps its charge for over a week and charged it for about 40 hours. Like I said, it does the bootloader boot loop which seems to keep it from charging. I never get to the screen where it shows the charging icon, so I can't tell, but I've definitely left it on a charger (not PC) for at least a day and a half. No go.No amount of pressing vol down works.
Does flashtool work on bricked phones?
lewis021 said:
Does flashtool work on bricked phones?
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Yes, Unless your device is hard bricked meaning it wont show any led or wont do anything basically
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Yes, Unless your device is hard bricked meaning it wont show any led or wont do anything basically
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Well, that's why I'm hopeful, cause the led does light up immediately on plugin. And the Sony logo screen shows up for a few minutes, then disappears. I have tried flashtool, but it won't connect. No go.
vijn said:
Well, that's why I'm hopeful, cause the led does light up immediately on plugin. And the Sony logo screen shows up for a few minutes, then disappears. I have tried flashtool, but it won't connect. No go.
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Your either using flash tool wrong (Hold the down button while plugging in the usb to go in flashmode and then flash the ftf quick before flashmode restarts of being idle) The Sony logo is still there so there should be no reason to send it in until all possible repair techniques have been used
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Your either using flash tool wrong (Hold the down button while plugging in the usb to go in flashmode and then flash the ftf quick before flashmode restarts of being idle) The Sony logo is still there so there should be no reason to send it in until all possible repair techniques have been used
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Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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Does Flashtool show anything after you connect your phone to PC with flashmode?
"Drivers have to be installed" or somethimg?
vijn said:
Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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If you can see the Sony Logo then it has to work, Hold the down key, while plugging it in and it will show a green led... I had the same problem as you (cause I do things that sony may not like, on my phone)
1. Make sure you have the correct drivers installed.
2. Turn your phone off and unplug USB cord.
3. Hold the VOLUME DOWN button while inserting the USB cord.
4. You should see your small notification light in the top right of the phone turn green.
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If you can see the Sony Logo then it has to work, Hold the down key, while plugging it in and it will show a green led... I had the same problem as you (cause I do things that sony may not like, on my phone)
1. Make sure you have the correct drivers installed.
2. Turn your phone off and unplug USB cord.
3. Hold the VOLUME DOWN button while inserting the USB cord.
4. You should see your small notification light in the top right of the phone turn green.
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Ya, first of all. I can neither turn the phone on or off. I have no control of it. It "turns on" when it wants and off when it wants. But when i say turns on, it only turn onto the sony logo screen after about 20 mins of being plugged in, when I guess the charge is just enough to allow it to start the boot process. Then the sony logo screen turns on, until that tiny charge dies and the phone turns off and the red LED comes on. Process repeats over and over again. I even put a rubber band on the phone to keep the volume down button pressed so that when the charge does reach the right level for the boot process that the vol down button will trigger recovery, but no deal. If this is the only way to get this thing working, is what you've recommended above, then phone is completely bricked, cause the phone has been like this for 2 weeks and nothing has worked. I know i have the drivers, cause up until this issue, flashtool worked fine. But the PC doesn't even recognize that there's a device plugged in at all now, cause the phone never boots. So, it's like plugging in a usb HDD that is off. I didn't really expect anyone to have a solution, cause i've done extensive research and tried almost everything I've read that seemed relevant, but I still had hope. I suspect the only way to fix it is to open it and connect directly to the mobo in some other way, but i don't have the tools or resources for that. Not even sure I can send it in to be repaired cause it's rooted. Unless someone has a eureka solution, my only option is to send it in to a 3rd party repair guy. Any other thoughts?
The most important thing is: what have you done to your phone before?
Flash something or edit something?
To turn off your phone, long press power + vol up until 3 vibrations.
Then connect your phone to a wallcharger for whole night.
(Do not use PC cable... It won't charge much...)
Then flash stock ftf via Flashtool.
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Just read my first 2 posts in the recovery thread sticky'd in the general section.
Then reinstall ALL drivers available in flashtool.
Then use the rubber band trick from my thread. Make sure that the rubber band pushes the button in.
Sit back and wait ,believe me this is the hardest step.
From my Xperia LT28at ION
ToledoJab said:
Then use the rubber band trick from my thread. Make sure that the rubber band pushes the button in.
Sit back and wait ,believe me this is the hardest step.
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I laughed at the method simplicity, and got amazed on how effective is it.
So when you connect the phone to your PC while holding the volume down key...no green light, and its not recognized by your PC at all, right? Assuming you're using windows; does windows try to install any drivers or anything? Are you prompted in any way that a device has been connected?
and did you try the above mentioned? Hold UP and power button for like 10 seconds...you'll feel it vibrate once...then a few seconds later it should vibrate 3 times...I bricked my phone to some degree Sunday...only I had no response whatsoever...no led while charging, or otherwise...and literally no response from anything...until i tried that vibrate 3 times thing...and it booted right up after...
NO GO!
Well, I've tried it all. @ToledoJab I've read and reread that original post a bunch of times. followed all instructions, in fact, I had read that post many times before even posting in this forum with no luck, but I thought I'd be patient and try again, Used the rubber band technique. Nothing. Seems, when the rubber band is used, the phone doesn't even start the boot process, meaning never shows the sony logo screen.
@jtr what no one seems to understand is, there is absolutely no response to using the power button to turn this on or off. No vibrate, nothing. There are only 2 states. 1. When plugged into wall or PC, LED is red and after 20 mins Sony logo shows up if the vol down button isn't pressed. 2. When not plugged in no led.
Flashtool has been open for 2 days, phone has been plugged in, with rubber band. Drivers installed. Phone is never recognized because it never turns on. it's in perpetual red light on mode.
I don't know guys. I'd say this is an official brick. Not sure there's any way to fix this without opening it up. Still open to any ideas, but please read what I've posted because all the recommendations so far have been things I've already said I've tried, and numerous times. I can't imagine there's anything else to try, but thought I'd update you guys nonetheless.
cool, i understand.
If the volume down key is preventing it from going into that boot loop, though...it seems to be responding to physical input to some degree...
Have you tried any of this without a sim card? I know that sounds trivial, but after a full week of messing with mine a fresh sim-less start knocked out several bugs...and i hadn't read much of that on xda, but the AT&T return directions suggested a without sim boot up as the first thing to do? and at the time, i too, was dealing with some sort of varying degree of brick.
There are also varying ways to drain a permanent phone battery...i wouldn't say thats the best way to go about this, but a friend of mine has a screwed up car charger that does exactly this...which he's kept to bring his samsung nexus out of hard bricks multiple times...i'd say that's definitely a last resort though...the stuff you'd need would only be a couple bucks at radio shack i'd imagine haha.
If you get the Sony screen you should get in to flash mode, and I say should.
With the phone plugged in to PC with flashtool ready to flash, try to do a one vibration reset at Sony screen then immediately press and hold volume down.
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Hello, last night as I was sleeping, I noticed my phone randomly rebooted. Thinking it was because of a kernel issue, I ignored it. I woke up, left my house, and another reboot. Half an hour later, constant reboots; boots up, goes to the lock screen, reboots, etc. I came home today, my pc does not recognize any phone connected. When I plug into the wall, I get a red notification light for a few seconds, then the light dies. During the constant reboots, I could go into download mode, but after a few seconds, it reboots. I never was able to get past the Samsung boot logo after recovery mode. I unplugged battery and replugged, nothing.
I was on rooted Jellybam 4.2.2, Ktoonsez kernel. I cannot remember the last time I flashed anything, but it was atleast a few months.
My microsd also died a few days ago.
Life sucks; any comments?
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on second note, I just replugged battery and quickly went to download mode, and it lit up, then died after a second or two.
For some reason, when I put in my battery, the phone turns on.. I thought it only does that if the phone was uncharged for a few moments..
Could my internal sdcard be fried?
You don't have a brick if your phone still turns on.
Check to make sure the battery is good
And also check and make sure the power button isn't stuck.....
Those have been the culprits for many "bricks" for a while now.
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jayRokk said:
You don't have a brick if your phone still turns on.
Check to make sure the battery is good
And also check and make sure the power button isn't stuck.....
Those have been the culprits for many "bricks" for a while now.
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I switched the battery with a back up, same problem.
How do i make sure the power button isnt stuck..? It clicks when I press it.
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I just took the phone apart and freed the power button so the display and the motherboard are laying side to side with only the display connected to the motherboard.
The phone still turns on automatically when i plug in the battery.
jayRokk said:
You don't have a brick if your phone still turns on.
Check to make sure the battery is good
And also check and make sure the power button isn't stuck.....
Those have been the culprits for many "bricks" for a while now.
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I think it might be the power button thats some how stuck, but I cant figure out why.
I opened the phone and everything seems fine..
I spam pressed the power button out of boredom and my galaxy booted up fine, then died again.
EDIT: wow, i kept spamming the power button and now it boots up fine..
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Hi i know there are threads on this and ive read countless ones. i installed BlackZax'7 [The Next Level Begin] on my LT28AT running LT28H LT28h_6.2.B.0.211. everything was working fine after first reboot. call texts 4g lte everything was perfect i was extremely satisfied. then restarted once all my apps were downloaded and went to put cwm recover on it and boom i got bootloop.
Naturally i headed to the forums here on XDA to follow the tutorial to recover from bricked state. what happened was i got bootloop and held Power and Volume + to reset to go to download mode, felt 3 vibrations which from my understanding was a hard reset. i followed the tutorial which said to leave it plugged in until solid red light turns green. well when i plug it in i get the solid red light however no green led. every once and a while ill see the sony logo and starts to bootloop. held volume down to try to get to download mode but refuses to do soo........
after a while bootloop stops and goes to solid red led.....and repeats the same process after a while.
what do i do ive searched forums and some have said to take the battery out however unfortunately i dont own the right tool to get the plating off after the cover.
what should i do its my only phone.......
Any help or a way to fic would be life saving
Same problem here
Hello,
I have recently stumbled upon the same problem and am completely clueless of what to do.....did you find a solution for this without disassembly?
I think what makes sense is to let the phone sit for a couple of days till the battery drains out and to put on the charger then for a couple of days......
please do reply.
Thanks.
Haider4711 said:
Hello,
I have recently stumbled upon the same problem and am completely clueless of what to do.....did you find a solution for this without disassembly?
I think what makes sense is to let the phone sit for a couple of days till the battery drains out and to put on the charger then for a couple of days......
please do reply.
Thanks.
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Yea I fixed it. What You have to do is let it die then have flashtool ready connect to pc to charge use a rubber band or hair tie to hold the volume down button pressed (You have to have pressed before the Sony logo appears the first time or you have to start over) if it works then you will come back to a fixed phone.
*you have to flash before first bootloop*
I used a hair tie to keep the volume down button pressed had flashtool waiting for download mode plugged into the pc to charge then after about 1-2 hours I saw my phone boot up. It takes time and patience but the rubber band trick worked like a charm
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Yea I fixed it. What You have to do is let it die then have flashtool ready connect to pc to charge use a rubber band or hair tie to hold the volume down button pressed (You have to have pressed before the Sony logo appears the first time or you have to start over) if it works then you will come back to a fixed phone.
*you have to flash before first bootloop*
I used a hair tie to keep the volume down button pressed had flashtool waiting for download mode plugged into the pc to charge then after about 1-2 hours I saw my phone boot up. It takes time and patience but the rubber band trick worked like a charm
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How long does it take to tie?....i left it sitting for about 30 hours i dont think the battery died completely because i tried flashing the tft with flashtool tying a piece of string on the volume down key,but it was boot looping again!
how long should i leave it for the battery to die....it took only 10 minutes for the mobile to charge after the 30 hrs period and it started boot looping without entring flash mode.....i even tried to flash a kernel through fastboot....no use...boot looping!!
PLEASE HELP!!!
You need to read the forum with more attention: it is all written up...
Start your flashtool and pick stock rom. Let the program unzip the files. When you get pop up to connect the phone, connect your fully disharged phone and leave it alone. It will start flashing automatically in about 15 min.
Hello. I am facing a serious problem. The device accidentaly lost all its battery when it was turned on and it turned off. I tried to charge it while it was off but it seems that it is not charging because of the unlocked bootloader (i unlocked it with freege. i think that the bootloader is mako geehrc). The result is that when I press the power button it shows the boot animated logo but then suddenly it shows the shut down animation logo and it turns off. :crying:
Also it turns on only when the charger is connected. Otherways, the power button does nothing. What I am going to do?
Happened for me few times on stock rom. Connected phone to charger and waited for a 10-15 min and it switched on.
jancis201991 said:
Happened for me few times on stock rom. Connected phone to charger and waited for a 10-15 min and it switched on.
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Well I finally managed to turn it on. I don't know how but it worked. Sorry that I can't provide a workaround to help others.
Thanks for the response.
optimusG said:
Well I finally managed to turn it on. I don't know how but it worked. Sorry that I can't provide a workaround to help others.
Thanks for the response.
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Something like that happened to me 2h ago.. the only change it's i can't even go into battery animation or boot animation.. even i can't enter recovery.. no led.. It's like dead.. more than 15m connected to charger.. nothing happened.. uwuU
Edit: I resolved it.. i don't know why.. at 3h trying to charge/boot it shows the LG logo so i could start up the phone as usual.. at 3% battery.. I won't ever let it shut down xwx
Same issue, I'm terrified of letting it drain completely, my fix is to connect the charger for a couple of minutes, remove it and then attempt to boot into bootloader mode, then into recovery and plug it again, once it has charged a couple of % in TWRP I reboot system and hopefully it will load the ROM as usual.
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I found a solution! Have your charger connected and nearby, while holding down; power and volume up connect your charger to your phone, it should enter fastboot, then just release all buttons and press power one time, it should boot normally.
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Today I was surfing the web and the phone locked up and restarted itself. Kept getting to the android screen with the red yellow and blue symbols then restarting. Left the phone alone to get back to work then the phone restarted finally went to use the phone and after about 3 mins froze up again. Now the phone won't get past the Google boot screen and if I want to try and power the phone on the power button has to be pressed in about 30secs to a minute of two.
Also i can't get into recovery mode reliably since if I select recovery the phone again freezes at the Google screen on reboot and never gets to recovery 9 out of 10 times other times I can get to recovery and then phone will then crash while in recovery or will allow me to use recovery long enough to wipe the cache and factory reset which neither has worked.
While Plugged into a charger and just sits there nothing on screen just a black screen.
Phone is on latest android unrooted and locked.
i had this happen to my SO's stock/locked/unrooted Nexus 6P.
Plug it into a PC, wait a couple minutes, then press and hold the power button for like 1-2 minutes.
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i had this happen to my SO's stock/locked/unrooted Nexus 6P.
Plug it into a PC, wait a couple minutes, then press and hold the power button for like 1-2 minutes.
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What is this supposed to do? Where did you hear about this solution? Just curious.
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Today I was surfing the web and the phone locked up and restarted itself. Kept getting to the android screen with the red yellow and blue symbols then restarting. Left the phone alone to get back to work then the phone restarted finally went to use the phone and after about 3 mins froze up again. Now the phone won't get past the Google boot screen and if I want to try and power the phone on the power button has to be pressed in about 30secs to a minute of two.
Also i can't get into recovery mode reliably since if I select recovery the phone again freezes at the Google screen on reboot and never gets to recovery 9 out of 10 times other times I can get to recovery and then phone will then crash while in recovery or will allow me to use recovery long enough to wipe the cache and factory reset which neither has worked.
While Plugged into a charger and just sits there nothing on screen just a black screen.
Phone is on latest android unrooted and locked.
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do RMA
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What is this supposed to do? Where did you hear about this solution? Just curious.
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read it on the nexus help forums i think. I was about to RMA the phone, so I'm glad i didn't have to. give it a try
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read it on the nexus help forums i think. I was about to RMA the phone, so I'm glad i didn't have to. give it a try
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I don't have any issues. I was just curious. I've just never heard of a fix for any phone that requires a button press for more that like 30 seconds.
So what is the expected outcome? Does the phone just reboot and simply function correctly? Do you have a link to the forum post you read this in?
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I don't have any issues. I was just curious. I've just never heard of a fix for any phone that requires a button press for more that like 30 seconds.
So what is the expected outcome? Does the phone just reboot and simply function correctly? Do you have a link to the forum post you read this in?
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Sure.
Here is where I read about plugging it into a PC and then pressing the power button:
https://support.google.com/nexus/troubleshooter/3337561?hl=en#ts=3337942,3339328
That didn't work (15 seconds hold). Then I found this random post on XDA where someone said they held it for more than a minute, so i tried that.
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Same exact problem. Phone was over 80% charged. Picked it up off of my desk at work to check the time and nothing. Just a brick.
Update*** I hooked the thing to power and nothing. So I just sat here at my desk for several minutes holding down the power button and the damn thing finally came back on. But I had to hold it for a very very long time, not the normal 10-30 seconds like it should take to do a hard power off. I'm talking minutes.
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not sure why this worked, but it did. probably held it for 45s to 1m and it booted normally after that. honestly not sure what happened or why this worked.
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Sure.
Here is where I read about plugging it into a PC and then pressing the power button:
https://support.google.com/nexus/troubleshooter/3337561?hl=en#ts=3337942,3339328
That didn't work (15 seconds hold). Then I found this random post on XDA where someone said they held it for more than a minute, so i tried that.
not sure why this worked, but it did. probably held it for 45s to 1m and it booted normally after that. honestly not sure what happened or why this worked.
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I'm glad my old post helped! Just an update though, it did that a few more times and then eventually I had to have it RMA'ed as no amount of time would make it boot.
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I'm glad my old post helped! Just an update though, it did that a few more times and then eventually I had to have it RMA'ed as no amount of time would make it boot.
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haha dang, i hope the Nexus 6P it helped me boot doesn't have this issue any more...
Apayah said:
do RMA
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Already did. Trying any last ditch efforts to revive the phone oh well it was a good phone.
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I'm glad my old post helped! Just an update though, it did that a few more times and then eventually I had to have it RMA'ed as no amount of time would make it boot.
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Yup same here. It can get to the boot menu but recovery only works 1/10 times and can't ever get through 54% of the boot log until it freezes and crashes.
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Yup same here. It can get to the boot menu but recovery only works 1/10 times and can't ever get through 54% of the boot log until it freezes and crashes.
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Sounds like its time to RMA that bugger. Bummer.
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Sounds like its time to RMA that bugger. Bummer.
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Yup new one is getting here today. Anyways, before old one is sent off I am curious to see if the battery is even charging when I connect to the charger. Anyone know if I can use a multi-meter to check this?