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Hey Guys,
Over the last year or so I've had intermittent charging issues with my Galaxy Nexus. About 4 months ago is when it first started happening, the phone would either not charge or only charge when it is turned off. Somehow the issue was resolved through tons of troubleshooting, I'm not even sure what fixed it or why it started working again.
Same thing happened about 2 weeks ago, except this time it won't charge at all. Then 2 days later all of a sudden started charging again. Now it's happening again today, I have no idea what is going on or why this handset won't charge properly. The phone won't turn on with just the charger in and the battery out either.
I've tried various chargers including the OEM charger, I've tried up to 6 different chargers and 7 seperate micro-USB B cords. Nothing. I've tried a brand new battery that a friend bought for his phone before he threw it in and no results.
At this point I think it's the USB charger board, however I'm not sure why it would not work and then work again. Does anyone have any ideas or any solutions? I've read thousands of threads on this, from this forum and many others and have gone through some ridiculous troubleshooting methods.
SCH-I515 Korean Version.
Seriously, anyhelp is appreciated.
As of now, all of a sudden it will charge while it's off. But only to about 4% then it just stops charging. It will not charge while it is on at all.
Because it's getting worse and worse?
Relock bootloader, and return it in for warranty, if you can. I'm afraid there's not much help if you already checked for damage to the USB port.
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hi
had the same problem until a few minutes ago.
received my usb/charging flex part today and changed it just before to post here.
took me like 20 min, really easy to do, everything works perfectly and i also took time to clean up a bit the phone inside of some dirts and change the housing i bought with the flex part.
As my screen is under protection since the beginning (4 months old), and that i recently bought a 2000mah battery, well i have to say that i have a new phone ready to handle the new year easily!
operation is easy and you will find plenty of videos on youtube showing how to change the usb flex (7€/$ , +/-) so pretty cheap.
Good luck
Why not buy an external battery charger and a spare battery?
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I'd get a replacement daughterboard and switch it out yourself. It's easy dude, just like a previous poster already said. I just did it myself, took me all of 20 minutes and cost me $10. ifixit.com has a step by step direction sheet, if you have any questions feel free to contact me about it.
Try the following:
1.) Turn off your phone.
2.) Get a flat head screwdriver (small one)
3.) Push the flat connector inside the microusb port up. (It often gets bent downwards because it's so thin compared to other phones...)
4.) Boot into the bootloader
5.) Hit volume down until restart bootloader appears. Press power button.
6.) Start phone manually.
farshad525hou said:
Try the following:
1.) Turn off your phone.
2.) Get a flat head screwdriver (small one)
3.) Push the flat connector inside the microusb port up. (It often gets bent downwards because it's so thin compared to other phones...)
4.) Boot into the bootloader
5.) Hit volume down until restart bootloader appears. Press power button.
6.) Start phone manually.
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i dont know why, but this fixed it for me, for a short while. now the charging is intermittent and seems to come and go as it pleases.
Hi,
I had the same problem of ghost charging, it started with phone not charging when connected to charger and then randomly showing charging...
Now discovered it causes vbus_tuna_otg wake lock, resulting in high system usage in settings> battery and not letting phone go to deep sleep, causing battery drain.
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I've come into the same problem with my Galaxy Nexus as well. If my phone is turned on, my phone will recognize that a charger is plugged in but the battery will not charge at all. If the phone is off and plugged in, the charging screen won't appear. I've tried multiple chargers and cords, 2 different batteries, and even replaced the micro usb and board, but the problem hasn't changed at all. I've managed to charge my batteries with an external charger but would like to get my phone back to normal working condition. Does anyone think that changing the actual motherboard itself might solve the problem?
Sayword said:
I've come into the same problem with my Galaxy Nexus as well. If my phone is turned on, my phone will recognize that a charger is plugged in but the battery will not charge at all. If the phone is off and plugged in, the charging screen won't appear. I've tried multiple chargers and cords, 2 different batteries, and even replaced the micro usb and board, but the problem hasn't changed at all. I've managed to charge my batteries with an external charger but would like to get my phone back to normal working condition. Does anyone think that changing the actual motherboard itself might solve the problem?
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I had this problem before, using something small and flat to push the charging connector off the housing will work for awhile. The pin in the charging port is bent down and is very thin it's easy to lift up just use a tiny bit of force to lift it up. The pin touching the housing is causing a short and that is causing your no charge while it's on and mine even went as far as draining my battery very quickly. I did research and found alot of people having this issue on the gnex. I eventually had to turn mine in for replacement, no problems since. Hopefully yours is still under warranty or you can buy the peice that is broken and replace yourself, there is a post above saying what to do for that.
Looks like my phone developed this problem. It sometimes won't charge be it via my pogo dock or USB cord. It seems to start taking a charge after I pop out the battery and then put it back in. I'm going to order another battery and see if that is the problem.
Thank yoiu!!
solved my problem!! I am in your debt
popping the battery out just worked for me too
hlaalu said:
Looks like my phone developed this problem. It sometimes won't charge be it via my pogo dock or USB cord. It seems to start taking a charge after I pop out the battery and then put it back in. I'm going to order another battery and see if that is the problem.
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I just did the remove battery trick as well and it worked. I just noticed my battery not charging yesterday but figured it was because I was trying to use a different charging in my dad's car. got to work where i left my normal charger and no luck.
thefayeride said:
I just did the remove battery trick as well and it worked. I just noticed my battery not charging yesterday but figured it was because I was trying to use a different charging in my dad's car. got to work where i left my normal charger and no luck.
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That's good, I tried it a few times but the issue still pops up. To be fair though, I've had this phone and battery since launch day... Almost three years old. I ordered a new battery so hopefully I won't have the issue anymore... And I won't be surprised if my battery life is a little better too.
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hlaalu said:
That's good, I tried it a few times but the issue still pops up. To be fair though, I've had this phone and battery since launch day... Almost three years old. I ordered a new battery so hopefully I won't have the issue anymore... And I won't be surprised if my battery life is a little better too.
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The Galaxy Nexus is nowhere near three years old. Your phone would be 18 months old if you had it since launch.
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Excuse me, two years. According to Samsung their lithium batteries have a life of about 500 cycles. So my point is still valid, my battery is probably just on it's way out. I'll find out for sure when my new one comes tomorrow.
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Yeah, since battery life hasn't exactly been the strong point of the GN and some of us had to go though a complete cycle daily, I suspect a lot of folks are going to be seeing more and more issues. Not too long ago, I had a battery that failed in such a way that it would randomly crash the phone and had to be pulled in order to allow a reboot. I would've suspected anything but the battery in that case.
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farshad525hou said:
Try the following:
1.) Turn off your phone.
2.) Get a flat head screwdriver (small one)
3.) Push the flat connector inside the microusb port up. (It often gets bent downwards because it's so thin compared to other phones...)
4.) Boot into the bootloader
5.) Hit volume down until restart bootloader appears. Press power button.
6.) Start phone manually.
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This kind of worked for me, but the "boot into bootloader and restart it" killed my phone, don't know why. After a lot of a hassle i got it on, with 2% left, again not charging...tried to repush the connector towards the center and now i cant get my charger into the phone, maybe overbend it...what to do?...
I have a strange problem, my Gnex does not charge the battery, first i thought that it was the battery so, I tested the battery on other phone and it charged just fine, and then i ordered the usb/charging assemble from ebay and replaced on my gnex, and still not charging the battery, but when i connect the phone to the pc it recognize it immediately, but still won't charge the battery, anybody has an idea of what my problem is?? and how can i solve it?
Please help!!!
I'm hard of hearing and so I need to use an alarm clock that features a vibrating pad that gets placed under my pillow, so I can wake up without having to wake up the entire neighbourhood as well. But, a vibrating pad has it's life cycle and while I was caught in a waiting time for its replacement I used my HTC Desire as an vibrating device.
So after 1 week of having it under my pillow the following morning I found it frozen. I took off the battery and tried a reboot only to find I was being kept booted into HBOOT. Since the combination to trigger that was to power-up the phone when simultaneously holding the VOL DN key thought the problem was with the volume keys.
After a little bit of a research I found an HTC Desire disassembly video that is a perfect guide as to how to dissasemble the phone. Having the phone all disassembled I placed over a towel and left it there for 1-2 days to get it dried up. After re-assembling it, it still wasn't working.
Then I put it inside a bag along with several paper enclosures of Silica Gel for another couple of days. That did not also bring the desired result.
So failing those two approaches I ordered a replacement Flex Board from eBay, which, to my dissapointment, also didn't bring the desired result.
The phone is S-OFF and was running CyanogenMod very happily.
So, I'm practically about to dump the HTC Desire for another phone, quite most probably an HTC One V or an HTC One VX. But before doing so I would like some opinions as to what else should I try before doing so, or if there is some kind of troubleshooting as to locate the exact source of the problem.
I did some research here and found some the HTC Desire (Bravo) Troubleshooting Guide that already suggests some methods to try. So, with your permission, I will document here my experience trying to salvage it BUT I'm also ASKING for your suggestions on what to try to eliminate the humidity or what you think could be the faulty part of it (provided I've already changed a flex board).
Hmm.. Silica gel is the best thing you could have used for humidity. I don't think that is the problem here.
Does your phone show any sign of life? A led, or something?
Put the phone in a socks and then putit in bag with rice and let him there for 24 hours.
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abaaaabbbb63 said:
Hmm.. Silica gel is the best thing you could have used for humidity. I don't think that is the problem here.
Does your phone show any sign of life? A led, or something?
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If the phone is turned off with the its battery in place and then plugged in it's USB port then it behaves as it would behave normally when charging. An orange colored led shows while it charging and a green led when it has been fully charged.
If I press the power button I will get in the HBOOT screen and if I plug the USB cable it will go into HBOOT USB PLUG. With and without the cable it's totally unresponsive from any input from any button at all. Also, I don't know why, while it's in the HBOOT screen after a while the phone will become hot, but that could be related to HBOOT's screen being almost totally white.
MosCraciun said:
Put the phone in a socks and then putit in bag with rice and let him there for 24 hours.
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Will do and I will post back the results.
olspookishmagus said:
MosCraciun said:
Put the phone in a socks and then putit in bag with rice and let him there for 24 hours.
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Will do and I will post back the results.
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After 24+ hours in a sock, and within a bag or rice my phone keeps booting into the HBOOT, all keys still unresponsive. I've even powered up my phone without the housing in place an the volume keys when in mid-air.
So, another idea? Anyone?
Hi guys. I just got a flex power cable yesterday, and I installed it onto my gnex, but I still have charging issues (Boot up, 2-3 charge up cycle animation, reboot up, 2-3 animations again, rinse and repeat).
Could it be a problem with the back cover?
I also switched out the battery for an OEM one, and the phone is still acting like a jerk.
The thing is, when I pull out the usb cable, the phone still thinks it's charging for like 2-3 seconds before it turns off.
Could it be some random internal capacitors gone to sh1t?
I really REALLY want to solve this because I am not ready to ditch my gnex.
no one has a solution?
This phone forum seems to be dying.
Edit: try a factory reset. Use the stock recovery by holding the power and volume up and volume down if you can't get to your settings the normal way
I was facing the same problem until I moved the micro usb pin towards a bit to the screen using a very small screwdriver. you can try that once. but do that very gently so that it doesn't break. you can use a small plastic pin/toothpick also.
so far, its working fine for me.
I have the same problem and I have just tried this without any solution!!
I tried pushing the pin forward towards the screen. It doesn't work. Do I have to push harder?
Hi,
I hadthe same problem where no cables i tried worked..
I had to send mine in for service to change the pcb for my usb-port. it did the trick for 6 months time. nice phone, but ****ty usb contact..
hope it helps..
My phone won't boot unless it is plugged in via wall charger.
If I got it to boot while charging, it instantly turns off when I unplug it even with battery at 100%.
I am able turn to go into hboot mode(power + volume down), even when it is unplugged. But it dies if I access recovery. I am able to perform "show image crc" function.
The problem started while I was using the camera and it just turned off by itself.
I was on SROM at the time when the problem started.
I managed to change ROM to SD, and even used lollipop RUU(verizon), but the problem wasn't resolved.:crying:
What do you think? Am I right to assume this is a hardware problem?
yakultski said:
My phone won't boot unless it is plugged in via wall charger.
If I got it to boot while charging, it instantly turns off when I unplug it even with battery at 100%.
I am able turn to go into hboot mode(power + volume down), even when it is unplugged. But it dies if I access recovery. I am able to perform "show image crc" function.
The problem started while I was using the camera and it just turned off by itself.
I was on SROM at the time when the problem started.
I managed to change ROM to SD, and even used lollipop RUU(verizon), but the problem wasn't resolved.:crying:
What do you think? Am I right to assume this is a hardware problem?
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I have same problem!
Bump. I have the same problem too. Seems to have come out of the blue for an otherwise functional phone. Can't figure it out.
I'll add that I can get into twrp and it seems to function without the charger plugged.. But otherwise, if the charger is removed, phone dies like OP.
Anyone can help?
Hey, this happened to me too while I was using the camera too! What's the linkage?
@yakultski, have you figured this out yet?
Try to flash a RUU and if you got the same it should be an hardware problem...
yakultski said:
My phone won't boot unless it is plugged in via wall charger.
If I got it to boot while charging, it instantly turns off when I unplug it even with battery at 100%.
I am able turn to go into hboot mode(power + volume down), even when it is unplugged. But it dies if I access recovery. I am able to perform "show image crc" function.
The problem started while I was using the camera and it just turned off by itself.
I was on SROM at the time when the problem started.
I managed to change ROM to SD, and even used lollipop RUU(verizon), but the problem wasn't resolved.:crying:
What do you think? Am I right to assume this is a hardware problem?
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Did you resolve the issue. I heard it could be the battery failing, but i'm not so sure anymore, because when i run antutu benchmark my phone shuts down when using fisheye image processing or 3D, it turns off even when it's plugged in.
I suspect it's the GPU failing or something similar. That is weird since i wasn't using any intense 3D games. I'm sure this is my last HTC.
yakultski said:
My phone won't boot unless it is plugged in via wall charger.
If I got it to boot while charging, it instantly turns off when I unplug it even with battery at 100%.
I am able turn to go into hboot mode(power + volume down), even when it is unplugged. But it dies if I access recovery. I am able to perform "show image crc" function.
The problem started while I was using the camera and it just turned off by itself.
I was on SROM at the time when the problem started.
I managed to change ROM to SD, and even used lollipop RUU(verizon), but the problem wasn't resolved.:crying:
What do you think? Am I right to assume this is a hardware problem?
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I don't know if you managed to solve your problem, but in my case I replaced the battery and now the problem is gone. So defective battery is the reason in my case. I replaced it my self which is quite a task but not so hard, you just need patience and time. So if you have time to reply me, please do, as i would like to help.:good:
Gunman84 said:
I don't know if you managed to solve your problem, but in my case I replaced the battery and now the problem is gone. So defective battery is the reason in my case. I replaced it my self which is quite a task but not so hard, you just need patience and time. So if you have time to reply me, please do, as i would like to help.:good:
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Hey Gunman84, my phone is behaving in a similar fashion as the OP. I have an AT&T phone converted to a GPE. So everything is stock in that sense. If plugged in, phone operates normally. As soon as I unplug it, a couple of seconds later it will power off. If I boot into hboot, the phone will stay on for a long time (its been an hour+ already and its still on).
I watched a youtube video showing how to replace the battery and that was pretty intimidating - haha. Where did you get your battery replacement? and how much did it cost?
thanks
clemdaddy said:
Hey Gunman84, my phone is behaving in a similar fashion as the OP. I have an AT&T phone converted to a GPE. So everything is stock in that sense. If plugged in, phone operates normally. As soon as I unplug it, a couple of seconds later it will power off. If I boot into hboot, the phone will stay on for a long time (its been an hour+ already and its still on).
I watched a youtube video showing how to replace the battery and that was pretty intimidating - haha. Where did you get your battery replacement? and how much did it cost?
thanks
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Hi, it's not so intimidating . Well you just need to be careful and patient, there are lots of small resistors, connectors and so on. Check the iFixit site for proper instructions here is the link https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HTC+One+%28M8%29+Teardown/23615 this is full teardown, and here is 2nd link where they focus mainly on replacing the battery https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/HTC+One+M8+Battery+Replacement/41650. I'm from Slovenia, and the battery cost me 20€, which is around 25US dollars, the battery was original one. I bought it from local supplier. It took me around 2-3 hours to replace it, or something like that, that's because i wanted to be careful.
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Hi, it's not so intimidating . Well you just need to be careful and patient, there are lots of small resistors, connectors and so on. Check the iFixit site for proper instructions here is the link https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HTC+One+%28M8%29+Teardown/23615 this is full teardown, and here is 2nd link where they focus mainly on replacing the battery https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/HTC+One+M8+Battery+Replacement/41650. I'm from Slovenia, and the battery cost me 20€, which is around 25US dollars, the battery was original one. I bought it from local supplier. It took me around 2-3 hours to replace it, or something like that, that's because i wanted to be careful.
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Thanks so much for the links.
The phones behavior really makes me question if its the battery. For example, it stayed on in the hboot/recovery screen for 10+ hours (without being plugged in). So the battery can definitely hold a charge.
I'm afraid to open up the phone (and potentially break it), when there is potentially something else going on (maybe a software issue). I guess if I run out of ideas, I'll have no choice but to attempt the battery replacement.
thanks again!
clemdaddy said:
Thanks so much for the links.
The phones behavior really makes me question if its the battery. For example, it stayed on in the hboot/recovery screen for 10+ hours (without being plugged in). So the battery can definitely hold a charge.
I'm afraid to open up the phone (and potentially break it), when there is potentially something else going on (maybe a software issue). I guess if I run out of ideas, I'll have no choice but to attempt the battery replacement.
thanks again!
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Well in my case i could also stay in recovery mode(TWRP) indefinitely also in bootloader mode, that's because you are not in the operating system. The graphics are not running at that point and so on, it doesn't drain that much power at that point either.. It's a different story if you try to flash a rom in aroma, at that point the phone shuts of if not plugged in. It is the battery, trust me.
Gunman84 said:
Well in my case i could also stay in recovery mode(TWRP) indefinitely also in bootloader mode, that's because you are not in the operating system. The graphics are not running at that point and so on, it doesn't drain that much power at that point either.. It's a different story if you try to flash a rom in aroma, at that point the phone shuts of if not plugged in. It is the battery, trust me.
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Really appreciate your responses. Makes sense what you say. I'm going to attempt the battery swap. Got no other option!
For the adhesive parts of the phone. When putting it back together, did you need to reapply more adhesive?
Thanks
clemdaddy said:
Really appreciate your responses. Makes sense what you say. I'm going to attempt the battery swap. Got no other option!
For the adhesive parts of the phone. When putting it back together, did you need to reapply more adhesive?
Thanks
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Nope, no additional adhesive was needed in my case. I used the hair dryer to soften the original adhesive. The speaker grills were difficult to remove as they are glued quite well, but eventually they came off. The toughest part was separating the back casing, as you do need quite a few prying picks or guitar picks.
Just be careful with the motherboard, slowly remove the tape that covers the connectors, you don't want to rip apart any flat cables. And don't throw away that tape, you will need it.
Ohh i have the same issue.i used phone normally before and battery worked fine.but then i flashed ICE rom and when i was using the camera this happend.is this really a battery issue?
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Kasun72 said:
Ohh i have the same issue.i used phone normally before and battery worked fine.but then i flashed ICE rom and when i was using the camera this happend.is this really a battery issue?
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Well if yours symptoms are the same as clemdaddy has, then yes. Sorry, but at least now you know what the problem is.
Got the new battery today and performed the phone surgery. All the connections looked good. Pieced it all back together and everything works BUT the new battery won't charge. The phone is running off the battery, so the connections I made must be correct. Running off the battery the phone no longer exhibits the symptoms I described above (so this most likely confirms my previous battery was the culprit). I tried the hold all buttons for 2 minutes to re-calibrate the new battery. All that did was made the phone now display a full battery (instead of the empty battery it initially showed).
On the weekend I'll open it up again and see if I missed something.
Got the replacement battery. Re-opened up the phone. This time I over heated the upper and lower panels which caused them both to warp a bit, and one of them to have its paint bubble :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:
I replaced the new defective battery with the most recent one. Put the phone back together and it is back to normal again! Also probably because of the over heating, there is now a little bit of a rainbow effect on the lower part of the LCD screen!
A real pity the first battery was defective, causing me to have to re-open it and carelessly overheat it. Otherwise the 1st attempt would have been a flawless repair!
With the warped panels, the bubbling paint and now the rainbow effect on the screen, I wonder how long I'll keep the phone. These little things are definitely bugging me... If I get rid of it, I'll really miss my google edition htc one m8! Nothing like a nexus like experience with a remove-able microSD card. Such a thing no longer exists
Hi,
a couple of days ago my ASUS ZenFone 2 (Z00AD, ZE551ML, 4 GB RAM, 8 GB ROM, 1.8 GHz) started behaving very erratically on its own. It's not been rooted nor has been the bootloader/recovery modified.
OS version was the latest: WW-4.21.40.352.
Before it all happened, I cracked my screen and replaced it.
The phone worked perfecty (aside from the screen not being original (occasional flicker)) for a week, after which I started to lose signal in the SIM1 slot. It took me 6 weeks to realize, it might've been the antenna cable. I disassembled the phone again and inserted the cable again. It then worked perfectly for a couple of days.
Then it looked like it was damaged by water, which of course was not the case.
It started with continuous vibration and black screen, and only a forced shutdown (by holding the power button for a couple of seconds) helped. Then, it started to restart on its own and lose signal. Then the speaker stopped working, until poking its area. And at last, the phone thouht I have View Flip Cover on and all I could do was to force shutdown.
Then the phone didn't wan't to turn on at all. It didn't even charge and was not being detected by the computer.
I then read, one has to pull the battery cable twice and it did help.
The phone worked fine for a day, until it started going into black screen/constant vibration state, in which only a forced shutdown helped.
I followed a guide to redo hard brick and it's helped for a while, but now the phone constantly goes into black screen/constant vibration state at random, the same hapenning sometimes when charging while turned off or when choosing any option in the stock bootloader. It also doesn't boot completely (the ASUS logo shows up much later) and the WLAN doesn't work.
I followed the unbrick guide correctly. I read up, the mainboard might be corrupt.
What do you suggest? I of course, lost my guarantee the moment I cracked my screen.
Many thanks in advance.
Check the connection of the flex cable on the daughter board. Pretty sure there is loose connection.
itsakjt said:
Check the connection of the flex cable on the daughter board. Pretty sure there is loose connection.
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Had to shelf my phone for a year because of this. Gotta clean the connector and press the cable in there good.