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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
It says charging to me too ! :)

but capacity says "0" ! :(

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But when i tried to flash XYLON ROM, it stopped in between the process, and did a reboot... I got black screen and flashing LED again ! :(

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It says "unable to open ZIP !!"

"ERROR FLASHING ZIP" !

tried, xylon & CM nightly both !
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sz4kerto:
decreed srbard

Guys,

my issue resolved itself after 3-4 hours of charging. However, it happened again a day later. So I don't think there's too much point in trying to make it work -- it'll be unreliable.

Also, my phone has been running for hours now with 1% battery (when it died, it was around 65%), so the problem is _NOT_ battery depletion, rather some kind of sensing/measurement issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babykings:
I had the same issue on my N4 since three days ago. I am using it in Hong Kong but bought it from US. :(

Is there anyone know how can we deal with it? Or should we let GOOGLE know a lot of user experiencing the same problem. They should do something at least.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yatyuk:
My N4 still bricked..... still red LED, can't turn on and no charging icon.

But i can't believe it is a hardware problem, just used the phone about 2 weeks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babykings:
Nexus 4 US phone number?

I am not in US, anyone can give me the number to call GOOGLE? I will make the international call.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
why not a hardware issue?! my phone was dead after four days use.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lownita:
So this also happens under complete stock conditions?

Has it ever happened to a never touched/unlocked phone? So any toolkit, rom or kernel can't be the causing factor?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pa.pn2:
yeah.there were a few people which had this prob running stock aswell.saw that in a german forum called android-hilfe.de
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
Babykings take look here

http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=2715807&page=ts.cs

Inviato dal mio MZ601 con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katabroc:
Try using TWRP and do not let it go into red light, as soon as you have to boot (following instructions from page 19 and 21) unplug the phone from the PC, and replug it holding volume down. Once you get into TWRP, do all kinds of wipe (factory reset, dalvik, cache, etc) and then shutdown the phone (menu reboot, power off) and let it charge on the PC for many hours (I recovered mine after 6 hours charging).
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3m0x:
Someone can help my with some doubts about RMA, this happends to me

Post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2080483
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
ADB command for status says charging...

but after 5 hrs of charging still the ADB command for capacity says "0" !! :( i guess something fishy is there with the battery controller !
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
I gave up and sent the phone back to LG Canada with an unlocked bootloader.

There was no way for me to turn on the phone, let alone seeing fastboot and accessing TWRP.

My replacement will be here on next Monday.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
I too GAVE UP !!! RMA is the only solution i guess... 'coz I weathered the USB port too much ! so its of no use either ! :P
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3m0x:
We should create the Red Led District xD! :o
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
I gave up too, I'm in your same situation but Monday my N4 will leave for US where it will return for an RMA... sigh I've used it for 2 hours...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
No issues man ! .. I guess LG has also figured something fishy with previous batch ! and hence the new batch is getting HW version - rev11 !!

older was rev10 ! ;)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
I'm afraid mine was rev11, too.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xflowy:
guys. u scared the **** out of me now.

what am i still allowed to do? if even rooting the phone can brick it.

i planned to test some custom roms when i get my n4 next week but now i need some hints on this.

thanks!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pa.pn2:
first rule

do not overclock your device

second:dont do benchmarks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3m0x:
I didnt do any of that, I underclock and undervolt, my phone was stable for 2 days, when my nexus got discharged, never turn on anymore....

So... I dont think OC or Brench are reasons for brick..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pa.pn2:
same with me,no oc, no benching

phone was fine, put it in my pocket, 1 hour later bammm, dead just the red light ****...

i really think LG knows about that prob and dont make trouble with hte RMA maybe

who knows...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powerdoesntrun:
Mine just got bricked', too. Accidentally flashed the wrong kernel and now I don't even get fast boot. At best i get a red light for two seconds, no vibration. I never knew flashing a kernel could break the boot loader. Its my fault but I'm quite pissed. I always thought it was hard top brick, but I did it easily.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Goto page 21 for instructions. And Good luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powerdoesntrun:
Thanks but my screen never turns on and I get no vibration. No quick flash of fsstboot. None of those Combos are working. Only sign of life is windows beeping at me if I hold down buttons and if I'm plugged in when I do it, I get two seconds of red light. I'm so mad at myself I can't stand it
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powerdoesntrun:
Device manager says qhsusb_dload. From what I can tell, that's bad. And all from a kernel.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
I had this one, too. It seemed my n4 went to download mode.

No OC or benchmark. No game, either. Still with stock rom.

None of recovery method in this thread worked.

No choice but sent back for RMA.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babykings:
RMA period

Hong long we can do RMA after buying the phone? 12 months?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pa.pn2:
Someone should open a poll to show how many people had a red light of death with rooted phones and stock phones. Lets see how many people already had that issue...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katabroc:
Third: Only do NAND backups with your phone plugged to some power source.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
No way I've bricked mine doing band wit phone connected to my PC.....

So never do nand :'(

Inviato dal mio Xoom con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xflowy:
so what can i do? nothing? not even root?

or the opposite: try everything and hope for the best (and for not having such a phone with this "issue")?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pHyR3:
fixed

i literally love you risktaker, you save my phone :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaider_516:
my phone is bricked, red led, no reaction from any pc, wont charge from ac and usb. :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
lol ok your welcome I guess.

Can you mention what state your phone was in before you recovered it?

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Leave it plugged in to your AC or PC for a hour or more. It should show you the Battery Logo.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pHyR3:
Yeah, so basically I was unable to mount anything in recovery. Fastboot was fine but I was getting stuck at nexus logo. So i followed your steps and it worked, although I'm left with only 6GB of space which is odd. Attempting to fix that now, have seen other occurences of it on xda so it should be okay.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarni84:
nice! see i was one of the first people this happened too. the "red led of death" is what i called it. and i got bashed for ocing my phone and the whole nine and who knows what really caused it but u know how these guys are. :rolleyes: i think it is something weird with the battery at times or something with the dalvik cache because some people get this when flashing a kernel or if there phone just plain dies. and to people saying u cant do nands without being hooked up u can i have had my second device for the longest time. i do everything the only thing i do not do is ....u ready?....wait for it.......no oc and no benching!!! i flash roms make nands flash kernel and mods and everything is good. only thing is i do not know what lg is doing with these new revisions. only thing i can say is be careful. anyways it is crazy to see that this happened almost a month and a half ago to me and another guy and no one wanted to help or believe because you "could not brick a nexus" which is mostly true but this is an lg device not samsung . samsung has their own version of download mode various other ways to get out of a sticky situation. When i went through this i pretty much had the same symptoms as risk my phone would light red on charger and when connected to pc i could quick get into fastboot for the split second it showed up (had to be quick) i was able to flash a stock image after relocking boot and flashing stock recovery on the phone but nothing i also let it sit on charge all night and nothing also found lg own version of download mode and even tryed there updater tool. it seems the only thing i did not try was the erase cache part....wish i knew that back then! lol it was funny though people attacked not realizing i tryed all this even after stating i did i have been doing this stuff for a very long time also. only asking for help when i was completely out of options. anyway this should not be happening i didnt wanna hear "omgz why would you oc!" it doesnt matter! why do people oc every phone? every time a new phone comes out anyways people think it is the fastest till something better comes along anyways. funny thing is people now are not ocing i was not at the time i did a silly benchmark. i also experienced my phone dying all the way and the red led comes on but i was able to recover that. anyway good luck guys sorry for the wall of words:eek: back then i just wanted people to know that it was happening and people did not give a ****. i spoke to a couple of my buddys who are rec developers and we tryed pin pointing it but there is no way to really pin it to an exact thing or what really happened. all i can say is that this nexus can def be bricked or turned into the led of death or whatever u guys want to call it. just help each other out.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Yea don't worry I had the same issue. I was left with 5.67 GB space :eek:

But then I re-flashed the images again and everything went back to normal.

Good luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaider_516:
should i leave it plugged on my pc even the red light turned off? red light turn off after 5 mins on my usb port.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pHyR3:
Didn't work, tried reflashing then wiping data still had 5.67. Then I went into recovery and wiped data/cache again, stuck at nexus logo. Any suggestions?

Edit: Fixed. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36332424&posted=1#post36332424 I put a little guide down the bottom if you're still having trouble like i did
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Make sure you have the right file of images.

And secondly do a quick search on Google or in the XDA for this issue. Some people had the same problem and they use some different adb commands to restore the proper storage back on.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sato84:
QHSUSB_DLOAD bricked

Hi,

My nexus4 is bricked, and PC can't find the QHSUSB_DLOAD. Is someone know how to fix this problem?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Read pages 18 to 22 & good luck
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaider_516:
What rev version is your bricked nexus 4? My rev10 just got bricked, defective battery is the culprit as per service center.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
How would you be able to tell what version it is?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desynch-:
You'll find it in the bootloader. To reach this, push volume - and power button together until it turns on when device is off.

Or if you have root, download the app "Quick Boot" and click on Bootloader.

edit: corrected keys
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
Did service center send you feedback?

Thanks.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarni84:
Its not a brick then. It is a defective battery its ashamed because i thought this could be the culprit too battery dying and not being able to come back or take a charge. Which also gives u the red light thinking it could be a brick. the reason why I think this too is because one night after what I went through 2 weeks earlier with the red LED..... this time I wasn't doing anything stupid i was stock but the battery was at 13 percentI got the red LED and I left it on the charger for an hour and it finally booted back up at 5 percent. but the question is what causes this? This is what Gets me because people will either be flashing ROMs or over clocking UV, nands etc
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
I don't think this is completely right. I have a rev 10 N4 and I was able to bring it back from the dead.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sato84:
Thanks, I have read the pages.

I can't get into the fastboot bootloader, and I think my nexus4 has run out of the battery. When I connect nexues4 to PC, it can't recognize the bricked deivce with no QHSUSB_DLOAD driver. Should I charge my nexus4 with AC first, but I think it won't charge any.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaider_516:
well, its bricked. they replaced the board and the battery, now its working again.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Yea leave it on AC for a while. Hopefully it boots into the Battery Logo. And go from there.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powerdoesntrun:
This happened to me and I haven't seen any reports of anyone coming back from this. Also still waiting to hear about people's experience with Google's RMA when this happens.

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I've tried this and have had no luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaX05:
Going to try this when I get home. I was able to get it into recovery here at work after 4 hours of flat being dead.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powerdoesntrun:
What did you do to get that far? And from how dead?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaX05:
Have the USB cable from your pc..hold down the volume button for like 5-10 seconds (don't let go) and connect the usb. It's going to take about 3 more seconds for you to feel the vibration and the green android logo will appear.

But that's where I'm stuck. I've deleted and flashed everything via fastboot. Fastboot says success on all of them but once I reboot the device it goes back to the red light issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powerdoesntrun:
Still nothing. My phone must be truly dead
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sato84:
I have solved the QHSUSB_DLOAD problem, install a software named "drivergenuis" and it will help you to install the QHSUSB_DLOAD driver.

But the bricked device is also can't be recogenized as Nexus4. That's really a pity!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robs898:
Hi guys,

I went through this whole thread trying everything. I had red LED then reached download mode but now my phone won't charge at all even overnight and there is zero response when plugged into computer. Have also tried hard reset by pressing all three buttons - nothing. Is my n4 completely dead??
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] torsin:
It is...:crying:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Backfisch:
Very bad information :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsb007:
I can plug with Vol- and get red led blinking and my PC got USB Input Device driver installed. When I let it for a couple minutes, appears a Unknown Device on Device Manager.

I shouldnt get this, right ?

Any ideas what should I do?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psyclism:
Here's my story. Yesterday, while simply reading Facebook posts, my phone spontaneously rebooted. I was running CM10.1 with the stock kernel, no over clocking/undervolting or anything else for that matter. Right after that, the phone went into a boot loop. Tried to get into TWRP, and it would boot into recovery but would spontaneously reboot and reload recovery every 15 seconds or so. So I thought I'd try to replace TWRP with CWM, which flashed successfully, but exhibited the same behavior (rebooting every few seconds)..

Long story short, I tried everything I could find online. I flashed the factory image. Locked/unlocked/relocked the bootloader. Fastboot erased every known partition and manually reflashed each partition from the stock system image. The phone still goes into constant boot loops. It will occasionally make it as far as the welcome screen in Android, but within a minute reboots and the whole process starts again.

I can get to fastboot, and the fastboot screen is stable. I can flash and run all fastboot commands without issue, however ANYTHING I flash appears to be corrupted as soon as it hits the phone.

I'm thinking that something serious happened to the hardware in this phone. I'm out of options really. Should I just start the RMA process and go on or is there something else I might try?

Thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InsaneCheese:
Hi guys,

Yesterday I had my phone stop charging and then when it went flat it just shows an unblinking red led. I've had it go to the charge screen once and gotten it into Fastboot once - both times the phone boots properly and then just dies on me again and goes back to the red led. I've tried charging it with 4 different chargers and a plethora of cables and its been plugged into my PC for the last couple of hours and still no luck.

I'm thinking its an RMA, but am hesitant to send it due to being Bootloader unlocked and running a custom rom.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lownita:
It seems to me that this phone is very vulnerable when it comes to flashing anything to it... ?! The diva of nexus phones, lol.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trueblueram:
AFAIK the behavior you described doesn't seem to be a hardware issue (especially if you were just using it normally) check if you flashed imgs to the wrong partition. Also how long before the problem did u install cm10.1( anything non stock) ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psyclism:
I'd been running CM 10.1 for around 3 weeks. I'd installed the latest nightly on a clean flash just the night before, but had no issues that evening. Put the phone on a Panasonic Qi charger overnight, woke up, and everything worked as expected, with the phone at a 100% charge. I had ALL system components at default. No over/underclock over/undervolt, no custom kernel mumbo jumbo. Just pure, bare bones CM 10.1. However, the reason I'd put on the latest nightly is that the phone had begun sucking battery like mad. I'd installed that version of CM 10.1 over a week and a half earlier. It was losing 20+% an hour with very little screen on time, yet every monitor app I had said nothing was consuming abnormal amounts of battery. Battery Monitor Widget was saying the phone was sucking 600-750ma of battery for 20-30 minute periods just sitting idle at times. Maybe the root cause of that had something to do with this.

I've tried at least a dozen times to reflash anything/everything I could. I've followed every step I could find to re-flash every component of the OS INCLUDING bootloader, radio and recovery. I've used the N4 toolkit. I've done it all manually using fastboot on both my PC and my mac. I've erased partitions many times. It just flat refuses to work.

The part that really confuses me is if I flash the stock recovery, all I see is the dead android with the red triangle above his chest. If I flash any sort of custom recovery, either the recovery refuses to boot, or it'll boot only to then reboot within 5 seconds. And now, at this point, the phone will actually boot into Android, give me the welcome screen, yet locks up solid within a few seconds and reboots within a minute or two.

Anyway, I've given up and just requested an RMA from Google. The replacement should be here Friday.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trueblueram:
Run the flash all bat file, go to stock recovery from the red triangle screen (hold power n tap volume up till the blue recovery screen turns up) wipe cache n data. See of it boots up
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alocyber:
Really bricked...

Hi,

Another Brick Horror Story here, on a 2 months old N4 running a recent CM10.1 nightly and Franko's kernel r53.

I was watching a movie trailer on yahoo's site (probably flash plugin) while plugged into AC power when my N4 just switched off and the Red Led of Death just started blinking... Then I felt the back of the phone was boiling hot!

I thought OK just overheated once again, I'll leave it alone and should be back the next day... but nope...

I tried everything in this whole thread, the only thing that would work is to plug the N4 into computer while holding vol- button, then I could play around in fastboot, but no way to go into recovery.

RMA it is!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] italia0101:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2128392
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alocyber:
Thanks, nice video... a bit scary...

The overheating might have make the battery expand which in turn would cause the same effect described in the video. Could fix manually, but I'll take my chances with the RMA ;)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malavi:
Im in the exact point... well... I get into recovery (stayed there for 4-5 min) & when I click on wipe data it shuted off, so I connected to AC and saw Chargin anim complete.... now it is still connected with no red light , so I can think it is chargin :confused:

Will let it charge all night and see in the mornin....

tomorrow I should try to prees power while still connected, or disconect & press power ¿? :laugh: :confused:

Thanks!

EDIT: Just started while pluged & got "X" bootloop.... then go to recovery> factory reset ...... My N4 its ALIVE! Thanks!!!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
So true man. It is one thing to get a replacement if your phone is defective. Surely flashing the Kendall voids the warranty.

I have done it many times but on a phone that had a single core that really benefited from a boost, you have a quad core cpu with 2 gigs of fast memory and this is not good enough for you less than a week after getting it?

These people should be stuck with no triplanes until we all of our phones.

sent via xda premium with nexus 7
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abnormalreply:
:[

Gonna try diddling around with ADB and the toolkit some more.

Thank you to everyone responding, I'm only limited to 8 thanks per day and apparently I've used them all up already.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayrod1980:
Well this does suck.. and it is not Google's fault that you put some bad software on there, but replacements come from a different pile. Sucks for us limbo people out there, but it's really good otherwise. I'd rather them have replacement stock then sticking it to people that have new defective devices. I had reboots and bad screen lift on my first N7 when it first came out. Well, the device was sold out but they rushed a replacement right out to me. This is one of the only good things about Google's play store.

If you can get back into the tool, I would wipe the phone fully and reinstall the factory image again and see if it works. If it still doesn't work, it seems you really blew something out in the phone.