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[Nexus 4 General] ethugp3pp3r:
Ahhh good thoughts. I've got a replacement battery on the way for that reason... Hopefully it's a problem there.
[Nexus 4 General] kwft:
Nexus 4, 8Gb, in UK

It arrived Sat (2 days ago) @ 80% charge & about 5 mins after unpacking I noticed it was the 8Gb & not the 16Gb I had ordered

Phoned google for RMA - currently awaiting replacement.

Repacked it, took it to work, had a play, installed maybe 3 apps, browsed a lot though - reboxed it afterward. as I had no case & as I didn't want to risk the RMA I decided not to take it next day.

Case arrives from amazon & I'm back to work today, so I decided to risk it - nexus battery almost dead & powered off.

Connected charger - nexus indicates charging on screen when power button is pushed.

As I lift the phone to power it on 20mins later, charging display blanks & red light starts blinking - swap cable, charger & check connections - all ok - nothing but a red light on a dead phone.

*panic*

read internet: wasted half an hour on button combos streetfighter would be proud of

Found this post here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37461951&postcount=3

"Seems to hold up, though, even when pressing on the back of the case where the connection is made (down and to the left about 0.5cm from the "n" on the back of the case)."

After pressing down around there, the red light clears instantly, small vibration & nexus is now charging again.

Am glad I'm sending this unit back, if replacement does this within 30 days then I will give up on LG & wait for next gphone; between this and the glass cracking issues I read of, this may not be the best nexus ever quality wise.

tl;dr Almost virgin Nexus got red light & unresponsive on first charge. After all else failing, firmly pressing the back, directly above the battery connection area immediately revived it...
[Nexus 4 General] nbell13:
So you didn't even take it apart to revive it? Interesting... I haven't had this issue myself in the 2 and a half months with this phone, but nice to know what to do if it arises.
[Nexus 4 General] skezza:
It sounds like it could be dodgy solder joints, although I'm tempted to say that I'm currently ****ting myself. Things like glass cracking doesn't worry me, people are clumsy and that usually will cause that. However, we have no control over the quality of the circuitry inside.

The thing is, the poster above says wait for the next GPhone, it's been announced for next year. So you're going to be waiting a hell of a long time. This phone I hope will suffice while you do so however.
[Nexus 4 General] ethugp3pp3r:
Nice to see that helps. I need a fix that allows me to "pull" on it and then push it again :)
[Nexus 4 General] kwft:
Aye, this is true I had a Dell Streak last 2 and-a-bit years unscathed by scratches or cracking, so I'm not concerned about cracking it by dropping it cause it's got huge glass panels; it's hot nexus + cold surface = back glass cracking (on a kitchen worktop etc) that worries me.

Wouldn't be the end of the world with a case cover over it but still it was a stupid choice for apple in 2010, & just incomprehensible a decision in 2012 for LG.

Well, mebbe not if the next Nexus is that far away, but possibly something fairly close to Google, like a Moto for example.

Anyway, Google emailed shipping notification for the 16Gb today, so we'll see how it goes.

Oh forgot to mention: After my first post, I ran Need For Speed:MW whilst tethered to the charger last night, trying to force a red light. At the end of the 2/3hour session (on & off between work) I quit NFS:MW to return to a battery life of <10% - not sure if it was accurate though as it seemed to recharge very quickly.

Update - recharge was not accurate - read 70% before off & back in the box - fired it up for HW rev & factory reset tonight = 20% battery, 50% 'loss' switched off overnight
[Nexus 4 General] ultimul:
should we understand that this is a general issue? present in all (or almost all) phones shipped in the last batch? maybe same rev. HW?
[Nexus 4 General] kwft:
I'm not comfortable making that call: i r n00b ;)

But for Science:

1st part of S/N: 212KPGS

HW: rev_11
[Nexus 4 General] wklie:
Thanks for everyone's findings. As I'm buying more units of Nexus 4 for friends, this may help. :good:
[Nexus 4 General] skezza:
Well, I ran the Antutu test, I thought **** it, I should be able to. No red light.

I also tethered from my pocket on the train today and I could feel the device getting slightly warmer. Again, no red light.

Could this be a bad batch?
[Nexus 4 General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
I hit the red LED issue today. IT wasn't even benchmarking.

I was playing Ingress. I know Ingress can heat up the phone greatly, but I just started for the day. I had a heavy day of Ingress the previous day, but today I just pulled up to the first portal and my phone BEEPEd/BUZZED with a WSOD. I tried to 2 button reboot and it started rebooting but never finished. Now I get the red LED.

Disassembled the phone, disconnected th battery for 10 minutes. Replugged it in lightly. No good.

I'm pretty bummed. I'm ok with RMA because I live in the USA and I have spare phones, but it's my data I'm more concerned about. I've jumped from phone to phone in the past 18 months and I carry all the texts over. All my data from 2009 has been transplanted over phone to phone. Now I lose it all.
[Nexus 4 General] ethugp3pp3r:
FYI, the phone has been working now for 1.5 weeks, folded a small piece of paper ~5 times over and taped it to the top of the batter to act as a stand-off. The battery screws are also disconnected. Seems to be weathering very cold and very hot extreme temperatures. (-5°C -- 30°C)
[Nexus 4 General] aznbb4l:
this should be sticky!

I had the same issue (red light death) and solved it by opening up the case....

the unfortunate part is I was unable to unscrew the battery plate because it was extreme tight!!! (it broke 2 of my screw drivers, and the other screwdrivers weren't working - it was just grinding away the grooves...)

Anyways, I had no other choice than to use a guitar pick to move the plate around / detaching it from the cellphone to get the same battery pull effect...not too sure if it really worked...

after putting everything back together, power button still won't turn this on...

so I called Google Play support to get a RMA started

and in the meantime I plug in into the AC power source while I was put on hold...

then, all the sudden, my phone turned on....

surprisingly, I find that my battery was completely drained....

right before Nexus 4 turned off and had the red light issue, it was at 33%!

Now, thinking back earlier in today... I remember I checked my cellphone once at the battery was at around 60%

when I check 20 min later, it was back at 93%...

based on my personal observation, it's possible that there's a software glitch thinking that it's still at 33% - when it's nearly drained it's entire battery.... I can't say this for all, but it kinda fits the symptom of many people have a tendency to have this "red light death" problem when they have low battery....

however, my explanation doesn't explain why those ppl with the same issue can't turn the phone on EVEN after connecting the charger...

but at least, I find the OP's method very helpful! thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] germain99:
Dude, not possible Major discovery, Real major discovery!!!

I have solved, thanks to you, my red led issue. I did exactly what you said, opened the phone, unplugged the battery wire a couple of minutes and plugged it in again being careful not to screw to tight and voilà, that's it, booted normally.

FYI for others looking in to it, here is my story:

Something happened (don't know what) where the phone got very hot and battery drained like crazy fast but it still worked. Then I woke up the next morning and it was dead!?! Then I tried every trick 3 buttons, vol+ power, vol- power etc. Nothing! Then I plugged it in the wall (I didn't charge it before trying everything to wake it, because it was charging all night or so I thought) and the red led started flashing? Tried again every trick with the buttons, while plugged in, nothing except for the stupid red led. Plugged in to the computer, again with the button tricks, nothing except again the stupid red led flashing. So I went to work leaving it charging in the home wall charger all day, came back, you guessed it, stupid red led.

Went to get T5 torx and a guitar pick and man, am i glad that it is fixed. BTW, my battery was at 30% so while red led flashing it is not charging!!!!

Thank you soooo much!!!!!!
[Nexus 4 General] famoustito:
the weirdest thing just happened on the way today to my hotel in Sacramento my N4 was plugged in to my cheap car charger while using my navigation i notice the battery was draining and not charging but showed the charging symbol! and then the phone shut down and the dreaded flashing red light came on! I got to the hotel plugged my phone into my wall charger and as I googled it i was distraught to find out that there was no fixing this issue! Keep in mind that when i plugged my N4 to my wall charger it started flashing the red lights again! So like after about 15 min i walked over to where my phone was left plugged in i notice it wasn't flashing anymore.. I pressed the power button to fire it up and whaaalaa the sucker booted on!!
[Nexus 4 General] prabs99:
It works.

Thanks for posting. Left my phone in recovery mode doing a back up and ended up with the red light. Your fix works. Thanks.
[Nexus 4 General] marceld83:
All of this, but no revival for me i'm afraid. I live in Netherlands, so RMA is not an option. No root, all stock. If I undo the battery, screen will display charging battery. As soon as I reconnect the battery with loose screws, it gives me the f**ing red light. It does not blink it stays on fow a couple of minutes. Phone doesn't do anything though...

Any more options to pursue? I think I have read most discussions but I can't see anyone with the same issue. Anyone?
[Nexus 4 General] frnt:
i don't if this will work, but have you tried cleaning the connectors? maybe with cotton bud & alcohol?

vote for STICKY!!!
[Nexus 4 General] famoustito:
The same red lights happened to me! When I used a cheap car charger! Then when I got home I left it plugged for about 10 min with the original charger and the phone booted up! O have not since then had this issue again cause I avoid using cheap chargers!
[Nexus 4 General] n1ggyn1ce:
so I've had my phone since November of last year with no problem My battery was at 65% at night so I decided to charge it. I don't know how long exactly I let it charge but when I checked on the battery status it was suddenly at 100% full. I was miffed at how unexpectedly fast it charged but didn't think too much of it. Later in the evening my battery went from 100 to 56%, I was in the middle of texting when I had trouble sending texts, then all of a sudden my phone shut off completely. Couldn't power it on so quickly grabbed my charger, saw the red light blinking and freaked out. I was able to turn on my phone but as soon as my homescreen appeared it shut off automatically and the red light started blinking again. Had to reboot 3 times before my phone finally stayed on. Now it's charging normally and is currently at 5%.. Looks like some bug where my battery status was completely off, also I didn't get any notification that my battery was low at 14%. Also, my wallpaper disappeared when I was able to reboot..weird. Fyi, been rooted 2 months and never experienced any issues until now.
[Nexus 4 General] Ryther:
Hi all! I had my n4 for 1 day, rooted the hell out of it right away with slim bean and Franco kernel and got no problem at all (this was in the evening). The next day I went to work and tried a couple of antutu tests and then put the phone on charge with the pic pc usb. A couple of hour later I plugged it out, looked at the screen and it was working. Went out of work five minutes later and when I tried to switch it on it wasn't responding... infamous red light...tried everything but it still showing red light. When I tried to open it and unplug the battery I smelled a burning odor. I reconnected it immediately but it's still dead.

What's the right procedure?

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 4 General] gravitysandwich:
Did anyone check their temps? I remember I hit 70 degrees (Celsius) once on android 4.2.1 stock kernel.I had the red light on antutu and I ran it cause I was being stupid lol. But I'm one of those lucky guys that charged their phone overnight and got it working. After that went straight to adb, typed fast boot OEM unlock. Then flashed twrp and francos.img problem solved! :)
[Nexus 4 General] lowtje:
Do you have the new batch with the nubs?
[Nexus 4 General] Ryther:
You mean the the two, very small, rubber nubs on the lower part of the phone? If yes,I have them!

Edit: opened it again, unplugged the connector, plugged the phone in the charger, waited, but no battery indicator appeared... plugged back the connector and still no luck...packed everything hoping for RMA, but I'm Italian and I fear the worst :(
[Nexus 4 General] jfpesant:
It works !

:good: Two thumbs up !! :good:

I had to disassemble my N4 recently - screen replacement :crying: - and the red notification appeared a week after. I was about to purchase a new battery when I found this thread.

I slightly unscrewed the battery connector, and it works like a charm !
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
Same problem here. If I hold down the down and power I get the bootloader to come up but nothing else. Ive left it on the charger Ive taken it off. I think the battery is dead and the motherboard wont let it charge. So I think I need to manually charge the battery like this thread shows. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2250454
[Nexus 4 General] marceld83:
I have solved the issue by opening the phone and disconnecting the battery. Reconnect it after at least 10 seconds and hold the power on for at least 30 seconds - Respawn! Still going very strong, best phone I've ever had :)

Only do this when warrenty is over, because you might void warrenty by opening up the phone yourself...

Good luck!

Marcel
[Nexus 4 General] pramyhoga:
[MENTION=4252960]marceld83[/MENTION]. You are so brave with that step, but also will be a very useful experience for other user with a same problem

Hope that problem wont happen to my device ,:D

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
Hi everyone, i would've posted this on the development forums, but since I'm not allowed, I'm posting here.

I saw in here that Nexus S radio images are flashable in Galaxy S phone without issues. I'd like to know if anyone tried flashing any working Galaxy S radio image in a Nexus S. If yes, how did you do it?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Why would you, though? The Nexus S radio are pretty damn good.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
Yes, I've seen that. But there's a particularity of Galaxy S radio that I'm interested in. I've just seen in a friend's Gal. S phone that the radio reports some messages to framework that the Nexus S doesn't. So, I'd like to check if changing the image will make the Nexus S report these messages. None of the radio images for Nexus S send this messages, don't know why.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
I've tried to flash radio-cm-7-GalaxyS-JVU-signed.zip, with no success...

Unzipped the modem.bin and renamed it to radio.img.

Tried to flash with fastboot, but the image check fails... Any ideas?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Hm? What about it? You got my curiosity.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
Some proactive commands sent from the sim are not treated in Nexus S as they were supposed to. Some of these proactive commands are treated in Galaxy S radio image.

But as I said, I tried renaming and flashing a Galaxy S radio image on my Nexus S and it didn't pass the image verification. In boot load mode it says:

"Verify Image (RADIO): Failed"

I don't know why it is failing. I'm looking at fasboot code right now, but haven't seen anything. Guess I'm not in the right place.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
You could always try to write it via recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=989490&stc=1&d=1333848754

Replace radio.img in this zip with yours, cross your fingers.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
Humm.. I'm willing to do this, but I'm not able to see sdcard partition on nautilus... Gonna check this and report back.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
I was able to start the flash process through recovery, but it did not complete (or even started, I guess).

Output goes:

-- Installing: /sdcard/my_image.zip

E:Can't find misc

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Installing update...

Writing radio...

assert failed: write_raw_image("/tmp/radio.img", "radio")

E:Error in /sdcard/my_image.zip

(Status 7)

Installing aborted.

I'll look for this write_raw_image assertion, I'm assuming this is the same error in fastboot flash...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
I was able to flash a galaxy S radio image on Nexus S, but for my surprise (sadly) it doesn't send the messages I was expecting. Maybe the radio images for Galaxy S I9000B are different. I'm looking in to that now.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leap_ahead:
any news i want to try that radio if working correctly
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HugoS:
I was able to flash Galaxy S image with polobunny said. I used ClockWork recovery (latest) to flash it. But as I said, I didn't get the messages I was waiting for. Another thing is that I wasn't able to flash radio image from I9000B (brazilian version), don't know why yet. Recovery says it flashes ok, but baseband version on android settings doesn't say the samething :P
[HTC One V] bahubali67:
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So anybody interested can try this.

http://www.flipkart.com/byte-corseca-bt-stereo-headset/p/itmd6vw6mnamrtut

Hit thanks if I helped u!!!
[HTC One V] zedorda:
Too bad you have to be in India to buy it.
[HTC One V] bahubali67:
Check out in amazon
[HTC Droid DNA] adamjeeps:
Trying to install Hatka ROM and I am to the point I flashed the ROM and it is stuck on fixing permissions. I can't get out of this screen. How do I get out and reflash my nandroid backup? Thanks!
[HTC Droid DNA] adamjeeps:
Was able to get back to recovery by holding power button. Now to try this again.
[HTC Droid DNA] Flyhalf205:
Which version of TWRP you using?
[HTC Droid DNA] uppon2:
Fixing permissions can take upwards of 15 minutes. You have to be patient lol. I have zero doubt that you simply didn't wait long enough
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] trytogetme:
Hi.

yesterday i installed Win7 finish on my device. I used the youtube tutorial to make my SD Card dual-boot ready. Win7 runs perfect.But android dont want to start. I tried this one (american android) and the one from this video (YT) but I only see the bootscreen. And nothing happens.

What am I doing wrong?

The Native-SD solution doesnt work for me. I want an SD - Only Android Image. (But I only found Android 2.xx, not Android4)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] aaminotti:
Hi,

I installed Jellybeam v5 with Lupus kernel and the 3G not work. Any solutions? Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] andogeek10:
Have you entered your apn?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] aaminotti:
Yes, it comes automatic. I check the config and its ok, but the phone not connect in 3G or 2G, nothing.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] arberinho:
I have the same problem :\
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] aaminotti:
I changed to ICS LUPUS kernel and pureness v5 and all its ok now.
[HTC Sensation] Smexhy:
Hello. I run on ViperS 1.6.3 and I play Subway Surfers on my phone.

The problem is that when the phone runs off of battery and I turn it back on, some sort of cache (i think it's the cache) gets wiped (the time/some settings)(the time gets auto-set afterwards anyway) and with that the Subway Surfers' data too.

I tried to discharge the phone while i was on albinoman's 4.2.1 ROM and that wouldn't happen.

The "Set the time" notification wouldn't appear when I would boot the phone from a full discharge, knowing it doesn't wipe any cache.

I am good with it but I like the sense ROM more(faster performances).

My question is that if is there a way to make the sense ROM to never delete any sort of cache so none of my progress is lost? Thank you for reading , any reply is really appreciated!
[HTC Sensation] Smexhy:
BUMP
[General Questions and Answers] adrianjwf:
How to root A777 MID tablet? I tried everything found on the internet but I could not root.Can someone help me to route Tablet? Can not connect 3g modem I can not log into google account, can not do anything without root access
[General Questions and Answers] mbm262:
nice selection, to root that your going to need a program written in Chinese most likely since all the hardware for it is written that way but that shouldnt be too hard. before we start here

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT: by choosing to do any of the things I have written here for you, you assume full responsibility for whatever happens, I DO NOT and CAN NOT be held responsible for anything you do! I have provided you with a way to do what you asked. YOU assume full liability regardless the outcome.

1st. your gonna want to go to Google, yahoo, Bing, whatever one you choose and download a translator from Chinese to English (i assume you speak English obviously) anyways you need this to translate whatever program your gonna be using when you find it...

2. do a search online for your tablet model, be as specific as possible, version number, serial numbers, kernel version and you should find a bunch of links but they will be in Chinese ( this is what the translator is for) when you find the links in your search engine copy the writing to your translator and it should convert it to English this way you can see the description of the programs your looking at.

3. when you find one you think is the rooting software download the program and open to folder location, you should see a few folders, maybe an exe. maybe not but there should be names in Chinese on every folder, copy an paste the names to your translator until you find the name for the EXE. thats the program that runs it, you may also want to look for an instruction manual too via the same method because the actual program and script instructions are gonna be in Chinese as well but your computer should have no trouble running it you just wont be able to understand the instructions so before you actually run it for real on your device copy tose instructions to translator to see how to root your device, most likely the program is going to have choices you need to make just like and SPF program does LINUX or RSD lite, ect ect...

4. I know this is getting to be a long process but I did this with a laptop I was given 2 years ago and it worked fine after a few try's with different programs I found. you also have to make sure the software/hardware on your computer is compatible with whatever is on the tablet and the rooting program, if you cant find a rooting program thats compatible unfortunately this method wont work because the program to root will not work on your computer is its not compatible.

Good luck.
[General Questions and Answers] arodr:
drivers

did you find eventually find the drivers ? Im in the same need...

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] adrianjwf:
No nothing . I can`t find nothing
[General Questions and Answers] boebboe:
Actually the TomTec Excellent 7 is rooted by default.

Latest official firmware is available @ tom-tec.eu/pages/firmware.

adb root
adb shell

And you'll notice you have root access to the whole system :).
[General Questions and Answers] adrianjwf:
I finaly rooted with vroot