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[Nexus 4 General] ryaniskira:
It's probably the battery. You did mention the voltage just drops when the battery is placed in it. I would try ordering a replacement battery and swapping it out and charging it and see if it will start up again.

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[Nexus 4 General] drewlashan:
Did anyone who bought a replacement battery get the Nexus 4 working again? I don't know whether buying a new battery will work. Anyone?
[Nexus 4 General] bikemanmac:
Battery issue

Hello, had the same issue this morning. After the phone was connected to it's original wall charger all night long this morning i had the red led :( The battery was about 30% when i plugged it yesterday evening...

I opened it, unplugged the battery, connected a usb cable on my computer (i'm at work) and replugged the battery back in and the phone went on ! :) And the battery is fully charged !

So it can happen when battery is not completely discharged ! I think this a communication issue between mother board and battery...
[Nexus 4 General] naenee:
I just had this happen a second time this morning, charging it as I type this.

*update* manual charge worked again, but I am rather hesitant to keep my phone unplugged, as I do not trust this not happening again.
[Nexus 4 General] lijn:
I must say beforehand that I had had no hardware issues with my phone whatsoever: no swimming with it or similar experiences, no hot battery while charging before; I just happened to try and charge it with the faulty - underpowered usb-port of my laptop, which drained my battery in stead of charging it.

My phone was beyond the red led of death; its battery was so drained that even the red led wouldn't blink anymore. I tried charging it for hours to no result at all.

The battery reset trick as described above brought the dreaded red led back, and after a 20 min. charge it booted into the OS with a 1% charge. Yay! I was already prepared to buy the tools to pry open the phone and charge it as described in the opening post, and I'm glad I decided to read the thread an got to try this first.

So this does work. But I think YMMV if there's other issues at hand.
[Nexus 4 General] shalom06:
I had the same issue the other day, connected it to a otg y cable it worked
[Nexus 4 General] eastrader:
Watch the Qi charger

I am happy to see this post. Got a Qi charger and the first night I set the Nexus 4 on it badly.. I know it makes a tone when placed right but the wife was sleeping so i had it on vibrate.. the next morning it was totally drained and this was the fix using the wall charger. So watch the Qi chargers it can drain instead of fill too.
[Nexus 4 General] felizf:
FYI guys, my phone had the red LED. if i plugged it into my iphone/ipad chargers the light would stay solid red. if i plugged it into my PC and pressed the power button and left it pressed, the phone would vibrate and show "google" for 3 seconds then turn off and blink red. i tried all the combinations i could find and think of to get it to boot. i tried letting it charge for hours on different chargers but no luck. i was very hesitant but decided to open it up and disconnect and connect the battery again and that fixed the issue. again i was hesitant at the beginning but it fixed it. i hope that helps.
[Nexus 4 General] Madfysh:
You tried this combination and didn't help?
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
Absolutely. I have tried combination after combination of button presses and holding and plugging and none of it has done me any good. I have had the same experience as felizf. Hold the power button down while its plugged in and it gives you a second of hope with the Google icon and then it goes away. I still havent opened it up because I simply dont have the screw driver and I am so broke I cant justify it to my wife (seriously we are that broke). But if what felizf says is true then that will fix it. Hopefully I can steal a torx T5 somewhere and open this thing up eventually!
[Nexus 4 General] handols:
I always experience red light of death. Easy way to do this is unplug phone from charger and press volume down and power button to go to bootloader.. Go to recovery (mine has TWRP) and from there, power off the phone. After that, everything boots up normally.
[Nexus 4 General] juanzik:
I changed the battery today I'm trying to recharge a ipod 10W and did not happen anything, any tips? :(
[Nexus 4 General] monal94:
thanks!! cheers
[Nexus 4 General] KovsoL:
not working

Yesterday i received my brand new N4 phone. I am living in Hungary but my phone from US play store. So i cant send it back to google. :(

I have red light of death. The led is continuously red after i plug it into charger.

I tried it multiple times this method above, but not working for me.

I am pressing the buttons for 60 sec no respond from the phone. Should I see something during/after i pressing the buttons?

After that i plugged into charger for more then 1hr and nothing happened.

I tried it charging for 12hr and nothing happened.

I tried unplug the battery cable like this guy in the youtube video: Nexus 4 "red light of death" fix (sry i cant link it because i am just registered)

Any idea?
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
This might seem silly but it worked for me. Have you tried connecting the phone to your PC or laptop? I'd not do it. After connecting, it showed battery charging icon. I kept it that way for 5 minutes and then connected the wall charger. The red light was gone :D
[Nexus 4 General] sc300jz:
So today I got the dreaded red light of death.

My phone died, so I plugged it into a charger for like 15 minutes and tried to turn it on. It would say its not chargin/charging/ not charging. I unplugged my cable and tried to boot it up again and boom red light. Panic, but I did like you guys say just leave it plugged in for awhile. Using my girlfriends ipad charge unit for like 30-45 minutes, then another 15 with the nexus charger, booted it up and it worked! Read 0% battery for awhile.

But it works! Woohoo
[Nexus 4 General] KovsoL:
I tried connecting to my laptop and my pc. I tried charging with 3 different charger. 1A 2A 1,2A

Totally unresponsive. Only the red light show up and no battery charging icon.
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
oh, then you might try the method mentioned in above reply. Hope it works for you!
[Nexus 4 General] KovsoL:
I'll take it to LG service. I hope they can help me.
[Nexus 4 General] fernandosds1:
The red Led happened to me yesterday, and could not load the device through wall charger ... I used the USB and started loading .. But this tip is very valid .. Thank you

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[Nexus 4 General] jokervero:
I tried the method of 60 secs vol up + power and then wall charger now it shows me the battery icon for some seconds and then again and again now i'll wait one hours hoping this is normal.
[Nexus 4 General] THEBANDIT420:
If I were you I would leave it overnight
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
Then it should work :thumbup:

Post the results...
[Nexus 4 General] ka1iban:
Technical question...I'm trying to implement the battery bridge fix for my red-lighted Nexus 4, but I can't get the b*stard tiny screws off the bridge. I've tried #00, #000 and #0000 but they won't budge and I don't have many more tries before they're stripped. Is there a specialty tool LG usues for this or does anyone who's got them off have any tips?

Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] ka1iban:
Neeevermind...got them with a little persistence
[Nexus 4 General] jokervero:
Hey guys I solved but not using the standard charger by LG. I used the chargher of Nexus 7 (2 mA) and with it the phone woke up. :)
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
Good to know that. Does that fix solve your problem?
[Nexus 4 General] phixional:
What if I want to cause this to happen, I kinda want to RMA a second phone before my 1 year warranty is up next month.

I had this issues once before when the Bumper Case from google got stuck over the power button and when I got to work the phone was almost burning my leg. I had to put it in a freezer to get it to cool down but it never worked or charged again.
[Nexus 4 General] ka1iban:
No change so far.

If I unplug the battery, but have the charger/cable plugged in, should the phone be able to run (assuming no other defects)?
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
OK new development. I tried plugging into a computer for the first time. (Dont know why I didnt consider it before) Immediately when I plug it in the red light comes on and stays on for 2 to 3 seconds then off for 2 seconds then the white full battery icon with the lightening bolt comes on for a few seconds. If I hit the power button quickly the white Google pops up and then goes away. If I dont hit anything after the battery icon goes away it goes into the red flashing.

If nothing else this is a different reaction than I normally get. I've tried the power and volume hold for 60 seconds but that has never gotten me anywhere.
[Nexus 4 General] sc300jz:
What I did, was I got it where it doesn't show the red light. When you see the thunderbolt / charging icon, let it charge for a hour straight. Don't touch it at all, then try to power it on.

I let it charged for a hour straight and when it finally booted up it stated it was at 0% and was charging.
[Nexus 4 General] ka1iban:
My LED is solid red and no amount of charging seems to bring any life (or heat) to the device. Don't think the charge port is broken; wondering if it's just that the battery is borked
[Nexus 4 General] novastar1:
This happened to me before. It occurred after some ROM flashing and recovering... I guess it was due to the heat.

Tried all those button combos.. Got frustrated that nothing worked.

Saw a fix on YouTube where a guy opened the phone.... Disconnected the battery port for 5 seconds.... Reconnected and it booted up like normal. Battery was more than 50% (exactly as before it refused to boot) so it wasn't a charging port issue

The back case is easy to open, but you absolutely need the torx screwdriver

All credit should go to the guy in the video demonstration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oATx6fO35tg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
Even I did the same and got the phone back to life. Mentioned this on the previous page of this thread... :good:

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I don't think so but however you can try and see that...
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
The problem is that it only shows the icon for 4 or 5 seconds and then it goes back to blinking the red light at me. So I dont know if that will work for me or not.
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
OK Nope didnt work. Im gonna have to open it up
[Nexus 4 General] naenee:
Hm. Now, for the third time in about two months, I have the red light of death.

I have a spare battery I ordered weeks ago, as I hoped I would not need it. I am wondering - has anyone replaced their battery / had it replaced after this issue? Is replacing the battery a proper fix?
[Nexus 4 General] wilsonlam97:
I found a fix for this issue. Reflash your device with the stock factory image and then place your phone on a wireless charger and try booting it up. It will bypass the charge protection circuit and force your phone to boot back up.

Leave a thanks if this helped you.
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
How can you reflash the device if it is not booting up?
[Nexus 4 General] gustavopaes:
Blackberry charger work

I bought a Blackberry charger and worked. I tried with ipad charger and worked too.

The charger need to have more than 0.5 ampere of input to charge the nexus 4 fully uncharged. The official LG charger have just 0.2 ampere :confused:
[Nexus 4 General] wilsonlam97:
Usually you can still boot into fastboot.
[Nexus 4 General] klisanor:
TLDR: success with nexus wireless charger

After plugging a Chinese 12V car charger to my N4 the device became very hot and in 2-4 seconds it turned off. After pressing the power button the red led began blinking while charging. I was able to go to recovery (I'm on stock, unrooted firmware), but it did not boot.

I tried to charge with wall charger, usb, pressed vol_up+power for 60s, but no luck.

I tried to open the device with T5 screwdriver, but failed (my T5 is small for the screw, T6 is very large).

Going to bed I connected nexus for an overnight charge to usb. After getting up it still did not power on. Red lamp.

At work I put my nexus to the wireless qi orb and it started charging. After 10 seconds of charging I was able to turn it on. It is ok now!

Have a nice day and don't use unbranded chargers (especially car chargers), don't forget to charge the phone.
[Nexus 4 General] Madfysh:
Check again. More like 1.2A.

Though Nexus 4 won't draw more than ~800mA.
[Nexus 4 General] Blockberd:
I guess he checked the INPUT. The OUTPUT is definitly 1.2A. Would wonder if it would just be 0.2A. It would not even charge properly with that low amount of ampere.

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As far as I understood the phone does not even turn on. It is not about booting up. It is about not starting up the phone at all.
[Nexus 4 General] w1ndhawk:
Hi guys,

Firstly, thank you OP for posting this and helping so many people out.

Before I go about performing an open heart surgery on my phone I just want to confirm that it is the same issue and hence I have made this thread.

So here's the story:

Last night my phone gave me the 15% warning but I was too damn sleepy to plug in my phone so I just slept. Next morning I wake up and plug it in only to find the blinking red light. I left it in for an hour and removed it to find it incredibly warmer than normal and of course, it still was not coming on.

So I unplugged it and replugged it into the charger. This time the red light blinked twice and then the white battery sign came up. Only difference is that now a fully charged white battery sign keeps blinking (no red light anymore). When I try to turn it on it reaches the Google Logo before shutting down again.

Would like advice on if I should go about opening up my phone (I prefer not to obviously) or just charge it for 8 or so hours before taking any further action.

Thanks in Advance

EDIT:

I used http://forums.androidcentral.com/goo...rn-charge.html and was able to boot into bootloader mode however, it still doesn't go past the google logo when I select the 'Start' option.

EDIT 2:

Revived phone using above. Might want to try it out before opening up your phone.
[Nexus 4 General] swirly05:
I have the red light... this is still true to do?? Or any other better fix??
[Nexus 4 General] BreakShadow:
Any way to avoid this red light scenario?

It happens when battery drains to 0?

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
Yes, it still holds true. You can try these steps to revive your device.

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Have you tried connecting it to your PC using USB cable? If not, then try it out...
[Nexus 4 General] swirly05:
I dont have a volt meter, whats my next option??
[Nexus 4 General] swirly05:
That page tells me nothing... sorry, maybe wrong link??
[Nexus 4 General] Madfysh:
Is it so hard to read this entire thread?:rolleyes: There are fixes which doesn't involve opening phone.

And this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=43291951&postcount=27
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
OK So I tore the thing open and unplugged the battery. It did not come magically back on unfortunately. I plugged it up and got the same thing I was getting before. I unplugged the battery again and left it unplugged and got it into the boot loader. I've left it there for the time being cause I'm afraid to touch it again. While its in the bootloader I plugged the battery back up and Im hoping it will charge like that. I havent unlocked the bootloader or installed a recovery yet so I cant really do anything but reboot it and that hasnt been sucessful so far.

Any suggestions?

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OK So I tore the thing open and unplugged the battery. It did not come magically back on unfortunately. I plugged it up and got the same thing I was getting before. I unplugged the battery again and left it unplugged and got it into the boot loader. I've left it there for the time being cause I'm afraid to touch it again. While its in the bootloader I plugged the battery back up and Im hoping it will charge like that. I havent unlocked the bootloader or installed a recovery yet so I cant really do anything but reboot it and that hasnt been sucessful so far.

Any suggestions?
[Nexus 4 General] venec:
My battery had that problem, red light etc, I can recover if i plug it in to the wall, but the battery drains extremely fast still. checked the battery voltage and it shows 4.14 V, is this correct?
[Nexus 4 General] maxsum:
I have the red light for several times for overheat. I just open my Nexus 4 and plug off and on the battery, then everything's right.:p
[Nexus 4 General] abhishekjoshi84:
My experience

Bought the phone in India in June. Faced an issue with the touchscreen in July (touchscreen not responsive in the home row). Took it to LG service center and they replaced the touchscreen at no cost in one day. I have never had any issue with any of my previous phones (All Nokia or Samsung) so was a little frustrated, but was happy with the service. I thought may be its one of those defective pieces and may happen to a small number of devices, so its alright, May be I was just unlucky.

I moved to Australia in August and last week the phone shutdown sometime during the middle of the night because of low battery. Next morning when I tried to charge it, it was showing the solid red light. Read around online, for the issue and found many threads giving different solutions. Tried different combinations of buttons pressing them 15 seconds/ 60 seconds/120 seconds. Nothing happened.

Put it on charge for 3-4 days to see if trickle charge works. Nothing happened.

Finally ordered a replacement battery online which I got yesterday. Popped the new battery in and phone came to life. Charged it to 100% and used it for around 8-9 hours. Wanted to be sure that it was all good, so did not charge it before I went to sleep. Battery was at 25% then.

This morning, phone was shutdown and when I plugged the charger in, I again see the red light. Popped open the back again, removed the flex cable of battery for a few seconds and put it back on. Tried to restart, pressing different combinations of buttons for 15 and 16 seconds etc. Nothing worked.

I do not have any old charger so wont be able to defibrillate the battery.

Will probably have to buy a new phone to use while I am in Australia as the warranty is not global and HOPE that when I go back to India in Feb (it will still be under warranty), they replace the phone.

Based on my experience the problem is with the cutoff voltage while battery is discharging. It is not shutting down the phone at a safe voltage level and allowing it to discharge more than it should. Then when the charging circuit gets input from the charger again, it does not allow recharging because the battery is already deeply discharged.

I was looking forward to buying Nexus 5 but looks like I will keep away from any Nexus phones which are built by LG. I would rather buy a Nokia Lumia at this point then buying an LG Nexus device.

I hope google releases their future Nexus devices with Samsung or HTC.

P.S. - Running stock ROM 4.3, never rooted, never ran any performance benchmarks or heavy games.
[Nexus 4 General] Angel0fDeath:
I got the red light of death once . All i did was charge my phone using Google's wireless charger and it turned on after a Couple of minutes.
[Nexus 4 General] hhhh3:
i just got the red light of death, plug through the wall charger whole day also wont charge,the red light blinking all the while, try usb charging also the same..

i try usb charger in the car,it works..so try plug in as many as different charging method might help u to recover the red light of death..
[Nexus 4 General] manfio:
That's Why I never let my battery died.... 5% and then I put in charge always
[Nexus 4 General] RealSlimShadyMC:
1. Disconnect phone from charger

2. Hold power and volume up for 1 minute

3. charge

4. There you go, red LED of death fixed.
[Nexus 4 General] noobiekins:
I solved my red light of death by charging it with a wireless charger
[Nexus 4 General] GurkhaUK:
None of these options seem to work for me... 60 second combos even took the back off and did the battery thing. I am 3 days out of warranty... Yeah I laughed too.

The red light doesnt come on unless I do the combos and it's every 10 secs. When I remove the battery it still does the same thing.

I have ordered a new battery but I dont know whether it will fix it because there is no mention anywhere that it fixes this issue.

Any suggestions?

Sent from my work HTC HD which is pap.
[Nexus 4 General] RealSlimShadyMC:
If the button combo fix didn't work for you, you've broken the hardware. You either need a replacement device, or if you feel adventurous, find what bit of hardware is knackered and replace it.
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
Have you tried USB connection to your laptop or PC?
[Nexus 4 General] PATSmod:
Thank you so much! mangaed to fix my phone using this method :)
[Nexus 4 General] Richieboy67:
This has worked for me one in the past when I let my 4 discharge completely which I try to avoid and have 99.9% of the time.

This is not a huge issue. Just do the steps above and you should be fine.

Sent from my shiny new(bought last Nov), scratch less Nexus 4!
[Nexus 4 General] ozmotion:
I tried the yev.gavrikov's suggestion, and it worked.

Background: One day, screen refused to turn on. Notification led was working, though. I left it on in this state till the battery drained, and after a while, plugged it in. Phone powered up with screen on, finally, but since this point, the battery life has been absolutely terrible, draining after 2-3 hours. I left it plugged in as much as possible, but forgot to one day - the battery drained fully, and would not turn back on.

I got a red light of death upon plugging the charger in. The notification led would show solid red, then disappear after several minutes, presumably indicating "battery voltage too low, not charging". Yes, I tried all suggestions in this thread and elsewhere to revive it - holding down various button combinations, trying to get into recovery mode, etc. I also opened the case and tried disconnecting the battery ribbon.

The voltmeter read 2.75V. I read somewhere that charging logic for lithium ion batteries is designed to cut off once it drops below 3V, so that explains its refusal to charge.

I did what OP did, but I didn't take the battery out (didn't want to cut that blue tape holding it down to hopefully preserve warranty). It was hard to make out the right connections in the picture, but it was pretty clear once you looked at the markings or probed it. The positive side is shared across two of the terminals.

To make things mechanically easier, I found that 26-gauge magnet wire from Radio Shack fits the charging cable socket perfectly. I hooked it up to an old school 5V 550mA phone charger to be safe. After half an hour, the battery was reading 3.4V. I tried plugging in USB again, and voila, the charging animation is there now. Thanks guys, this was a huge relief.
[Nexus 4 General] yev.gavrikov:
:good:
[Nexus 4 General] zobi123:
These types of problems seem to happen to all Google phones, just like my Nexus S how one day it just randomly decided to not power on. Google pulling strings behind the scenes to make you buy the latest model?
[Nexus 4 General] Somairotevoli:
Mine does this often. Just pull the battery manually. No need to charge the battery directly. Just open up phone, unplug battery and plug battery back in. Viola.

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