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[Nexus 4 General] chicharron00:
Tried Everything.. your phone is probably F$#kd

I also got the RLOD. In my case I had my phone plugged in to the charger overnight (So I was sure I didn't drain the battery). In the morning I was checking email or FB or something. all of the sudden bam phone froze and had to turn it off and wont come back on. unplugged from charger, tried again, nothing. plugged back to the charger and there it was the solid red light.

I tried every possible solution found here and in any other forum. All button combinations 15,30,60,90 seconds, nothing worked. Left it charging for hours/couple of days, nothing. Tried manually charging batter by using an old charger as suggested by OP, no luck

Even bought a new battery hoping it was just that and still didn't work.

So there you go. it's not necessarily a battery issue so if you tried everything said here and didn't work for you I wouldn't spend the money to buy a new battery (I know its only $15) unless you borrow it from someone else and know it works.

Cheers

PS: I had this issue like a year ago and the button combination worked that first time.
[Nexus 4 General] zedonetx:
None of them was useful. Red blinking led problem continues. I have just ordered a new battery BL-T5 from Ebay for $4.

I will let you know when i have it (at least after 2–3 weeks :)

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=111728392826&alt=web

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[Nexus 4 General] S3-N4:
Worked for me!

Happened to me too. Although some have speculated that the red light indicates a "safe" trickle charge, my volt-meter never registered a draw of more than 0.01-0.03A in this mode - and then only intermittedly.

I initially ready the battery's voltage as 3.08V (!!). Like you said, it was too low for the charging circuit to recognize.

However, instead of connecting wires to the pins with tape and prayers, I alligator-clipped a spiced USB cable to my multimeter's respective + and - wires. Then I held the sharp multimeter prongs to the pins on the battery. It took about 30 seconds for the voltage to rise to around 3.45V - and you can monitor the voltage in real time to boot. Now my N4 is happily charging again. :D:laugh:

So, yeah, pretty simple fix. Also, a true tinkerer always has a spliced USB cable on hand :good:
[Nexus 4 General] zedonetx:
I replaced nexus4's battery with new oem one. Charging phone for 20mins. No signs of light. Nothing happened :( what can we try more?

---------- Post added at 09:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:21 PM ----------

Here you can see my new replacement battery for nexus 4 red light of death problem. It shows 3.34 Volt on multimeter. How can i wake this phone up?

By Charging all night?

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---------- Post added at 09:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:43 PM ----------

I tried to charge the battery externally.

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[Nexus 4 General] zedonetx:
I had the same case as you. I tried every possible ways, but nothing worked! Do you still use ur nexus 4? I am tired of it, and have been leaving it in the box for 6 months. If you have a small hope or a little spark, please let me know :(
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
What happens when you connect it to pc ? or laptop? that had worked for me
[Nexus 4 General] veetosmies:
Hi! I have same problem with my nexus 4 when i hold vol. up and power and connected it to charger the red light will be steady for some seconds, and then it starts to blink.

Also I left the phone to charge for about 3-5 hours and stil blinking red ligth.

So can i fix my phone or is it broken?
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
Read my posy above yours :thumbup:
[Nexus 4 General] veetosmies:
Still not working when i connect it to pc the light will be steady for some seconds then it starts to blink..

And my pc recognize but i can't do anything to it
[Nexus 4 General] j.kunnel:
Manual Charging

Hello,

Can anyone explain the process of charging the battery manually...?

like..

what type of old nokia charger and stuff...

Thanks!!!
[Nexus 4 General] j.kunnel:
How to charge the battery

Hey...

I want to know to process for charging the battery manually...

What type of old nokia charger are u talking abt?

How to connect it to the battery?

the battery (BL-T5) has 4 connection points, however u mentioned that v will require only 2 thin wires...

Thanks in Advance!!!:)
[Nexus 4 General] veetosmies:
My PC says that it is a input device.:confused:
[Nexus 4 General] bharath_bbx:
Even i had the same problem with my phone.When there is no sufficient power supply to the phone when the battery is dead,RED light is indicated.Change the power supply to a wall charger or to a charger which works pretty well and the problem is solved.
[Nexus 4 General] yev.gavrikov:
Glad that it helped to you :)
[Nexus 4 General] omgwtfitsp:
If anyone is still somewhat active on this thread, maybe you can help me with my red light of death situation? I currently don't have the tools needed to follow this guide but I'll explain my situation.

I had just done a factory reset of my phone and was running stock rom and stock kernel, rooted and unlocked boot loader. I was preforming a nandroid backup of my phone and had it on the ac charger overnight. I fell asleep during the progress but I do remember seeing the back up progress bar going fine. I woke up to find that the red light was flashing on my phone only when plugged in though.

What's weird is that when I tried plugging it in via usb to my computer, I get a moment of solid red light, then a screen with the battery and lightning bolt appears for a moment, then it goes back to flashing red light. So I mess around with it, I re-plugged it and when I get the battery screen I hold the power button, and this appeared to work because I got the black screen with "Google" on, but only for a few seconds before it goes back to flashing red light.

Some of you may say that I should just keep it on charge for a few hours maybe? But my problem is that it has already been on charge over night so I'm somewhat confused. At the moment I have it on usb charging with the red light still flashing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated?
[Nexus 4 General] P00t:
I had red light led but I didn't have to open up my phone.

I was able to get into recovery/boot loader so I just returned to stock rom then back to rooted roms.
[Nexus 4 General] omgwtfitsp:
Well that's great to hear, but doesn't really help in any way lol. How did you get the red light and what ddi you do to fix it?
[Nexus 4 General] techienilay:
Red Light , not going off !

Red Light , does it also mean something else other than the battery thing , cause when I removed the battery and I checked the voltage , it was around 3.5V , I tried pressing buttons for 60sec and stuff , nothing worked , since then I tried charging it with the default Nexus 4 wall charger for 5-6 hours , still the Red Light wont go off ! Please help ! :crying:
[Nexus 4 General] RohanM:
My only query is how the red light lights up ?? by default my N4 never shows any LED while charging.. so using light flow for that....
[Nexus 4 General] EvoXOhio:
Guys this is complete overkill. There is a documented process for fixing the red light of death. Basically you need to do a battery pull and then let it charge for awhile. HOWEVER, there is a way of simulating a battery pull without actually doing it:

1. Unplug phone from charger

2. Press and hold the volume UP button plus power button for 60 seconds.

3. Release buttons.

4. Plug into charger

5. Wait about an hour for it to charge.

That's it. This is a documented and published fix from LG and Google. The pressing of the buttons does something to simulate a battery pull - probably some sort of flushing of any remaining current out of the phone or tripping some sort of e-fuse like feature.
[Nexus 4 General] ch3l3f:
Thnx for the fix, mine went from blinking red, to steady red, and then no signals of life whatsoever. Just unplugged battery and plugged it back, charged, few hours later I was flashing my Lil heart off. A friend also told me that I could have connected it to a usb port and that slow trickle of power would eventually revive it. I couldn't try his fix because I had already done the one posted here.
[Nexus 4 General] Krazhil:
If someone tried this successfully, an admin should sticky this.
[Nexus 4 General] EvoXOhio:
I've done it successfully multiple times. Antutu always causes a red light of death for my phone when I'm running the Franco kernel. I've used these steps to fix it.
[Nexus 4 General] Federico_96:
In my opinion is strange that the red led blinks only when the battery is fully drained and not when it's at 1-2% for example...
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
I gave this a try and it was a no go. I hadn't tried to charge it for a few days, I held the buttons downs and then put it on the charger. The white charging icons came on and I left it on the charger for more than an hour. When I tried to turn it on again, the white icon came on again for half a second and then the red light was flashing again. I tried the whole process again but it just blinked red again. Any other suggestions? I really don't want to open this thing up.
[Nexus 4 General] Akatosh:
I just ordered this phone and noe I'm reading this thread and I can't help but being a bit paranoid, under what circumstances does it happen and how rare is it?
[Nexus 4 General] rayiskon:
don't worry about it. just put your phone on charge when it's around 5% and you should be safe. my friend's nexus 4 often shuts down (out of juice) while he's still at work and he never had the red light problem.
[Nexus 4 General] RohanM:
But this is stupid for a phone with non-removable battery.. someday at somepoint u may run out of battry & cant charge it, like at midnight while u re sleeping...
[Nexus 4 General] live_n_loud2501:
Yes I've done that. I charged my phone for 2 hours and it automatically booted. Thanks :thumbup:
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
Yeah I've tried this several times and I get the red light every time I plug it back in. I've let it flash like that for an hour or longer (overnight once) and tried it again but still nothing. When I plug it in, I can hold down the power button for about 10-12 seconds and the Google logo comes up for a second or two and then it goes back to black and the red light flashing. If I hold the volume down and the power for 10-12 seconds I get a few seconds of the recovery menu and then it goes to black. If I hold volume up and down and power for 10-12 seconds I get a download screen for a second or two and then back to black. I've been looking to find a screw driver from an IT guy but he came in today and he didn't have anything small enough. I feel like there is some sort of combination to get this thing working I just cant figure it out.

Does anybody else have another suggestion without taking the back off? Or has anyone not had success taking the back off? I'm afraid that won't work either.
[Nexus 4 General] Treshy:
are you able to read? it says press it for 60 (sixty) seconds... just hold it even if it boots up... that should fix it

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9070P
[Nexus 4 General] Sabbra:
agreed!

This anoys me a lot
[Nexus 4 General] nikolas22t:
had the same problem , left the phone to charger for 25minutes and then was turned on by it self ,
[Nexus 4 General] Superpopsss:
Tried this and no go for me :(.

Ordered a new battery for 15$
[Nexus 4 General] babymatteo:
Just flipping the top part of the cable bridge worked for me. To think that I almost bought another Nexus today. Lol. Thanks you XDA for saving me!
[Nexus 4 General] traviscannon:
Are you able to read? I said I've done that several times and nothing happens. I then explained what I did get to happen and if anybody has any suggestions. So you cant read and you dont have a suggestion, thanks.
[Nexus 4 General] m3nster:
Aaaaw my dear N4, blinking red! :crying: It all happened when i was charging the N4 overnight and my pillow got on top of the phone. This morning it was so freaking hot and blinking red... After letting it cool down, and ;leaving it for several hours in the wall outlet still nothing.

Tried the 60secondes trick with the power and volume button, nothing :confused:

So we are up to opening up the N4, used http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZDAIgwbXk4 for reference.

Removed the flex cable that holds the battery and the N4 together, then i put my N4 on the power and the Google logo blinks up in the screen. So i removed the power and put back the flex cable.

Than i once again gave the N4 some power.. And it's says the battery is charging. OMG! Did this fix it? Just gonna leave it there until fully charged, and we'll see.
[Nexus 4 General] nasirkhan18:
tnks bro... probl solv

:good:
[Nexus 4 General] imeem:
what causes this to happen? I just ran Antutu with OCed settings and then i got the red light. I did this a few minutes ago and months ago and nothing happened back then. I ran aututo with 50% battery. I tried to turn on my phone on again after a few mins charging and it shuts down.
[Nexus 4 General] Zaihanzainal:
I don't exactly know what happens when the red light comes on but my guess is somehow it overheats then drains the battery immediately to below zero... Cos it has happened to me a few times while backing up roms and clean flashing new ones.... What I normally do is put the phone in a cool surface and let it cool down completely, then plug it in to the charger for about 10mins then try to switch it back on... Seems to be working fine for me
[Nexus 4 General] liam.lah:
There is no way it is actually instantly draining to zero. The energy in that battery exists and has to go somewhere. Consider how hot to the touch the phone becomes during heavy usage, you can run maybe 40%+ battery down in an hour, and it becomes hot as hell. It's inconceivable that the same amount of energy could be released from the battery in minutes or seconds without the thing melting. I don't know for sure what is going on, but I'm confident it's not really at 0% battery when it happens to me.
[Nexus 4 General] alsan1000:
Thanks a lot guys!!! This method REALLY HELP me!! :D:o

You do a good things! :good:
[Nexus 4 General] Techguy18:
The thing is when you run any stress app on the phone (eg antutu), it runs the cpu at 1.5ghz all cores on.. the gpu also clocks up.. this sudden surge is clock speeds leads to a sudden surge in current required. my guess is that when all of a sudden so much current is drained from the battery (im not saying the entire battery!) the battery cannot keep its voltage up. The voltage drop turns of the phone... Now.. it takes time for the battery to slowly regain its voltage... The LED in the phone is connected to the power controller of the phone.. so the system must be in such a way, the led flashes when there s very very little power in the phone. So, most fixes are to remove the terminals of the battery (the connector). DO NOT CONNECT IT TO ANY EXTERNAL VOLTAGE SOURCE!!!!

This should help the voltage build up faster... then after 10 minutes put it back in.. then connect to a wall charger and charge it and hope it powers upp.. if the issues persists, keep the phone coonected..

Connecting it to a 5volt source is something you dont wanna do.. the battery voltage is 3.8volt and the 5volt voltage might mess up the contoller or damage the battery cause usually a 5volt usb power source is STEPPED down to battery volatge on the motherboard... connecting 3.8 volts to the battery for a few seconds should be okay... but i dont recommend it
[Nexus 4 General] viruxe:
I tottaly had to chip on this. Yesterday I was in bed playing a game on my phone. The 14% battery warning displayed and I continued to play the game. After a while the phone completly shutdown. I tried to power it back on because I was sure I still had some battery left but to no avail. Sure, plugged it back on the wall charger and left it over night to charge. Today I wake up to find the f*cker blinking the red light of death. Wouldn't boot up with anything I tried. Searched google for some kind of fix and found this thread. I said to my self cool I'll try something later, because I was in a hurry to go and do my stuff.

So, came back home, plug it back in the charger and still same thing. So I kept on reading because I really didn't want to open my 6 month old phone and I can't really send to RMA because I bought it in the UK when I was working there and I'm not there anymore. Someone said to leave it plugged in the charger for a few hours, so I did. The light went off, I tried to boot and it did! Hope this helps someone out.
[Nexus 4 General] Sharvil Birodkar:
Dont Give Up

@viruxe:cowboy:

Buddy Dont Give Up the Solution mentioned on this Thread is the Only thing we can do it from our-side,

Its a Design Fault of Nexus4 :crying:

I Did this Procedure on my 1 month old phone, its not that hard just needs little bit patience.

And dont keep it on Charging Its of No use ur phone Motherboard is not allowing the phone to charge the battery

Go ahead you can do it

See this Videos it will help a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oATx6fO35tg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c74GxYvs4Sw

Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] Rusty!:
Did you read his post? He didn't give up and he fixed his phone!
[Nexus 4 General] naenee:
Hi there,

I've had my phone suddenly turn off a few times in the past months and now the problem has progressed to:

1. It would show a red always-on light for about a night (left it charging)

2. It now blinks red, but does not do anything else

3. I can turn it off with the power switch, then I will see the battery charging animation, but it doesn't seem to build up any charge.

When I remove the cable, hold the power button while plugging in the cable, the red light will blink, after that the phone will vibrate and I will see the familiar Google logo, but it does not boot up.

I did not order this phone from Google as my country does not support it and have already had the screen replaced recently.

I would like to know whether there's a near-certain chance whether the battery is faulty since, if it is, I will order a new one and replace it myself.

If there's any further information I should provide before a conclusion can be drawn, please do not hesitate to ask.

Thank you kindly for any assistance provided.

PS. Trying the 'hold power+volume up for 60s, then put on charger' method now, I'll go for my lunch break now and verify later whether it has changed anything.

*update* That did not change anything.

PS. Ordered a new battery, it should be in tomorrow - I did not have enough patience to wait for a reply it seems. I hope this'll do the trick though - part of me fears it might be the mainboard?
[Nexus 4 General] cue_32:
Did you try removing the battery from the phone and then plugging in the USB charger without the battery? Do you still have the red light?
[Nexus 4 General] naenee:
Nope, that's something I have not tried. Incidentally, I do not have my new battery in yet, seems they're a tad slower delivery-wise than advertised. But I'll post here as soon as I know more.
[Nexus 4 General] Stark X:
Its happened twice with me ! once while playing mc4 ,on stock ROM , and now today on antutu v4 @1.73 ghz !

luckily for me charging it for a few minutes worked ! :laugh: :good:
[Nexus 4 General] hackahero:
Which is EXACTLY what happened to my Nexus 4 before Google replaced it a couple weeks ago. I bought the phone around the end of Jan or early Feb. and I was running an Antutu benchmark and looked away from my phone for a moment to watch TV and looked back and the phone was off. I then started to charge it and got the blinking red light of death and it never came back on after... So I called Google and they happily replaced it since I bought it directly from them. All I had to do was put up $388 for the purchase of the new phone until they recieved confirmation of my old phones arrival at the LG warehouse. I was quick at sending my old phone and recieved my old phone the exact same day they got mine and they released the money back to me the same exact day. My phone was oem unlocked and rooted so anyone that is worried about that can rest assured that I didn't have any problem as the phone probably wouldnt do **** when they got it anyway...
[Nexus 4 General] THEBANDIT420:
I have had this 3 times on two different nexus 4's and have managed to fix it each time by holding volume up and power for 60 seconds (it took me 10-20 tries each time for it to work) then charging.
[Nexus 4 General] naenee:
An update - I still did not receive my new battery, but I did manage to charge it manually with the instructions provided. I've just successfully booted up my phone - thank you kindly yev.gavrikov :)
[Nexus 4 General] bbakshan:
Constant red led

Hi,

My nexus 4 is refusing to turn on after some water had splashed on it.

I turned it off immediately and put it in bag of rice for 2 days.

Now I get this annoying red led indication.

I tried to charge it externally with the 5V outlet charger but it did not help.

I used my Fluke to measure the voltage on the terminals when the battery is disconnected and the voltage is 4.2V. when I plug it back in I see that the voltage drops to 0.68V. Same when I disconnect all peripherals (LCD,camera, etc') which means that either the motherboard is dead or the battery. I tried to charge it for 2 nights and the red LED refuses to turn off. Any ideas of how to proceed?

Thanks,

Boris.
[Nexus 4 General] nitin.chobhe:
How my Red light problem was solved

Today morning when I woke up and picked up my phone, it was switched off (It was having around 30% juice when I went to bed). I was a bit surprized and when I connected the charger to it, it showed blinking Red light. I was frightened as I had read lots of post of red light of death :crying:

I tried to connect the charger second time but it still showed the same light. Then I thought of connecting it to my laptop. I did that. It showed that light for 4-5 seconds and then it was gone. Then it shown a normal battery charging sign and I was relieved. After some time I powered on the phone and it was working fine :highfive:

It's charging :good: now!
[Nexus 4 General] tolga9009:
Well, this happened to me some days ago. I came home from a long working day and my phone was at about 4% battery. I was a bit lazy to plug it to the charger (since I didn't needed it for approximately 3 days) and let it completely discharge - without turning it off. Now, it only gives me the solid red light of death, when plugging it to the charger. I've already tried charging it for 15mins / 1hr / 48hrs; tried all kind of button combinations (Vol Up / Vol Down only and +Power; 3-Buttons, while charging / while plugging / without charging; for 5s / 15s / 1min / 2mins) and simply couldn't revive this phone. Also tried the Nexus 7 charger, and a PC - still nothing.

I've decided to RMA the device, because I don't want to void my warranty due to such a simple thing. Luckily, FolderSync was setup and automatically uploaded all my latest files to my home server. So I won't lose any files. Still, this kinda disappoints me about the otherwise rockstable, fast and smooth Nexus 4, btw. the first phone in my life, I was REALLY satisfied with (until this happened).

Don't know about the situation in USA, but here in Europe, all exchange units are shipped within 1 day from Netherlands via UPS. Delivery takes 1 to 2 days here in Germany. They expect you to "authorize" them the money of a new Nexus 4, in case your RMA'd one doesn't fall under warranty. This was a bit of a barricade for me, because of two things: first, I only got a Prepaid Credit Card (so, I have to temporarily "pay" for the exchange unit, until Google gives the "OK" for my RMA'd phone) and second, I'm a poor student. If you also want to RMA your faulty unit (you never know, what's going to happen next), please keep this in mind. Paying ~260€ "temporarily" for a fault, you are not responsible for, is a beefy amount for a good amount of people (especially students). I'll report about the full RMA process asap.