[Nexus 4 General] Jim and Gretchyn:
I'm not so sure that this is a battery issue. I have two Nexus 4 phones and the issues seem to revolve around the 4.4.2 update. One of the phones survived just fine, it was updated in Tampa FL AT&T network, and it's a wonderful phone. Not a bad word to say about it.

But the other red lighted. It was updated in Anchorage AK AT&T network.(stock, locked). This one WAS a solid red light; which does not spell doom. It just means that battery is dead as a doornail. However it would not charge and that is due to what I believe to be a software issue.

Why? Well the battery is dead because 4.4.2 kills them in record time, or at least this particular patch is reaping havoc. Not only does it drain batteries in 30 minutes, it burns the phone up in the process. Of course I started swapping batteries immediately and found that Gretchyn's phone didn't have a bad battery, though it was red lit at the time when I removed her battery and installed it into my phone. My phone was able to charge that battery, which initially blinked red, and then let me boot with 1%, then charged normally. (It's not the battery).

I took my charged battery from my phone and installed it into Gretchyn's phone and tried to boot up. To my surprise it began the process but hung at the 4 color dot animation. Not only does it hang but it gets very hot. And after repeated attempts to enter the bootloader I realized it was killing the battery. I would end up swapping the battery out of my phone and hers numerous times, mine would charge them up and hers would kill them dead.

Her phone exhibits the following behavior.

solid red light

unable to charge a battery

excessive heat

rapid discharge

boot failure with known good/charged batteries

After gaining access to the bootloader I was able to wipe the cache, which does nothing. Next I attempted to reset the entire phone (lost everything). At one point it then rebooted and passed the animation. It booted as a brand new phone, all initialization questions were presented and then I inspected the network settings. It was unable to find any network to log into. It is as though the radio is not functioning, it will not find a network what so ever. I used my home wifi password and established a wifi connection, accessed the internet through wifi to test it.

Next I powered the phone down and tried to reboot but it again suspends at the boot animation. So I went from searching red light failures to update failures and the hot phone, the speedy depletion of battery life are symptoms related to the botched 4.4.2 update. A red light is a side effect of the 4.4.2 update killing off the battery, in my opinion.

Next I will try to revert to 4.3 and see if I can again get the OTA automatically. I know when my phone was going through the updates it updated everything, several times before finally getting the 4.4, and then 4.4.2 patches. Basically my phone updated all the apps I use prior to updating the OS. I have never done a sideload, this appears to be my only option most of the time, when the phone has battery life. The phone still hangs at boot and my only access is the bootloader recovery option. Different topic, I know.