[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike_san:
Well like the title description on top.

the phone just suddenly stopped charging yesterday, the led was turned on and it said Fast Charging, because my phone brought the 18w Boosmaster charger, which it was the one i was using since day one.

The phone was charging but discharging at the same time, i managed to install AccuBattery to show me stats, voltage and more other information about the charging state, and didnt show any "Charge per Hour" so infact it wasnt charging the battery but it detected that the cable was working and the boostmaster was also working.

After trying to get it charge, i turn it off (thinking that way the phone will actually charge), the battery icon was reallyyyy slow,

like literally lagged, and after a while, the orange led wasnt blinking anymore but the battery icon was moving like it was charging.

After that i tried to turn it on, but the phone just literally died, i mean i pressed the power buttom for a couple of seconds and vibrate twice, then nothing happened(with the usb cable on), if i disconnect the cable, it will only vibrate just once.

Meanwhile the cable is connected all that is does is vibrate twice and the screen will remain black, no led, nothing.

I tried to put the phone on my laptop and i did see signs of life because i saw on device manager the "moorefield", so i start searching and did the instructions of the post, installed Intel SoC driver succefully, installed the xFSTK, managed to put the override on 0x80000807, FW IFWI and OSImage was in place, but when i tried to flash it, the FW and IFWI does flash, but when it comes to boot and flash the OSImage, it failed reconnecting to the phone.

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--virtual bool MerrifieldDownloader::UpdateTarget()

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--FWDnxPath -- BLANK.bin

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--FWImagePath -- BLANK.bin

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--OSDnxPath -- N/A

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--OSImagePath -- C:/Users/mik3_/Downloads/xFSTK_ZE551ML-sal358-amtech.vn/xFSTK_ZE551ML-sal358-amtech.vn/droidboot_dnx.img.POS_sign.bin

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--MiscDnxPath -- BLANK.bin

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--MiscBinPath -- BLANK.bin

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--Gpflags -- 80000807

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--DebugLevel -- ffffffff

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--UsbDelay ms -- 0

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--TransferType -- USB

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--WipeIFWI -- False

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--Idrq -- False

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--Verbose -- True

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--void MerrifieldDownloader::Init()

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--Open

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--USB Device found - USBSN: 37F0A14C7716F10B01809C663225ACF1 Address:1

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--void MerrifieldDownloader::do_update(MerrifieldOptions*)

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--Start

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--Sending DnER...

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--WriteOutPipe DnER

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--WriteOutPipe 0

11:44:50 - XFSTK-LOG--Write --->DnER

11:44:55 - XFSTK-LOG--Windriver Error: 0x20000015, Timeout expired

11:44:55 - XFSTK-LOG--LogError

11:44:55 - XFSTK-STATUS--Error Code: 1 - Connection error

11:44:55 - XFSTK-STATUS--Failed to start Dldr state machine, aborting ...

11:44:55 - XFSTK-LOG--void MerrifieldDownloader::do_abort()

11:44:55 - XFSTK-LOG--Abort

11:44:55 - XFSTK-STATUS--FAIL

11:44:55 - XFSTK-STATUS--Errors encounter during FW download. Aborting ...

11:45:05 - XFSTK-STATUS--Reconnecting to device - Attempt #2

and it keeps doing it until attempt #20.

What else should i do? i was thinking on getting the south board replace, since there's the Usb Porte which may be defective, but if it was defective, why does my laptop recognize it? or it doesnt have nothing to do with "no charging"?.

I tried 3 different cables, and 2 other chargers, still none of these was able to charge the phone.

Is it possible that the phone got bricked? it had LineageOS 14.1, but i didnt had any troubles with the software, was pretty good in the matter of fact.

PS: I can get it to turn it on, so dont tell me to factory reset or wipe or get into fastboot or recovery.

Any help will be appreciated.

PSII: Anyone tried replacing any flex, battery or south board to make the phone working again?