I was using my phone all day yesterday with no hiccups at all. I've been running Venom 2.2 with Infernal kernal with no problems at all for the past two weeks. I went to a movie last night and as soon as I came out of the movie my phone was off. I tried to power the phone using the power button and all I got was a blank screen and the phone will vibrate once. This was last night, I pulled the battery over night and tried it again this morning with the same results. Did a little research on the issue and from what I have read is it could be a bad power button or a short in the board. Any help is much appreciated before I have to go to Verizon and buy a new phone being that I don't have insurance through them.
Thanks In Advance
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I was using my phone all day yesterday with no hiccups at all. I've been running Venom 2.2 with Infernal kernal with no problems at all for the past two weeks. I went to a movie last night and as soon as I came out of the movie my phone was off. I tried to power the phone using the power button and all I got was a blank screen and the phone will vibrate once. This was last night, I pulled the battery over night and tried it again this morning with the same results. Did a little research on the issue and from what I have read is it could be a bad power button or a short in the board. Any help is much appreciated before I have to go to Verizon and buy a new phone being that I don't have insurance through them.
Thanks In Advance
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it might be a bad battery. you could go to VZW and ask if they have one for you to test with.
TheGOAT232412 said:
I was using my phone all day yesterday with no hiccups at all. I've been running Venom 2.2 with Infernal kernal with no problems at all for the past two weeks. I went to a movie last night and as soon as I came out of the movie my phone was off. I tried to power the phone using the power button and all I got was a blank screen and the phone will vibrate once. This was last night, I pulled the battery over night and tried it again this morning with the same results. Did a little research on the issue and from what I have read is it could be a bad power button or a short in the board. Any help is much appreciated before I have to go to Verizon and buy a new phone being that I don't have insurance through them.
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You didn't mention if you tried charging the phone while it is off and the battery is inserted.
Seemed to be a dead battery on my end. I took the phone apart and left it apart over night, afterwards, I put the phone on the charger and it worked fine. Of course on a full charge, as soon as I pulled it off the charger, it would die immediately. Just ordered a new battery. Hopefully that fixes my issues. Appreciate the response
This happened to me. The battery completely died. I plugged it into a charger and it was fine. I thought the phone had over heated because I picked it up and it was really really hot.
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So here's my whole story.
I have a Droid Razr I got on 12-11 and it has ran fine, no reboots, no freezes, nothing. Last night I put the phone on the charger, as I always do when I sleep, I woke up this morning after about six hours sleep, called in to work, took the phone off the charger.
I then slept for another three hours because I was sick today. I woke up and my phone was dead...I tried to put it on the charger to see if that would work, but I didn't even get a charge light. I tried four outlets and three chargers, and nothing worked. I let it sit on the charger for a couple hours, just in case, but still nothing was showing any change. I then tried the manual reboot button combo, but nothing still.
Has anyone else had this problem? Because according to Verizon, they don't have a single report of anything going wrong with the battery on a Razr.
Any help would be appreciated!!
dadurf
Mine has gone completely dead twice now.
Got it back up by doing vol up and down simultaneously and power. Symptoms were same as you described.
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See I tried that, and nothing happened...Maybe I should try again...Did you have the phone on or off the power when you did that?
Thank you for the reply!
dadurf
Nothing like that here. *xfingers* I have not had a single problem with my razr yet.
Hey there, I had this happen but after the first one which was powering down on it's own and having to manually turn it back on. The second one worked for a day and I was able to restore all my apps and contacts. The third day I went away on a holiday when I went to pick up the phone it was fully charged by the way. I had thought it'd gone to sleep but soon as I pushed the standby button, nothing. The phone had gone off on it's own, tried everything as you said and nothing worked. I'm on my third phone and hopefully this one is a charm and works not going to a fourth so fingers crossed.
A couple of weeks ago i decided to change from Infected Eternity ROM to MeanROM V2.1. My phone worked for those couple of weeks, however one day it was on at 88% battery it was working in the morning but i pulled it out of my pocket that day and the Phone was Off and would not turn back on. I plugged it into the charger and no light came on.
Does this mean my phone is Bricked?
If you didn't drop it in water or damage it imo I'd say no. Try plugging it in with the power off for a few hrs and see if it lights up. Also I read someone posted if you pull the battery and hold the power button for 15 seconds and then put the battery back in they were able to boot there phone back up. Not saying it will work for you but a give it a shot. Also you should rule out the usual. As in try a different charger or battery as well just to make sure your current ones are faulty
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
Not sure where I read it, but awhile back there was a post kinda like this and somebody posted something about pressing the camera button while trying to power up. It fixed the problem for like 3 ppl. Sorry for being so vague but I don't recall exactly what he said.
Thanks guys, however none of that worked, i think there is some other issue with my phone, i don't think it got bricked. I haven't heard that a phone that has been working fine for the past couple of days would just shut off and become bricked.
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Thanks guys, however none of that worked, i think there is some other issue with my phone, i don't think it got bricked. I haven't heard that a phone that has been working fine for the past couple of days would just shut off and become bricked.
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fer sure. None of that worked :/
try another battery
xRemy said:
A couple of weeks ago i decided to change from Infected Eternity ROM to MeanROM V2.1. My phone worked for those couple of weeks, however one day it was on at 88% battery it was working in the morning but i pulled it out of my pocket that day and the Phone was Off and would not turn back on. I plugged it into the charger and no light came on.
Does this mean my phone is Bricked?
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try with the command: "fastboot reboot"
I have NO clue what happened. Wife and I were driving to see my in laws, had my phone navigating us to a pit stop at a local restaurant before we touched down at the house. Phone randomly rebooted itself, then went black after the initial HTC screen. The charging light no longer came on, and no matter what I do, I can't get it to restart or respond at all. It's a highly advanced technological marvel of a paperweight, I do say so myself.
It was charging, about 65% full, navigating, no other active programs or processes that I had started recently. Phone was rooted, S-OFF, running MeanROM. Was noticing some issues with lag over the last couple of days, but it would always settle down after I killed a couple apps. No overheating (except if I was navigating with it attached to dashboard, but that's because it's been mid to high 90s for a month or more), no dropped calls. No shock, drop, or water damage. Just an unexpected, and untimely, death.
I bought it from BestBuy on launch day, but didn't get the Black Tie Protection, so I suppose I've got to take it to Sprint and pay my freaking deductible :crying:
Same thing happened to me on mean rom. Nothing would happen even if I pressed the power for a while. I knew my battery was charged. So I connected the charger and no red led. I left the charger connected for about five minutes and it recucitated by itself. Try that and I hope you get lucky like me.
If the above doesn't work. Leave it off the charger for a day or so, then try to reconnect it. I have had this happen with my og evo quite a few times. Sometimes it just doesn't want to recognize at all.
$9.99 on the first day of buying the phone at BB, and I'm on my third EVO! God bless the Black Tie protection program, lol.
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I have NO clue what happened. Wife and I were driving to see my in laws, had my phone navigating us to a pit stop at a local restaurant before we touched down at the house. Phone randomly rebooted itself, then went black after the initial HTC screen. The charging light no longer came on, and no matter what I do, I can't get it to restart or respond at all. It's a highly advanced technological marvel of a paperweight, I do say so myself.
It was charging, about 65% full, navigating, no other active programs or processes that I had started recently. Phone was rooted, S-OFF, running MeanROM. Was noticing some issues with lag over the last couple of days, but it would always settle down after I killed a couple apps. No overheating (except if I was navigating with it attached to dashboard, but that's because it's been mid to high 90s for a month or more), no dropped calls. No shock, drop, or water damage. Just an unexpected, and untimely, death.
I bought it from BestBuy on launch day, but didn't get the Black Tie Protection, so I suppose I've got to take it to Sprint and pay my freaking deductible :crying:
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Same thing happened to me on mean rom. Nothing would happen even if I pressed the power for a while. I knew my battery was charged. So I connected the charger and no red led. I left the charger connected for about five minutes and it recucitated by itself. Try that and I hope you get lucky like me.
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Which version of MeanRom were you guys running?
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Which version of MeanRom were you guys running?
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What type of car charge and how many milliamps was it. Was it plugged in when it died. The reason i ask is i keep reading about these problems, it even happened to me.
Sorry to hear hope it comes alive, mine never did
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Mines died with 77 percent & never came back on. I was running Mean Rom( not saying the rom was the problem) I got it from bestbuy and didn't get blacktie protection . I took it to Sprint & they unscrewed and took it apart . The tech couldnt fix it ,and the manager told me to go back to bestbuy to swap it out . When he walked to the back the tech handed me a new phone and said real loud "sorry we couldn't help you " winked at me and I mouthed thank you and left .
Is this a prevalent problem on MeanRom or has this happened to people on other ROMs or stock? Just asking since the 3 members who had this happen to them were all on that particular ROM.
This is not ROM specific...my phone did this day one I got it on preorder...it scared me...I just left it alone and plugged the charger up hours later then worked...it could be a quirk with these dam internal batteries
I was stock and not rooted
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This is not ROM specific...my phone did this day one I got it on preorder...it scared me...I just left it alone and plugged the charger up hours later then worked...it could be a quirk with these dam internal batteries
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Were you doing anything in particular on your phone when it happened and has it happened since?
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Mines died with 77 percent & never came back on. I was running Mean Rom( not saying the rom was the problem) I got it from bestbuy and didn't get blacktie protection . I took it to Sprint & they unscrewed and took it apart . The tech couldnt fix it ,and the manager told me to go back to bestbuy to swap it out . When he walked to the back the tech handed me a new phone and said real loud "sorry we couldn't help you " winked at me and I mouthed thank you and left .
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I call BS on that one lol
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Nope just basically calibrating the battery...charged it up and was letting it die
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Seems there are quite a few of these. Just an observation, I would use the opportunity to test whether the phone is "really" dead by seeing whether the unbrick tool at Lazy Panda sees the phone. Not to unbrick it but rather whether it can detect it.
http://unlimited.io/lazypanda-s-off-public-beta/evo-4g-lte-unbricker/ has a method of detecting bricked phones:" Run the following command in the terminal: chmod 755 brickdetect.sh PandaFinder"
Maybe one of their team would be kind enough to work with you on this : http://unlimited.io/jbsupport/
If it is truly a hardware issue, the phone won't be found. Who knows ? Perhaps you'll find a way around this issue.
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Seems there are quite a few of these. Just an observation, I would use the opportunity to test whether the phone is "really" dead by seeing whether the unbrick tool at Lazy Panda sees the phone. Not to unbrick it but rather whether it can detect it.
http://unlimited.io/lazypanda-s-off-public-beta/evo-4g-lte-unbricker/ has a method of detecting bricked phones:" Run the following command in the terminal: chmod 755 brickdetect.sh PandaFinder"
Maybe one of their team would be kind enough to work with you on this : http://unlimited.io/jbsupport/
If it is truly a hardware issue, the phone won't be found. Who knows ? Perhaps you'll find a way around this issue.
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No that will not help. However there are two possible situations that could be fixable that can exist on these phones.
1. The phone goes into download mode due to some random issue, despite there being nothing wrong with the phone. Holding power for 30 seconds should resolve this or alternatively this could be used http://unlimited.io/one-v-qhsusb_dload-fix/ .
2. Extreme sleep. We have encountered this state a few times on similar devices. The remedy for this is to plug the phone into the wall charger walk away and leave it for up to 8 hours, without attempting to power it on. There will be no charge light or any other sign of life from the phone during the time it is on the charger. It may power itself back on, if not, after 8 hours, attept to power it on.
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I call BS on that one lol
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Nope bs this really happened
Had this happen to my phone, pre root. Try this: Hold the volume down button and the power button.
Maybe volume up, but one of the two, and it got my phone working.
So this just happened to mine last night. I am also on Mean ROM, S-OFF, Updated radio and Firmware. Left the phone sitting on the coffee table and came back to use it. Pressed power button to turn the screen on and nothing happened.
I did the following.
Held power button for extended period of time...... Nothing
Plugged into AC charger....Nothing
Tried Volume down + Power...........Nothing
Volume UP+ Power.... Phone started up as normal and seems to be just fine.
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So this just happened to mine last night. I am also on Mean ROM, S-OFF, Updated radio and Firmware. Left the phone sitting on the coffee table and came back to use it. Pressed power button to turn the screen on and nothing happened.
I did the following.
Held power button for extended period of time...... Nothing
Plugged into AC charger....Nothing
Tried Volume down + Power...........Nothing
Volume UP+ Power.... Phone started up as normal and seems to be just fine.
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Mine died a few weeks back, i tried everything, i thought, but i can't remember if i tried vol up and power, good information.
Thanks, i also hot the thx button
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mcvoss said:
Mine died a few weeks back, i tried everything, i thought, but i can't remember if i tried vol up and power, good information.
Thanks, i also hot the thx button
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Didn't I say that?
shadowhawk2020 said:
Didn't I say that?
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I read threads all way good.
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All:
Tonight my 4GLTE was plugged into it's charging cord and was at about 95% battery. I received a phone call, picked up the phone and pushed "answer". When I did the phone turned off and it won't turn back on. I've tried the "on & down volume" many times and nothing will happen. When I plug the power cord in the charging light isn't coming on.
I have had no problems with the phone. I'm on the Tranquility ROM and everything has been perfect. When I went through the S-off process back in Dec. the phone "bricked", it acted exactly like the phone is now, will not turn on, no lights come on, nothing. The great people at Dirty Racun walked me step by step through their procedure to unbrick the phone and it started up and has been perfect from Dec. til tonight.
I'm baffled and wish like hell this phone had a battery I could pull. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
DC
I take it the capacitive lights don't light up when you hold the power button down for several seconds?
Leave it plugged in overnight and try to power it on in the morning.
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All:
Tonight my 4GLTE was plugged into it's charging cord and was at about 95% battery. I received a phone call, picked up the phone and pushed "answer". When I did the phone turned off and it won't turn back on. I've tried the "on & down volume" many times and nothing will happen. When I plug the power cord in the charging light isn't coming on.
I have had no problems with the phone. I'm on the Tranquility ROM and everything has been perfect. When I went through the S-off process back in Dec. the phone "bricked", it acted exactly like the phone is now, will not turn on, no lights come on, nothing. The great people at Dirty Racun walked me step by step through their procedure to unbrick the phone and it started up and has been perfect from Dec. til tonight.
I'm baffled and wish like hell this phone had a battery I could pull. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
DC
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I know is very frustating cause It's happened to me as well.
I did some searching and found some tips. Nothing solid.
Leave the phone charging even though the led doesn't turn one. Sometimes for me it will revive after a while being plugged.
Other is to hold the power button for a very long time. 1-2 minutes and hope it reboots.
chemjb said:
I know is very frustating cause It's happened to me as well.
I did some searching and found some tips. Nothing solid.
Leave the phone charging even though the led doesn't turn one. Sometimes for me it will revive after a while being plugged.
Other is to hold the power button for a very long time. 1-2 minutes and hope it reboots.
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Curious, but were you S-off, and if so, did you use Dirty Racun?
Also, did you have any luck resurrecting your phone?
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I also had my evo lte just die. I'm in the process of mailing it out to HTC. I was completely stock no root. It just never powered back on after it charged over night
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I take it the capacitive lights don't light up when you hold the power button down for several seconds?
Leave it plugged in overnight and try to power it on in the morning.
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Nothing lights up, that's why I described it as being dead. I'm not a novice with these phones as far as rooting and installing ROMs etc. One item I left out last night is that in the last few weeks I've had to "move" the micro usb connector around to get the charge light to come on. It would always light up and charge but had probably gotten worse, not better. Also I have my Evo4G (which I just activated so I have a phone) and with this charge cord I also have to move it around to get it to activate the charging light. I'm going to buy a fresh micro usb cord this morning in the hope that the new cord will make a difference.
I'm really not optimistic that a new cord will change anything. I declined to buy the insurance for the phone when I got it in Dec. I;ve had bad experiences with Sprint and their cost to repair the Evo4G even with the insurance. I think I'm going to install Unix on my netbook again and try the procedure that Dirty Racun walked me through when the phone "bricked" last Dec. They brought it back to life for me although this time I'm afraid it has something to do with the usb port causing the phone to shut off and die. As I said last night, the phone was charged to 95% when the call came in and I picked the phone up and it suddenly went black.
I love this phone and having to go back to the Evo4G is a real step backwards, plus I've got lots of data on the internal SD card of the LTE that I need. I'm in pulling my hair out mode now....thanks for the suggestions, if anyone thinks of anything else please let me know.
DC
Went through this a few days ago. Battery was at 40% and i was playing CSR Racing from the market. Anyways, my phone got super hot so i ended the game and went back to my home screen....few seconds later screen went off and phone was unresponsive. Nothing i did could make it turn on again tried for a few hours. My sister has a evo lte as well so i took apart our phones and switched her battery in place of mine and voila it booted up. Didn't expect the battery to just go out like that.
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s0calstate0fmind said:
Went through this a few days ago. Battery was at 40% and i was playing CSR Racing from the market. Anyways, my phone got super hot so i ended the game and went back to my home screen....few seconds later screen went off and phone was unresponsive. Nothing i did could make it turn on again tried for a few hours. My sister has a evo lte as well so i took apart our phones and switched her battery in place of mine and voila it booted up. Didn't expect the battery to just go out like that.
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That's interesting, my battery has been excellent. I do remember a few weeks ago it getting really hot while charging but it's been fine ever since. I've got the phone apart now. I needed to replace the glass screen and bought, what I thought, were replacement parts for the lcd-glass screen. I've just found out from a video that the lcd and glass screen come together as one part. I don't know if I can take the broken one off and install the new glass screen or if I have to buy the lcd and glass. I'm ticked off because the ebay seller claimed this is all I needed to replace a cracked screen OR an unresponsive LCD touchscreen. I'm glad I didn't pay much for the glass.
Thanks for the info about replacing the battery.
DC
Update: I talked with a Sprint rep at a corporate store yesterday and he told me to bring the LTE in and he was certain HTC would fix/replace it under the 12 month warranty as long as there was no physical damage "not turning on could be blamed for". I told him damage didn't cause it to suddenly go black while plugged in at 95% charge when a call came in.
I'll have to replace my screen before taking it in although the truth is my screen had a crack in it for 2 months before this happened and had nothing to do with the phone bricking itself suddenly.
Any updates?
My wife's phone had this happen at a ridiculously inconvenient time.
Here's what to try:
1. Pseudo-Battery-Pull: Hold power button for 15 seconds, this will force the phone to shut down (if it works). Try powering back up. If nothing, then:
2. Hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power for 2 MINUTES, and then release. That should reset the battery charge logic. (Note: this will only work at all if the phone is truly powered off) If that doesn't work:
3. Disassemble the phone, disconnect the battery. Wait 20 seconds and then reconnect the battery, and reassemble the phone.
Step 3 worked for me. Hope this helps somebody!
Thanks,
Josh
joshdv said:
My wife's phone had this happen at a ridiculously inconvenient time.
Here's what to try:
1. Pseudo-Battery-Pull: Hold power button for 15 seconds, this will force the phone to shut down (if it works). Try powering back up. If nothing, then:
2. Hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power for 2 MINUTES, and then release. That should reset the battery charge logic. (Note: this will only work at all if the phone is truly powered off) If that doesn't work:
3. Disassemble the phone, disconnect the battery. Wait 20 seconds and then reconnect the battery, and reassemble the phone.
Step 3 worked for me. Hope this helps somebody!
Thanks,
Josh
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Thanks alot for the suggestions, I'll give them a try when I buy a new screen/lcd etc. and install it. Going back to my once loved Evo4G is such a step backwards I can't explain it.
Ok I couldnt find where I should post this, so if anyone can help me that would be great. I rooted my phone a few months back. I had to flash the ISO seprate. my phone is S/ON if it matters. So to start the story off, I have the MeanBean ROM and for some reason it was laggy here lately and was acting weird. I was talking to my friend last night when I fell asleep. I woke up thinking that my phone had died because it was low when i went to bed. I had zero issues when i went to bed, I plugged it into my charger and the orange light didnt even come on. I pressed the power button and it still didnt come on. my friend tried 3 different chargers and we determined it wasnt the charger. it was just fine, charged about 18% and i took it and plugged it into my car charger to use for a gps. I get to work and text my friend to tell her i would talk to her on lunch, leave and come back 3 hours later on break and it was dead.. I started my car and it came on and went to the home screen and it just shut off before i could do anything. I hit the power button and instantly the orange light was solid, no flashing. I held the power button and it got stuck in a boot loop just staying at the HTC screen. Right now, I cant get it to charge, load into HBOOT or even get it to turn on to the HTC screen. Any clue what i can do to fix my life line?
Almost sounds like your battery took a dump. I know we have a non-removable battery, but it seems like I remember reading about someone else having a similar problem some time ago, and that they were able to have the battery replaced, which fixed their issue. Try leaving it on a charger that you know for a fact works for 8 hours or so and see if it will take a charge. Otherwise, you might want to take it to Sprint and let them look at it.
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I've seen this issue before and found this useful article when reading about this, I don't remember who got the issue but they said to follow this guide on how to calibrate your battery, hope it helps: http://www.pocketables.com/2010/08/...ry-and-possibly-double-your-battery-life.html
Good Luck!
not bricked
The term, "bricking" suggests that the damage, often a misconfiguration of essential on-board software, is so serious as to have rendered the device PERMANENTLY unusable.
Try holding volume up, down and power at the same time to try to boot it while it's on the charger
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