Hi,
So, basically I just got a G3, and was on a similar situation to; http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/help-wiped-twrp-t2936583, having wiped my operating system through TWRP. The thing is, I didn't think of using USB OTG, and not knowing that the microSD slot was above the SIM slot, I removed the battery, yes... And put it back in. Now I've an LG G3 that shows the boot screen and has the LED indicator flash blue and green, otherwise nothing. Please advise, I'm not really an advanced user.
Thanks
Try holding down power button for a long time, or the power button and bottom volume button at the same time for a long time. I hadn't wiped anything but when my phone was blinking red and blue then that's what I did. If you're saying that your whole operating system is gone, maybe you go about downloading a stock Rom to your desktop and then manually flashing it to your phone? In not really an advanced user either though so don't trust me lol
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joeyb1720 said:
Hi,
So, basically I just got a G3, and was on a similar situation to; http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/help-wiped-twrp-t2936583, having wiped my operating system through TWRP. The thing is, I didn't think of using USB OTG, and not knowing that the microSD slot was above the SIM slot, I removed the battery, yes... And put it back in. Now I've an LG G3 that shows the boot screen and has the LED indicator flash blue and green, otherwise nothing. Please advise, I'm not really an advanced user.
Thanks
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Hopefully you have and ext. SD card or USB OTG stick - assuming you do, place your rom and any other gapps, etc. files you want on it. An SD card or USB OTG stick would be easiest, although you *may* be able to do it without. Also, if you succeed in fixing this, I'd make sure you do some more reading before flashing all willy nilly - you'll save yourself and others a lot of headache if you do some more reading to "become" more of an advanced user. Aka, flashing roms, etc. really isn't the wisest idea for "non-advanced" users. Just a heads up to try and prevent you from having to deal with this situation again in the future. Anyways, do the following.
1.) Pull the battery, then put it back in
2.) Hold both the power & volume down buttons to turn it back on (keep holding them)
3.) Once you see the LG logo, release both power & volume down and then immediately press them both in again (again, keep holding them)
4.) Eventually, your phone will restart. Keep holding both buttons. Shortly after this, you should be greeted by a menu, one of the options on which says "factory reset" (or something to that effect. Press it.
5.) On the next screen, confirm by hitting "next" (as long as you have TWRP installed it will not wipe your phone - it will boot into TWRP.
6.) Once in TWRP, flash as usual from your SD card or USB OTG stick
7.) If you do not have an SD card or USB OTG stick, you *may* be able to plug your phone into your PC at this point (you may possible have to go to mount > internal storage) - anyway the goal would be to get your internal SD (internal storage) to show up in My Computer - allowing you to copy any rom/gapps/etc. files you want to it, and ultimately flash that way. I've had mixed success in the past with this route, that's why I said it *may* not work. If not, imho no one should be flashing roms or messing with their phone without at least an ext. SD card, so go get one they're cheap.
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Hi,
So I really did it this time. I forgot to delete the radio I flashed yesterday from the phone's root folder and upon restoring to what appears to be a non-working version of DASBAMF I'm stuck with:
BAMF that loads but only to my background image. The touch screen doesn't respond, the soft keys don't do anything. Volume buttons wake the screen and so does the power button. But, when I hold the power button down, the reboot options don't come up. The status bar updates, I can see emails coming in. When I plug in the device to USB it goes into charge only mode.
OR
Hboot that finds the radio immediately. Flash or don't flash the radio and all I can do is reboot.
I'm on Windows 7 64bit and I've tried to install and setup ADB per these directions: http://www.thunderboltforums.com/forum/htc-thunderbolt-development/315-android-sdk-adb-driver.html
as well as the HTC sync software. I can't get ADB to recognize the device nor HTC sync.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to either remove the radio or somehow get into recovery?
Turn off the phone, remove the micro sd card, put it in your pc card and remove the radio. When you put the micro sd card back in the phone hboot will look for the file and not find it, you can then choose recovery.
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If your PC has a multimedia card reader, you should get a SDcard adapter, and insert the micro SDcard from your Thunderbolt into it. Then you can delete the PG051.img via Windows Explorer.
After a few such experiences, I wouldn't root my phone unless I had a PC with a mmc reader and an adapter. It's a lifesaver.
Same thing happened to me a while back, except I didn't have a PC available, but luckily was able to put the card in my gf's phone and delete it that way
Thanks for the help guy. I didn't realize the radio was on the SD card (duh) and I could just take the card out, boot into hboot -> recovery, and then factory wipe.
If the ROM was truly in a bootloop, I would have had to use a PC to remove the p05img.zip. Thanks for the help.
I have been trying to put CyanogenMod 7 on my Verizon Fascinate.
It was fresh out of the box, unrooted, no fancy widgets or programs installed,
when it suddenly decided to erase my Contacts.
No matter how much I backup through Verizon, the contacts will erase,
NOT backup with Verizon, and even better, not save any contacts.
I had it factory reset couple of times, but the problem kept coming up.
(Maybe there's something wrong with the SD Card??)
Well, so I decided to install CyanogenMod 7.
I first installed SuperOneClick, and rooted my phone that way.
I also installed ROM Manager.
I was in the ClockworkMod Recovery
when I went into "install from SD Card" trying to install CM7.zip,
my phone starts going on a "waiting for SD card to mount" loop.
It will keep going forever and ever,
phone will not turn off unless I take the battery out,
no matter which way I try to turn it back on,
it starts giving me that loop again.
One of my family members have a Verizon fascinate as well,
but without CyanogenMod (is rooted though).
I put the same two files (CM7.zip and gapps.zip) at the root folder,
plug it into my SD Card slot, with no luck..
same "waiting for.." loop.
As I have been searching on this forum for two hours,
everyone seemed to suggest that the SD card was the problem.
But I'm kind of ignorant on this type of subject,
1. I have searched that a smaller GB SD Card is better? True or False..?
1a. Let's say I bought a 2 GB SD Card. What do I do with it?
Put the two files into the SD card and plug it in?
1b. Will I be able to use a bigger sized SD Card later on
after the installation is finished?
2. Is the SD Card the problem or is there a way I can work it out?
P.S. By the way, I followed the steps from the Wiki,
and had a hard time at "Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery" step.
I didn't know how to boot into it all, and I searched that
pressing the volume down button and the power button does the trick.
My phone didn't.
So I ended up going to ROM Manager
and pressing the "reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
Pressing that button froze up the phone.
I had to reboot the phone several times because
the phone will freeze every time I pressed that button.
And then on a random reboot,
the phone decided to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery mode.
So if I had to do that again, I have no idea how to do it.
Was there a bug in the program or am I doing it wrong?
saeromida said:
I have been trying to put CyanogenMod 7 on my Verizon Fascinate.
It was fresh out of the box, unrooted, no fancy widgets or programs installed,
when it suddenly decided to erase my Contacts.
No matter how much I backup through Verizon, the contacts will erase,
NOT backup with Verizon, and even better, not save any contacts.
I had it factory reset couple of times, but the problem kept coming up.
(Maybe there's something wrong with the SD Card??)
Well, so I decided to install CyanogenMod 7.
I first installed SuperOneClick, and rooted my phone that way.
I also installed ROM Manager.
I was in the ClockworkMod Recovery
when I went into "install from SD Card" trying to install CM7.zip,
my phone starts going on a "waiting for SD card to mount" loop.
It will keep going forever and ever,
phone will not turn off unless I take the battery out,
no matter which way I try to turn it back on,
it starts giving me that loop again.
One of my family members have a Verizon fascinate as well,
but without CyanogenMod (is rooted though).
I put the same two files (CM7.zip and gapps.zip) at the root folder,
plug it into my SD Card slot, with no luck..
same "waiting for.." loop.
As I have been searching on this forum for two hours,
everyone seemed to suggest that the SD card was the problem.
But I'm kind of ignorant on this type of subject,
1. I have searched that a smaller GB SD Card is better? True or False..?
1a. Let's say I bought a 2 GB SD Card. What do I do with it?
Put the two files into the SD card and plug it in?
1b. Will I be able to use a bigger sized SD Card later on
after the installation is finished?
2. Is the SD Card the problem or is there a way I can work it out?
P.S. By the way, I followed the steps from the Wiki,
and had a hard time at "Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery" step.
I didn't know how to boot into it all, and I searched that
pressing the volume down button and the power button does the trick.
My phone didn't.
So I ended up going to ROM Manager
and pressing the "reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
Pressing that button froze up the phone.
I had to reboot the phone several times because
the phone will freeze every time I pressed that button.
And then on a random reboot,
the phone decided to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery mode.
So if I had to do that again, I have no idea how to do it.
Was there a bug in the program or am I doing it wrong?
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Ok first, 99% of your custom roms will already be pre-rooted. 2nd, to boot into recovery, you have to hold volume up,down and power button (also known as 3 button recovery) 3rd, I've never had a problem getting into CM7 HOWEVER, you do need to Odin a special recovery to install it. I'm on the xda app and can't post links but I do know towards the bottom of the cm7 post it does say you need to have the new recovery installed
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thanks
After hours and hours of frustration,
I decided to call it a day and start fresh the next morning..
and I saw your reply-
Volume Up + Volume Down + Power Button did the trick.
It sent me straight to the recovery mode..
I took another SD card with the two files I want to install at the root folder.
Plugged it in, and it worked!!
So it's safe to assume that the problem was in the SD card,
and not the hardware, or the software, or any mistaken procedures.
Thank you! Saved my day!
No problem, glad I could help man.
Sent from my SCH-I500
if you need all the files and a straight forward tutorial...check my guide out! I think some of the other guides can be confusing...refer to section 3 when you find it! good luck!!
So I will tell you my story, it all started like this.
The other day I wanted to trade my iPhone 4s for a Galaxy note, So i met up with this guy from craigslist, He had the device, I checked it out, It looked fine and workeed fine, so I took the trade. I saw that he had some personal backgrounds, profiles, etc on the phone do I decided to do a factory reset. I went to settings and followed through with the factory reset. The phone was on the samsung flashing logo, and the battery fell out, I put it back in and powered back on and went straight to the samsung logo, so I assumed it would just pick up from where it left off. I waited about an hour to an hour and a half and it was still on the samsung logo, so I called samsung customer service. I had to do a Hard factory reset, (Hold the 2 volume buttons, and the power button, then let go of the power button) it brought me to some screen that it wasnt suppose to, the Screen was "Team Win Recovery Project v.2.2.1.1" Then it gave me all these on screen buttons to push " Install, Wipe, Backup, Restore, Mount, Settings, Advanced, Reboot" So I clicked install, but there is nothing on the device to install, I have no OS to install, I was just screwing around with it, I click "reboot" and then "System" then it says "No OS installed!Are you sure you wish to reboot?" so I just swipe to reboot, and the phone just gets stuck again and in ittle print at the bottom of the phone it says " E: System is not installed - preventing reboot" so it just stayed there for a while. So then I did some reasearch and I Held the "Volume down button and power button" I that brought me to some thing that was like " WARNING Custom OS can damage the phone or something like that" then it said "Volume Up to continue" or "Volume Down to Cancel (restart phone) so I clicked volume down, and It got stuck at the blinking samsung logo again,I held the same buttons again and Instead of clicking volume down, I clicked the volume up this time, It got stuck on some Android screen, with the big Green android guy. I just took the battery out, now Im back at a black screen. So Now I have this useless paper weight, no cell phone, and I dont have the guys number that sold me the phone.
(PLEASE HELP)
If anyone has some idea of for me what to do, Please post, anything Im desperate!!!
XDA is no longer worth my time.
Daviddag16 said:
So I will tell you my story, it all started like this.
The other day I wanted to trade my iPhone 4s for a Galaxy note, So i met up with this guy from craigslist, He had the device, I checked it out, It looked fine and workeed fine, so I took the trade. I saw that he had some personal backgrounds, profiles, etc on the phone do I decided to do a factory reset. I went to settings and followed through with the factory reset. The phone was on the samsung flashing logo, and the battery fell out, I put it back in and powered back on and went straight to the samsung logo, so I assumed it would just pick up from where it left off. I waited about an hour to an hour and a half and it was still on the samsung logo, so I called samsung customer service. I had to do a Hard factory reset, (Hold the 2 volume buttons, and the power button, then let go of the power button) it brought me to some screen that it wasnt suppose to, the Screen was "Team Win Recovery Project v.2.2.1.1" Then it gave me all these on screen buttons to push " Install, Wipe, Backup, Restore, Mount, Settings, Advanced, Reboot" So I clicked install, but there is nothing on the device to install, I have no OS to install, I was just screwing around with it, I click "reboot" and then "System" then it says "No OS installed!Are you sure you wish to reboot?" so I just swipe to reboot, and the phone just gets stuck again and in ittle print at the bottom of the phone it says " E: System is not installed - preventing reboot" so it just stayed there for a while. So then I did some reasearch and I Held the "Volume down button and power button" I that brought me to some thing that was like " WARNING Custom OS can damage the phone or something like that" then it said "Volume Up to continue" or "Volume Down to Cancel (restart phone) so I clicked volume down, and It got stuck at the blinking samsung logo again,I held the same buttons again and Instead of clicking volume down, I clicked the volume up this time, It got stuck on some Android screen, with the big Green android guy. I just took the battery out, now Im back at a black screen. So Now I have this useless paper weight, no cell phone, and I dont have the guys number that sold me the phone.
(PLEASE HELP)
If anyone has some idea of for me what to do, Please post, anything Im desperate!!!
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Well, if I were you I would install the stock (although rooted) ICS ROM as found here
If you have a microsd card and laptop/home computer I would download a ROM onto the microsd then reinstall it on your NOTE then you can reboot into the "Team Win Recovery" thing as you did before and install according to the instructions found in the thread below.
1) Download the pure ROM as found here in the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933
2) move the zip file to your microsd and then insert to your NOTE (you have to remove the battery to do so).
3) As mentioned, do what you did before to get to the "Team Win Recovery".
4) Follow the instructions for the ROM to install...basically Wipe Data then Factory Reset and then INSTALL the ROM. You will have to look for it on your external card.
andrawer said:
Well, if I were you I would install the stock (although rooted) ICS ROM as found here
If you have a microsd card and laptop/home computer I would download a ROM onto the microsd then reinstall it on your NOTE then you can reboot into the "Team Win Recovery" thing as you did before and install according to the instructions found in the thread below.
1) Download the pure ROM as found here in the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933
2) move the zip file to your microsd and then insert to your NOTE (you have to remove the battery to do so).
3) As mentioned, do what you did before to get to the "Team Win Recovery".
4) Follow the instructions for the ROM to install...basically Wipe Data then Factory Reset and then INSTALL the ROM. You will have to look for it on your external card.
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THANKS SO MUCH, But I need to find away to get the Micro Sd Card into my Mac, and then how to transfer the data
your gonna need to get a card reader to put that micro sd card.
get one of those usb card reader. then connect to your mac.
mac should recognize that with no problem.
So here is what I have done so far, I downloaded the Zip file "SGH-I717-UCLF6PS.zip" to my mac, From there I connected my Galaxy Note to My iMac via USB cable, I kept the micro sd inside the phone. The mac recgonized the Galaxy Note, so I dragged and dropped the file into the folder of the Note, and let in download, Then I open Team Win Recovery Project, hit install, then located the "SGH-I717-UCLF6PS.zip" file, clicked on it, then "Swiped to confirm flash" I did that then I get an error "Unable to open zip file"
Everything seems to go wrong :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
i have had that happen when my download was corrupt or didnt finish
leo5111 said:
i have had that happen when my download was corrupt or didnt finish
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I have a mac also and purchased a cheap card reader that plugs into my usb port.
BUT, if your mac recognized your Note as a device then that should work.
Just got to redownload the zip file and "eject" it after you transfered to the note's microsd.
You actually dont need a card reader or anything. If you plug your phone into your PC and then boot into recovery holding the 2 volume buttons. then choose mounts and storage (i believe thats the catagory, im copying music to my phone so i dont want to reboot right now) in there you want to mount the USB storage, your computer will download the drivers and then ask you if you want to view the files in it. Just copy over a ROM to your SD card or internal storage and install it and your good to go.
Daviddag16 said:
THANKS SO MUCH, But I need to find away to get the Micro Sd Card into my Mac, and then how to transfer the data
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TL;DR:
How can I replace the bootloader on a friend's without losing all of the pictures of her newborn baby?
Detailed story:
A friend had a baby. She took all of the pictures on her Lumia 800.
The phone battery died and then would only boot to the Orange Logo screen. Eventually, it decided to suffer from this deep discharge issue. I've hacked power to it (see pic https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByYvR1VR60dIb1piWVlqR2h4a1U/edit?usp=sharing) and it now is back at the Orange Logo screen state.
I have tried:
Soft reset (Power Button: 10s)
Pseudo battery pull (Power Button + Vol Down: ~10s)
Bootloader startup (Vol Up + Power, plug into laptop via USB). This thankfully gives me the Qualcomm device detected in windows and not the Nokia DLOAD.
I had an issue installing the Qualcomm drivers on Vista but eventually sorted that. The Laptop has detected a few devices (USB Input device, USB HCI Device and it very briefly detected a USB storage device). Vista did pop up with a "The drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it?" message (to which, I clicked No!).
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get access to the user memory space on this device, so that I can recover the pictures? We are not bothered about getting it all up and running (We will send it away for repair to do that) but we need to recover the pictures off it first.
If I flash a new firmware to it using Nokia Care Suite, I presume that I am going to nuke the user memory space and lose the pictures anyway?
I was looking at using this guide to do it: http://techtage.com/2012/03/tutoria...-lumia-710-800-with-official-custom-firmware/
If this was Android, I'd just flash a Custom Recovery which supports mounting the SD card to USB and hook it up to the laptop and mount the drive. Is there any similar approach with Windows phone? I'm not familiar with the platform.
Thanks in advance for any tips with this one.
Hi there,
i think the first thing you should do is to make a backup of ALL 9 PARTITIONS of the phone. Just to be on the save side.
Because you have the qualcomm bootloader, you can do this very easily.
I wrote a little "how-to" a while ago in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698272
So, if you "brick" your device or overwrite the actual system, you can always go back to the actual status.
So, maybe after you backed up the partition 9 (which contains your phone os and data) you can try to extract the image with 7-zip.
This maybe could work.
I'm not sure about this, but this is the first thing i would do.
Just tell me how it goes and reply here or write me a pm. I'm sure we'll solve that
cheers
Thanks for your response. I will try that tonight and let you know how I get on.
When the phone boots successfully into "Qualcomm mode", what would I expect to see on the phone screen? Currently, I don't get anything but the operator ("Orange") logo.
Noodoo said:
Thanks for your response. I will try that tonight and let you know how I get on.
When the phone boots successfully into "Qualcomm mode", what would I expect to see on the phone screen? Currently, I don't get anything but the operator ("Orange") logo.
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Hi, you won't see anything on the phone's screen.
The phone is in qualcomm mode, when you see the "format disk" window in windows.
Or better said, after the short vibration, when you're pressing VOL-Up + Power.
And as you did, ALWAYS KLICK NO when you're asked to format the drive. Otherwise you'll brick your device, as you'll format partition 3 of the phone, then you need to restore the bootloader, which can only be done with special hardware.
Edit:
I've just tried to extract my own backup of partition9. No luck. I can only extract partition3, as it is usually FAT formatted.
Hm... i'll keep thinking what we could do... But make the backups first, it's really worth it
lordmaxey said:
Hi, you won't see anything on the phone's screen.
The phone is in qualcomm mode, when you see the "format disk" window in windows.
Or better said, after the short vibration, when you're pressing VOL-Up + Power.
And as you did, ALWAYS KLICK NO when you're asked to format the drive. Otherwise you'll brick your device, as you'll format partition 3 of the phone, then you need to restore the bootloader, which can only be done with special hardware.
Edit:
I've just tried to extract my own backup of partition9. No luck. I can only extract partition3, as it is usually FAT formatted.
Hm... i'll keep thinking what we could do... But make the backups first, it's really worth it
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I really appreciate you attempting it on your own phone. Thanks.
If it turns out that I need to reflash just the bootloader, is it possible to get hold of the Hardware? Any ideas on price of these devices?
Noodoo said:
I really appreciate you attempting it on your own phone. Thanks.
If it turns out that I need to reflash just the bootloader, is it possible to get hold of the Hardware? Any ideas on price of these devices?
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No worries, that's what all user should do here: trying to help
If you need to reflash the bootloader, you won't loose any data on partition 9 of your phone.
If you have an ATF flasher box, you can do this yourself (as i have), otherwise you can check if any phone repair shop in your town/city has such a box.
If it should really be the bootloader, you could also try to restore your partition 9 backup on another qualcomm L800.
could work probably.
So I attempted to root my NT using Ray Waldo's Jelly Bean & Root for Nook Tablet 1.4.3
(here's the link so you know what the process was: http://raywaldo.com/2012/09/root-for-nook-tablet-1-4-3/ )
and I got as far as booting the NT from the SD card that contained CWM recovery on it, and it began the process. It then decided to just shut completely off after it seemed to be either almost finished or finished with the boot process. Either way, the problem now is I cannot turn it on. I have used every button press combo, as well as several attempts to boot off of recovery SD cards. I have tried connecting the NT to the computer via usb while holding down the power and home buttons, and all that jazz. No matter what I do, my NT will NOT turn on for ANYTHING. Although the battery seems to be fine, since after plugging in the power cord (after attempting to press buttons or whatever else) it turns orange for a few seconds to a few minutes (depending on how much I mess with it) and turns green. I am starting to think that any method that uses the SD card to boot into recovery or flash to stock or anything is simply not going to work, as my most recent attempt was to boot it into Ubuntu Recovery using Adam Outler's [UnBrick]TOTAL WIPE and reflash back to 1.4.0 via Ubuntu Recovery --Now Easier!!!! (here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470910 )
and after following the instructions for both Ubuntu AND windows, the card will not make the NT boot into recovery. Considering Adam Outler's method is supposed to completely set everything to 0, I am pretty sure that anything regarding booting from an SD card is NOT going to work.
Is there any way that I could connect the NT to the computer and fix it through that? If anyone has any MEANINGFUL and USEFUL tips regarding this dilemma, PLEASE help me out. I am aware of the possibility that my NT could be fried beyond repair, but at the same time I can't help but think that there's GOT to be a way I can fix it. I don't care about saving anything on there, or what ROM I flash it to, or anything like that. I just don't want to be a paperweight anymore. I would like to at least figure out why it won't turn on, if nothing else.
Like I said, I have already tried several methods regarding booting to recovery through the SD card, and none have worked. Again, NOTHING is making it turn on at all. Please help me!
I would try the repart.imgdecribed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663836 before attempting anything else. I think your trouble stems from TWRP, but either way, try the repart.img before you start messing with anything else.
I know you say it's impossible to boot from sd card, but I still think it's worth a try. Insert the card. then insert powered charging cable. If it still seems dead, hold power button for 10 seconds. Remove and reinsert powered cable.
The fact that the charging cable is green does not automatically means it's charged. It just means it's not taking any power, and that could be because of whatever makes it not turn on. I think it may not actually have been dead when you thought it was at first, and then it could have drained completely. It needs to get some juice, so try keeping the chargging cable inserted when experimenting with buttons.