So just yesterday I was on here asking how to load/install apps from/to a USB device. I'm unsure if it's something I did to cause this or if it was just my tablet acting up.
I installed 2 new apps, "StickMount" and "FolderMount". StickMount is supposed to be for mounting/unmounting the USB I plug in, and FolderMount is supposed to connect installed apps to the usb in a "pair" so that they can load off of the USB instead of the device.
I had moved a few apps, one being LuckyPatcher, over to usb. However it really didn't seem to do anything. In fact, I'm pretty sure doing that added onto the existing used space (so it took more not less). The other two were just some games I was playing at the time (for testing).
Everything was running normal, I plugged the tablet in as it was close to death (like 14% if I remember correctly). Few hours go by, I decide to use it. Double tap the screen, no response. Click power, no response. HOLD power, nothing. I decide that maybe it was just dead and needed a charge, so I left it in as I went to sleep.
Wake up, and repeat. Nothing happens. I plug it into the computer, computer doesn't show anything is connected. Leave it for like hour to see if it'd charge, nothing. Tried using the steps on the google product forums, and nothing helped.
All the topics on here are people mentioning their tablets are in a similar state and they don't have a solution posted.. Or they say to send it in for repairs. I can't do that as I won this in a contest and there's no warranty or insurance on it.
Is there ANY way I can get this out of this brick state?
P.S: I forgot to mention, When I was taking my case off it, after it was already in the brick state, the nexus tablet itself started to come apart.. That's not normal is it?
P.P.S: I can't link to the page as I have not made enough posts. Googling "Nexus 9 won't boot" should get a product forums link, the user in there posts the link to the troubleshooter. Was just things like holding power and volume down, plugging it in and waiting 15 mins. so on.
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I recieved my gtab in the mail today. First think I did was put clockwork mod on and then Caulkins rom. Everything rebooted fine but when I tried to log into the market something strange was happening. My number keys (that I was trying to use for my password) were acting as a "back" button. Then it forced closed and will not turn on. When I have it plugged in, it's taking a charge. I don't even know where to start!!!! Any help will be much appreciated!!!
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I recieved my gtab in the mail today. First think I did was put clockwork mod on and then Caulkins rom. Everything rebooted fine but when I tried to log into the market something strange was happening. My number keys (that I was trying to use for my password) were acting as a "back" button. Then it forced closed and will not turn on. When I have it plugged in, it's taking a charge. I don't even know where to start!!!! Any help will be much appreciated!!!
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Sounds like initially your touchscreen calibration may have be off. Do you have a microSD card installed? If so, put an empty file called calibration.ini on the root directory of you microSD card. If you don't have a microSD card installed on your gtab, you can try to put an empty calibration.ini file on the /sdcard directory of your gtab device, although I read there has been some mixed success. The biggest thing is that you don't touch the gtab touchscreen during the reboot. Wait until the launcher of your choice is fully available for use.
If it doesn't startup, you may have to wait for the battery to drain. Can you get into ClockWorkMod?
Have youcheld down the power button for like 45 seconds? Are you sure it didn't go into apx mode?
Did you charge it all the way before modding it?
If nothing happens when you hold power for 45 seconds it may be booting into apx mode and that means its time to get comfy with nvflash. Good luck
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Same thing happened to me. I was able to boot via nvflash, and it seemed like it restored everything. (But I notice that nothing comes out of the upper menu windows, where it previously shows news or weather kinda stuff), But when it powers off, I cant power on anymore. Any help out there ? I can only power it On when I use nvflash.
Mantara,
I don't think you meant it the way you said it.
Holding down the power button for 45 second by itself will not activate APX mode.
It may turn off the tablet permanently. (And if the tab malfunctions APX mode might
actually appear).
But to activate APX mode you have to hold down power and volume - until you get the "birds" and eventually a black screen. I know from other posts you know that, but
wanted make sure the new folks understand.
Rev
Thanks for clarification brother. I was checking the forum while battaling some serious insomnia and even with a pre post readthrough it made sense in my head.
Wanted mainly to know if battery got charged all the way. Lots of stories of really odd issues commingle from modding with low batteries. One of those issues being it randomly booting onto apx.
Like I said, my original post made sense in my sleep addled brain XD
Thanks for turning my insomniatic forum vomit into something potentially constructive
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So, I have a Nook Tablet 8gb that's stuck in a boot loop. I was using it last night to read, decided to go to bed and plugged it into the charger. Upon plugging the tablet in, it powered off, tried to boot up again, and then powered off again. It's now stuck in a boot loop (only shows the 'n' screen for 1 second), and it only does this when plugged into the charger or my laptop. When I remove it from the usb cable, it doesn't even power on at all.
I tried calling the Barnes and Noble customer support, but being that my NT is 1.5 years old, it's now out of warranty and they apparently can't do anything for me. The guy tried walking me through some troubleshooting steps and ended up telling me that it's a hardware problem. Before I toss it out, I decided to check here.
I have looked at other posts and seen similar issues that have been posted about, but seeing as how my NT won't even turn on without being plugged into the cable, none of the fixes on here seem to have worked. I did try downloading the repart.img onto a sd card but I was still unable to get my NT to reset to factory settings.
I'm at a loss at what to do with this paperweight, and I can assure anyone reading this, that I will never own a Nook again because of the horrible customer support, and the fact that the one I had only lasted me 1.5 years. Please help if you can, thanks!
Ok, update to my NT situation... (FYI, this appears to be a h/w issue with my battery vice an Android OS issue)
Just to clarify, I'll give a little more information. I've been doing research all day on my problem, and I feel like I need to specify some things in case anyone else has a similar situation going on. After reading some other posts online, this is what the problem initially appeared to be...
My nook tablet's battery drained all the way to 0% before I plugged it in. After plugging it into the cable (via pc or wall outlet), the tablet would power on, show the 'n' screen for approx 1 second, and then power off. After about 5 seconds, it would power on again, show the 'n' screen, and power off again. Basically it was just stuck in a boot loop and did not seem to be charging up at all even though the indication on the cable showed it should have been charging. When I would unplug the nook from the cable, it would not turn on at all.
Possible solution #1... I read somewhere in a couple different posts that it could be just a battery issue caused by me letting it drain all the way down. Some people resolved their issues by removing the back from their tablets, unplugging the battery for 10 seconds, plugging it back in and then letting the tablet charge. (Removing the back and messing with your tablet's hardware will void the warranty!!!) After watching a couple videos about how to access the battery and remove it, I decided to unplug mine and give it a shot.
Results so far.... After plugging my battery back in, my NT has stopped going into the boot loop. I'm now getting the message to let it charge for 15 minutes and then try to power it on again. This is at least a different screen than the boot loop I was seeing, so some success... hoping in about half an hour I'll have even more success. I will update again when I see something different... crossing my fingers!!!
Yep, unplugging my battery did stop the boot loop, and my NT is now charging. I was able to turn it back on and it's now at the stock setup screen.
Even though no-one replied to the post, I'd still like to thank the Android gurus that do post here and help individuals resolve their problems. It seems like I'm always learning something new when I check out the forums. Please keep up the great work!
Now time to root and have some more fun!!!
Ok, so I've crawled everywhere for the last few days to try and see if anybody else has had this issue, but alas, nobody has.
So my device was purchased in Nov 2013, out of warrany. No luck there with a replacement.
Last week I was watching a show, low battery, it powered down. No biggie, just plug it in and let it charge. But it refused to do anything at all, even after charging for 24 hours. No power, no screen, nothing. Held the power button. Nothing. No noise, no lights, nothing.
Contacted Tech Support and they sent me one of their 9w chargers and said to try that. Got it, plugged it in overnight, again, nothing. Held the power button for 40 seconds, nothing. Tried it while plugged in, nothing.
Contacted Tech Support again and they said nothing they can do other than offer me $20 off a new device. No thanks.
I plugged the unit into my desktop and it blooped that a new device was connected, and in the device manager I have the "QHSUSB_BULK" device. This is a totally stock, nothing new, not even developer options enabled (when it had power)
Is there anything to be done with the device at this point?
Again, no power, no screen, no lights, nothing.
Unresponsive.
Help?
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Is there anything to be done with the device at this point?
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Probably not, sorry.
There is a reason why Android in general pops up request about battery charging 2 times before it shutdown itself. One is about ideal state for charging modern Li-ion battery , which is around 10 - 15 % its capacity, second is about a minimal safe level for Li-ion battery, which is cca 5%, and under this (believe or not) some bad things can happen, including internal storage media corruption while writing something and not enough juice left in the process of shutdown for finishing it...
I don't know for real what happened in your case, but I have seen this type of posts about android shutdown because of no juice left in battery and after charging device was dead in other forums for some other devices...
My first tablet was Asus Transformer tf101, which had extra battery in the keyboard, and manual clearly stated, that its capacity must not drop under 3%, otherwise it can't be recharged properly and must be replaced...
So IMO people risks every time when they ignore this request for charging battery, and I must admit I too let my Apollo shutdown 2 times in last 2 weeks because I was too lazy to connect it to charger... but after this post I will definitely rethink next time...
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Ok, so I've crawled everywhere for the last few days to try and see if anybody else has had this issue, but alas, nobody has.
So my device was purchased in Nov 2013, out of warrany. No luck there with a replacement.
Last week I was watching a show, low battery, it powered down. No biggie, just plug it in and let it charge. But it refused to do anything at all, even after charging for 24 hours. No power, no screen, nothing. Held the power button. Nothing. No noise, no lights, nothing.
Contacted Tech Support and they sent me one of their 9w chargers and said to try that. Got it, plugged it in overnight, again, nothing. Held the power button for 40 seconds, nothing. Tried it while plugged in, nothing.
Contacted Tech Support again and they said nothing they can do other than offer me $20 off a new device. No thanks.
I plugged the unit into my desktop and it blooped that a new device was connected, and in the device manager I have the "QHSUSB_BULK" device. This is a totally stock, nothing new, not even developer options enabled (when it had power)
Is there anything to be done with the device at this point?
Again, no power, no screen, no lights, nothing.
Unresponsive.
Help?
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Sounds like you have done your homework. Unfortunately, gut tells me you have a defective hw component. Could be the battery, regulator or some other power circuit. If you have a USB3 port (and cable) try plugging into that for awhile. It might just put enough charge on the battery to permit some type of response combined with the higher power output of a USB3 port. In my experience a USB2 port does not provide enough juice to power high draw devices with a crippled battery. It's a long shot a best but if you can get a response and diagnostics confirm it's the battery you could consider replacing that (no easy task) to recover your device.
Another option is to snag an inexpensive USB current meter (examples here and here) to see if the device is actually drawing power while on charge. If the reading is close to zero you likely have a charge circuit problem which can't be easily remedied. A bad battery would still draw some current...just wouldn't hold a charge. Note these gizmos can also be used to identify a bad cable, bad charger or combination of the two for virtually any USB device. You'd be amazed how many crappy cables are out there that severely restrict charge rates. But that's another matter ...
Sorry I couldn't provide a more optimistic response.
So maybe try replacing the battery?
ifixit says they're kinda hard to replace, but for $50 off Amazon it might be worth it vs the $150 they quoted me for a replacement tablet.
I've had a few devices shut down on me like this (I try my hardest not to, but we all fail sometimes) and I've just never run into this issue before.
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Sorry I couldn't provide a more optimistic response.
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Thanks for the reply. Like I said above, I charged it with their charger, 3 of my own, my USB 3.0 port on my desktop, all with multiple cords. So no luck there. I've kind of been figured it's just EOL for this thing unfortunately and I just don't think I'm gonna bother with it at this point. USB on the desktop recognizes it, but nothing further.
Time to mount it on the wall I guess lol. Thanks for all the responses and confirming what I suspected, it helps to know that others think that my conclusion wasn't premature.
Hi all,
I'm getting ready to give up after looking things up online, this is a last attempt to get suggestions of things to try.
I'll start with the current state, will explain how it got there below. So my Lenovo Tab s8-50 is hard-bricked. It won't display anything, the screen stays off. I tried any combination of the buttons combination to get to the recovery mode (power+vol.up+vol.dn) for 20 seconds, while plugged, unplugged, plugging it while buttons were pressed down, plugging off while buttons were pressed. Tried the same with only power button and power+vol.dn. The screen just remains off, nothing visible happens. It's probably obvious at this point, but plugging it to a windows computer gives me nothing, adb daemon does not find it either.
It had an SD card formatted as internal storage. That SD card is fine and readable in another device, but for some reason it took pictures only up to a point, a couple of months before the tablet got bricked (possibly i manually transferred all pics to the SD card manually at one point, I don't recall). I would like to know if there is any way to get back the pictures that were stored on the internal memory. Obviously if the device can be brought back online, even better, but i care mostly about the pictures.
How it got bricked : so the tablet belongs to a tech-unsavvy relative. She wanted to transfer pictures to her computer, an old toshiba laptop running Linux Mint. I instructed from afar her to plug it in that computer and select MTP transfer from the tablet's notification bar. She says she did that, but there is a chance she did something different, although nothing that takes more than a couple of taps to reach - she'd have freaked out and asked for help. Then she left, the plan being that i would do the transfer via teamviewer when i had a minute. When I tried i didn't see the tablet on the linux laptop, I figured she hadn't selected the right USB mode. A few hours later she came back home and the tablet wouldn't turn on. I'm not sure how it got bricked during that time, perhaps the laptop went to sleep or hibernate although it is set to not do anything like that unless the battery goes critical, and it is always plugged in.
Any input, help, suggestion of things to try would be very much appreciated. Thanks for reading this far
A shameless bump, I apologize if you're not supposed to do that here. I'm just... still hoping a bit.
First of all, sorry if this isn't the right place to post this thread.
Last night i was playing TFT on my Xiaomi Mi 10 as it shut itself down without any warning.
I'm sure i had more than 20% battery left.
This device is about 1 month old, and it crashed one time before, but i could just reboot it with the power button.
This time though, no reaction.
I tried every possible combination of Volume Up/Down and Power button presses, nothing. No vibration, nothing on the screen, just plain nothing.
It literally bricked itself. I did not root it or anything similar, I just used it normally.
Any ideas on what caused this, and more importantly how to fix this? I can't believe this.
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First of all, sorry if this isn't the right place to post this thread.
Last night i was playing TFT on my Xiaomi Mi 10 as it shut itself down without any warning.
I'm sure i had more than 20% battery left.
This device is about 1 month old, and it crashed one time before, but i could just reboot it with the power button.
This time though, no reaction.
I tried every possible combination of Volume Up/Down and Power button presses, nothing. No vibration, nothing on the screen, just plain nothing.
It literally bricked itself. I did not root it or anything similar, I just used it normally.
Any ideas on what caused this, and more importantly how to fix this? I can't believe this.
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I guess, that your battery is totally empty. Put on charger and leave on it few hours long.
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I guess, that your battery is totally empty. Put on charger and leave on it few hours long.
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I charged it 4 hours in the night and right now since 3 hours
Call service. Sorry. If it doesn't boot into fastboot (vol-&power) things are bad...
Try plugging in your phone to a computer. I had a similar thing happen to another phone a little while ago when out of the blue it just died. I tried charging it, wireless charging it, trying power buttons etc but it instantly fixed itself when I plugged in the phone to my computer via USB. Let us know how it went.
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I charged it 4 hours in the night and right now since 3 hours
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Try different cable or check if the cable you use is working. Then press both volume up, down, and power button for at least five minutes. It might reset the phone. It happened to me once time not on the mi 10 but my rog phone 2 and I press that 3 buttons combination and the phone booted up again. I know the mi 10 might not work the same way as the rog phone 2 but you have nothing to lose to try it.
Yeah I tried using another cable, although I know this cable works (old phone). I also tried charging it via my PC, I even tried to connect to it via ADB, it didn't show up in the device list after installing the drivers.
Pretty sure I'm going to give it to service, I still got warranty and I even have insurance for it.
Because of that I don't want to open it to get the battery out and back in, although I'd really really like to know what caused this. I literally played a game and zap it goes black never to be seen again... I hope the service finds the cause and tells me.
Anyway, thank you really much for the suggestions and the help. Incase I get to know what caused this I will write it here as long as I remember to. Until then Cheers Lads.
Same here. My step-daughter purchased this phone and received it Tuesday morning. Now it won;t respond to anything.
I was handed the phone with "pcsuite.mi.com" on the screen but upon connecting to my laptop the screen went black and now won't respond to anything at all. No Recovery mode, no fastboot mode, no vibrations, nothing.
From reading reports online from other users, it seems like Xiamoi really "dropped the ball"/"shat the bed" with this model
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I've also performed "lsusb" to see if the device is alive and there's nothing there either