LG L9 is suddenly dead. nothing works

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I have a T-mobile LG Optimus L9 that is about 14 months old and it went dead yesterday. I plugged the USB cable to the phone to my phone last night before I went to sleep and noticed that the screen didn't turn on. I didn't think much of it and went to sleep.

This morning I tried to turn it on by pressing the power button and nothing works. I tried my wife's full battery (she has the same phone) and it didn't work either.

I connected my phone to my PC with a USB cable and my PC did nothing when it was connected...

I took the battery out for 2 hours and tried again didn't work... tried hard reset by pressing volume down+home+power button for 10 seconds... didn't work.

I don't know why I'm having this problem... I didn't drop the phone or anything like that yesterday. It just suddenly went dead and it's out of the 1 yr warranty period.

Anyone have any idea? and how much would it cost to fix it?

 

[mario0318]

It really could be one or several internal issues that may be causing it to not power on. Not sure what a fix would cost since it could involve replacing the motherboard on it, or a loose power cable, but again it may not be that. You may be better off buying another one.

 

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I have a T-mobile LG Optimus L9 that is about 14 months old and it went dead yesterday. I plugged the USB cable to the phone to my phone last night before I went to sleep and noticed that the screen didn't turn on. I didn't think much of it and went to sleep.

This morning I tried to turn it on by pressing the power button and nothing works. I tried my wife's full battery (she has the same phone) and it didn't work either.

I connected my phone to my PC with a USB cable and my PC did nothing when it was connected...

I took the battery out for 2 hours and tried again didn't work... tried hard reset by pressing volume down+home+power button for 10 seconds... didn't work.

I don't know why I'm having this problem... I didn't drop the phone or anything like that yesterday. It just suddenly went dead and it's out of the 1 yr warranty period.

Anyone have any idea? and how much would it cost to fix it?

It happened to my L9 as well. Fortunately it was under original warranty. I contacted LG and they asked me to ship the phone to them at my cost.


I got it back after about 10-12 days. The description on the service log said, "Replaced OnBoard ChipSet".

Apparently this seems like a common problem.

Since yours is over 14 months, I'd recommend filing a warranty claim through your credit card's extended warranty program, assuming you purchased it with a card that offers it.

Let us know how it worked out. Good Luck.