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Help Phone wouldn't turn on this morning (FIXED..for now)

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Rough Draft

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Scared me quite a bit....

When i woke up to my alarm this morning the Green LED was on on my phone (100%) battery, made perfect sense - i'd been charging it all night. I grabbed my phone and headed for the door and it vibrated and flashed a blue LED. So I promtly hit the home button to turn the screen on. Nothing.

I tried hitting the power button, holding the power button ect. All the phone would do is give a little vibrate - then nothing. At this point i'm a little bit scared for the life of my dear phone, thinking when the last time I ran a backup was...

I plugged the phone in and searched the web a little bit to see if anyone else had the same problem, some similar things but nothing dead on.

I decided to try ONE MORE TIME. This time I was going to try going to the boot / recovery menu - it worked. So from there I used t he option restart. The phone booted normally and the problem was apparent- 1% battery.


TLDR: Phone 100% battery -> screen wouldn't turn on -> troubleshooted - nothing worked -> plugged into wall -> Battery was dead?!?

I post this here for 2 reasons. 1 HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN... and 2 in case it happens to someone else, hopefully they stumble a crossed this thread.
 
Hello Rough Draft.

Yeah, we're seeing reports of charging/charging cable/charging port issues cropping up around the forums.

More than one remedy has been stated, including replacing the charging cable, cleaning out the charging port (carefully) with a pin or with rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab, or both. :)

It does not seem to be a software issue in 99% of cases. We used to see the runaway loop occurring due to a task killer being used which was spending the night killing services which the system was then restarting as needed. ;)
 
Frisco said:
Hello Rough Draft.

Yeah, we're seeing reports of charging/charging cable/charging port issues cropping up around the forums.

More than one remedy has been stated, including replacing the charging cable, cleaning out the charging port (carefully) with a pin or with rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab, or both. :)

It does not seem to be a software issue in 99% of cases. We used to see the runaway loop occurring due to a task killer being used which was spending the night killing services which the system was then restarting as needed. ;)
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Thank you for your quick response.

Shortly after making this post it stared beeping telling me to plug it in. I realized I wasn't using the wall plug that came with my phone, when I plugged my phone in to the right charger it hasen't had any problems. I hope this fixes the problem.

Also my charging port is rather clean, I have a otter box case that covers the charging port and headphone jack so the only time they are open is when I use them.
 
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