Root Uh Oh. Dead phone?

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I don't know what happened, but I think I may have done something really stupid to compound it. My phone just stopped working. Wouldn't even turn on. No response no matter what I did with holding the power button.

I hooked it up to USB cable and I did get green light. Tried to use WUGS to do an adb boot. It just hung and nothing happened and I couldn't dismiss anything. So, without thinking, I disconnected the USB cord. Now I get no light even when connected to power.

Did I just screw myself out of $350 dollars but doing something really dumb? Is there any way to save this.

I hope this thread doesn't end with "live and learn." The thing is, in the back of m mind I think I knew I shouldn't do that.

Any help greatly appreciated. For now I'm going to leave it on the charger. It was, by the way, at 80% when I put it down maybe 30 minutes before I discovered the problem.

 

[Incakola]

Just to clarify did you try the bootloader (pow+vol down)?

 

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Yay! That worked. And the charging light wasn't coming on because it was charged. So I wonder what happened. I'm a little embarrassed, but happy to be so. I was panicking.

 

[xdrc45]

Don't feel bad we've all had those moments... I was panicking for you as I was reading your post. Lol

 

[Incakola]

Glad bootloader worked for you lol. I remember bricking my n7 so badly that the bootloader didn't even worked and I had to send it to Asus.

 

[Rxpert83]

:rofl:

Glad to see it works!

I was going to suggest leaving it on the charger for a few hours. My original nexus 7 sometimes becomes unresponsive and thats the only way to resurrect it.

 

[Hook]

:rofl:

Glad to see it works!

I was going to suggest leaving it on the charger for a few hours. My original nexus 7 sometimes becomes unresponsive and thats the only way to resurrect it.

Yeah, I've seen something like that from my Nexus 7 (2012) if I make the mistake of letting it run too low. But the N5 has never done anything like this and battery wasn't the issue. I'm still laughing over the fact that I panicked because the charging light went out not realizing it did so because it reached fully charged while on the USB cable. :hahaha:

 

[akmsr]

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are you using franco kernel by any chance?

 

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are you using franco kernel by any chance?

Yes. Have been for quite some time. I skipped r41 and was on r42 at the time.

 

[Rxpert83]

Could have experienced a "sleep of death" (sod)

Hard rebooting should have fixed that though (hold power for 10 secs)

 

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Could have experienced a "sleep of death" (sod)

Hard rebooting should have fixed that though (hold power for 10 secs)

When it happened, no hard rebooting/battery pull emulation was possible. It just did not respond at all. That's why it didn't occur to be to try going into the bootloader. It acted just dead. Dunno. Has been fine since. Will simply carry on and hope not to run into it again.