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nexus 7 wont turn on.... help please
biawhiska
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had my nexus 7 all of 24hrs. was readinga book on it last night. had about 25% battery left. i turned it off and left it on the side. got up decided to charge it but it didnt get a battery on screen to say was charging so i tried to turn it on. wont turn on at all. have left it charging i guess maybe battery just completely drained. what do you think? im worried.
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i have nothing useful to say really. that 25% may have been nothing as the fuel gauge probably hadn't had time to calibrate.
charging completely flat devices via usb is tricky because it's a two way process. but normally leaving it on charge will suffice.
i'd give it an hour or so. then **** it off.
Have you tried keeping the power button held for 10 secs approx.?
I've had to do this twice. Once very soon after I got the tablet. I thought it was broken until I looked up how to do a soft reset (or whatever they call it).
Im not sure its a return issue yet .... maybe if it happens again you might want to look for dodgy apps and if nothing stands out THEN maybe think that it might be a hardware fault.
I would very much expect that its NOT a hardware issue.
thankyou. not many apps on it. i will see how it goes today and see what happens tomorrow
I had the same problem the day or so after I bought it and now about half the time when I turn it on I have to keep the on button depressed for that long for it to switch on.
That seems excessive.
Are you switching the device completely off each time after use? Most of the time I'm just leaving it in standby (brief press of the switch), so perhaps there is a problem here which most people don't see.
Yes I usually switch off when I stop using it rather than leave it in standby.
that is not really the way they are intended to operate. there is little advantage to it.
a day on standby only uses about as much power as 40 minutes switched on. so as long as you are using it every couple of days it's not a huge deal.
http://androidforums.com/nexus-7/594627-nexus-7-dead-wont-charge.html
as is often the case with these things that thread has a lot of nearly right information, and a lot that is right for the wrong reason.
Hi, the same thing has happened to my nexus and it still has not come on, if it does what do i look for when it comes to dodgy apps? Also have you any idea how to uninstall?
Nexus has a CPU governor which helps to minimize power use when on.
When in standby it will eventually go into a 'deep sleep'.
Good explanation here