I think my phone (Honor 10 Lite) just died
It was working fine. The battery was down to 5%, so I plugged it in to charge as normal, but a few seconds later I heard the beep and vibrate of the phone switching off. Now it doesn't seem to do anything when I plug it in.
If I press the power button the red charging light flashes for a second and the red charging logo appears on the screen for a second. After a while plugged in the logo changes to green, but then returns to red again. I can't seem to get it to do anything else. Holding the power/volume button occasionally makes it vibrate.
Anyone had a similar experience? Is there any way to revive it?
It was working fine. The battery was down to 5%, so I plugged it in to charge as normal, but a few seconds later I heard the beep and vibrate of the phone switching off. Now it doesn't seem to do anything when I plug it in.
If I press the power button the red charging light flashes for a second and the red charging logo appears on the screen for a second. After a while plugged in the logo changes to green, but then returns to red again. I can't seem to get it to do anything else. Holding the power/volume button occasionally makes it vibrate.
Anyone had a similar experience? Is there any way to revive it?
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go through each one systematically one by one exactly as stated - be calm and patient - do not cut corners. you just may need to accept you have lost data; there may be a way of accessing the files when connected to a PC?
How costly was the repair? Did you do it yourself? Charging boards for this model are cheap but even getting the back off looks like an ordeal.
Edit: Or leaving it on charge for longer to see if the battery was severely drained? (edited)
It wasn't severely drained as i was literally using it 30 seconds before it powered off.
I've moved onto another phone and I've always been led to believe that setting up a new Android nowadays is a seamless process with data, accounts and files being restored from the cloud. It's downloaded some of the apps from the old phone but that's it. What a nightmare...
I've been meaning to set up the new phone for weeks but never quite got round to it. Now it looks like everything is lost. (edited)
Just noticed some things weren't actually backed up to Google Photos. (edited)
Similar thing happened to my OnePlus. Phone was low on charge and it just started bootlooping and would barely show the splash screen. Connect it to a PC, leave it in charge overnight then let the phone die completely if possible, hold all the buttons on the phone at once, and maybe even wait a day or 2 see if that somehow magically fixes it?
And last resort, get someone to remove the battery and put it back in, that might do something. I've never once seen a phone suffering from booting issues not launch into recovery mode... So see if you can get into it first. (edited)
I suspect it's not so much a booting issue as a power issue. Even while it was on and plugged in for a few seconds it didn't charge. Now that may have been because the connection wasn't quite fitting right at the phone or the cable into the plug, but it's impossible to know as the battery was so low it only lasted a few seconds after I plugged it in.
Leaving it for a day or two is the only thing I can try now. In the meantime, this transfer process has been a mess! (edited)
If so, can be a sign it needs replacing.