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[Hasan Yeylaqi <hyeylaqi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

A few months ago I was faced with a similar problem on my E4.5.
I think you should unplug and leave your phone turned on to drain the
battery, then unplug it again when fully charged.

Sincerely,
Hasan Yeylaqi
about.me/hyeylaqi

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Guillaume F <marsguo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Today my bq 4.5 has decided to get bricked. I told it it probably wasn't a
> good time to do that, since the people who would be able to help me were
> more likely to be on summer vacation than, say, in October, but it was
> already bricked so it didn't care.
>
> I didn't do anything in particular. I had left it on a table and when I
> tried turning the screen on, it would not do anything. I tried to plug it,
> and the phone behaves exactly how it behaves normally when you plug it and
> it's off: white bq screen, then the battery animation. The battery isn't
> empty since it shows 44%.
>
> However, when I try long pressing the power button, plugged or not, the
> screen just flashes once, then nothing, then it flashes again (every 3
> seconds as long as I keep pressing the power button). I can't get past it,
> I don't even get the white bq screen.
>
> So I tried to enter the boot mode screen, which works. But none of the
> options do anything (recovery, fastboot, normal boot). Every time I select
> one option and press "OK" (volume down) the screen turns off and nothing
> happens. Not even the flicker I mentioned while pressing the power button.
>
> I'm more of an enthusiast than a power user, so I'm not sure what to do.
> Since the boot options don't work at all, I suppose something is wrong with
> the hardware? But I wanted to check this with you before turning to bq.
>
> I tried searching the Internet and even the mailing list (which, by the
> way, is not very convenient to browse in the archives since there's no
> "search" button, so my apologies if a solution has already been posted
> here), but could not find anything that fits my problem.
>
> I should also mention that the phone was upgraded to OTA-12 and that I've
> never made it writeable. The worse I did was enabling the developer mode to
> install custom webapps that would interest nobody but me, but that was a
> while ago.
>
> Aaand this phone is my daily driver, so any help would be really, really
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Guillaume
>
>
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