I bought my nexus 7 on 9/24, was doing fine until last night. Scribbly screen, now completely dead. Wont respond to pressing the volume + power button.
Same issue here.
Mine had been working flawlessly and everything was pretty smooth. (had it for about a week more or less). As most of the dead/ bricked N7 stories begin, mine has had it's battery fully drained as well.
tried to plug it with usb/ac - nothing.
tried to boot it into boot loader (Power button + Vol Down for about 10 sec) - It worked. turned it off. Finally - it charges (or so i thought).
gave it a good night charge, and checked it by morning.
I pressed the power button, it reacted immediately (more or less, didn't had to wait 30 sec) but couldn't get pass the X animation.
My N7 was in that state for about a day, with me trying all sort of button combination (power button would turn it on only to get stuck on that animation,
power btn + Vol Down loaded boot loader,
Power btn + Vol up turned device off).
after a day of not passing the X animation I tried once again to give it a shot
(the device is off, not connected to anything)
well, it got even worse, now it's pretty much all dead. no response what so ever
(yes i tried holding the power button for a decade or so and i tried every charging method I could think of
BTW
No response when connected to a computer as well.
Any ideas?
I bought my nexus 7 on 9/24, was doing fine until last night. Scribbly screen, now completely dead. Wont respond to pressing the volume + power button.
I got my new Nexus 7 and it did exactly the same thing, brand new out of the box. I read somewhere that you could open it. I found that I could get under the back cover at one of the corners and pried the back off. I found the battery was almost completely unplugged. I pushed the battery connector all the way in and away it went. I also found that the battery is too small for the compartment and it relied on the power cable to keep it from moving around. I did the Mickey Mouse fix and took up the extra space with a round wooden toothpick. LOL It worked perfect and continues to work fine. Very poor design from Asus.
I hope this info helps someone else and keeps them from having to send it back.
Other than this little glitch, I love the tablet so -far after only a few days use.
I got my new Nexus 7 and it did exactly the same thing, brand new out of the box. I read somewhere that you could open it. I found that I could get under the back cover at one of the corners and pried the back off. I found the battery was almost completely unplugged. I pushed the battery connector all the way in and away it went. I also found that the battery is too small for the compartment and it relied on the power cable to keep it from moving around. I did the Mickey Mouse fix and took up the extra space with a round wooden toothpick. LOL It worked perfect and continues to work fine. Very poor design from Asus.
I hope this info helps someone else and keeps them from having to send it back.
Other than this little glitch, I love the tablet so far after only a few days use.
I got my new Nexus 7 and it did exactly the same thing, brand new out of the box. I read somewhere that you could open it. I found that I could get under the back cover at one of the corners and pried the back off. I found the battery was almost completely unplugged. I pushed the battery connector all the way in and away it went. I also found that the battery is too small for the compartment and it relied on the power cable to keep it from moving around. I did the Mickey Mouse fix and took up the extra space with a round wooden toothpick. LOL It worked perfect and continues to work fine. Very poor design from Asus.
I hope this info helps someone else and keeps them from having to send it back.
Other than this little glitch, I love the tablet so far after only a few days use.