Comments on: Fix: Nexus 7 Refusing to Charge, Try This Trick

By: stein2010

stein2010 — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:10:00 +0000

Fantastic! Thanks you for saving me a call to TS

By: Julia Robinson

Julia Robinson — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:23:00 +0000

Thank you!!! Crazy it has come to this but glad to have a working Nexus 7 again. Never letting it die again…

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:38:00 +0000

Confirming it was problem on mine as well – opened it easily as you can see on many videos and just pushed the plug back in its place (it should be fully in – on mine it was halfway out of the socket) it powered up and started working agian!

By: Droid in Oregon

Droid in Oregon — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:51:00 +0000

Basically because it should just work with the latest software. No one should have to run an outdated OS version on a brand new device. That’s why I bought a Nexus directly from Google. The 4.2.2 update seems to have helped, but it is still not as perfect as 4.1 was. When I bought the Nexus 7, it was the first time I could hold an Android device up next to an iOS device and honestly say it not only kicked the iOS device’s ass feature-wise, but performance-wise as well, and for less than half the price.

By: Duh

Duh — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:32:00 +0000

Why don’t you just do a factory reset and then only update it to 4.1? Why would you insist on running 4.2 when the device isn’t running as smoothly as with 4.1?

By: Scoop444

Scoop444 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:46:00 +0000

If that doesn’t work, press all three buttons and hold them for 30 seconds…that should get you to the boot menu. From there follow the instructions above.

By: Nudo

Nudo — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:11:00 +0000

Insulting someone by accusing them of insulting others. genius!

By: disqus_0udUTleamX

disqus_0udUTleamX — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:58:00 +0000

Genius!!!! I’ve been having a problem where I’d run it right down, leave it on charge overnight and it’d only be on 40% in the morning after about 8 hours. Then, even when using it on the AC power, it would drain out. I put it down to being on the South Thailand islands and the electrics not being all that good there but the problem has followed me since until I saw this post this morning and now it my battery is rapidly filling up whilst I’m happily typing this. Thank you I was worried that by the time I got back from travelling, the warranty would be up!!

By: Fanz

Fanz — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:02:00 +0000

Tried everything suggested on here (and similar on other forums) when our Nexus 7 ‘died.’ Turned out that the battery connection had slipped out. Many worried hours are now over. Thanks for posting help.

By: Kristofer Whiting

Kristofer Whiting — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:44:00 +0000

Thanks for this… My tip to those trying; don’t give up too soon I did the suggested plug-in press power+downvol about a dozen times and then got frustrated and started mashing button combos for a while. did some more unplug, plugin+buttons thing a few times and eventually I noticed the screen was staying black and not flashing anymore. at that point I left it plugged in for a while even though I never saw the bootloader menu. after about 5-10 minutes I heard it beep and it booted up. There wasn’t enough battery so it shut down immediately. It did this a few more times as I watched and I decided to try the steps outlined here again, after a few tries the battery symbol showed up in the screen and it appears to be charging properly now… Still never saw the bootloader but it seems to work anyway! hope it charges all the way up now!

By: Dani

Dani — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:41:00 +0000

My Nexus 7 and I are at war right now. I cannot get it to remain
powered on. I try all of the “tricks” but to no avail. It powers on to
the Google screen then either powers off or just stays dimly lit. I dont
know what to do. Any suggestions?

By: Aaron McMillin

Aaron McMillin — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:16:00 +0000

Thank you! This needs to be patched. 4.2 shouldn’t have been pushed out with such major bugs.

By: callista

callista — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:51:00 +0000

Thank you so much… I was getting nervous.

By: vkk

vkk — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:55:00 +0000

seems like it working.. thanks for the wonderful tip…

By: Davidsen

Davidsen — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:39:00 +0000

I had the flickering, sometimes static black screen for hours; no button-pushing soft tricks worked for me, but in a last ditch effort, I followed the directions on Youtube to take the back cover off (used my plastic automotive trim removal tools — super easy) and check the battery connection. The connector has no latch mechanism and the battery was taped on slightly crooked. This led to the connector having constant tension on one side, pulling it out slowly and ever so slightly. Lame. Once I pushed it back in I got the battery charging screen at the beginning of the post. I figure I’ll have to do this fairly frequently until I attempt to re-position the battery but at least it’s easy.