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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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