[Fix] Recover from Dead Battery [Fix]

[Guest seapoint]

According to Motorola Mobility, the solution to a fully discharged battery not restarting is to plug it in to charger and press & hold the power button for 18+ seconds, when the battery should resume charging.

[Guest jpxdude]

Hi there!

Just to let you know that this didn't work for me. The only thing that worked was leaving the phone off and in a cool place for a day. Once I attempted to charge afterwards, the phone came back to life. This has also been done by several people on XDA.

-J

[Guest seapoint]

It was too late to work for me - we had two phones in the house & I ended up taking out my mini torx screwdriver set and doing a two-phone-teardown! I swapped the batteries and they both charged & booted up as per normal. 

 

It must be some over cautious safety toggle in the charging logic that puts the phone into a coma for a period of hours when it thinks it's in trouble with a dodgy battery etc. I was initially too eager pressing the power button when the battery charge said 0%. This could be an issue for Motorola, but I'm sure an update will fix it. 

[Guest podgeandrodge]

I too had this problem.  When I first tried to charge all I saw was a brief white light.  Left charging overnight and not a thing happening.  I had read somewhere that someone said they put it in a freezer and it then charged.  This seemed a ridiculous and stupid thing to do so I tried it.  After 3 minutes in the freezer I took it out and it started charging immediately.  I'm not joking!