Help Galaxy Nexus Won't turn on or charge! HELP ME PLEASE!!

I assuming you've tried a battery pull?

The "should" have been able to do more trouble shooting at the VZW store :/


Having switched chargers and still nothing.

If you plug it into a computer does it recognize the phone at all? i.e. the computer will beep and show the USB symbol?

Can you get a charged battery to try? either a friends or at the VZW store?

Depending on your answers, my guees would be either:

1. the battery's is bad (finding one would verify this)

2. And this is the most likely answer. The charge port on the GN went bad. GN's are notorious for charge port issues. If you can find a cellphone repair shop they may be able to fix it for a reasonable cost ( assuming its out of warranty)

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I'm having a very similar problem and wondered if you'd ever found a solution to this?

In my case, my GN was working perfectly. I was using it on wi-fi, and suddenly the screen brightness flickered up and the screen turned off. I couldn't get it to come back on. After a battery pull, trying to boot the phone normally did nothing on battery alone. But when I plugged in the charger, I had the same thing as the OP: the little battery with a lightning bolt appeared, and slowly cycled on and off.

When I tried again to boot with the charger connected, the white 'Google' appeared as expected when starting a bootup - but after a second or two, it disappeared and went back to the little 'battery charging' display again.

After another battery pull and with the charger connected, I was able to hold the volume buttons and power up into bootloader mode. I selected 'recovery' and that worked as well. I was even able to restore an older Nandroid backup, just in case this was caused by a ROM issue (it wasn't; I still couldn't boot up the phone).

I kept trying, and just once managed to boot into Android normally -- but the phone turned off within about 15 seconds. During that brief time, though, the battery display showed it 98% charged.

Now, it's gotten worse: I can still power up into either bootloader or ODIN mode, but can't do anything beyond that. I can't even get into recovery mode anymore; it just goes black and then the battery charging icon appears again.

Big question for anyone who knows: If the battery is totally dead, should I still be able to boot and operate the phone normally if it's connected to a high-current USB power source (e.g., a 2.1 amp charger)? Or is a decent battery required to do anything at all? I'm wondering, because if the charger is connected but the battery is NOT installed, the phone won't do anything at all.

One of the sales guys at BestBuy suggested trying a new battery, but I hate to throw money away if that isn't the problem and I end up having to toss the phone anyway. And naturally, BestBuy doesn't have any loose batteries for the GN laying around anymore that we could try.

It seems like, just all of a sudden, I'm seeing similar problems with the GN posted on various Android forums. Could it be that we all purchased these phones right at the beginning, and all the original batteries are starting to fail around the same time??

The GNex is going into year 3. Batteries (even the OEM) do not last that long. Usually with the GNex it's the charging port or the battery. You can probably find the GNex batteries are very cheap now on Amazon.