[SOLVED] Battery Drain caused Touchpad to Die!

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As per the title, I let my battery run so low that the touchpad turned itself off. Not a big deal I thought, whack it on the charger give it some time and away we go ! WRONG, after several hours on the charger my TP remained dead.

Long story short, I resolved the issue by pressing and holding down the button on the front and the power button simultaneously for ages (10~20 secs), at which point the screen lit up and showed me a very large depleted battery symbol.

The touchpad still would not turn on but I left it with the big symbol on the screen, after 10~15 mins it turned it self on and showed it was 1% charged.

I guess for all the hours it was plugged in, it was doing nothing.

Anyway all sorted now, I do like a happy ending


PS it is a 32GB touchpad on ver 3.02 firmware

Just curiosity... but was your TP stock or modded?

Sent from my HP Touchpad using xda premium

completely stock apart from logging set to minimal, this was the first time it was turned off since the 3.02 update, it is also the first time I have let it die completely since it was purchased.

I wonder if my minimal logs caught anything, I will have to work out how to read them

I used to own a Pre that did the same thing when it was drained all the way. Kinda sucks! It always took a while before I could turn it back on. My suggestion, don't let it die.

Had the exact same issue first day on my TP... a quick Google search revealed the same fix

Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk

thats quite odd. I had something close to that happen. I resolved it by holding down the Silver Screen Lock Button at the top and the home button for like 15 seconds and then it started to charge.

try using a new charging cable, maybe use the one from your phone, a lot of the OEM cables are defective. I had same promlem and a new cable resolved the issue

it definitely wasn't the cable

thanks!
that recovered my touchpad
just got this fancy thing yesterday

cool, I'm glad it worked for you too.