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Introduction

Step 1

              Nexus 7 Black Screen Fix
  • Symptoms:
    1. Nexus 7 won’t power on.
    1. Battery icon doesn’t show when charger plugged in.
    1. In a dark room, you can see backlight is turned on. If you hold down power button for 30 seconds, you can see the backlight power cycle.
  • Solution:
    1. Hold down both volume buttons (Press the center) and plug in charger (while holding the buttons). Hold down for 40 seconds.
    1. Hold down power button 40 seconds to boot Nexus.
  • In the future, don’t let battery discharge too much.

Symptoms:

  1. Nexus 7 won’t power on.

  2. Battery icon doesn’t show when charger plugged in.

  3. In a dark room, you can see backlight is turned on. If you hold down power button for 30 seconds, you can see the backlight power cycle.

Solution:

  1. Hold down both volume buttons (Press the center) and plug in charger (while holding the buttons). Hold down for 40 seconds.

  2. Hold down power button 40 seconds to boot Nexus.

In the future, don’t let battery discharge too much.

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This procedure has been used to fix 25 Nexus 7 tablets which were unopened for months and allowed to discharge too far.

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                    Alan Nishioka

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fireflysean - Feb 5, 2015

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perfect! works like charm.

thedomesticgeekblog - Apr 22, 2015

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AH! I thought my Nexus was a goner and it’s only about a month old! This worked immediately. Thanks for this fix.

Ron Lopez - Apr 28, 2015

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Great! Worked for me first time!

Craig Walkup - May 22, 2015

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Complete failure. Nothing happened after performing those steps. Help me!!!!

Alan Nishioka - May 23, 2015

Is the backlight cycling as described?

This worked for over 20 devices for me and recently I bought another one and it worked for this one too.