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I recently bought a new charger and the first hour it was charging since it was on 0% i then took the charger out and the tablet wont turn on, i tried EVERYTHING, including touching the screen while holding down on button, holding down the volume buttons while holding down the power button, i even let it sit with the charger in for like 24hours and repeating those steps. STILL NOTHING. is it the charger? any suggestions?
My tab2 also refuses to charge if the battery gets too low. This is how I fix mine. Disconnect charger Hold power button and volume up button for 30 seconds Keep holding buttons while plugging in charger Hold buttons for another 30 secs Release power button keeping volume button pressed Tab starts to charge Bill
This problem has been recognized by Samsung, it’s a factory thing, all You need to do, is open your tab, remove the battery cable for about 10 mins and plug it back again, unplug the screen from the motherboard, and charge it for about, two hours, then plug back the screen connector, and turn it on, if you see it works, turn off the tablet again, and plug in the power cord again, you’ll see the charging animation starts, leave it charging for the time you think it’s necessary to reach 100%, unplug the cable and turn it on, your tablet is alive, the only problem I’ve found about this, is that you’ll need to turn the tablet completely off whenever you want to charge it, and finally this, VERY IMPORTANT! When your tablet is below 15 or 10% battery, charge it, because if you let the battery die, probably you’ll have to do all the steps again.
Samsung Tablet SM-T580 (Galaxy Tab A 10.1) WiFi Only 4 months old as of 11 Sept 2017 Wouldn’t show charging. Wouldn’t turn on despite being on a reliable charger all night. Completely unresponsive even after trying multiple different chargers and cables . Removed Micro SD Card Tried the Volume up +power thing for 15-20 secs… No response. Pressed power and DOWN volume at the same time for 15-20 secs. Charge screen popped up, pressed power and it turned on. Hope this works for someone else.
This is an old thread, but hopefully it will help someone. The issue is that the tablet requires some battery life in order to enter charge mode. With most tablets this is typically around the 4% battery life mark. If you go below this point, the tablet does not have enough power to enter the charge state. This was a common problem for the Black Berry Playbook. The solution is to use a rapid charger to boost it. The rapid charger that comes with the galaxy s6 or s7 will work. You can also try an external battery pack as they generally run on the same rapid charge principle.
Try holding power and volume down and use the volume buttons to choose reboot tablet and power button for ok or you can try holding volume up and power button (it might need a couple of trys) and the tablet will start to charge
I have an unnamed tablet that has a tiny, tiny hole just below the volume buttons on the top right. After trying the resetting instructions above, I found that doing something similar worked with the tiny hole: Find a paperclip or similar, something that will fit into the tiny “reset” holeDisconnect charger, push paperclip end into “reset” hole until you feel the internal button click in, hold for 30 secondsPlug in charger, hold paperclip in “reset” hole for another 30 secondsRelease paperclip, charge indicator appears. Keep the battery above a minimum charge level to avoid this issue. It’s the same “won’t charge if the battery is too low” problem that affects many many other android devices.
