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LANGALIST By Fred Langa There’s no such thing as a small permissions problem in Windows! When things go wrong, they can go very, very wrong, as today’
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The only thread I can find is this one, I know its not the right spot based on the subject..

Not so on the dead battery issues. There is a thing or two to try, I see this issue often on tablets and phones.  It is a surprisingly easy fix

First you can try a reset This is usually done by holding the power button down for at least 30 seconds This fixes the described issue on many devices, even on PCs, but it is especially useful for Tablets and Phones.
Second, you can attempt to boot to recovery. Sometimes, the phone has power but does not indicate it does. If you are not seeing the battery icon on the screen that is an indicator
How to boot to recovery depends on the device, but there are plenty of places for Android owners Iphone is a bit tougher to find.

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he battery’s safety circuitry requires at least a little internally generated current to wake itself up and safely manage the incoming charge. If the battery’s so discharged that the internal charging circuitry can’t wake up, no charging will be allowed.

(BTW: This is why you should never run down any Li-ion device to zero.)

If your phone can bring its battery back to life, it will. It’s possible that a safe, very slow trickle-charge is occurring to restore the battery state to where it can manage full, normal charging rates.

But it doesn’t bode well that nothing’s happening after two hours of trickle-charging.

About all you can do is leave it on the charger for a longer time — say, overnight — and see what happens.

If it’s still dead in the morning, then the sad reality is the outage probably killed the battery for good. Sorry!

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Do a search on the internet. I totally discharged a Samsun S9 phone and found a website that advised to put the phone on a wireless charging pad and also to plug in the cable charger. It took awhile but the phone did recover, worth trying if yours is a Samsung but like I said check the internet for advice, John

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It’s off-topic but perhaps worth mentioning that the caveat about not allowing complete discharges applies equally to the lead-acid batteries in our vehicles. A battery will usually recharge after one complete discharge and often after two. However depending on the age of the battery, after that, a complete discharge may result in one or more of the cells dying completely.

I recently accidentally discharged a 3-yr-old automobile battery for the second time. After leaving it on the charger overnight, the device indicated that charging to “100%” was complete and that the voltage was 6, indicating that half the cells in the battery had been irreparably damaged by the second discharge to zero. I believe there are some chargers that have the ability to electrically rejuvenate batteries like this, but, for me, it was a $107 mistake that I’ll not repeat.

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My OnePlus 3 Android phone, totally out of power, wouldn’t charge from any of several chargers I tried. But, the charger that came with the phone managed to wake it up. After that, charging with any charger was possible.

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