Huawei P9 Lite completely dead?

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Hi,

 

Huawei P9 Lite (VNS-L31), left it overnight to charge from 3%, in the morning it would not turn on (after attempting a power cycle) or boot into recovery through any combination of buttons... I can't connect it to my PC either - does not show in Windows... Is this just a soft brick or has it completely died on me? 

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7 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Was it burning hot when you got to it in the morning?

Let it cool down completely, and then try to boot normally.

If it does not boot Android, shut down completely and boot into fastboot (hold the Power and Vol Down until you see the Huawei logo)

If you manage to enter fastboot, your device is soft bricked and you can save it by flashing the stock firmware

If it cannot get into fastboot, your phone is basically a paperweight.

Nope, cold metal - won't boot into anything, doesn't vibrate, screen backlight doesn't come on - nothing at all.

 

Is it still possible to recover data just by plugging into computer?

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2 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Then you have hardware failure

If it cant even get to the bootloader, you probably wont get to access internal storage even with a computer

What is likely to have failed though? There were no signs of anything beginning to fail (low performance, crashes etc)?