[Q] N5; Battery (Maybe) Completely Fried? Diagnostic help appreciated.

Hi guys,

So my sister had her N5 for about a year, and she used the battery a lot, and ran it down fairly frequently. She started saying that her battery wasn't working very well, and that the capacity was very bad. Then she said that the phone would randomly crash. She started having it constantly plugged into a portable charger, and said it would sometimes STILL randomly crash while connected (This could have been the cable though, pretty impossible to test at this point in this state).

Fast forward now I got a free N5 (Same one...) with a bad battery? How can I know it's the battery? It crashes within a minutes or so, not hot or anything like that. I can't get a cycle down for calibration cause it just shuts off. I've charged it off for two days straight.

When it crashes/shuts down while booting up, it needs to reoptimize the apps which takes quite a while.

Is there any way I can fix this? Get a new battery? How hard is replacing the battery? Do you think it's a bad idea to attempt a root?

Thanks guys.

[Q] QTAQZ3 Diagnostic mode?

Does anyone know how to get the Verizon Ellipsis 8 (QTAQZ3) tab into DIAG mode? I've rooted mine and trying to flash it to a CDMA network here. I've done this successfully with the Verizon LG GTab and I was hoping to do the same with this tab. I appreciate any insights into this. Thanks.

Tegra Diagnostic Console on Lollipop

Hey,I just found that if you tap few times on Kernel Version which is located in About Tablet u will run Tegra Diagnostic Console where u can try some things.I don't know if it was on kitkat but it's on Lollipop
If u saw the FAIL on screenshot that was just because I skipped the test ;)

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