Not able to start charging after full discharge

I've seen water damaged iphones do this. Not in a long time, its probably been a year or so since i saw it last. The devices will charge a battery with some charge but will do nothing with a dead battery. I wasn't doing any board repair at the time and haven't seen it recently enough to be able to properly chase out the why.

"probably damage to the board from using a non-apple charger. the iphone 5 is kind of prissy about that. but hopefully it is just a bad battery or dock connector.

your troubleshooting looks like this:

1.) replace battery

2.) replace dock connector

3.) send out for board repair of charging circuit---which may or may not be feasible depending on whether the charging power ic or the charging logic ic was damaged.

good luck!

jessa"