I shared a few ideas but you dismissed them with "won't work." I have had great luck with the rubber band trick but I can't tell if you tried.
So im pretty sure that the battery in my note 5 is dead (that may not be the right word, it just wont charge), but it still has 30% battery left. Can i still turn it on?

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