# Electron Flashing Green - Will not connect until battery removed

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/electron-flashing-green-will-not-connect-until-battery-removed/34467>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [July 12, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/electron-flashing-green-will-not-connect-until-battery-removed/34467 "2017-07-12T04:12:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![modles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@modles](https://community.particle.io/u/modles)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/electron-flashing-green-will-not-connect-until-battery-removed/34467/7 "2018-03-14T13:19:12Z")

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I have exactly the same issue..

> [@Electron connection time after DEEP SLEEP](https://community.particle.io/t/electron-connection-time-after-deep-sleep/39784):
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> Hello all So have a very weird one, and after extensive testing I can assure the following is true… If I put the Electron into deep sleep via System.sleep(SLEEP\_MODE\_SOFTPOWEROFF, 120), when it wakes it is unable to connect to gsm and timesout, or in some cases connects after 200+ seconds. And the problem seems to get worse and worse each sleep cycle. If i put in something like while(!Cellular.ready()) { Serial.println("Cellular not ready..."); delay(200); } Then it just hangs on th…

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