Another DOA phone that wouldn't charge here. I was relieved to find this forum and that I was not the first to have experienced the problem.
And I am happy to confirm that the rubber band hack worked for me also...
Phone was still unresponsive after six hours, but the following day (after a total of 18 hours) it sprang to life.
DigbyT
(lineage-21.0-20241005-nightly-pro1-signed.zip on September 5 security patch installed smoothly (*) using adb sideload and MindTheGapps-14.0.0-arm64-20231025_234300)
And we still can only select one keyboard layout, so no easy layout switching, for multilingual usage.