pi 4 won't start

[Luk158]

I on boxed my new pi 4 B today and loaded Raspbian lite onto the boot SD.
I wait for the official Power Supply but till than I used the fast-Charger form Apple (and yes I checkt if the 5V etc. are right, they are, and the Charger still work.)
Since it is the lite version I know there wouldn't be a video output, so i didn't look for that.
Neither the Power nor the Activate LED blinks or glows.
It is visible on my router, when connected to it.

I tried it with the normal Raspbian distro.

Is there an on/off switch or anything that I have overlooked?
Any ideas for how to start it?

[FTrevorGowen]

I on boxed my new pi 4 B today and loaded Raspbian lite onto the boot SD.
I wait for the official Power Supply but till than I used the fast-Charger form Apple (and yes I checkt if the 5V etc. are right, they are, and the Charger still work.)
Since it is the lite version I know there wouldn't be a video output, so i didn't look for that.
Neither the Power nor the Activate LED blinks or glows.
It is visible on my router, when connected to it.

I tried it with the normal Raspbian distro.

Is there an on/off switch or anything that I have overlooked?
Any ideas for how to start it?

IIRC, (I rarely use Raspbian Lite) there still should be a "video output" if you connect a display but just "text", not a desktop. All output can be suppressed by editing /boot/cmdline.txt appropriately but, AFAIK that's not the default (or, maybe, wasn't). The really odd thing is that you say "It is visible on my router, when connected to it" but appear not to see any red PoWeR or green ACTivity led behaviour. If the red PoWeR led is not on, ie. is off or blinks then your Apple charger is not supplying power correctly. (You may be using one of the expensive leads with active circuitry within them which would not work with early P4B's). How do you know your router "see's" the Pi? (ie. what does the router report?). Finally, how (with what tools/hardware) did you write Raspbian lite to the uSDHC card (make, type, size?).
Trev.

[Luk158]

there was a substantial typo... :/ my router does NOT see the pi.
Since it is new i want to try it. that's the reason i used the iPad Charger.. I wait for the original raspberry charger but since im new to pi i didn't no if I have overlooked something, besides that missing "not".

[B.Goode]

there was a substantial typo... :/ my router does NOT see the pi.
Since it is new i want to try it. that's the reason i used the iPad Charger.. I wait for the original raspberry charger but since im new to pi i didn't no if I have overlooked something, besides that missing "not".

You wrote:
"Neither the Power nor the Activate LED blinks or glows."

Apparently you do not have an adequate power supply for your RPi board.

No tricks, no workarounds, no hidden switches...

Just feed it the power it needs, preferably from a Raspberry Pi 'official' power supply, and most likely all will be fine.

[HawaiianPi]

Neither the Power nor the Activate LED blinks or glows.

You probably have a "Power Delivery" type charger or e-marked USB-C cable and a revision 1.1 Pi4, in which case you won't get any power, because early Pi4 models were not compatible with PD chargers or cables. Your system should work as expected with the official PSU.

Your existing charger might work with a "dumb" USB-C cable that doesn't contain an e-marker chip.