I have a fuze that took a (pretty light) drop, and now it won't power on. When it's plugged in it actually powers itself on, without pressing anything, but all it does is power up to the white screen where it says ATT world phone, then it powers off, and keeps doing it over and over again. EDIT: I can get into the bootloader screen, but a soft reset from there creates same looping problem
This actually happened before, but i changed the battery and it worked again. Now i must think it's something in the phone that is doing it. It's under warranty from ATT, so i could probably exchange it, but i would lose some important info in the phone, and i worry they will see my custom ROM etc and may try to void my warranty and charge me for the replacement.
Any help appreciated!
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I have a Sprint TP2 which I have SIM, Security, and CID Unlocked (using Olipro's wonderful unlocker). I also have Sprint's GSM radio flashed. The phone has worked perfectly with my T-Mobile SIM card for the past 4 months, but suddenly it decided to break! Just last week, suddenly the phone was stuck on the HTC loading screen but luckily performing a hard reset fixed it. However today, the phone wouldn't turn on at all. I tried hard resetting again, but the phone showed no response (the screen was completely dark). I also tried a soft reset, but the phone was completely unresponsive. I can't even get it to display the bootloader screen! No matter what I do, the phone remains on a black screen. When I plug it into the computer, the orange light turns on but no matter what buttons I press (hard reset, soft reset, etc) the phone's screen remains black. I have gotten a brand new battery and put it in the phone, but this does nothing.
I've noticed that the phone emits a faint buzzing sound when the battery is inserted.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
dude im think you are fcked, try charge the battery first. and see if the light comes greens thats mean that the phone at least have something working. after that try to get it on the boot menu to do a usb rom update, if you have some skills open the phone and clean it inside and de ram memory (next to the mini sd) any way wait for the gurus of the forum to have a better info about what to do and good luck
wmao1 said:
I have a Sprint TP2 which I have SIM, Security, and CID Unlocked (using Olipro's wonderful unlocker). I also have Sprint's GSM radio flashed. The phone has worked perfectly with my T-Mobile SIM card for the past 4 months, but suddenly it decided to break! Just last week, suddenly the phone was stuck on the HTC loading screen but luckily performing a hard reset fixed it. However today, the phone wouldn't turn on at all. I tried hard resetting again, but the phone showed no response (the screen was completely dark). I also tried a soft reset, but the phone was completely unresponsive. I can't even get it to display the bootloader screen! No matter what I do, the phone remains on a black screen. When I plug it into the computer, the orange light turns on but no matter what buttons I press (hard reset, soft reset, etc) the phone's screen remains black. I have gotten a brand new battery and put it in the phone, but this does nothing.
I've noticed that the phone emits a faint buzzing sound when the battery is inserted.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
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guess/shot in the dark: if you plug it into the PC it doesn't try to load some new USB drivers by any chance, does it?
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Try CMonex thing first, then if phone is out of warranty and definetly seems to be dead as last chance i would try to dismount motherboard and remove all the shielding covers to expose electronics. Take care to ground yourself to protect board from electrostatic discharge.
First inspect it with a glass lens to see if there's some kind of phisical damage or if all seems to be okay.
Then thoroughly heat it up with a hairdryer (set at max heat and max speed, very close to the mobo) paying attention not to blow any plastic or flex cables. The goal is to eventually restore fake solderings that may have occurred due to age or shocks. You have to be very patient and careful to heat it very well but not too much: there's no need to see tin melt, this in fact would be dangerous, just till it turns a bit shiny, some experience and understanding of electronics helps.
I tried this method a couple of times with dead phones and sometimes worked.
Hope you can work it out.
wmao1 said:
I have a Sprint TP2 which I have SIM, Security, and CID Unlocked (using Olipro's wonderful unlocker). I also have Sprint's GSM radio flashed. The phone has worked perfectly with my T-Mobile SIM card for the past 4 months, but suddenly it decided to break! Just last week, suddenly the phone was stuck on the HTC loading screen but luckily performing a hard reset fixed it. However today, the phone wouldn't turn on at all. I tried hard resetting again, but the phone showed no response (the screen was completely dark). I also tried a soft reset, but the phone was completely unresponsive. I can't even get it to display the bootloader screen! No matter what I do, the phone remains on a black screen. When I plug it into the computer, the orange light turns on but no matter what buttons I press (hard reset, soft reset, etc) the phone's screen remains black. I have gotten a brand new battery and put it in the phone, but this does nothing.
I've noticed that the phone emits a faint buzzing sound when the battery is inserted.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
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Hey wmao, well , the spl( secundary program loader ) has broken .... you must use the riffbox .. With this device Is the only way to save the rhodium..... Good luck
seems your boot is dead
Omnia repair tool can fix it
So today, as i was on my way to work I accidentally held down the lockscreen button and the power menu popped up (I was on Glorious Overdoes V2) in the middle of a text and i pressed reboot accidentally... My phone never rebooted... It was stuck on the black Sidekick 4G/T-Mobile screen and then it would go black, then once again that screen would pop up... I removed the battery and put it back in, and without me pressing any buttons the same screen came back up... I let it sit for a while and after 20minutes nothing changed except the phone got really hot. Luckily I had my OLD Nokia in my car and popped my SIM card in it so that i could continue having a phone. I let The Sidekick sit for 4hours and it was extremely hot and then eventually it just turned off completely (Im assuming the battery drained, it was at 90% 4 hours before.) I got home, plugged it in and it wouldn't even turn on the charging screen. Somebody told me that my Motherboard is fried but I don't know. I called T-mobile and they're going to send me a new phone since it's still in the 1-year warranty period.
Anyone know if they're going to be able to inspect my old device and find out if i rooted/flashed it? because i can't get into it or anything to ODIN
I feel like they will try putting a new battery in it, and if it still wont turn on you should be fine.
It got hot because the CPU was churning over something and couldn't enter a low power state. I bet you could coax the phone into download mode and reflash it.
what do you mean coax the phone into download mode? by using the button combo to get it into download mode when turning on? I've tried that and it doesn't work. I tried rebooting into recovery and that wont work either. Also, it wont charge the battery anymore...
I've always had a hard time getting into download mode, and my phone works fine. I just spent 5 minutes trying different combinations until I got it.
I've heard people say trackpad-power button, volume down-home-power button, volume up/down-put battery in-plug in USB, etc etc etc. But the only method that works for me is to put in the battery, plug in the USB, wait for the charging screen, then hold volume down-trackpad-power, releasing power as soon as the screen goes black
You say your phone is turning on as soon as the battery is inserted? What if you have it plugged into USB first?
I had the exact same problem, I sent it into samsung and they just replaced a part(never told me which one) and it was fixed. I did noticed that when the sccreen was poped open to show the keyboard, it would stop. But it's probably a loose cable like I've read before.
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Worst case scenario if you can't figure it out here on XDA, you could always sell it on eBay for parts as defective.
So it seems my phone has become a shiny paperweight. The thing is, I don't really understand why it happened. I've been reading how other people arrived at the same situation and although some symptoms are similar, I didn't do any of those things. I wasn't flashing anything, I didn't drop the phone etc
This is what happened: about 24 hours ago, I was using my phone as a GPS (google maps and waze) when it froze. No biggie, it had happened a few times before so I pulled out the battery, waited a few minutes, put the battery back and pressed the power button. The phone started as usual, it got past the HTC splash screen, the boot animation started. A few seconds (maybe 5) into the boot animation, out of reflex, I pressed the power button to turn off the screen. Don't ask why, dunno. As I've said, reflex. So the screen went black. And it stayed that way.
Since then I've been trying to bring it back to life. No luck yet. Here's the status of the phone:
Battery is not empty - when my phone froze yesterday it was about 80% full. I tried a different battery, no change
When I plug in the USB cable to charge it, the orange/green LED that usually lights up, well... doesn't
When I press the power button, the screen backlight turns on for 2 - 3 seconds, then turns off. Pressing VolDown+PWR does the same thing. I know it seems like a battery issue, but I'm pretty sure it isn't
The computer does not see the phone anymore when connected through an USB cable. 'adb devices' doesn't return anything and I don't see anything in the Device Manager (I was hoping for a QHSUSB_DLOAD but no such luck...)
The phone is a HTC Sensation 4G, HBOOT 1.17 (I think), S-OFF, rooted, was running InsertCoin 3.4.6/Android 2.3.5. As I've mentioned, I wasn't doing any of the things that usually lead to a bricked phone like trying to S-OFF/S-ON, flash a ROM etc. I'm currently reading the internets in an attempt to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. These are the questions I'm trying to get an answer for:
When the phone boots, is it not in read only mode? At least when it gets to the boot animation part.... And if so, even if the power button is pressed... shouldn't the phone just turn off and that's it?
Since the phone seems to be as responsive as a... well, brick... If I send the phone to HTC to repair it, will they be able to tell it was S-OFF and all that?
Does this sound like something that JTAG could fix?
Thanks in advance for any help or info.
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So it seems my phone has become a shiny paperweight. The thing is, I don't really understand why it happened. I've been reading how other people arrived at the same situation and although some symptoms are similar, I didn't do any of those things. I wasn't flashing anything, I didn't drop the phone etc
This is what happened: about 24 hours ago, I was using my phone as a GPS (google maps and waze) when it froze. No biggie, it had happened a few times before so I pulled out the battery, waited a few minutes, put the battery back and pressed the power button. The phone started as usual, it got past the HTC splash screen, the boot animation started. A few seconds (maybe 5) into the boot animation, out of reflex, I pressed the power button to turn off the screen. Don't ask why, dunno. As I've said, reflex. So the screen went black. And it stayed that way.
Since then I've been trying to bring it back to life. No luck yet. Here's the status of the phone:
Battery is not empty - when my phone froze yesterday it was about 80% full. I tried a different battery, no change
When I plug in the USB cable to charge it, the orange/green LED that usually lights up, well... doesn't
When I press the power button, the screen backlight turns on for 2 - 3 seconds, then turns off. Pressing VolDown+PWR does the same thing. I know it seems like a battery issue, but I'm pretty sure it isn't
The computer does not see the phone anymore when connected through an USB cable. 'adb devices' doesn't return anything and I don't see anything in the Device Manager (I was hoping for a QHSUSB_DLOAD but no such luck...)
The phone is a HTC Sensation 4G, HBOOT 1.17 (I think), S-OFF, rooted, was running InsertCoin 3.4.6/Android 2.3.5. As I've mentioned, I wasn't doing any of the things that usually lead to a bricked phone like trying to S-OFF/S-ON, flash a ROM etc. I'm currently reading the internets in an attempt to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. These are the questions I'm trying to get an answer for:
When the phone boots, is it not in read only mode? At least when it gets to the boot animation part.... And if so, even if the power button is pressed... shouldn't the phone just turn off and that's it?
Since the phone seems to be as responsive as a... well, brick... If I send the phone to HTC to repair it, will they be able to tell it was S-OFF and all that?
Does this sound like something that JTAG could fix?
Thanks in advance for any help or info.
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It reminds me Desire S problem - fried emmc chip... If your phone has no valid warranty, I'm suggesting to see phone's internals and inspect emmc chip.
The phone still has warranty, I will try to have it repaired/replaced. The only thing I'm concerned about is the fact that it was S-OFF and running a custom ROM... And I don't have the knowledge or equipment to try to take it apart and fix it myself
If you have warranty just use it they won't be able to ckeck if phone was unlocked or not since it can't boot up.
Hello Everyone,
I'd be eternally grateful for any technical advice and wisdom anyone that can help with my issue! I have a previously rooted phone that I have to return for a warranty, but the bootloader is unlocked and I can't lock it again.
Here is the problem, my phone completely shuts off about 10 seconds after the screen turns off. It's a full shut down, not just the screen not turning back on.
Some other symptoms:
My phone won't power on while it's plugged into the wall outlet. I have to remove it from the charger for it to turn on. But it will charge while the phone is ON and I plug it into the wall outlet afterwards.
My phone will automatically shut off when I plug it into any USB cable connected to a computer that's on (however, it doesn't automatically shut off if I plug it into the wall charger while it's on)
When I press power and volume down for ODIN or volume up + volume down for the bootloader screen, both screens will only show up briefly, then the phone will immediately shut down. I can't access either menus.
I have tried swapping out my battery with my wife's, and it does the same thing. Her phone works perfectly fine with my battery, mine doesn't work with either. (We have the same phone).
I rooted my phone a little less than a year. It became unrooted quite a while back when I accidentally ran a stock update. I never messed with it since. I'm EXTREMELY rusty with rooting and custom firmware and flashing, etc., so I apologize in advance.
I'm terrified because I'm sending out my phone under that Samsung warranty because all of my tech sense tells me there's a hardware issue going on; it's not my fault. However, aren't they going to see the big "Unlock" icon under the google logo when they get my phone, and immediately say I have a voided warranty? The representative said they'd charge me $300 if they phone was "damaged".
I almost wish my phone were a complete brick and wouldn't turn on at all. But at this point without access to a bootloader menu and my phone being unrooted and not able to work with it on my computer, I'm not sure what I can do.
It's already restored completely to factory defaults through the android interface. But that "unlock" icon is still there when it boots.
Anyone have any advice for me at all? Again, if my terminology is off or I'm not being clear in some way, I apologize. Let me know and I'll clarify and/or give any more information required.
I have about three days to figure this out before the prepaid shipping box and my new phone gets here.
Thanks so much in advance.
Sincerely,
Darkencypher
Just for clarification, its the Samsung Galaxy Nexus SCH-I515.
Thanks
Darkencypher
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As I'm running short on time before my new phone gets here, I figured I'd give it another shot at seeing if anyone out there knows how to help me.
I'm nervous that the "unlock" logo that appears below the Google logo when I boot my samsung galaxy nexus means that my warranty is void. I was able to restore it back to factory defaults, but I can't remove that "unlocked" icon because the phone is so severely disabled in its current state do to some hardware problem that keeps it shutting off.
I'd settle for anyone even knowing how to turn my phone into a paperweight at this point. I'd rather it not turn on at all when they get it lest they see I've unlocked my phone and void my warranty even though I'm certain I have a hardware problem due to manufacturer defect.
Also, on a side note if anyone reads this and knows a little bit more about troubleshooting phones based on symptoms: I downloaded a program called Wake Lock and set it to keep the CPU running in the background even when the screen is off. It doesn't appear to shut off anymore when the screen turns off.
Thanks again,
Darkencypher
I took a nap today, and my phone had 60 percent. No background processes going or anything but the phone shut itself off anyways. Refused to turn back on or register that it was being charged when I plugged it in. I had to hold both volumes and the power button to hard reset it in to recovery (which is stock) to get it to power back on. Is there a fix for this or should I take the phone back and try something else? I haven't even had it a full 24 hours yet.
Something almost exactly like this happened with my HTC One X, after restarting it got stuck on boot... Eventually it would just show a charging light sometimes. Had to get the motherboard replaced.
On the other hand I have heard a bad battery can cause similar problems.
Just get it replaced, better safe than sorry.
Yea I just left the verizon. They pronounced my phone DOA. So they're giving me a brand new in box replacement but I have to drive to the only location in Colorado that has any white ones in Stock lol.