hi guys, i woke up with a brick on my nightstand. The light was red, which means it was off and charging. It wouldnt turn on, so i took out the battery and put it back in, and it was bricked. I had the SuperD rom, 1.11. so im screwed, right?
my G1 did this once. i just pulled the battery and powered back on, it booted to a black screen so i pulled the battery, held down the power button for 30 seconds +/- a few, then put the battery back in and it booted up just fine
i don't understand how it would brick on it's own? have you tried entering into bootloader? If you can, you can probably re flash the rom, or flash a new one. Good luck.
Your rom probably got corrupted, you're only bricked if you cannot enter recovery/bootloader (mainly the bootloader). If you can do either of these then it is reversible.
Try and reflash a different ROM ?
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Ok guys, I'm in a predicament, I flashed the latest AOKP build 3 (clean flash) flashed IMOv.16 cache/dalvik/permissions and everything worked great. This was around 2pm. I spent the rest of the day just messing around with settings getting it how I liked it. even after several reboots. Now my battery dies around 11:45pm so I plug it up and it vibrates once, the charge screen shows for a second but the charging icon doesnt spin and then cuts off. tried it for about 30 minutes in the wall, 30 minutes from usb from computer, now its been in the wall for about an hour, if I unplug and plug it the phone does nothing, but if I pull the battery put it back in and plug it up to either power source the charge screen shows for about a second and then cuts off, but nothing happens after that any suggestions? has this happened to anyone else? what should I do?
Ok im not sure why that happened, but I fixed it. I pulled the battery, put it back in and instantly help VOL down + Home + Power and I got it tothe screen before Odin. So I was going to flash stock, but I figured if i can get into Odin I can get into recovery so I pressed down to restart phone instead of up to enter odin mode and it restarted and booted up, with a significant charge on it! Phew thought I had done something bad! :victory: My blood pressure is returning to normal now, but why did that happen in the first place? Will it happen again if my battery dies?
davidtb12 said:
Ok im not sure why that happened, but I fixed it. I pulled the battery, put it back in and instantly help VOL down + Home + Power and I got it tothe screen before Odin. So I was going to flash stock, but I figured if i can get into Odin I can get into recovery so I pressed down to restart phone instead of up to enter odin mode and it restarted and booted up, with a significant charge on it! Phew thought I had done something bad! :victory: My blood pressure is returning to normal now, but why did that happen in the first place? Will it happen again if my battery dies?
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Outstanding work! My blood pressure is down now too.
I've been running the latest CM10 M release for a couple weeks now. Today I upgraded to the latest modems. Everything was working great for a few hours when my phone randomly shut off and now won't turn back on.
I've tried pulling the battery and charging. Can't ever see anything on the screen although it does vibrate sometimes when I hold the power button. LED will turn on when charging.
Any ideas or suggestions?
See if you're able to boot straight into download or recovery, thus will show intact boot and recovery systems.
One other test, pull battery and with phone off plug into your PC if it shows a red light its likely hard bricked.
I had the unfortunate experience of flashing wrong kernel and bricked my phone was not going to recovery or download. However if you can get to these then it may be a soft brick and restore with odin
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One my phone got stuck
jerhurwitz said:
I've been running the latest CM10 M release for a couple weeks now. Today I upgraded to the latest modems. Everything was working great for a few hours when my phone randomly shut off and now won't turn back on.
I've tried pulling the battery and charging. Can't ever see anything on the screen although it does vibrate sometimes when I hold the power button. LED will turn on when charging.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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Once my phone got stuck because I flashed a new recovery that wasn't compatible with my phone so each time I tried to boot into recovery or tried to turn on the phone nothing would happen. The only thing that got my phone working again was to go into download mode (Odin) by holding power, volume down and home buttona and than canceling it. from there the Rom started working again. I don't know if it will help in your case but you can always try.
That was a strange experience. Left it plugged in for a few hours. Came back, and was able to boot normally... although the battery was extremely low despite being plugged in for a few hours. No problems since then.
Congrats =)
Seems like disaster was avoided.
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That was a strange experience. Left it plugged in for a few hours. Came back, and was able to boot normally... although the battery was extremely low despite being plugged in for a few hours. No problems since then.
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Do you know what percent your phone turned off at? Around what percent? Was it 23-25%?
If this thread is more appropriate in another section, mods please move.
I'm by no means a lost newbie, having run a rooted & rom'd Epic 4G since release date and flashed it many times, modded, customized, etc, etc.
However, this dang Photon is giving me hell..
Just got the phone yesterday, unlocked the Bootloader, rooted, etc, etc. Tried updating the phone before realizing it doesn't work without stock recovery, so restored the phone back to stock'ish using some TWRP stock dumps someone posted. Flashed stock recovery back, booted, got the phone to download and apply the update, flashed TWRP back, rooted, booted, everything is good. Ok, finally I can get to restoring some data using Titanium. Restored a few things, it was getting late, and I knew it would take a while to restore my SMS/MMS messages so I kicked that off before going to bed. Phone was plugged into the charger all night. Woke up this morning and the phone was only at 50% and the SMS/MMS restore in Titanium seemed to be hung. Phone was still fully responsive, accessed the market, checked emailed, then I shut the phone down via the power menu in order to un-hang that Titanium restore...phone turns off, then shows the unlocked bootloader screen, then shows a backlit black screen and will do nothing else. Won't turn off, no combination of vol up/down and power will get into recover or fastboot. Phone has just been sitting there for about an hour now with a blank/black (but backlit so it is powered on) screen.
Any thoughts or suggestions or am I screwed at this point?
I don't know why I'm having such issues with even mildly modding this phone...
Ok, after about an hour and a half of just sitting there, the phone showed to be fully shut down. Was able to boot in to TWRP, so I then exited and rebooted and it booted all the way into the OS.
Not sure what happened or why, but I hope I'm good now.
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Ok, after about an hour and a half of just sitting there, the phone showed to be fully shut down. Was able to boot in to TWRP, so I then exited and rebooted and it booted all the way into the OS.
Not sure what happened or why, but I hope I'm good now.
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When you powered off the device was it still on thee charger? When I power off and mine is on the charger it does the same thing. I just unplug the powr and then use poer button and vol dwn at same time to pwr off. Just threw that out there just in case it happened again.
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It was plugged in when I did, but a few moments later after it did what it did I unplugged it, still was unresponsive to any power key / vol key combo, tossed it in my pocket & left for work. Tried it a few more times on the way to work, still nothing, tried it again when I go to work, still nothing, then grabbed the phone to check on it about another 30 mins later and it had fully turned off on it's on.
Who knows...been fine since.
So, about two months ago I was given this lovely HTC phone and was delighted that I had a phone that was capable of running Sense 4.1 (and hopefully 5.0 ) and has a Jellybean kernel, within the first hour of having the device it was already S-Off'd and had Sense 4.1 installed on it, it was working fine the battery life was good and everything was great.
That day I had to travel to the doctors (3 hour trip) so I got in the car and because I was just given this phone it had 37% battery, so I put it on my car charger and off it went started charging and everything was great. The next day I woke up and put the phone in my pocket without even looking at it, and got in the car, and the phone was turned off, I thought WTF so I just turned it back on and left it in my pocket, then 15 minutes later I looked at it and it was off again, so again I turned it on, but this time I looked at the screen while it was turning on, and it would get past the 'HTC Quietely Brilliant' screen and onto the bootlogo of the ROM and then would go to the lockscreen, so I flick the Sense 4 ring up and I get the homescreen, then a few seconds later, black screen and the phone turns off.
I thought that this was weird, so I just put my SIM in my old phone and put my Desire in the cupboard with my SII and other broken devices ( D: ). But that night when I got home I did some more testing... When the phone is getting power (AC or USB) it will not turn off, but as soon as it is unplugged it will turn off... but if I boot into HBOOT (Bootloader) without a charger plugged in it will work fine and not turn off.
So then I thought it was not a battery problem so it must be something else... so I downloaded [ROM][24-04-13][Flinny] Andromadus - CM10.1[18] and the same thing was happening, it would just turn off after a few seconds.. I basically tried all of the Sense and JB ROM's and this happens..
Then I thought it may be something to do with the kernel, so I downloaded the Ice Cream Saga ROM and used the custom kernel that it packaged with that ROM and the same thing happened, then I downloaded and installed the OFFICIAL ICS.zip that is installed through bootloader and sure enough the same thing happened.
Then I thought it may be the HBOOT, since I was on 0.98.0000, so with the ICS update I got the 2.00.002 (?) HBOOT and the same thing happened, then to be sure I downloaded the ENG HBOOT and flashed that, same thing happened, then I downloaded the 6.xxxx.xxxx HBOOT and flashed it, and sure enough, the same thing still happened.
So what do you think the problem is, do I just buy another battery?
Also, I forgot to mention that TWRP recovery (and only TWRP) fails to do ANYTHING (wipe, backup, restore, install) and if I boot into TWRP and look at the battery, then reboot into the ROM then back into recovery, the battery will change by ~70%.
So, I just flashed the latest TWRP recovery (since it is my favorite) and now when I press reboot (or anything really) it will just reboot back into recovery. Like even if I flash a ROM that will work and then I press reboot and I am back in recovery, and if I pull the battery and put it back in I am back in recovery. I can't even get into HBOOT, just to recovery, I am going to try leaving it on the charger all night and see what happens.
In the last few weeks my sideckick "reboots" itself, as it don't ask for the pin code.. It just reboots..
But now, he reboots and the first screen that appears that says T-mobile Sidekick 4g Samsung, appears, for about 5 seconds, turns off, and reapers, that on continuous loop!
The first time it happened, I took the battery off, and when I put it back, without me turning the phone on, e started doing the loop by itself..
After a few tries taking the battery off, he came to life..
But yesterday, that happened again, and stayed that way the whole evening.. Until it run out of battery, I went home, tried to recharge and it came to life again.. I was about to going to sleep and he rebooted again, and started the loop again.. It stayed all night that way, and in the morning, it was turned off.. I thought it was the battery again, so I plug it in, and it now is in continuous loop trying to charge the battery but before it starts, it turns off and does the loop again..
I have glourious overdose rom, but never had the problem except in the last few weeks!
Heeelp!
EDIT: It was in continuous loop trying to recharge, but I unplug it, and it turned on! It had 2% battery, and is now charging on.. I rebooted in recovery, and wiped cache and dalvik cache.. Probably it will happen the same all over again during the day..
I am considering changing rom..
It could be a battery issue, but the first thing i would do is dirty flash the same ROM on top of this one (no wipes) and see if it helps. If not do a full wipe then flash a new ROM. If this still dosent fix this then i would go back to stock with hiemdall and choose to repartition at the same time, then reroot and flash a ROM.
Also make sure the contacts to the battery are clean and touching fully, if it is a battery, at least they are cheap!
hope it all works out!
This may be something that happen during root that messed it up
So if demkantor suggestions didn't help odin to kg2 then root an flash a new rom should help if not its a really bad issues with either the battery or other hard ware (like the power button broke an is constantly pushing it)
If you do fix it you want to make sure you make a backup via red/yellow cwm
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