Hi all.
I'm here because a guy at work gave me his phone to fix.
He bought it off the street, unlocked, and it stopped working a couple days after.
From what I've read, whoever unlocked it messed it up so the screen only displays white, and I can hear sounds when it starts up and shuts down.
I have a data cable for it, so how do I fix it?
Can I just get a program to connect to the phone and reflash the rom, like on a router?
Or will this require disassembling the phone and replacing a chip?
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Hi guys,
Bit of a weird one this... my phone has been working perfectly normal for some 9 months now, but all of a sudden it has decided to play up when turning on the phone.
If I turn the phone on with battery power it hangs on the boot screen (which shows the version information) on doesn't get any further. If however, I boot with the USB cable plugged in (hence charging), the phone eventually comes ob after around 5-10 minutes!
I have tried installing a number of different ROMs (Qtek, Dopod etc.) but every ROM gives the same behaviour.
Would I be right in thinking that this is more than likely a hardware problem?
Thanks,
Stig.
if you experience the same behavior with different roms, it sounds like its an hardware problem indeed...
When the phone is on and running, do you have any problem ?
No problem when the phone finally comes on. Its certainly a weird one. I have since got it sorted via the insurance.
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?
As last chance
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
Hi:
I have a HTC sensation 4G. I really like the phone. However, about 3-4 months ago, my phone suddenly switched off. When I restarted my phone, it got stuck on the HTC logo and wouldn't go further and switch off. It would start again, show the white screen with the HTC logo and switch on again. It wouldn't go any further and kept doing so in a loop. I thought there could be 2 possible reasons for the same: 1.) software issue or 2.) Hardware issue. I was pretty sure it was not a software issue as I had not made any changes in the software. I took it to a HTC repair center. The repair charges they were asking were freakingly high (300$!!). I didn't get it repaired from them. However, they gave me the exact reason of the problem. They said that it was a hardware issue and often happens with the phones when battery of the phone is removed while the phone is running. If this is done multiple times, such an issue can arise. I had done it multiple times before the phone had stopped working. I then got the phone repaired from another shop paying a third of the price. He didn't give any guarantee if the phone works. But the phone started working after the repair.
Very recently though, I was using my camera and as soon as the flash came on, the flash light got stuck. The phone was, however, working. But I couldn't get the flash to switch off. So I thought of restarting my phone. The phone switched off and when it turned on, it had the same problem. It is stuck in a loop on the HTC logo screen. I think this could be a software problem. What can i do to repair it?
Another thing I want to mention is that I am unable to go even in the recovery. When I try to go in to the recovery, it switches off and shows the HTC screen again. On one occasion when I tried to go into recovery from the boot screen, it showed a message that the battery voltage is low, please change the battery immediately. So i thought it is a battery problem and I looked up on the internet to find a solution. Somewhere I read that sometimes the gold plated contact points on the battery get scratched and corrosion happens. One solution was to clean the corrosion and try again. I did but didn't work. Also, when I try to charge the phone (because the battery voltage is low), even if the phone is switched off, its starts up again automatically without pressing the power button. Then it keeps going in the loop.
I don't know what the problem exactly is. Do i need to change the battery? I am running official HTC ICS ROM. Please help me with a solution.
It will be of great help. Thank you!!
Android lover
Hi there,
I bought my ACER CLOUDPHONE S500 2 months ago.
Everyting worked fine, I didn't root the phone, nor did I try to. I used the phone for a coupple of weeks until yesterday, all of a sudden it started vibrating constanly. I pulled out the battery and memory card + sim and put only the battery back in. When the battery touches the contacts it starts vibrating again. So even when the phone isn't booted yet, it just start vibrating constantly without stopping.
Pulling out the battery and plugging in only the USB charger does the same (vibrating constantly).
I tried to restore factory defeaults but that doesn't help.
The phone works normally and can be booted (so no black screen or stuff) but just vibrates the whole time.
I normaly live in Belgium, but I'm on holiday in Thailand for 3 months, so I guess returning it back to the store isn't an option now.
I guess it's a hardware problem but if anybody has a sollution, it would be very welcome!
Is there an other way to stop the vibrating?
anybody has a clue?
I posted this yesterday, does anybody know what is wrong?
I guess it's a hardware problem as the vibrations start from the second I plug in a powersource (battery and/or USB-charger)
IS there any way I can stop the vibrations or is it more like a shortcircuit on the vibration part?
It gets very anoying having a constanly vibrating phone in my pants, I guess I'll could give the phone to my GF..
Hi, I never saw that kind of issue on the cloudmobile but I guess you'll be stuck until you can send it back to service. Seems to be hardware related...
Tought it would be a hardware problem... still 2,5 months to go in Thailand before I can turn it back...
Thans anyways!
Dead pixels?
About problems in this phone..
Did anyone note dead pixel on the screen? I read about a lot of users that have this problem...
I have a AT&T Samsung Note 5 that recently broke. Screen is shattered, screen won't turn on,but the phone still turns on but stuck on boot loop. I keep hearing the AT&T intro sound,but its broken like the sound skips. After a minute or two it I will hear it again. Sounds like a boot loop.
I'm on a stock factory rom, not rooted.
I did setup a finger print security on the phone.
I see a blue led light on top of the phone.
I tried using findmymobile from samsung didn't work.
However I did something else. I pressed the home+volume up and power button. I hear a usb sound and installing devices. It then show installing gadget serial
what does that mean?
I simply need to recover my files before I sent it out to my insurance. I am getting a new phone from them,but I need to get my stuff off this phone before I sent it out.
What can I do?