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G1 is bricked!!!

after i attemped to upgrade my jf 1.41 rc 30 to jf 1.41 rc 33 my phone freeze and then i took out the battery, try to turn it on and it wont turn back on is there any way or any buttons i need to push to get this back on again? i'm desperate and dont want to wait for a g1 replacement which is coming next week please give me some advice on how to make my phone work again.

both CAMERA/POWER and HOME/POWER are not working?

yup both i tried nothing works

ariex said:
my phone freeze and then i took out the battery, try to turn it on and it wont turn back on.
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Did you put the battery back in?

what do you think?

I upgraded from JF 1.41 RC30 with no problem, Radio and all, good luck!

ariex said:
what do you think?
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So far you are the only person with this problem so we are running through the basics.
Did you get any errors or messages during the update? Did the phone run out of battery mid update? Did anything odd or unusual happen?

quick question in while in the topic, had he done a FULL nandroid backup and was able to atleast get to boot screen would he be able to restore his phone? just a quick questions because to this day i have no idea how the nandroid thing works i cant do it on my x64 vista either and dont see how it comes in handy lol. Sorry just trying to fig it out.

after i tried to install the radio update it showed some sort of chip with an arrow and then it froze for over 10 mins so i ended up taking out the battery

@zgjbeta Yes. If you can get to the blinkin android screen, your not really bricked. Nandroid would fix it right up.
If it wont even turn on, like your case. I dono what to tell you.
For starters, try to connect it to a wall outlet to make sure its not the battery.
Also tell us exactly what happened during the update process.
EDIT: I read your most recent post. That's strange because everyone gets the chip thing, you shouldve tried home + back or menu + green + red.
One of those wouldve most likely worked.
Good luck.
Also maybe try to take it out again and put it back in.

I had the chip and arrow after the radio update, I didn't take the battery out, started pressing random keys, lol... and then it went away and booted back to a JF recovery style screen. Pressed home + back and it rebooted to a stuck flashing android. Then did call+menu+end to reboot and it has worked fine ever since.
There is definitely something whacky going on...

yes i tried to do the home key plus end and camera plus end options while in that chip state but didnt do anything so i resolve to take out the battery and it wont turn on again. i also tried all the button reset combo nothing happens

If it wont even turn then there is really nothing that can be done. Another thing I would try is if you know someone else with a G1 try their battery.

ariex said:
after i tried to install the radio update it showed some sort of chip with an arrow and then it froze for over 10 mins so i ended up taking out the battery
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Also try cleaning the battery contacts in the phone and on the battery. This happened to one of my dumbphones once - cleaned out the battery contacts and it worked again. Bizzare situation, simple solutions first.
You might've turned it off while it was writing a vital file. Thus your phone might be bricked.
Here's an idea - sent it back to T-Mobile/HTC - and I don't think they will notice you violated your warranty until it's too late (they have to fix your phone to find out) so you could just refuse to pay and have them send it back to you.

I too saw the chip with the arrow thing, so that makes 3 people in this thread. It happened when I did the radio update. Anyway, in my case, I held down the recovery mode keys for a while and it went to the menu. Then I just rebooted and everything was great. Glad I didn't take out the battery (I considered it).

I had the chip and just waited and it took care of itself. Just be patient people.

plug in the wall charger, wait 10 seconds, then hold the red power button for 3-5 seconds then release, it should turn on

i tried that didnt work anymore advice?

also is there any way to run diagnostics of this phone to pc to make it work?

If the phone won't turn on, go back to the T-Mobile store and ***** em out. Not much else to say if we can't even get power to it.

[Q] Xoom Won't turn on

New to the forum. Love you guys' work. Been a follower since the G1 days. I got the xoom on Thursday (like a lot of you) and have loved it, until last night. My battery was going low (20% or so) and I used it for about 10 more minutes when the whole thing just shot off. I'm not sure what happened. I tried to charge it and nothing happened. If it was my G1 or Nexus, I would have just pulled the cover off and taken the battery out and rebooted, not so easy on the xoom. I think I might have to take it back, but anyone have any ideas as to how I can get it working again?

exact same thing happened to me, I pressed and held volume up and power and it booted up.

Morkai Almandragon said:
exact same thing happened to me, I pressed and held volume up and power and it booted up.
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That did the trick thanks man!

maduka56 said:
That did the trick thanks man!
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Same problem. Same fix

I just had this happen to me today, so as of March 11 its still an issue. The system appeared to be locked in sleep mode and no amount of pressing or holding the power (or any other) button wakes it up. The little light top right just keeps flashing slowly. It wasn't on a low battery either. lets hope all the other users are savvy enough to search for the answer online. I found it here on xda forum in another thread - hold down power button and volume at the same time. Which interestingly is a trick i wouldn't find in the manual, and i couldnt find an explanation for the blinking light in the manual or PDF guide either. There will be some very very worried xoom owners around until this is fixed.

My xoom does not respond to my touch, so everything seems still alive, and when I hold on the power button it does ask me if I want to turn it off, but since it does not respond to my click, I cannot reboot the system. Same trick as above solved the problem.

More information would be helpful.
1. Does this happened before or after the update.
2. Rooted, modified in any way etc etc...
AFAIK Mine still working fine. I haven't done anything to mine, so is still pretty stock.
At least there's a way to deal with this.

So this just happened to my wifi Xoom. Except the forced reboot method (volume up + power) doesn't get any response. Any quick ideas before I go exchange this at Costco?
edit: This is a completely stock Xoom.

Morkai Almandragon said:
exact same thing happened to me, I pressed and held volume up and power and it booted up.
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Thanks this fixed mine as well. It's a little unnerving that it wouldn't boot to begin with, though.

Yep had this happen on mine a couple of times now.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

Thank you so much! I thought my xoom was bricked!

Yep its only happened once to me since launch day, but power + volume up did fix it. No idea why it happened, havent had any problems since though.

yeah, its a lil scary. i remember when i had it happ3n. glad its working for you.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

How to get to HBOOT to flash Recovery?!

How in the Hell do you get to HBOOT??? to flash clockwork??? I have searched and searched and it is probably right in front of my face but i just cant seem to find it!! ive tried power + vol up, power + vol down, power + volume up and down.. what is the damn combination ahahah!!! every other phone that I have had this info was easy to find usually in the first sticky, maybe im just a dumb ass today, but i have never had getting to the recovery/hboot give me soo much trouble

Wrong forum
1. First switch off..
2. Remove and re-insert battery..
3. Press volume down
4. Press power with keeping both power+volume down buttons pressed untill whilte screen comes out..
5. Did u see something?
BUT POST EVERYTHING IN RIGHT SECTION. POST THIS QUESTIONS IN Q/A SECTION, ONLY IF U CANT FIND ANY SOLUTIONS and i hope this kind of problem many users had already. SEARCH BEFORE POSTING..

thank you for your help.. i turned the phone off but was not removing the battery, ahhh my nerves are now calm

Ups... Wrong post :\

deltawye said:
thank you for your help.. i turned the phone off but was not removing the battery, ahhh my nerves are now calm
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Use thanks button next time if u want to say thanks

And post in the Q&A Forum.

The reason the battery pull is necessary is because you have fast boot on. You won't need to do it if you go to Settings --> Power and unchecked fast boot

[SOLVED] Help needed. Have I bricked my phone?

Sorry but i have been frantically searching the forum but cannot find what i need. This morning my phone was acting strangely so I restarted it, but it seemed to be stuck in a loop restarting again and again. I read on here to hold volume up/down and power to be able to remove battery, then I put batt back in held vol down and pressed power and on the menu in selected recovery. My problem now is phone is stuck on a black screen with phone picture and red warning sign. I don't know where to go from here...sorry if this has been covered a million times but i searched for a good half hour and was getting forum fever. My Desire S is stock on android 2.3.5. Many thanks if you can help.

Your lucky that you can reach bootloader. From there find an option to reset your phone.

@lennyboi77
Thats your stock recovery, press vol up+power to access its menu. Try a reset.
ITs also worth a look here just to make sure you haven't damaged your phone.
From that point (if the reset never worked) I feel that you can only go the RUU route. So please can you post the results of "fastboot getvar all" remember to remove your serial and imei. From that I should be able to point you to the correct RUU and if you will need a goldcard.

Dun worry, had that twice when installing ruu. but i never stop there, continued until succeed. BUT make sure u follow the step accordingly.
Is ur phone branded?

foX2delta said:
@lennyboi77
Thats your stock recovery, press vol up+power to access its menu...
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.... on mine, it's vol down+power (holding vol down before pressing power) ....

Thanks for your replies guys, I ended up going on the live chat on HTC website and the guy guided me through doing a hard reset...was a bit worried at one point as he told me to pull the battery when it was doing the constant reset thing but he assured me it was fine to do so! Thankfully my phone has been fine since, I wasn't trying to install a RUU it was just freaking out of its own accord. Maybe it don't like mondays.

lennyboi77 said:
Thanks for your replies guys, I ended up going on the live chat on HTC website and the guy guided me through doing a hard reset...was a bit worried at one point as he told me to pull the battery when it was doing the constant reset thing but he assured me it was fine to do so! Thankfully my phone has been fine since, I wasn't trying to install a RUU it was just freaking out of its own accord. Maybe it don't like mondays.
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Mondays - Who does?....glad to hear phone fixed, you should update the title of the first post to have [SOLVED] at the start.
Pulling the battery is never recommended, even if told to do so by HTC support - I mean what do they have to loose? the only possibly safe opportunity to do so, is mid way through the phones power on and off cycle and you only have a tiny window, although this is only a last resort and not something to be tried by the faint at heart.

Phone wont power on

I've had this phone for about 5 days now. When I got it the power button was pretty tough to push and it was hard to power on and power off the phone. Today I rooted and unlocked the bootloader. Phone rebooted fine. I powered it down to get into hboot and cannot get the phone to respond now. Will not power up, no charging light when I plug it in, nothing. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?

fadetoblack2104 said:
I've had this phone for about 5 days now. When I got it the power button was pretty tough to push and it was hard to power on and power off the phone. Today I rooted and unlocked the bootloader. Phone rebooted fine. I powered it down to get into hboot and cannot get the phone to respond now. Will not power up, no charging light when I plug it in, nothing. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
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I had the same thing happen to me after flashing a S=off partition to my phone... Have you tried holding down the volume down buttom and power button to hard reset it? hold it up to 20 seconds. If you get no response and when you plug it into your comp and it tells you its installing some weird file then you are HARD BRICKED like i was, only thing i know of you can do at the moment is return it... they cant acces it so just tell them you went to bed after putting it on the charger and when you woke up it was completely dead, it wont respond to anything... worked for me, hope the best for ya...

rpomponio said:
I had the same thing happen to me after flashing a S=off partition to my phone... Have you tried holding down the volume down buttom and power button to hard reset it? hold it up to 20 seconds. If you get no response and when you plug it into your comp and it tells you its installing some weird file then you are HARD BRICKED like i was, only thing i know of you can do at the moment is return it... they cant acces it so just tell them you went to bed after putting it on the charger and when you woke up it was completely dead, it wont respond to anything... worked for me, hope the best for ya...
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Well I got it to power on now after leaving the phone sit for a while. The power button is still a pain in the butt to use though.
I was getting no response and my computer was telling me it was installing some weird file. But now it seems to be working like it should. Other than the bad power button.

In the Captivate forums (where I've been the past two years) I've seen people talk about the power button becoming more or less responsive with different ROMs. It seems impossible to me that this could be real, but enough experienced people talked about it that I wonder if there may be some explanation, like the power button isn't just an on/off device but maybe registers distance and/or pressure.
Or maybe everyone who talked about it was imagining it.