Related
Thank you in advance for any help!
So I flashed my phone (with the newest RomEo ROM) and everything installed correctly. After install phone starts up and I calibrate my stylus. It then proceeds to install some stuff automatically and reboots on its own. Everything is still great. On restart I'm asked for my sim so I turn off the phone, throw the sim in, and then.....NOTHING. Phone will not turn on or respond to anything. Any advice?
Did you hard reset after flashin the rom? (when you got to the calibrate stylus screen)
Damn. Forgot. Any solution?
Im not sure, Ive heard that if you can get to the bootloader screen your ok. I would suggest just trying to flash again.
First, thanks for your input thusfar.
I would try to flash again but the phone is dead. It doesn't turn on at all and it doesn't sync with the computer. Hell, it doesn't even charge. I just bought the phone from AT&T the other day so I guess I'll walk in and tell them it died and see if they give me a new one, unless I can fix this thing tonight.
i dont know if this would be a problem but do you have HARDSPL on it? and maybe you just have a bad battery. Might want to test that first before taking it to the store and them getting it to work and then see the new ROM and void the warranty.
Im new to all of this so I dont know what advice to give. Did you pust in the Roms thread?
Since you have flashed a new Rom your carrier may not give you a refund.
You did flash GSM rom to a GSM phone and not to a CDMA one right?
he flashed the right rom because Romeos does not have a CDMA rom. I just hope he had hard spl. I mean i dont know what would happen if he flashed a rom and did not have hard spl. I dont know if it would even let him flash the new rom with out hard spl. So that is one possible reason i can think or his battery might have just given out. Since he says nothing turns on and it does not charge.
I do have hardSPL. I check and double checked that everything was the right version and everything was compatible. I'm hoping it's the battery but it's so weird if that is the case because I just got the phone a few days ago! Well, I guess I'll roll the dice and take the phone in and try to get a replacement for either the battery or phone.
Thanks for the input everyone.
If is was the battery, though, shouldn't the phone still boot up when it is connected to the power, even if the battery is dead? If you take the battery out of your phone and connect it to the power, does it still startup?
Nevermind. I took the sim out (again -- for the 10th time) and played with the battery prongs and, thank god, it worked. Thanks one last time for all the input and concern.
awesome! glad to hear it was just a battery problem
I was carrying my phone and i dropped it, and now it won't turn on. Well i plug it to my computer and then i pressed the on button and it turns on but it gets to windows screen and reboots and does this over and over. BUT if i unplug it doesnt turn on anymore.
I've flashed it a couple of time but the last time i flashed it was back to the stock alltel rom because I wanted picture messages to come through.
I've reflashed it again and it goes through but when you unplug it. It turns off again.
So, when did you drop it? Like, right after you flashed a gsm rom onto a cdma phone (or vice-versa, not sure what alltel is, though I suspect it's cdma). Is dropping the phone even relevant to the story, or is flashing the cause of the re-boot cycles? You need to be a little more clear. By that, I mean, what did you do immediately before the re-booting started? Flash, or drop?
I suspect you need to go back to the stock rom and you'll be good to go. If dropping is the cause, go back to stock, and if it's still broken, send it in for repairs/warranty/insurance or whatever.
Farmer Ted said:
So, when did you drop it? Like, right after you flashed a gsm rom onto a cdma phone (or vice-versa, not sure what alltel is, though I suspect it's cdma). Is dropping the phone even relevant to the story, or is flashing the cause of the re-boot cycles? You need to be a little more clear. By that, I mean, what did you do immediately before the re-booting started? Flash, or drop?
I suspect you need to go back to the stock rom and you'll be good to go. If dropping is the cause, go back to stock, and if it's still broken, send it in for repairs/warranty/insurance or whatever.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup, Alltel IS CDMA.....
If it works while connected to the computer then you might have broken the battery-phone connection...or who knows. I'd definitely send it back if it is tstill in warranty.
Good luck.
Okay, i flashed it like 6 hours earlier to droping it, no i don't have warranty on it.
so i flashed it with back to the stock rom
then i dropped it 6 hours later and it keeps rebooting only when i have it plugged in but it wont turn on without it being plug.
You haven't answered whether or not you flashed a GSM ROM to your CDMA phone.
Can you see physical damage?
Oh, idk why but i typed something wrong, i've had this rom forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=42741 the alltel one since yesterday, and i dropped it today, After i dropped it put the battery back on but it didn't start up so i pluged it to my comp and it started up so i did hard reset while i had it plugged up to the computer and it didn't fix it.
*NOTE it can only start up (well try to start up but reboots) when i have the cord pluged up as soon as i take it out it wont start at all.*
So, i figured since it will only start up when i have a power source and reboots it might have a booting problem. So i reflashed it with the same rom i posted a link to..
I still have the same problem
Also i have no warranty bought phone from a friend.
*Also no damage just battery poped out when it got dropped*
Morbis0688 said:
Oh, idk why but i typed something wrong, i've had this rom forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=42741 the alltel one since yesterday, and i dropped it today, After i dropped it put the battery back on but it didn't start up so i pluged it to my comp and it started up so i did hard reset while i had it plugged up to the computer and it didn't fix it.
*NOTE it can only start up (well try to start up but reboots) when i have the cord pluged up as soon as i take it out it wont start at all.*
So, i figured since it will only start up when i have a power source and reboots it might have a booting problem. So i reflashed it with the same rom i posted a link to..
I still have the same problem
Also i have no warranty bought phone from a friend.
*Also no damage just battery poped out when it got dropped*
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So before you dropped it it was working fine on the stock Alltel ROM?
If that's the case, its probably physical damage, although the constant restarts would indicate a software issue.
Make sure your battery is getting a good connection.
It may just be a damaged battery.
Yes, it was working fine, I got a spare battery at home so i'm gonna try that, but ya the restarting make me think a software problem cause its getting power really from the computer port.
I just got this phone not 2 months ago and out of no where it just died!
I was running the recent Energy ROM on it and have been since it came out. Today it ran just fine as always and just a few minitus ago I went to check it and I could not get the screen to turn on. I pulled the batter out and then went to turn it back on, I would vibrate like it was going to start up and a few seconds it would go black and vibrate again. It did this over and over till I finaly tried a hard reset. I was able to get into the hard reset and it said that it compleated and I hit power up to boot. But then the screen got fuzzy and would not boot, so I pulled the battery again and now I can't get it to start at all! No power, nothing! Even with the power cord pluged in it doesn't do anything, not even light up showing that it's being charged!!
What should I do, or check?
Not knowing particulars I would double check the water intrusion labels and make sure they were both white still. Check your gold battery connectors and make sure those look good. Also check your charger and the USB plug to make sure that it is clean of debris and shiny.
Then I would charge the phone for 4 to 8 hours without attempting any boot ups just to make sure it was fully charged.
I have had 'wonky' issues with the phone being too low of a charge and not booting properly. Sorry I can't be of more help.
I will hook it up to a charge tonight and see if that does anything, but it was atleast at 60% eairlyer and as far as I know should be no reason that it should have discarged that quiclky. Also all the markers look just as they did out of the box. Thanks for the advice!
Your ROM might have gotten corrupted. Try a reflash by booting in bootloader mode.
How? It won't turn on?
wingman1487 said:
How? It won't turn on?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try pulling out the battery (and no USB plugged in) then hold the volume down or up button (I don't remeber which) and hit the power button just once while holding the volume button and if you get to boot loader mode you can go from there. Otherwise I'm afraid you are out of luck.
So with no battery I can get to boot loader mode?
Anyways, in or out, nothing. How does my phone just brick itself? I didn't do anything to it!?
If you could do a hard reset, then you can get into bootloader. Just press and hold volume down and then soft reset. If you have to do, a hard reset first, then go into bootloader when the screen says to press volume up to boot up. Once in bootloader, either flash a rom of your sd card if you know how to or off the usb connection.
What radio do you have, and did you change radios recently? I'd recommend using what nrg says (1.14.25.05) with his rom.
I was able to do a hard reset and now nothing is happening. I cant get it to power up, can't get into boot loader, nothing. It is acting like it is bricked... but I haven't added new software, no new ROM... I just don't understand.
Just pull the battery and let it sit overnight. I've read that that can help.
Oh, yeah, what radio are you using? I ask because there was another poster with a similar problem on that rom. He was using a 1.12.xx.xx radio (I think .25.19), and it appeared to have issues with the included rilphone (1.14.25.05). If you haven't flashed a radio and are using a stock fuze radio, this could well be your problem.
Humm the radio was the most recnet one by HTC. The on that the Energy ROM flashes with stock (not the one he suggests, I never got to flashing that one onto the phone) I'll let it sit tongith and report back in the morning/afternoon.
wingman1487 said:
I just got this phone not 2 months ago and out of no where it just died!
I was running the recent Energy ROM on it and have been since it came out. Today it ran just fine as always and just a few minitus ago I went to check it and I could not get the screen to turn on..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same thing happened to me few minutes ago. Thats ****ing weird. Hope I still get this working or I have most expensive piece of junk in my hand.
I also have newest Energy ROM and stock Radio. I had just wrote sms few minutes before, heard that got new sms and tried to turn on screen, but it just stays black.
edit. By using Pocket Controller-PRO I can see that phone is working "normally". Even touch screen is working, but screen is just blank. Keyboard is also dead. Have to take this to repair
nolla said:
Same thing happened to me few minutes ago. Thats ****ing weird. Hope I still get this working or I have most expensive piece of junk in my hand.
I also have newest Energy ROM and stock Radio. I had just wrote sms few minutes before, heard that got new sms and tried to turn on screen, but it just stays black.
edit. By using Pocket Controller-PRO I can see that phone is working "normally". Even touch screen is working, but screen is just blank. Keyboard is also dead. Have to take this to repair
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, flash it back to stock and then have it repaired or replaced. You don't need the screen working on the phone to flash it.
To post an update, I pulled the battery and left it all night like that with no resolve. Right now I have my buddy (the one I bought the phone from) on the phone with cingular to see if there is anyway we can get them to replace the phone since it is only 2 months old or so.
Ok! Get an iPhone now
raydm said:
Ok! Get an iPhone now
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
HAHAHAHA Ya that is somthing that isn't going to happen.
so two people having this problem .. one of them didnt update (downgrade) their radio to the one recommended.
I have a new fuze, just installed Energy Rom.. and went to check my phone version. It was 1.14.25.35 ... NOT the one that was recommended. So I downgraded the phone to 1.14.25.05 immediately
I would be interested to know if the other person was also running 1.14.25.35 and didnt bother to downgrade as recommended.
Other than that ... tons of people are using this ROM and afaik you are the only two to get a black screen like that. Both of you were able to communicate iwth the phone through a remote program? Or only one?
ryaske said:
so two people having this problem .. one of them didnt update (downgrade) their radio to the one recommended.
I have a new fuze, just installed Energy Rom.. and went to check my phone version. It was 1.14.25.35 ... NOT the one that was recommended. So I downgraded the phone to 1.14.25.05 immediately
I would be interested to know if the other person was also running 1.14.25.35 and didnt bother to downgrade as recommended.
Other than that ... tons of people are using this ROM and afaik you are the only two to get a black screen like that. Both of you were able to communicate iwth the phone through a remote program? Or only one?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I run any radio I like on my phone and I never got this issue. Sounds like a hardware issue and it just happened to match that the two persons flashed the same ROM without changing the radio to the recommended one because, frankly, I just flash any I want and I haven't gotten that problem yet (mind you I flash sometimes 5 times a day.)
ryaske said:
so two people having this problem .. one of them didnt update (downgrade) their radio to the one recommended.
I have a new fuze, just installed Energy Rom.. and went to check my phone version. It was 1.14.25.35 ... NOT the one that was recommended. So I downgraded the phone to 1.14.25.05 immediately
I would be interested to know if the other person was also running 1.14.25.35 and didnt bother to downgrade as recommended.
Other than that ... tons of people are using this ROM and afaik you are the only two to get a black screen like that. Both of you were able to communicate iwth the phone through a remote program? Or only one?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You're probably fine with that radio; you can always install the rilphone.dll for it.
This is the thread I was thinking of. Now that I re-read it, the OP didn't specify the rom, but since everyone is on NRG rom, I guess I just assumed that was what it was. Either way, the 1.12 radio seemed to not get along with the cooked in 1.14 rilphone. Or, it could've just been bad luck on the radio flash.
First off let me say I'm not responsible for anything that you do to your phone.
Well I decided for reasons i won't get into I decided to purposely brick my phone. I ran the 2.1 ruu and while it was sending the radio I pulled the plug and battery. Brick. Nothing came on so after about three hours of shenanigans dealing with other folks I came home and thought of something I put the battery back in turned it on but it didn't come on then pulled the battery put it back in then pushed the volume up key and power. Nothing. At that point I plugged it in and to my computer and started to run the ruu. Don't know why but I pulled it out again and and for a split second I saw something. (JOY! HOPE!) So I started the ruu all over again and wouldn't you know it, it ran all the way through. Phone unbricked.
I will later post up a link as well when I get back from school if your too lazy to search on proof from another guy that you can't brick your phone just by running the wrong radio or rom. Actually here is the link
I have no idea why anyone would purposely brick thier phone but this is great news, thanks!
Are you sure you weren't just stuck in fastboot? If so that's not bricked.
Alright, well my phone won't turn on at all, as if there were no battery in or something, this is the result of several stupid things i did to it. It began with a not so stupid thing, i flash some new roms on it, was trying out a few, then eventually put stock back on and applied voodoo lag fix. well then i had some issues with haptic feedback so via odin i flashed stock back on it, without disabling lag fix or doing anything first. Well that wasn't such a huge problem as i could still get into recovery and all and so i assumed that it could be fixed somehow. Well after a few hours i got impatient and did something that i don't understand at all, but it resulting in my phone being in the stat it is right now. i download the file "s1_odin_20100512.pit" then i opened odin and put it in the PIT section. I checked Re-partition, Auto Reboot, and F. Reset Time. I hid start, the phone took it, odin showed success, only the phone hasn't done anything since shutting down. Please help me, and I really appreciate any taking the time to think about this.
[Edit]: Okay i think it might be more helpful to just as "Is there anyway to go from no software on the phone at all to put software on it?" I think this is basically the only it could be fixed since there's no way to access it to re flash the kernel, rom, etc.
Does the phone energize if it's plugged in to A/C? Despite the battery...
no
no, the phone doesn't do anything, although i do believe that it is charging because the battery warms up, im weary to leave it on the charger though because idk if it will overcharge without active software. But to be clear, it has the same issue when plugged in as when a only battery, it does nothing what so ever no matter what i do. Thanks for the reply btw.
did anyone get this figured out?? please let me know!!! I am having the same problem; it won't even show charging... and i can't go into download mode for Odin