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How to restart Desire S in case it stops responding

I can not find answer. Help me please!

Take the battery out. Or use this. Hope u have back up ur stuff.
http://www.hard-reset.com/htc-desire-s-hard-reset.html
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gplock said:
Take the battery out. Or use this. Hope u have back up ur stuff.
http://www.hard-reset.com/htc-desire-s-hard-reset.html
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Ignore that, read my signature first
You should First try the three button restart, which is volume up + volume down + power button
then try adb restart....(see Sig) you'll need adb and drivers installed
If that doesn't work then and only then remove battery
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Are you having a particular issue? Our preparing for when you come across one?
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ben_pyett said:
Ignore that, read my signature first
You should First try the three button restart, which is volume up + volume down + power button
then try adb restart....(see Sig) you'll need adb and drivers installed
If that doesn't work then and only then remove battery
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+1. The three button restart and adb are handy. But more often than not, in a system freeze, both become unresponsive and a battery pull is the only remainnig option...you could use that as a final resort, as suggested by most members on our forums.
Or simply do what i do, if battery pull is the only option remaining... which is to still not pull the battery!!
I just leave the phone aside and forget about it. Ususlly, in about half an hour or so, it reboots on it's own. It sounds counter-intuitive, i know, but this happens, probably because i've had the patience to actually let the phone sit untouched without fidgeting around.
Sometimes it doesn't reboot on its own. In those cases, i just let it sit there and allow the battery to run out (it will discharge to 0% at sometime you know; we're not using nuclear power for cellphones just yet!!)
Once it switches off after running out of power, you can connect it to the charger and reboot into recovery and do what needs to be done.
In my experience with flashing ROMs and other add-on stuff, which i do all the time, i've encountered system freeze in new and beta builds a total of 8 times. In 5 of them, the system froze while booted up into a ROM, and the first phenomenon that i have mentioned above, happened, i.e an auto-restart in 30-60 mins. On the other 3 occasions, incompatible beta flashes rendered phone unresponsive at HTC splash screen and i had to wait it out before the phone discharged itself, and then i picked it up from there.
It does take a little patience, but after knowing full well that a battery pull often results in permanent damage to the DS, it would be really foolish and cavalier on anybody's part to do it, just because you can't wait a few hours! Saves you a lot of sleepless hours later on, posting "HELP" threads all over xda and haggling with HTC support.
I still stand by this method, and absolutely condemn battery pulling. It is not justified on the DS for whatever reason you may think of! But hey, it's your phone, so do want you want with it. I'm secure in the knowledge that with this technique, mine is 100% safe...

You can also check if you have the vulnerable emmc card, like I have! Then u know to be extra careful.
Search for the thread about it
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You mean there is two emmc chips : one which is vulnerable, and one which is not ? how do you know which one you have, and if it is "vulnerable" ?

There is a batch which everyone who has had bricked failures had the same batch of emmc.
There are threads about it you should be able to find... I'm not searching whilst on my phone
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The dodgy ones are Mg42de coded, look in the basic tips to avoid bricking thread by shrome99 in the general DS forum
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Reset sensation without pulling battery!

Hi all,
If you need to reset your sensation just hold vol+, vol- and power together and keep them held until the phone reboots - usually a couple of seconds.
Much easier than pulling the back off and removing the battery.
Mod - please add to the stickies.
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bull****. u cant hold power + and - at the same time. the rocker will break

shiningarmor said:
bull****. u cant hold power + and - at the same time. the rocker will break
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No, it will not. This is normal procedure for all htc smartphone for reset!!
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naimmkassim said:
No, it will not. This is normal procedure for all htc smartphone for reset!!
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all? im not sure whether if it's all.. my incredible s cant do that. it felt as if the rockers are going to break lol

Yea not all HTC the vision is sensor pad and power, but the 2 volume is common and will not break either Samsung phones use same key combo

Tested and working. Thanks.

shiningarmor said:
bull****. u cant hold power + and - at the same time. the rocker will break
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Indeed working fine, tested and restarted the phone about 5s after i pressed the buttons.

This doesnt always work, but will most of the time. Last night I had to pull the battery since this method wasnt working. Its worth a try before doing a battery pull though.
Matt

mrg02d said:
This doesnt always work, but will most of the time. Last night I had to pull the battery since this method wasnt working. Its worth a try before doing a battery pull though.
Matt
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Another method is to just use ADB commands to reboot or reboot into recovery. IE: adb reboot or adb reboot recovery.
I had to do this when recovery stops responding.

Ummm... By the time you have counted to 5 and hoping the phone resets, you could have clicked back off, pulled batt and clicked cover back on.
If you are quick

Just tried it - works pretty well. Thanks for the tip.

If you look in this section, there are people losing their volume rockers or disturbing the connections between battery cover and body by repeatedly removing and refitting the battery cover.
This way, there's no risk to the phone.
Plus, you can reset the phone easily if it's inside a case.
You're welcome to keep pulling the back off though if it makes you happy.
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shiningarmor said:
bull****. u cant hold power + and - at the same time. the rocker will break
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Why the foul language?? Its working great...
DUDE, do you even have an HTC Sensation????

Worked on mine. Thanks for the tip.
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N10AP said:
Ummm... By the time you have counted to 5 and hoping the phone resets, you could have clicked back off, pulled batt and clicked cover back on.
If you are quick
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Do you have a Sensation? Did you see how the cover looks? Don't you think that removing it frequently will cause damage?
Oh yeah, and removing it is really "fast" and "convenient" if you use a gel case.

22VIN said:
Do you have a Sensation? Did you see how the cover looks? Don't you think that removing it frequently will cause damage?
Oh yeah, and removing it is really "fast" and "convenient" if you use a gel case.
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Wow take a chill pill mate! Only having a joke!
Yes I do have a Sensation. It has a lovely screen protector on it, it is rooted / running ARHD and it has one of them clicky leather pouches that you get for £2.50 off Donington Market. More to the point, I have been repairing Steve Jobs equipment for erm... Years now!
Low post count doesn`t imply that the person is a muppet! Indeed, you could learn a thing or two my friend in Bucharest...
Some phones are not designed to be hard resetted in the way the OP describes, but yes it is an excellent tip.

My post doesn't mention any other phones and is only posted in this section, so I'm only talking about the Sensation. I haven't tried this on any other device so I can't say if it works on any other phone.
All I said is it's an easier way of performing a hard reset on a HTC Sensation or HTC Sensation XE without removing any parts.
I'm no expert, I'm just sharing a tip I found. Use it, don't use it, it's absolutely fine by me whatever anyone chooses to do.
Chill, people.
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Jedi2011 said:
All I said is it's an easier way of performing a hard reset on a HTC Sensation or HTC Sensation XE without removing any parts.
Chill, people.
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+1 This is working great at sensation and let's stay at it.
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Thanks, almost saves lifes heheh. Pulling the back cover can be a pain sometimes.

Desire S random reboot

Guys,
The Desire s of my gf is rebooting random. Right now it is about 5 times a day. I already did a hard reset and the problem remains. The phone is running stock 2.3.5 with Sense 3.0. Already tried the search on the forum, but there are to many posts
Does anyone have a solution? I want to rule out the software before thinking of a hardware issue thnx in advance
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There was a talk about this a long time ago and have experienced before it on my phone. A quick solution, a piece of paper on the battery cover to help push the battery to make much more contact on the board.
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Skanob said:
There was a talk about this a long time ago and have experienced before it on my phone. A quick solution, a piece of paper on the battery cover to help push the battery to make much more contact on the board.
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Going to trie that later today. Thanks. But I already tried tapping the battery and shaking the device while it's on, with no succes to force the reboot.

CMX Hangs

Every once in awhile I'll notice my Sensey's soft keys are lit up and I can't do anything on the phone. pressing the lock/wake button does nothing and I need to do a battery pull to get into my phone again. Holding the lock/wake key doesn't even reboot at all.
Is this a firmware or kernel problem? Any fixes?
(I realize that I worded that terribly, my apologies.)
-Matthew

It could be a software issue, I say this because this has happened to me on different roms, then when I flashed a different Rom the issue was solved. I'm not sure other than flashing a different Rom, how to remedy the situation. In my case this is how I fixed it when that happened to me. You might want to post this on the Rom developers site and see if others are experiencing the same issue. Perhaps they might have a fix if it's a known problem. I wish you the best ! Hopefully you can remedy this situation easily. I'm fairly certain flashing a different Rom will cure the issue. At least it did in my situation. Good luck and I hope this helped.
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mattjorgs said:
Every once in awhile I'll notice my Sensey's soft keys are lit up and I can't do anything on the phone. pressing the lock/wake button does nothing and I need to do a battery pull to get into my phone again. Holding the lock/wake key doesn't even reboot at all.
Is this a firmware or kernel problem? Any fixes?
(I realize that I worded that terribly, my apologies.)
-Matthew
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Um...I'm sure you're new to this.
The bug aren't fully fixed yet. Reboots and hangs are obviously expected.
Nothing wrong with Kernel cuz there's no jellybean kernel for us YET.
So the ROMs are still buggy.
I suggest you wait a week or 2 for all bug fixes.
Meanwhile, try a Sense ROM or an ICS aosp based ROM. :sly:
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Alright, fair enough.
I wouldn't consider myself new to this at all. I've had my sensation since September last year and I've done my fair share of flashing and helping others out. I just thought I'd ask because I didn't see it discussed anywhere and thought I was the only one having this particular issue. I searched the ROM thread and found nothing and I searched this Q&A forum and didn't find anything so I thought I'd ask. Is that so wrong?

mattjorgs said:
Alright, fair enough.
I wouldn't consider myself new to this at all. I've had my sensation since September last year and I've done my fair share of flashing and helping others out. I just thought I'd ask because I didn't see it discussed anywhere and thought I was the only one having this particular issue. I searched the ROM thread and found nothing and I searched this Q&A forum and didn't find anything so I thought I'd ask. Is that so wrong?
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1 paragraph for saying you might be new to this?
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mattjorgs said:
Every once in awhile I'll notice my Sensey's soft keys are lit up and I can't do anything on the phone. pressing the lock/wake button does nothing and I need to do a battery pull to get into my phone again. Holding the lock/wake key doesn't even reboot at all.
Is this a firmware or kernel problem? Any fixes?
(I realize that I worded that terribly, my apologies.)
-Matthew
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I had the same problem. Fixed it by turning off system sounds in the settings option. Just turn all the sounds off and you should bee good to go
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Cm10 is a beta work in progress. This is a known bug, not something you are doing wrong.
Be patient as the rom continues to develop.
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CalCi059 said:
1 paragraph for saying you might be new to this?
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Disrespect is not something I take lightly.
monkor said:
I had the same problem. Fixed it by turning off system sounds in the settings option. Just turn all the sounds off and you should bee good to go
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Thank you, I will try this.

Phone is dying.

As the title says my phone powers off some times which is starting to piss me off. It seems to only happen when i för example is listening on spotiy and is on the web.. when i start the phone again the battery % goes down like 50%...
Ive also tried to put a bit of a old credit card piece on top of the battery, flashing a new rom with full wipe and all. I really dont know what to do and Ive been searching around but cant seem to find anything that works.. so yeah thanks for reading and please help!!!!
/nkewk
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nkewk said:
As the title says my phone powers off some times which is starting to piss me off. It seems to only happen when i för example is listening on spotiy and is on the web.. when i start the phone again the battery % goes down like 50%...
Ive also tried to put a bit of a old credit card piece on top of the battery, flashing a new rom with full wipe and all. I really dont know what to do and Ive been searching around but cant seem to find anything that works.. so yeah thanks for reading and please help!!!!
/nkewk
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maybe your battery is dying

rzr86 said:
maybe your battery is dying
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Probably... Ive tried everything right now but nothing is working. Everything is just f#cked up! :crying:

You shouldn't keep piece of credit card on top of battery. But at different position.. Check for "fix random reboots" in sensation development section... There couple of pictures were there..
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ganeshp said:
You shouldn't keep piece of credit card on top of battery. But at different position.. Check for "fix random reboots" in sensation development section... There couple of pictures were there..
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I dont have it on top but its hard to explain here.