Help! Dead phone! - HTC Inspire 4G

This is my dad's inspire, running cm7.
He plugged it in overnight as always, and when he woke up, it won't come on. No light, no nothing.
Tried a battery pull, no go.
Anyone have a thought ?
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If possible try and swap the battery for another one to see if that is the case. Maybe the phone didn't actually charge? Try plugging the phone into the charger and while plugged in start up the phone.
See if those methods help.

The same thing happened to me. Even though cm7 has a different load screen I took it to at&t , they couldn't turn it on either, so they just gave me a brand new phone!
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MGambino310 said:
The same thing happened to me. Even though cm7 has a different load screen I took it to at&t , they couldn't turn it on either, so they just gave me a brand new phone!
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Try holding down the down volume key and power to boot into HBoot.

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HTC sensation no power

Question I rooted and s off as well did a full wipe. Well went to bed put the phone on the charger and woke up and now won't turn on. Any clue or anything you can tell me? I took the battery out and left it out for five minutes still nothing. Put it back on charger and nothing. Tried booting using volume down and power the screen flickered and that was it. Please help
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I had the same thing happen to my phone, and its happened to others on here. I'll post the links thats i found and tried. Don't want to scare you but my phone was dead.
My post when my phone died.
Thanks smurf come to find out the battery was bad geez freaked me out lol cause it was my moms phone lol she asked me to do so stuff to hers that I did to mine and why do you know thought I was going to have to buy her another phone thank god I didnt lol
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I'm glad its not completely buggered. Your mum would have probably kicked your arse.

Phone crash with camera flash

I've noticed that when I take a picture with my inspire 4g, with the flash turned on, the entire phone shuts down right away, but when it's turned into automatic, it works fine, has anyone else has this problem, or know of a solution?
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Need a few more details. What ROM, mods,etc. Folks here like to help, but we need to know what you may have modded on the phone.
I'm running stock 2.3.3, rooted, but no custom roms.
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trashbag said:
I'm running stock 2.3.3, rooted, but no custom roms.
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That's odd. I have never heard of that on a stock ROM. But maybe someone else here has. Good Luck
You have a bad or shorted flash led.
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I can use other apps that use the flash, like tazer, and flashlight...
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trashbag said:
I can use other apps that use the flash, like tazer, and flashlight...
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You should try wiping everything and installing a custom Rom or a rooted stock Rom and see if problem persists, could be a software issue. There are plenty of stock rooted gb Roms buried a few pages back in dev forum.
Check my sig. Stock roms. There is a rooted gingerbread PD98img, stock. I think it's the 3rd one,iirc.
With the phone plugged into the charger take a pic with flash on and see if your phone resets. Could be a battery issue.
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With the phone plugged into the charger take a pic with flash on and see if your phone resets. Could be a battery issue.
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It worked fine when plugged into the charger, should I get a new battery?
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trashbag said:
It worked fine when plugged into the charger, should I get a new battery?
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That would be my recommendation. If you knew someone with another inspire you could try their battery. Actually your battery should be under warranty. If your phone is stock looking then you could probably take it to an ATT store and let them check it out and get 1 for free. Or even a call to 611 ATT support might get you a new battery for free. Just tell them it won't hold a charge and the flash causes your phone to reboot and you tried a friends battery and it fixed the issue. ATT has very understanding customer support.
It definitely sounds like a battery issue. I had a very similar issue. My phone would shut off at random times, and one thing that caused it was the camera flash. I picked up a new HTC battery on eBay for like $14, and it runs like a dream! If you cant fork over the money for the HTC brand battery, there are lots of cheaper chinese batteries for like $2 a piece. They would be good to just test and see if the battery is the issue if you cant find a buddy that could let you use a battery for troubleshooting, before you buy an HTC battery.
Absolutely! the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. A new battery solved the issue. If you have a warranty/protection plan call up At&T and they'll take it from there.
Man, I love forums! I was just having this problem this week! I guess my brutal punishment to my battery over Winter break has cost me (I was running the phone down to 0% multiple times a day). Time to get a new battery.
- Jim
Digging into the problem
I was going crazy with this problem! I wonder now what is the problem with the battery, because mine it seems like it keeps current like a good battery. Does anyoane has any "hardware-electrical" explanation?
Anyway, at least I have one solution and I am partially happy with it.
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I was going crazy with this problem! I wonder now what is the problem with the battery, because mine it seems like it keeps current like a good battery. Does anyoane has any "hardware-electrical" explanation?
Anyway, at least I have one solution and I am partially happy with it.
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I'm assuming when you say it "keeps current" you have been using a current widget. The camera flash puts a heavy load on the battery. On an older battery, it may look like it's fine at idle or doing simple tasks, but it can no longer handle the tough tasks.

[Q] htc sensation wont turn on

Can someone please help me? My htc sensation was working fine and all of a sudden it started freezing, so I took out the battery and put it back in. Now it won't turn on or boot into Hboot. The battery is fully charged and I even tried a different battery but still nothing. I've plugged in the phone without the battery as well and still nothing, the screen does not come on at all. Does anyone have a solution?
p1mp2412 said:
Can someone please help me? My htc sensation was working fine and all of a sudden it started freezing, so I took out the battery and put it back in. Now it won't turn on or boot into Hboot. The battery is fully charged and I even tried a different battery but still nothing. I've plugged in the phone without the battery as well and still nothing, the screen does not come on at all. Does anyone have a solution?
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Hi,
I saw someone with the same problem.
He removed his sim card,left it for a while ,then switched on the phone without the sim card.
Might be worth a try.
Tried it, still no luck any other solutions?
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p1mp2412 said:
Tried it, still no luck any other solutions?
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What rom were you running?
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I was running cm7
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Are you able to get a PC to recognise the phone via USB i.e. is adb working?
It sounds like a screen issue, it may be booting under this.
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No it doesnt...already tried adb, it says device not found
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Can someone please help, i would just call for a replacement but i dnt want to send it in and they fix it and see its rooted, and then they charge me
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Hopefully its so fubar thats they cant check to see, or waste their time...
I had it on mine to, on the period that it wasnt rooted yet, just send it to HTC, its a factory defect, they can't blame it on root access.
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If it won't turn on for you won't turn on for them call tmob get replacement
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this happened to me too for some reason too, when i try to turn it on it just vibrates every 40 seconds or so with a blank screen . i am running ordroids latest rom. oh and my theory is i short circuited the battery or something because when my phone was charging i yanked the power cord of the wall with the phone still plugged in , any ideas and/or soulutions to my problem ?
The same happened to me a few months ago and had to get it replaced with T-Mobile.
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moshe22 said:
The same happened to me a few months ago and had to get it replaced with T-Mobile.
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can you return it with manufacturers warranty to tmobile or is there another warranty you need
Have you tried another battery before you return it? Could be a bad battery?
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Hey man saw your issue...
This happened to me about 3 months ago. I was watching a youtube video when suddenly my phone froze. I did the exact same thing. Pulled the battery, waited a few mins, popped it back in and nothing. If you have insurance on the device you can get it replaced. They completely replaced mine and it was s-off rooted! So you should have no problems at all!:good:
Mine has done that a couple of times. All I do is wait about 5 minutes then pull the battery, put it back in and then try to restart the phone. Sometimes it take 5 or 6 tries before it will reboot and even then sometimes all I get it the splash screen. Another hint is to have it plugged into the charger after you have put the battery back in. If the charging led is on then that means there is a very good chance the phone will boot

Phone not turning on.

Dropped my phone a few days ago. It was all good until this morning.
I charged it all night and I wake up with it at 1percent but the charge light being green. So I restart my phone and it never turned back on.
My girlfriend has the same phone so I used hee battery.... still nothing.
I have insurance but my phones rooted... but will that effect anything if they SOMEHOW figure out that it is?
Or is it okay since this is a hardware issue?
And does anyone have an idea to fix this before I go to t mobile today?
Thanks.
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just throwing out some ideas here...but you could connect it to ur comp and see if its detected...then try and use some fast boot boot commands see if u can even get to recovery
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otherwise try to charge the device without sim and battery for a few hours
put the battery again and see if it will switch on
Anyone have an answer to the insurance question
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[Q] WTF just happened?

I have had my S3 for about two months now and it has been rooted the whole time. The stock ROM finally annoyed me enough to try a new ROM. I installed Rootbox then Pacman, but they both just sat on the boot screen for about 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and gave up. I tried installing MIUI which went well but as soon as I hit the 'restart' button, the screen went blank and now the phone won't turn on. The battery is fine, I tried the known good one out of my wife's S3.
Is there any hope here? Any chance I will be able to get it swapped out at Verizon? Am I just f'ed?
Just for the record because I know it will be asked: I am have installed many ROMs on my old Droid X and I did follow directions for these installs. MIUI even had the wizard. I do have a nandroid but since I cannot turn the phone on at all, I can't get to it. I cannot get to download mode or react when I plug the charger in. I can't even get the thing to vibrate when holding down the power button...as far as I can tell it is COMPLETELY dead.
Thanks for the input.
Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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i fried a gsiii and got a replacement frpm big red. just tell them the OTA did it. if it can't turn on they can't check what you've done until it's too late. bring it in asap and have a sob story about how the update destroyed your phone... it worked 2 days after the jelly bean update for me.
mentose457 said:
Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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No dice on both fronts.
Thanks Bear, that is pretty much the plan so far.
Any response booting into download mode?
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Does the screen flash for a second or respond for any amount of time when you try charging it with or without the battery? Our is there no response at all when you're trying to charge it,?
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No problem. They will give you a replacement as long as there is no physical damage to the phone... Good luck!!
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Did you flash a rom for the i9300 version of the phone and not the i535? I did that and hard bricked my first s3.
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