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[PROBLEM]Very bricked. Geeks needed.

Hi!
Today I got from my friend a bricked Desire S.
He said, he tried updating a pile of apps at once and it froze. He left it to cope with that and when he was back it was turned off.
When turned on it would stuck on htc logo. He read somewhere that he has to perform a "factory reset". I'm not sure what exactly has he done later (he did this with holding the volume up and power buttons and than there had to be, as he said, an option to reset the device), but the result is, that the device doesn't respond at all.
Nothing happens when connected to USB or charger.
Is there anything I can do about it?
Maybe force push bootloader with adb?
Please, help guys

Hi,
it doesn't do anything at all?
Power button?
Power button + Volume down?
Recharge battery?
Connect to a PC with properly installed htc drivers?
Remove battery and put it back?

Unfortunately yes.
Tried different combinations several times - once or twice the led blinked for like a half a second, but than nothing.
I have some flashing experience and I learn quickly. If You have ANY ideas, I'll try to make them happen.
I will try everything, as I have nothing to loose
Regards.

SorbetM said:
Hi!
Today I got from my friend a bricked Desire S.
He said, he tried updating a pile of apps at once and it froze. He left it to cope with that and when he was back it was turned off.
When turned on it would stuck on htc logo. He read somewhere that he has to perform a "factory reset". I'm not sure what exactly has he done later (he did this with holding the volume up and power buttons and than there had to be, as he said, an option to reset the device), but the result is, that the device doesn't respond at all.
Nothing happens when connected to USB or charger.
Is there anything I can do about it?
Maybe force push bootloader with adb?
Please, help guys
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Whenever we see “And I was updating apps and it froze up.....” we have a suspicion we perhaps have another case of the eMMC chip packing in. At least he didn’t do a battery pull. Holding UP + DOWN + POWER has a similar effect to hitting reset on a PC. You can’t get to recovery this way.
With the phone off, hold just the DOWN + POWER. Does the phone then boot into HBOOT? (white screen with coloured text and little green androids at the bottom). If it does, great. You can choose RECOVERY from this and do a factory reset. If the phone does a series of (seven?) quick vibrations maybe not so good.
Search for “eMMC” in this forum to get plenty of people who had this problem, and how (some of them) have been able to fix it. Knowing what to search for is half the battle!
For example check this thread out...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
Geek out!

Thanks for the reply,
I actually have tried entering the hboot few times - with no success.
It doesn't respond at all.
I've read about this chip, but I want to make sure there is no option to force the phone to enter recovery. Than I would probably know what to do next.
Regards.

SorbetM said:
Thanks for the reply,
I actually have tried entering the hboot few times - with no success.
It doesn't respond at all.
I've read about this chip, but I want to make sure there is no option to force the phone to enter recovery. Than I would probably know what to do next.
Regards.
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Not sounding good I'm afraid. The last resort would be to contact HTC and try to get it repaired on warranty. They are very very aware of the problem, and once you tell them "I was updating all apps at once and it froze" they'll accept it as a known hardware failure. Like you say, you have nothing to loose in trying.
A friend recently had this, and sent if off to HTC for repair. As the description of the fault was a known hardware failure, they never bothered to test it first, so they didn't notice it had been rooted! It just went straight through to get a main board replacement. It took five weeks for them to return it though. Best fish out that battered Nokia in your drawer and charge it up ready!
Good luck!

Uh, these are quite bad news, but I'm pretty sure they will accept it on warranty, since my friend haven't done anything "illegal" with it
Thank You for Your fast replies
Regards.

phone wont even turn on... WTF

how do all.... nexus s I9023
i have just purchased a some what lovely google nexus s I9023
working fine for an hour or so...
i had a little pop up asking me to update...
i thought OK... sure why not...
having done so phone worked fine for an additional 20 mins...
then phone froze... i took the battery out and started it up again...
it froze on GOOGLE screen...
iv trawled every forum possible since this has happened...
now the PHONE WILL NOT EVEN TURN ON...
the phone is completely stock no mods or addon's to it!
im at the end of my tether.. SOME ONE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!

Hold volume up + power after reinserting the battery and putting it on charge. Do you enter bootloader mode? And what happens if you click recovery?

done the hold volume up and press power...
still no joy unresponsive!!
when it does work after 50 attempts of taking the battery out and putting it back in and doing volume and power
it turns on.. scroll to recovery.. it turns off google screen pops on...
then a Green android lying on his back appears with its stomach open showing white blocks and a explanation mark above it!
IM PUZZLED!!!!!
it then resets it self going back to being unresponsive!!
HELP!!!!

Give this a shot.
Also, could it be a power button issue? And that android screen is the splash for stock recovery. You have to press vol. up + power again to get past it, beyond this you can do a factory reset and similar magic. However you likely don't want this, and on the screen where you chose to enter recovery, you'll likely want to use fastboot to unlock the phone (which will wipe all personal data) and then flash a stock ROM again. At this point i would advise lots and lots of reading.
If it's less than a year old, i would be calling samsung though. If it is a new phone i would definitely do this first. Do not unlock unless you have no chance of going through warranty. Will need to know the exact status of the phone for best advice here.

[Q] Stuck at boot screen (no root or custom rom)

I went to use my 300 today after not touching it for a couple weeks (been busy with my new evo 4g lte) and it was stuck on the asus boot screen. Tried rebooting a number of times with various button combos, long pressing the power button and all and it will not pass this screen.
I had the latest firmware installed prior to this issue.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Did you try cold booting? To do this, power off your tf. While holding the vol down button, then press and hold the power button. You will see white text at the top. Let go of the buttons and it should boot to a screenasking if u want to wipe data. Dont presss anything and let it timeout and reboot.

cavsoldier19d said:
Did you try cold booting? To do this, power off your tf. While holding the vol down button, then press and hold the power button. You will see white text at the top. Let go of the buttons and it should boot to a screenasking if u want to wipe data. Dont presss anything and let it timeout and reboot.
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I did indeed try that, still did nothing
Right now I have it sitting unplugged waiting for it to run out of power.

Well thats not good. You could download and play a movie on it to help expedite the battery discharge. If after that and it still doesn't work, consider doing a wipe/factory reset as a last ditch effort. After that, you are looking at a store return or warranty repair. If this was the 101, you would have utilities to fix that but we dont have such things for the 300 yet. Good luck my friend.

cavsoldier19d said:
Well thats not good. You could download and play a movie on it to help expedite the battery discharge. If after that and it still doesn't work, consider doing a wipe/factory reset as a last ditch effort. After that, you are looking at a store return or warranty repair. If this was the 101, you would have utilities to fix that but we dont have such things for the 300 yet. Good luck my friend.
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If I could play a movie I wouldn't be in this situation
It's weird because The only people I've seen with issues like this were rooted or trying to flash roms.

Lol yea you are right on that. Ive seen this happen with unrooted 101s before. For whatever ryme or reason something in the system gets borked and prevents it from booting properly.

Try to do a factory reset, it should solve the problem

nooktablet said:
Try to do a factory reset, it should solve the problem
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As in wipe data from the cold boot menu?
Was hoping against that as this wasn't really something I brought on myself through flashing and tinkering.
If this happens again I'll be doing an rma I'd say. Either way I have plenty of time for other suggestions, just hoping someone has some!

Tried wiping data and still stuck, just tried resetting with a paper clip and still no go as well. I'm assuming it's bricked at this point.

Brandito said:
Tried wiping data and still stuck, just tried resetting with a paper clip and still no go as well. I'm assuming it's bricked at this point.
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Yeah, I'd return it. Without root or unlock, it would be impossible to modify anything even if we knew exactly what was wrong with it.

[Q] AT&T HTC ONE X Stuck in Boot Loop and showing

Hi Developers
I am new to this forum. I have tried to Update my Phone using team won recovery. After installing the Rom the Mobile is went in the Bootloop and cannot go to Bootloader and Recovery and also when I try using CMD or any other method from PC. The phone is not detected and it shows Device not found.
Can anybody help me recover?

You can read through this "roll up" to find all you will need to know/understand about your device.
I might suggest to start with the FAQ. You will also find a tool that will help you root your device, in the "roll up"

As soon as the phone starts to boot, hold volume down and power together, when the screen goes blank let go of power but keep holding volume down. This should get you to the bootloader, please post your bootloader details.
Sent from my Evita.

Similar issue, but boot loop won't stop
timmaaa said:
As soon as the phone starts to boot, hold volume down and power together, when the screen goes blank let go of power but keep holding volume down. This should get you to the bootloader, please post your bootloader details.
Sent from my Evita.
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Hey Timmaa, it seems like I have the same problem as the original poster. I know a lot has been said about this topic but none seem to be as bad as mine. In my case, the boot loop won't stop even if I press the down volume and power button together. The bootloader just starts up, but then the phone reboots again (and again). In short, it won't stop long enough for me to do anything at all. Same issue when I connect to the laptop; it reboots before my computer even starts to detect it. Do you figure it is essentially bricked?
Just to let you know: this phone is tied to Singtel (Singapore telcom provider) and this issue only happened when I tried to do a factory reset (I got a new phone and was going to give this one to a friend). I may have screwed up in that I didn't let the phone charge before I tried the factory reset (it was only 5%). A couple of times, the phone did start up normally and it even entered the new phone set up utility. However, it went back to the boot loop within a few seconds and now won't even start up at all. Please help?

Does the phone power on at all now? You say in the beginning that it's looping but you say at the end that it won't start up at all, seems like a contradiction.
Sent from my Evita

androidnoob116 said:
Do you figure it is essentially bricked?
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There is no such thing as "essentially bricked". Its either bricked, or its not. And on this device, if the screen still comes on, its not bricked.
Also, you got into this situation in a different way then the OP, so its not the same problem. Tagging onto someone else's post and saying you "have the same problem" when you in fact don't, is confusing.
As timmaaa asked, are you in a bootloop, or is the phone powered down now?

redpoint73 said:
There is no such thing as "essentially bricked". Its either bricked, or its not. And on this device, if the screen still comes on, its not bricked.
Also, you got into this situation in a different way then the OP, so its not the same problem. Tagging onto someone else's post and saying you "have the same problem" when you in fact don't, is confusing.
As timmaaa asked, are you in a bootloop, or is the phone powered down now?
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Hey guys,
Thanks for your replies. Sorry if that was ambiguous; I'm still learning my way around here.
To answer both your questions, the phone is in a bootloop. It starts up, shows the HTC logo and then repeats. What I meant by "won't start up" is that now it doesn't go beyond the HTC logo, even though it started up completely on a couple of occasions (got to the home screen) but started rebooting again after a few seconds. It just won't stop rebooting, as long as it has enough charge to.
Another thing I discovered is that the bootloader starts up even if I only press the volume down button (it reboots again after a second), so it seems like the power button is stuck pressed down. Do you think that explains it, and what can I do from here on? Thanks for your help.
Cheers.

If the phone is rebooting even while in the bootloader then the power button being stuck could be the cause. I've never heard of one of these rebooting even from the bootloader so that's actually all I can think of. I guess the only way to confirm/fix this would be to open the device up.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
If the phone is rebooting even while in the bootloader then the power button being stuck could be the cause. I've never heard of one of these rebooting even from the bootloader so that's actually all I can think of. I guess the only way to confirm/fix this would be to open the device up.
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Yeah, it could be a power button malfunction; or battery or other power fault, or other hardware failure. In any case I agree that randomly rebooting even in bootloader doesn't look good.
Have you tried fiddling with the power button to see if you can get it "unstuck"? Although the issue may be with the switch under the plastic button.

Cant shutdown to charge devic

I just purchased the 6x and I was going to root and get some stuff done before getting it setup for a relative.
However, i screwed up the twrp recovery flash and messed it up. I've found the directions to get it back on track, however I can't charge it enough to actually let the recovery run. The battery is dead and when i plug it into the charger it just keeps turning back on and sticking at the "Your Device is booting now". I've attempted holding the power button down to force it to shutoff, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
Anyone else run into this issue and managed to get past this problem?

You can try pressing the up volume + power. Also you can try down volume + power. Also you can press all 3 buttons and keep them held down. Hopefully one of those combinations can help you. Else you will have to let the phone battery completely die (overnight) and then plug the charger in.

fc3211 said:
You can try pressing the up volume + power. Also you can try down volume + power. Also you can press all 3 buttons and keep them held down. Hopefully one of those combinations can help you. Else you will have to let the phone battery completely die (overnight) and then plug the charger in.
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Unfortunately I've done all of these options. Letting it drain over night is what got me into this situation actually. I can get myself into fastboot to follow the instructions I have, install the boot/recovery/system images. And can even get the boot for installing update.app to start, but from what i can tell it doesn't have the juice it loses power and shuts down. then when it gets just a enough juice, it automatically turns back on and sits at the "booting now" screen.

Are you sure you held down the power button long enough? Try holding it for 5 minutes straight and dont let go no matter what
I am not sure what else to suggest to you, will wait for one of the more experienced members to chime in. You may have to physically open the phone and disconnect the battery if nothing else works. And that is not an easy job if you look on YouTube to replace the battery on this phone takes at least an intermediate level of skill with micro-electronics.
All I can tell you is to please not lose hope. I had a situation 3 or 4 days ago where I had FRP lock on and nothing I tried worked and I was ready to sell the phone on eBay for $50 and cut my losses but the older members of this forum helped me and after hours of frustration I finally have a working phone again. If worse comes to worse comes to worse than your final option will be to try to get service from Huawei, maybe lie to them and say that you accepted ota update and that the Huawei update caused all the problems. Or better story than that: Tell them you where mugged at the Mall and thief stole your phone but then 3 days later you saw the same thief again at another Starbucks and confronted the thief and took your phone back again. But it appears the thief must have tried to flash TWRP or something because now phone is messed up. Maybe they will believe that. Haar-Haarr
But that is a worst case scenario, probably it wont come to that. My phone was doing the same thing as yours, I forget what I did to interrupt it from rebooting on its own. But really all you can do is try a combination of the buttons and hope the dang phone will finally just power off. Its too bad you cannot boot into TWRP and select POWER OFF

Try booting into eRecovery. Plug your device to the charger and turn the phone on. When you're on the bootloader warning, press and hold Vol+ button until it boots. eRecovery should let you to charge your device. It also has a battery indicator.
BTW, don't forget to download your phone firmware. It may be necessary for fixing your phone if you messed up an important partition.

Panchoso4D said:
Try booting into eRecovery. Plug your device to the charger and turn the phone on. When you're on the bootloader warning, press and hold Vol+ button until it boots. eRecovery should let you to charge your device. It also has a battery indicator.
BTW, don't forget to download your phone firmware. It may be necessary for fixing your phone if you messed up an important partition.
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I can't seem to get to recovery.
After working on it more yesterday, i'm not entirely convinced it is the battery causing me the issues. After flashing the .img files in fastboot, i can sometimes get it to start recovery (both volume buttons and power) and it will start installing the update but it stalls and reboots at 5%. Based on what i've read on the other threads, this has to do with not getting the right firmware matched from what as on there before. Problem is i jumped so quickly into unlocking the bootloader and trying to root i never paid attention to my build number in the OS to know what to flash back to. I've tried multiple TeamMt firmware search website, as well as the official one from Huawei.