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Should I return it?

So I have something funky going on. When someone calls me my phone rings. Do you think its defective? Should I return it? Also my power button is crooked and slants over to one side. Its a moving part and moving parts shouldn't do this right? I mean buttons shouldn't have any play right?? :-D Sorry I couldn't help myself. Hahahahha
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graffixnyc said:
So I have something funky going on. When someone calls me my phone rings. Do you think its defective? Should I return it? Also my power button is crooked and slants over to one side. Its a moving part and moving parts shouldn't do this right? I mean buttons shouldn't have any play right?? :-D Sorry I couldn't help myself. Hahahahha
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It's a darned conspiracy I tell you.

graffixnyc said:
So I have something funky going on. When someone calls me my phone rings. Do you think its defective? Should I return it?
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My phone has done this once or twice before but my solution to this was draggin the green "answer" button to the circle. It stops the ringing and whoever is calling ends up on the phone and you can hear them.
Not too difficult. I mean HTC should have fixed this issue before they even released the phone

Lmao. My phone is also defective. When I press the button with a house on it, it closes the app. Soooooooo annoying.

idavid_ said:
Lmao. My phone is also defective. When I press the button with a house on it, it closes the app. Soooooooo annoying.
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Hahaha that is annoying. I thought the button with the house is supposed to transport you home. Major fail...
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I give this thread four thumbs down. Lol
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graffixnyc said:
Hahaha that is annoying. I thought the button with the house is supposed to transport you home. Major fail...
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Wait a minute...is that what it's supposed to do?
BTW,my touch screen responds faster than my sister's new I Phone 4.
Is THAT supposed to happen as well?
Why do I get the feeling I've been had?

edgewoodzgimp13 said:
I give this thread four thumbs down. Lol
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Lol hey with all the complaint threads I figured I'd make one on a lighter note ;-) we dont have to be soooo serious all the time ;-)
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I just found a new problem......when your phone is on, try pushing that button at the top. Mine locks my freakin screen and I can't do anything until I hit it again....WTF HTC.....get it together

thread would be funny if the sensation didnt have any problems.

I have some of these similar issues with my evolution 3d... so its an HTC thing?
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magnum_touchpro said:
This thread would be funny if the sensation didnt have any problems.
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There aren't too many new phones that don't at one point or another.

magnum_touchpro said:
thread would be funny if the sensation didnt have any problems.
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Lighten up.. In a perfect world everything would be perfect, but we dont live in a perfect world. If you look at EVERY single device there will always be issues with some units. I happen to not have any major issues with my sensation. My wifi drops a little when I hold it landscape but it's not horrible and oesnt drop the connection. any other issue I have are all software related glitches. If you look at every forum people complain about issues on every device. I was just making light of it because people seem to have major OCD. If you didnt think the thread was funny you shouldnt have even bothered reading it or replying. NOTHING is perfect in this world yet we expect everything to be perfect. Come back when you remove the stick out of your ass..

magnum_touchpro said:
thread would be funny if the sensation didnt have any problems.
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What phone doesn't have problems?

magnum_touchpro said:
thread would be funny if the sensation didnt have any problems.
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You better turn that frown upside down.

I just hope some ninny doesn't smash my phone up with their shoe.

kgbkny said:
What phone doesn't have problems?
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I don't remember those old rotary phones every having any problems.

graffixnyc said:
Hahaha that is annoying. I thought the button with the house is supposed to transport you home. Major fail...
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Apparently, HOME button is supposed to teleport you back home, but gets confused because it doesn't know where you live and take you to HOMESCREEN instead (dumb thing, with all the gps and location services it should know where i charge it and sleep). Rumours are that this is going to be fixed with update in August. If it's not, there is always a DEV for that.
EDIT. I think we should start a petition for that, HTC seems to do anything we want if we put enough pressure on them, so they might push this bugfix sooner.

I returned mine and went back to my rooted and ROM'd vibrant and I don't regret it....BUT I'm considering waiting maybe another month or until we get full root and S-OFF to maybe give the sensation another chance. I wanted to like the phone, I really did, but didn't feel that the sensation in it's current stock state was really what I wanted. Either way...it's a GREAT multimedia phone and web surfer, kinda crappy at being an actual phone tho in my opinion...

hoevito said:
I returned mine and went back to my rooted and ROM'd vibrant and I don't regret it....BUT I'm considering waiting maybe another month or until we get full root and S-OFF to maybe give the sensation another chance. I wanted to like the phone, I really did, but didn't feel that the sensation in it's current stock state was really what I wanted. Either way...it's a GREAT multimedia phone and web surfer, kinda crappy at being an actual phone tho in my opinion...
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Please explain, I've had zero issues as far as the device functioning as a phone.
On a side not, it's really driving me nuts that when press the "loose" button at the top my stupid phone keeps showing me the current weather with all these highly functional shortcut options on how to unlock. Anyone know how to change that? I want it to be stupid and work like an iphone!

Bricked?

Hey guys I have a mytouch that my friend gave me that was exsposed to water. It will boot up to the splash screen and stay there, it seems almost like software issue. With that being said I was wondering what advice you could give to get it working I'm thinking I could flash a new Rom on there and see if that works, the issue is is that it is still s on and I work more with the vivow is there anyway to to s off without booting and install clockwork recovery any help would be appriciated thanks -golgotha
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If he's got insurance send it in... If not find a local cell pnone repair, there on craigslist usually you can find someone to fix it no problems.
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Are you able to boot in recovery?

I can get into the bootloader and stock recovery but I need s off to do an adv push of clockwork mod or am I wrong on that
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Golgotha theskull said:
Hey guys I have a mytouch that my friend gave me that was exsposed to water. It will boot up to the splash screen and stay there, it seems almost like software issue. With that being said I was wondering what advice you could give to get it working I'm thinking I could flash a new Rom on there and see if that works, the issue is is that it is still s on and I work more with the vivow is there anyway to to s off without booting and install recovery any help would be appriciated thanks -golgotha
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Here is a little secret I will let you in on. This coming from experience on fixing phones. Do this.
1st disassemble the phone. You may need a t5 or t6 screwdriver. Don't need to seperate the digitizer from the bezel. Just strip it down so you can access the circuit boards.
2nd get a very copious amount of isopropil alcohol and a small brush. There will also be a part of the main board that has a metal cover over it. Pry those off carefully. Once you stripped it down, brush the alcohol over all of the circuitboards and connections. What this will do is break the corrosion off the circuits. Believe me it is there even though you can't see it. Let the phone sit for about a day so that it can be completely dried.
3rd reassemble and then power up. It should work like it is new.
I did this twice in the last month. Once to a iPhone 3gs (it was my brother's I wouldn't have done it otherwise) and a mytouch 3G slide. Both worked like New afterward.
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what is your hboot version? if it is 1.44.0007, have you tried running Revolutionary to S-OFF? i am not sure if it would work tho if you can't boot into the system.
your other hope is to flash the newer stock firmware file, and at least be able to boot into the newest stock ROM. after that you you wouldn't be able to S-OFF, but you could use the HTC unlock tool, and be able to root, and flash ROMs. if it comes to this, try the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1508406, dowloading the stock firmware file and flashing it as instructed there.
hopefully this helps ya.

Believe me it's not a software issue. It's a corrosion issue. You can load all the software you want and it will still mock you. The mytouch 3G slide acted the exact same way. Once brushed it with alcohol it worked like new.
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Ohgami_Ichiro said:
Believe me it's not a software issue. It's a corrosion issue. You can load all the software you want and it will still mock you. The mytouch 3G slide acted the exact same way. Once brushed it with alcohol it worked like new.
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yeah, i guess we were writing at the exact same time. i thought maybe it sounded like a bootloop, although you generally don't get bootloops if you haven't rooted and flashed something wrong. and water damage probably wouldn't lead to a software issue.
but anyway, hopefully the device can be made to work again. thanks for the tips!

htc evo shift touch screen [Q]

for a few weeks my touch screen been doing some weird stuff but now it works and i wanna know if thats going to happend again i put new roms it in it and wiped it so what do u guys think
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When you say weird stuff, is it like spazzing out and sensing touches everywhere? Mine is doing that

Mine things i'm constantly tapping on one part of the screen. It happens randomly too

My first shift fif that. Took it to the sprint store while it was messing up and the dude said mine was possesed and gave me a new one.
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baconspaceman said:
for a few weeks my touch screen been doing some weird stuff but now it works and i wanna know if thats going to happend again i put new roms it in it and wiped it so what do u guys think
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If the screen starts acting strange usually it's a Hardware issue. Best bet is to RUU back to stock to eliminate the possibility of it being the Rom. If the issue continues at that point, take it in and have them look at it. Always remember it's best to take your phone in Stock Unrooted . That way they cannot say it was something you did.

i've had 3 Shifts so far and i guess i'm lucky to have never had this happen to me! the only thing mine has ever done as far as the touchscreen goes is sometimes i'll get an error message saying "touch input has stopped functioning" or something like that. i have to restart and it's fine. i'd imagine these issues are covered by insurance.

S-Off breaking Vibration?

Hey Guys, I finally got my Sensation back from repair, of course its completely stock now. I sent it to repair because Vibration didn't worked anymore. I thought it could be possibly got cracked by myself applying s-off with junoptobear (i don't have any idea if its correctly written). Do you have any experience with that?
-xLychee
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Edit: My Sensation is a Vodafone Germany branded Device with ICS (4.0.3)

different roms have different settings for the vibration feedback, but if your on stock then maybe your phone is still broken? or it works fine now? also make sure haptic / vibrate feedback in settings is checked.

I think you got me wrong, it got repaired and its working now but I don't know how it broke. There are 2 reasons I could think of why vibration broke, the first one is that datrepair (german HTC repair partner) ****ed up the vibration while repairing the cracked screen on my device before it was rooted or myself applying s-off. I don't know if it worked before because I didn't really used the phone before.
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xLychee said:
I think you got me wrong, it got repaired and its working now but I don't know how it broke. There are 2 reasons I could think of why vibration broke, the first one is that datrepair (german HTC repair partner) ****ed up the vibration while repairing the cracked screen on my device before it was rooted or myself applying s-off. I don't know if it worked before because I didn't really used the phone before.
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I suspect it was the screen repair that caused the issue. I recently went through juopunutbear to S-OFF my replacement/replacement phone. I can't see how that process would have screwed it up.

No. S-off did not break your vibration.
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Skipjacks said:
No. S-off did not break your vibration.
Sent from your mom.
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May you tell me why you are completely sure about that? (at least it seems like you are)
-xLychee
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Vibration and haptic feedback is coded in kernel afaik.. And soff process don't touch that.. In fact soff only modifies bootloader and some flags to get permanent soff
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I thought it could've broken the hardware (the wire-trick). I did it like described on one of the pins and the sd casing (I'd say I did nothing wrong because it was s-off after that). So my exact question should be: Could the wire trick possibly damage the vibration motor? I'm sorry that I was not that precise.
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xLychee said:
I thought it could've broken the hardware (the wire-trick). I did it like described on one of the pins and the sd casing (I'd say I did nothing wrong because it was s-off after that). So my exact question should be: Could the wire trick possibly damage the vibration motor? I'm sorry that I was not that precise.
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the wire trick technically does grounding on that pin ..which takes the phone to download mode for some time after first tap and then back to normal with the next tap..thats all ..i dont see any way that can dmage the vibration motor ...and afaik i havent seen any facing this issue after SOFF

Thats what I wanted to know, thank you, I'll s-off my device again with no fear.
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I can confirm 100% that after screen change motor stop work in HTC Sensation. Maybe different part revision, wich i doubt is the case cuz replacement part is working fine and picture is perfect.
What is funny, i try fix this vibration problem after screen change for a few days now, replaced with new on PCB at the end just to see that it isnt workin again
By accident, when i got call i drop phone on table, maby 5cm height drop, and vibration start working for few sec then stop again, and it always go on if i hit phone at time when it should be working.
Still havent found solution to this.

POOF!

POOF!

I've been waiting for this. Thanks. I will report back soon! Downloading now. First!

motive said:
I've been waiting for this. Thanks. I will report back soon! Downloading now. First!
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Yea, it took a little longer than expected...due to my Dell crapping out on me...so I had to save up a few checks to get a new laptop
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troby86 said:
Yea, it took a little longer than expected...due to my Dell crapping out on me...so I had to save up a few checks to get a new laptop
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Awwww. I just had a similar experience. I dropped mine down a service elevator shaft... Don't ask. I still don't know how it happened. So far so good on the ROM. I'll tinker more in the morning.

Hi, not is just me but screenshot not working, power+home.
When doing the picture, the keyboard does not show smile icon etc, just dark keyboard. That's all I found so far

LOL I'm not sure I'm brave enough to be the first to try this out. XD

cat2115 said:
Hi, not is just me but screenshot not working, power+home.
When doing the picture, the keyboard does not show smile icon etc, just dark keyboard. That's all I found so far
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Screenshots work perfectly for me. I did notice that the keyboard smile icons were missing, I will look into that.
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Super_Dork_42 said:
LOL I'm not sure I'm brave enough to be the first to try this out. XD
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Its safe to flash, I've been running it for about 6 hours now.
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troby86 said:
Its safe to flash, I've been running it for about 6 hours now.
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I just meant that I've been out of the flashing scene for about a year until recently and this phone has a different method, plus the fact that it took me 2 days to get everything backed up, set back up how I like, etc. I've lost my nerve I guess. I used to be a serial flasher of roms back in the Eris days. New rom that nobody's tried yet? Sure thing. These days I'm even hesitant to flash something if it's tried and true and nobody is seeing any problems. Plus the fact that my hardware is messed up. (I dropped it in water twice by accident and the screen also broke in a separate incident)

Super_Dork_42 said:
I just meant that I've been out of the flashing scene for about a year until recently and this phone has a different method, plus the fact that it took me 2 days to get everything backed up, set back up how I like, etc. I've lost my nerve I guess. I used to be a serial flasher of roms back in the Eris days. New rom that nobody's tried yet? Sure thing. These days I'm even hesitant to flash something if it's tried and true and nobody is seeing any problems. Plus the fact that my hardware is messed up. (I dropped it in water twice by accident and the screen also broke in a separate incident)
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Damn, still working after water twice, nice! Just do a backup before, so if you don't like it, you can restore everything you had. And, if your S-ON, remember to flash boot.img separately.
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troby86 said:
Damn, still working after water twice, nice! Just do a backup before, so if you don't like it, you can restore everything you had. And, if your S-ON, remember to flash boot.img separately.
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Yeah, it's a good thing I always keep rice in the house in easy reach. But the phone is fine except that neither camera works. Pretty annoying seeing as the camera is so awesome on the HOS.

Will be definitely trying this, I was wondering, you think this might help my losing signal issues, getting the X all the time it's driving me nuts lol. I am with Cincinnati Bell but i think they work through T-mobile. Anyway thanks for this bud much appreciated.

ROM looks great man, downloading now and will flash tomorrow. Hope I don't have the WiFi issue anymore, reaaally wanna use this

I'm having the same gps problem I have with Viper; when you go to a site thru Chrome that desires location access, gps never turns on! It turns on for Maps and other things when you test it, but not through Chrome. Browser works tho, strangely...

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I'm having the same gps problem I have with Viper; when you go to a site thru Chrome that desires location access, gps never turns on! It turns on for Maps and other things when you test it, but not through Chrome. Browser works tho, strangely...
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Sounds like a Chrome issue maybe. I haven't touched any GPS items yet, so its either Chrome, or something T-Mobile jacked up.
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I just did another clean flash and i still can't get screenshot to work (power+home). I tried [ROM][S4][MAY8]V1.6 T-Mobile HTC One S JellyBean Stock/Rooted/deodexed/ and screenshot work. Then I did another clean flash (full wipe) of your ROM, screenshot still not working.

cat2115 said:
I just did another clean flash and i still can't get screenshot to work (power+home). I tried [ROM][S4][MAY8]V1.6 T-Mobile HTC One S JellyBean Stock/Rooted/deodexed/ and screenshot work. Then I did another clean flash (full wipe) of your ROM, screenshot still not working.
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Are you pressing it quickly or holding it for a few seconds. Mine works perfectly, but you should be pressing Power+Volume Down, which is stock for this ROM.
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I think I may have found the issue with Chrome...I believe I deleted a ChromeBackgroundSync apk on accident. This may be causing the issue...maybe not, but I'll put it back and test. If it works I'll release an update tonight...if I'm not lost in Double XP Weekend on Black Ops 2
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troby86 said:
Are you pressing it quickly or holding it for a few seconds. Mine works perfectly, but you should be pressing Power+Volume Down, which is stock for this ROM.
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Thank you. It works with Power+vol down. i did try power+vol down but not work cuz i press power then vol+down, I should have press power and vol down at same time. dumb me.

Anyone having an issue with web page links in text messages FCing the messaging app?