Hi all,
So the history is I had CyanogenMod6 on my Desire and was using OsmAnd in the car with the car charger plugged in. The phone reset so I started it again, reopened OsmAnd, then it crashed again. It stopped on the HTC white logo so I removed the charger and weirdly it then booted. When it crashed a third time then it stopped on the white HTC logo and wouldn't go further, regardless of whether the charger was in or out.
I've tried removing the battery etc, but that made no difference.
I've now flashed back to the 2.29 RUU using PB99IMG.zip on the goldcard. This loads fine and all is well, but then every now and again it resets and sticks on the HTC screen again. Also I turned it off once to put my normal SD card back in, and restarting it gave me the white HTC screen. Huh??
Can anyone help please? I need this phone for work and having it die on me and needing an RUU reset (so ALL my data is wiped) is a proper pita.
Thanks.
The problem is the following: suddenly the device froze, and I waited quite alot before pulling out the battery. After that it would not start: it showed the HTC logo, over a white background, then, a black background with a sound and that was it.
I triede to reset it contless times withh no succes.
So I went into bootloader and made a factory reset, it worked but again the phone froze completely. What do I do now?
Edit - new info: now sometimes it starts after it freezes, and sometimes I have to pull out the battery, something is definetely wrong here...
Have try to flash ruu
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No, I haven't tried to flash any RUU, I'm on the original ROM.
No more frezes since last freeze last night an hour after i started this topic; I reinstalled some apps but not as much as before; hope I'm lucky and things stay like this....
Anyone else had problems similar to this?
j1mmy said:
The problem is the following: suddenly the device froze, and I waited quite alot before pulling out the battery. After that it would not start: it showed the HTC logo, over a white background, then, a black background with a sound and that was it.
I triede to reset it contless times withh no succes.
So I went into bootloader and made a factory reset, it worked but again the phone froze completely. What do I do now?
Edit - new info: now sometimes it starts after it freezes, and sometimes I have to pull out the battery, something is definetely wrong here...
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Exactly the same thing happened to mine this morning - it froze during normal operation (after six weeks of perfect use) I had no response to hardware buttons or screen touches so I was forced to remove the battery in order to reboot it.
It then would boot but each time would stick at the white htc logo screen and then the screen would timeout.
I was dreading that I'd have to try a hard reset just after I'd finally set the phone up as I like it.
so I removed the sd card from the device and rebooted by removing the battery once again
the device then booted normally, so I did a controlled power off, replaced the sd card and it booted fine.
Thankfully all fine so far (two hours later) fingers crossed.
The application that I was using when the device hung was a streaming digital radio apps that was located on the sd card.
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j1mmy said:
The problem is the following: suddenly the device froze, and I waited quite alot before pulling out the battery. After that it would not start: it showed the HTC logo, over a white background, then, a black background with a sound and that was it.
I triede to reset it contless times withh no succes.
So I went into bootloader and made a factory reset, it worked but again the phone froze completely. What do I do now?
Edit - new info: now sometimes it starts after it freezes, and sometimes I have to pull out the battery, something is definetely wrong here...
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The absolutely same symptoms. DS hangs installing new app. Has carried it in service-center. Now I wait for diagnostics results
Did you try to remove the sd card?
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For sure.
After the first hangup I have taken out the battery. Then DS hung again showing the HTC logo, over a white background. Then SIM has been removed. SIM were the first suspect. At the very first day of owning DS I have been forced to get new SIM card from mobile provider. Previous card was quite new, only one year old and works normally in Xperia X1i and other phones, but doesn't recognized in DS).
Finally, when I delivered phone in service-center, it was without the SIM and without SDHC cards, but all problems were the same.
Dare I ask was what was the application that you installed?
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ReadItLater, but I think that it is simple coincidence. Phone wasn't started even when I managed to make factory reset (Volume Down+Power). After that phone wasn't launched any more.
Needed Hard Reset!
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Removing both cards solved it for me today
The frequency of the reboots on mine increased and today it crashed. Hard reset brings it to the white screen + htc logo but no further.
Tried with and without SIM Card, with and without SD card. The only way it will get past the white screen is with both cards removed but then of course, you get to the screen where it tells you to take insert a SIM Card. Doing so, turns the phone off again, but then (for me at least), it was OK to carry on with setting up the phone....which I am now doing...hope this isn't going to be a regular feature.
So far I've only got the stock ROM and nothing clever on it.
kc1 said:
The frequency of the reboots on mine increased and today it crashed. Hard reset brings it to the white screen + htc logo but no further.
Tried with and without SIM Card, with and without SD card. The only way it will get past the white screen is with both cards removed but then of course, you get to the screen where it tells you to take insert a SIM Card. Doing so, turns the phone off again, but then (for me at least), it was OK to carry on with setting up the phone....which I am now doing...hope this isn't going to be a regular feature.
So far I've only got the stock ROM and nothing clever on it.
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Blimey, thats doesn't sound good
This is the point where I had to perform my first hard reset to re-enable the device.
How many times has this happened to you now and in what timeframe? have you had to do a hard reset before now?
I'd consider getting a new replacement SIM card and even using a different SD card, just so that you can rule them both out of causing the problem and if it happens again then return the device and be confident that its at fault!
If you return the device currently the shop's bound to say that the problem is with SIM and/or SD!
I've had it about 2 months and the involuntary reboots must have happened about 8-10 times starting in a about week 2. A sort of partial reset happened about a week ago (wallpapers and app short cuts disappeared). Then the phone crashed today while dialling into voice mail (Vodafine UK), and rebooted into a black home screen that would report a com.<whatever> error if I tried to get into the settings, or run anything. It would let me power off, but the only way to invoke the hard reset was vol key down when powering up
Today has received the answer from the service center.
They didn't name the reason, but have told that it is a guarantee case. Have suggested to replace the motherboard.
HTC DESIRE S Factory reset doesnt work
Sorry I'm new to this forum:, Hi I need some help please. I managed to unlock boot loader, today than when I was trying to turn s-off. With cmd I wrote on C:\Android this command "fastboot flash boot boot.img" downloaded from dev website viva unsecured boot zip. than since than mobile doesn't restart it just goes on various colours (blue red purple) and freezes.
Can anyone help me please.
Thanks
Petrit
Petrit said:
Sorry I'm new to this forum:, Hi I need some help please. I managed to unlock boot loader, today than when I was trying to turn s-off. With cmd I wrote on C:\Android this command "fastboot flash boot boot.img" downloaded from dev website viva unsecured boot zip. than since than mobile doesn't restart it just goes on various colours (blue red purple) and freezes.
Can anyone help me please.
Thanks
Petrit
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did you flash a ROM? which one? did you wipe the phones partitions before the ROM flash via recovery?
Apologies if this has been asked before but I have had a look through and although there are similar threads nothing is quite the same.
HTC Desire s
This is my sons phone and is contract Vodafone
He reported that the phone was freezing and turning itself off
I did a quick look up and found the factory reset tips so told him to do this.
Using the volume down and power button brought up the menu but not exactly as described as it had no erase data tag, it did however have a factory restore tag so he used this.
the phone shut down ok but then on restart just kept starting to the HTC quietly brilliant screen, made its jingle then displayed the vodafone screen, then after about five seconds turned itself off and then on then the same again. Not wishing to disturb the process and assuming it may do this a few times I told him just to leave it doing its thing. It continued to do this all night (12 hours).
In the end the battery was removed, reinserted then switched on. All looked good when the PAYG/contract screen came on and it proceeded through all the first time screens but then it froze, turned itself off and started doing the loop again with HTC quietly brilliant, then Vodafone then off.
this went on for ages, occasionally going as far as the phones home screen then repeating.
have now tried the factory reset again, taken out the SD card, removed the sim card and although it has slowed the process down it is still repeating and never going beyond the Vodafone symbol.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Many thank's Ian
Update to this, when the battery is removed and reinserted now without the SD and sim, the phone is turned on, it will go as far as the no sim inserted screen, if you then slide the bar down to unlock it goes to the White screen with HTC on then after a few minutes turns off, turns back on, does its jingle then Vodafone screen.
Please help as it appears my sons life has ended and the whole world has crashed.
Further update
Got message
the process com.htc.bg has stoped unexpectedly.
Does that mean no one can help?
Looks like time to send it back to the professionals.
Hello, I just installed cleanrom 3.2 and after reboot I added google account opened youtube app and added account then scrolled thru some vids untill the whole thing froze, rebooted itself, got stuck at "Android is upgrading... Camera Firmware updating 0%". I hard rebooted and it completed the firmware upgrade and loaded. I tried to swipe around to see the apps and it froze again and rebooted again but froze at the X splash screen, dimmed and then screen went dark. I hard reboot again and it loads but when I press google icon it reboots again.... I guess I could go on and on like this all night but I guess I'll try cleanrom 3.1 or maybe someone knows what the problem is or a fix.
oh good, there is no 3.1...
reinstalled and just left it alone and without doing anything it rebooted itself.
I was using my phone this morning and I opened up chrome. As soon as I did that my phone restarted. I did a soft reset and it took me to an AT&T app page. I think it was something like Ready 2 Go(Not entirely sure of the name), and it said to press continue which showed me a Google setting page telling me I had turned off location tracking. I turned it on and went back to chrome (probably a mistake). It started restarting again, and it would take a few restarts before I got the screen, but then it went back to looping after 30 seconds, and I haven't seen the screen since. I already factory reset, and I tried recovery mode which showed me a red triangle ! icon. I have a Mac, and someone told me to plug my phone into the computer, but I want to make sure I know where to go from before I do that. Can anyone help?