I have an HTC Shift that is now a replacement phone Sprint sent because the other Shift bricked on a OTA update. The phone itself looks brand new. (we have had it since Apriil) The problem with the phone is that it will never charge the battery. I actually have 3 spare batteries so in total 4 batteries are charged to 100% but as soon as I put them into the Shift device the battery status will range from 0% to 8% an occassionally will charge to 12% but no higher. If I take the battery out and put it into another HTC it will show 95% or better as charged - to be clear this is the same battery that just seconds before registered 12% or less.
I've tried everything. I've changed Roms (the good thing about this is that I can tell you the ins and outs on about 12 different Roms and kernels now) I've changed up kernels. I installed Bettery Battery, battery calibration tools, spare parts...booted it up empty, let it stay off and "charge" all night, on and charge all night, factory reset, everything but RUU because it just won't do it and HTC update, won't do that either because of the battery being below 30%.
OK, so you say - take it back to Sprint and get a new one - can't do that because I can't unroot it with the RUU as it still shows s-off -
I'm brain dead on this one.
I'm not a newbie at this. I've rooted several phones, HTC, LG, Palm Pre, even turned the Palm Pixie to a wifi goddess in it's day by switching out the radio(you know). I've jailbroke the Iphone and Ipad. Rooted my Thrive and turned a pandigital into a sweet little android.
I don't want to take the phone back like it is. I want to figure out what the heck is the issue. (i know...i know) When I plug the phone in the led comes on as though it is charging but it never charges...any ideas? you know it's probably something simple and I've just fried my brain at this point. Any ideas? Anybody??
Thanks in advance for any input, ideas or helpful tips!
Sondee
We be - Riding With The Nerd Herd
I'm no expert on this, but if i were you i'd just brick the thing and take it to sprint.
jesuscash said:
I'm no expert on this, but if i were you i'd just brick the thing and take it to sprint.
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Excellent advice... FAIL... COME ON MAN...
Make sure you are wiping the system partition as well... Going from sense to aosp needs a thorough system (not data) wipe... To wipe system, it's located in mounts and storage in recovery if using cwm...
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My girlfriend's phone has the EXACT SAME ISSUE. No idea how to fix, I figure there's a contact or sensor hw at fault. It's not ROM specific, flashing a new rom won't make a diff. As soon as the gf or I get a new phone, I'll mess with the device itself.
Best advice - return it!
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My girlfriend's phone has the EXACT SAME ISSUE. No idea how to fix, I figure there's a contact or sensor hw at fault. It's not ROM specific, flashing a new rom won't make a diff. As soon as the gf or I get a new phone, I'll mess with the device itself.
Best advice - return it!
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Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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Been there.....not fun at first, but once CS knew I knew more than they did it was no longer an issue to have my account credited for the service I WASN'T getting. Most ever off was 165 from a 180 dollar bill
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Been there.....not fun at first, but once CS knew I knew more than they did it was no longer an issue to have my account credited for the service I WASN'T getting. Most ever off was 165 from a 180 dollar bill
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Well that's a lot of money. When i was buying the Evo LTE i didn't know i would have to give them my phone and so when she asked for it i was like ummm... I need to go home and do something real quick. She gave me a weird like and ask what i need to do and told her that i can't say. I think she knew i was rooted cause she told me i won't get in trouble but i just was like nope i don't want a flagged account so i'll be back in 30 minutes. She gave up at that point
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Well that's a lot of money. When i was buying the Evo LTE i didn't know i would have to give them my phone and so when she asked for it i was like ummm... I need to go home and do something real quick. She gave me a weird like and ask what i need to do and told her that i can't say. I think she knew i was rooted cause she told me i won't get in trouble but i just was like nope i don't want a flagged account so i'll be back in 30 minutes. She gave up at that point
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How I got stuck was I was having like extremely poor service and was waiting on a call back from them, and through reading what people said about them never calling I thought I was safe, about 30 minutes after I flashed cm7 a rep called and wanted me to go into epst and at that time I was so new to being a rooted user I had no idea it wasn't in aosp. So I tried the ## code and when she asked what happened I said nothing she said ok hang on while I flag your account. My first words to the rep was are you fu**ing kidden me! So I stabbed back by tethering to my ps3 while playing Modern Warfare lol
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Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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So...unroot before taking. As it says, there's an issue with reading the battery correctly. It's charging the battery, because when it goes into another phone, it shows the correct percentage.
It -has- to be a hardware issue. Unroot, RUU, whatever... there isn't an easy fix for this without messing with the hardware (which will likely result in ruining the device).
If the flex cables were shot, you'd all recommend the same thing. What's the difference with this?
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O.k. so I totally bricked my Inspire. I tried to partition my device with CWM via the ROM manager, and apparently there is/was a bug in it that gave it a bad repartition. This completely bricks the phone (and has been discussed widely on the Desire forums).
So can AT&T tell, will they even look. The phone has absolutely no reactions to any button, they would have to maybe re-flash it just to get it to boot. Will they look for a hardware fault, will they simply determine it was a critical failure and replace the guts and put it back into referb stock. How much actual time do you think they would put into researching/validating?
Sure on a semi functional phone they check s-off and firmware versions, but there is no access to that info on this phone in this case. I know there are no guarantees, but what are your experiences?
sell the phone as is (bricked) and buy new?
I am running leedroid as well... (I read your post) and I didnt even fool with anything more than installing the ROM.... I tried the radio flash through ROM manager gtg download section, but it didnt work.. you know I have great data speeds and good phone quality, I'm not gonna risk bricking my phone because I wann "try" to get better speed.. when infact it might get worse..
I remember back in my g1 days people used the excuse that they was updating the phone and it got stuck..maybe that will work since there is an update still going around
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O.k. so I totally bricked my Inspire. I tried to partition my device with CWM via the ROM manager, and apparently there is/was a bug in it that gave it a bad repartition. This completely bricks the phone (and has been discussed widely on the Desire forums).
So can AT&T tell, will they even look. The phone has absolutely no reactions to any button, they would have to maybe re-flash it just to get it to boot. Will they look for a hardware fault, will they simply determine it was a critical failure and replace the guts and put it back into referb stock. How much actual time do you think they would put into researching/validating?
Sure on a semi functional phone they check s-off and firmware versions, but there is no access to that info on this phone in this case. I know there are no guarantees, but what are your experiences?
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just bring it in tell them you was doing the OTA update and now it won't boot up or anything
boufa said:
O.k. so I totally bricked my Inspire. I tried to partition my device with CWM via the ROM manager, and apparently there is/was a bug in it that gave it a bad repartition. This completely bricks the phone (and has been discussed widely on the Desire forums).
So can AT&T tell, will they even look. The phone has absolutely no reactions to any button, they would have to maybe re-flash it just to get it to boot. Will they look for a hardware fault, will they simply determine it was a critical failure and replace the guts and put it back into referb stock. How much actual time do you think they would put into researching/validating?
Sure on a semi functional phone they check s-off and firmware versions, but there is no access to that info on this phone in this case. I know there are no guarantees, but what are your experiences?
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Really? Far as I know ROM Manager only sets up partitioning for SDCARDS, not the device.
Can you point me to the other threads that discuss this in more accurate detail, because I can't find them with my evidently feeble search ability?
Its in desire HD forum somewhere, supposedly koush fixed it with the new clockwork recoverys, but there is LOTS of bricks in that thread. I think he was using an old script for repartitioning, and it was calling the wrong partitions to repartition. I believe it was supposed to repartition the external SD which would be dev/block/mmcblk0 on a g1 or older phones, but on our phones that happens to be internal flash memory, which results in unrecoverable brick.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1043160
di11igaf said:
Its in desire HD forum somewhere, supposedly koush fixed it with the new clockwork recoverys, but there is LOTS of bricks in that thread. I think he was using an old script for repartitioning, and it was calling the wrong partitions to repartition. I believe it was supposed to repartition the external SD which would be dev/block/mmcblk0 on a g1 or older phones, but on our phones that happens to be internal flash memory, which results in unrecoverable brick.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1043160
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Cut the USB Cable Strip the wires on the end. Plug the micro end into the phone attach a battary charger to the wires flip switch. let it cook for a few. Unhook it and return it. Toasty. This is fraud, but you are talking that anyways... ...
I bricked my Aria trying to flash a new Rom. Since it was still under the limited warranty, I called HTC. They give you a tracking number, you send it in, and they diagnose it. If it falls under the warranty then they repair it free. Otherwise if there is water damage or physical damage they'll tell you the cost to repair it or you can just have them send it back to you with no repair, but with a $39 charge. If your Inspire does not turn on at all then you should have no problem getting it repaired. Good luck
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Cut the USB Cable Strip the wires on the end. Plug the micro end into the phone attach a battary charger to the wires flip switch. let it cook for a few. Unhook it and return it. Toasty. This is fraud, but you are talking that anyways... ...
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Instead of trying to return the phone, why doesn't the OP find someone locally who he can pay to fix it? I had a similar screw up last fall, when I was trying to root my Droid X. I found a "for real" cell phone repair man and he fixed it for me. Cost me $40.00, and the guy gave me a finger wagging lecture on the dangers of rooting your phone. Since I had by that time figured out what I had done wrong, I took the repaired phone home and rooted it correctly, and it's still running fine today.
There *has* to be a shop or a person in the same city as the OP who can fix that phone for a fee, and that's the better solution. Yeah, it costs money, but it's also a case of "You broke it, YOU fix it".
-Mike
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Instead of trying to return the phone, why doesn't the OP find someone locally who he can pay to fix it? I had a similar screw up last fall, when I was trying to root my Droid X. I found a "for real" cell phone repair man and he fixed it for me. Cost me $40.00, and the guy gave me a finger wagging lecture on the dangers of rooting your phone. Since I had by that time figured out what I had done wrong, I took the repaired phone home and rooted it correctly, and it's still running fine today.
There *has* to be a shop or a person in the same city as the OP who can fix that phone for a fee, and that's the better solution. Yeah, it costs money, but it's also a case of "You broke it, YOU fix it".
-Mike
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Who knows what the the OP is going to do? Yer suggestion is a good one if he doesn't live in BFE Oklahoma...I do not suggest he commit fraud. But I love when ppl fry stuff with battery chargers.
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Who knows what the the OP is going to do? Yer suggestion is a good one if he doesn't live in BFE Oklahoma...I do not suggest he commit fraud. But I love when ppl fry stuff with battery chargers.
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LOL! I need to clarify something - I wasn't trying to direct any criticism towards you or any of the other posters, I just hit "quote", and yours was the last post. The thing that gets me personally upset is the people who post on this and other forums, saying that their rooting or ram installation froze their phone, they think they bricked it, and now they want to give it back to AT&T or Verizon and claim it's defective.
Nowhere is there a *hint* of "can someone help me find a shop in Baltimore, Maryland who I can pay to fix my phone?" - not a thought of "Well, *I* screwed up, so I guess this is going to cost me some money to fix". They seem to feel that rooting their phone (which voids their warranty) falls under an "accepted use" exception and that the service provider is obligated to give them a new phone for free, in a kind of "do over".
When I bricked my Droid X last fall, I knew that I'd screwed-up big time, but it never entered my mind to take it back to Verizon and claim it was a defective phone. The thing was fine out the box, Verizon and Motorola didn't screw up, *I* did. But that's just me, and where I'm coming from.
-Mike
Mike ur a good man. I feel ya. I was flashing my vibrant and while it was writing system,it died. It wouldn't do anything and was totally bricked. So I decided to work with it instead of blaming the companies. Finally I learned odin and managed to salvage the device.
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Who knows what the the OP is going to do? Yer suggestion is a good one if he doesn't live in BFE Oklahoma...I do not suggest he commit fraud. But I love when ppl fry stuff with battery chargers.
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Haha def from BFE Oklahoma haha...
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mattmiller said:
Mike ur a good man. I feel ya. I was flashing my vibrant and while it was writing system,it died. It wouldn't do anything and was totally bricked. So I decided to work with it instead of blaming the companies. Finally I learned odin and managed to salvage the device.
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Do you have a link or any odin reference info
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...The thing was fine out the box, Verizon and Motorola didn't screw up, *I* did. But that's just me, and where I'm coming from.
-Mike
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You're speaking of a concept that is all but lost these days, that being personal responsibility. It's big brother accountability was killed same 10+ years ago.
Folks don't like when the consequences of their choices bring an undesired result. I could go on and on bu I'll end the beginnings of a rant right here.
Tx
Go to the vibrant forums,look in stickies.
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Do you have a link or any odin reference info
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mattmiller said:
Mike ur a good man. I feel ya. I was flashing my vibrant and while it was writing system,it died. It wouldn't do anything and was totally bricked. So I decided to work with it instead of blaming the companies. Finally I learned odin and managed to salvage the device.
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Well, that's my point - there was no indication that the OP made any effort what so ever to fix it himself, or to pay someone to do it, if he couldn't. It came across as "Damn! Well, back to AT&T for a replacement." Personal Responsibility...
-Mike
Some people in this thread give me hope. Personal responsibility is all but lost these days and its good to see people offer good suggestions. Mine would be follow the golden rule. Trust me when I say no one hates ATT more than I, but still. Not saying anything about the op, just sayin.
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Cut the USB Cable Strip the wires on the end. Plug the micro end into the phone attach a battary charger to the wires flip switch. let it cook for a few. Unhook it and return it. Toasty. This is fraud, but you are talking that anyways... ...
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Lithium Ion batteries have pre-programmed circuitry in them that measures the range of current. If current outside of the pre-programmed range is introduced, it simply will not charge.
So...with that said, the only way to make this method work, is to use...say...a car battery charger. Something that will spike the current at least 5 to 6 times higher than that of the battery. Otherwise the circuitry in the battery will simply stop it, and allow it to "pass-through."
Now...while we are on the subject of fraud and "frying" electronics... Put it in a microwave for LITERALLY 2 seconds. Anymore than that, and you WILL be caught once the device is inspected. This is not enough to melt any circuitry on the phone at all, nor harm anything physically. The microwave essentially is like hitting the device with an EMP. ;-) (EMP = Electro Magnetic Pulse)
tribalartgod said:
Lithium Ion batteries have pre-programmed circuitry in them that measures the range of current. If current outside of the pre-programmed range is introduced, it simply will not charge.
So...with that said, the only way to make this method work, is to use...say...a car battery charger. Something that will spike the current at least 5 to 6 times higher than that of the battery. Otherwise the circuitry in the battery will simply stop it, and allow it to "pass-through."
Now...while we are on the subject of fraud and "frying" electronics... Put it in a microwave for LITERALLY 2 seconds. Anymore than that, and you WILL be caught once the device is inspected. This is not enough to melt any circuitry on the phone at all, nor harm anything physically. The microwave essentially is like hitting the device with an EMP. ;-) (EMP = Electro Magnetic Pulse)
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Yeah, a car battery charger. What other kind of battery charger would you attach to bare stripped wires? Lol
Ok so today I mow my yard and I plug in my Thunderbolt in to the USB charger on my PC when I come inside my phone is bootlooping. So I think ok whatever I will flash one of the many backup's I made.
So I pull the battery and boot into the bootloader, then when I go into recovery after about 2 seconds the phone powers off and starts bootlooping again??? Ok that's a first for me and I have been flashing and rooting since launch day of the OG Droid, (ok, ok not since the first day but like a month later). So I pull the battery again this time for 30 minutes because I read someone else had something like this happen yesterday. When I put the battery back in same thing! Now I pull the battery for 4 hours...same outcome.
Now I'm thinking RUU time so I grab the stock RUU pull the SD card from my Thunderbolt pop it in my Incredible load the RUU renamed to PG05IMG.zip and put it back in the Thunderbolt. Load the bootloader and flash the RUU. Reboot after it's done and would you believe it...the same thing! the phone won't load past the splash screen before rebooting.
I forgot to mention before trying all this I tried using adb to reboot into recovery and I kept getting "error: device not found" and I know how to use adb.
It's only been about 9 hours since I've been able to use my 2.3.4 GingerBread with parts of 3.0 Sense Thunderbolt and I already having withdrawals how am I going to make the next 2 to 3 weeks while it's being repaired???
Ok end rant...
Go to verizon, swap it for a new one. Warranty case for sure.
bilbobrian said:
Go to verizon, swap it for a new one. Warranty case for sure.
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Thanks, but I rooted it, therefore I have no warranty. I knew the chance I was taking when I rooted it so I'm paying for it to be repaired.
I'm loosing faith in the Thunderbolt. I really feel we are all just a bunch of beta testers.
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I'm loosing faith in the Thunderbolt. I really feel we are all just a bunch of beta testers.
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Huh? Off topic and makes no sense.
//Tap'd on my TBolt while grounded\\
bp328i said:
Thanks, but I rooted it, therefore I have no warranty. I knew the chance I was taking when I rooted it so I'm paying for it to be repaired.
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I understand your rooted but if it cant boot up then there is a problem. Just go to verizon and show them. Once they see it cant boot properly they will exchange it or overnight one to you.
I apologize if Im missing something..
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Thanks, but I rooted it, therefore I have no warranty. I knew the chance I was taking when I rooted it so I'm paying for it to be repaired.
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You may get away with getting it swapped through warranty. But I can't promise you it won't come back at you. Someone may have a solution for you though. Wouldn't give up yet. Sorry I don't.
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Huh? Off topic and makes no sense.
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*Shrug*
He has a problem, I do too. We both own Thunderbolts. Maybe I should have been more specific.
To each his own. The end.
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*Shrug*
He has a problem, I do too. We both own Thunderbolts. Maybe I should have been more specific.
To each his own. The end.
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Well then relate your problem with his. Just saying "your losing faith in Thunderbolt" tells me nothing. Don't mean to sound like an a$$, just saying. When I read your first comment I got nothing from it.
That being said...I haven't been a Bolt owner for long, but it does seem like a strange issue. You would think flashing a radio or backup would resolve the issue. But hasn't.
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Definitely sounds like a Warranty Issue. I'd try to get it exchanged if no one can come up for a solution to the problem.
I had a G1 back in the day that had some odd problem and I was rooted, Tmo looked at it and wouldn't touch it. So, I called HTC. I told them that I purchased the phone off Craigslist so Tmo couldn't help me, and asked how the warranty works on their end. They said that since the production of the phone started less than a year ago, they knew it was still eligible for warranty even without a receipt. There would be a triage fee if it was found to be a non-warranty issue, and it was something like $40 including the shipping back. I acted dumb when they asked if it was rooted...asked them what that meant? LOL. Sent it in, they fixed it and sent it back to me, no charge. Fast too. I was very happy and that is why I have stuck with HTC since then. It may or may not work for you, but it was painless for me.
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Thanks, but I rooted it, therefore I have no warranty. I knew the chance I was taking when I rooted it so I'm paying for it to be repaired.
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Such chivalry is rare in these days.
Applaud. Best of luck!
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Thanks, but I rooted it, therefore I have no warranty. I knew the chance I was taking when I rooted it so I'm paying for it to be repaired.
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They don't care. Take my word for it. If it never boots they won't care.
I'm actually having this exact same issue. Has anyone found a solution yet or is the only solution to have the phone replaced?
Wow. I thought for sure hbooting the unsigned stock RUU would fix this. How about hbooting a signed ruu? It wouldn't hurt at this point.
Also make sure when you renamed the pgimg05. Zip that there was nothing at the end of the extention. I've heard some people say that windows has been known not to show that full file extension correctly.
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Wow. I thought for sure hbooting the unsigned stock RUU would fix this. How about hbooting a signed ruu? It wouldn't hurt at this point.
Also make sure when you renamed the pgimg05. Zip that there was nothing at the end of the extention. I've heard some people say that windows has been known not to show that full file extension correctly.
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I thought hbooting the stock RUU would fix it as well, and yep it was named correctly. It's funny because it would stay on the hboot screen as long as I let it with no issue what so ever but within 2 seconds of going into recovery it would reboot.
I went back to Best Buy today as that is where I bought it to see how much they would charge to ship it out to be fixed. The mobile manager remembered me because I was 1st on the pre-order list. (I'm sure we all remember the train wreck the Best Buy pre-orders became) So any way he really went out of his way to help me. He said he has had 3 other Thunderbolts brought in for the same issue. He was able to send my phone in under their Black Tie program.
I told him I rooted the phone and was willing to pay for the repairs but he said he was pretty sure that the other 3 phones were not rooted. He said that he knew FOR SURE that at least one of the phones was not rooted because the lady that owned it did not have any branches in her family tree, (his words not mine). Since he has seen it 3 times he was not charging me. He only asked that I had the stock hboot on the phone. I had already flashed that in my attempt to get it running.
I'm with cstrife, I managed to destroy my tab with a mix of flashing and charging via outlets in India. It bootlooped for a while then just kind of gave up and began to display a strange download screen when I plugged it in to charge. I brought it to VZW and played stupid, I told them I woke up and it had this weird screen... I had a brand new one at my door the next morning and haven't heard a word from them... It probably just costs more to check it out deep enough to find out its rooted than it does to just give you a refurbished one, gut swap yours, and then send to someone else as a refurbished one...
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Had this happen to me and just pulled my SD card, rebooted and it was fine. Not saying it will work for u but give it a shot.
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I thought hbooting the stock RUU would fix it as well, and yep it was named correctly. It's funny because it would stay on the hboot screen as long as I let it with no issue what so ever but within 2 seconds of going into recovery it would reboot.
I went back to Best Buy today as that is where I bought it to see how much they would charge to ship it out to be fixed. The mobile manager remembered me because I was 1st on the pre-order list. (I'm sure we all remember the train wreck the Best Buy pre-orders became) So any way he really went out of his way to help me. He said he has had 3 other Thunderbolts brought in for the same issue. He was able to send my phone in under their Black Tie program.
I told him I rooted the phone and was willing to pay for the repairs but he said he was pretty sure that the other 3 phones were not rooted. He said that he knew FOR SURE that at least one of the phones was not rooted because the lady that owned it did not have any branches in her family tree, (his words not mine). Since he has seen it 3 times he was not charging me. He only asked that I had the stock hboot on the phone. I had already flashed that in my attempt to get it running.
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Honesty turned out to be the best policy in this case. Congrats.
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MrHawaii said:
Honesty turned out to be the best policy in this case. Congrats.
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Thanks, now I just have to wait 2 to 3 weeks to get it back. What to do with all that time!!!
My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
Help! Same problem
I have no power to the device. Tmobile sent me a new sensation but i would like to try and fix the old one before i send it back, only have 5 more days.
Its not the battery or the sd since they both work fine in new phone.
Windows reads the same thing when on usb. No drivers. No power No nothing????
Can anyone help please or am i done for?
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My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
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Could you explain what you did to cause this? I really hope you were messing with things other than what most people have done, otherwise, this could be a real problem for the rest of us.
Matt
Yes i would also like toknow what You did please
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Could you explain what you did to cause this? I really hope you were messing with things other than what most people have done, otherwise, this could be a real problem for the rest of us.
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If you did brick there is a thred in the dev's that can and will show you how to unbrick and you can shop and decide on witch Rom you won't to go with look at it this way you have the best of both worlds good luck
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Had an issue today similar to yours, unlocked the bootloader today and kept the stock rom. Tonight I started deleting the bloatware, mainly using root explorer, no issues really. Used titanium backup to "force remove by exploit" I think its called. Did that and phone went black, tried powering back on, pulled battery etc, nada.
Ended up plugging device to usb charger and booted into bootloader, rebooted from there and its fine.
I ran into this tonight. See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
Short story -- Clockwork Recovery is bugged and won't charge the phone. Your battery level is too low to power on, so you need to use another method to get some power into it.
I did this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15034469/tmp/recovery_fail.jpg
And yeah it's a lame problem.
Ahh, so this is not really a bricked phone, but a case of CWM dead battery! Good to know, as its an "easy" fix then. I was afraid that the phone, simply S-off and perm rooted, had somehow crashed permanently.
Matt
Straight Bricked
For me its not the battery, when tmobile sent me a new sensation i used my old battery, sdcard and sim and the battery still had around a 75% charge. I cant boot from usb i cant do anything. Its completely dead.
As for what i did?
I had been flashing multiple roms and kernels for 2 weeks. Overclocking, undervloting bla bla. No issues a wipe and flash couldnt take care of. I think i did a wipe and flash of a new rom and thats it. Dead. Wish i could remember exactly what it was. I guess im gonna mail it back since i have a new one and probably get charged full retail if they see its s-off and root.
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I had been flashing multiple roms and kernels for 2 weeks. Overclocking, undervloting bla bla. No issues a wipe and flash couldnt take care of. I think i did a wipe and flash of a new rom and thats it. Dead. Wish i could remember exactly what it was. I guess im gonna mail it back since i have a new one and probably get charged full retail if they see its s-off and root.
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Ahh..So it wasnt the silly CWM ordeal then. That sucks!
Try to pinpoint what you were doing right before this happened. Were you wiping something? (what were you wiping) Were you flashing a ROM? (What were to flashing)
Try to provide more details, as I am sure some of the devs here will be looking to jump all over it shortly.
EDIT: Were to making sure to check that the ROM you were flashing was meant for your version of the phone as well as the files not corrupted? I know it sounds silly, but its something to rule out.
Matt
happened to me too on two batteries. I believe that it is due to overclocking the cpu. because the battery stats are calibrated for a slower CPU speed, it drains it past the failsafe point to pure failure. CWM will recognize CPU for the given ROM. i flashed back to S-ON and regular RUU 1.29 and charging my batteries again for the correct CPU + battery stats. wish me best of luck
Wow, am i that stupid
Not positive but i think i figured out what i did. Something really stupid.
I think i flashed: [Desire] InsertCoin CM7/STOCK 1.1.0
So am i fully bricked?
Gotta put the phone in the mail tomorrow.
Do you think they will see that its s-off or if its (truly) bricked can they not?
Nino
blackstarnino said:
Not positive but i think i figured out what i did. Something really stupid.
I think i flashed: [Desire] InsertCoin CM7/STOCK 1.1.0
So am i fully bricked?
Gotta put the phone in the mail tomorrow.
Do you think they will see that its s-off or if its (truly) bricked can they not?
Nino
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They'll know....
actually... having worked in a few cell phone repair / refurbish facilities... i can tell you that they won't even look. they just plug the phone up to their bench and it overides everything and does a fresh flash. from there they just replace plastics to make it look like a brand new phone. if they are unable to flash it at the bench, they replace internals. so relax... no one will know or care what you did to it. these places get thousands of phones a day. and each tech at the bench has a quota to get through.
Thanks for your feedback guys. Shipping it off now...
Still cant believe it. Still have my n1 from launch day and it took everything i could throw at it. Still kicking like a beast. **** my g1 is still running cm4 i think lol.
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My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
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I'm in the same situation. This sucks. I tried to get back S-ON. Did you receive a new phone?
So you flashed a desire ROM.... Well no ****...
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So my wife is out of town and i just got a frantic call from her on her moms phone telling me that her Inspire is constantly been shutting down.
We live in Texas and she's visiting family in Ft. Lauderdale since before Christmas. She's said since she's been there that the phone has been acting wonky, but starting today the phone will not stay powered on when not on the charger.
When it's on the charger she says she has 80% battery life, but when she unplugs it and tries to do something with it the phone powers down.
She's done the battery pulls, she's cleared the cache and removed unnecessary apps. I'm really not sure what to tell her other than go to AT&T and get a different battery, and fi that does't work - plug it into your laptop, copy all of your pictures and necessary data then do a factory reset.
Any other advice from more experienced members?
Sounds like your on the right track. You could try downloading the ruu from HTC as well and do a clean install. If all else fails just do a warranty.
I had the same problem. It was the battery, bought a new stock HTC battery and it works perfectly don't try a reset or any of that. You will lose you're stuff, tell her to just charge it until she can get it replaced I kept mine on charger for 4 days until I bought it and got it in the mail. Phone works perfectly now
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We had to get the screen replaced so AT&T wouldn't help her because hey could tell it's been opened
It was opened about 4 months ago, and has been working fine until she went to Florida. She has had battery issues though since she go the device back in February.
She said the AT&T person tried to do a factory reset and that "it wouldnt take" which i found was odd. More than likely the AT&T person was doing it while the phone was on, rather than doing the volume down + power button to load into recovery and do it that way.
Anyone know why a factory reset wouldn't go through?
Selecting it through the phone just boots into hboot to finish the process, but if the phone is freezing and powering down it would probably keep it from completing. Try it through hboot. Did the att guy at least test a different battery in the device? Some of those att employees really shouldn't be helping people troubleshoot. Too bad they aren't all as educated as zel.
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Selecting it through the phone just boots into hboot to finish the process, but if the phone is freezing and powering down it would probably keep it from completing. Try it through hboot. Did the att guy at least test a different battery in the device? Some of those att employees really shouldn't be helping people troubleshoot. Too bad they aren't all as educated as zel.
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They didnt even entertain the idea of a different battery. They took the battery door off and could tell that it had been opened. Right then and there they basically sent we can't help you because it's out of warranty and HTC will charge you full price for a new phone, but then whispered to her that she could go to a local shop.
Needless to say i was a little pissed that they wouldn't even let her try a different battery.
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They didnt even entertain the idea of a different battery. They took the battery door off and could tell that it had been opened. Right then and there they basically sent we can't help you because it's out of warranty and HTC will charge you full price for a new phone, but then whispered to her that she could go to a local shop.
Needless to say i was a little pissed that they wouldn't even let her try a different battery.
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That is one of the risks of Modding your phone or someone else's. All support now relies on the phones owner.
As for the rep. He couldn't do anything without possibly losing his/her job. I used to work for them so I really can't blame the employee.
Now for her prob the only thing I would suggest is that she get another battery which may or may not be the issue.
Why was it opened? If you don't mind me asking?
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That is one of the risks of Modding your phone or someone else's. All support now relies on the phones owner.
As for the rep. He couldn't do anything without possibly losing his/her job. I used to work for them so I really can't blame the employee.
Now for her prob the only thing I would suggest is that she get another battery which may or may not be the issue.
Why was it opened? If you don't mind me asking?
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The screen was replaced.
zelendel said:
That is one of the risks of Modding your phone or someone else's. All support now relies on the phones owner.
As for the rep. He couldn't do anything without possibly losing his/her job. I used to work for them so I really can't blame the employee.
Now for her prob the only thing I would suggest is that she get another battery which may or may not be the issue.
Why was it opened? If you don't mind me asking?
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Tx Redneck is correct. As I stated the screen had to be replaced.
I understand about the rep not being able to do anything because of potential job loss, but does that mean they can't even let her borrow a battery to test it?
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Tx Redneck is correct. As I stated the screen had to be replaced.
I understand about the rep not being able to do anything because of potential job loss, but does that mean they can't even let her borrow a battery to test it?
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By the rules as much as I hate to say it. Yes. If they see that the phone was modded they cant even allow the use of another battery for testing. I normally kept a few extra personal batteries to help people out but had to do it off the clock. ATT is very strict about it.
I was written up once when I was helping someone with an issue and my boss looked over my shoulder and noticed the sticker was missing. HE asked me if I noticed and I said yes i did but it had nothing to do with what I was helping with. He took the phone, handed it back to the owner, said sorry there is nothing we can do for you. Then sent me home and when I came back in I was written up with a final warning.
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By the rules as much as I hate to say it. Yes. If they see that the phone was modded they cant even allow the use of another battery for testing. I normally kept a few extra personal batteries to help people out but had to do it off the clock. ATT is very strict about it.
I was written up once when I was helping someone with an issue and my boss looked over my shoulder and noticed the sticker was missing. HE asked me if I noticed and I said yes i did but it had nothing to do with what I was helping with. He took the phone, handed it back to the owner, said sorry there is nothing we can do for you. Then sent me home and when I came back in I was written up with a final warning.
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Well that sucks. Appreciate the information though. Thanks Zelendel.
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Well that sucks. Appreciate the information though. Thanks Zelendel.
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Yeah it does. No prob.
Once she's returned from her trip i'll come back and post whether or not i was able to fix the issue or if we need to procure a new phone.
So i have been having a battery issue where my phone reads 20% and than dies. It will last the whole day but will die before i know its going to. To try and fix this problem i thought it might be kernel related, Im on a JB rom and was flashing Franco kernel from his app. I finished dwl and i was prompted with the "YES lets do this" to reboot the phone. Once i hit it my phone shut off. I'm like 90% sure it was due to my battery actually being dead. I've had it plugged in for 20 mins with no luck of anything happening when i hit power on or try getting into recovery. At one point it viberated and showed that I have zero battery but that was it. I can't get the thing to do anything. I also only have a MAC computer. PLEASE HELP! I've rooted and flashed a hundred phones and never ran into my phone not powering up at all. Did i brick it?
Anyone that could help please!
I can't think of anything short of getting another battery to see if thats the issue or finding a way to get some juice into the one you have. There was a trick somewhere in the rezound forum to get some charge to dead batteries that wouldn't charge due to an issue with clockwork mod. You should search for those threads and see if it helps.
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Milly7 said:
I can't think of anything short of getting another battery to see if thats the issue or finding a way to get some juice into the one you have. There was a trick somewhere in the rezound forum to get some charge to dead batteries that wouldn't charge due to an issue with clockwork mod. You should search for those threads and see if it helps.
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Yeah i read something about ripping the power cord apart and moving wires etc. . I'm not to keen on doing that myself. **** if its not charing i guess the only thing i can do is go to verizon (i have warranty) but will they be able to tell im rooted?
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Yeah i read something about ripping the power cord apart and moving wires etc. . I'm not to keen on doing that myself. **** if its not charing i guess the only thing i can do is go to verizon (i have warranty) but will they be able to tell im rooted?
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No they will not, i had to get mine replaced for a charging issue Friday and i was rooted, custom everything. As long as your phone wont charge they wont be able to tell.
Just went in no go. I did indeed BRICK my phone from running a verizon gs3 with franco milestone 5. Everyone beware! Although it was my fault, If people have ran with kernel on the regular these past couple years, It was instinct. Verizon said i'd have to send my phone in and get a new one in two days
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Just went in no go. I did indeed BRICK my phone from running a verizon gs3 with franco milestone 5. Everyone beware! Although it was my fault, If people have ran with kernel on the regular these past couple years, It was instinct. Verizon said i'd have to send my phone in and get a new one in two days
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Lol Did they give you a temp phone?
Just to throw it out there have you tried getting into download mode? I had a similar problem with my razr where the battery died while flashing and it was bricked. I had to make a factory cable (allows you to flash in download mode without battery power). With this phone though I've noticed that if you leave the cable in and pull the battery while in download mode it will stay on which seems like it's doing what my factory cable did. It's volume down/power/home to get in to download see if you can do this with the phone plugged in.
EDIT: maybe I misread but if the firmware didn't install properly you can be missing even the software required to charge the battery. This means you can't charge up the phone until you flash some firmware in Odin via download mode, which you may be able to do with only the cable attached (direct power to the phone in dl mode and bypassing the dead batter).
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dincfool said:
Just went in no go. I did indeed BRICK my phone from running a verizon gs3 with franco milestone 5. Everyone beware! Although it was my fault, If people have ran with kernel on the regular these past couple years, It was instinct. Verizon said i'd have to send my phone in and get a new one in two days
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Research then flash, dont flash then research! i need to put this in my sig.....
Yeah but I had to go to two vzw stores to only end up going to the third and having someone i knew that worked there replace the phone. But since im on a company plan, and used someone else upgrade for this to keep unlimited data, They said there 75% sure i'll have lost my unlimited data for whatever reason.
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Yeah but I had to go to two vzw stores to only end up going to the third and having someone i knew that worked there replace the phone. But since im on a company plan, and used someone else upgrade for this to keep unlimited data, They said there 75% sure i'll have lost my unlimited data for whatever reason.
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Fight them, if you had unlimited data they can't take your plan away. Fight the living hell out of them. You will win.