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[Q] Strange Charging Issue

Hi. I have a S-OFF'd, T-Mobile USA Sensation, Im using Leedroid Sensational 1.0 (cwm 4.0.1.5). My phone died, I tried to reboot it, it did turn on for a few seconds. When trying to charge it, it flashes the led light quickly, progressively becoming slower, then the screen flashes white then sits at a blank, black screen for a few seconds, then seems to turn off (screen turns off and led light stops showing up). The device doesnt get hot, so it cant be the charger overheating. I also cant boot into HBOOT. Any ideas?
EDIT: Left it on the charge all night, still does not turn on, it's got to be that the charging issue is still present (or actually, worse) in CWM 4.0.1.5.
EDIT2: I have tried rebooting it via adb, but the computer doesn't detect it.

Do u have cwm 4.0.1.5
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I have the 4.0.1.5 recovery and my phone wont even charge now (offline). I doesnt have enough juice to even power up so now im screwed.

simplytheone said:
Do u have cwm 4.0.1.5
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Yes CWM 4.0.1.5

Mine did this out of the box, I'm just now trying to get something out of it. Otherwise this pos is going back to htc...
Its worth mentioning that there is a red infared type light above "htc" that fades with the red l.e.d.
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Yes, I have the same issue as of this morning. After installing new CWM. It was charging fine before. Last night I let the battery discharge completely and had it on the charger all night.
When I woke up the LED light was off. Upon unplugging the charger and plugging it back in the LED light blinks (orange) a few times and then it goes off.
I can't turn the phone on at all.
EDIT: Looks like it's the issue with the latest CWM. Here is another thread with the same problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16241725#post16241725
I'm gonna buy a new battery and see it the phone boots back up.

Phone boots with a new battery, just got an HTC one from radio shack.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005C...=AKIAJMJLJ4O5MRRW6UTA&creativeASIN=B005C2BVFO
Think this would work? It charges the battery externally.

Yea it would work externally, provided your battery is ok... Buy a battery just to be sure. They have always come with atleast a trickle of charge in my past experiences. If it boots, flash the stock pyramid ruu. If not, id say either the new battery is dead (rarely) or your sensation is dead. Or buy an external charger, then send it for repair.
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crx4xharder said:
Yea it would work externally, provided your battery is ok... Buy a battery just to be sure. They have always come with atleast a trickle of charge in my past experiences. If it boots, flash the stock pyramid ruu. If not, id say either the new battery is dead (rarely) or your sensation is dead. Or buy an external charger, then send it for repair.
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Reading other users posts, I think this is an issue from CWM 4.0.1.5, not a hardware issue, but thanks for letting me know.

Im currently rocking the same setup thanks for letting me know about this ill keep an eye on my battery life. Until ClockWorkMod fixes itt

Yup same issue here. Will be buying new battery and/or battery charger to resolve.
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I bought a few batteries and an external charger just in case my battery is also fried, although be aware that most of them on the net look like cheap china batteries, so they probably aren't actually 1600MAh.
I honestly think this is BS. It's costing me $16 just to get my phone to boot, I hope Koush or someone else can actually fix the charging issue by CWM 4.0.1.6.

Definitely CWM issue. If your battery is completely discharged, as mine was this morning, here is how to charge your battery without the phone.
It does work. I just charged mine enough to boot up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585

[Q] HELP!!!Sensation 4G doesn't power on

Hi y'all,
My 3 days old sensation doesn't power up. It's S-Off, rooted and I've been testing different roms on it until I got to the revolution HD. I followed all the steps, Super swiped, flashed it, but the first time I rebooted it didn't power back on; I tried "power+Volume down" and no results.... I've tried removing the battery for an hour or so and trying and it still didn't work.. Kind of pissed cuz I paid the full non subsidized price for it ($530).
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance

Wow I'm sorry to hear that did you try plugging it into the charger and wait about 20 minutes and see if you can boot it into clockwork mod
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Hey so sorry to hear what happened... I can imagine the pain going through..
Can you give some more details?
1. Does it vibrate when you press potter button?
2. Does it show any charging light when you plug in power?
3. try charging for one hour or replace battery with another sensation set as sometimes battery can be culprit
I always try to prevent running that super wipe script since that pays with your partitions...

Elbiba said:
Hi y'all,
My 3 days old sensation doesn't power up. It's S-Off, rooted and I've been testing different roms on it until I got to the revolution HD. I followed all the steps, Super swiped, flashed it, but the first time I rebooted it didn't power back on; I tried "power+Volume down" and no results.... I've tried removing the battery for an hour or so and trying and it still didn't work.. Kind of pissed cuz I paid the full non subsidized price for it ($530).
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
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had your battery ran down all the way?
that happened to me and i had to do a battery swap and forwhatever reason it worked after that. i can still use my other battery no problems.
just something from my experience. might want to think about getting a secondary battery,just in case. 10 dollars.
(does the charging light blink orange 4 times, then nothing?

jjdoctor said:
Hey so sorry to hear what happened... I can imagine the pain going through..
Can you give some more details?
1. Does it vibrate when you press potter button?
2. Does it show any charging light when you plug in power?
3. try charging for one hour or replace battery with another sensation set as sometimes battery can be culprit
I always try to prevent running that super wipe script since that pays with your partitions...
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rddocke said:
had your battery ran down all the way?
that happened to me and i had to do a battery swap and forwhatever reason it worked after that. i can still use my other battery no problems.
just something from my experience. might want to think about getting a secondary battery,just in case. 10 dollars.
(does the charging light blink orange 4 times, then nothing?
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jslim38 said:
Wow I'm sorry to hear that did you try plugging it into the charger and wait about 20 minutes and see if you can boot it into clockwork mod
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Hi All,
1- No, it doesn't do anything. no vibration, no light. It like the battery's been completely drained.
2- Also nothing happens when I try charging it (I only tried charging thru the PC though)
3- I ordered a new battery, so hopefully that would fix it. Whats weird is that when I started the installation process the battery was more than half full.

First of a you need to try and charge from mains, does your pc make any noise or do anything at all when you pop it in?
Sent from my CM7 Sensation XE using xda premium

Sorry to tell you but...Its bricked. Mine just did this last night.
It was charging...Once done, I took it off the charger and set it down. I came back to it later to use it and it was completely dead. No response.
I connected it via usb to my laptop to try the ADB reboot and was told by my computer the DREADED "cannot install drivers". That was the last action that happened.
Tmobile is sending me a new one. Have to go till monday with an old flip phone.
Call Tmobile. They called it hardware failure.
Matt

Holy Crap!!! I just realized what I've done. While browsing my downloads on my PC I found two superwipe zip files: One for the sensation and one for the EeePad... I might have used the Eeepad zip file!!! Damn it! Most probably that's what killed the phone... But whats weird is that even after the superwipe, the phone was on. It didn't die until i decided to reboot it.... DUMB! DUMB!DUMB!

Elbiba said:
Holy Crap!!! I just realized what I've done. While browsing my downloads on my PC I found two superwipe zip files: One for the sensation and one for the EeePad... I might have used the Eeepad zip file!!! Damn it! Most probably that's what killed the phone... But whats weird is that even after the superwipe, the phone was on. It didn't die until i decided to reboot it....
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I feel your pain. Not knowing what killed it is the worst part. I dont know if it was some ticking time bomb from a ROM, Kernel, theme, or if it was just an honest quality control issue that finally reared its ugly head.
The one clue I have is that when I got my phone on day one, long before rooting and all the magic, it did this to me...ON DAY ONE! After freaking out and doing a battery pull, it finally booted after holding down the power button for a minute. This time, however, its done for. If your PC wont recognize it, then its dead. Simple as that.
Id either call tmobile, or call HTC to see if they will fix it. (They will likely reflash it the elite way if its software related). If its hardware failure, then they will replace it.
I hadnt done anything serious to mine. It just stopped all on its own. The tmobile tech guy said its hardware failure for who knows what reason? I know that my phone has been buggy for a long time. Should have done this back when it was working!
Lesson to be learned: Dont put up with stuff that a warranty exchange can fix. Dont wait for a total brick to occur on its own. If you suspect issues, SWAP IT!
Word to your mother yall...
Matt

[Q] htc desire brick?

he guys!
i need a little help and i can't seem to find a thread that might help me.
i have an htc desire (root+s-off) and two days ago tried to flash a new rom. and as i was already at it flashed the newest radio version and an sd-alignment, because i had just before had had to flash the original shipped rom because my phone didn't react anymore. so i did the root and s-off again, flashed all three zips and rebooted. after that my display went black and nothing happened for a while so i removed the battery and tried to restart the phone but it didn't. i tried to connect it to my computer and it doesn't recognize the device anymore.
either i removed the battery too early and bricked it or it was a bad idea to flash 3zips at the same time.
has anybody encountered this before and is there sth i can do?
any help will be greatly appreciated.

Can you boot into the bootloader through Vol - and Power button?

unfortunately no.
device does not react at all. i can push any button but the phone stays dead. screen stays black, no LED flashing, doesn't vibrate, nothing!

Maby its time to part as equals and donate it to the dev team?
Do you want to help out developers? Got a broken device?

the desire won't help them because it has a snapdragon cpu.
is there really no possibility to fix this?

maybe a too simple solution, but could the battery be dead or empty?
since you get absolutely no reponse...

I considered that too but the battery was NOT empty when the phone died.
I thought it might still be that the battery is just broken but I read that when you take out the battery and connect the phone to your computer or plug in the charger the LED still flashes. And with my phone it doesn't.

Your led won't flash if your phone is off. Try taking out the battery and plugging the phone in to the charger and see if it turns on.
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Did that already and unfortunately phone stayed dead.

ElZeck said:
Did that already and unfortunately phone stayed dead.
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How long do you let it charge before trying to turn on? If its right dead, then you should probably leave it plugged in for ten minutes or so before trying to turn it on.
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But if I take out the battery how can it charge?
I thought if I take out the battery and plug it in, it should come back to life immediately?
But if you think that could help, I'll be happy to try.
So let me sum this up to be sure I got it right:
I take out the battery, plug it in, wait for a couple minutes and then try turning it on, right?

YOu should take the battery by pluging it at least 5 - 10 minute for sure it is already charging then try to turn on your phone again, this might work

im not sure the phone will work at all without the battery in place (haven't tested)
But i think that Kenny means, putting the battery in and letting it charge for a little while before trying.

bl0m5t3r said:
im not sure the phone will work at all without the battery in place (haven't tested)
But i think that Kenny means, putting the battery in and letting it charge for a little while before trying.
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The phone will work while plugged in without the battery. But try what Kenny suggested.
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tried everything, nothing worked...

Sorry to hear. I have no other ideas.
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I bricked my HTC desire S. When i open it will stuck to bootloop, drained the battery, i cannot charge the phone. it always turn off.
Can someone help me fix this?

[Q] Sensation will not charge and boots straight to recovery

Hey Guys,
I got my phone back from HTC repair and have flashed the newest firmware, S-OFF and CM9 using CWM 6 onto my device. I have done this procedure about 100 times on many different devices so I know the process off by heart now. Unfortunately the phone battery drained to 0% and now when I plug in the phone to charge, the red light comes on as if charging for about 10 seconds then goes off and CWM 6 appears. I can't boot into the bootloader/fastboot by pressing the Vol Down + Power or by restarting the system through the CWM. Everytime I reboot the phone CWM appears immediately.
Is it bricked? The phone just won't charge when CWM is up on the screen.
I have tried using adb to reboot to bootloader and running:
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
The bootloader SOMETIMES appears, otherwise it just reboots into CWM.
Has anyone else had this issue? And if so what steps should I take?
Thanks in advance.

Kriist said:
Hey Guys,
I got my phone back from HTC repair and have flashed the newest firmware, S-OFF and CM9 using CWM 6 onto my device. I have done this procedure about 100 times on many different devices so I know the process off by heart now. Unfortunately the phone battery drained to 0% and now when I plug in the phone to charge, the red light comes on as if charging for about 10 seconds then goes off and CWM 6 appears. I can't boot into the bootloader/fastboot by pressing the Vol Down + Power or by restarting the system through the CWM. Everytime I reboot the phone CWM appears immediately.
Is it bricked? The phone just won't charge when CWM is up on the screen.
I have tried using adb to reboot to bootloader and running:
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
The bootloader SOMETIMES appears, otherwise it just reboots into CWM.
Has anyone else had this issue? And if so what steps should I take?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
Take out the sim card and the sd card.
Leave the phone on charge for several hours.
Or, take out the battery and use a stand alone charger for several hours.

malybru said:
Hi,
Take out the sim card and the sd card.
Leave the phone on charge for several hours.
Or, take out the battery and use a stand alone charger for several hours.
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Hey
Thanks for the advice however even on a standalone charger it still has the same symptoms.
I currently have it without Sim and SD Card but CWM comes up no matter what so it isn't really charging. After a while though, the phone turns off but the light isn't on (as to indicate it is charging). Very frustrating.
Will report back after several hours.

Kriist said:
Hey
Thanks for the advice however even on a standalone charger it still has the same symptoms.
I currently have it without Sim and SD Card but CWM comes up no matter what so it isn't really charging. After a while though, the phone turns off but the light isn't on (as to indicate it is charging). Very frustrating.
Will report back after several hours.
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Hi,
Leave it switched off and charging...

Sorry im not using htc
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malybru said:
Hi,
Leave it switched off and charging...
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Hey thanks,
Unfortunately when I plug it in, it switches on automatically and immediately goes to CWM. This happens on standalone charger, and usb charger. There is no 'Power Down' option in CWM only reboot. so its not a case of me leaving it off. Don't touch the power button
Cheers
Edit: so the phone has been on charge all day and still the same, won't switch on unless it is plugged in. Looks like o2 have screwed up while repairing it. Have to send it back

I once had a situation where my device would not boot at all, charge light would not come on. I switched out the battery to a different one and device booted As well as charged. I know your situation is different but it might not hurt to just try. Before you send it back out . It couldn't hurt to try....however I have a feeling your issue is more complicated than mine but it just might help. If no joy, then no harm done but do give it a shot before you return it. It could make a difference! It sure won't hurt to try! Best wishes to you! Hopefully you get this issue solved soon . It's strange but I've heard of several stories of phone not booting or charging when battery is ran to zero. Kind of makes me Afraid to run to zero in fear it won't boot again. I do wonder what causes this? I just try and never run mine to zero again! But do give another battery a try. It can't hurt to try. Good luck.
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realsis said:
I once had a situation where my device would not boot at all, charge light would not come on. I switched out the battery to a different one and device booted As well as charged. I know your situation is different but it might not hurt to just try. Before you send it back out . It couldn't hurt to try....however I have a feeling your issue is more complicated than mine but it just might help. If no joy, then no harm done but do give it a shot before you return it. It could make a difference! It sure won't hurt to try! Best wishes to you! Hopefully you get this issue solved soon . It's strange but I've heard of several stories of phone not booting or charging when battery is ran to zero. Kind of makes me Afraid to run to zero in fear it won't boot again. I do wonder what causes this? I just try and never run mine to zero again! But do give another battery a try. It can't hurt to try. Good luck.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, kernel version PYD-X stable 3.1, mugen battery 3800mah. Please press thanks if I helped in anyway.
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New battery ordered will report back!

realsis said:
I once had a situation where my device would not boot at all, charge light would not come on. I switched out the battery to a different one and device booted As well as charged. I know your situation is different but it might not hurt to just try. Before you send it back out . It couldn't hurt to try....however I have a feeling your issue is more complicated than mine but it just might help. If no joy, then no harm done but do give it a shot before you return it. It could make a difference! It sure won't hurt to try! Best wishes to you! Hopefully you get this issue solved soon . It's strange but I've heard of several stories of phone not booting or charging when battery is ran to zero. Kind of makes me Afraid to run to zero in fear it won't boot again. I do wonder what causes this? I just try and never run mine to zero again! But do give another battery a try. It can't hurt to try. Good luck.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, kernel version PYD-X stable 3.1, mugen battery 3800mah. Please press thanks if I helped in anyway.
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Alright this is now solved. Got the new battery popped it in. Formatted /system, performed factory reset/wipe data (in CWM), cleared cache, Dalvik and battery statistics then re-flashed CM9 then rebooted... Working perfectly! Clearly a battery issue, O2 must have fried the old one while repairing my phone.
Thank you so much for your help, and now I have a much better battery for my phone... so I thank you for that too!

Your very welcome ! It happened to me too so I figured it would also work for you. It really scared me though because my device wouldn't even show a charge light! I'm so happy the new battery also worked for you ! Very happy to have helped!
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, kernel version PYD-X stable 3.1, mugen battery 3800mah. Please press thanks if I helped in anyway.

[SOLVED][Q] HTC Sensation won't turn on

On Monday night I used the Juopunut bear S-OFF method successfully and then installed ClockworkMod Recovery and Cyanogen Mod 10. It was working like a dream I absolutely loved it. I restarted it many times etc and it worked completely fine, I had zero issues. However last night, I turned the phone off and then plugged it in to charge. When I woke up this morning I cannot turn it on, no matter what I do. When I plug it in to the charger the orange light turns on for about 1 second and then turns off. Is my phone bricked? Is my battery dead? Thanks in advance

kinglime said:
On Monday night I used the Juopunut bear S-OFF method successfully and then installed ClockworkMod Recovery and Cyanogen Mod 10. It was working like a dream I absolutely loved it. I restarted it many times etc and it worked completely fine, I had zero issues. However last night, I turned the phone off and then plugged it in to charge. When I woke up this morning I cannot turn it on, no matter what I do. When I plug it in to the charger the orange light turns on for about 1 second and then turns off. Is my phone bricked? Is my battery dead? Thanks in advance
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try to boot into bootloader
if it enters then it is not bricked
and try this
remove battery,sim and sdcard and charge the device as it is for 5-6 hours
put them back and switch the device on
best wishes

rzr86 said:
try to boot into bootloader
if it enters then it is not bricked
and try this
remove battery,sim and sdcard and charge the device as it is for 5-6 hours
put them back and switch the device on
best wishes
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I'm pretty sure it's not bricked. I've left it plugged in to my pc and the charing light is now flashing! I have hope that it will be ok How can you charge the phone without the battery?

kinglime said:
I'm pretty sure it's not bricked. I've left it plugged in to my pc and the charing light is now flashing! I have hope that it will be ok How can you charge the phone without the battery?
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the device itself has a little energy stored in case when the battery is fully uncharged
ok then if the led is showing red now boot to bootloader and select reboot
see how it goes

rzr86 said:
the device itself has a little energy stored in case when the battery is fully uncharged
ok then if the led is showing red now boot to bootloader and select reboot
see how it goes
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It's blinking orange every second, not completely charging. Should I just let it do that for 10 or 20 min? This is with the battery in btw

kinglime said:
It's blinking orange every second, not completely charging. Should I just let it do that for 10 or 20 min? This is with the battery in btw
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yeap leave it for a while

It works!
After letting it charge for about 20min while the orange led blinked on and off every second I unplugged it, held down the power button, and the beautiful HTC logo illuminated across my screen. I'm now up and running and the device is charging. I'm very glad I didn't buy a new battery for $40. I'm hoping this will never happen again but if it does I won't be alarmed. If anyone out there is having a similar issue do not fret!

Problems with HTC Sensation
My HTC Sensation has become unusable due to faults that have recently developed. I sent it off to HTC but apparently it has 'water damage' even though I've always been incredibly careful with it and never dropped it in a puddle or anything.
I'm new to this website so I'm not sure how to go about getting advice.
If someone could help me on how to get some answers it would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

I dropped my mobile in water, dried it with hair dryer left it fir a week and then it started again.
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