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Htc One S dead

Hello guys,
I'm experiencing something bad with my HOS. Briefly, yesterday morning I plug the phone from charger at 06.00 am. Play with it for a while and then go to work. Used it at work for a few phone calls until 10.00 am (so 4 hours on fully charge battery). Then at 10.00 am I went into a meeting and left the phone out of my sight for 20-30 minutes. When I came back from the meeting I realize that the phone was closed. I try to open it (power button) but nothing. Press power for 10-30 seconds with volume down - still no effect.
Then I took the charger (the original one that I always use to cherge it) and plug it, left it for 2-3 minutes and press power. The phone starts but all I have is the white screen with HTC logo and if I press the power button + volume down the phone goes into bootloader. That's all I can do with it for now.
I have stock rom, bootloader is locked and I never try to root the phone. Is it any chance to repair it by myself or I have to sent it to the repair shop.
many thanks in advance.
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alterman666 said:
Hello guys,
I'm experiencing something bad with my HOS. Briefly, yesterday morning I plug the phone from charger at 06.00 am. Play with it for a while and then go to work. Used it at work for a few phone calls until 10.00 am (so 4 hours on fully charge battery). Then at 10.00 am I went into a meeting and left the phone out of my sight for 20-30 minutes. When I came back from the meeting I realize that the phone was closed. I try to open it (power button) but nothing. Press power for 10-30 seconds with volume down - still no effect.
Then I took the charger (the original one that I always use to cherge it) and plug it, left it for 2-3 minutes and press power. The phone starts but all I have is the white screen with HTC logo and if I press the power button + volume down the phone goes into bootloader. That's all I can do with it for now.
I have stock rom, bootloader is locked and I never try to root the phone. Is it any chance to repair it by myself or I have to sent it to the repair shop.
many thanks in advance.
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try holding the power button for 10-15 seconds, until all 3 buttons light up and the phone restarts itself. Let go of power button when after 3 buttons light up 3 times and see if that helps?

I've already do that. When I press power nothing happen. I'll have to plug into charger, let it for 2-3 minutes and then press power. The phone starts, white screen with HTC logo appears and then phone restarts and same white screen and .... again and again. If I hold volume down key then the phone enters into bootloader,I can use the options clear storage or factory reset, and restart the phone then same thing happens (white screen with logo and restart by itself). All these only when pluged. If unpluged nothing happen when I press power button.
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alterman666 said:
I've already do that. When I press power nothing happen. I'll have to plug into charger, let it for 2-3 minutes and then press power. The phone starts, white screen with HTC logo appears and then phone restarts and same white screen and .... again and again. If I hold volume down key then the phone enters into bootloader,I can use the options clear storage or factory reset, and restart the phone then same thing happens (white screen with logo and restart by itself). All these only when pluged. If unpluged nothing happen when I press power button.
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Might sound silly but have you charged it for more then a few minutes because last time my phone died I had to charge it for about half hour before it would boot right.

I'll try this, but is strange if the phone run out of battery since it was used for about 4 hours since fully charged. Will be back with a feedback. Thanks for the tip.
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alterman666 said:
I'll try this, but is strange if the phone run out of battery since it was used for about 4 hours since fully charged. Will be back with a feedback. Thanks for the tip.
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Ya that's why I said it might be silly but still give it a try. I have seen odd battery drain where it could drain it in a few hours.

I say it's strange because I was on stock rom with same installed apps for about 2 months. Anyway the phone is now charging and I see something different with the led for charging as it turns orange as it should be when charging. Yesterday, when I try to start the phone,plugged in, the led was blinkering somehow. I'll be back with feedback later, I'll let the phone charge until led turns green.
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Good news, after keep it to cherge until the led turns green, the phone boot up. I perform a factory reset immediatelly and an sd card clean up and now I'm installing my favourite apps. I'll be monitoring close my phone for the next days to see if sudden battery discharges happens.
Many thanks for your advice @darknites:good:

alterman666 said:
I say it's strange because I was on stock rom with same installed apps for about 2 months. Anyway the phone is now charging and I see something different with the led for charging as it turns orange as it should be when charging. Yesterday, when I try to start the phone,plugged in, the led was blinkering somehow. I'll be back with feedback later, I'll let the phone charge until led turns green.
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When the orange light blinks then the battery is <0% and u must onlly charge it(no rebooting) till the light don't blink anymore.
Then reboot,but okay its fixed now
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alterman666 said:
I say it's strange because I was on stock rom with same installed apps for about 2 months. Anyway the phone is now charging and I see something different with the led for charging as it turns orange as it should be when charging. Yesterday, when I try to start the phone,plugged in, the led was blinkering somehow. I'll be back with feedback later, I'll let the phone charge until led turns green.
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alterman666 said:
Good news, after keep it to cherge until the led turns green, the phone boot up. I perform a factory reset immediatelly and an sd card clean up and now I'm installing my favourite apps. I'll be monitoring close my phone for the next days to see if sudden battery discharges happens.
Many thanks for your advice @darknites:good:
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Np dude. Not sure where the drain is I used apps to look and it showed nothing and only seen it on sense roms and mostly only happened after flashing and setting it up but if you see it just roboot and it should fix it.

my phone is now dead the same way.
battery was fully drained, when turning on it doesn't go further than the bootanimation ( stays at htc one s logo).
Now i have fully charged the battery (green led) and it still doesn't boot up the right way.
Any help? I don't want to run the RUU.

CrayzyBoy said:
my phone is now dead the same way.
battery was fully drained, when turning on it doesn't go further than the bootanimation ( stays at htc one s logo).
Now i have fully charged the battery (green led) and it still doesn't boot up the right way.
Any help? I don't want to run the RUU.
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Could try reflashing the rom if that dont work think you going to have too RUU it but use one that has the same Hboot as you got now.

What do you mean by not boot the right way? Can you pass the white screen with Htc logo? Did you try factory reset? Was your phone rooted?
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alterman666 said:
What do you mean by not boot the right way? Can you pass the white screen with Htc logo? Did you try factory reset? Was your phone rooted?
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Its not a good idea for him to use factory reset in bootloader since he not on stock rom.

Darknites said:
Its not a good idea for him to use factory reset in bootloader since he not on stock rom.
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reflashing viper one s about 10times has now worked
Thanks for the replies guys

CrayzyBoy said:
reflashing viper one s about 10times has now worked
Thanks for the replies guys
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Dam only 10 lol thats abit messed up oh well at least it worked.

CrayzyBoy said:
reflashing viper one s about 10times has now worked
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I believe (but can not back it up) that you could have just re-flashed the boot image only. Still 10x probably.. altho that may have been the charging time, not the flashing.. who knows.

[Q] Battery Issue Soft Reboot

I had my phone charging tonight and it was at about 35% battery when all of a sudden it rebooted. Now, it's in a loop, vibrating every 1-2 seconds and when it's in the loop, the volume or power shortcuts don't work. If I take the battery out and back in, the Samsung logo flashes and then it goes into the loop. By inserting the battery and a USB connection at the same time, it'll go to to the battery charging screen for a moment before it goes into the loop, and if I hold the Volume up and down at the same time I put in the battery and plug in the phone, it'll go into download mode, but it only stays there for maybe five seconds before the screen flashes blue and goes into the vibrating loop again. Up until today it's been working perfectly. Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated! I'm running SkyJelly with no previous issues. I think it's battery because if I plug in the phone without the battery it'll go into a loop until I plug the battery in, and then it'll go into the charging screen briefly until it goes back into its loop. Ideas..."

Stuck power button.

hechoen said:
Stuck power button.
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Yup
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xcrazydx said:
Yup
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Fix...? Or is there an easy one?

madetoservehim said:
Fix...? Or is there an easy one?
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Nevermind. Tried the pin fix on the power button, worked like a charm. Thanks for the tip.

[Q] Stuck on Black screen with solid green notification light

I recently rooted my One X Evita and flashed Clean ROM 5.1 with hasoon's all in one tool. Everything went perfect. Then I reinstalled a few of my old programs and got it all set up. I was really happy, it felt much more responsive than before. Last night I set a couple of alarms, left it charging by my bed like every night and in the morning I woke up late on my own. I looked at my phone and it was just the same as every morning connected to the charger with a black screen and the green notification light was on supposedly indicating that the phone was fully charged but when I took the cord off the green light never went away and when I press the on button It never did anything. I haven't tried anything because I don't want to make it worse. It's been now 7 hrs. since I disconnected it and the green notification light is still on. Can some body help please... Thank you...

um, why don't you turn the phone off and power it back on. phones glitch especially ones with custom roms.

Try holding the power button down for 20 seconds
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Thanks it worked
area51avenger said:
Try holding the power button down for 20 seconds
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Thank you very much. After I held the power button for 20 seconds the green light turned off then I pressed the power button momentarily and the phone proceeded to turn on. I did a few things on it and made a phone call. Is back to normal. Thanks again.

DvineLord said:
um, why don't you turn the phone off and power it back on. phones glitch especially ones with custom roms.
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Thanks for replying, I did try to turn it off but I guess I wasn't holding the power button long enough but thanks to area51avenger I was able to restart it. I guess you have to hold for 20 seconds.

cacalo said:
Thanks for replying, I did try to turn it off but I guess I wasn't holding the power button long enough but thanks to area51avenger I was able to restart it. I guess you have to hold for 20 seconds.
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This is happening to me with this rom too and often. Charging the phone or not i hit power button but the screen still black and i can see the soft buttons on and if i play with volume buttons i can hear something but some times is like the phone is freeze. Any advice?

[Q] Stuck on boot

Screen is stuck on the red verizon screen on boot. I tried holding down the power button, like I could on my DNA, but it doesn't work. Any way I can force it to turn off, or do I have to wait until the battery eventually dies?

Cremacious said:
Screen is stuck on the red verizon screen on boot. I tried holding down the power button, like I could on my DNA, but it doesn't work. Any way I can force it to turn off, or do I have to wait until the battery eventually dies?
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Power+vol up. Will reboot then power+vol down take you to bootloader
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Phone won't start unless I shake him hard

Yeah so it's kind of a strange title but I'll explain:
My phone dropped from about knee high. It has a great spigen armor case and no damage was done but I added this line just because maybe that's where things went bad.
Also, I changed it's battery a couple weeks ago.
Anyway, I was watching a video when all of the sudden my phone just turned itself off (about a day or two since it's dropped, so I don't think that was the problem because I never had any problems with it). I thought it might have been my battery but I changed it back to my old one and still nothing has changed.
The problem actually is that I hold the power button and it won't turn on. But if I do it while shaking it or hitting it against the palm of my hand, then it turns on, displayed the Google logo and then turns off after about 2 seconds.
I tried holding down the volume key and still nothing, it just won't boot.
When I plug it into a charger, it displays the Google logo and then reboots, and this problem is repeated. Logo, reboot, logo reboot, etc.
I really don't know what to do, please help me guys

Sounds like a stuck power button. It's not that uncommon. You might have to get it replaced at a cell repair store.
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jd1639 said:
Sounds like a stuck power button. It's not that uncommon. You might have to get it replaced at a cell repair store.
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I disagree. When the phone turns on, it starts to load the Android logo after the Google logo but for exacly half a second and it always turns off at the same point.
The button clicks, and it is very easily pressed. I also tried to push it back with a small screwdriver after I opened the back cover and still, no change.

Bei60 said:
I disagree. When the phone turns on, it starts to load the Android logo after the Google logo but for exacly half a second and it always turns off at the same point.
The button clicks, and it is very easily pressed. I also tried to push it back with a small screwdriver after I opened the back cover and still, no change.
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When the phone is off plug it to the charger. If it keeps restarting at google logo then I am 90% sure it is a power key problem.

How do you know if your phone is male or female?

Huh? Another useless post by dicecuber
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ldubs said:
Huh? Another useless post by dicecuber
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Read the thread title

bitdomo said:
When the phone is off plug it to the charger. If it keeps restarting at google logo then I am 90% sure it is a power key problem.
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Well, looked into it and it was indeed the power key. I started clicking it very rapidly while it was booting and I managed to turn it on.
Now everytime I click it, it either turns the screen on and off as if I pressed it twice, or it just gets stuck and does that thing it did earlier with the bootup.
Is there a way I can fix this myself instead of taking it to a repair shop?