Funny story, i woke up one day and wanted to check the time but couldn't, cause my phone had died just like that. Tried plugging it in but it didn't even hook up the power, cause the led even didn't start glowing not talking about being able to turn the device on sent it to the support center in riga. Waiting it to come back now.
What could have happened?
Has any1 any idea how this could have happened?
I do treat my phone with great respect :fingers-crossed:
Failed battery?
Have you tried leaving it plugged in / holding down the power button for 30sec~...
You can buy a new battery pretty cheaply if you want to try that option, otherwise contact HTC service dept. I suppose.
Already sent it to the the service centre in riga.
Tho im not sure if i pressed the button for full 30secs...
That might have worked, but we cannot be sure.
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So today, as i was on my way to work I accidentally held down the lockscreen button and the power menu popped up (I was on Glorious Overdoes V2) in the middle of a text and i pressed reboot accidentally... My phone never rebooted... It was stuck on the black Sidekick 4G/T-Mobile screen and then it would go black, then once again that screen would pop up... I removed the battery and put it back in, and without me pressing any buttons the same screen came back up... I let it sit for a while and after 20minutes nothing changed except the phone got really hot. Luckily I had my OLD Nokia in my car and popped my SIM card in it so that i could continue having a phone. I let The Sidekick sit for 4hours and it was extremely hot and then eventually it just turned off completely (Im assuming the battery drained, it was at 90% 4 hours before.) I got home, plugged it in and it wouldn't even turn on the charging screen. Somebody told me that my Motherboard is fried but I don't know. I called T-mobile and they're going to send me a new phone since it's still in the 1-year warranty period.
Anyone know if they're going to be able to inspect my old device and find out if i rooted/flashed it? because i can't get into it or anything to ODIN
I feel like they will try putting a new battery in it, and if it still wont turn on you should be fine.
It got hot because the CPU was churning over something and couldn't enter a low power state. I bet you could coax the phone into download mode and reflash it.
what do you mean coax the phone into download mode? by using the button combo to get it into download mode when turning on? I've tried that and it doesn't work. I tried rebooting into recovery and that wont work either. Also, it wont charge the battery anymore...
I've always had a hard time getting into download mode, and my phone works fine. I just spent 5 minutes trying different combinations until I got it.
I've heard people say trackpad-power button, volume down-home-power button, volume up/down-put battery in-plug in USB, etc etc etc. But the only method that works for me is to put in the battery, plug in the USB, wait for the charging screen, then hold volume down-trackpad-power, releasing power as soon as the screen goes black
You say your phone is turning on as soon as the battery is inserted? What if you have it plugged into USB first?
I had the exact same problem, I sent it into samsung and they just replaced a part(never told me which one) and it was fixed. I did noticed that when the sccreen was poped open to show the keyboard, it would stop. But it's probably a loose cable like I've read before.
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Worst case scenario if you can't figure it out here on XDA, you could always sell it on eBay for parts as defective.
Hey Guys,
yesterday my 8x suddenly Died out of nowhere.. Battery was about 70%.. want to have a look at it and nothing happend. Tried all combos of keys ( Vol down+Power etc) but nothing happend. When i connect the charger the charging LED stays off. Wanna know if someone had the same issue and how to fix it,if possible.. seems that the device is bricked,but dont know...
Greets
basti2909 said:
Hey Guys,
yesterday my 8x suddenly Died out of nowhere.. Battery was about 70%.. want to have a look at it and nothing happend. Tried all combos of keys ( Vol down+Power etc) but nothing happend. When i connect the charger the charging LED stays off. Wanna know if someone had the same issue and how to fix it,if possible.. seems that the device is bricked,but dont know...
Greets
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same problem It's completely dead. Won't turn on at all, I've tried all the key combinations.
Charge light doesn't even turn on... Does someone know what to do? Is it even possible to flash with it not able to turn on?
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same problem It's completely dead. Won't turn on at all, I've tried all the key combinations.
Charge light doesn't even turn on... Does someone know what to do? Is it even possible to flash with it not able to turn on?
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dont think there is anything to do. have sent it back to provider.. Flash is impossible cause u dont get any reaction when u connect.
Same here !!!
I had this same problem with my device already TWICE..... in two weeks. I bought my phone, installed what i need.... in first week phone got dead overnite.... no charging light, no reset, nothing.... I put in on warranty repair.... after it came back the statement said that what I said did not appear so they reflashed it to newer ROM only....how I don't know when the phone was completely dead... I again installed all I need a next week after happened the same!!!! At evening phone was charged full and at morning it was dead. So second time i put it on warranty repair and they said that is my problem, that I should not install any another apps from MS store !!!! I mean what the F**K, I buy overexpensive phone and I should use it without additional apps from MS store??? then I need only Nokia from 1990 and I'll be set to phone and write sms My 8X is still in repair so we will see what will happen next time.... but to say truth, I'm fed up with this phone already...
Just happened to me few days ago with the battery at about 10%. after i totally gave up and ready to send it for warranty repair. After a day, it started again as the battery was fully drained. it seems that the phone freezed somewhere with the screen off and the only trick was to drain the battery. no key combination was working and no charging lite. It could be so easy if the battery was accessible, unfortunately it's not ((
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mnm372 said:
Just happened to me few days ago with the battery at about 10%. after i totally gave up and ready to send it for warranty repair. After a day, it started again as the battery was fully drained. it seems that the phone freezed somewhere with the screen off and the only trick was to drain the battery. no key combination was working and no charging lite. It could be so easy if the battery was accessible, unfortunately it's not ((
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over two days the battery ran down prematurely and then refused to charge no charge light phone dead. htc less than helpful now begins the nightmare with Kogan support
Hello,
I searched for died 8X Phones. I have the same problem TWICE with my HTC 8X.
The firstdevice is ran 6 weeks, then the repair center has replaced my phone with a brand new one. After 2 weeks exactly the same problem (no function, no loading, no reset, no connection) with the second one
Have anyone an idea which function or app the phone lets crashing?
I woke up this morning to my HTC 8X being powered down when I know it had at least 45% battery. When I tried to power the device back on it would not come back on. I contacted HTC and they told me to press camera button+vol down+power for fifteen seconds and when the device vibrates to let go of the power button but keep the camera+vol down buttons pressed, when I attempted this nothing happend so the HTC representative on the phone advised me to just send it in for repair. I've owned the phone for a little over a month and a half, was on the latest firmware, and had the phone protected with full body invisible shield and HTC doubleshot case.
Had this problem yesterday...suddenly phone died and nothing
waited till i got home from work and plugged it in to the laptop and it sprang back to life saying it was compleatly out of charge....was showing 80 odd % before hand
Yesterday, I was using the Navigation app on my phone. It was a busy day, so I think I had left the app running. In my previous experiences with the app, it stays on until I exit the app. Previously, I remember the phone running really hot.
Anyhow, yesterday sometime in the afternoon, I took my phone out and found the screen off. Pushing the power button didn't do anything. So I figure it probably had a drained battery and I plugged it in the wall to charge. About three or four hours later, I pushed the power button again - just to turn on my phone and see if I had any missed texts/calls. Nothing - the screen didn't turn on, but the red LED light was on. So I left it charging through the wall adapter, and went to go do some research about the problem.
Next morning the red LED was flashing. I tried the power button again, but nothing happened. Then I got a little panicky and tried the different button configurations I had read about: holding down the power button for x amount of seconds, holding down the power button and volume down button simultaneously - but again, nothing happened.
Fast forward to tonight - I'm not sure if my phone is charging or not, or if something else sinister is happening to it. I pushed the power button down about a half hour ago, and the red LED turned off. I then, plugged my phone into my computer, and I got a dialog pop-up that said "Device driver was not properly installed" with the driver name "qhsusb_dload".
Any idea what this issue is? Or could you point me to further info somewhere?
Any help is much appreciated!
PS. I got my HTC One X just about 2 and a half months ago at the end of November. My phone isn't rooted, and the most "advanced" thing I did with it was put ADWLauncher on it.
intellectualese said:
Yesterday, I was using the Navigation app on my phone. It was a busy day, so I think I had left the app running. In my previous experiences with the app, it stays on until I exit the app. Previously, I remember the phone running really hot.
Anyhow, yesterday sometime in the afternoon, I took my phone out and found the screen off. Pushing the power button didn't do anything. So I figure it probably had a drained battery and I plugged it in the wall to charge. About three or four hours later, I pushed the power button again - just to turn on my phone and see if I had any missed texts/calls. Nothing - the screen didn't turn on, but the red LED light was on. So I left it charging through the wall adapter, and went to go do some research about the problem.
Next morning the red LED was flashing. I tried the power button again, but nothing happened. Then I got a little panicky and tried the different button configurations I had read about: holding down the power button for x amount of seconds, holding down the power button and volume down button simultaneously - but again, nothing happened.
Fast forward to tonight - I'm not sure if my phone is charging or not, or if something else sinister is happening to it. I pushed the power button down about a half hour ago, and the red LED turned off. I then, plugged my phone into my computer, and I got a dialog pop-up that said "Device driver was not properly installed" with the driver name "qhsusb_dload".
Any idea what this issue is? Or could you point me to further info somewhere?
Any help is much appreciated!
PS. I got my HTC One X just about 2 and a half months ago at the end of November. My phone isn't rooted, and the most "advanced" thing I did with it was put ADWLauncher on it.
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qhsusb_dload usually indicates a hard brick. take it for warranty repair. given what you've described most likely you've had a hardware failure of some sort.
Sounds like you've ended up in qualcom download mode somehow. When you held down power and volume down, was you're phone plugged in? I think I accidentally made it to qdl mode once when my phone was plugged into the wall. Try unplugging power, and press and holding power and volume down, see what happens.. Otherwise you may be able to get help from 18th.abn who seems to know quite a bit about the qualcom download mode. Good luck.
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It pains me to read your post because I had the same exact thing months ago. The phone turned off while using navigation and never turned on again. At the time JET didn't exist so there was nothing I could do about it.
Look here and see if it might help your situation and maybe avoid a warranty repair
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982442
I've seen this type of post a few times and makes me think that there's definitely something wrong with the evita that's bricking these phones all on their own. Maybe hardware like someone else suggested so maybe warranty repair might be safer.
Best of luck. :thumbup:
Thank you all for your help and suggestions. It appears my phone is dead, completely. I had high hopes, but now I think I'm wasting energy. I called HTC and they said they'd send me an email with ticket info to return it so they could fix it. But they never sent the email. Now I must chase after them and try to get them to fix my phone. Sigh. I would try JET, but I don't run Linux and don't think I'm as tech savvy as I should be to set it up.
Thanks again!
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Sigh. I would try JET, but I don't run Linux and don't think I'm as tech savvy as I should be to set it up.
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IMO, if you are bone stock (sounds like you are) its not worth it to mess with JET. Just send the phone to HTC (or your carrier, if they handle warranty matters - they are often easier to deal with than HTC). It may well be a hardware issue, that JET won't fix.
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IMO, if you are bone stock (sounds like you are) its not worth it to mess with JET. Just send the phone to HTC (or your carrier, if they handle warranty matters - they are often easier to deal with than HTC). It may well be a hardware issue, that JET won't fix.
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Yea... if you are in qdl download.. sounds like a hardware failure..sending it back to HTC might be the only way to go..
Up and running again, but w/ new phone
Yup, I took it to my carrier (ATT) yesterday and they couldn't do anything with it, so they gave me new phone right there and then, which was great news. Bad news is I have to start from scratch. But at least I've learned to back up early and often.
Not sure if you could have done anything about this as it seems to be a hardware failure
Hi all,
I went to take my break at work, phone in hand, working, put it in my pocket. Signed out, proceeded to the elevators to go downstairs, take it back out and no response. Okay. Fine. Hold power...nothing. Pop the battery out for 30ish seconds, back in, case on...power...still nothing. Get to my car thinking maybe it died even though it had 50% left to the battery. Plug it into my car mount and the LED doesn't light up. I work minutes away from a Verizon store so I decide to stop by. I explain to the rep what was going on, he plugs it in and nothing. He tries a different battery and nothing. We both tried vol up + power + home and nothing.
I have not rooted my phone, and the only thing I did recently was factory reset it over the weekend just to give it a "fresh start."
After I got home not too long ago, plugged the phone in using the cable I usually take with me (just happened to leave it home today of course) and no response from the phone. However, if I remove the back cover and take the battery out the LED light DOES come on if I plug the phone in again for several minutes and then it goes out.
From what I've read here and elsewhere there was something about a bad EMMC chip that caused phones to just suddenly die, could this possibly be it?
Thanks.
Sounds like a hard brick to me. Try this
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM&desktop_uri=/watch%=dU5H8NJ7vTM
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If ur not rooted wat so ever then jst get a warranty replacement
If you don't have the ability to software flash it or if you honestly think its a hardware issue you could try getting a warranty replacement through your carrier as suggested or if you'd like to keep your phone and not get a refurb and are willing to wait a couple weeks, you could always send it to Samsung for warranty repair.
Feel free to pm me if you wanna troubleshoot
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Hu guys. Long story short. I was out for awhile yesterday and when i got home i could not connect to my wifi. I tried turning wifi off and back on but it would not even turn off! When i toggled wifi to off nothing would happpen..................almost as if it got 'stuck' and also some apps started randomly forced quitting. I turned the phone off and back on and all was fine again
Then last night i woke in the middle of the night and hit the power button to wake the phone so i could check the time but the phone didnt respond. Puzzled i figured i must have turned the phone off accidentally so i pressed again but this time holding the button down as if to power on the device but again, nothing! I started getting worried at this stage and eventually though wait, the battery must be dead (no idea how but it must be) but when i plugged in the charger again nothing happened! It was as if the device was literally dead! I went back asleep and figured i would just have to bring the phone into the store i bought it from and hopefully be given a replacement but when i woke up this morning i decided to hold the power button and the volume button (a hard reset?) anyways the phone vibrated as if to be revived back to life and then powered on and has been fine ever since??
Should i be worried or what? Anyone have any ideas what happened? I can honestly say i havent tampered with the phone or tried to root or anything like that so i have no idea what happened! Iam just worried incase its a problem with the device as i have it around 3 weeks now and i think it has to be returned as faulty within 31 days to get a replacement! The weird thing is, its working fine again now with no issues?
if it's the sleep of death whilst charging, try a free app called safe charge from the store - admittedly, this doesn't account for the wifi issue though - I'd roll with it, but then take it back if there's any recurrence - 12 month statutory guarantee minimum presumably?
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if it's the sleep of death whilst charging, try a free app called safe charge from the store - admittedly, this doesn't account for the wifi issue though - I'd roll with it, but then take it back if there's any recurrence - 12 month statutory guarantee minimum presumably?
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It wasnt while charging! Its as if the phone just died for no reason and wouldnt respond to anything until the following morning when i did a rest i think its called ( press the power and volume button together) Hopefully its not a serious problem as Vodafone are difficult to deal with when it comes to faulty handsets! I was told before the device has to be returned as faulty and confirmed THREE times before they will give you a replacement! In other words iam not entitled to a new phone . Iam only entitled to have it sent away for repair (which can take 2/3 weeks) and ive no insurance so not entitled to a replacment phone until it comes back! They will only hand out a new phone if the current one is verified as being faulty after THREE attempts to fix the issue! This is what i was told at least although i was told this 3/4 years ago
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It wasnt while charging! Its as if the phone just died for no reason and wouldnt respond to anything until the following morning when i did a rest i think its called ( press the power and volume button together) Hopefully its not a serious problem as Vodafone are difficult to deal with when it comes to faulty handsets! I was told before the device has to be returned as faulty and confirmed THREE times before they will give you a replacement! In other words iam not entitled to a new phone . Iam only entitled to have it sent away for repair (which can take 2/3 weeks) and ive no insurance so not entitled to a replacment phone until it comes back! They will only hand out a new phone if the current one is verified as being faulty after THREE attempts to fix the issue! This is what i was told at least although i was told this 3/4 years ago
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You're not entitled to a new phone - you could well get a repair or a refurb. Are you sure you've not enabled stamina mode, or one of its variants, and it was just offline overnight?