Hi,
my phone died yesterday because the battery was empty - so I charged it a little but the phone won't turn back on. The only thing I see are the touch buttons flashing when I hold the power button. And when I hold it long enough, the screen just flashes... When I tried to connect it my computer I got the ADB to work - I even managed to get to the recovery one time (i used the command adb reboot recovery for almost a hundred times before it came on). I wiped everything, reinstalled the rom (TrickDroid 4.0.0), but when I tried to reboot it nothing changed... it's still not working. Fastboot is not working.
Is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks.
Mmm, are you using CWM perhaps? If so, once you get the phone into fastboot - flash twrp.
Some suggestions you can try:
keep trying vol- + power untill you get into fastboot, it should work eventually.
Charge the phone a bit, unplug the usb cable, try and boot it <- This worked for me when my phone acted up like this, took a couple of tries though.
Have you tried spamming adb reboot bootloader ? That should also put you into fastboot eventually.
Once in fastboot, reflash the boot.img for the rom as well.
And once it works again, dont let the battery go flat, this seems like quite a common issue when the battery runs out.
Thanks for suggestions - I wrote a script that tired adb reboot bootloader every 20s .. and after like 400 runs it booted - I have no idea what this is about - but I should buy a new phone...
Tahnks again!
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when i was on runny v1.1 rom,i tried to flash unity v4 kernel,and it's very unstable,i had no other choice but to reflash the rom to get the kernel back.
the rom has wipe code in it's updater script...
the device hanged at "formatting nand with ext4 alignment" for like half an hour,...
having read the danger of pulling battery...i decided to gold the volume buttons and power button...the phone then rebooted and vibrate for 7 times...what can i do?i tried adb,but the computer cannot detect the device/...
If you don't want to pull the battery leave it run flat and then pull it. Charge it while the phone is off and then see if you can boot into hboot. If you can get to hboot then no you almost certainly haven't bricked your phone.
have you tried holding down the volume down button then holding down power at the same time? this should take you to the bootloader. from there you can go to recovery and format system, data and cache then install a previous backup or a new rom
i used the button method to reboot...and after that it rebooted and vibrates for 7 times...when i pulled my battery,and i tried to open it with volume down and power button held,all it does is just vibrates for 7 times again..
tcchuin said:
i used the button method to reboot...and after that it rebooted and vibrates for 7 times...when i pulled my battery,and i tried to open it with volume down and power button held,all it does is just vibrates for 7 times again..[/QUOTE
can you get your pc to connect to it? does charging light light up?
if not try connecting wall charger and see if it will charge?
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no to both questions...
how much charge was in the battery before this happened?
the only thing i can think to try now is a new battery. im getting out of my depth a little now...
After powering it on have you tried to see if adb recognises the phone and if it does does it respond to commands?
You'll find adb&fastboot within my sig, alongwith some HTC drivers download and install both onto your PC (assumong that you don't already have them). then plug the phone into PC by USB. Run a CMD, go to the directory where you extracted adb files and try
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[B]adb devices [/B] [COLOR="Green"]-- [I]just to see if it recognises [/I]device?
[/COLOR]If it does then try :
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[B]adb reboot recovery[/B]
[I]if no response then try[/I]
[B]adb reboot-bootloader[/B]
report back and good luck
it was like around 90%...
it cannot detect the phone...
O dear!
tcchuin said:
it was like around 90%...it cannot detect the phone...
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It's look like a visit to the local HTC service centre is next step, based on the complete lack of reponse from your phone. Although I'd obviously never advise any one to tell lies , it's probably not a good idea to meantion S-OFF etc when returning the phone and you'll most probably get a replacement unit or at least a new motherboard!
well i had trouble installing the trickroid v7 on my [S3] and it will say OS not installed.
then after many tries, of pulling the usb in and out and restarting several times to bootlocker
I cannot open to bootlocker anymore and the phone seems to died and not be able to charge.
WHEN I HOLD POWER button and volume down, all 3 soft touch keys lit up for 6~7 seconds, then the the black screen flashes a green line and off.
I cannot connect to the computer through usb either, for some reason.
i have the same problem.my phone worked fine, i unlocked bootloader, installed recovery and rooted. yesterday i put my phone on charging and today it was dead??? it flashes 7 times while holding vol down + power and then nothing happens.
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i got it working!!! i connected it to pc, run adb command: adb reboot-bootloader and i got bootloader menu, after that i went into recovery and i did factory defaults and rebooted phone,now it's charging and everything is OK!
Bubach28 said:
i have the same problem.my phone worked fine, i unlocked bootloader, installed recovery and rooted. yesterday i put my phone on charging and today it was dead??? it flashes 7 times while holding vol down + power and then nothing happens.
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i got it working!!! i connected it to pc, run adb command: adb reboot-bootloader and i got bootloader menu, after that i went into recovery and i did factory defaults and rebooted phone,now it's charging and everything is OK!
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man.. i know i can fix it... but i cant connect to the damn pc. it unable to detect it... !!!
this is what i have done and got it working. connect phone to pc that has installed htc drivers, hold down volume down button + power, phone flashes 7 times and orange led is working now. after that go to adb, type adb devices and my phone serial number was shown. after that i did the adb reboot-bootloader and my phone was alive again.
p.s. i tried also with HTC One S All-In-One Toolkit V1.1,before i made it, to send command, but phone led only show orange light and again went off. u can give a try.... if that dont work, then i think phone is dead and ready for repair :/
This probably happened to many people before, but I can't find a similar situation on xda or any android forums for that matter that was solved..
I have a Nexus S i9020a running an AOSP strawberry rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1843301), I wanted to flash miui rom so I booted back into recovery, backed up the rom, wiped data, cache, dalvik, system then installed the zip and rebooted (install was very quick so I suspect the zip might have been damaged but I'm not quite sure of it)
After install and reboot phone is stuck on google logo. I can boot into fastboot but I cant do anything from there, the volume buttons don't seem to work in it (I can't navigate to recovery or any option), and my power button is broken for about a month now so that's useless. I can boot into fastboot by unplugging the battery, plugging again, then holding volume up while inserting micro usb cable which will power the phone on.
I can't get the pc to recognize the phone using adb or fastboot devices, it says no devices detected, and when I try any command it says waiting for device and nothing happens. I have all the drivers installed and I use fastboot and adb almost everyday so I know they work.
Anyone experienced something similar or has a solution?
Responses much appreciated.
Amjad
amjadfirst said:
This probably happened to many people before, but I can't find a similar situation on xda or any android forums for that matter that was solved..
I have a Nexus S i9020a running an AOSP strawberry rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1843301), I wanted to flash miui rom so I booted back into recovery, backed up the rom, wiped data, cache, dalvik, system then installed the zip and rebooted (install was very quick so I suspect the zip might have been damaged but I'm not quite sure of it)
After install and reboot phone is stuck on google logo. I can boot into fastboot but I cant do anything from there, the volume buttons don't seem to work in it (I can't navigate to recovery or any option), and my power button is broken for about a month now so that's useless. I can boot into fastboot by unplugging the battery, plugging again, then holding volume up while inserting micro usb cable which will power the phone on.
I can't get the pc to recognize the phone using adb or fastboot devices, it says no devices detected, and when I try any command it says waiting for device and nothing happens. I have all the drivers installed and I use fastboot and adb almost everyday so I know they work.
Anyone experienced something similar or has a solution?
Responses much appreciated.
Amjad
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It's a known problem that you won't be able to scroll in fastboot when your power button is broken. It's because the power button is stuck as "enabled". I don't think there's really an easy solution other than "unfreezing" the power button by fixing it yourself or getting it fixed.
Yea after a bit more of research I think fixing the power button is the only solution.. the only problem with that is that it seems it'll cost more than the phone is worth these days
amjadfirst said:
Yea after a bit more of research I think fixing the power button is the only solution.. the only problem with that is that it seems it'll cost more than the phone is worth these days
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I imagine it depends where you get a quote from. Samsung seems to be very nice on the repairs, unlike some would believe. Might be a good idea to try to get it repaired by them if possible.
Hey guys,
I've seen some solutions for my kind of problem but none of them seems to start at my frustrating point.
After I rooted my HTC One S I was able to reboot my device and everything went fine.
The problem occured just when my battery was depleted and the phone got turned off I had no chance to restart it.
The LED did not show me it was charging and it did nothing, when I pressed the power button or the volume/power combination.
So i connected it to my laptop and tried to check my devices through adb.
It says my device is in recovery mode.
Using the fastboot reboot command I was always able to reboot my phone and everything was just fine.
I thought it was alright, as I just had to pay attention not to use up my battery, when not at home.
Today my phone just decided to turn off. It refuses to boot up even with the fastboot help from my PC.
It just says: < waiting for device >
certainly I'm unable to post a link to a screenshot I made of my cmd.
Thank you for all kind of help
Hello Guys,
My OnePlus One screen broke, it was in my drawer for more than 15 days without charge, i connected charger for 1 hour it just went from 1% to 5% but i didnt thought much about it as my priority was to change screen, i bought touch+lcd with frame and replaced it myself, but it wasnt powering up then i tried putting the backpanel on, it then booted up to the home screen, but the battery indicator wasnt moving up i powered off the phone after that it never turned on, i researched a bit and found out the after long period of time if you dont charge your phone might have problem charging and there was one suggestion which i followed and that was charge OPO using usb cable attached to PC, i left it for somewhat 7hours and it powered on i thought it might be the problem of ROM i flashed official H2OS (regret selecting this rom) using TWRP, it was a catastrophe my phone wont Enter Bootloader or Recovery, and wont even boot to system, it seemed i hardbricked my device, i used Oneplus one recovery tool 64GB to bring my device to life but after that no matter what i do my device wont enter to bootloader as the volume up button stopped working too : tried advance reboot, powerup+volumeup, opo toolkit.
Help me, i want to root my device and unlock bootloader once again.
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Hello Guys,
My OnePlus One screen broke, it was in my drawer for more than 15 days without charge, i connected charger for 1 hour it just went from 1% to 5% but i didnt thought much about it as my priority was to change screen, i bought touch+lcd with frame and replaced it myself, but it wasnt powering up then i tried putting the backpanel on, it then booted up to the home screen, but the battery indicator wasnt moving up i powered off the phone after that it never turned on, i researched a bit and found out the after long period of time if you dont charge your phone might have problem charging and there was one suggestion which i followed and that was charge OPO using usb cable attached to PC, i left it for somewhat 7hours and it powered on i thought it might be the problem of ROM i flashed official H2OS (regret selecting this rom) using TWRP, it was a catastrophe my phone wont Enter Bootloader or Recovery, and wont even boot to system, it seemed i hardbricked my device, i used Oneplus one recovery tool 64GB to bring my device to life but after that no matter what i do my device wont enter to bootloader as the volume up button stopped working too : tried advance reboot, powerup+volumeup, opo toolkit.
Help me, i want to root my device and unlock bootloader once again.
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adb reboot bootloader
waterdaan said:
adb reboot bootloader
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That Just Reboots it to system, i have turned adb on and clicked on trust this connection i have checked adb devices, and it shows attached devices too,
it just wont reboot to bootloader, but i can enter recovery. Help Please.
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That Just Reboots it to system, i have turned adb on and clicked on trust this connection i have checked adb devices, and it shows attached devices too,
it just wont reboot to bootloader, but i can enter recovery. Help Please.
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Is your volume up button actually broken or does it still work and can you boot into something? If it still works (hold on, this idea might be a little crazy xD) you could try completely hard bricking (no joke! you cannot get into Qualcomm download mode with a booting device) and restoring it with the msm8974downloadtool from the oneplus one unbricking guide which should theoretically fix everything that is wrong.
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Is your volume up button actually broken or does it still work and can you boot into something? If it still works (hold on, this idea might be a little crazy xD) you could try completely hard bricking (no joke! you cannot get into Qualcomm download mode with a booting device) and restoring it with the msm8974downloadtool from the oneplus one unbricking guide which should theoretically fix everything that is wrong.
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Even If my volume button dosent work then why wont it enter bootloader via advance reboot it just restarts to system after selecting reboot to bootloader,so i should hard brick my device once again, P.S. i have done that twice before though.