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[Help]Brick ?

HI Guys
Got a One S with a s3 cpu bootloader unlocked.
Today I let the phone on and wait until it discharges totally. Then I plug it using the charger.
What a surprise, the led turn orange during 2s and then turn off and nothing more happends. I stay like that during 2 hours just in case it is charging anyway.
But not, i can't power it on.
When i press the power button, nothing
When I press it during 10s, the screen flashes and nothing more...
I can't even boot on the recovery.
Feel free to share your ideas, thoughts...
in one word helppppp
Thanks

sounds dead :crying:
does adb recognize it
btw you are in the One S Forum

rugmankc said:
sounds daed :crying:
does adb recognize it
btw you are in the One S Forum
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by S3 i meant s3 cpu thx
Think will see with waranty if it works

Oh, sorry--misunderstood
Good Luck on resolving it--

So is adb recognised ?
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nope

doesn't look good
guess i am not a big fan of letting the phone run down to zero, although wouldn't think that would brick it

sounds like a charger problem. the orange LED shouldn't turn off if it's continue charging. Try another charger or charger with higher capacity. (i.e, iPad 10W charger)

UNfortunatly tried 2 different charger and usb from pc.
No change

Must be perm brick
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[Q] HTC One S doesn't power up! blinking LED! please help

My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??

When you plug it into a computer, what comes up?

barezb said:
My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??
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Hey, did you find a solution?
My friend also has a similar problem with his One S...

Mine did the same thing I guess the battery has to charge past 5% before it turns on
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mixalot2008 said:
Mine did the same thing I guess the battery has to charge past 5% before it turns on
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u should never let ur battery get to low,,, keep it charged... leave it alone for awhile..

Did someone find a solution to this? A friend of mine's One S had exactly the same issue..Also recharged for something like 5-6 hours but never turned on again..suggestions?

Only thing you can try is to boot into 'Fastboot' and try reboot from there, not saying it will work but worth a try cuz mine did the same thing 2 days ago and mine was cuz battery dropped lower than 2% while messing around on computer

barezb said:
My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??
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Are you using cwm recovery? If so boot into fastboot and flash twrp. There is a bug with cwm that won't boot the phone while the battery is dead...the led light just flashes and occasionally you will get the screen flash. Unplug the phone from charger and pc, hold volume down + power to enter bootloader then plug into pc to fastboot the twrp recovery.
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I had the same problem a loooooooooooooong time ago. Plug it in, wait for it to have a solid orange LED. Then try to power it on. If that doesn't work, give it a couple more minutes then do a soft reset. If that doesn't work, then you, sir, have a very plush paperweight.

kylepont said:
I had the same problem a loooooooooooooong time ago. Plug it in, wait for it to have a solid orange LED. Then try to power it on. If that doesn't work, give it a couple more minutes then do a soft reset. If that doesn't work, then you, sir, have a very plush paperweight.
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Dude lol, this was resolved Jan.17th but thanks for ur input:thumbup:
HTC One S/Viper/Elemental Kernel 3.4 beta

TheCrow1372 said:
Dude lol, this was resolved Jan.17th but thanks for ur input:thumbup:
HTC One S/Viper/Elemental Kernel 3.4 beta
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I just googled to see if the One S had any other LED colours except for green, orange and amber, because I would like to customise them as well, and I saw this thread on the results. Sadly, green, orange and amber is my lot

kylepont said:
I just googled to see if the One S had any other LED colours except for green, orange and amber, because I would like to customise them as well, and I saw this thread on the results. Sadly, green, orange and amber is my lot
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Yeah that's one of many things that HTC never listens to from suggestions or complaints from end users
HTC One S/Viper/Elemental Kernel 3.4 beta

TheCrow1372 said:
Yeah that's one of many things that HTC never listens to from suggestions or complaints from end users
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I mean... Come on, even though RIM/BlackBerry are in millions of pounds in the red they still fit 16,000,000 colour LEDs. We as HTC users are stuck with three.

Resolved?
TheCrow1372 said:
Dude lol, this was resolved Jan.17th but thanks for ur input:thumbup:
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I have the same issue, and I don't see a post that is dated 1/17 or anything from the OP that tells how it was resolved. Care to share?

Unplug your phone, soft reset, go to fastboot, flash twrp recovery and enjoy your phone .

Same problem here I was having random reboots screen frezzing black no response when on fully charged I some how got it fastboot and ran the ics ruu thinking it would fine again since it was stock it worked fine for one day I did update to official tmob jb it stared again except this time it died on full battery finally it just gave out would no longer showing any indication of charging or powering on I sent the phone back to tmo relocked and unrooted and they sent me a new one
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barezb said:
My three weeks old HTC One S has completely died. no matter how much I charge it with PC usb and wall charger, it never turns on again! when i charge it the orange led blinks for a while, and sometimes the screen flashes, but never turns on
any ideas??
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I have changed my battery with the battery of the One X+ of 2100 mah, if you read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1888741 many people have succesfully done this, anyway in my case the battery was completly discharged ( zero power ) and when I plug the phone to the charged I got this exact situation: orange blinking led with the screen flashing sometimes. I can enter inside fastboot with the charget pluged it but I cannot start the device. I have left the phone connected to the charger for a lot of hours but it doesn't charge. What can I do?

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.

[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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Sense 5 venom charging problems

Hi , I am using the Venom sense 5 rom. It was all going fine until my battery completely drained today whilst playing injustice and the phone went off. When the phone went off i plugged the wall charger in and instead of the orange light going solid it kept blinking.
I dont understand what to do , hope someone can help as i cant power the mobile up.
Thanks in advance!

Heloooo said:
Hi , I am using the Venom sense 5 rom. It was all going fine until my battery completely drained today whilst playing injustice and the phone went off. When the phone went off i plugged the wall charger in and instead of the orange light going solid it kept blinking.
I dont understand what to do , hope someone can help as i cant power the mobile up.
Thanks in advance!
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How old its your battery , maybe the battery is the problem check with another if you have
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Mile_zdr said:
How old its your battery , maybe the battery is the problem check with another if you have
sent from HTC Sensation 4G
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I have 2 batteries and both of them are doing this.

Heloooo said:
I have 2 batteries and both of them are doing this.
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can you boot into bootloader?
if yes then choose reboot
after that untick fastboot from settings

rzr86 said:
can you boot into bootloader?
if yes then choose reboot
after that untick fastboot from settings
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Hey Thanks mate , that seems to have solved the problem .

Heloooo said:
Hi , I am using the Venom sense 5 rom. It was all going fine until my battery completely drained today whilst playing injustice and the phone went off. When the phone went off i plugged the wall charger in and instead of the orange light going solid it kept blinking.
I dont understand what to do , hope someone can help as i cant power the mobile up.
Thanks in advance!
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Man !!!! This is obvious.
When your Battery is toooooooo low then phone can't boot, so orange light blinks means Battery is collecting some power to boot at least. It will take 2-3 minutes, then orange light will get stable. Means now you can boot your device.
This is NORMAL !!!

hunt said:
Man !!!! This is obvious.
When your Battery is toooooooo low then phone can't boot, so orange light blinks means Battery is collecting some power to boot at least. It will take 2-3 minutes, then orange light will get stable. Means now you can boot your device.
This is NORMAL !!!
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I know its normal but i charged it for 2 hours and the mobile wasnt charging at all , thats why I posted on XDA .
BTW rebooting from the bootloader seems to have done the trick and now the mobile is working perfectly fine.
THANKS EVERYONE!

Heloooo said:
I know its normal but i charged it for 2 hours and the mobile wasnt charging at all , thats why I posted on XDA .
BTW rebooting from the bootloader seems to have done the trick and now the mobile is working perfectly fine.
THANKS EVERYONE!
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then untick fastboot from settings

You can also boot in recovery and clear your battery stats then make two cycles charging/full discharging, as the charging time is 8h+