So I was trying to revert back to stock on my One X. I flashed stock recovery, re locked the phone and then downloaded the newest update from HTC's website. Everything went according to plan until the update finished and my phone no longer worked. It appears to turn on based on when i plug it into my computer it makes the "hey you plugged in a USB device" sound and when I long hold the power button it makes the disconnect sound. There is no display whatsoever.
What I have tried.
- Cannot boot into recovery
- Cannot get adb to recognize my device
- Cannot get fastboot to recognize my device
- Charged with HTC power brick and cable for 24 hours to validate it wasn't dead. No charge light while charging
Seems unlikely, but does anyone have any idea? Thanks in advance!
Sounds like a hardware problem, if the display/charge light don't turn on at all :S
Doesn't sound like hardware at all to me, sounds like user error. What ROM were you on when you flashed the OTA?
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If you were SuperCID, S-on, and tried to flash the Jellybean update, you are bricked, per my PSA sticky at the top of General. If this is the case, time to JTAG.
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I tried flashing my unlocked Orange Sensation and now it does not show any sign of life: I can't turn it on, no light from the LED indicator when charging it.
I removed the battery several time and put it back then tried power it on without any luck, here what I did before:
I followed this tutorial and S-OFF,installed ClockworkMod Recovery, and rooted it all successfully.
After that I tried flashing if using Sensation_3.32.401.5_deodexed from this thread, but the phone kept restarting showing HTC logo screen.
Then I read that I need to super-cid my phone since it was from Orange. I did that using Auto Super-Cid Script By Pavelol v3, again the phone kept restarting showing HTC logo screen.
Finally, I successfully installed Firmware from 3.32.401.x & 3.32.401.10x RUU in this thread, then reboot, BAM phone is dead!
I don't know what I did wrong, but it should not kill my phone!
I looked at previous threads but there is no clear cause or solution.
Help me pleeeeez
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I tried flashing my unlocked Orange Sensation and now it does not show any sign of life: I can't turn it on, no light from the LED indicator when charging it.
I removed the battery several time and put it back then tried power it on without any luck, here what I did before:
I followed this tutorial and S-OFF,installed ClockworkMod Recovery, and rooted it all successfully.
After that I tried flashing if using Sensation_3.32.401.5_deodexed from this thread, but the phone kept restarting showing HTC logo screen.
Then I read that I need to super-cid my phone since it was from Orange. I did that using Auto Super-Cid Script By Pavelol v3, again the phone kept restarting showing HTC logo screen.
Finally, I successfully installed Firmware from 3.32.401.x & 3.32.401.10x RUU in this thread, then reboot, BAM phone is dead!
I don't know what I did wrong, but it should not kill my phone!
I looked at previous threads but there is no clear cause or solution.
Help me pleeeeez
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Well, you certainly bricked your phone by installing the ROM before upgrading the firmware or superCID your phone..
First of all, there's no need to superCID just because you are on Orange, you could have downloaded the suitable firmware from mike's thread. Then again you should have done it before trying to install the ROM. That's what you probably have done wrong.
Now as per the solution, refer to the following threads..I guess they will help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600324&highlight=bricked+sensation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1542555
I would try that if the phone would power on
My problem now is that the phone can't be turned on. I press the power button nothing happens, I connect it to the charger but charging LED not lighting.
I connect it to my PC but it can not detect the phone at all because it is not turned on.
SilverDove said:
My problem now is that the phone can't be turned on. I press the power button nothing happens, I connect it to the charger but charging LED not lighting.
I connect it to my PC but it can not detect the phone at all because it is not turned on.
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Can you load recovery or bootloader by pressing power and volume button?
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No
I can't since it can't turn on!
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I can't since it can't turn on!
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You don't need to be able to fully turn your phone on in order to access the recovery and bootloader. Charge the phone for a while, even if no LED is showing. Reflash the 3.32 firmware if you can access the bootloader. Flash VI through recovery. Observe.
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I charged the phone with no LED indicating its being charged, pressed the power button and nothing happened. The phone can't be powered at all.
I think you need to take it to repair shop, to un-break it they need to replace a part on your htc using JTAG.
This will cost you alot of money.
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I charged the phone with no LED indicating its being charged, pressed the power button and nothing happened. The phone can't be powered at all.
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Remove battery, replace battery, hold volume - and press power, this is how you enter bootloader. Does this work?
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Already did that
I've already removed the battery and replaced it many times without any luck.
Try to take to a local HTC repair center. If You have any kind of proof of purchase, they have to repair it under warranty according to the IMEI no.
I succesfully got my phone back in this way. Just don't tell them what You did, only that it won't turn on.
Good luck!
I will take it to HTC repair center, unfortunately I lost its papers so I'll have to pay for the repair
I had the same problem...phone won't turn on and unresponsive. Not sure if it's ROM related....it happened after I installed the new revolution ROM...but everything seem to go fine and was able to boot to the new ROM...then when using for call it had a long beep tone and just turned off and never turned on again.
So I am waiting for repair from HTC as well...hopefully they will replace it as well. Do you think yours is a hardware problem? I am glad they replaced yours even it was rooted.. I am hoping they can't turn on and had no choice and way to know it was roooted!
newr said:
I had the same problem...phone won't turn on and unresponsive. Not sure if it's ROM related....it happened after I installed the new revolution ROM...but everything seem to go fine and was able to boot to the new ROM...then when using for call it had a long beep tone and just turned off and never turned on again.
So I am waiting for repair from HTC as well...hopefully they will replace it as well. Do you think yours is a hardware problem? I am glad they replaced yours even it was rooted.. I am hoping they can't turn on and had no choice and way to know it was roooted!
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Indeed! Same hapened to me. It was mainboard failure. They couldn't turn it on.
Bad side it has latest stock rom with HBOOT 1.27.0000, and still no way to unlock bootloader, rooting and S-OFF.
HTC repair center says that the motherboard need to be changed and it will cost me about 235$! I found out while searching that many experience this problem.
I tried to find a replacement but almost all my search result is about the upper PCB with motherboard flex cable which is leftover of people buying motherboards.
HTC has problems with motherboards with several models also.
I hate HTC, I will not buy any HTC again.
try contact your dealer, and ask if he can find the tickets?
Hey man, try jumpstarting your phone by taking out the battery and plugging it in the wall, try turning it on while it is directly connected?
This is a know issue. You have hard bricked your device. I did it too. If you have warranty, there is no way HTC can detect a modified device and they will replace the motherboard for you like they did for me, free of charge. If you don't have warranty thankfully there is now a relatively simple way to fix this:
Just follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
Note: This will fix only devices which were bricked by turning S ON. And bricks caused by a damaged hboot via interrupted OTA update/RUU flash on a S-ON device. Any devices bricked with other ways are currently *not* supported. We are working on it
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My case is that I've installed a ROM before updating the firmware, anyway I have tried it and it won't work with me.
Anybody can explain this to me?
I don't know how flashing a ROM before upgrading the firmware can damage my motherboard ! Anybody can explain this to me?
I did many crazy things with Samsung and Huawei and those never hurt the hardware
I flashed a Jellybean touchwiz rom for Verizon GS3, and went to reboot and now nothing, zero zip nada. No charging led light, no way to get into recovery and no response.
Anything I can do?
what happens when you do vol up + home+power button?
Absolutely nothing. I tried to get back into the recovery to see if I could restore my backup and nope.
did you try leave it pluged in for 30mins ?
does it vibrate once when you try to turn it on?
No vibrating and no sign of life at all. Even when plugged into my computer, I was going to try the unbrick guide but it listed that I should be able to get into the recovery still.
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No vibrating and no sign of life at all. Even when plugged into my computer, I was going to try the unbrick guide but it listed that I should be able to get into the recovery still.
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leave it plugged in for a while to make sure its not drained battery
do you have a usb jig?
I don't have a USB jig but this is possibly good news. I removed the battery and SD card and plugged it into my computer and it tried to install drivers (failed but tried) and the led light comes on red.
if your gettin led now you more then likely need to let it charge
It doesn't give me the led with the battery in
Plug it into a wall charger for at least 30 or even better if you can get a battery from someone.
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I think its gone still nothing.
red led means qualcomm download mode. sounds dead to me
Yeah, haha. I saw it and mentally prepared myself for it. Literally just got the phone today so Verizon had no qualms with just sending me a new phone. Guess I'm reactivating my Rezound in the meantime. Thanks for the help guys.
you know
I am surprised. That also happened to me the first time i flashed that very same rom (touchwiz) with twrp . I have done this so many times , i literarily can flash a rom on the way to work .
I was in shock , i still dont know how the heck can i flash a rom and brick .
I plugged mine into windows and i got the device manager driver error from hell . and my phone never came back up again
I stayed away form twrp and touchwiz and i still cant possibly comprehend how a simple rom flash can brick my phone .
Which ROM did you flash?
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you could probably send it to get Jtag'ed for around $60 if your warranty is invalid (ie used device)
You just hard bricked it. I did the same thing. Check here - post 5 shows the same symptoms :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770341
And here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791721
I was pushing a copy of root66 that I hadn't md5'd. Took a JTAG to bring me back (twice) .
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So, in the future, md5 checksum absolutely everything since I'm assuming now that that is why this happened? (Since I made doubly sure I was flashing a rom for my phone).
If you still have the file you downloaded, you can check it. That would answer that question. If it checks out fine, then we have to look elsewhere for the problem.
BTW, MobileTechVideos.com can bring you back - based on my experience with them, I highly recommend.
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Please share exactly what you did so others can benefit from your unfortunate experience.
What ROM did you flash?
Did you use ODIN or a recovery?
If recovery, which one - CWM or TWRP?
Was there any unusual condition you can think of ... low battery, USB connected to computer or to charger, etc?
Hi mates
I bricked my HTC One S. It was running on ViperS rom long time but i want it flash back to stock rom but i didnt find any new tmo de rom and old didn't work. So i changed cid to supercid. Installed stock EU RUU without problems. Ota update worked after it so i updated it 2 times and next update was to 4.1 that was what i needed but after download during installation something happend, I wasn't watching on screen. I saw only how display turned off and now its good brick . Black screen without, connection to pc its only making conect and dc sound for 30secs in windows( same sound when i disconnect usb device). Neither led don't turn on after connecting to charger.
Any ideas? how to flash BL to mainboard? I reaed about some company which is flashing it. Do u know where is it or have some contact?
Have you checked out this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043
[TUT] Downgrade/Unbrick Ville S4
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droidmakespwn said:
Have you checked out this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043
[TUT] Downgrade/Unbrick Ville S4
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No, it can't help me coz phone is dead i cant turn it or connect with pc adb says no devices found
adb is weird.
Whenever I think my phone is dead (when I do something stupid), I first hold down the power button for five to six second, and see if I get the blinking lights at the bottom of the screen. If nothing, I plug the phone to charge (to make sure it hasn't died. I leave it there for a good hours. Then try the power again. If I don't get anything after that, then I'm positive that I've bricked it.
firefiber said:
adb is weird.
Whenever I think my phone is dead (when I do something stupid), I first hold down the power button for five to six second, and see if I get the blinking lights at the bottom of the screen. If nothing, I plug the phone to charge (to make sure it hasn't died. I leave it there for a good hours. Then try the power again. If I don't get anything after that, then I'm positive that I've bricked it.
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No he really has bricked because of having SuperCID and doing the JB OTA.
Holy crap, I was actually going to do that. Whoops.
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Holy crap, I was actually going to do that. Whoops.
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Ya I would just wait in till it comes out for your CID.
So, I have a friend's HTC Desire S with me, which won't boot and all it does is 7 vibrations (Fastboot, normal boot). I've searched through this forum as well as the web and found no serious soultion offered. Some say to place the mobile in a fridge and some to put it inside owen. The solutions offered are pretty old, so I'm just checking if there's a permanent solution for this 7 vibration and nothing happens issue. The phone was bricked when an official upgrade from GB to ICS was announced some months before. The update was complete and when my friend removed the usb from the mobile, it bricked. Any help would be much appreciated.
Can you get it into fastboot, can you get adb to recognise it?
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jugg1es said:
Can you get it into fastboot, can you get adb to recognise it?
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Nopes. The phone won't charge, no LED.
I have Desire_S_All-In-One_Kit_v2.0 by Hasoon2000 and when I try to flash a rom or a recovery, the device is not detected!
htc desire s upgrade to ICS fail - unable to recover
I have been facing problem ! I was upgrading my htc desire s to ICS which was previously running on gingerbread. I had downloaded the RUU from htc dev website. Half-way through the process, the application stopped running on my PC. Ever since then my phone won't turn on. I am not able to recover the device. The PC is unable to detect it and I'm not able to charge it.. (the LED won't turn on). I also tried to turn it on by holding the power button and the volume down button together but it still won't turn on. Is there anything I can try before I send it to the htc service center ? Is it fixable at all ? The phone was in perfect condition before I tried to upgrade it. I would really appreciate any help in this regard..
mathbalaji said:
Nopes. The phone won't charge, no LED.
I have Desire_S_All-In-One_Kit_v2.0 by Hasoon2000 and when I try to flash a rom or a recovery, the device is not detected!
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susrutha g said:
I have been facing problem ! I was upgrading my htc desire s to ICS which was previously running on gingerbread. I had downloaded the RUU from htc dev website. Half-way through the process, the application stopped running on my PC. Ever since then my phone won't turn on. I am not able to recover the device. The PC is unable to detect it and I'm not able to charge it.. (the LED won't turn on). I also tried to turn it on by holding the power button and the volume down button together but it still won't turn on. Is there anything I can try before I send it to the htc service center ? Is it fixable at all ? The phone was in perfect condition before I tried to upgrade it. I would really appreciate any help in this regard..
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The program not respondibg is normal! U made a mistake, try changing the battery and turn it on with fastboot mode
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Okay so yesterday I was in the process of updating my One X using the manual update from the HTC website;
htc.com/us/support/htc-one-x-att/news/
I followed all the steps and I got as far as actually updating my phone then the wizard tells me that my USB disconnected and the update cannot proceed. Now at this time, the "htc" logo was showing in gray. Not the usual one you see at boot up. After a while it came off and now my phone will not power on for anything. There's no led light either when I plug it in. Also, when connected to my laptop, windows gives me the message that the usb malfunctioned and it cannot recognize the device.
I don't know what to do. None of the methods I've tried have worked, I've tried the power button and volume down button and also taking out my sim card.
Unfortunately you're probably bricked, if an RUU is interrupted hallway through that's usually the result.
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timmaaa said:
Unfortunately you're probably bricked, if an RUU is interrupted hallway through that's usually the result.
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Okay, is there anyway to fix this?
I think I'm just going to buy the HTC One instead. I need an upgrade anyway.
Jtag repair is usually the only fix for this kind of brick.
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