Hi all... and sorry for my bad English ;-)
I've got an HTC G1. When I try to start it, nothing happens. Only the backlight turns on ... What can I do?
do you have a rooted g1 with recovery and engineering SPL?
No, it isn't rooted...
Is it brand new? I think you should be able to exchange it, if you got it from a store that is; unless you got it from online then you will have to contact the website and see where that goes.
No, it isn't brand new. Someone gave it to me... So i can't exchange it.
Try to boot it thru camera+power holding. Wont help you if success but at least will tell you where the problem.
if he can go to recover mode screen wont remain completely black as far as i know. Because splashscreen appear before recover (or other) mode starts. I might be wrong of course.
If I try to go into the recovery mode thru camera + power button, nothing happens. Only the backlight turns on (black screen with backlight & keyboard backlight...)
Follow first 6 steps in this form...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
tihs should boot your G1.... then if you want go on ahead with other rooting steps to root your g1..
I tried the first 6 steps, but it won't work. I think I can't entry bootloader mode. On step #4 (...)You should see a gray/white screen with instructions(...)
nothing happens on my Phone. :S
Isn't it possible, to flash the bootloader/firmware over USB or something like that?
*push* no solution?
are you sure the phone does not boot? Does it rumble when you first turn it on?
I have a similar problemb, but my phone will completely boot and work, but the lcd does not work it stays black. i can move apps around (they rumble when you pick one up), and i can recieve calls.
I was able to get it to occasionally boot with the lcd working by rebooting the phone with call+menu+power. It worked long enough to reflash the rom to rc29, and boot into it. Then it died shortly after.
mine is going to htc.
Yes, it does rumble when I turn it on, but I think it doesn't boot. So I can't "move apps around" or "recieve calls"
And I can't use the warranty, because I'm swiss.
another way to tell if it actually boots is plug it into a pc after giviing it enough time to boot, and listen for the usb connection notification sound your phone should make.
just trying to help you narrow it down. When i am contacted by HTC i will be sure to try and get as much info from then as possible. hopefully ill get something that might help you.
Since you wont have to worry about voiding your warranty, I also suggest snagging the factory service manual and make sure all the flex cables/connectors pertaining to the lcd are properly connected. This, of course, is under the idea that you have the same problem as me.
good luck
When I plug the phone over usb into a PC, the pc find it as "HTC Android Phone USB Device".
Hmm I don't think, that the LCD is broken, because the backlight turns on... If the lcd is broken, the backlight won't turn on, right?
the backlight on mine would also stay on. then again my lcd worked intermittenly at first and proceded to work less and less, but the backlight would remain on. However, I think your problem differs from what I encountered.
The fact that your pc recognizes the phone means the usb controller is working, but thats about it... I am just trying to find out for sure if you phone boots or not. That will help narrow down the problem for sure.
Have you tried calling it from another number?
It also never hurts to take a peek at the factory service manual... if you havent already
thank you. hmm... I think I can't recieve phonecalls.. but I'm not sure. (I tried it, but yeah i don't know. xD it doesn't rumble or something like that...) Is it possible to have "remote" on the phone? So I can use it over the PC?
They have shipped my phone back. Apparently the screen dying was a side effect of the keyboard going bad...The keypad did not give me any problems though. I was told they replaced the keypad FPC (part no: 73H20137-41M, pg#102 in the service manual). They replaced nothing else.
Unforutnately they did not have any more info to give me. In your case, i would suggest opening it up and checking all the flex cable connections to ensure they are properly and fully attached. of course this check is not really for the faint of heart technically speaking, but it shouldnt be too bad with the service manual as a disassembly/assembly guide.
are there any tutorials how to open the g1? =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27inpgouXII (part I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIg_3EgrgGY (part II)
Hello
i have a HTC Sensation XL. It is not my phone but i have been asked to try to rescue some sound files that are of real importance.
Problem is, that the display is completly damaged. And it might just be the controller or something because the phone boots normally and can receive calls. Unfortunately the phone was given to a repairstore which did not do anything but to damage the volume buttons, The plastik is entirely gone.
There is no root
USB debugging is not activated
I have to enter a PIN (which i know) but i cant since the display is broken.
Is there any way of accessing the internal storage and rescuing those audio files? Those supposed to be interviews for a final exam!
Please dont lecture about data safety. That wont help me and its not my phone either.
I had a shower half a year ago with my Razr, and had it's power button damaged by it, however, it effected my access to ap fastboot.
luckily, I might not be able to use the power button, but I can still restart my phone by holding volume down, but the volume down doesnt fuction both as power button and volume down, it only provides the volume down command.
My os has become really slow, I have no idea why, I think my phone could still function rapidly after the water damage, positive it didnt corrupt any hardware like the cpu because then I wouldnt be even able to turn my phone up,
I am having cm 11 and the nights updates didnt make it any better, im positive it was one of the updates I installed made my os function slower.
So my only solution is to write down a new stock rom on my phone, but as soon as I go to ap fastboot, it only leads to a black screen.
I could probably install a new stock from the os loaded it self through the usb debugger feature, but I tried to research my issue on google and around the forum and I couldnt find non that have my problem, so I am really not sure if its a good idea flashing a stock through the os, when the fastboot it self doesnt exist in my phone.
What should I do?
Thanks!
Hey guys,
just replaced my screen by myself and it isn't working. It boots and the screen lights up for a few seconds but thats it. So it seems like I ****ed up somewhere. :/
Now I've got some questions for you guys.
1. What could cause this error? Since it's already not working I don't mind taking it apart some more and trying to fix it.
2. Do you think if I send it to the support from OnePlus they will take a look at it?
3. The whole reason I did this was to get my data back. Is there any way to access the data on the phone without the touchscreen? I encrypted it using CynogenMod. USB-Debugging is enabled.
Thank you so much guys, I'd really appreciate some help. This **** is really tearing me down since it was a lot of work.
I did this on my own phone but Idk about OPO. If you use the power+voldown method to boot into recovery (yes ik nothing on screen) then connect a usb and see what happens
If you power it on, wait 5 mins then call it and if the phone rings you should be able to rule out the display and speakers and storage, obvs if the display is still not on at this point it is probably the display.
you can also adb from recovery and or fastboot so you should be able to see it in there if it is still working (make sure you change the phone for a decent amount of hours before you do any of these) If the display is dead its likely its been on for the last day and dead
Sorry for the late answer, really appreciate your help!
So if I connect the phone to the PC (tried it in recovery and in normal mode) windows detects the phone under "Devices" but sadly if I type in "adb devices" in cmd it doesn't detect the device.
But still, windows is detecting the phone so it seems to still function. I booted into recovery and I could use the touscreen and the lower buttons. I couldn't see anything but it was vibrating whenever I was using the touscreen. So it seems like only the display part is broken.
Can't call the phone since it's fully encrypted so I need to type in a password before booting anything (recovery, normal mode, ...)
I'll try to contact the vendor of the display and see what he has to say.
If anyone got any more tips I'd appreciate them. I'm a pretty big noob so I even appreciate "common sense" tips.
I know this may be a "common sense" thing to say, but double check your connections. Sometimes the connectors aren't made properly and a pin could be covered so you can try connecting and disconnecting several times to see if it clears up.
Since the touch screen was registering and vibrating, then it could be the backlight that's broken. Try holding a flashlight at an angle and see if you can make out anything on screen. If it's the backlight, then you can probably back up your data in case your phone does end up breaking.
reconnected everything multiple times and also tried the flashlight trick. sadly with both no luck
but something good:
adb recognizes my phone in "recovery"
bad news: no commands work, most likely because the phone is encrypted. if I enter a command nothing happens, it looks like its loading forever.
any ideas?
Hey!
I also had the same problem after I replaced OPO's screen about one year ago. The replacement screen was from ebay.
I could see the Cyanogen logo but after a few seconds the screen became black. Booting into recovery mode worked well.
On the video also ROM boots well but the screen stays black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcWDCJIkPKQ
Eventually, the screen was defective and I returned it and bought new one.
Hi,
I've recently broken my S6 by accidentally smashing the screen - it completely died as a result, the screen went black with a single green line on it at first, which then procceeded to disappear as well. I figured that I wouldn't bother repairing it since it isn't much cheaper to replace the screen than to buy a new one. But now I kinda want to do that since I can get a used screen for cheap. The problem is, before I knew that I had attempted to recover my data from the phone and succeded. The phone doesn't have root which makes things harder, but I did a little research on the subject and used a program called dr fone to do that, but since it asks you to pay up in order to actually pull your data from the phone (it only shows you your photos/calls etc., doesn't let you transfer it without paying) I thought to myself **** that and tried to cheat a little. Well basically the program asks you to put your phone in download mode I believe (it tells you to hold down home+power+volume down) and then uploads something to it that lets you use adb freely - although it doesn't really tell you that, so while it was uploading the thing I found adb in the program folder and entered the pull command to transfer the data onto my PC. While I was doing that dr fone was "uploading" something to my phone and got stuck at 90%. I honestly had no idea what I was doing but I succeeded in getting my data and didn't think twice about what I should do next so I unplugged the phone with the program still being stuck on 90% progress.
Now the phone doesn't seem to react to anything I do, it doesn't turn on, the LED doesn't flash (it did before) and I have no idea if it's able to enter recovery because the screen is dead and holding down any combination of buttons doesn't seem to work unless I'm doing something wrong.
What I would like to know is whether I ****ed up something badly without replacing the screen because I don't want to purchase one for a phone that will possibly refuse to work anyway. Is there any way to figure that out?