I bought a AT&T HTC One X form eBay,the seller had a high rating and good feedback and supports returning Non working items,so i just decided to buy it.
When i tried turning it on,it didn't at first,so i thought it could have an empty battery,so i plugged it in to charge it,it remained that way for almost 3 hours.
it's not displaying any signs of life;no LED to indicate charging,no vibrating when trying to press the power button,no sounds,nothing on the screen...
I tried plugging it in to my PC,didn't end well too,when i first connected it,the "installing drivers" notification popped up for about a second,then said "failed to install drivers",i went to Device Manager from the Control Panel,the port that it is plugged in though says "Unknown Device".
I've tried pressing both of the volume rockers and the power button for about 10 seconds,didn't work,as well as pressing both volume rockers with the power button individually,still nothing.
before i tell the seller about this,is there something that i'm missing?
It took a long time to arrive and well take a long time to get replaced,so if someones got a solution,that would be great.
Also sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.
The eBay post said that it was fully functional.
Firstly, don't go trying random button combinations when you don't really know what they do. The volume up + power combo is something you should never do, it's puts the phone into Qualcomm download mode and you don't want that. The only button combo you should ever try is volume down + power, which will boot it into the bootloader. Leave it plugged into an AC outlet for eight hours and try powering it on again, both normally and with the button combo. If it doesn't respond you've got yourself a lemon, but honestly it looks that way anyway.
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I left it plugged in to a charger for almost 10 hours,same thing,as well as the power button and volume down thing.
I've tried using the Cyanogen Mod Installer to see if it would recognize the device,it did,it's now downloading the Operating system,i'll stop it untill someone tells me if that's a good idea or not.
Personally, I wouldn't bother, I'd be returning the device straight away if it didn't turn on the first try.
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I've had this phone for about 5 days now. When I got it the power button was pretty tough to push and it was hard to power on and power off the phone. Today I rooted and unlocked the bootloader. Phone rebooted fine. I powered it down to get into hboot and cannot get the phone to respond now. Will not power up, no charging light when I plug it in, nothing. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
fadetoblack2104 said:
I've had this phone for about 5 days now. When I got it the power button was pretty tough to push and it was hard to power on and power off the phone. Today I rooted and unlocked the bootloader. Phone rebooted fine. I powered it down to get into hboot and cannot get the phone to respond now. Will not power up, no charging light when I plug it in, nothing. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
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I had the same thing happen to me after flashing a S=off partition to my phone... Have you tried holding down the volume down buttom and power button to hard reset it? hold it up to 20 seconds. If you get no response and when you plug it into your comp and it tells you its installing some weird file then you are HARD BRICKED like i was, only thing i know of you can do at the moment is return it... they cant acces it so just tell them you went to bed after putting it on the charger and when you woke up it was completely dead, it wont respond to anything... worked for me, hope the best for ya...
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I had the same thing happen to me after flashing a S=off partition to my phone... Have you tried holding down the volume down buttom and power button to hard reset it? hold it up to 20 seconds. If you get no response and when you plug it into your comp and it tells you its installing some weird file then you are HARD BRICKED like i was, only thing i know of you can do at the moment is return it... they cant acces it so just tell them you went to bed after putting it on the charger and when you woke up it was completely dead, it wont respond to anything... worked for me, hope the best for ya...
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Well I got it to power on now after leaving the phone sit for a while. The power button is still a pain in the butt to use though.
I was getting no response and my computer was telling me it was installing some weird file. But now it seems to be working like it should. Other than the bad power button.
In the Captivate forums (where I've been the past two years) I've seen people talk about the power button becoming more or less responsive with different ROMs. It seems impossible to me that this could be real, but enough experienced people talked about it that I wonder if there may be some explanation, like the power button isn't just an on/off device but maybe registers distance and/or pressure.
Or maybe everyone who talked about it was imagining it.
Last night I ran my battery down to the point where it said Powering Off or whatever. I charged it all night and nothing. When I plug it in, sometimes it has a red LED in the upper left for a econd or two, then does one vibrate, then becomes completely unresponsive.
I've tried a battery pull and hooking it up that way. Same thing - red LED, one vibrate, then nothing. Some times when it is plugged in, it will show a battery picture with no juice for just a second then it all goes blank again.
I am running AOKP build 4 with Slim Kernel.
HELP!!!!!!!!!
I would try another battery, sounds like the one that you have us showing up as dead even after charging overnight.
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Just unplug the phone... pull the battery... put the battery back in and WITHOUT plugging the phone in turn the phone back on (may have to hold the power button for a little while).
Strange plugging in the phone without a battery should bring up the charging screen with a question mark in it I think
So the problem has been remedied, though I would like a little input to better document this problem and solution...
I took the battery out, plugged the phone in, then popped the battery in. Really quickly, I got it to enter the weird screen where it is an exclamation point in a yield sign (I forget what combination of buttons I pushed to get here). It said Volume up to continue or Volume down to do something else. This is where it was fuzzy because I was freaking out about having to buy another phone.
Anyways, I hit the volume button that was supposed to reboot and it went through the boot sequence and showed me charging at 98%. This is strange because it was plugged in all night but non-responsive - not power, no heat, no nothing.
So long story short, if running this ROM/Kernel combo - DO NOT LET THIS THING GO TO 0%!!!
And if anyone can tell me what combo I pressed to enter that screen, it would be very helpful. Thanks guys!
The screen you got to is called Download Mode..
Download Mode - This is a setting in which you will put your phone when using Odin. There are other ways, but most people will reach download mode by powering down, removing the battery, and holding volume down while plugging the factory usb cord into the computer and phone. Odin can only communicate properly with your phone if the phone is in download mode.
For future reference you have to
1. hold volume down + power + home button
2. Per on screen instructions, press volume down to reboot/restart device.
This is a documented problem and one that has been posted about numerous times, glad you figured it out. Also, this will always fix the problem so you should not worry if the phone running this ROM/Kernel combo runs down to 0%.
too bad samsung doesn't have a genius bar.....lol
So I recently went to Viper 4.0 and it was running just fine. I had recently just S-off'd the phone and everything was going good. Then it reboots twice in a short amount of time and now I can't get it to turn on (have tried the volume and power and nothing happens). When I plug in the charger I don't get any lights. When I plug it into the computer I hear the computer do it's sound when USB is plugged in but I just get an unknown device in device manager.
Is there anything I can do to get this phone working. I already have a Nexus 4 on the way but I would love to clear this phone off and sell it if possible. Even if it doesn't work I would love to sell it on ebay but I don't feel safe with all the info just sitting on the phone. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and let me know if you need more info and I will try and dig up what I can.
It doesn't show up as QHSUSB_DLOAD on your pc? If not it could just be the power management bug. Try charging it for a few hours (ac outlet) and powering it on. If it doesn't power on normally try holding volume down + power for a minute.
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It doesn't show up as QHSUSB_DLOAD on your pc? If not it could just be the power management bug. Try charging it for a few hours (ac outlet) and powering it on. If it doesn't power on normally try holding volume down + power for a minute.
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Doing this now. I left it plugged in last night and still didn't get it to boot up this morning but I left it plugged in and will try again when I get home from work.
I got a new S2 and put it on the charger until it showed to be 100% charged. I got ready to set it up and pair with my phone. I press the power button and absolutely nothing happens. No vibration, no sound, no screen coming on. I put it back on the charger and it now showed to be at 98%. Tried to power it on while on the charger. Same thing happened. Is there something I am missing here or is this a defective device that I need to send back?
Are you sure you pressed the power button?
Otherwise your device is defective, Its a good idea to send it back.
I pressed the right one. I even held it for over 10 seconds to try to reset it. But on the off chance I was wrong, I also pressed and held the other botton as well. Didn't matter which I pressed, the results were the same. I just went ahead and did an rma for it.
Hey guys,
Something odd happened this morning and now I am sitting around with a $700 paperweight. Woke up and took the phone off of charge like I usually do and started to read the news. about 10 minutes in the screen and touch buttons froze so I decided to reboot the phone, To my surprise the phone never came back on.
I've tried VOL Down + Power for 30 seconds even longer out of desperation along with just the power button and VOL Up + power to no avail, The phone is dead, Simply dead. I just wanted to reach out to the community to see if I am just one of the lucky ones or if anyone else has had this happen to them?
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Hey guys,
Something odd happened this morning and now I am sitting around with a $700 paperweight. Woke up and took the phone off of charge like I usually do and started to read the news. about 10 minutes in the screen and touch buttons froze so I decided to reboot the phone, To my surprise the phone never came back on.
I've tried VOL Down + Power for 30 seconds even longer out of desperation along with just the power button and VOL Up + power to no avail, The phone is dead, Simply dead. I just wanted to reach out to the community to see if I am just one of the lucky ones or if anyone else has had this happen to them?
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I don't know which variant you have but look for the MSM download tool thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/how-to/msm-tool-guac-t3934691
Have you tried volume up and volume down while you press the power button? Release only the power button when you feel a vibration. I got mine stuck with a black screen while I was tinkering. I know it's a different situation, but it's worth a shot. If it works, you'll end up in bootloader mode. Just use the volume keys to select reboot, and tap the power button to select it.