[Q] HTC Sensation not charging while ON - HTC Sensation

Hi,
My HTC Sensation has a weird problem, I will now try to describe it.
- Starting from a completely OFF state I remove the battery and put it back in the phone. After this operation the LED lights up and the phone is charging.
- After starting the phone, the LED turn off and the phone stops charging, no matter what I do, it just won't charge.
- When I turn the phone OFF, the only way to get the battery charging again is to remove the battery and put it back in the phone.
Right now I am running ViperS 5.2.1 with CWM 5.0.2.0 as recovery. but I already had this problem with the stock rom (that's actually the main reason I decided to try another rom).
I also tried to test the phone with another battery and the results are the same.
I'm sorry if this problem has already been posted before, but I've been searching the forum for days and never find a solution to my problem.
Thanks in advance for your help.
***EDIT***
I changed CWM 5.0.2.0 with the latest 4EXT recovery, and now, with the phone ON (unable to charge), if I reboot into recovery the phone starts to charge.
If I power off the phone from recovery it keeps charging, but when i turn ON the phone again, it just stops charging.
Any suggestions?

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[Q] Woke up this morning and Sensation will not boot!

So I was in the middle of installing Android Revolution HD last night.
I used the super-wipe script to prep the phone, but then the actual rom zip failed to flash. I downloaded the rom over again but fell asleep in the process. I woke up this morning and now I can't get anything to show up on the screen of the Sensation. I pulled battery and tried to get it to boot into fastboot. No luck.
The only signs of life I get now are when I pull battery and put it back in, the orange battery indicator comes on for about half a second, then then goes off. Then I get nothing.
Any ideas? When I left the phone I was still in CWM (I think).
Help!
Pull battery, reinsert, connect charger and start while holding -vol button. Let it fully charge then. Battery is flat and phone doesn't charge when off. Search general section, its in top 10 posts most likely.
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Should I see an amber charging light when it's charging like this? I can't get it to show...
I had the same problem this morning. Due to a unique set of circumstances and a recovery image that doesn't allow charging while powered off, my phone was able to run dead while plugged in. My powerskin charged first and then kicked over to the phone which had run completely dead (powerskin is supposed to charge the phone first but didn't do that). So, when it tried to charge the phone, it couldn't because of the recovery image. When I got up this morning, no way no how was I able to get it to boot into any mode that would allow charging (couldn't get it to boot at all for that matter). I ended up using a usb cable with one end cut off and the wires exposed to connect directly to my battery for a couple minutes. I then put the battery in my phone, booted it up and plugged it in to charge. I'm glad I went through this back in the day and still had the usb cable around from back when I had a winmo htc wizard that had a similar issue.
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Have you tried connecting it via usb and booting it via adb ?
try adb reboot recovery for example
Hivlaher said:
Have you tried connecting it via usb and booting it via adb ?
try adb reboot recovery for example
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Interesting idea. Can I do this on the OSX version of the Android SDK? I've never tried it.
Came back after lunch today and the phone still won't boot, so I'm going to have to try something like this since it's obviously not charging.
I did it on android sdk on windows. It made it to my mind cause windows seemed to recognise the mobile even though it was turned off. If you manage to do it just tell me
Moto211: Used your solution and got it into fastboot! Thanks for the suggestion. I got walkthrough help from the folks on XDA IRC. Hoping that it now charges while in Fastboot
Blocker85 said:
Moto211: Used your solution and got it into fastboot! Thanks for the suggestion. I got walkthrough help from the folks on XDA IRC. Hoping that it now charges while in Fastboot
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Glad it helped. If it doesn't charge in fastboot, try charging it for another minute or two and attempt a full boot. I actually fully booted and then plugged in my charger.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App
Hivlaher said:
Have you tried connecting it via usb and booting it via adb ?
try adb reboot recovery for example
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it works on me...tnx alot...your an angel
you are welcome. Now install ROM Manager and get the latest CWM which can charge while mobile is off
Similar problem, no luck
Just charge your phone in whatever state it is for at least 1 hour and your phone will boot up.
I had this problem twice of completely draining my battery to 0% and ended up in boot failure.
I was on cwm recovery.
But it didn't matter I did nothing and let the phone connected to charger for an hour or so and it just boot up.
The battery was showing around 30% power.
So try it.
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[Q] PHONE is Dead, Not charging at ALL, No custom rom installed

Hey guys, i've done the search button and still can't find any answers. First of all, all i've done to my phone : S-off, superuser, root. No custom ROM installed. i did that 2days prior yesterday and it was working and charging fine. So yesterday when i was playing paradise island my phone died. I connected it to the USB wall charger and left my room. After 3-4hrs, my phone is still dead. So i thought maybe the USB or wall charger is not working. I tried using my cousin Mytouch wall charger with the htc USB, still doesnt work but using my wallcharger with the mytouch usb, my cousin's phone charges.
When i try to charge my phone, the amber light comes on but its flashing, then after 3 times, light will stop
Troubleshooting i've done
I've tried numerous times to go to HBOOT, nothing
Removed the battery several times, nothing
tried USB charging through my laptop nothing.
Any help guys??
Same issue!
Please help with this!!
CMW
If you search you'll find that there is a problem and after installing CMW Recovery most phones will not charge if they're off, so if you let your battery drain to the last you will be unable to charge your battery trought the phone, no solution at this moment for this
Work arounds
- Charge your battery on a wall charger directly not trought the phone
- Charge your battery on an stock untouched Sensation
AlejoBD said:
If you search you'll find that there is a problem and after installing CMW Recovery most phones will not charge if they're off, so if you let your battery drain to the last you will be unable to charge your battery trought the phone, no solution at this moment for this
Work arounds
- Charge your battery on a wall charger directly not trought the phone
- Charge your battery on an stock untouched Sensation
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Wallcharger, is there one i can purchase??
Is the battery itself the problem?? because t-mobile, will sent me a new battery. I've only had this phone for 3 weeks. IF the battery itself not the problem, they will send me a new phone but i'm assuming that i've going to have to send the old phone back, is there going to be an issue regarding the warranty when i send the old phone to them???
it's not the battery, it's the cmw what's the problem. You have an older version of cmw.
I see, where to get the latest CWM? There's a way to go back to stock right?
Now i kinda regret S-OFF,ROOt, CWM ...lol..-.- i know it's my fault tho...
Once you managed to boot the phone again, you can install rom manager, from there you can easily install the latest cmw.
i have the latest CMW Still doesn't charge when battery at 0%
You would think they would test CMW before releasing....
DiZzle. said:
Once you managed to boot the phone again, you can install rom manager, from there you can easily install the latest cmw.
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I used CWM 4.0.1.4. From what i know its suppose to fix the charging problem. As of right now, im trying to manually charge my battery by splitting on of my old USB cable +wall charger. So hopefully this will work.
None of the threads in the entire forum are even remotely helpful if you can't even get the phone to turn on.
I can't reflash the recovery - if there is no way for me to get into the bootloader.
A wall charger hasn't helped - nor my N1 battery taped in.
NOTHING.
Please stop jumping a million steps ahead to reflashing the recovery - start with HOW TO TURN THE PHONE ON - bearing in mind that NOTHING IN THE FORUM so far has worked.
shar1r said:
None of the threads in the entire forum are even remotely helpful if you can't even get the phone to turn on.
I can't reflash the recovery - if there is no way for me to get into the bootloader.
A wall charger hasn't helped - nor my N1 battery taped in.
NOTHING.
Please stop jumping a million steps ahead to reflashing the recovery - start with HOW TO TURN THE PHONE ON - bearing in mind that NOTHING IN THE FORUM so far has worked.
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I've been using my brothers G2 battery (which doesn't fit) to turn on my phone.
But since I don't have a universal charger, and my phone wont turn on (I tried EVERYTHING) than there is no point to attempt to get into recovery unless I'm going back to stock.
Tl;DR CWM Needs to fix there shhhhhheeeet.
I finally manage to turn on my fone by splitting my old usb cable...i know somone said, its dangerous but it work for me....so do it at your own risk....now im juz looking for a safe wayto revert to stock w/o cwm,root,super user....might keep S-off tho
Any suggestion
If u need to start you fone....get a spare usb cable...and split it..remove the battery from your fone. Now tape the red wire to positive and black to negative....attach the usb to ur wall charger.....then wait 10- 20 min. Now remove ur battery then insert it back to you phone and turn it on. Once it starts, connect it to ur htc usb+ wallcharger.... once again, someone said its dangerous....so make this your last resort
fredrick90005 said:
I finally manage to turn on my fone by splitting my old usb cable...i know somone said, its dangerous but it work for me....so do it at your own risk....now im juz looking for a safe wayto revert to stock w/o cwm,root,super user....might keep S-off tho
Any suggestion
If u need to start you fone....get a spare usb cable...and split it..remove the battery from your fone. Now tape the red wire to positive and black to negative....attach the usb to ur wall charger.....then wait 10- 20 min. Now remove ur battery then insert it back to you phone and turn it on. Once it starts, connect it to ur htc usb+ wallcharger.... once again, someone said its dangerous....so make this your last resort
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Yeah. That didn't work for me. After splitting two cables - I decided to cut my losses.
Unfortunately I'm not in the US - and that's where I bought the phone. I'm going to try and find and independent vendor and see if they have a battery I can buy.
If not - I am ROYALLY screwed.
Yeah the battery/cwm combo is ****ed. So angry.
Do you have the one with the blue text? It's supposed to fix these issues
Swyped from my HTC Sensation
Sorry to revive this thread, but I am in the same boat. After trying to flash android on my brother's hd2, I noticed that the battery died. I cannot charge it since it has no ROM currently installed... Has there been a fix?

[Q] htc desire brick?

he guys!
i need a little help and i can't seem to find a thread that might help me.
i have an htc desire (root+s-off) and two days ago tried to flash a new rom. and as i was already at it flashed the newest radio version and an sd-alignment, because i had just before had had to flash the original shipped rom because my phone didn't react anymore. so i did the root and s-off again, flashed all three zips and rebooted. after that my display went black and nothing happened for a while so i removed the battery and tried to restart the phone but it didn't. i tried to connect it to my computer and it doesn't recognize the device anymore.
either i removed the battery too early and bricked it or it was a bad idea to flash 3zips at the same time.
has anybody encountered this before and is there sth i can do?
any help will be greatly appreciated.
Can you boot into the bootloader through Vol - and Power button?
unfortunately no.
device does not react at all. i can push any button but the phone stays dead. screen stays black, no LED flashing, doesn't vibrate, nothing!
Maby its time to part as equals and donate it to the dev team?
Do you want to help out developers? Got a broken device?
the desire won't help them because it has a snapdragon cpu.
is there really no possibility to fix this?
maybe a too simple solution, but could the battery be dead or empty?
since you get absolutely no reponse...
I considered that too but the battery was NOT empty when the phone died.
I thought it might still be that the battery is just broken but I read that when you take out the battery and connect the phone to your computer or plug in the charger the LED still flashes. And with my phone it doesn't.
Your led won't flash if your phone is off. Try taking out the battery and plugging the phone in to the charger and see if it turns on.
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Did that already and unfortunately phone stayed dead.
ElZeck said:
Did that already and unfortunately phone stayed dead.
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How long do you let it charge before trying to turn on? If its right dead, then you should probably leave it plugged in for ten minutes or so before trying to turn it on.
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But if I take out the battery how can it charge?
I thought if I take out the battery and plug it in, it should come back to life immediately?
But if you think that could help, I'll be happy to try.
So let me sum this up to be sure I got it right:
I take out the battery, plug it in, wait for a couple minutes and then try turning it on, right?
YOu should take the battery by pluging it at least 5 - 10 minute for sure it is already charging then try to turn on your phone again, this might work
im not sure the phone will work at all without the battery in place (haven't tested)
But i think that Kenny means, putting the battery in and letting it charge for a little while before trying.
bl0m5t3r said:
im not sure the phone will work at all without the battery in place (haven't tested)
But i think that Kenny means, putting the battery in and letting it charge for a little while before trying.
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The phone will work while plugged in without the battery. But try what Kenny suggested.
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tried everything, nothing worked...
Sorry to hear. I have no other ideas.
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I bricked my HTC desire S. When i open it will stuck to bootloop, drained the battery, i cannot charge the phone. it always turn off.
Can someone help me fix this?

[Q] HTC Sensation not turning on

Hi guys,
Need some help here
I have a HTC Sensation, I'm using Android Revolution HD 6.6.2, everything was working fine until this morning. My phone made a strange beeeeeeeeep, I couldn't do anything, so I turned it off, and since, no way to turn it on again. I last charged the phone last night, so the battery shouldn't be a problem.
I tried to boot with vol. down and power, not working.
When I plug the charger, the light doesn't turn on.
I really have no idea what to do next. Any tips ?
My main problem is that I bought the phone in Ireland, and I since moved in France, so I can't go back to the place where I bought it to replace it..
karma1911 said:
Hi guys,
Need some help here
I have a HTC Sensation, I'm using Android Revolution HD 6.6.2, everything was working fine until this morning. My phone made a strange beeeeeeeeep, I couldn't do anything, so I turned it off, and since, no way to turn it on again. I last charged the phone last night, so the battery shouldn't be a problem.
I tried to boot with vol. down and power, not working.
When I plug the charger, the light doesn't turn on.
I really have no idea what to do next. Any tips ?
My main problem is that I bought the phone in Ireland, and I since moved in France, so I can't go back to the place where I bought it to replace it..
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Can you see the phone when you plug it to your computer?
Or you could try a new battery
Nop, nothing on the comp when I plug it.
I have a spare battery, same issue.
I just tried to boot without the sim and the sd card, it worked (wtf ?).
Shutted it down, and no power once again.
I'm gonna try with another sim card when my wife will get back home, will keep you informed, thanks for the answer.
karma1911 said:
Nop, nothing on the comp when I plug it.
I have a spare battery, same issue.
I just tried to boot without the sim and the sd card, it worked (wtf ?).
Shutted it down, and no power once again.
I'm gonna try with another sim card when my wife will get back home, will keep you informed, thanks for the answer.
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You could backup your sdcard and then format it on your computer.
/ Sent from my Sensation XE /
I had this problem and what I did in the end was use the Android Debug Bridge. Here are instructions on how to install it:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
Then once you've installed it run command prompt (Start>Run>cmd) and type cd/androidsdk/tools (or whatever location you've installed the adb to)
Plug your sensation into your pc with USB and then type adb devices into command prompt. Hopefully it will come up with a code below devices attached.
Then...type adb reboot recovery and hopefully your device will boot into recovery, from which you can relfash a rom or whatever
Hope that helps!
lifeisfaked said:
I had this problem and what I did in the end was use the Android Debug Bridge. Here are instructions on how to install it:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
Then once you've installed it run command prompt (Start>Run>cmd) and type cd/androidsdk/tools (or whatever location you've installed the adb to)
Plug your sensation into your pc with USB and then type adb devices into command prompt. Hopefully it will come up with a code below devices attached.
Then...type adb reboot recovery and hopefully your device will boot into recovery, from which you can relfash a rom or whatever
Hope that helps!
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and if it doesn't show up?
iArtisan said:
and if it doesn't show up?
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panic! lol I'm not sure - my first guess would be that the battery has somehow died - that would explain why there is no light when you charge it, just the same as if you were to try and charge it without any battery plugged in! If you have a multimeter, try measuring the voltage output from your battery and ensure that the battery is making proper contact with the terminals in the battery compartment
lifeisfaked said:
panic! lol I'm not sure - my first guess would be that the battery has somehow died - that would explain why there is no light when you charge it, just the same as if you were to try and charge it without any battery plugged in! If you have a multimeter, try measuring the voltage output from your battery and ensure that the battery is making proper contact with the terminals in the battery compartment
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I tried it with another battery, still nothing. I phone has just like completely shut down. I was in the middle of flashing a ROM when it froze up on me and I turned it off. Turned it back on... well I tried to.. and it never woke up. Is it permanently bricked or what?
iArtisan said:
I tried it with another battery, still nothing. I phone has just like completely shut down. I was in the middle of flashing a ROM when it froze up on me and I turned it off. Turned it back on... well I tried to.. and it never woke up. Is it permanently bricked or what?
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Ohh it froze while flashing a Rom ???
That's bad man it might have corrupted all the partitions especially if bootloader partition got corrupted then your phone is bricked which seems to happen in your case . you got no luck with adb/fastboot?
Edit:
You were able to bootup without sim and sdcard? Then have you tried another sdcard
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Hi, I actually just experienced the exact same problem. I actually finished flashing the ROM and everything rebooted..and reinstalled the apps too. While calling on the phone...all of a sudden it made the beep sound. IT rebooted the first time..and I Thought everything was ok. Then I made a call again...and after a minute or so...the long beep came on...and then now it's completely unresponsive...no light when plugged...can't turn on.
Any update or ideas?
Hi everybody, I followed every single steps of the guide to install ICS and ARHD 6.6.3 on my phone, but something went wrong... It hasn't yet booted to the home screen after 1.5 hours it finished to flash the ROM. It's stuck on the white screen with the "htc - quietly brilliant" logo. What can I do? I tried to turn it on by pulling out the SIM and SD cards, but it doesn't solve the problem.
Hi, I actually just experienced the exact same problem. I actually finished flashing the ROM and everything rebooted..and reinstalled the apps too. While calling on the phone...all of a sudden it made the beep sound. IT rebooted the first time..and I Thought everything was ok. Then I made a call again...and after a minute or so...the long beep came on...and then now it's completely unresponsive...no light when plugged...can't turn on.
Any update or ideas?
So what happened with this? Mine did exactly the same thing and I had just installed 6.6.2 with the strange beep and won't turn on after it's turned off.
karma1911 said:
Hi guys,
Need some help here
I have a HTC Sensation, I'm using Android Revolution HD 6.6.2, everything was working fine until this morning. My phone made a strange beeeeeeeeep, I couldn't do anything, so I turned it off, and since, no way to turn it on again. I last charged the phone last night, so the battery shouldn't be a problem.
I tried to boot with vol. down and power, not working.
When I plug the charger, the light doesn't turn on.
I really have no idea what to do next. Any tips ?
My main problem is that I bought the phone in Ireland, and I since moved in France, so I can't go back to the place where I bought it to replace it..
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---------- Post added at 11:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:48 AM ----------
So what happened with this? Mine did exactly the same thing and I had just installed 6.6.2 with the strange beep and won't turn on after it's turned off.
karma1911 said:
Hi guys,
Need some help here
I have a HTC Sensation, I'm using Android Revolution HD 6.6.2, everything was working fine until this morning. My phone made a strange beeeeeeeeep, I couldn't do anything, so I turned it off, and since, no way to turn it on again. I last charged the phone last night, so the battery shouldn't be a problem.
I tried to boot with vol. down and power, not working.
When I plug the charger, the light doesn't turn on.
I really have no idea what to do next. Any tips ?
My main problem is that I bought the phone in Ireland, and I since moved in France, so I can't go back to the place where I bought it to replace it..
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Can you do a restore?
Or go into recovery?
ICSensation 4G
No...it won't turn on...won't do anything with volume down + power...or when plugged in to PC and ran as ADB
A follow-up of my situation..
The day I started the thread, I was finally able to start again my phone, don't ask me how, I have absolutely no clue ! I removed the battery, sd card, sim card, put them back, and so on, for hours, and finally it worked..
BUT.
This morning, same situation. And I can't get it back to power up, once again.
I can't access it through adb, as the phone is totally powered off.
Wondering if it's a bug from Android HD 6.6.2 as newr got the same version and the same problem..
Hmm...so you got it booted up again? So it's not a hardware problem? I don't know if it's the ROM problem..it happened afetr I installed 6.6.2...but mine never did turn back on...no matter what I did....can't connect to ADB...can't turn on...can't charge.
I just sent it back to HTC...hopefully it won't turn on...as if they do..they'll say it's not under warranty cuz it's rooted.
Anyone have problems with 6.6.2? If it's causing it...it should be told as otherwise, others may have problems turning on their phones.
How can we tell if it's hardware vs. software?
I tried a lot of things since yesterday, but this time it's not booting again.. *sigh*
And in France, apparently you can't send it to HTC directly, you have to send it to one company working with them, where you have to pay 20 euros just for the diagnostic, I'm so f*cking happy right now.
Same problem here. Weird noise, line across the screen and dead. Plugging USB into PC comes up with a detection noise but immediately fails to find drivers. Any one had any more luck?
Are you all using the same rom? Maybe the developer of the Rom knows something about it, I would ask. Seems strange that your all using same Rom and same thing is happening to you all. Hopefully it can be fixed! I wish you all the best! Wish I knew of a solution but sadly I do not . Best wishes .
Sent from my Sensation Z710e using xda premium

[Q] Broken Desire S does not have enough battery charge to survive

Hi everybody,
somebody help please :crying:
I tried to rom original ICS from HTCdev on my DS using "RUU_SAGA_ICS_35_S_HTC_Europe_14.01.401.2_Radio_20.76.30.0835_3831.19.00.110_release_275068_signed" but now it's not booting! after htc logo on white back the screen goes dark and nothing else
now the problem is low battery on it and I cannot run the RUU again. Even attempt to go to Recovery mode has been failed with mobile logo DANGER sign on it.
Any solution or at least a way to charge the battery when there is no OS booting up.
Best,
Pejman
You don't need the phone to be booted up for charging it.. it can be charged even when its off..
also check these threads for some help on flashing the RUU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992237
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991234
you can always buy external charger (like a dock). You take the battery out and then plug it into the dock..

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