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So today, as i was on my way to work I accidentally held down the lockscreen button and the power menu popped up (I was on Glorious Overdoes V2) in the middle of a text and i pressed reboot accidentally... My phone never rebooted... It was stuck on the black Sidekick 4G/T-Mobile screen and then it would go black, then once again that screen would pop up... I removed the battery and put it back in, and without me pressing any buttons the same screen came back up... I let it sit for a while and after 20minutes nothing changed except the phone got really hot. Luckily I had my OLD Nokia in my car and popped my SIM card in it so that i could continue having a phone. I let The Sidekick sit for 4hours and it was extremely hot and then eventually it just turned off completely (Im assuming the battery drained, it was at 90% 4 hours before.) I got home, plugged it in and it wouldn't even turn on the charging screen. Somebody told me that my Motherboard is fried but I don't know. I called T-mobile and they're going to send me a new phone since it's still in the 1-year warranty period.
Anyone know if they're going to be able to inspect my old device and find out if i rooted/flashed it? because i can't get into it or anything to ODIN
I feel like they will try putting a new battery in it, and if it still wont turn on you should be fine.
It got hot because the CPU was churning over something and couldn't enter a low power state. I bet you could coax the phone into download mode and reflash it.
what do you mean coax the phone into download mode? by using the button combo to get it into download mode when turning on? I've tried that and it doesn't work. I tried rebooting into recovery and that wont work either. Also, it wont charge the battery anymore...
I've always had a hard time getting into download mode, and my phone works fine. I just spent 5 minutes trying different combinations until I got it.
I've heard people say trackpad-power button, volume down-home-power button, volume up/down-put battery in-plug in USB, etc etc etc. But the only method that works for me is to put in the battery, plug in the USB, wait for the charging screen, then hold volume down-trackpad-power, releasing power as soon as the screen goes black
You say your phone is turning on as soon as the battery is inserted? What if you have it plugged into USB first?
I had the exact same problem, I sent it into samsung and they just replaced a part(never told me which one) and it was fixed. I did noticed that when the sccreen was poped open to show the keyboard, it would stop. But it's probably a loose cable like I've read before.
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Worst case scenario if you can't figure it out here on XDA, you could always sell it on eBay for parts as defective.
Hi Everyone,
I'm have a problem with my One XL. It's an Australian Telstra item. I got soaked in the rain and the phone got wet. I put it in rice for a few days to soak up the moisture, then charged it up. After this the screen backlight would intermittently fail, and i noticed if I squeezed the LHS of the phone it would sometimes make the screen go on or off. The problem got worse over the space of about an hour and eventually the screen would not come on. I opened up the case, and noticed there was a split in the ribbon cable that is part of the screen at the point that it is folded over 90deg (I'm not sure why this was never a problem before the phone got wet?)
So I stupidly got straight stuck into taking it apart to replace the screen before backing up all my stuff. I ordered a new screen of ebay and replaced the old one. Now I am having the following behaviour:
1-Press and hold power button - Phone vibrates once, then does nothing. Screen doesn't come on.
2-Plug into PC - LED flashes red for a while then goes solid red. Screen doesn't come on. Nothing pops up in "My computer"
3-Press and hold (~10sec) power after 2 - Red light goes off. Phone vibrates once every ~30 seconds. Screen doesn't come on.
4-Press and hold power after 3 - Home/Back/Apps LEDs flash 20 times, no other change.
I also tried a number of combos of power + vol -/+ with no success.
Also, I was being lazy and doing this without putting the case back on, and my power button has fallen apart. It looks like that ribbon cable is only ~$5 on ebay, so no big deal, but means I cant really do anymore troubleshooting at the moment.
So I guess the big question is, can the phone still be salvaged? I'm thinking maybe it's stuck in a boot loop with the screen also not working?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Chris
The first question I have would be did you make sure you got the right screen? There are three different types of screens that came on this phone and you need to make sure you match it correctly. You can identify the type of screen by the colour of the flex cable attached.
Secondly, you should never use the power + volume up button combination, I'm not sure where you saw that information but it puts the phone into Qualcomm download mode which you definitely don't want. The only button combination that should ever be used is power + volume down.
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Hi Timmaaa,
Both screens had the same orange/brown flex cables. I did read that there were different screens, but had thought there were only two and that the other had a green flex, so I definitely didn't get that one. Are the other 2 colours close?
I'm not sure where I read the power + volume up thing as I have read a heap of different threads. What would the expected behaviour be if I had put it into that mode?
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Chris
The three different screens have very different colour coding on the flex cable, so matching should be a piece of cake, which I believe you've done correctly. Putting the phone into Qualcomm download mode is kinda like a bricked state, if you're getting the red charging led and the cap button lights flashing I think you're ok.
Another thing to note is that you usually need to sync your new screen when you install it. From memory I believe you need to power the phone on, remove the old screen while the phone is on, and install the new screen while the phone is on. If you didn't follow this process that might be why your display isn't working. Other than that your phone might have just suffered some fatal hardware damage due to the liquid ingress, which isn't going to be fixable.
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Thanks again Timmaaa,
I had a closer look at my old screen and it does have the small green section on the flex cable which I didn't notice the first time around. Bugger.
So i disassembled it again and swapped back to the old screen. The display still doesn't turn on, but the phone itself now stays on and the computer recognises it! I'm transferring all my photos across to my computer now, then I'll try to sync it properly and see if that helps.
Cheers,
Chris
Ok so I swapped the screens back and forth with the power on, and now it's working! Thanks Timmaaa, I would never have guessed I needed to have the phone turned on in order to swap parts, seems pretty weird. Now just got to get a new power button.
Cheers,
Chris
Awesome. Glad to be able to help.
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Hello,
I had an accident and after that my Nexus 5 screen was broken. So I decided to buy an new one from Amazon (~60$) and I tried to replace the screen on my own.
Yesterday I replaced the screen with a YT-Video, then I charged my Nexus 5 an the "Charging-Symbol" showed up.
After that I left the house for 2 hours and when I came back (I left the Nexus at home for charging ofc.) I tried to turn on the phone and nothing happened.
Then I tried to press power and volume down to get into the boot-menu and this also worked and the screen showed everything perfectly (!) and then I tried to start my handy from the boot-menu.
Until then everything has worked well but during the start progress I noticed that the (starting-)animation is really slow and laggy, so I decided to try to reboot my phone by holding power off for around 10 secs.
I tried to start my phone one or two times more and tried to get into the boot-menu, restart bootloader, etc. and then I realized that my phone didn't even want to work anymore. I could(and can) neither get into the bootmenu nor simply start it...
Do you have any ideas?
What suprised me the most is that it stopped working so quickly, so I concluded that I replaced the screen right but anything else went wrong...
Please help me :/
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USB-Debugging is turned off and I cant access my phone with my pc or anythin else
Leave the phone on the charger for about an hour and then try to get into the bootloader.
When my phone is in the process of booting and I force it to power off by holding down the power button, it will not power up until I either leave it on a charger for a bit or leave it power off for a bit, usually 5 to 20 minutes.
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Leave the phone on the charger for about an hour and then try to get into the bootloader.
When my phone is in the process of booting and I force it to power off by holding down the power button, it will not power up until I either leave it on a charger for a bit or leave it power off for a bit, usually 5 to 20 minutes.
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Thanks, now I could get into my phone and enable USB-Debugging with much lock D)
My problem is, that my phone runs very unstable and shuts down often so I can't really work with it.
Do you know any solution and the more important question:
How can I save my data? I think, that I can save it anyhow if I enabled USB-Debugging with the bootloader and a pc, can't I?
Yes, you could pull the data from the phone using ADB commands.
You could also flash twrp to the phone. Once flashed, you could boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy data from the phone to the computer.
You could also use twrp to create a nandroid backup for safekeeping.
Is it possible that there is a loose connection in the phone? Have you tried disassembling and re-assembling?
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Yes, you could pull the data from the phone using ADB commands.
You could also flash twrp to the phone. Once flashed, you could boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy data from the phone to the computer.
You could also use twrp to create a nandroid backup for safekeeping.
Is it possible that there is a loose connection in the phone? Have you tried disassembling and re-assembling?
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I have now moved on!
My charger cabel was broken but now I got a new one!
I can start my Nexus (with some issues) and it runs but sometims it still shuts down and always when I try to plug in my cabel into the Nexus the screen gets black (but on the side you can see that the screen is light up in some way, idk...)
Is there a reason for the heating and for the shut downs? :/
I'm not sure but it seems like the screen has suffered a hardware malfunction because you can see that the backlight is on but no image.
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I'm not sure but it seems like the screen has suffered a hardware malfunction because you can see that the backlight is on but no image.
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And that means what?
And can I do anything for it? Maybe flash it or something?
Reset, etc..
With a hardware failure, there's nothing that software can fix. Did you try disassembling and re-assembling the phone?
With the old screen, can you see anything on screen? Did the phone power up and charge properly? If yes, put on the old screen to test the other components to see if it charges and powers up.
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With a hardware failure, there's nothing that software can fix. Did you try disassembling and re-assembling the phone?
With the old screen, can you see anything on screen? Did the phone power up and charge properly? If yes, put on the old screen to test the other components to see if it charges and powers up.
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Yeah first sentence makes sence..
I swapped software and hardware, sry
my other screen doesn't work at all, completly destroyed...
The problem is that I can't imagine what should be the failure...
And yeah, I already tried disassembling and re-assembling it...
Still same problem
I have used cheap 3rd party screens to replace a few N5 phones and they quality is very inconsistent so I wouldn't be surprised if a 3rd party screen fails after a short period of use.
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I have used cheap 3rd party screens to replace a few N5 phones and they quality is very inconsistent so I wouldn't be surprised if a 3rd party screen fails after a short period of use.
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Nahh but the screen works I think..
Everything looks clear etc and the screen wasn't really cheap with 65$-70$ I guess..
I think it's something else because my phone gets really on near the CPU and this can't be because of the screen...
Where did you get the screen?
If it gets really hot near the cpu, then something else is going on. Could it be possible that there is a short-circuit somewhere?
Since the value Canadian dollar has dropped, I'm also paying about $60 for what was a $40 screen.
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Where did you get the screen?
If it gets really hot near the cpu, then something else is going on. Could it be possible that there is a short-circuit somewhere?
Since the value Canadian dollar has dropped, I'm also paying about $60 for what was a $40 screen.
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Yeah, I also thought about a short-circuit but I don't know how I can test this.
When I try to start my phone it fails like 4-5 times and then it works most of the time. The fail looks the following:
The "Google" logo appears and then suddenly the screen gets black, but not the "out"-Black (so that screen it out), I mean the "on, but black"-Black (hope u can understand.. xD)
During this 4-5 Tries my phone feels like 40°C-50°C (sry im from Germany, idk the conversion to °F value.. )
After this (I got the phone running one time for about 20 minutes) the phone doesn't heat up so much, if it starts right I think that the temparatur problem is over, but there is still the problem (also if the phone is running for 20 minutes) that it suddenly shuts down... :/
Sorry, idk much about canadian dollar, like I said im from germany and I payed around 65€
Google says, that this is around 67 (US-Dollar)
I don't know what to suggest other than either getting a new battery or new screen. Both items can be very expensive.
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I don't know what to suggest other than either getting a new battery or new screen. Both items can be very expensive.
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Mhh, ok :/
Hello,
Let me make this as short as possible. I have a 3 and a half year old Nexus 5. Just got off a plane 6 hours ago, and when i wanted to check my Facebook the display looked like it failed. I had red vertical lines running up and down the stream and the brightness was extremely low even though the setting in the phone had not changed. All the while, the phone was also impossible to maneuver. I rebooted it, the problem persisted for 5 minutes, and then after a quick lock-unlock, it fixed itself.
About 10 minutes later, when I again tried to unlock my phone to check if things were okay, the display went completely black. If I connect the phone to a charger, the display gets a little illuminated like it's going to start but nothing actually happens, I cannot see anything on the screen. The phone is responsive, if I plug it into a PC it starts charging and the PC recognizes it, but I can't see absolutely anything but black on the screen. Now with the questions:
1) What type of problem do you think this is. Wiring, display, or dead phone and no repair possible? As a best guess at least.
2) Before I take the phone into a service, I would like to know if there's any way I can download the pictures and data I had stored on it that was not yet backed up. As I said, I was just returning from a trip and I have some pictures on it, and while the PC recognizes the phone, it is put automatically in USB Charge mode and not USB Mass Storage Device mode. The phone is NOT rooted and USB Debugging was enabled before it crashed. The phone is up to date with the latest firmware.
Thank you in advance.
Does the touch function work? Is the bootloader unlocked?
If yes to both, you could load twrp, boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy off files.
It sounds like a failed screen to me. Was the phone ever dropped or exposed to moisture?
audit13 said:
Does the touch function work? Is the bootloader unlocked?
If yes to both, you could load twrp, boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy off files.
It sounds like a failed screen to me. Was the phone ever dropped or exposed to moisture?
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The screen is pitch black. If I touch the screen I can't feel anything or see anything, and I have no certainty I would be in the right menus. The only reaction I get is if I plug it in or reset it. The phone was never dropped, it is still in impeccable condition, no scratches or bumps. It wasn't exposed to moisture either, I wonder if the flight had anything to do with it, pressure and all.
So basically, apart from what you mentioned, there's no other way if my data is not backed up? I will be taking it in tomorrow, hoping for the best.
It's weird that this happened suddenly. The simplest solution may be to place the motherboard into another working phone.
You didn't answered about unlocked bootloader.
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Hello,
Let me make this as short as possible. I have a 3 and a half year old Nexus 5. Just got off a plane 6 hours ago, and when i wanted to check my Facebook the display looked like it failed. I had red vertical lines running up and down the stream and the brightness was extremely low even though the setting in the phone had not changed. All the while, the phone was also impossible to maneuver. I rebooted it, the problem persisted for 5 minutes, and then after a quick lock-unlock, it fixed itself.
About 10 minutes later, when I again tried to unlock my phone to check if things were okay, the display went completely black. If I connect the phone to a charger, the display gets a little illuminated like it's going to start but nothing actually happens, I cannot see anything on the screen. The phone is responsive, if I plug it into a PC it starts charging and the PC recognizes it, but I can't see absolutely anything but black on the screen. Now with the questions:
1) What type of problem do you think this is. Wiring, display, or dead phone and no repair possible? As a best guess at least.
2) Before I take the phone into a service, I would like to know if there's any way I can download the pictures and data I had stored on it that was not yet backed up. As I said, I was just returning from a trip and I have some pictures on it, and while the PC recognizes the phone, it is put automatically in USB Charge mode and not USB Mass Storage Device mode. The phone is NOT rooted and USB Debugging was enabled before it crashed. The phone is up to date with the latest firmware.
Thank you in advance.
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It's just the ribbon cable .You can change it by yourself it's too damn easy plus the cable is really cheap
It's either the flex cable or the LCD itself.
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It's either the flex cable or the LCD itself.
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It was the LCD. I got a replacement LCD but now even with my brightness to the maximum, the phone still is darker than before. I also got a new battery in it. Is there an option to change the brightness that is hidden, or some kind of power saving option?
Thanks.
This Tuesday my OnePlus One fell into a lake. I let it dry for 2 days before powering it on, but there are a couple things wrong. The screen has messed up colors and what looks like artifacting (water stains I've heard them called?) so I've resigned myself to buying a new phone (hopefully tomorrow), but there are some files I had stored on my now old phone that I'd like to try to recover.
Even after leaving it to charge all night, it won't turn on unless plugged in. When plugged in, it will continuously show the Low Battery screen (with the Chinese text). If I hold volume-down while plugging it in, it will enter a bootloop (vibration, OnePlus logo, screen off, repeat) until unplugged, at which point it immediately stops and turns off. My PC doesn't register it at all when either of these two things happen. The screen doesn't turn on if I hold volume-up while plugging it in, but it will register on my PC as QDLoader 9008.
Before all this I was running the latest nightly of LineageOS and TWRP with an unlocked bootloader.
I've been very happy with my phone for the past 4 years but with the screen the way it is I'm not interested in fixing it, all I want is to access the data partition from my PC. I have Android Studio, adb, etc installed on my PC, is there any way to get adb to recognize my phone either in the low-battery screen or when recognized as QDLoader? Turning off immediately when the charging cable is removed makes me think its a broken battery which I could just replace, but I'd prefer not to spend any money if I don't have too seeing as I'm buying a new phone.
I've spent hours searching forums and Google for solutions, but all the solutions seem to involve wiping the drive to save the phone, while I'm not interested in saving the phone, just my data. The stickied debricking thread also seems to be targeted to hard-bricks, but considering the circumstances I don't think my phone is actually bricked at all, it just probably has a damaged battery.
Thanks!
Sorry to hear about your phone. Have you opened it up to check that all the contacts are dry? Water may have caused corrosion. Also, if you encounter water damage in future, it would be better to place your phone in a desiccant.