Have no idea what happened. Was watching a video on facebook, then phone just went unresponsive. Now the screen is on & phone is completely dead. Nothing works, no charging, no pc usb, no buttons, NADA. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Phone is stock rom, rooted & s-off. Be nice if I could just pull the battery...
*EDIT* nevermind, finally got the hard reset to work.
ghstrdr1985 said:
Have no idea what happened. Was watching a video on facebook, then phone just went unresponsive. Now the screen is on & phone is completely dead. Nothing works, no charging, no pc usb, no buttons, NADA. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Phone is stock rom, rooted & s-off. Be nice if I could just pull the battery...
*EDIT* nevermind, finally got the hard reset to work.
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This is referred as a "Soft-Brick" not a "Brick".
A brick of your phone implies that the phone is 100% not turning on what-so-ever, essentially a.. brick.
If you can turn it on, you can usually get into bootloader, and run and RUU, for future reference.
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So, I was flashing gtg's unbrick back to stock after trying CM7 for a bit and my phone managed to slip off my desk and come unplugged. Now when I do anything it stays black. Tried taking battery out, plugging in usb... nothing. Not recognized in Odin anymore either.
Any suggestions on what I can do to save this thing?
stays black mean what?
when you insert battery whether there is any backlight or it is completely dead?
you may need to take it to service center.
Meaning nothing at all. No backlight, no nothing.
Well, apparently trying to put the battery back in with the usb connected a few more times convinced it to get back into download mode.
Case closed! Thanks for your help, everyone.
Good to know...
so basically you just kept attempting to put it into dload mode until it took...and eventually it did. Awesome!
My mom currently using my HTC Sensation, she told me there was something that said reboot, so i was guessing that it was on recovery or bootloader. So she REBOOTED it :O
now the phone wont turn on. Ive tried pulling the battery out then putting in back in and of course turning it on. but no luck still. i changed the battery to a fully charged one, still no luck. i cant access the bootloader or recovery either.
everytime i try to press the power button, the screen lights up a little then turns back to black. it looks like its out of battery but its not if you know what i mean.
if anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it.
Xcor3 said:
My mom currently using my HTC Sensation, she told me there was something that said reboot, so i was guessing that it was on recovery or bootloader. So she REBOOTED it :O
now the phone wont turn on. Ive tried pulling the battery out then putting in back in and of course turning it on. but no luck still. i changed the battery to a fully charged one, still no luck. i cant access the bootloader or recovery either.
everytime i try to press the power button, the screen lights up a little then turns back to black. it looks like its out of battery but its not if you know what i mean.
if anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it.
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Did you try while the phone is plugged in charger ??
What he said ^
If it works when plugged in, It is your battery problem
If it doesn't, then something is wrong!
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Did you try while the phone is plugged in charger ??
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Yeah, ive tried it. Ill upload a video for you guys to see
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Try connecting it to your computer. What does it recognize it as?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGmgwAP_x7U&list=UU3lMxOAnbyc79SjfsNa5p0A&index=1&feature=plcp
here is the video guys.
as for the computer recognizing it.
its not recognizing it at all. Not at all.
i guess it is bricked.
Seems like there's something wrong with your screen, but I'm not sure.
Same same...
I also have the HTC Sensation and got this problem after mixing up unlocking. Basically I know that the battery is ok and that the screen is also ok. There should probably be some physical button to press in order to restore firmware but Iḿ not sure on that. Im offer $10 to whomever can assist me/us in this problem...
So my phone just started freezing randomly and rebooting now out of nowhere I can't turn it on at all. Tried battery pulling and getting into recovery. Nothing works at all. Also, plugged it into the wall charger and no LED light or anything. Seems the phone is absolutely dead. Was running OpenSensation ROM at the time with 3.32 FW. I know this is a reported problem with Sensations. I can't seem to find a resolution (if one exists). Does anyone know what I can try? Although I can't do anything with the phone when I plug it into my laptop via USB the PC sees it as QHSUSB_DLOAD but the driver cannot be found. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm desperate here! Thanks in advance!!
pettigrew95 said:
So my phone just started freezing randomly and rebooting now out of nowhere I can't turn it on at all. Tried battery pulling and getting into recovery. Nothing works at all. Also, plugged it into the wall charger and no LED light or anything. Seems the phone is absolutely dead. Was running OpenSensation ROM at the time with 3.32 FW. I know this is a reported problem with Sensations. I can't seem to find a resolution (if one exists). Does anyone know what I can try? Although I can't do anything with the phone when I plug it into my laptop via USB the PC sees it as QHSUSB_DLOAD but the driver cannot be found. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm desperate here! Thanks in advance!!
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Hi,
Have you tried posting HERE
Ok, this is really weird...a few hours later phone turned on...it was like nothing happened. Now, a few hours later phone freezes again and turns off and now I can't turn it back on again!! What is going on here!?
This will solve your problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622683
I don't recommend the paint or soldering.
Thanks for the suggestion but this did not help at all
So I just put in my insurance claim through Asurion...No Sensation's in stock so they're sending me a Galaxy SII ...I enjoyed my Sensation but I guess it's time to move on now.
Is there no way to recover?
i have a nexus s 4 g from sprint. it is hard bricked. i tried to root it and change recovery.then it shut off and wont power on, light up at all. I would like to know if i am able to achieve download mode, what do i need to do, what files and how to install to return this phone to stock?? please help!!!
Take out the battery for a few seconds and put it back; then while holding Volume UP (+) press the Power Button.
See what happens...
One helpful tool is found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984849
kozmo2k4 said:
Take out the battery for a few seconds and put it back; then while holding Volume UP (+) press the Power Button.
See what happens...
One helpful tool is found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984849
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Nothing. Happens it don't light up or power on at all. It is not reconized on computer either. It's hard bricked.
Make sure the Battery is charging...
How can I make sure the battery is charging when no lights come on at all? All I do know is I had it plugged in for a while yesterday and it got really warm. But no lights whatsoever. The screen doesn't light up at all neither does the led.
??????
There are no notification lights on the D720, but when you plug it in with a charger, you should see a battery bar on the display.
Other than that, you are probably right about hard-brick.
I, luckily, never had a "brick" on the Nexus S, so someone else with experience may wanna chime in. But Google and YouTube are your friends.
Sorry...
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Hey man, did you have any luck with this? I'm experiencing the same problem.
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Hey man, did you have any luck with this? I'm experiencing the same problem.
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Please help me, i have the same problem
been awhile since any action here. saved mine with JIG method once but this time it won't work ??!(why) , in search of a solution again! -> hardbrick #2 on this device!
You guys can try a USB Jig. If that does not help, I think JTAG is what you need.
Jesus... just to revive this thread (and this concept of hard bricking), I think I just accidentally bricked mine as well.
Here's exactly what I did:
One moment, it was working spectacularly - fully stock, but unlocked. I had just listed it on eBay, too.
So I ran a factory reset on it (from the Settings menu), also "erase USB storage".
Then, after it shut down for the reboot, I pulled the battery.
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That was it. Now it doesn't turn on for anything whatsoever. No device detected on USB when plugged into PC. Remove, replace battery, hold VolUp+Power, nothing. Plug into power adapter, nothing. Nothing at all.
But the back does get lukewarm after a minute or so, as if it's alive in the head but frozen, unable to start the bootloader.
WTF? I also have 2 more of these Nexus S 4G's, and both of them seem to have Flash storage chips that exhibit the same behavior when their chips are placed in (this) working motherboard. They can't boot. When I try to "hot-flash" it by booting the bootloader then swapping the Flash chips, they can't flash anything (this is probably to be expected). So, if I can get my ONCE-WORKING phone back to life, there's a good chance I can get another working as well (one just has a cracked glass, otherwise working mainboard & peripherals).
It's old, yes, but it's a damn shame to E-waste these things for a stupid software problem like this!
I wanted to factory reset my phone as one of my friends needs it for a few weeks/months,
phone shut down, went into twrp, shut down again and now its completely dead.
No way to get any signs from it, I dont get any response from my screen when plugged in to charge and the LED does not light up either.
Plug in wall wont work, PC connection wont work, Powerbank not working and wireless charging doesnt get any repsonse either.
Its just straight up dead, if there is nothing I can do then oh well its my old phone anyways, would still be grateful for any help tho as my friend is in a hard situation rn.
Ty in advance to everyone trying to help.
HooƉini said:
I wanted to factory reset my phone as one of my friends needs it for a few weeks/months,
phone shut down, went into twrp, shut down again and now its completely dead.
No way to get any signs from it, I dont get any response from my screen when plugged in to charge and the LED does not light up either.
Plug in wall wont work, PC connection wont work, Powerbank not working and wireless charging doesnt get any repsonse either.
Its just straight up dead, if there is nothing I can do then oh well its my old phone anyways, would still be grateful for any help tho as my friend is in a hard situation rn.
Ty in advance to everyone trying to help.
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two ideas come to mind, 1: a jig and 2: debrick image
jigs should still be a very viable option for situations like these, however might be fruitless and i cant remember if this phone has an expandable memory slot or not. I know they ditched a few things on the S6 that were like VGN "what were they thinking???" but cant recall if that was one of them