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So it seems my phone has become a shiny paperweight. The thing is, I don't really understand why it happened. I've been reading how other people arrived at the same situation and although some symptoms are similar, I didn't do any of those things. I wasn't flashing anything, I didn't drop the phone etc
This is what happened: about 24 hours ago, I was using my phone as a GPS (google maps and waze) when it froze. No biggie, it had happened a few times before so I pulled out the battery, waited a few minutes, put the battery back and pressed the power button. The phone started as usual, it got past the HTC splash screen, the boot animation started. A few seconds (maybe 5) into the boot animation, out of reflex, I pressed the power button to turn off the screen. Don't ask why, dunno. As I've said, reflex. So the screen went black. And it stayed that way.
Since then I've been trying to bring it back to life. No luck yet. Here's the status of the phone:
Battery is not empty - when my phone froze yesterday it was about 80% full. I tried a different battery, no change
When I plug in the USB cable to charge it, the orange/green LED that usually lights up, well... doesn't
When I press the power button, the screen backlight turns on for 2 - 3 seconds, then turns off. Pressing VolDown+PWR does the same thing. I know it seems like a battery issue, but I'm pretty sure it isn't
The computer does not see the phone anymore when connected through an USB cable. 'adb devices' doesn't return anything and I don't see anything in the Device Manager (I was hoping for a QHSUSB_DLOAD but no such luck...)
The phone is a HTC Sensation 4G, HBOOT 1.17 (I think), S-OFF, rooted, was running InsertCoin 3.4.6/Android 2.3.5. As I've mentioned, I wasn't doing any of the things that usually lead to a bricked phone like trying to S-OFF/S-ON, flash a ROM etc. I'm currently reading the internets in an attempt to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. These are the questions I'm trying to get an answer for:
When the phone boots, is it not in read only mode? At least when it gets to the boot animation part.... And if so, even if the power button is pressed... shouldn't the phone just turn off and that's it?
Since the phone seems to be as responsive as a... well, brick... If I send the phone to HTC to repair it, will they be able to tell it was S-OFF and all that?
Does this sound like something that JTAG could fix?
Thanks in advance for any help or info.
stealth.kid said:
So it seems my phone has become a shiny paperweight. The thing is, I don't really understand why it happened. I've been reading how other people arrived at the same situation and although some symptoms are similar, I didn't do any of those things. I wasn't flashing anything, I didn't drop the phone etc
This is what happened: about 24 hours ago, I was using my phone as a GPS (google maps and waze) when it froze. No biggie, it had happened a few times before so I pulled out the battery, waited a few minutes, put the battery back and pressed the power button. The phone started as usual, it got past the HTC splash screen, the boot animation started. A few seconds (maybe 5) into the boot animation, out of reflex, I pressed the power button to turn off the screen. Don't ask why, dunno. As I've said, reflex. So the screen went black. And it stayed that way.
Since then I've been trying to bring it back to life. No luck yet. Here's the status of the phone:
Battery is not empty - when my phone froze yesterday it was about 80% full. I tried a different battery, no change
When I plug in the USB cable to charge it, the orange/green LED that usually lights up, well... doesn't
When I press the power button, the screen backlight turns on for 2 - 3 seconds, then turns off. Pressing VolDown+PWR does the same thing. I know it seems like a battery issue, but I'm pretty sure it isn't
The computer does not see the phone anymore when connected through an USB cable. 'adb devices' doesn't return anything and I don't see anything in the Device Manager (I was hoping for a QHSUSB_DLOAD but no such luck...)
The phone is a HTC Sensation 4G, HBOOT 1.17 (I think), S-OFF, rooted, was running InsertCoin 3.4.6/Android 2.3.5. As I've mentioned, I wasn't doing any of the things that usually lead to a bricked phone like trying to S-OFF/S-ON, flash a ROM etc. I'm currently reading the internets in an attempt to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. These are the questions I'm trying to get an answer for:
When the phone boots, is it not in read only mode? At least when it gets to the boot animation part.... And if so, even if the power button is pressed... shouldn't the phone just turn off and that's it?
Since the phone seems to be as responsive as a... well, brick... If I send the phone to HTC to repair it, will they be able to tell it was S-OFF and all that?
Does this sound like something that JTAG could fix?
Thanks in advance for any help or info.
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It reminds me Desire S problem - fried emmc chip... If your phone has no valid warranty, I'm suggesting to see phone's internals and inspect emmc chip.
The phone still has warranty, I will try to have it repaired/replaced. The only thing I'm concerned about is the fact that it was S-OFF and running a custom ROM... And I don't have the knowledge or equipment to try to take it apart and fix it myself
If you have warranty just use it they won't be able to ckeck if phone was unlocked or not since it can't boot up.
So I'm pretty sure I killed my one S trying to run the RUU_Ville_U_JB_45_S_TMOUS_3.14.531.17_Radio_1.13.50.05.31_10.30.50.08L_release_320836_ICS_2_JB update...
I had rooted my phone years ago and had CWM running, Unlocked and SuperCID but no s-off... Phone started running horribly slow (couldn't even answer calls) so I decided it was time for an update. Seemed to be limited by my HBOOT ver of 1.09 and couldn't figure out an easy way to update so I decided to just run the TMO update and reroot from there. Well the above patch kept failing so I kept reading until I heard about the fastboot oem lock command which seemed to allow the update to run. I happily waited as it ran farther than it ever had before, through the slow progress bar and everything. Took at least 30 minutes instead of 5 this time and when I finally came back to the computer said it had completed successfully. Sweet! Go to turn on my phone and get nothing. Long press the power button and vol - for minutes... Nothing! No charging lights, no screen flash, nothing when I plug it back in to the computer or wall charger. Only thing I could find I didn't try was to pull the battery, so I pulled that mofo apart and disconnected the battery all night. Still no change this morning. Any ideas before I concede defeat? I'm dead in the water w/o my phone for work and will have to order something else by tonight. Thinking used nexus 5 so I can rock Lollipop if I have to but not real happy about it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, please and thank you
Hello,
I am quite familar with samsung devices and flashing etc. but my friends phone died today I suppose. At some point it got stuck and got into a bootloop. After some reboots it tried to find a ota update.zip, but there was none. After some tries I got into download mode, but flashing a stock image (was stock before as well, never seen root or something) did help at first (it booted, we backupped some stuff) but at some point it got stuck into bootloop again.
This time, when going into recovery, it tried flashing a firmware again, however this ended badly (freeze while flashing). Now it's not even charging anymore. Not a single button combination is working (force reboot, recovery, download mode, ...) and when plugging into a power bank, it doesn't even charge anymore (power bank shows if a device is charging). So it's completely back and unnoticed by odin, adb or fastboot. Does anyone know this problem or have an idea, what we could try? My last idea would be to test a wireless charger, which i sadly do not have at hand.
Thanks!
Cloud2F said:
Hello,
I am quite familar with samsung devices and flashing etc. but my friends phone died today I suppose. At some point it got stuck and got into a bootloop. After some reboots it tried to find a ota update.zip, but there was none. After some tries I got into download mode, but flashing a stock image (was stock before as well, never seen root or something) did help at first (it booted, we backupped some stuff) but at some point it got stuck into bootloop again.
This time, when going into recovery, it tried flashing a firmware again, however this ended badly (freeze while flashing). Now it's not even charging anymore. Not a single button combination is working (force reboot, recovery, download mode, ...) and when plugging into a power bank, it doesn't even charge anymore (power bank shows if a device is charging). So it's completely back and unnoticed by odin, adb or fastboot. Does anyone know this problem or have an idea, what we could try? My last idea would be to test a wireless charger, which i sadly do not have at hand.
Thanks!
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If it's not showing any signs of life and will not charge then it's a hardware problem, you should start with the obvious like the usb connector. You are going to have to open the phone and check usb connection, battery connection etc. but it may be easier to take to repair shop.
cooltt said:
If it's not showing any signs of life and will not charge then it's a hardware problem, you should start with the obvious like the usb connector. You are going to have to open the phone and check usb connection, battery connection etc. but it may be easier to take to repair shop.
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but when it died the first time, i was able to flash the stock image; after it rebooted, it was charging perfectly fine until it died again. from that point on, i was not able to get any sign of life anymore... maybe something crashed that badly and it's still running and i have to wait for the battery to completely drain, so it can do something again? or is the charging process completely hardware dependent, so a crash shouldnt do anything?
Cloud2F said:
but when it died the first time, i was able to flash the stock image; after it rebooted, it was charging perfectly fine until it died again. from that point on, i was not able to get any sign of life anymore... maybe something crashed that badly and it's still running and i have to wait for the battery to completely drain, so it can do something again? or is the charging process completely hardware dependent, so a crash shouldnt do anything?
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the way to test if it has power but blank screen is to hold power+volume down+home. If it has power it will turn off and boot into download mode
After the Forst Crash all such combinations didnt Seen to work either. Once odin recognized is while having a black screen. At that point I flashed stock :/ but still, not even the led was showing something
Dear all,
On my redmi 6, I was on android 8.1 (10.3.6.0 cereus precisely) and I prepared myself to try android 9
I had exactly this recovery recovery-TWRP-3.3.0-0423-REDMI6-CN-wzsx150.img and I did the necessary (backup everything) to be ready for the worse
Don't ask me why but I +/- remembered that recovery was tricky with android pie and I stupdly decided to flash the latest recovery I found on TWRP: twrp-3.5.1_9-0-cereus.img
Just after the flash I said reboot to recovery but: I'm in a "bootloop" not the one people have when booting in android, it's before!
Whatever the power or vol+ / vol- combination, long press power etc. , the screen is black it vibrates every 5 sec and I cannot enter neither recovery (i can understand...) NOR fastboot!
First time it happened to me to be stuck at this level. I do not know what to do, I tried desperate physical manipulations and crawl the internet meanwhile, but I do not see any trick, only solution is for an android bootloop, but not "early phone boot" (the 1 second before recovery or fastboot)
Can someone save me?
Hi, you've got your phone hard bricked, which means, that it coould be fixed, but it takes a lot of time to find a solution or you'll spend days trying to fix it, but its just gonna be a waste of time.
You can try methods that other people did, and maybe you'll get lucky, and unbrick your phone.
Other fix, is that you're gonna take your phone to an authoried Xiaomi store and hope for the best.
There are 10s of threads on hard bricks on Redmi 6 (for example: removing your battery for a couple of minues and putting it back, using SP flash (but you must have an authorized Xiaomi account, ...)).
If none of my solutions worked, I suggest buying a new phone. Redmi 6 is old and unstable after all (it didnt get MIUI 12 because of "performace issues"), so I guess thats the best you can do.
Im not really an expert for this kinda stuff.
I hope this will help you, but Im not saying that I could solve the brick.
Hi Sucharek,
I put the phone to the back of a drawer one week ago, because the vibrations every 30s where annoying. This afternoon I just "found" it again, likely out of power (no screen no vibration), and I charged it. Hopefully, it rebooted, not too far, as expected, but at least in fastboot mode and I was able to flash the TWRP and everything was fine!
With much more time and tools, I could have maybe follow one of your advice like removing battery, but I saw your replay 'too" late.
Strange and funny thing, I couln'd pass the pattern at the system lock screen. I can't forget it: it's the same I use on many phones. As this remdi was rooted, it was a piece of cake to remove the lock
So, in this story, I learnt that the fastboot is not a kind of secure sanctuary where you can go that easily...
edwin_r said:
Hi Sucharek,
I put the phone to the back of a drawer one week ago, because the vibrations every 30s where annoying. This afternoon I just "found" it again, likely out of power (no screen no vibration), and I charged it. Hopefully, it rebooted, not too far, as expected, but at least in fastboot mode and I was able to flash the TWRP and everything was fine!
With much more time and tools, I could have maybe follow one of your advice like removing battery, but I saw your replay 'too" late.
Strange and funny thing, I couln'd pass the pattern at the system lock screen. I can't forget it: it's the same I use on many phones. As this remdi was rooted, it was a piece of cake to remove the lock
So, in this story, I learnt that the fastboot is not a kind of secure sanctuary where you can go that easily...
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Hi Edwin, Im glad to hear that your phone is back and running
For any of you other people that have this problem, I would recommend removing and replugging the battery, but remmember, there are more solutions you can find on XDA, that could fix the hard brick.
Also, for those of you that are willing to wait days, weeks, or even months and dont have the tools to open your phone and removing and replugging the battery, I would recommend checking out other solutions or just buying a new phone. Like I said before, Redmi 6 is old and unstable and theres a high change that you might get a hard brick, so if you want to install a custom ROM or a custom recovery, think twice before you do it and always have a backup phone.
I wish you all the best in solving your hard brick
Hi. My close friend has this issue. I'm posting this because she can't figure it out by herself. A month ago, her phone downloaded an update and she installed it. Since then, the phone has restarted by itself without any reason, just random restarts and the frequency of restarts was more frequent with each day. Fast forward to this day and the phone is constantly turning up and shows the POCO logo and restarts by itself. This loop is not ending until the battery is completely dead. When trying to access fastboot or recovery mode, she can get there but only for few seconds (until the device restarts again) which is not enough time to make any changes / factory reset. She did not accessed developer tools in system, so the bootloader is still locked. Holding down power button does nothing. ONE SINGLE UPDATE screwed up whole phone. Can't do ****. There's no SD card or SIM card in the slot. Is there any "hack" to stop the phone from restarting itself? Note when the battery is completely empty and she plugs the charger, the whole nightmare starts again. I'm lost. Did you guys have any ideas what to do? Or is the repair centre only solution? (She cracked glass of the display, i'm not sure if that voids warranty. [it's not glass COVER, it's the glass which is part of the display])
Is this device unlocked? If not, then RMA.
If it is, my best guess is to get the device into recovery (or fastboot?) and immediately connect to PC.
If it holds, leave it there as it will charge, although at much slower rate.
When charged, use TWRP to try to reboot to system.
If it doesn't work, then factory reset.
Sadly, i can not get to recovery because in about 2 seconds the device will reboot. There's literally no time to make any changes - factory reset. Also the device is not unlocked. I hope RMA accept the phone even though it has cracked screen . Thanks for response anyway
Then RMA it is. If you're in EU they'll have to take it, even with the cracked screen.
But does the reboot happen even when connected to PC? Two seconds is enough to plug it in if you're fast...
Yeah, we tried every possible idea we can think of. Pressing the toggle button from different angles with different intensity to make sure it isn't stuck inside, covering up the proximity sensor (yeah makes no sense but even that we tried, lol). Tried with connected to PC as with classical charging brick. No change. Back in those days where smartphones doesn't have unibody construction and you were able to take down the back cover and remove battery it was way simple. Nowadays it's not possible to stop the phone from booting itself until battery is completely empty. My friend says the problem started about month ago, when the phone annouced that there is an update available so she downloaded it and installed it. Before that, there was no problem with the phone whatsoever. Maybe it's caused by some kind of virus but IDK which apps she was using. She didn't have rooted phone not unlocked bootloader in developer tools. Also i googled that it may be caused by "Airtel Thanks" app which she didn't have installed aswell. I will keep this thread updated as what happend to the phone cause i'm also interested what went wrong and to help future users who will struggle with this problem a solution. Thank you.
CaptainFedora, did you solve the problem? I have the same issue...
Yeah, actually. Sorry for not posting the answer although it was definitely her fault. It was the power button being pressed down (which made continuous bootloop). But the button was somehow pressed deep into the phone's body. So complete dissasembly was needed.
Btw. my friend lives in other country so we discussed this problem over internet. If i could have the phone physically with me i would definitely know what was the problem.
Hi.
Yesterday I had the same problem, the device kept restarting every 10 seconds, it didn't even come to any screen besides the first one with the POCO logo in yellow.
Things I tried that did NOT work:
restart
hard restart
fastboot (it did enter the fastboot mode, but only showing the picture of the 2 robots and after 10 seconds restarting again to the POCO logo image)
plug it to power
plug it to computer
After 3 hours of continuous restarting and trying anything I could find in the internet and I could imagine of (except extracting the battery because it seemed complicated and difficult to revert), I tried randomly something that miraculously worked...don't ask me why.
pressing the power button shortly and quickly around 30 times (it might have worked after 10 or 20, but I just kept doing it a little longer
Afterwards it just started as if nothing had happened...doesn't make any sense, but I just wanted to tell you in case you are in a similar situation and desperate to not lose all the images and videos as I was yesterday.