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Just got a used slide, and it's acting wonky.

I picked up one of these off of a lady for $20; it was missing the back cover and battery, but it was in pretty decent cosmetic condition, so I figured I could sell the
parts to break even at worst, haha.
Anyway, I finally got a new battery yesterday, and the phone is acting funny.
So far I've noticed:
1. Microphone doesn't work. Any apps that use the microphone won't work either.
2. No sound whatsoever. Headphones, speaker, back speaker not a squeak.
3. It can't use flash because of the "cold weather." That just sounds silly, haha.
4. Camcorder immediately shuts off when I try to record. (Camera works perfectly though)
5. Won't charge. It will charge for about 20 seconds before it stops charging. The LED will then alternate between orange and green blinks.
6. Won't connect to the computer. This might just be a problem with the drivers, but the computer doesn't even seem to recognize its existence. The phone will "charge" though. (until the LED starts blinking)
7. Will shut off randomly. I usually don't notice when though.
8. Power button is often unresponsive, when waking the device up or even when booting up.
9.Genius Button Useless, although that might just be the microphone.
I first suspected water damage, but what I think is the indicator, the water sticker above the SD card slot, is white. However, I noticed a VOID sticker on the bottom left screw of the battery compartment.
Does anybody have any idea as to what the problem could be? Is it perhaps
software-based? Any suggestions at this juncture would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.

Hardware fault of some or many sorts.
For connecting to the computer, it may be set to charge only in settings, so then it wouldn't recognize it.
The white water indicator would turn pink or something if wet - so that's good.
The void sticker is good too - it's something HTC puts on a screw to tell if the device has been opened up.
If the void sticker isn't punched, and the water indicator is fine, then i'd suggest calling HTC and seeing about a warranty exhange.
Explain your problems, and that it's not wet and hasn't been taken apart, and they will tell you if the phone can be sent in based on the serial #.
It just might be in warranty period and they'll fix it for you.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I believe the warranty is not transferable. :-(
I think I'm just going to put it up on craigslist/ebay as-is. Seeing as
I paid so little, I'm sure to break even. 8 )
Thank you again!

enjoymoosic said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I believe the warranty is not transferable. :-(
I think I'm just going to put it up on craigslist/ebay as-is. Seeing as
I paid so little, I'm sure to break even. 8 )
Thank you again!
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The HTC warranty is by device.
I needed warranty service on a doubleshot that one of the LED lights died in. I was at least the third owner of the device for sure. I bought it from another developer who bought it secondhand from a person.
HTC fixed it and sent it back to me. All it cost me is shipping to get it there, they fixed the light for free, and sent it back to me at their expense.
The device is guaranteed against defects not your fault for a certain amount of time - doesn't matter who's hands it happens to be in when the problem occurs.
For the money you spent to get it, another couple of dollars in shipping to get a good, working phone, i'd at least call and see were I you.

Is that so? I actually read their warranty policy, and I must have
misunderstood the legal speak, haha.
Thank you again. I'll give them a ring right now..

enjoymoosic said:
Is that so? I actually read their warranty policy, and I must have
misunderstood the legal speak, haha.
Thank you again. I'll give them a ring right now..
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OT, but it's of interest to me. Is that a panda trueno? or a panda painted s12? Either way, I approve! I own an S12 and I get asked all the time if it's a corolla...

If you can't get it fixed or sell it for any reason, I'd be happy to take it off your hands for more than you paid.

@silverton It's an AE86 yup. I don't actually own one though; they're money pits, haha. Drifter tax. My mother actually owned an S12 when she was pregnant with me. Apparently she was "accidentally" drifting and hit a wall. Must explain why I'm so messed up in the head. 8 )
It's a pity the S12 never got the aftermarket support the S13/S14 did/does. Beautiful car.
@IBTokin I actually managed to sell it on Ebay for nearly $140 yesterday,
but thank you anyway. (-:

one s water damage. hope for repair?

ok so today a kid my mom babysits got ahold of my HOS and dunked it in the toilet... i caught him in the act and immediately grabbed it and dried it off best i could. it was in the water maybe for 1 second. when i pulled it out it was still on. lock button worked but screen was completely unresponsive. kept trying to unlock the screen but as i said it wasn't responding to me touching it. then it just turned off by itself and wouldn't turn back on at all. the notification light turned on (randomly, not from response to me trying to turn it off or on) and it was yellow and red. not completely one or the other. put it in a bowl of rice for a good 8 or 9 hours. pulled it out and now the notification light is off and still not responding to my attempts to turn it on. plugged it in to charger and no charging light. is there any hope for repairing it? or do i need to just buy a new phone...
not sure if it matters but details never hurt anyone.
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liquidsmooth jb rom
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If you dont have any insurance or warranty that covers such damages, I would take it apart and clean/dry each part individually with some tissues and those things you use to clean your ears (no idea what theyre called in english lol).
The odds are the screen is busted though, and will need a replacement.
The first thing you should do is getting the battery unplugged, so the device is completely powerless and let it be powerless for a day or 2.
Obviously, unplugging the battery on the HOS means disassembling the whole device...

j tag is the solution for ur problem..
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Well, Listen to me, ive had experience.
If you have the know how to break everything apart and clean the corrosion, then you might be lucky. If not, repairmen could do it for you, but with each option you lose warranty. And it is not guaranteed it will work 100%. If it does, then you just have to live with no warranty, if not, the repair centre will change your motherboard, for me that cost 190€.
So you pick.
If i would have known better on my case, i would have let repairmen try and clean it all up for a mere 30€ (if they could have repaired it) and THEN sent the device to offical repair centre when their efforts would have been in vain, cause you know, nevertheless the repairs are not under warranty for water damage.
Goatshocker said:
clean/dry each part individually with some tissues and those things you use to clean your ears (no idea what theyre called in english lol).
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This will never work since you probably already have corrosion on the motherboard.

hunabku said:
This will never work since you probably already have corrosion on the motherboard.
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Ive saved 3 laptops by doing that, so it does work. Corrosion doesnt appear THAT fast.
Although reading OPs post again I see it was quite a while ago it happened, so there might be some minor corrosion.
Running a hairdryer across the board can save some bad connections in some cases as well- obviously not heating the board to sh*t, just a quicky.

HOX+ liquid damage ? ? ?

My sons handset has developed a fault.
Please bare with me..... On the very odd occasion it will boot, it will eventually shut down and won't reboot for hours if not days. If it does reboot it looses the rom and I've got to reflash it. Sometimes it will keep running, but asleep, for a few hours but when it's used it will crash and not restart, as I said above, for hours or days.
The only roms that I can get to run are the "pure" android roms. I can't get any sense 5 ones to start.
I sent it back to o2, but they just sent it back to me stating it's "liquid damaged".
As far as I'm aware it hasn't been "liquid damaged", but obviously can't prove that. I also don't think they've checked it to come to that conclusion. These things are well made and there's no obvious signs of it being taken apart.
Any suggestions as to... (a) Do the symptoms re losing the rom etc, sound like liquid damage ?
(b) Can liquid damage be repaired ?
Personally, I don't think they've done "jack ****" about the fault because it's easier to say "liquid damage" and wipe there hands of it.
Thanks for "listening".

[Q] Nexus 5 Dead - Noise from Motherboard?

Hi guys,
Fairly new to posting on this forum but ive been a long time reader!
Last week i was at the office getting some steady use out of my Nexus 5 (which is in a Spigen NeoHybrid Case) when i put it in my pocket, got up, and accidentally hit the phone on the corner of my desk. The collision wasnt really that hard and so i didnt expect anything to come of it especially considering it was in a case and ive seen people drop theirs from a fair height and still function normally.
However ever since that moment i have been unable to turn my device on at all. It wont charge, it wont connect to the PC, absolutely nothing. I trawled the internet looking at all number of solutions including the various button hold methods.
I decided to chuck a new fully charged battery in the phone and it still didnt turn on but the phone did output some strange rhythmic buzzing noise before getting extremely hot and then nothing again.
Ive also taken out the motherboard and put it in to a healthy Nexus 5 phone and get the same issue which leads me to believe i have somehow damaged the Mobo :/
My question to you all is, have i got any chance in hell of getting my phone back to life before Google expect me to send it back in their RMA service? I could really do with recovering the data that is on the phone which includes a lot of family holiday photos i hadnt backed up (stupid of me i know).
Also, does anyone know what that buzzing sound might have been? Ive tried searching everywhere on the net and had no luck and im getting pretty desperate now. ANy help at all is much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Sam

I would also just like to state that im more than happy to reward anyone who helps me out significantly enough and manages to get my data back (or at least my phone visible on the PC so i can extract it).

I don't think data can be recovered. I don't know if I'm making any sense or not but if the eMMC chip is fine, then you can show it to a professional so that he could try to repair the motherboard (if it can be indeed done without wiping the data, lol). But the chances of that are slim to none.
Put it on a wall charger for an hour or so and try to boot it up. But I guess you've already tried that?
Apart from all this, It will be a miracle if google indeed accepted the RMA request since you've opened up the device, tried to swap the mobo and stuff.
- Sent from an IceCold Hammerhead!

vin4yak said:
I don't think data can be recovered. I don't know if I'm making any sense or not but if the eMMC chip is fine, then you can show it to a professional so that he could try to repair the motherboard (if it can be indeed done without wiping the data, lol). But the chances of that are slim to none.
Put it on a wall charger for an hour or so and try to boot it up. But I guess you've already tried that?
Apart from all this, It will be a miracle if google indeed accepted the RMA request since you've opened up the device, tried to swap the mobo and stuff.
- Sent from an IceCold Hammerhead!
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Thanks for the help
I have already tried charging it for long periods of time but its fairly obvious to me now that the phone isnt charging at all. It was only when i placed an already charged battery in the phone that i got the buzzing noise from the Mobo and the phone started to get very hot (turned out it drained approximately 30% of the battery in about 10 minutes).
Im not too worried about them not accepting the RMA as i have had other friends request the RMA service after opening up their phone, and in one case completely replacing the screen themselves and never had a problem. Its just such a shame as ive kept the phone in such good condition to avoid this from happening
So far the symptoms are:
- Phone wont turn on or charge.
- New battery in the phone causes phone to heat up and drain battery very quickly as well as produce a rhythmic buzzing noise from the motherboard.
- Placing Motherboard in a new healthy Nexus 5 device causes the same issue.

Hmmm. Sad. The blow must have been pretty nasty then. Table corners can be quite dangerous.
Can't you get the motherboard repaired locally? It will surely void the warranty but if the photos and other data are so important to you, that's the only slim chance you've got.
- Sent from an IceCold Hammerhead!

vin4yak said:
Hmmm. Sad. The blow must have been pretty nasty then. Table corners can be quite dangerous.
Can't you get the motherboard repaired locally? It will surely void the warranty but if the photos and other data are so important to you, that's the only slim chance you've got.
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Its really frustrating considering how well i have looked after it otherwise. Im also a little disappointed that the Spigen case didnt protect it better. The blow was nastier than i would have wanted but definitely not something that in my opinion should have broken the phone altogether :/
I can send the phone off to LG to repair it but this requires me sending the Phone to Sydney and waiting however long for them to possibly come back and tell me it cant be repaired.
My plan now is to wait for my new device to come through from the RMA service and then when i package up my old phone to send it back im going to leave a note explaining that whoever finds/deals with the phone, if they can recover my photos and videos and send them back to me on a USB i will reimburse them for it all as well as chucking in a $100 reward. I'll leave my name, number and email and hope that be some miracle it finds its way into the hands of someone willing to help.
In all honesty though what are my chances of that actually working :/

Should look into photo syncing or cloud storage lol. :silly: If I have anything that's important to me, I don't keep it only on my phone, I either move it off or backup/sync it into the cloud.

Chances of them recovering your photos, putting it in an USB stick and couriering it to you seem thin.Never seen such a thing happening
As stated in the post above me, I think you should move on and treat this as "lesson learned". I backup all my things to my computer over wifi using FolderSync and the important ones go to my dropbox via foldersync. You can even schedule it to make your custom backup every night/week/month and so on.

Bootlooping issue

Accidentally dropped my phone in water for about 2 to 3 second... 1st i thought its okay. Just wiped the water and it was running well for 2 minutes..
But after that its repeatedly restarting itself...
I even tried to dry it. Also i opened the device and seperated all the components inside. Still the problem is same... Only thing i didn't seperated is the screen which is more risky... So anyone can tell me what are tge possible ways i can fix it..
I even tried flashing custom os and recovery... But still its the same... Help needed

Software measures like flashing custom ROMs/Recovery doesn't seem a way out. The nature of damage done to the hardware within is worth a check by an expert. Firstly, post dropping a cell in water, it should never be used, instead it be switched off and battery be removed (if at all it is a removable one) until you ensure there are no water traces within. If you are not good at doing all this by yourself, better take it to the nearest service center. Having said that you have already attempted to flash Custom OS/Recovery, the warranty of device is already void. So leave the *risky* aspects you mentioned to the hardware experts who shall give ya an estimate and the status too.

fusionboyz said:
Software measures like flashing custom ROMs/Recovery doesn't seem a way out. The nature of damage done to the hardware within is worth a check by an expert. Firstly, post dropping a cell in water, it should never be used, instead it be switched off and battery be removed (if at all it is a removable one) until you ensure there are no water traces within. If you are not good at doing all this by yourself, better take it to the nearest service center. Having said that you have already attempted to flash Custom OS/Recovery, the warranty of device is already void. So leave the *risky* aspects you mentioned to the hardware experts who shall give ya an estimate and the status too.
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I know m out of warranty. And even it was in warranty company will take the same amount as of now.. bcz its water damaged which is not covered in warranty. So my situation is same from both sides. Still i want to solve this by my own.. if i did i will make sure to let all the community know. It will help others as of my situation...

vivek638 said:
I know m out of warranty. And even it was in warranty company will take the same amount as of now.. bcz its water damaged which is not covered in warranty. So my situation is same from both sides. Still i want to solve this by my own.. if i did i will make sure to let all the community know. It will help others as of my situation...
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Usually in such a situation the phone is kept in rice to absorb all the moisture, try that.
If it still persists take it to the service centre and get an estimate before fixing it, they are known to state a lot of random charges when they find out you dropped it in water.

Naveenthemi said:
Usually in such a situation the phone is kept in rice to absorb all the moisture, try that.
If it still persists take it to the service centre and get an estimate before fixing it, they are known to state a lot of random charges when they find out you dropped it in water.
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Actually already solved the problem. And yes it was due to short circuit bcz of water happening into the wire connected to screen. Just swiped it through Cotton and everything was good just like before..
And rit now its rocking again cheers

vivek638 said:
Actually already solved the problem. And yes it was due to short circuit bcz of water happening into the wire connected to screen. Just swiped it through Cotton and everything was good just like before..
And rit now its rocking again cheers
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Woah that's cool

Some time ago i also accidently droped rn7p in water at night 11 pm about 2-3 seconds. But i imedeatly turned it off and clean using a dry cloth then leave it under fan to dry. In monring i go to a local mobile repair shop and he just heat the mobile on a heating plate about 5 mins. Then i start it, and there is no problem it working like previous. So never remain phone on after drawing off it as soon as possible.
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Appreciate you sharing the fix; although not something that all would be comfortable doing. Quite a relief as issue is fixed.

fusionboyz said:
Appreciate you sharing the fix; although not something that all would be comfortable doing. Quite a relief as issue is fixed.
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It wasn't tough though as i did it without any tools.. or u can say home tools.
Only took the help of youtube just to make sure i don't do something wrong