I bought my xda in working condition a few days ago from somebody I know. It's a month old, and worked fine for a day. I left it on while I went out and when I got back it was off. I assumed the batteries were dead and placed it in the charger.
When I got back, it was still dead. It wouldn't turn on. I have not tried to flash or tamper with my device in any way...
Here's what i've discovered so far:
- Soft and hard resets do nothing.
- When in the cradle, the charge lights do not come on.
- Bootlogger works, so the screen is alright and there is power to the device.
- I don't quite understand the stylus in the sim card issue, and how it damages the device. Since it's been broken, I have put the stylus in and pressed down the switch (I was told to and even the woman in the O2 shop did it when i took it in! lol). But as far as I can tell the reason you're not meant to is because you can break the switch - however the phone will only go into bootlogger mode with the switch depressed (the sim card door closed) so I assume that means I haven't broken the switch in any way. Also, I didn't touch the switch before this trouble started.
- I can connect with my device via activesync and browse the windows folder, etc.
So as far as I can tell - it isn't the sim card slot switch, it isn't the screen, it isn't the cradle, it isn't the battery, and there is no problem as far as connecting with my computer.
But my device still won't turn on when I press the on/off switch and hard and soft resets have no effect.
Please help me/give me suggestions/tell me if it's truly french connectioned so i can go batter the guy I got it from for my money.
This phone cost me 2 months wages and I waited forever and drove 600 miles to get it. And it stopped working after a day. It's proper depressing lol.
Oh alos, if the phone is fc'd, will the factory be able to repair it for me if I pay (i'm not sure I have the receipt for guarantee). If anyone knows, thanks.
Thanks a lot in advance;
Mat.
i don't understand how you can browse the windows folder via active sync if you cannot turn it on.
have you tried a different sim card. ie was your 'friend' using it on o2 or something different.
the switch beside the sim card slot is a detector ie if the door is open - no power if the door is closed - power. possibly if the switch is broken - no power.
as to a factory repair - pass. it depends on the damage.
ian
cheers - but the switch doesn't seem to be broken - because i can boot into bootlogger mode with the door shut, but not with it open. which suggests to me that the switch is alive and well. i've no idea what's wrong with it. gonna have to be a factory repair unless flashing the rom from bootlogger mode might help... that's the only thing i can see might be wrong with it.
There's no sim card in it, i haven't bought one for it yet. I don't know what network he used it on, but the phone came from europe.
I can browse the folder via activesync on my pc - when i go into the connect mode on bootlogger.
MaT.
mr_mat_cool said:
There's no sim card in it, i haven't bought one for it yet. I don't know what network he used it on, but the phone came from europe.MaT.
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this is the answer to your problem, no sim card no power, if the 'phone is unblocked then any will do if not try any anyway, you never know.
ian
phone always worked before without a sim card. i'll try it though, thanks.
mat.
no mate, still not working with a sim card - the phone is unlocked..
:-( thanks anyway;
mat.
What is being displayed on the screen during your resets soft or hard (details please)?
You say the bootloader is working, Right! So do us a favor and check your GSM and report what it says.
To get to the GSM settings "while in bootloader mode" just press the Calender button.
Looking forward to your reply,
sorry, i'm slightly technically challenged, but i'm getting there.
if i take the device from its cradle and perform a soft reset, the green and red hang up/answer lights come on together for a few seconds and then go off. nothing else happens and i cannot turn on the device. if i try to, nothing happens at all.
If I perform a hard reset, aboslutely nothing at all happens except that I have to put the device back into its cradle and take it out again if i want to do a soft reset. If i do a soft reset straight after a hard reset, it does nothing (the lights don't even come on).
if i load bootloader, it says "GSM ERROR" where it says "GSM OK". I assume this is because I have no sim card in my device.
Well, i'm finding out things as I write -it seems to behave differently every time. I put it in bootloader mode to find out my gsm settings, and placed it in the cradle whilst it was loading... and it said "GSM OK". I soft resetted, the lights came on for a couple seconds and i'm back to where i started.
Confused!! Thanks for all your help though
mat.
note: for some reason, after taking the device from its cradle or placing it in, after a period of about a minute, the device chimes. i've no idea why or what it's trying to tell me. (the red and green hang up/call lights also come on for a second when this happens)
alright, update...
if i go into bootloader mode, and at the screen where it says "wait" i put the device into the cradle, and take it straight out again, the device says "GSM OK" (maybe it confuses it.)
Otherwise, the device says "GSM ERROR".
Mat
i managed to get onto the flash menu, and copy "BOOT TO SD", and then i went into bootloader mode and downloaded it from the sd card and it said succesful, cold reset to complete...
my device is now in the cradle, the buttons are doing nothing when pressed and the call.hangup lights are permanently on.
if i press the calendar button, a menu comes up saying...
UTLITIES
===GSM OFF===
DEBUG/CALI.
GSM TURN ON
GSM TURN OFF
GSM RESET
GSM 900
GSM 1900
GSM 900 / 1800
GSM RECAL
GSM NORMAL
this is really confusing me. i think i need to take this thing to O2.
yes? no?
thanks again;
Mat.
"GSM Error" seems to indicate there's something trashed with your radio stack. I had this same problem this week with a failed update to the T-Mobile 6.24 radio stack. Even with no SIM card inserted, you should still get "GSM OK". The only time I saw "GSM ERROR" was while the radio stack was hosed.
Try this: First, take out your SIM card, and in the menu you describe above, choose TURN GSM OFF. Then, reflash the ROM via the SD/bootloader method (look for the thread in the ROM Updates forum for help). I recommend the 4.00.05 ROM (Windows Mobile 2003 from 02). Once that's done, you need to get it to boot into the OS. With a corrupt radio stack, this can take 15-20 minutes or more. Do a soft reset, then let it sit for at least 30 minutes or so, and see if it boots into the OS.
Once you are in the OS, you should be able to connect via activesync, and re-flash your radio stack. I don't know what carrier you're on, but I'd suggest getting the latest radio stack update for your carrier's network, and not using a radio stack for another network.
It's a long shot, but I think if you can successfully re-flash your radio stack, you might be back in business.
Good luck!
JoshB
you are god mate :wink: .
First thing i'm gonna try is squaling like a girl for somebody else (O2 or an independant company) to fix it for me. Failing that, i'll try your method and anything else anybody suggests... Failing that i'll tell people it's some kind of space age weapon and hold up a bank for the money for a new one :lol:
here's what technical support said:
"It doesn't sound like anything I've come across before in the past. What I would suggest is for you to call the XDA warranty line anyway on the off chance that they can give you some advice."
Thanks a lot;
Mat.
NEWSFLASH! Took my phone from the cradle, put it back in and the orange charger light came on... This is weird as i've done nothing to it. It seems to be recovering bit by bit as if it got wet and is drying out or something... but it didn't get wet. I hope this helps somebody, someone else must be having the same problem. I read about one other guy who's phone has gone tits up, and even though his problem is different from mine, it seemed to be caused by the same thing - just leaving the phone on until the batteries died.
Mat.
aaaannnndd it's gone again. no charging light. it's weird, like my phone just decided it didn't wanna work for me any more and stopped.
i'll take it to get it repaired, see what they say. if not, it'll make a nice paperweight or maybe i can flog it to some blind kid
Mat.
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Hi...im a n00b here but really need help
ok...i tried upgrading my SX56 to 2003 thru siemens website. I followed directions like it told me. I put the phone in its cradle, didnt pick up any calls (nor did i recieve any calls), and then BAM...it got stuck at 10% for like 30mins - 1 hour. so i was like, umm ok. it froze?
i then took it off the cradle and did a soft reset hoping it would fix the problem....but yet, i was wrong...it doesnt show anything. so i proceed to make a Hard-Reset. now its totally screwed.
is my device gone for good?
well, i then reinstalled my ROM using the Program i found here at this site. I used the SD-Card method. I put the files in my card, insert it into the device, and held down the power button while performing a soft reset. This is where i got to the FLASHING screen where i think its copying the files to my phone? well, after this was finished, it told me to make a COLD reset. i assumed it meant soft reset, so i did.
now, here the window screen shows
all it is showing is
G
R
A.30.09
that's it? and it stays like that. can sumone help me plz
I got the same problem. Check my posts, I'll check yours. It sucks not having the P/PC and only the bootloader. I still have not fixed my phone and my day of optimism is comming to an end. My fear of having a dead phone is slowly creeping up. Anyway, good luck with your problem. Val.
A cold reset means you unscrew the top of your stylus and insert it into the tiny hole on the bottom right of your xda, the one with the red mark on, press once which will disconnect battery power, leave for one minute, press again will switch it back on. This always needs to be carried out following rom upgrade.
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The SX56 GSM/RADIO STACK BOOT ERROR is definitely a battery issue, and I
think all of these RSU upgrade workarounds fail to take this into account.
Here's my 2 day hell experience with my SX56, PW10B1 originally AT&T, bought
on Ebay and with the help of this forum, unlocked and flashed new rom
switched to T-mobile with no problems. I used this phone for 5 months with
this Romset, without any glitches whatsoever.
ROM 4.00.21 ENG 8/11/03
Radio 6.12
GSM 324e4
Saturday night I'm driving down the highway, talking on the phone, I get another call, switch over, tell em I'll call em right back, finish my original phone call, go to call the other caller back, and my screen is FROZEN. I pull over and do a reset (soft), no GSM or Radio stack. Phone hangs on boot screen. Only displays ROM# on hanging boot screen.
I get home, do a hard reset, wallaby bootloader 5.15 says GSM ERROR. I reflashed the rom from an SD backup I had saved, still no GSM or Radio stack, but It boots after waiting for 20 minutes. NO GSM, RADIO, OR IMEI# in system info.
The one thing that stood out is the fact that the bootloader had no GSM, so any upgrading of the stack RSU or otherwise seemed pointless, since the bootloader had no idea the phone was even a phone. But I tried those rsu upgrades and got to the 1% screen of death. After 4 or 5 attempts that proved useless, no matter what I installed, then deleted from the
windows/startup folder, IT JUST WOULDN'T WORK.
I was convinced that somehow the chip became physically corrupted, since at the bootloader level the phone was not aware of it's radio, gsm, or IMEI#.
I gave up after many many hours and called SIEMENS tech support monday morning.
I described the problem to them (GSM ERROR AT BOOT) and they told me that the GSM chip needed to be reflashed by them, that there was nothing I could do for the phone to fix it myself.
My phone's build date of 12/02 put it out of warranty, and since I bought it 2nd party (on EBAY) the repair would be handled by their out of warranty department. They gave me that phone number (it's a subcontractor, not SIEMENS that does the repair).
I called them and explained the problem, they told me that this repair would cost $US 215.00. I asked them if they had a special rate since so many people were having this identical problem, no sir 215 is the price. In order to get an RMA#, they wanted my credit card# so that they could authorize the funds (BEFORE RECEIVING AND DIAGNOSING THE PHONE). I told them to give me a day to think about it, and that I'd call back.
One thing I noticed during all of the booting/rebooting was the fact that the CHARGING light was dead. My battery had plenty of power, but the phone was reporting battery status "UNKNOWN". When I switched between cradle power or battery the indicator never changed, simply saying status "unknown".
I had an old nokia cell that I took apart when I broke the charging socket off of the circuit board. I opened the phone and with rubber bands, held the socket on the board and charged the battery with the phone out of it's case.
This got me thinking about the sx56 battery, and I had a brainstorm!
I did a google search for SX56 battery replacement and found
http://www.pdainternalbattery.com/siemensinstall.html
I took the phone apart (TORX #6) and removed the battery. with the battery out and the back off of the phone, I held in the rocker switch that checks if the back is on.
I connected the phone to my PC for power via USB, and it started right up!
The GSM and Radio stacks came back, and the charge light went from off to green!
I put the battery and back on the phone, rebooted and the battery charge light turned amber, the phone said charging. The IMEI # is back, and I put in a SIM and can make calls.
I bet a lot of people are having this battery issue, and when they lose that Radio stack, immediately try to upgrade it.
By removing the battery, my Stack AND IMEI came back, proving that it was never really gone in the 1st place.
I don't know about all of the STACK upgrading, but this worked for me.
Anyway siemens was going to charge US$215.00 to fix it,
and all they would do is open and close the case......
hello. Thanks for sharing. But in this case you just need to reset the battery hold and wait about 2 minutes then press it again. But most of our situations are the radio stack is need to flash. or problem with battery circuit. Anyhow, thanks.
should i?
Hey man!
I have the same problem.
I was upgrading the RSU and it froze. I did a soft reset and it hangs at 1% while installing the programme B again.
No RSU, No IMEI and no battery right now.
Let me know if I should try this. I would try anything now to bring my phone back to life....
My girlfriend is trying to call me and she can't She'll kill me!!!!
Hey!
I tried this and it worked.
XDA is back but still no RSU and no IMEI!!! The phone still is not working and it works only if the charger is attached and there is no light in LED.
Anything else?
I am desperate and would try anything now!
Cheers guys!
You help a lot!
hi. I think there is notthing we can do to fix this problem.(I have same problem). When the Radio Stack die it means the light indicator will not turn on. It turn red then no light appear. The only one thing we can do is to hope someone creates a radio stack on the SD card so we can fix it in the loading mode. There is no way we can upgrade the radio stack in the window if the radio stack dies.
Regards,
hoanghon
P.S. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
I Fixed this EXACT problem. Re-Read my original post (top of thread)
GET RID OF ANY RSU UPGRADE FILES FROM THE \WINDOWS
AND WINDOWS\STARTUP BEFORE YOU DO ANY OF THIS.
I took the battery out of my phone, left the back off of phone. hooked it up to charging cable. There is a small switch in the phone that is held closed by the phone's back cover. HOLD this switch in, and power up your unit. The charging light turns green, and the GSM and RADIO #'s will display on boot.
SEND ME PM's if you still have trouble, and I'll try to help you further, or you can mail me your unit.
hi. when the radio stack is error. you can't do anything to fix the radio stack. even you change a new battery it wont help. Trust me. You can search for this problem on this site. re flash the radio stack in bootloading mode is one sollution. Second solution is to replace the chip.
or change the mainboard.
SX56 GSM ERROR, But....
Ok, I'm gonna type this once more, and again, this is what worked in MY situation, if it doesn't work for you, good luck trying to reflash the radio stack, you can't, and here's why.
My phone froze after handling a call-waiting phone call.
When I rebooted, the GSM and RSU and IMEI were gone.
Bootloader said GSM ERROR. You can't flash anything when the bootloader doesn't see the GSM, RStack, or IMEI.
Compare your home PC to your XDA, and follow the process.
Take your home PC, boot to the BIOS (BOOTLOADER) . Set the PRIMARY HD to "NONE" .
Reboot. Your PC will be dead, it will say insert system disk, (GSM ERROR) why? Your BIOS (IE BOOTLOADER) doesn't see your HD.
Now try to use software (IE SD REFLASH) to find the HD, you can't. Any work on the HD (GSM RADIO STACK) is impossible.
Try to upgrade software on a PC if the BIOS can't see the HD.
For whatever unknown reason, my phone (BOOTLOADER) lost it's ability to see the GSM IMEI and RADIO. From all of the talk about this design error, it is obvious that the power circuit is involved.
You are saying
hi. when the radio stack is error. you can't do anything to fix the radio stack. even you change a new battery it wont help. Trust me.
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When I did my trick removing the battery from the loop, the GSM REAPPEARED in the BOOTLOADER. How could this happen if the chip was bad? The GSM Error appeared because of a fluke in the power circuit, not because of a chip error.
Resetting the circuit (Removing battery and powering up without it) allowed the BOOTLOADER to see the GSM and IMEI and RADIO. They were ALWAYS THERE, just not seen by the BOOTLOADER.
THE GSM ERROR IS A RESULT OF THE CHARGING CIRCUIT ERROR, NOT THE CAUSE OF IT
SIEMENS THEMSELVES told me there was nothing I could do to fix this problem, and that I NEEDED a NEW CHIP. They were ready to take my $215.00. My solution proves, that in my phone, the CHIP was never the problem, only a symptom, do you get it yet?
Im sure there are phones out there with bad chips on the board, maybe thats what you have, and why nothing works for you. Don't be so quick to say my way won't work, because it did work, it saved me a lot of money, and it will probably work for someone else, will you believe it then?
The number of people that face this issue leads me to believe it is a hardware error, in the charging circuit, not with the chip that holds GSM IMEI RS data.
You know, my phone works. You should fix yours (or have someone else do it for you), then call me, and we'll continue this debate there.
hi. Thanks for your post. but our situation is not yours. We killed the radio stack by upgrading the radio stack. Result dead radio stack. As I said, your situation is easy-just press the battery button and wait 60 seconds and re-press it again. The solution is solved. If the radio stack was easy to fix, we would never spend money to fix on it.
Best Regards,
Hoanghon.
P.S. I believe that you fix you pda phone. but it is not the same our case.
My brother brought me his O2 Prophet a couple of weeks ago because he said it randomly turned off. I assumed, obviusly, a faulty battery, and replaced it with a new one, fully charging it with an independant desktop charger before putting it in. Still the problem persisted.
I hence came here, and trawled through the xda bible, concluding that since the thing would turn off even by leaving it on a table and looking at it, it could very well be a software problem, as so many before me have had. No biggie, methinks - it's flashing time!
And here's where the phone decided it wanted to be a cute white paperweight: before it could finish flashing pdaviet, it turned off, voiding the process. Since, it's stuck in bootloader, and every time I try to flash (and I'm positive I'm doing it right), it will turn off, normally even before it reaches 50%. What could be the problem?
I've checked the connectors to see it they were dirty, and connectors 3 and 4 seemed slightly recessed, but I don't know if this is normal (they're very neatly recessed).
So, finally (I'm a long typer, sorry!) if anybody has any ideas, even maybe apparrently stupid ones, please post - my computer wiz reputation is at stake.
Try a different computer if you can, or even just a different USB port.
If that fails, re install active sync, get a different WM5 NVID ROM, Manually put the device into bootloader, disable connect through USB in active sync and then connect the device. Then run the RUU from the ROM you downloaded.
Thank for your reply l3v5y.
I tried all of your suggestions, but it still turns off all the time - I'm starting to think it really is a harware problem, but I can't figure out where.
Any other ideas come to mind?
Does it start up (and run WM5) properly? If yes, and it persists to reset, I would assume there is a faulty connection between the battery and the device. Check the battery connectors on the device to see if any are further depressed than others.
WM5 doesn't start at all - it's stuck in bootloader. The two middle connectors are slightly depressed compared to the other two - should I pull them out a bit?
I would suggest pulling the pins out slightly, but do not overdo it. Try a different WM5 ROM (an official one is probably best).
I know it may be silly but check if the soft reset button didn't stuck, maybe someone was pressing it too hard and that is causing problems
A factory reset is NOT needed!!
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i decided to do a fresh restart of my phone so i poewred it down, and did a battery pull after the phone was completely off. turned it back on, gets to lock screen, i unlock......sits..loading...screen goes black, and whattya know, white HTC splash screen. a few times. it's bootlooping!
Basically, with the cover off, it stopped bootlooping..therefore, it was a NETWORK ISSUE.
EDIT* this WORKED! anyone who has this issue please do the following: (source http://www.droidforums.net/forum/htc-rezound/184994-rezound-stuck-boot-loop.html)
STEP 1: TAKE BATTERY COVER OFF. this will prevent the phone from trying to connect to the network.
*#*#4636#*#* Under phone info you will find that the network is factory set to WCDMA Preferred... I guess the SIM card decides sometime along the way that it doesn't like that much... Setting the network to CDMA EVDO/LTE - Auto completely corrects the problem
another poster said that after you do this, hit home, power down the phone, pull sim card out, put it back in, then reset it. i didn't do this; i just went back, put the battery cover on, it froze like usual, reset itself, and now it's working perfectly.
**UPDATE** A few people are saying that along with taking off their battery cover, they have to REMOVE THEIR SIM CARD AS WELL! i did not have to do this, but some people did. take that into consideration!
(brockeverly stated:
You may have to take your SIM out for this to work. I did even with the back off. Aside from that, this works fantastic.)
for some reason, this is what happens: under phone info, as it says, it will reset to WCDMA Preferred for NO reason whatsoever! this must have happened when i shut my phone down; other people are reporting that doing "reboot" does this frequently for them! this is the first time in my month of ownership i saw this happen, so this was new to me...but thankfully, we have a fix!
As another way of doing this, Marclile said:
"For anyone interested, you can download this app and get straight into that config menu.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.geoffreybuttercrumbs.lteswitch
I use it to switch from "CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto" to "CDMA auto (PRL)". The CDMA auto setting doesn't seem to have the reboot problem, so you should be able to put it on that if you don't want 4G turned on all the time."
This happened to me also. Take out the battery, press and hold the volume down button and press and hold the power button. This gets you to the boot leader menu. Use the volume keys to move your selection up and down. Use the power button to select, I forgot if you select clear storage or factory reset. Best of luck.
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk
thanks dude.
seems that right now, i can boot it with the back cover OFF.
once i put the back cover on, the phone FREEZES and then reboots itself.
has anyone seen this issue before?!
Hmm
jayochs said:
thanks dude.
seems that right now, i can boot it with the back cover OFF.
once i put the back cover on, the phone FREEZES and then reboots itself.
has anyone seen this issue before?!
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So freezes once signal is involved? Hmm. Bad sim card? Faulty Hardware?
Sorry to hear about your problem and hope you get it fixed easily.
Good luck Bro.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/htc-rezound/184994-rezound-stuck-boot-loop.html
EDIT* this WORKED! anyone who has this issue please do the following:
*#*#4636#*#* Under phone info you will find that the network is factory set to WCDMA Preferred... I guess the SIM card decides sometime along the way that it doesn't like that much... Setting the network to CDMA EVDO/LTE - Auto completely corrects the problem
another poster said that after you do this, hit home, power down the phone, pull sim card out, put it back in, then reset it. i didn't do this; i just went back, put the battery cover on, it froze like usual, reset itself, and now it's working perfectly. holy hell this god damn phone just gave me a heart attack!
for some reason, this is what happens: under phone info, as it says, it will reset to WCDMA Preferred for NO reason whatsoever! this must have happened when i shut my phone down; other people are reporting that doing "reboot" does this frequently for them! this is the first time in my month of ownership i saw this happen, so this was new to me...but thankfully, we have a fix!
jayochs said:
thanks dude.
seems that right now, i can boot it with the back cover OFF.
once i put the back cover on, the phone FREEZES and then reboots itself.
has anyone seen this issue before?!
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This is exactly what happened to my first Rezound. I tried to reboot, but got stuck in a bootloop. The phone would boot normally with the battery cover off and stay functional until I put the cover back on. After that, it would start bootlooping again. I'm scared to even reboot this one because of this issue.
ppmp, read my first post! there's an EASY fix! it's because the phone sometimes switches network modes when you shut it down or reboot it on it's own....nobody knows why, but i guarantee your old phone was set to WCDMA when it should be set to CDMA/LTE Auto
If you use an LTE Toggle app it will get you to the same menu without having to remember codes.
For anyone interested, you can download this app and get straight into that config menu.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.geoffreybuttercrumbs.lteswitch
I use it to switch from "CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto" to "CDMA auto (PRL)". The CDMA auto setting doesn't seem to have the reboot problem, so you should be able to put it on that if you don't want 4G turned on all the time.
Had this happen while I was temp rooting Friday. Figured it was a problem with the tool... Factory reset fixed it, but I wish I would have seen this sooner.
has happened to me twice already. first time was the morning after i bought the phone, and the second was a couple weeks ago. both times i had to do a factory reset. NOT happy that it does this, and have expressed this to big red (like they care) for annotation purposes on my account.
good to know there is a fix. next time this happened, i was gonna jump ship for the GN. having doubts after seeing it for myself at the store tho...
personally, i think this should be a sticky....no, not because i'm the OP but because it's a problem a lot of us are seeing.
jayochs said:
personally, i think this should be a sticky....no, not because i'm the OP but because it's a problem a lot of us are seeing.
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Agreed. I would have loved not to have done a factory reset
stickied thanks steve!
i was THIS close to doing a factory reset..this all happened at like 1am one night when i had to be up at 8 for work, and i was so mad lol..i was frantically searching for a solution..and thankfully one was found!
Hey jayochs... Looks like the link got messed up when you quoted me in your OP.
whoops! fixed!
jayochs said:
whoops! fixed!
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cool. thanks for the quote by the way
This seems to happen to me every time the phone dies and runs completely out of juice so for me, the best way to avoid it is just to not let the phone die.
really? interesting. my phone died COMPLETELY last night and thanfully when i turned her back on, she was fine.
i honestly think it is completely random. it happened to me again yesterday. all i did was reboot my phone 2 times in a row. i didn't even change anything or install anything... first reboot went fine, i immediately rebooted again and when it came back up, it started bootlooping.
Hey everyone,
So I finally got my new (used eBay special) Rezound working with Amon Ra installed and CM9 unofficial. I was up til around 5 AM this morning futzing with it until I finally got it going with help from lolatvincent and others. Now I have another problem - though this problem existed before, too, but I am as yet unable to resolve it. (I've tried searching this forum using plenty of terms as well as Google to no avail.)
Here's my other thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151474
When I try to turn the phone on with the battery cover on, it won't power on. If I plug my phone into my USB port before I attempt to power it on, then press the power button, Windows makes its "device detected" sound, so clearly SOMETHING happens, but it goes away immediately and it won't happen again until I pull the cover off. Fastboot and ADB commands simply don't work with the cover on, so it seems that it does shut itself off again right after that power on attempt.
Further, if I have the phone booted and powered on, when I put the cover on, it just turns the phone right off as if you pulled out the battery.
This happens regardless of whether or not the SIM card (unactivated as yet - the phone hasn't been activated on my account) is in, and I've checked the typical CDMA/LTE settings and set them correctly, so it's not that issue.
I am waiting on a new battery for it, and I think I might try to order a new battery cover, but I want to know if this issue is going to go away or not before I spring the money for it. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!