Right, a couple of problems have recently appeared on my hero one of them being major and the other minor but annoying!
Firstly I'll explain what I had done before it happened, I'd just flashed FroydVillain 1.2.1 and the nindroid-v1.2-352-691-test-signed kernel.
After this at somepoint that day (don't exactly know when) the trackball notification light turned on, and stayed on ever since. This happens the second the phone is booted after being off, even in recovery mode!
A few days after i decided i was fed up with this problem and decided to sort it, to the best of my limited knowledge, and flashed a variety of ROMs and kernals,. Still no luck! THE DAMN THINGS STILL ON!
Then to top it all off the phone is no longer recognised by any computer when attached via USB. I've done some hunting and tired clearing drivers etc like suggested in this forum still nothing,
Any ideas?
Are these hardware faults?
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I've had a read through the forum, but cant seem to see anything that matches my problem. Apologies in advance if there was something which i missed. So here goes:
A friend of mine upgraded my Mda vrio II yesterday with the TNT Wm6 rom, its the one he uses, so I went with that. The upgrade went fine, and I actually quite liked the TNt rom as it was quite nippy. However, the next day I noticed a bug in it. It would reboot when I slided out the keyboard. I thought a hard reset would solve the problem, but it didn't. After the hard reset I slid out the keyboard to check if the problem was still there, and what do you know it went blank like usal...BUT instead of restarting, it just stayed blank and from then on it fails to start!! There seems to be no power at all. I tried to hard reset it again without any success. I connected the charger to see if the amber/green light comes on, but nothing happens.
Is there anything I can do to revive it? ANy help would be much appreciated.
ANy one have nay suggestions?
Dead battery?
Nope..its not a dead battery. I tried my mates working battery..and its still dead!!
Any more suggestions?
Reflash with a different ROM or a ROM you know works. If you still have issues then its probably a hardware problem of some sort with the keyboard.
WB
I would reflash if i could...but the phone doesn't even start up. I connected it to to my computer usb to see if i can connect via active sysnc, but nothing. Seems like its totally dead.
Sorry, missed the point about you not being able to switch it on.
Have you tried taking the battery out and leaving the phone without a battery overnight to see what happens? Might just work.
There was a debate on here a while back about being able to power a phone from the charger without the battery in it. Clutching at straws really but search around to see if you can find that thread. I guess if you can get power to the phone then you can look at other options like a reflash, if you suspect the rom.
Don't know what else to advise, I'm afraid. Hopefully someone will come along soon with a gem of an answer.
Good luck.
WB
Wacky - I've left the battery out of the phone for couple of hours but not overnight..something to try I guess. As for the charger being able to power the phone on...ill try that as well.
I just can't understand how the TNT rom can mess up a phone to the point where it doesn't start up when it installed successfully, or supposedly installed successfully in this case. I wonder if anyone else who installed TNT had a similar problem..hmm. I cant even seem to find the tnt thread to check..lol.
Bummer! I have had the TNT V2.0 for about 8 weeks with no major lockups or hard resets. I did not notice any problem posts on 'its rights' TNT thread like yours 'pulling out the keyboard'. This is one of the best Roms that I have flashed (I have the Hermes 8525 not the MDA).
First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
steambrick said:
First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
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That's nice of ya GreatOne
+1 vote for personalized help...
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Soo I have a Galaxy S II I9100. And it was great until something happened. Lord knows what happened to it. But I was running the latest version of Sensation ROM (1.6) smoothly. Then yesterday all of the sudden my phone kinda stops working more or less. The screen became unresponsive at times, the screen would activate on its own and then I would not be able to use it. After taking the battery out and restarting it things were OK for about 5 minutes.
Then after trying to open any sort of applications the Voice Command app would start and I wouldn't be able to exit out of it. After mashing the home button I could get out of it and then trying to open anything would result in a black screen (status bar active at top). So I figured maybe something went wrong with the software. I happened to have an update .zip of Sensation from 1.5 to 1.6, so I reflashed. This did not really help out. Even plugging in the USB cable was a 50/50 chance, Windows would tell me that the device is seemingly defective and sometimes it would work. But then trying to open USB Mass Storage was a big headache as well.
So I let it sit the night and then this morning I used Odin to flash a stock kernel. This seemed to help out somewhat, it made the system more stable and usable for a little bit. In the meantime I went to the so called "Samsung Cell Phone Service Center" in my city which turned out to be some repair shop for iPhones (go figure). After elaborately explaining my problems they said "must be a software issue". Which it is't. Anyways in the meantime I called Samsung America for direction, after talking to 3 different CS reps they referred me to call Samsung UK because that's where the phone was manufactured.
After that I did a factory reset and that made the issues even worse.
So I'm at a cross roads. I am probably going to be putting a call into Samsung UK tomorrow to try and figure something out.
Do a FULL wipe in CWM and then flash a stock rom. See if that helps. If not, then it's a hardware problem.
I had done that and then flashed a stock ROM which removed CWM, root, and the Sensation ROM. While that seemed to have helped, it would still randomly reboot (fewer than now) and the same issues persisted but less frequently. In the SGS2 stock recovery mode I did factory reset and wiped all data and cache and the problems are back and more frequent. I did take the phone to the beach but it was in a bag wrapped in a shirt..
could that have somehow caused this issue with the hardware?
I'm thinking that this is a hardware issue.
Yes, I think it is. One thing that comes to mind, did your modem change when flashing different roms? If not try a different modem. Otherwise it's really a hardware problem.
like its said in the title, my titan resetet itself twice! without any obvious reason.
the first time the titan didnt react to anything so i removed the battery, when i startet it again -> get started stuff
the second time i just turn the titan off when i restarted -> get started
its pretty anoying and i wanted to know if anybody has the same problem or knows an answer
thx
Memory full ?
What your device memory nearly full or about 8GB full ? Some devices have a bug when this happens. The last deployed firmware resolved the issue for me.
mhm im not sure how much was full but it could be...
i will do the update and see if it solves the problem
thx for the tipp
edit: great ive wanted to update my phone but during the process it fails. at the point when the phone is restarting my pc doesnt recognice it anymore...
zune is waiting for the phone to restart and the phone shows this "connect phone to pc" screen but nothing happens...
You can try to update your firmware with the lastest version with a recovery tool here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334468
It worked for me but you'll loose all your data.
ok thx i will wait a few days and look for driver updates mabay this will fix it and i can update the normal way but thx
My phone keeps shutting off and I barely have anything on it. Pretty annoying, thought it was a defective phone, not sure after reading this.
edit: after doing a factory reset my phone is still shutting off. Going to get a new replacement today.
I read on another thread that cleaning SIM card and reseating it solves that. Hope this is not too late to help others.
Any similarities to this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339185
I just had my first reboot for my Titan. Incoming call but no sound. Hung up, and the phone immediately rebooted. First and only time it did that. Hopefully it was an isolated incident.
FYI: I have about 4GB free on my phone. No other issues.
i think some of you getting it wrong. my titan doesnt reboot it reset itself like a hard reset, everything is gone and i have to go trough the whole settup again...
this happened twice altough it havent happened in the last days i want to update my phone but its impossible for me right now because when my phone restarts during the update process zune doesnt recognise it anymore.
ive already deletet and reinstallt the driver and i ran the official microsoft fix without any sucess
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I just had my first reboot for my Titan. Incoming call but no sound. Hung up, and the phone immediately rebooted. First and only time it did that. Hopefully it was an isolated incident.
FYI: I have about 4GB free on my phone. No other issues.
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Mine did this twice this week. I think is something with network connection.
Everytime I took it from pocket or car, turned it on and call in seconds.
Sometimes I got restarts while using the bluetooth connected to my car.
Something it not good with HTC radio.
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HTC Titan resetting itself out of nowhere..??
My Titan reset itself for the 1st time yesterday.. it froze first so i couldn't power it down I had to take the battery out, only thing is I have all my stuff (music, pictures, text messages..) u get the point. So after that happened and i pulled the battery out and put it back in and powered it up some of my apps were uninstalled and when i went over a screen to my apps i noticed something that said "applications install" or something like that, i had never seen it before. I uninstalled the mysterious app or watever it was and now when i try to open my people block on the start screen to find contacts it wont work.. wont open at all!!! this is the 2nd titan ive had and im totally confused as to what going on. I did unlock it with an unlock code. I dunno if that has anything to do with it.. Can anyone shed any light or should i just count my losses and trash it! it also deleted my email accounts in settings when i powered it off then on again.. I dunno if its a bug or wat, but im pissed tf off!! hellppppp!
Well I went to flash a test mod I made last night trying out the new vrtheme engine and pretty much bricked my phone. Not sure what happened worst I expected was a boot loop :silly:
I have a new one on the way but figured I'd give one last try incase I missed something. When flashing the mod I got an error, then rebooted the device to see if the mod took or not and my phone went dead and won't turn back on. I tried different batteries- fully charged (I have 3), using amonra so I know its not the CWM bug. I get nothing, no recovery or hboot, no adb or fastboot, No charge indicators, no physical mutations no nothing.
The only thing I get is 2 quick beeps when I plug it into my laptop. My work computer doesn't have the drivers so I get a device not recognized but nothing else.
Ideas anyone????
would like to know what happened so I don't do it again but I can't even check .
i did something similar.
i was attempting to build a rom and the phone booted then the screen went black and now pretty much the same thing, but i don't even get the 2 beeps.
it kills me, lol. I've flashed hundreds if not thousands of tests builds and "experiments" to my phones, done mods and themes for multiple phones never had an issue then something that is essentially a meta-morph breaks my phone, I'm more in awe than upset.
edit: please don't think that I'm blaming vr theme engine. I've flashed other vrthemes and was fine, this is something I did with a mod I was working on, just not sure what went wrong.
Run an RUU?
Tried, just waits for device for the exe version and cant get to hboot for the other. My phone was due to be returned at some point I had major heat issues saw the 150*f 's a few times and other quirks. Still think it was the mod though.
Well replacement just got here. It was nice of Verizon to ship out a replacement Incredible that is years old but now I have to wait 2 more days for my replacement Rezound....sigh @ Verizon....
Just got this same issue as well on my phone.
Only difference being that mine wasn't installing a theme.
I had just flashed the newest Ineffebilis Deus (1.1), had an issue where I only saw the menubar, rebooted, wiped and flashed again. Told it to restart, now it won't do anything. No charge light, etc. Using AmunRa, btw.
I have no other batteries to test with, unfortunately.
adb shows no devices and even the wall charger doesn't do anything.
Just my luck that it does this two days before I get on a plane, haha.