Eris went belly up today... back to stock questions - Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So today my Rooted Eris running nonsensikal started just randomly shutting off. If I let it sit for 15 minutes or so I can turn it back on and get it to run for a while. I used one of my old, very stable nandroid restores and still had the same problem.
So... phone must go in for warranty. I have it back to 1.5 stock. My question is how do I get it upgraded to the latest OTA 2.1? I have the 2.36.605.1 RUU .exe but it won't work Won't reboot to bootloader and says there's a USB problem (there's not).
Thanks in advance.

Since you already have the phone back to 1.5, I'll suggest a strategy which minimizes the amount of flashing which needs to be done. Note also: the stock recovery partition must be installed on the phone for any OTA update procedure to work - it will not work if Amon_RA recovery is still installed.
If your phone is having hardware troubles, it is quite possible that your phone will "glitch" in the middle of a flashing operation, and you will end up with a brick. There is little you can do to prevent that from happening, so ... you want to do as few flashing operations as possible before you turn the phone over to VZW.
For that very reason, I will suggest that you do not use the 1.5 to 2.1 OTA upgrade - it takes a LONG time to run. If the problem that your phone is having is related to the phone warming up, you want something which runs quickly.
I'll suggest that you flash the Leak-V3 PB00IMG.ZIP ROM using the HBOOT method. You know the one, right?
- download the Leak-V3 "PB00IMG.ZIP" file to the root folder of the SD card
- charge the phone to 100%
- shut down
- reboot by holding down Vol-Down+End
- accept all the prompts as they occur.
This will get you back to 100% stock (prior to the July 17 OTA). If your phone dies in the middle of the July OTA update (which is quite a bit smaller and completes faster), no big deal, the phone has been wiped and only has factory code on it.
You mentioned something similar to "letting the phone sit" for 15 minutes. Perhaps you want to charge the phone to 100%, and let it sit for an hour or two before running any flashing operation, so that it will have cooled down as much as possible before you flash anything.
Please also educate us: there have been a few users who have literally burned up their Eris by incautious overclocking; what profiles were you using for overclocking, and what Temperature settings were you using for the Safety setting? Were you using the Eris for sustained tethering operations?
bftb0

Hey thanks for the reply!
In regards to your last question, I've been running it at 806 for a couple of months without issues. Yesterday morning I followed the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761940 and I ran into problems a few hours later. My settings were:
DEFAULT 19MIN---806 on demand
SCREEN OFF 19MIN---480 MAX on demand 95 priority
TEMP <40 19MIN---528MAX 90 priority
BATT <40 19MIN---604MAX
SAMPLING RATE---100000
UP THRESHOLD---98
ignore nice ---0
power save bias---0
I guess it's also noteworthy I installed SetCPU 2.0.2 yesterday morning as well.
I'm not blaming the OP of that thread, it doesn't seem others are having problems. I wasn't using tethering or anything out of the ordinary. Nothing but text messages and Facebook for the most part.
I have ran leak V3 before. My only question, I thought that changed the bootloader and the OTA didn't? Please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to get hit with a bill for the phone if they notice that lol
Also noteworthy, my phone was on a charger all night and didn't die! It was dying all day yesterday, regardless of charging status.

joebob213 said:
In regards to your last question, I've been running it at 806 for a couple of months without issues.
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That's precisely what I was getting at. Because the supply voltage to the CPU is stepped up as frequency is stepped up, it generates a lot more heat when running at high clock rates. Way more than you would expect. There have been users over on AF that burned their phones up in as little as one week by aggressively overclocking. I wouldn't recommend to any of my friends that they OC an Eris to 806. (I have mine peaking at 729, and I have never even tried to see how high it would go.)
joebob213 said:
Yesterday morning I followed the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761940 and I ran into problems a few hours later.
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Well, your first post indicated you were also having problems with "old, very stable nandroid restores" - I suppose that they were not OC'ed to 806, and also didn't have these new tweaks applied. So, there is no reason to believe those older ROMs would be affected unless physical damage had occurred to your Eris.
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I guess it's also noteworthy I installed SetCPU 2.0.2 yesterday morning as well.
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Same comment as above - why would a software change in one ROM affect the behavior of a completely different ( "old, very stable nandroid restores" ) ROM? If the 1.5 ROM is also crashing, remember that it isn't even overclocked!
joebob213 said:
I have ran leak V3 before. My only question, I thought that changed the bootloader and the OTA didn't? Please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to get hit with a bill for the phone if they notice that lol
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You are correct that the OTA doesn't touch the bootloader, but if you have run the Leak-V3 before, doesn't that would mean that you already have the 1.49.000 S-ON bootloader on your phone? (unless you were you able to change the bootloader back to 1.47 when you "went back to 1.5").
In any event, you might be getting overly anxious about it for several reasons. While you are absolutely correct that a team of forensic experts hired by Verizon to examine your phone might be able to look up the date of purchase and customer history to determine that you shouldn't have the 1.49.0000 S-ON bootloader on your phone, the chances of them taking that kind of interest in your phone is essentially zero - they get thousands of returned phones every day (all makes and models). There have been posters on this forum that reported returning multiple rooted Eris without making any effort to clean them up, and were never contacted or charged by VZW. So, the chances of them taking an interest in your phone because it has a 1.49.0000 S-ON bootloader is pretty small, especially considering that they have been shipping phones for a couple of months now with that bootloader installed.
Still, if you want to try returning it to absolute stock, you probably need to perform Jcase's "Flash any RUU" technique (which modifies the "misc" partition so that you prevent those "Main Version is Older" lock-outs by the bootloader.) That would also allow you to use the PB00IMG.ZIP file from the MR2, along with Toastcfh's "battery pull trick" to only flash the bootloader.
The thing to bear in mind is that the OTA process relies on having a stock recovery partition and the exact version of HTC software that the OTA expects to be upgrading - you didn't say exactly what state your phone was in when you restored to 1.5. Does it have the stock 1.17.605.1 recovery installed, too? Manually downloading the 1.5 -> 2.1 OTA and installing it as an "update.zip" will work - so long as your phone doesn't decide to crap its' shorts in the middle of that update. And after that, one more OTA (July 2010) to put it back to "current" stock status.
But as I said, if you think your phone has bad hardware and could fail at any moment, doing a lot of flashing just increases the chances that you will have a disaster right in the middle of flashing. Flashing the Leak-V3 ROM takes about 5 minutes including the first boot; but applying the 1.5 -> 2.1 OTA takes considerably longer - it goes in and manually patches 600+ files. It burns less than 100 MB to the phone, but it spends a lot of time running when it does so.
joebob213 said:
Also noteworthy, my phone was on a charger all night and didn't die! It was dying all day yesterday, regardless of charging status.
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I don't know that makes me feel any better. If it is crashing with 1.5 on it, it is damaged goods.
bftb0

bftb0 said:
Since you already have the phone back to 1.5, I'll suggest a strategy which minimizes the amount of flashing which needs to be done. Note also: the stock recovery partition must be installed on the phone for any OTA update procedure to work - it will not work if Amon_RA recovery is still installed.
If your phone is having hardware troubles, it is quite possible that your phone will "glitch" in the middle of a flashing operation, and you will end up with a brick. There is little you can do to prevent that from happening, so ... you want to do as few flashing operations as possible before you turn the phone over to VZW.
For that very reason, I will suggest that you do not use the 1.5 to 2.1 OTA upgrade - it takes a LONG time to run. If the problem that your phone is having is related to the phone warming up, you want something which runs quickly.
I'll suggest that you flash the Leak-V3 PB00IMG.ZIP ROM using the HBOOT method. You know the one, right?
- download the Leak-V3 "PB00IMG.ZIP" file to the root folder of the SD card
- charge the phone to 100%
- shut down
- reboot by holding down Vol-Down+End
- accept all the prompts as they occur.
This will get you back to 100% stock (prior to the July 17 OTA). If your phone dies in the middle of the July OTA update (which is quite a bit smaller and completes faster), no big deal, the phone has been wiped and only has factory code on it.
You mentioned something similar to "letting the phone sit" for 15 minutes. Perhaps you want to charge the phone to 100%, and let it sit for an hour or two before running any flashing operation, so that it will have cooled down as much as possible before you flash anything.
Please also educate us: there have been a few users who have literally burned up their Eris by incautious overclocking; what profiles were you using for overclocking, and what Temperature settings were you using for the Safety setting? Were you using the Eris for sustained tethering operations?
bftb0
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That's what I did when I had my trackball ball problem and had to take my phone in
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I've followed all of the instructions. I'm stuck on android stock 1.5 and every time I try to get the leakv3 to run it doesn't recognize it or something, I've tried formatting my SD card and renaming it correctly but nothing.
I need to send in my phone in a couple of days, so I need this to get fixed....
please help.
EDIT: Nevermind, leakv3 finally working.

TheDoctor1177 said:
I've followed all of the instructions. I'm stuck on android stock 1.5 and every time I try to get the leakv3 to run it doesn't recognize it or something, I've tried formatting my SD card and renaming it correctly but nothing.
I need to send in my phone in a couple of days, so I need this to get fixed....
please help.
EDIT: Nevermind, leakv3 finally working.
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Please report what you discovered so that others will benefit from your experience - corrupted PB00IMG.ZIP file?

bftb0 said:
That's precisely what I was getting at. Because the supply voltage to the CPU is stepped up as frequency is stepped up, it generates a lot more heat when running at high clock rates. Way more than you would expect. There have been users over on AF that burned their phones up in as little as one week by aggressively overclocking. I wouldn't recommend to any of my friends that they OC an Eris to 806. (I have mine peaking at 729, and I have never even tried to see how high it would go.)
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I knew what you were getting at, I was answering your question.
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Well, your first post indicated you were also having problems with "old, very stable nandroid restores" - I suppose that they were not OC'ed to 806, and also didn't have these new tweaks applied. So, there is no reason to believe those older ROMs would be affected unless physical damage had occurred to your Eris.
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The nandroid restore I used was also overclocked to 806, albeit without the tweaks. If I didn't think it was a hardware issue. I wouldn't be wanting to send the phone in.
bftb0 said:
Same comment as above - why would a software change in one ROM affect the behavior of a completely different ( "old, very stable nandroid restores" ) ROM? If the 1.5 ROM is also crashing, remember that it isn't even overclocked!
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Same comment as above.
bftb0 said:
You are correct that the OTA doesn't touch the bootloader, but if you have run the Leak-V3 before, doesn't that would mean that you already have the 1.49.000 S-ON bootloader on your phone? (unless you were you able to change the bootloader back to 1.47 when you "went back to 1.5").
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Yes, the bootloader is back to 1.47.
bftb0 said:
In any event, you might be getting overly anxious about it for several reasons. While you are absolutely correct that a team of forensic experts hired by Verizon to examine your phone might be able to look up the date of purchase and customer history to determine that you shouldn't have the 1.49.0000 S-ON bootloader on your phone, the chances of them taking that kind of interest in your phone is essentially zero - they get thousands of returned phones every day (all makes and models). There have been posters on this forum that reported returning multiple rooted Eris without making any effort to clean them up, and were never contacted or charged by VZW. So, the chances of them taking an interest in your phone because it has a 1.49.0000 S-ON bootloader is pretty small, especially considering that they have been shipping phones for a couple of months now with that bootloader installed.
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I remember leakers getting charged $400 on their Verizon bill after sending in their phones.
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The thing to bear in mind is that the OTA process relies on having a stock recovery partition and the exact version of HTC software that the OTA expects to be upgrading - you didn't say exactly what state your phone was in when you restored to 1.5. Does it have the stock 1.17.605.1 recovery installed, too? Manually downloading the 1.5 -> 2.1 OTA and installing it as an "update.zip" will work - so long as your phone doesn't decide to crap its' shorts in the middle of that update. And after that, one more OTA (July 2010) to put it back to "current" stock status.
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I got the phone back to bone stock 1.5, OS, recovery, bootloader, etc...
Now the rest of the story. My phone is working fine now! Saturday morning I was still running 1.5 but I hadn't been using the phone at all and it still hadn't died again. I did a *228 option 1 and after the phone rebooted I got the OTA notification. I went for it. It actually didn't take very long! 10 minutes maybe? The phone was running fine after that... for a few hours. When I was at work I had it plugged in all day but I used it quite a bit. About an hour before I went home the phone died. I booted it back up and unplugged it. As soon as I took it off the charger I got the "plug in your charger" message. Said battery was less than 2% charged! Anyway, I let it die and took it home. Plugged it in at home and as soon as I turned it on it said the battery was full! I left it there for a while, then went to my other job and the battery meter drained FAST! Like, 2 hours fast with very little use. I plugged it back in yesterday morning, let it fully charge, and I haven't had any issues since! I unplugged it at about 10:00 yesterday morning and I've still got about 75% of my charge now.
So I have no idea what the issue was lol. Phone and battery lost communication with each other?
I'm going to go ahead and keep it stock for a while just in case I have to send it in but everything seems to be working fine after the battery freak out!

Maybe the problem was the battery all along?
I would ask VZW if they will swap out a battery with you to see if the problem persists.
BTW, I hope you didn't think I was "talking down" you - I provided all those "extra" details because you didn't mention them. From across the Internet, it is impossible to know whether someone doesn't mention something because they are completely aware of the details (and consider them not worth mentioning) - or because they aren't aware of them. No doubt you've seen the wide range of sophistication that posts in here.
bftb0

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My Rezzy was solid..and then I woke up

So, yesterday morning this all went down. My Rezound has been nothing but an expensive paperweight. I am not new to the rooting game so save the nonconstructive comments.
Early Monday morning I felt the need to change things up a bit so I wanted to flash the latest CleanRom 3.7 to check it out (coming from BAMF v.09). I backed up all my apps & data and continued to make a nandroid backup (with Amon_Ra 3.14). After that, I completed the necessary wipes (including boot because Scott packages his roms with the kernel) in recovery and then flashed CleanRom 3.7 (MD5 sum matched) then booted into bootloader to flash the kernel. Everything went perfect with that.
After the phone booted I realized how low on battery I was on but connected to Wi-Fi during the initial start-up on the new rom. I got all my accounts and data synced/restored and was getting ready to knock out. I set my alarm, placed the phone on the wall charger and confirmed it was charging by the orange light around 3am.
I woke up yesterday morning around 7:30am and realize I'm running late. I pick up my phone to see if the time is correct and I get nothing but a black screen. Pulled the battery...nothing...plugged in the phone without the battery..then plugged in the battery...nothing. On my 45 minute commute to work I removed the battery and let the phone sit (hoping some magic would happen lol) and nothing changed.
When I made it to my office, I plugged the phone in to see if it would accept a charge and 2 hours later nothing. I have the 3.7v battery and have had no indications of a bad battery (short life, warm, etc.). Due to the circumstances, I was left with no choice but to go to the local VZW and order a replacement.
The guy at the Verizon store plugged my phone in the wall charger and saw it was not accepting a charge. Swapped the battery with his own personal Rezound and mine worked in his, however, his fully-charged battery would not work in mine. Narrowed it down to the phone itself which blows. I thought at worst it would be the battery.
I am really curious how/why this all went down of all times when I wasn't doing anything to my phone. You guys/gals have any idea?
Marcismo55 said:
and continued to make a nandroid backup.
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Were you using CWM recovery? You don't say. There are reported battery charging issues with that on the Rezound. Search around. You should use Amon Ra.
mike.s said:
Were you using CWM recovery? You don't say. There are reported battery charging issues with that on the Rezound. Search around. You should use Amon Ra.
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My bad..I forgot to mention I have been running Amon_Ra from the start. I've never ran CWM on my Rezound and I did run across some threads regarding the charging issues associated with CWM.
Thanks though!
Did you check the pins on the inside of the phone for the battery? Any scratches or rust?
This is exactly why I stay on GB and GB Kernels.
I experienced non-charging on two different ICS ROMs at seemigly random times. Sometimes just on the 3.8v. Once on the 3.7v. Going back to GB, then back to ICS temporarily resolved the issue.
One of the 10 reasons I tell people not to go ICS with this phone yet.
Get back on GB and your phone may well be just fine.
That's where my money is.
Ineffabilis with the 2.011.xxx kernel and radio is winning still.
If you flash leaks this is what happens. Live and learn this phone does not have soff so mistakes can cost you a phone
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mpalatsi said:
Did you check the pins on the inside of the phone for the battery? Any scratches or rust?
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Yes. All the contacts were intact and free of dirt/debris.
pkopalek said:
This is exactly why I stay on GB and GB Kernels.
I experienced non-charging on two different ICS ROMs at seemigly random times. Sometimes just on the 3.8v. Once on the 3.7v. Going back to GB, then back to ICS temporarily resolved the issue.
One of the 10 reasons I tell people not to go ICS with this phone yet.
Get back on GB and your phone may well be just fine.
That's where my money is.
Ineffabilis with the 2.011.xxx kernel and radio is winning still.
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I would give GB a try, however, the phone does not do anything at all.
I also don't quite follow your reasoning behind not running ICS roms as this appears to be more of a hardware related issue itself. However, that is fine if it works for you.
Dstu03 said:
If you flash leaks this is what happens. Live and learn this phone does not have soff so mistakes can cost you a phone
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More than half of all the roms out there are from ports/leaks. Please explain.
You put the sim card in backwards? I fried one rezound doing this already.
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Did you try to connect via USB to your computer and type in adb reboot? I have heard some success with that. But it was for the CWM problem. It might be worth a shot.
nosympathy said:
You put the sim card in backwards? I fried one rezound doing this already.
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Actually I didn't even take the SIM out. Maybe I should have given that a try.
EmerikL said:
Did you try to connect via USB to your computer and type in adb reboot? I have heard some success with that. But it was for the CWM problem. It might be worth a shot.
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Thanks man...I tried that too and ADB was unable to see the device.
VZW told me my replacement won't be here until tomorrow...weak.
dude i started a topic on this months ago..i had a guy come in who had the SAME problem..except his somewhat powered on with another battery.
i put one in, went into bootloader, tried to boot to recovery, but it just came up as a black screen...so i reboot it, wiped it, but it wouldn't even wipe, it just went to that same black screen. his battery had died overnihgt, and he didn't charge it, and then this happened..it just wouldn't turn on, the orange light wouldn't come on showing it was charigng...
i couldn't fix it, so we had to get him a replacement that really sucks that i'm still hearing it out there...
sorry if i didn't read, but what rom/kernel were you running? this guy swears it was stock and he never heard of rooting, so who knows if he was lying or not
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Were you using CWM recovery? You don't say. There are reported battery charging issues with that on the Rezound. Search around. You should use Amon Ra.
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That's only for charging when you're booted into recovery if I'm not mistaken...
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Dstu03 said:
If you flash leaks this is what happens. Live and learn this phone does not have soff so mistakes can cost you a phone
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If flashing killed it, it would have never booted back up...
Marcismo55 said:
Actually I didn't even take the SIM out. Maybe I should have given that a try.
Thanks man...I tried that too and ADB was unable to see the device.
VZW told me my replacement won't be here until tomorrow...weak.
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In my case when the Verizon rep gave me the phone he put the sim in and put it in backwards. To be fair, it does go in "backwards" to every other android phone I have owned haha.
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That's only for charging when you're booted into recovery if I'm not mistaken...
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It may depend on how you're charging. The charging process requires some intelligent oversight - if you power off the phone, and connect a charger, the process is controlled by code loaded from somewhere. I think that code is in, or loaded by, the recovery. That would tend to explain things like this, this, this, and this.
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dude i started a topic on this months ago..i had a guy come in who had the SAME problem..except his somewhat powered on with another battery.
i put one in, went into bootloader, tried to boot to recovery, but it just came up as a black screen...so i reboot it, wiped it, but it wouldn't even wipe, it just went to that same black screen. his battery had died overnihgt, and he didn't charge it, and then this happened..it just wouldn't turn on, the orange light wouldn't come on showing it was charigng...
i couldn't fix it, so we had to get him a replacement that really sucks that i'm still hearing it out there...
sorry if i didn't read, but what rom/kernel were you running? this guy swears it was stock and he never heard of rooting, so who knows if he was lying or not
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Yeah dude I had just flashed CleanRom 3.7 and the stock kernel that came with it.
It was completely unresponsive to anything but I didn't think of booting into recovery. My battery had a 30% charge on it when the VZW rep put it in his Rezound and powered it on. It was just really weird.
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Yeah dude I had just flashed CleanRom 3.7 and the stock kernel that came with it.
It was completely unresponsive to anything but I didn't think of booting into recovery. My battery had a 30% charge on it when the VZW rep put it in his Rezound and powered it on. It was just really weird.
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I see this happen a few times. I can assure any one reading this it was coincidental that it happened after the ROM was flashed. If not there would be about 5,000 bricks out there with my name on it.
I think you had some bad luck man. It happens. My boss at work just ordered a brand new 1TB HD. Hooked it all up in his new rig and it would be seen by BIOS. Had to RMA it back to new egg.
I just put together a killer i7 system. Insane specs, water cooler, the whole nine yards. It had a 2GB GeForce Ti GTX 560 OC in it... Died within 2 weeks. That was a $300 card. Within the first couple days it started hard locking my computer. This was all on a fresh build mind you. Then after a week and a half the screen would lock and turn pink... Thats when I was positive it was video.
Replaced it and all was well.
Im just trying to illustrate that hardware failure can happen at the least opportune times. In other words, **** happens.
scrosler said:
I see this happen a few times. I can assure any one reading this it was coincidental that it happened after the ROM was flashed. If not there would be about 5,000 bricks out there with my name on it.
I think you had some bad luck man. It happens. My boss at work just ordered a brand new 1TB HD. Hooked it all up in his new rig and it would be seen by BIOS. Had to RMA it back to new egg.
I just put together a killer i7 system. Insane specs, water cooler, the whole nine yards. It had a 2GB GeForce Ti GTX 560 OC in it... Died within 2 weeks. That was a $300 card. Within the first couple days it started hard locking my computer. This was all on a fresh build mind you. Then after a week and a half the screen would lock and turn pink... Thats when I was positive it was video.
Replaced it and all was well.
Im just trying to illustrate that hardware failure can happen at the least opportune times. In other words, **** happens.
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^This. Even if it is new hardware there can be defects. **** happens!
Marcismo55 said:
I would give GB a try, however, the phone does not do anything at all.
I also don't quite follow your reasoning behind not running ICS roms as this appears to be more of a hardware related issue itself. However, that is fine if it works for you.
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I assessed your OP as related to a phone not charging.
I see what you mean, now. My points were in the case of non-charing, or failure to charge (and a phone going dead on the charger) which aren't things I've seen on any stock-based ROM, but very much so on ICS ROM's (and Kernels, as such).
I bid you good luck on your replacement hardware. Stuff happens!
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I see this happen a few times. I can assure any one reading this it was coincidental that it happened after the ROM was flashed. If not there would be about 5,000 bricks out there with my name on it.
I think you had some bad luck man. It happens. My boss at work just ordered a brand new 1TB HD. Hooked it all up in his new rig and it would be seen by BIOS. Had to RMA it back to new egg.
I just put together a killer i7 system. Insane specs, water cooler, the whole nine yards. It had a 2GB GeForce Ti GTX 560 OC in it... Died within 2 weeks. That was a $300 card. Within the first couple days it started hard locking my computer. This was all on a fresh build mind you. Then after a week and a half the screen would lock and turn pink... Thats when I was positive it was video.
Replaced it and all was well.
Im just trying to illustrate that hardware failure can happen at the least opportune times. In other words, **** happens.
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I understand Scott. I am in now way shape or form saying flashing your ROM was the reasoning behind all this as I have flashed numerous times before this and had no issues. Also, considering I am one of the very few this has happened to, i think its pretty obvious this was a hardware failure. I
I'll be running your roms soon enough
Thanks to everyone providing insight on this situation. I'll be back at it again very soon!

Is my screen going out or what?

I just received my phone and noticed an odd screen issue after updating the firmware:
Notice the slight line around the screen. The odd part is that I do not see the line when I have a white screen, I also do not see it when I am in clockworkmod nor do I see the lines when the boot screen is loading.
Is my screen going out or what?
I had this problem with my first Atrix and I searched high and low with no workable solution. Some say it is a firmware issue. Honestly, there's no fix to my knowledge, without forking over some cash for a new digitizer. Only option is to get another one or another phone Lord willing. Apologies. Well, unless you can bear with it. It doesn't effect performance from what I saw, but it's annoying and no matter what I couldn't ignore it as if it wasn't there.lol
#Sent from my God given Atrix 4G
phreshy said:
I had this problem with my first Atrix and I searched high and low with no workable solution. Some say it is a firmware issue. Honestly, there's no fix to my knowledge, without forking over some cash for a new digitizer. Only option is to get another one or another phone Lord willing. Apologies. Well, unless you can bear with it. It doesn't effect performance from what I saw, but it's annoying and no matter what I couldn't ignore it as if it wasn't there.lol
#Sent from my God given Atrix 4G
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Well I can deal with it as I got a pretty good deal on the phone (off contract via ebay) but it is still very annoying. If I can deal with it till November, I am eligible for an upgrade from ATT (with some money of course).
I would definitely blame it on the firmware. If you are getting crazy lines all the way through you could probably blame it on the video. I see this all the time at my work. Try a hard reset, back up your data.
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Burrito
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I would definitely blame it on the firmware. If you are getting crazy lines all the way through you could probably blame it on the video. I see this all the time at my work. Try a hard reset, back up your data.
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Burrito
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Thanks!! I will try to fully upgrade the firmware to 4.5.141 instead of stopping at 4.5.91.
How would you go about upgrading the firmware if you already unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device? If this is indeed a firmware issue, how would I go about this. I searched the forum and found a lot of conflicting answers. If you could provide me with a good link, I would appreciate it.
Thanks
I am thinking about following this in the morning when I have my phone fully charged and I was wondering if you see any issue with running this?
http://www.android-advice.com/2012/fix-bricked-motorola-atrix-after-ota-update/
My phone is not bricked but I want to revert to stock (locked bootloader, remove root, etc) to see if the issue is indeed a firmware issue. Then I can re-unlock the bootloader, enable root again and restore or reinstall CM9.
Thanks
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I am thinking about following this in the morning when I have my phone fully charged and I was wondering if you see any issue with running this?
http://www.android-advice.com/2012/fix-bricked-motorola-atrix-after-ota-update/
My phone is not bricked but I want to revert to stock (locked bootloader, remove root, etc) to see if the issue is indeed a firmware issue. Then I can re-unlock the bootloader, enable root again and restore or reinstall CM9.
Thanks
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You will not ever lock the bootloader once unlocked. All you can do is hide the unlocked text. It is a fuse that gets burned when unlocking the bootloader.
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You will not ever lock the bootloader once unlocked. All you can do is hide the unlocked text. It is a fuse that gets burned when unlocking the bootloader.
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Ok, I am not worried about the unlocked text, all I want to do is update to the official firmware.
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Ok, I am not worried about the unlocked text, all I want to do is update to the official firmware.
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Can't help there. I'm done with crapblur. Staying on cm roms now. You could go with nottachrix, his rom is based off 2.3.6 and you can choose full blur or blur removed when installing.
Well I think I hardbricked my phone anyway --
Failed to boot 1
PwrReason: PWR_KEY_PRESS
Starting Fastboot protocol support
Battery is too low to flash
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Granted the battery did run out of juice but not until I finished upgrading the firmware:
1FF-olympus-user-2.3.4-4.5.91-110625-release-keys-signed-ATT-US-GAS_NA_OLPSGBATTSPE_P011.sbf
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I made sure not to flash lower than the original 4.5.91
Pretty much before I got a chance to install clockworkmod again, the battery died. When I went to restart the phone to go into SBF, I got the above message. I tried booting the phone without the battery in it and it says the "Failed to boot 1" (since I do not have a rom installed yet) but if I try to run fastboot, I get the battery is too low to flash.
I am not for sure if this is a hardbrick or if my battery is just dead but I have charged it for about an hour so far with the same message.
I ordered another battery before this incident so I should get another next week but I am so worried that I hardbricked my device and I will not be able to recover.
Frick!!!
I am so screwed...... I cannot get it turn on with just the battery in but I can disconnect the power cable and the screen stays at Failed to boot 1.
I am at a loss as I have read a ton of threads here on the "battery too low to flash" but none of them are same as my issue. I really do not know what I can do as I bought the phone on ebay for $200 and just received it yesterday.
Well now I have it plugged into my computer and the screen is off but now the green charging light is on again. The computer recognized it as a usb device called MOBOOT and the Motorola USB Networking driver miniport is showing up in Device Manager.
Any ideas?
I am using this method (post 2) DIY active micro-usb cable to battery posts (post #2 method) to charge the battery for a few hours:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528729
Then I will will try to continue the OP's method to recover my device.
I cannot believe it, this method fixed my issue with "Battery is too low to flash"!!!
I am now in the process of flashing the firmware via RSD Lite.
I had an issue with the Bluetooth and wifi radios on my original atrix so I bought a used one. the used one had an issue similar to yours though not as severe.
I finally got around to replacing the actual LCD with the good one and problem is gone... I don't think it's firmware related, more than likely, hardware is the culprit.
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I had an issue with the Bluetooth and wifi radios on my original atrix so I bought a used one. the used one had an issue similar to yours though not as severe.
I finally got around to replacing the actual LCD with the good one and problem is gone... I don't think it's firmware related, more than likely, hardware is the culprit.
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Actually the screen is really not that bad as the camera I used shows the lines much more than they appear.
BTW how much did the lcd cost and where did you buy it from?

[Q] Phone overheating, need help getting it to a returnable state.

Hey, guys. I'm having a heating issue with my Rezound. It's on Newt's OneXxX RLS3 right now, 3.14.605.5 and his kernel, S-On, just flashed it this morning in the hopes it would fix my overheating issues, but no luck.
Last night, and from May 30th, I was on BAMF ICS 2.1, 3.11 firmware. I made a 15 minute call to my Mom, and went from 100% to 87%, and up to 123 degrees with alternating amber/green light.
Just a few minutes ago, spent about 10 minutes on the phone and playing on the net, and it was up to 110 degrees, and in 10 more minutes, went from 69% battery to 25%, so looks like Newt's didn't fix it either.
I need to know what I need to do to get it into a returnable condition. Do I need to re-lock the bootloader? If so (I assume so) will that be enough to get past Verizon, or do I need to return it to stock? Do they look at software numbers and stuff? I really don't want to have to S-Off the damn thing just to get it back to GB to return it.
I tried to call Verizon and have them send me a replacement, but the tech lady said I'd need to take it to a brick and mortar store to have them check it out. She said they would want to check out the battery, the charger, and the phone.
Ok, didn't get an answer so I went ahead and S-Off'd. Now where are the directions for reverting to GB....
First, please confirm you didn't run HTCDev Unlock again after S-off, at least tell me you kept stock bootloader or flashed the JB hboot lol. If you did, you'll need to redo the S-off process to get the "Unlocked/Relocked" flag to change back to "Locked". If you are worried about full stock appearance for warranty purposes.
Download the 2.01.605.11 GB RUU, preferably the PC .exe version since it can wipe stuff easier remotely.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19756694
Glad you were able to accomplish S-off quickly, since you don't have much technical trouble you'll probably want to follow this guide to reset the S-on flag too: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25165453
Ah, crap. No, I forgot to install the jb_hboot. I've already installed this Rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467329 but I still have Amon Ra. I'm locked, but still S-Off. Can I install the 2.01 over top of what I have already? And will it overwrite the recovery?
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Ah, crap. No, I forgot to install the jb_hboot. I've already installed this Rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467329 but I still have Amon Ra. I'm locked, but still S-Off. Can I install the 2.01 over top of what I have already? And will it overwrite the recovery?
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Well the point is actually that once you run HTCDev Unlock on the bootloader, only S-off magic can make the flag a stock "Locked" message. Relocking normally shows "Relocked" which still indicates tampering lol. Sounds like you are good if it is still "Locked" that is what you want.:thumbup:
Yes, run the RUU and it overwrites the ROM, the recovery, bootloader, radios, and factory resets the data. What it does not affect are the flags in the bootloader (i.e. Locked/Unlocked/Relocked and S-on/S-off) That RUU covers all warranty issues except S-off flag. To toggle to S-on, all your accessing past this point will be from the adb commands you have from HTCDev/S-off process if that is what you're wondering.
So yeah, from where you are just run the RUU, do Scotty's guide for the S-on flag. Just remember on Scotty's guide you must boot into the ROM after the RUU to toggle USB debugging in the settings. So go back into the bootloader after the guide and do a factory reset to cover those tracks lol.
Well, I managed to install the jb_hboot, but now there's no Recovery at all. And since I'm already on 2.01, the .exe is failing. I think I need to set Mainversion Low, but since I don't have a recovery...looks like I'll have to use the other file to flash it in the bootloader. I'll let you know how this goes.
Edit: Ok, I am now Locked, and S-On. However, it won't boot. When I go to turn it on, it boots to a black screen with a circle arrow and one in the middle pointing down over the picture of a phone. I managed to brick it, didn't I?
Edit 2: Ok, it's rebooting now...and we have Stock! I rebooted into the bootloader to verify LOCKED, S-ON, but there's still nothing when I try to go to recovery. IDC, that's good enough for me dammit. I'm through with it for the night!
(And thank the gods I remembered to uninstall my Blizzard Authenticator before I did all this crap...)
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Well, I managed to install the jb_hboot, but now there's no Recovery at all. And since I'm already on 2.01, the .exe is failing. I think I need to set Mainversion Low, but since I don't have a recovery...looks like I'll have to use the other file to flash it in the bootloader. I'll let you know how this goes.
Ok, I am now Locked, and S-On. However, it won't boot. When I go to turn it on, it boots to a black screen with a circle arrow and one in the middle pointing down over the picture of a phone. I managed to brick it, didn't I?
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Soft brick. That is the stock recovery... Did you do S-on with the JB hboot and/or custom ROM? That could cause that per the warnings in Scotty's thread.
Edit 2: haha good deal, congrats. Yes, that is what stock recovery looks like, no alarm needed.
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Soft brick. That is the stock recovery... Did you do S-on with the JB hboot and/or custom ROM? That could cause that per the warnings in Scotty's thread.
Edit 2: haha good deal, congrats. Yes, that is what stock recovery looks like, no alarm needed.
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Thank you so much for all your help!
The temp on this ***** is 121 Degrees Fahrenheit right now. She's going BACK tomorrow! Absolutely unbelievable. You know, come to think about it, my Thunderbolt had overheating/rebooting issues until I rooted it and got a custom ROM. I really hope I get a good one, this time, I'd hate to go through all this **** again.
Danariel said:
Thank you so much for all your help!
The temp on this ***** is 121 Degrees Fahrenheit right now. She's going BACK tomorrow! Absolutely unbelievable. You know, come to think about it, my Thunderbolt had overheating/rebooting issues until I rooted it and got a custom ROM. I really hope I get a good one, this time, I'd hate to go through all this **** again.
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All phones are different, depends on how a person uses it. But the radio, charginig method, running apps, and likely hardware are all factors. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20138465 Worth skimming through. Some now have newer XE and unmarked hardware models which may have better temperature performance, time will tell. Could be worse... Just don't know if these hardware revisions address quality issues with heat, or are meant to reduce production cost. Probably both. Perhaps inconsistent from revision to revision; maybe a middle-aged model got cheaper but unexpectedly ran hotter. Need to be an HTC insider or get plenty of feedback to isolate the effect hardware revision has in the overall heat equation.
Edited for TL;DR-ness of anecdotal info. Good luck with the replacement.
PhantasmRezound said:
All phones are different, depends on how a person uses it. But the radio, charginig method, running apps, and likely hardware are all factors. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20138465 Worth skimming through. Some now have newer XE and unmarked hardware models which may have better temperature performance, time will tell. Could be worse... Just don't know if these hardware revisions address quality issues with heat, or are meant to reduce production cost. Probably both. Perhaps inconsistent from revision to revision; maybe a middle-aged model got cheaper but unexpectedly ran hotter. Need to be an HTC insider or get plenty of feedback to isolate the effect hardware revision has in the overall heat equation.
Edited for TL;DR-ness of anecdotal info. Good luck with the replacement.
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LOL, Bacon Mode! Yep, that's my phone to a Tee. However, i'm not going to LET it get to 135 or 152 before I take it back. That's Extra Crispy bacon right there!

Warranty problems/scare

So today as I was preparing to flash the latest AOKP rom at 90% battery, I accidentally hit reboot to bootloader instead of recovery. No problem, i hit reboot. The screen turned black and a minute later it was still black, so I removed the battery. Nothing turned it on, couldn't access the bootloader and the charging light wouldn't even go on.
That was odd, so i thought maybe it was just still in bootloader mode. I gained access to ADB and it doesn't see the device at all (yes i tried the method explained because of the CWM problem, I also do not have CWM and have had a battery die before and it was able to charge fine) I also tried fastboot and it just sits at "waiting for device"
I called up Verizon support figuring it was the battery and they said i could test it at a store. The rep didn't think it was the battery, but when he tested it said 3/3 times it was increment, so it was bad. Then when he tried a regular battery it didn't work either, so he said the phone was bad.
Now, i called support and they are sending me a new phone and i am going to exchange my extended battery for a good one tomorrow. The thing is the lady on the phone said that as long as there were no hardware defects or unauthorized software than there wouldn't be any charge but if there was then it would be a $200 charge added onto the bill. A $200 charge would be pretty bad.
I would never return my phone if i messed it up actually doing something to the phone but here it didn't... at least not in any way I can think of. I am worried about the charge though. I know they usually don't check them but I had the Juopunut bear h-boot and neo's ICS installed. I am not even sure if it's recoverable at all because from everything i tried it definitely wasn't.
Am i just being silly here?
If they can't even boot the phone, then there is no way that they can tell it was hacked.
Sounds like the only way they'll get the phone booting is to do the manufacturer RUU thing with their special tools, so I'd say you're in the clear.
I've sent a phone back that was S-OFF running CM9. If they check before they JTAG it, I've seen no evidence of it.
I had heard before many times that they never checked, but i was extremely surprised whenever she said that. I wanted to ask some of you guys your opinion as well. I doubt it's recoverable without a full sbf as well, so i should be fine. Thanks!
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I had heard before many times that they never checked, but i was extremely surprised whenever she said that. I wanted to ask some of you guys your opinion as well. I doubt it's recoverable without a full sbf as well, so i should be fine. Thanks!
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I had to send mine back for a screen hardware issue. I was still s- on with the bootloader saying relocked and I did not get hit with that charge. As stated before I have heard of people sending back their phones with different ROMs without issue. Good luck
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I've returned multiple devices saying relocked in the bootloader. I think Verizon simply doesn't care to be honest.. Hell I've even gotten a replacement phone that was rooted and running custom software. Shows you how muc hattention they pay to the devices they recieve and send out. Hell I've gotten replacements with screen protectors still on them and big ass gashes/scratches on the screen. 100 point inspection my ass.
Same here; my first Rezound was S-OFF, bootloader unlocked when the USB port failed (the unit would charge but couldn't connect to PC). I just factory reset it and sent it back. The folks who refurbish the phones don't even turn 'em on, and if they did, they probably wouldn't know what they were looking at. The things are bulk reflashed, if the motherboards are even retained at all.

Well.....that's that.

Verizon ran a special last night, LG G2 for free. I have been pining over this phone since getting one in my hands in the store, was just impressed. My Rezound has been the longest phone I've owned, but it's time is done. Late Nov 2011 until now.......an impressive stretch. But it's developed some issues recently that make me believe it's a goner. So the new white G2 is ordered and will be picked up tomorrow.
As for my rezound......if anyone is reading this......here's the issues it's developed, mainly after a particularly hard fall about two weeks ago. It was initially fine, but about 3-4 days later, it started boot looping out of nowhere. If I replace the battery it's hit or miss if it does it or not now. If it does, it could be 1-2 times, it could take over 10 minutes to get into the OS. Then in my car last week, I turned on Bluetooth (Chrysler Pacifica, has that Uconnect through the stereo) but it never fully turned on. Then two days ago the wifi quit picking up ANYTHING even though it says it's on. Now I notice the speaker (both headset and external) have gone very crackly.
I'm doubting it's software related, I think it's just been dropped one too many times. I'm going to try to reflash a stock kernel and factory ruu to set it back to stock (it's S-On, unlocked bootloader) and see how things work, but what are your guys opinion on whether or not that's worth my time?
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Verizon ran a special last night, LG G2 for free. I have been pining over this phone since getting one in my hands in the store, was just impressed. My Rezound has been the longest phone I've owned, but it's time is done. Late Nov 2011 until now.......an impressive stretch. But it's developed some issues recently that make me believe it's a goner. So the new white G2 is ordered and will be picked up tomorrow.
As for my rezound......if anyone is reading this......here's the issues it's developed, mainly after a particularly hard fall about two weeks ago. It was initially fine, but about 3-4 days later, it started boot looping out of nowhere. If I replace the battery it's hit or miss if it does it or not now. If it does, it could be 1-2 times, it could take over 10 minutes to get into the OS. Then in my car last week, I turned on Bluetooth (Chrysler Pacifica, has that Uconnect through the stereo) but it never fully turned on. Then two days ago the wifi quit picking up ANYTHING even though it says it's on. Now I notice the speaker (both headset and external) have gone very crackly.
I'm doubting it's software related, I think it's just been dropped one too many times. I'm going to try to reflash a stock kernel and factory ruu to set it back to stock (it's S-On, unlocked bootloader) and see how things work, but what are your guys opinion on whether or not that's worth my time?
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Are they discounting the full price on it too? I need to keep my unlimited.
As for the phone, what would you intend to do with it? They aren't worth much to sell, specially if it's damaged, if the screen is good, someone might take it off your hands for parts.
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Are they discounting the full price on it too? I need to keep my unlimited.
As for the phone, what would you intend to do with it? They aren't worth much to sell, specially if it's damaged, if the screen is good, someone might take it off your hands for parts.
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I don't know yet. I think I've still got my OG Droid hiding somewhere too.
I'm going to wipe it all and do a full factory ruu reflash and see if that doesn't help things out. I want to swap the outer bezel out because I closed my toolbox on it and ended up with a nice dent in the black chrome bezel. The LCD is fine, but I don't know about the digitizer considering the soft keys are really REALLY slow to respond anymore. I was thinking of rebuilding it for the fun and then I don't know. By rebuild I mean new circuit board because I think mine is the root of the issue. Won't know until after a factory reset, but the crackly speakers doesn't give me high hopes.
I really loved this phone. My biggest complaint was always the horrendous battery life. I have three batteries and could easily kill them all in a day with it. Guess I'm not done tinkering with it yet.
Hmmm.....looks like it may be getting sold for parts. It was bootlooping again tonight after I deactivated it and officially went full time to the G2. So I went into recovery (Amon Ra) and wiped everything, and did a recovery of a backup of Clean Rom that I'd done immediately after in install and setup back in July of 2012. And it's still boot looping. I get into the phone for just a few seconds, the SD card stuff tried to load, but neither Wifi or Bluetooth turn on. My guess is that the last couple of hard drops it took did the mainboard in. Good news is that I just pulled the Zagg InvisibleShield and the screen itself is freaking immaculate.
So I'm thinking one of two things. I could invest about $70 for a mainboard and a new outer bezel, see if that fixes it, and keep it as a spare phone. Or, just sell it as parts. I'm leaning towards a mainboard and bezel and just holding on to it, but I gotta say that I need to know if this is truly a mainboard issue or not.
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Hmmm.....looks like it may be getting sold for parts. It was bootlooping again tonight after I deactivated it and officially went full time to the G2. So I went into recovery (Amon Ra) and wiped everything, and did a recovery of a backup of Clean Rom that I'd done immediately after in install and setup back in July of 2012. And it's still boot looping. I get into the phone for just a few seconds, the SD card stuff tried to load, but neither Wifi or Bluetooth turn on. My guess is that the last couple of hard drops it took did the mainboard in. Good news is that I just pulled the Zagg InvisibleShield and the screen itself is freaking immaculate.
So I'm thinking one of two things. I could invest about $70 for a mainboard and a new outer bezel, see if that fixes it, and keep it as a spare phone. Or, just sell it as parts. I'm leaning towards a mainboard and bezel and just holding on to it, but I gotta say that I need to know if this is truly a mainboard issue or not.
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if after a full clean flash or even full factory restore you still have issues id lean towards hardware issues myself...and i hear you on battery life...i too have 3 batteries and the phone will die by the end of the day with it....i sold my daily rez for a different android but i still have my developer rez...which has been lately used for just that
I also just retire the rebound for similar reasons. I went with the note 3. Just picked it up yesterday. I was going to get the moto x to keep unlimited but was able to keep it with the N3.
I liking it so far. Not reboots or freezes. I think that is what finally got me. For the last few months, I could not get the red to run smoothly on any roms dating back to bean stock and maybe before. Gummy had worked great but for blacks screens that also happen on kitkat. I'm still keeping the red for roms as I am not going to root the N3.
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if after a full clean flash or even full factory restore you still have issues id lean towards hardware issues myself...and i hear you on battery life...i too have 3 batteries and the phone will die by the end of the day with it....i sold my daily rez for a different android but i still have my developer rez...which has been lately used for just that
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Yeah, the nandroid restore I did was, I think, CleanRom 1.4. But it was a totally clean install as I had installed it, set it up, and backed it up immediately. And it still just boots, gets into the UI, and about 30 seconds later reboots. I can't even get USB Debugging disabled so I can use Fastboot to relock the bootloader and flash an RUU.
I guess once my taxes come back in that I'll get a new logic board since ALL the modules seem to come with it (wifi, BT, etc) and get a new centerboard/outer bezel combo. Cost me about $70, but if I can get it up and running it'll be a nice backup phone. If anything, something to tinker with, lol.
Holy crap. I left it sit all night, and just turned it on and it booted! However, I try to turn Wifi on, and it just sits at "Turning Wi-Fi on......" so looks like wifi is definitely buggered. As it bluetooth.....same thing.
Just went into Settings and under Wi-Fi is says Error. Yep.....that's fubar.
It's SlimRom 1.6, just checked.
But the good news is that I now have USB Debugging enabled, so I can use Fastboot and relock and put a factory RUU on it. One last try, lol.
Fastbird, I had bought a used Rezound for my daughter over Christmas and when we tried it the wifi said the same thing as you stated, "turning on wifi". It would stay like that forever. I then went and put on ViperRez rom and then the wifi was fine. Not saying this will work for you as well but just a thought I had when I saw your problem. Good luck, hope it all works out for you.
Bryon
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Yeah, the nandroid restore I did was, I think, CleanRom 1.4. But it was a totally clean install as I had installed it, set it up, and backed it up immediately. And it still just boots, gets into the UI, and about 30 seconds later reboots. I can't even get USB Debugging disabled so I can use Fastboot to relock the bootloader and flash an RUU.
I guess once my taxes come back in that I'll get a new logic board since ALL the modules seem to come with it (wifi, BT, etc) and get a new centerboard/outer bezel combo. Cost me about $70, but if I can get it up and running it'll be a nice backup phone. If anything, something to tinker with, lol.
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you dont need to worry about usb debugging for an ruu....just boot to hboot and select fastboot and plug it in.....in my downgrade upgrade guide it will show all you need to do....the only thing you have to worry about with that is gaining s-off...an ruu wipes and reinstalls android completely...so any setting you set in rom will be wiped anyway....if wifi and all that still fails than it shows that the CleanRom is your issue....although downgrading and using the ruu.exe files require a locked bootloader and to be s-off
Also, the "turning WiFi on" issue, if it just stays like that, is usually an issue of a kernel/module mismatch... Remember when flashing a ROM or restoring a Nandroid when S-On you must flash the boot.img manually.
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REV3NT3CH said:
you dont need to worry about usb debugging for an ruu....just boot to hboot and select fastboot and plug it in.....in my downgrade upgrade guide it will show all you need to do....the only thing you have to worry about with that is gaining s-off...an ruu wipes and reinstalls android completely...so any setting you set in rom will be wiped anyway....if wifi and all that still fails than it shows that the CleanRom is your issue....although downgrading and using the ruu.exe files require a locked bootloader and to be s-off
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Now....I thought you had to be S-ON to run the RUU file? That crap-can's that idea then. I'm not S-Off. CleanRom isn't the issue. I ran a later version of it for 1.5 years, and the version I tried the restore from was 100% functional for me too. I don't think I'm going to bother flashing the phone as it sits because of the hardware issues. I'm just going to wait until I get a new logic board and then probably S-Off and play with flashing until I find something I like to sit on as a backup. The Screen is just too pretty for me to part with, lol.
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Now....I thought you had to be S-ON to run the RUU file? That crap-can's that idea then. I'm not S-Off. CleanRom isn't the issue. I ran a later version of it for 1.5 years, and the version I tried the restore from was 100% functional for me too. I don't think I'm going to bother flashing the phone as it sits because of the hardware issues. I'm just going to wait until I get a new logic board and then probably S-Off and play with flashing until I find something I like to sit on as a backup. The Screen is just too pretty for me to part with, lol.
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all ruu.exe files and ota.zips require s-off for downgrading..... ie. say your on an older version like 3.14.605.12 you can be s-on and upgrade to higher if im not mistaken...going s-off and redoing the whole phone from first to finish on ruu and ota's would be your last chance for that board without having to spend cash....and no offense you can probably get a used perfectly working rezound alot cheaper than 70 as well...is there any chance you deleted the wrong system files....only factory ruu will it restore original files...some deletions can cause these issues as well
The getting stuck turning Wifi on started BEFORE I tried a restore.
Shouldn't be a kernel mismatch because I used the same kernel for the nandroid CleamRom 1.6 and the other version of CleanRom I was running (I believe 1.7).
Only wiped Data, Cache, and dalvik cache. Several times for each.
The phone is acting EXACTLY like it was prior to the nandroid restore which is why I'm so sure it's a hardware issue. And I do mean exactly. 85% of the time after rebooting it boot loops for a random amount of time. Once booted in it's fine, save for Wifi and Bluetooth not working.
I understand I could get a replacement phone for cheaper to slightly more than te $70, but that's not the point. I like to tinker. I learn by doing. Gives me something to do.
Ok, relocked and trying to upgrade to a higher RUU which by what I read is acceptable. I flashed one of the earliest ICS firmware's and rom's, and the last RUU I could find was about 3 months later so I'm hoping it's good.f
*Edit* RUU took, trying to boot, but it's boot looping like normal. I think it's safe to say hardware is jacked at this point. It's getting into the UI then dying again, just like before.
Nappyloxs said:
I also just retire the rebound for similar reasons. I went with the note 3. Just picked it up yesterday. I was going to get the moto x to keep unlimited but was able to keep it with the N3.
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How were you able to keep unlimited? My contract is over with my Rezound and I want to purchase a Galaxy S4. The best Verizon would offer me to give up my unlimited data is 6gb of data for $30.
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