Hey guys, I think I've bricked my Touchpad beyond repair. I purchased it off Craigslist because I couldn't get one in the store, so there is no receipt and no hope of a warranty claim. Here's what I did:
I put it in developer mode and installed PreWare. I installed Chroid and played with that. When CM7 became available I installed that. Everything was running fine....so good that I decided to uninstall Chroid since I had a (nearly) fully functional Android build on my device. After the unistall, the device booted to a black screen with and triangle that had an exclamation point in the middle. I downloaded WebOS Doctor hoping to restore it but the device was not in USB mode. I powered it off holding home and power but it immediatly rebooted to the same screen. I tried it again and immediately held power and volume down when it powered off and again, it took me to the same screen. After about the 3rd/4th attempt, it powered off but powered on no more. I cannot power it on by hold power, power + volume down, power + home....anything.
I have a small bit of hope. When I plug it into my computer, the computer makes a noise which tells me that it sees the device however it doesn't install any drivers or show that it's installed as USB. WebOS Doctor does not see my device.
I've Googled and not found anyone restoring a device like this at this state but maybe, just maybe, it can be. Please help if you can! Thanks!
FYI - The battery was about 75-80% charged at the time of the bricking.
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I just got it back into the triangle/exclamation screen again. I'm afraid to power it back off. Any way to force boot into USB mode?
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Tried WebOS Doctor again and it saw my device. I may be ok. At 12% now.
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...I'm good. Wife says I don't have to sleep on the couch now!
Man, I paniced. I've modded a lot of devices but never had one completely die beyond powering it on (unless it has a removable battery).
Lol. Maybe you should have just trouble shot before you posted.
I be Tap'n that
It's Power + Volume Up for USB mode... not sure if that's a typo or you had the wrong key
Either way, good job getting it working lol.
Fwiw ymmv
There seems to be a built in emergency shut off. Hold the power button, volume up and press the center button ten times. The tablet will go into a powered off state. That from hp website. Holding the three together for 10 seconds seems to do the same. I have used both to recover from orange exclamation, cm7 issues, lost mmboot, clockwork.....
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Thanks for the info guys. I was pressing vol up and power (typo). It's nice to know alternate recovery methods as I do not plan to stop modding this device. I immediately reinstalled CM7 after recovering...lol.
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even if you don't have a receipt,all touchpads are still under warranty,they have not been out long enough to be out. of course if your touchpad is obviously bricked due to something you did,they might figure it out. (of course,that's easily cured by connecting the headphone Jack to the chases of an old cry monitor,and the USB port to the flyback. I can all but guarentee,they wont be able to.figure out what OS was on it. yea,its shady,but considering their excuse of the day from laptops is "water damage" ,even when you have a obviously defective screen,I think they have it coming,of course I fully expect them towards try to weasle out of any legitimate warranty claims on the touchpad anyway.)
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Fwiw ymmv
There seems to be a built in emergency shut off. Hold the power button, volume up and press the center button ten times. The tablet will go into a powered off state. That from hp website. Holding the three together for 10 seconds seems to do the same. I have used both to recover from orange exclamation, cm7 issues, lost mmboot, clockwork.....
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Thanks for this! This helped me out a lot! Mine had a bit of trouble turning back on, so I held power, volume up, and center for 10-15 seconds and it turned back on. YMMV I guess.
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gingerbread, ah finally, i start installing it on the PC, go to undo the super charger.
well, i didn't get that far. I got stumbled at *clicks power button, holds power button, begs power button to do something*
*rips battery out, puts back in, holds power button*, resultless
*puts charger in tries to start phone up, once with battery, once without*, resultless
*writes down time of death 4:00pm threw 7:00pm based on last call*
*starts crying, throws phone at wall* - > this is what i will do if i get an answer saying i'm stuck
MY DROID X2 IS DEAD(i think). well that's dandy
I ROOTED MY PHONE 2 days ago for bloatfreezer.
(i froze safe stuff like my Verizon and whatnot)
problem = IT'S ROOTED AND UNABLE TO TURN ON - > i know this sometimes voids warranty
{the green light comes on when charging, i just literally can't turn the phone on}
can i really just return it like this and demand a new one, -or if there's a fix-?
I'm extremely grateful to any advice/knowledge on what to do
Try powering up while holding the volume down button. Try it with the charger plugged in and without. If Fastboot appears at the top keep pressing volume down until you get to android recovery and press volume up to select it and try factory resetting. If it works you'll lose your data but at least you'll have a phone.
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Have you tried to SBF your phone? You might still be able to get it to connect to RSD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175300
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Try powering up while holding the volume down button. Try it with the charger plugged in and without. If Fastboot appears at the top keep pressing volume down until you get to android recovery and press volume up to select it and try factory resetting. If it works you'll lose your data but at least you'll have a phone.
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Yea try that first ^^^
Whole post doesn't make alot of sense you tried to install gingerbread from your computer?
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dead5hea i figured that wouldn't work at first, as when i plugged it into the charger it kept rebooting to the eye and then freezing even when i had the volume button down, but on vaguely the 20'th attempt it responded to it, i did a recovery and now everything is dandy *excluding the apps are gone but at least the contacts are on gmail*. I wondered if it was out of juice but it was 70% on recovery so who knows, i hope it doesn't happen again.
thanks bud =)
-not to be rude(kinda is anyway) thanks for nothing lancer, take a guess before a bump, i put the top in green and then the problem in caps to express that it was extra detail.
My friend at school came to me with his dad's white galaxy s from vzw and said it wasn't working right. I took a look at it and it was on but not recognizing any movement from my fingers. It wouldn't swipe to unlock and when I tried to turn it off it wouldn't let me pick anything either.
I pulled the battery and when I hit the power nothing happened. Screen stayed off and only the buttons lit up. I've seen this happen with my dinc so I pulled the battery again and tried again with different combinations of holding the volume up/down and the power button. But still nothing.
I'm not really sure what to do with it, I'm more familiar with my htc phone so I came here for help. I don't think it's bricked since it was on when I first looked at it and now it won't boot to the os.
Let me know if you guys can help point me in the right direction, thanks.
Plug it into a wall charger, pull the battery and hold volume down for a moment, you should see a yellow triangle and a construction worker Android and it should say download, or download mode...if it does the phone is not bricked, but it may be in need of an update..you can try putting the battery in and holding up, down and power until you see the Samsung logo flash then release the power button but continue to hold volume up, and down...this will get you to the stock Android recovery screen..if the phone goes into download mode, and will boot into recovery, it can definitely be fixed.
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If it does go into download mode then you'll need to flash it back to stock using Odin.
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I just tried all your suggestions and nothing happens. Only the home/option/back/search buttons light up. I'm just going to give it back to him, thanks for the help guys.
Don't flash anything in case he has insurance or warranty on the sucker.
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Need some advice please
Any Flyer member who can advice me please?
Buyed a WIFI Flyer 16Gb Gingerbread stock no rooted turned on and suddenly turned off and got stuck in black screen (with some light in the back) vol down + power, nothing.
battery has 100% charge, but red led turned on and off ocasionally.
Any advice how to revive it would be greatly apreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Soft reset - Hold down power button only. Keep holding until tablet resets. You should know when this happens. You can't bring it up in bootloader/recovery (down vol. + power), until it's first actually turned off.
Does your PC recognize a device being plugged in when you connect
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Thanks for your replies:
It didnt work pressing only vol dow for a while, or presing only power button, it never rests.
Just behind power button a green mini led is turned on now all the time, probs started when removed back to insert sd card.
Tooked off to make some tests but now still nothing...
If connecting to PC nothing happens...not detected...no asking for install drivers
Any other advice?
Thanks in advance!
orb3000 said:
Thanks for your replies:
It didnt work pressing only vol dow for a while, or presing only power button, it never rests... probs started when removed back to insert sd card.
If connecting to PC nothing happens...not detected...no asking for install drivers
Any other advice?
Thanks in advance!
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Take off back cover... Remove SD card... Try to reset again, power btn only, hold down 20 to 30 secs., don't use volume btn.
Nothing happens
i would suggest trying to globatron's attention. if anyone on this board would know what to do it would likely be him
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Nothing happens
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I would agree with mcord11758... Still...
orb3000 said:
battery has 100% charge, but red led turned on and off occasionally.
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A red led isn't going to show with a 100% power condition. Later you wrote...
orb3000 said:
It didn't work pressing only vol down for a while, or pressing only power button, it never rests. Just behind power button a green mini led is turned on now all the time...
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(doesn't make sense to me) A green led can't show unless the tablet is plugged into a power source and the battery actually is 100%...
If yours is a stock unit with a stock rom (and isn't defective), I would suspect a low battery condition that can't reset/reboot for lack of power...
Suggest you plug it into the wall and try the reset procedure again, and if still a failure, (maybe you can get some help from globatron or) call HTC.
...and then again, as I've read in other threads (that you've also seen), maybe all that's needed is a battery disconnect & reconnect. - Hope you get those pics, and if so... make it a last course of action, as you'll have no warranty if you do it.
Thanks.
Update:
I left computer connected to Flyer all night, and the day after it was turned off, then unplugged from PC and plugged it again, PC recognized the tablet and after that I ran the stock RUU, now it´s stuck on the process as it has been more than 20 minutes and progress bar in computer is at 100% with the following legend:
sending..........
updating the Rom image on your android phone
It is stuck there, how much should I wait? or if you recommend to do something else?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
UPDATE: RUU failed, says I have the wrong image, finished, exited and rebooted normally!
Now working, but I´m afraid to open the cover to insert my sd as the last time it was when it was turned off
Orb,
That sounds like it when into DL mode. On the flyer once you get out of DL mode it's normally fine after that. It seems to be random, mine did it once or twice, leedroid has seen it as have a few others.
After it boots again it goes back to normal.
Hi mate,
Thanks for your reply.
Very strange behavior. After all above mentioned I was able to use is perfect, even updated to OTA Honeycomb all went ok, installed some apps, etc.
Then decided it was time to test again to remove the cover and install my sd card, just in the minute I touched the back , not even finished of removing, and Flyer went screen off, now again I can´t turn it on. Could be a short circuit or something?
I will leave it connected to wall charger for the night and hopefully tomorrw will be able to turn it on again....
I swear never again to remove the back cover
PS: I checked battery level before all this and it was in 77%, now red led on power button is on...
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Orb,
That sounds like it when into DL mode. On the flyer once you get out of DL mode it's normally fine after that. It seems to be random, mine did it once or twice, leedroid has seen it as have a few others.
After it boots again it goes back to normal.
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orb3000 said:
Hi mate,
Thanks for your reply.
Very strange behavior. After all above mentioned I was able to use is perfect, even updated to OTA Honeycomb all went ok, installed some apps, etc.
Then decided it was time to test again to remove the cover and install my sd card, just in the minute I touched the back , not even finished of removing, and Flyer went screen off, now again I can´t turn it on. Could be a short circuit or something?
I will leave it connected to wall charger for the night and hopefully tomorrw will be able to turn it on again....
I swear never again to remove the back cover
PS: I checked battery level before all this and it was in 77%, now red led on power button is on...
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That's weird, if it's not too much could you try and get a logcat (adb logcat) when its screen goes off while opening the cover. That should help us establish whether this is a HW problem(unique perhaps bad mainboard) or software problem (me,globatron,Lee, etc. experienced)
I can also confirm that it happened to me too couple of months back, but after soft reset it rebooted fine, but the backcover issue is new.
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hello
Im orbs friend, my htc flyer still having the prob, everytime i touch the cover or pusih it by accident it goes back.
What I do is leaving it charging for awhile and press power button and vol down at the same time for around 30 sec for a couple of times and then it re start. Im guessing its not a software problem i dont find an explanation i even updated it to 2.3.4.
My son has my old g tab and it was running slow so I decided to put another rom on it. To transfer the rom files, I first I plugged it in to my Win7 computer and the drives came up, but then decided I wanted to do it on my ubuntu computer instead, so I plugged it in to the usb port and the drives did not pop up. So I figured a driver issue so I just decided to do it on my Win7 computer, now it didn't work there. Now the screen wont come on, it worked this morning, but now I cannot even get it to power on at all, nothing on the screen. The battery was full, but I have tried with it plugged in to wall outlet too. I tried pressing the power button slowly a few times and holding it down to force it to power off. I also tried powering on holding the volume up and the volume down, still nothing. What could have gone wrong? Please help, my son is going on vacation next week and I really don't want to tell him I broke his tablet just days before. Thanks.
do a bit of reading, but basically:
hold volume down and the power button together for at least 5 seconds to get it into APX mode. plug it in and you should hear it connect.
does the charge light come on when you plug it in? if not, it's dead.
I'm assuming it's charged and just not booting. Look for nvFlash files for it, first stock TnT ROMs or maybe an ICS rom, but those are all really slow, except maybe for the one not on XDA, AOKP for the gTab.
and don't use words like hard brick if you still want to work on fixing it. a hard brick is a paper weight. hyperbole isn't becoming on anyone.
I have tried that with the usb plugged in to windows and there is no usb connect sound. The red light does come on when its plugged in to outlet. Is there anyway for me to reset it to factory just using some special button combo?
I've seen on other forums, don't know if this one or for other devices, that maybe it will work when the battery fully drains? So if it is off right now and if the battery was full when this happened, how long until the battery would fully drain? Like days or weeks?
I fixed it! I opened it up and unplugged the battery and plugged it back in and now its working
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I fixed it! I opened it up and unplugged the battery and plugged it back in and now its working
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I would recommend drilling a DRH while you had it open, hopefully you did?
Where exactly is a DRH supposed to be drilled? And how big of a hole?
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Where exactly is a DRH supposed to be drilled? And how big of a hole?
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With that I direct your attention to this tread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585012 - Comes with pictures and location of the internal reset button. There are different ways that you can create your hole, I think the best one is using wax paper cover the back and mark location on the sheet with a Sharpe marker. Then apply your template to the back cover and scratch the marking in.
Last night i fell asleep and my phone died all the way, and now when i plug it in all i get is a lg logo then it goes away and then a dark lit up screen. ive let it charge for awhile now and i still get nothing, i cant get into cwm either.. the phone is unlocked and rooted and im running the base rom. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Happened to me... leave it on the charger at least 3 hours and check it. The battery completely drains when you unplug the charger if you charged with the phone off. gl
Edit: If it still won't work, turn phone on and plug in charger.
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Happened to me... leave it on the charger at least 3 hours and check it. The battery completely drains when you unplug the charger if you charged with the phone off. gl
Edit: If it still won't work, turn phone on and plug in charger.
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This happened to me too. I completely drained the battery and it kept going into a loop (black screen, LG logo, battery screen). I left it plugged in and off and let it boot up.
FYI
This has happened to several people. I have confirmed through testing, even exchanging my phone 2 days ago that this is an issue created when unlocking the bootloader. Rooting does not cause it. Once the bootloader is unlocked, you can not get around this by re-locking the bootloader.
The workaround is simple. Either leave your phone on while it is charging or if you charge with phone off, unplug your charger and hit the power button- you will still see the charge animation running- this is what causes the battery to drain. All you have to do is power up the phone at least to boot then it is ok to turn off. You can confirm it worked by touching the power button again and not see the charge animation. Hope this helps.
Wow thanks so much for the reply and help! I've got it working now and I guess I'll just avoid it by not letting it die lol
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well...
If you let it die all the way, its not a big deal. Plug it in, hold down the volume down button and the power button for 15 seconds, then it will work fine.
Threads like this makes this forum so great. Another potential problem to be avoided when using the phone.
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I could use some help guys, if this thread isn't too old. I've searched high and low to the answer here and nothing is working. I've tried download mode, fastboot, recovery, reset, holding power down, plugging it in and unplugging it. I've pulled the plate off of the battery, tried LGNPST, drivers, etc. No go on anything.
The phone is still dead, and will not turn on. The best I've gotten is a solid red light after holding the power button for 15-20 seconds. Then after about 3-5 seconds it resumes flashing (alternating between the red light and the key buttons). If I continue holding the power button down it will repeat this, showing solid red and then reverting to flashing.
I can not get the screen to display anything, not even the charging animation, and none of my computers will even recognize the device. I've been messing with it all day and I'm stuck. If anyone can help me, at all, please do. I hate going to Sprint. Anything but that, please.
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I could use some help guys, if this thread isn't too old. I've searched high and low to the answer here and nothing is working. I've tried download mode, fastboot, recovery, reset, holding power down, plugging it in and unplugging it. I've pulled the plate off of the battery, tried LGNPST, drivers, etc. No go on anything.
The phone is still dead, and will not turn on. The best I've gotten is a solid red light after holding the power button for 15-20 seconds. Then after about 3-5 seconds it resumes flashing (alternating between the red light and the key buttons). If I continue holding the power button down it will repeat this, showing solid red and then reverting to flashing.
I can not get the screen to display anything, not even the charging animation, and none of my computers will even recognize the device. I've been messing with it all day and I'm stuck. If anyone can help me, at all, please do. I hate going to Sprint. Anything but that, please.
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Dude i had the same isse like your did, so i search everywhere and endup here. I'd try many think like you said, when holding volume+ and power there nothing heapen but volume down and power, or just hold the power buton there red light of front led is flashed, and ... is realy dead.
I can't go to any sevice central, coz my friend bring this telus P973 for me from another contry, and im living at the mountian lol. So im about to take it to nake and try to reset by reputing the batery. Devil beside me, i have 2 extra LG Lu6200 but 1 got broken the touch system, the other been death after i take a shower, Optimus G is using small sim and i'hv cuted it, there no other phone i can use that sim for tomorow, my girlfriend sending me some monney tomorow, and i have to meet my new boss and taking a new job that's make me traveling alot, and i don't have a laptop.
Don't know what to say when looking at the black cold silent phone i used to like most....
Some body, please help!