Dear All,
I would like to tell you quiet a scary story that happened to me today involving my View.
I was surfing on my View (while it was charging, probably about 30%-40% at the time) when suddenly without any slow-down/crash/other sign the screen goes dark and the View won't turn on. Nothing works, hard reset, unplugging, trying different outlets, chargers, connecting via USB to my desktop, laptop each for a few minutes- nothing. The only thing showing that there might be still some life inside my View was occasionally blinking orange/red light that caused me a little concern as it apparently often means that battery was overheating. That was certainly not a case as I've used the View in my pretty cold apartment in CT- the device felt pretty cold in my hands.
1 hour of hectic, trying everything to revive the tablet. Eventually even the red light stopped blinking. Like a doctor who's about to loose a patient I plugged it to the computer and typed some random commands through fastboot (of course the tablet wasn't even in a fastboot- but at that point I was in a full panic mode and for my sanity I felt I had to try everything). Eventually I stopped and was just holding the tablet in my hands, still plugged in my computer and thinking- wow, I rooted/unlocked/flashed 5 different android devices so many times so far and often with crazy, long and complicated processes. Somehow I've never bricked any and now my tablet just completely died on me when I was reading a wikipedia page on it at my desk. I was about to put it down and go look for the warranty when suddenly the screen goes on and the htc logo appears. And then it booted right to the OS. And for the last few hours it works like nothing ever happened.
Anybody got a similar story? Any idea what could've happened?
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I have a Cingular 3125, working fine for weeks, happened that two days ago, I was charging the phone and transferring files to my computer via Bluetooth, nothing unusual, then it just got frozen, nothing responding, so I just took out the battery to manual reset the device and reinserted it, then tried to turn on the device, but it refuses to boot, no lights at all, also when I attach the phone charger, it doesnt show the usual orange led when charging, but I can feel that the phone gets warmer because the charger is attached and then after a while it gets a bit cooler, just like when it finishes charging, the usual behavior, but again, no lights at all trying to boot it or even attaching the charger, I've tried taking the battery off for hours and nothing also, and I wasnt overclocking the phone... would you say it just died? or maybe someone had same issues and solved it someway? thanks.
try this
OK, I don't remember where I read this, or the exact procedure, but give this a try.
remove the battery, press and hold the red call end key (power key) for 30-45 seconds. insert battery and do a hard reset, IE.. power on holding the 2 top soft keys while powering on the phone.
this method is supposed to clear any mother board issues and reset the phone. It has been a couple of years since I read the procedure so I am not sure if this is the correct way, if it does not work, try the same thing, only try taking the battery out, then put it back in and press and hold the power key for 30 - 45 seconds.
may or may not work, but can't hurt to try.
i had the same problem with startrek which i had bought from eBay
one more advice - try to hold record (notes) and camera buttons and insert an USB cable to your PC, it should enter to Bootloader mode
well, I have dissasembled the whole thing, I havent reached anything, even disconnected the backup battery, nothing, have checked battery with a multimeter and is full loaded... in short, someway the cell phone seems has just died, Erofich, to enter bootloader mode, the phone must turn on, it just doesnt want to start at all, no lights when connecting charger or USB cable... I'm sad because it was working fine with no problems for three months and more sad because it's the end for me to windows cellphones for a long time, I've invested a lot in this phone, accesories, unlocking, and even the same day it died also bought more memory and a neat skin cover and I'm not in mood to invest more in a cell phone so I'll use a spare crappy feature phone.
Thanks for your support.
one last effort
You could try one last thing, this has worked for me with a couple of startreks,
take the phone apart, and take the motherboard out, use a hair dryer to heat the motherboard, don't get crazy with it, but using the hair dryer on the high setting for about 30 to 45 seconds at about 3-5 inches, might revive the phone. (don't heat the battery, just the motherboard)
Put the phone back together while it is still hot (but not so hot that it will burn your fingers) and try to fire it up.
This has worker for me in 3 cases (phones that I bought off eBay that had the same symptoms as you have described)
good luck
big problem!!!!!!!!
I have been struggling to flash (again) the great pro V2 rom, but I always used my VMWare based XP windows version on my Vista laptop. Today I could use a genuine XP Laptop and I could make a connection and start the upgrade!
Sounds good? That's what I thought too, until the upgrade stopped at 70% (and I didn't touch anything), because of a connection error. I followed the text on my PC screen and I finally it started flashing again for a few seconds and then my startrek suddenly restarted, but it stops at the first splash screen! I tried to get my device back to bootloader mode (push 2 soft buttons and start), but no bootloader mode, only the 1st splash.
I solved the problem.
Good evening.
Well, i know there are like hundred other threads about dead HD2's, but this is strange:
I bought this used HD2 yesterday, 1 year old, never used with stock ROM. I have been using it all day today, after it was recharged all night. But the well known freezing issue started about late afternoon, and i took the battery out and replaced it, and it worked fine again. It did until i went to bed, where i just checked my facebook, and wanted to close down and sleep. Then it froze again, and now it won't start at all. I also charged the phone for about 40 minutes this evening. When i try to turn on the phone, it either vibrates shortly, or light up the hardware buttons, but no screen. I took the battery out and in again, nothing. Tried to charge it, no red lamp, nothing. No bending pins under the battery, i can't hard reset. When i tried to hard reset it, i could hear the sound, like when i turn the volume up and down, so it must be turned on, just not the screen. Tried to put small paper-bits under the battery, nothing. Now i will try to charge it all night, but it won't work, i think.
Also, i tried to lick the battery, and yes, it works.
Is the phone dead? Should i call the service-provider and get it repaired?
Thanks in advance and merry christmas!
so it seems (if i am right) the problem is possibly your screen. correct? (or more, right?)
can you boot into bootloader? doesn't seem like you can....
one option to see if your phone is working and your screen is bust is:
http://www.mymobiler.com/
never used it myself, but you can see your phone on your computer. if all looks normal there, well then your screen is bust. if not, and you can't get into bootloader, then it seems the phone is all bust.
Well... Now it works again after having the battery out all night, inserting it, waiting just 15 minutes and then turning it on! Is there a way to avoid this? Some fix or something?
I suspect that the reason it was onsale
I thhink we have the same problem here,.... is your device getting a little warm on the back....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826119
Zzzzzhit.....
so every once in a while, i'd say every 4 or 5 days... i'll take my phone off the charger and start my day like normal. but on these days, (sometimes i notice and do a hard reset before all this happens) the upper half of the phone will get really warm and even if i do absolutely nothing on my phone, my battery will drain from full to dead in 3-4 hours.
has anyone else noticed this? i'm thinking it may be some sort of cpu cycle leak or some sort of infinite loop some background driver might get itself into.
its pretty annoying if i dont catch it right away and an hour after i unplug my phone while i'm at work to take my phone out of my pocket and have it over half battery gone already.
sheep_duck said:
so every once in a while, i'd say every 4 or 5 days... i'll take my phone off the charger and start my day like normal. but on these days, (sometimes i notice and do a hard reset before all this happens) the upper half of the phone will get really warm and even if i do absolutely nothing on my phone, my battery will drain from full to dead in 3-4 hours.
has anyone else noticed this? i'm thinking it may be some sort of cpu cycle leak or some sort of infinite loop some background driver might get itself into.
its pretty annoying if i dont catch it right away and an hour after i unplug my phone while i'm at work to take my phone out of my pocket and have it over half battery gone already.
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I have noticed the 'staying warm after charging sometimes' phenomenon....I also sometimes leave it charging all night but it doesn't seem to charge, even though the light is on. I think this is somehow connected to the wonky power button behavior...I get a green light on full charge sometime....i've never seen it turned green while powered off.....sometimes it won't turn on while plugged in, sometimes I need to do a battery pull, sometimes the SD card too, sometimes I need to press the power button a million times or hold it extra extra long....sometimes the charging light doesn't come on and it does charge, sometimes the light comes on and it doesn't...sometimes it gets really hot after charging and doesn't cool down after sitting idle....I usually just shut it off for a minute and turn it back on...somehow.
This is definitely one of my pet peeves with this phone...I also think this is linked to some phones never turning back on again, corrupted bootloader/recovery after a 'fastboot' shut-down or hot restart...
I'm diggin' the phone, don't get me wrong, but....I can't wait for the nPrime...
yeah, but it's less so the problem of it getting warm (pre or post charging) and moreso that it will start heating up a lot and you can tell that something is running the battery down in the background, the only way to stop this is to do a battery pull restart.
has anyone had similar issues with their phone going from full battery to dead in a few hours because of a hidden bugged process or something similar?
bump 10 char
I had that happen after tuning airplane mode off then back on. But that's itt
Sent from my HTC Evo 3D.
This happened to me this morning, first time and it was very weird. I've left it charging overnight per usual and this morning when I woke up and unplugged it, it had only 10% battery left. I tried charging it in my car on my way to work and have it plugged in to my computer USB now. I disabled a bunch of stuff as shown on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141221
And it's now starting to charge.
I did however just update to showdown rom and had setcpu on 1.7 conservative. It still should have charged but I'm guessing a stuck process/bug drew all the power last night.
I've always been a huge sucker for good-looking phones, and the Luster White Xperia X10 has a great, unique look that isn't really matched or surpassed by any of the new Xperias, or any new phone at that.
So I got one... going by the eBay listing description, the USB charging wouldn't work because the USB port is messed up (which I prepared for by buying a AC charger)... but that aside it was supposed to work flawlessly.
Thing is, it doesn't.
As soon as I put a freshly charged battery in, I held down power and it vibrated like it was gonna turn on... and never did. Screen stayed black and I ultimately never got it to a functioning state. Been trying all kinds of desperate measures such as trial and error with USB insert angles to see if it was just "touchy"... and even trying to see if I could just get SOME form of response via recovery mode. And nothing worked so far. Sometimes trying to power it on makes it vibrate for a half second before it does nothing, and sometimes trying to power it on will just make it start vibrating endlessly unless I yank out the battery... but not once have I seen this damn thing power on normally.
The seller says he's quite surprised at this because, even when the USB charging officially stopped working, he was able to power it on and make a test call before the battery died (he did dodge my question about how long ago this was, which seemed a bit mysterious). The closest thing I can get to this phone showing "life" is that the LED indicator does blink red when the battery is completely depleted.
At any rate... he's offering me a refund... but I kinda just want to see this work.
What do you guys think? Any more tricks I could try to do to make this respond/test it, or should I just abandon all hope?
I would disassemlethe phone, unsolder the damaged portfirst -it might cause some power shortcut or even in betterlight ofbiewit takes the phone into some strange mode (eg. some resistance between pins can do this).
Or in the best way use the logic analyser connected on data links,but expectyou dont have one
This isn't the first time this has happened. It seems to always happen when I plug the phone in to be charged. Most of the time I can get it back on with a hard reset using the lock key and volume down key. This has happened once before where I had to plug it into a computer, I did it this time and still, nothing.
Last night I plugged it in, it still had about 40% of a charge, I know It could have lasted the night without charging so I know that even if it didn't charge, there'd still be enough juice to turn it on now. Anyway, after a few minutes on the charge, I went to check it and screen wouldn't turn on, the red charging LED was on indicating it was plugged in... I unplugged it and started to do the force reset to get it back on. LED went off the moment I unplugged it and since then it's been like a dead fish.
I've plugged it into my computer, hard reset with every combo I can think of. Took the sim card and SD cards out, tried to reset again. My computer makes its typical noise when things are plugged into it, so it see's that it's there but nothing is happening.
It could be a hardware issue maybe? I hardly ever drop the phone but maybe a piece of hardware finally gave up inside?
Personally. I think technology should work flawlessly. I hate tech and I'm about ready to take a hammer to this thing. Any other possible ideas?