My phone has died today.
It will not turn on with my own battery , while plugged to charged, or with someone else's charged battery.
The phone heated up once in a while and would shut the screen off, but the keys would still work. There was also no way to turn the screen on, unless you turned it off some way.
It kept heating up a couple of times a day every once in a while.
Next thing I know, today it heated up, turn off, and now it will not start at all.
I never over cloacked it all the way up.. was almost always on "Ondemand."
- What do you think I could do?
Send it to HTC, call tmobile tell them it doesnt work and get replacement, go to tmobile store, other... ?
Sounds like a hardware issue so you shouldn't have an issue with warranty I would think so anyways
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if you have insurance from tmobile either you had it on another phone it will cover it,
software or hardware, they will sent you one. "over night shipping" for the cost fee of
$5 bucks
you should not have a problem to do so, and if you dont have insurance i guess is call htc!!!
by the way did you tried to go to bootloader or fastboot?
gypsy214 said:
by the way did you tried to go to bootloader or fastboot?
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I can't get into either one.. the phone wont turn on at all.
xologist said:
My phone has died today.
It will not turn on with my own battery , while plugged to charged, or with someone else's charged battery.
The phone heated up once in a while and would shut the screen off, but the keys would still work. There was also no way to turn the screen on, unless you turned it off some way.
It kept heating up a couple of times a day every once in a while.
Next thing I know, today it heated up, turn off, and now it will not start at all.
I never over cloacked it all the way up.. was almost always on "Ondemand."
- What do you think I could do?
Send it to HTC, call tmobile tell them it doesnt work and get replacement, go to tmobile store, other... ?
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It should stiill be covered by the warranty, u shouldn't have and problems getting a replacement jus give them a call
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Hey,
One night at the club my phone stopped working completely. Wont turn on, with or without battery, on power. It was very hot/humid in the club and i did sweat, but i dont think it touched the phone. Samsung wont accept my phone because i bought it off ebay.
Any ideas of what I can do?
mindracer said:
Hey,
One night at the club my phone stopped working completely. Wont turn on, with or without battery, on power. It was very hot/humid in the club and i did sweat, but i dont think it touched the phone. Samsung wont accept my phone because i bought it off ebay.
Any ideas of what I can do?
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well obvs it won't turn on without the battery lol. Good a spare battery? If the phone has been penetrated by any liquid.. give it a few days to dry off.. still it might be damaged.. best bet it to wait, or take it to a repair shop, see what they say if they open it.
Send it off. If they wont repair it because it has water damage, take it apart and clean it. Worked with me after i dropped it in the sea.
Good Luck mate
Hi guys, so I just received a refurb I777 from AT&T today. Put in the battery and tried turning it on. Got the black battery with a circle thing around it, and figured I need to charge it.
It's been charging for like 2 hours now, I feel the battery getting hot, but it wont turn on. It's not a phone issue because my other I777 battery works fine. Do I just let it charge more? I don't know why its not turning on, and it's a pretty big hassle to get a replacement through AT&T...
It should turn on by now. Try pulling battery for a few and putting it back in then turn it on. If that doesnt work i would call att back and explore your options with them.
It's funny, I take out the battery with the phone still plugged in, and I can see the phone flash as if its trying to turn on. Put in the battery, and nothing happens. Such a pain going through AT&T, giving me the runaround. Hate them.
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It's funny, I take out the battery with the phone still plugged in, and I can see the phone flash as if its trying to turn on. Put in the battery, and nothing happens. Such a pain going through AT&T, giving me the runaround. Hate them.
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Sounds like your battery has a short.
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So basically its broken? This is a replacement phone, so I'm thinking of just swapping the battery with my working phone that I'm going to return. Been on hold for 30 minutes. This is BS.
Ashhong said:
So basically its broken? This is a replacement phone, so I'm thinking of just swapping the battery with my working phone that I'm going to return. Been on hold for 30 minutes. This is BS.
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I know how ya feel. Hang in there and theyll take care of ya
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just yesterday my phone was working fine, but until i've enter the MGM grand gardens arena for a company convention, right before i step into the arena my phone was working fine, just until i walk in and situated myself, i didnt realize the phone was no longer able to turn on. the room was blast with loud music and loud bass, maybe the bass has somehow interfered with the signals and cause it to short circuit?
I was running meanrom ICS v2.4 with 4ext bootloader.
so my question is, is it brick? i've tried to put into a charger and no light was on, i've change the battery no luck to even turn it on.
thanks folks.
to me sounds like a bad battery..have you tried another battery in it?
Sounds like the battery may of died could be dead or your phone just took a nap and isn't wanting to wake up.. Just pull the battery out slap it back in and see if you get any red light or get it to power back up..
Bricking only happens via wrong radio flash gsm via CDMA or you yank the battery out in the middle of a flash.
I have tried pulling the battery and change to a different batter and it's still NO go, so not sure what happen with the phone, guess i'll bring it into the sprint to see what they can do.
campchi said:
I have tried pulling the battery and change to a different batter and it's still NO go, so not sure what happen with the phone, guess i'll bring it into the sprint to see what they can do.
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Try to leave it charging for like 30 mins see if it comes back on before you take it to sprint.
vlatinlove said:
Try to leave it charging for like 30 mins see if it comes back on before you take it to sprint.
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Try that sounds like a dead battery.
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since you think it is a brick. you can always send it to me and I'll have a new free phone. lol sadly one fault with our phones is if the battery dies. you have to take the battery out and charge it in a third party device for 5-10 minutes... then you can charge it the rest of the way with your phone. I WISH THEY WOULD FIX THIS! SADLY I haven't been able to buy backup batteries and a charger for this phone yet.
well, came back to LA, took the phone apart and resemble again, then it magically work again...oh well, dont know what causes it, i guess it just need a reboot in circuitry...kinda strange, but hey, it now works...dont need to spent $400 buck for a new phone.
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since you think it is a brick. you can always send it to me and I'll have a new free phone. lol sadly one fault with our phones is if the battery dies. you have to take the battery out and charge it in a third party device for 5-10 minutes... then you can charge it the rest of the way with your phone. I WISH THEY WOULD FIX THIS! SADLY I haven't been able to buy backup batteries and a charger for this phone yet.
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I just leave my phone charging for a while after it completely dies and it comes back on and works fine it just takes a minute to fully charge again. I have not yet used a third party device.
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well, came back to LA, took the phone apart and resemble again, then it magically work again...oh well, dont know what causes it, i guess it just need a reboot in circuitry...kinda strange, but hey, it now works...dont need to spent $400 buck for a new phone.
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Luckily it came back on for you.
hmm
try pulling the battery out for 30 minutes and then put the cable back in then the battery then turn it on, if this doesn't work you could buy a wall charger for the battery so you can charge the battery without the phone
Hey all I was wondering if anyone could help me with my HTC Amaze. It stopped turning on maybe a month ago. I was sleeping and forgot to charge the phone so I woke up in the morning and put it on the charger and went back to sleep. When I woke up again there wasn't an LED light or anything. Eventually after messing around with it for a while the orange light would turn on for maybe 10 seconds then it would turn off and the phone would vibrate for a while and turn off too. I went on eBay and bought a new battery that came with an outlet charger. Waited a while then it finally came I charged the original battery as well as the new one. The phone still won't turn on, but now the orange LED light will stay on and after a while the green light will come on. I'm not tech savvy so I never rooted or unlocked my phone or whatnot I've just been using it normally since I've gotten it. I tried to make a claim from Asurion but they won't cover it without the deductible so I thought I'd try here before I just gave up and got a new one. If anyone can help please me please help. =)
There have been some posts of battery issues. Have you tried a different battery?
yep . i tried to charge the battery on the adapter and use the origional/new battery with no luck. :crying:
If it goes green, the battery says full charged, you're not telling us something.
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If it goes green, the battery says full charged, you're not telling us something.
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Before when it first wouldn't turn on, when i tried to charge it, the orange light would come on for 10 seconds before turning off and vibrating periodically. Now the phone will act like it's charging (staying orange for a long time then turning green). But when I wait until it's green and try and turn it on no avail.
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Before when it first wouldn't turn on, when i tried to charge it, the orange light would come on for 10 seconds before turning off and vibrating periodically. Now the phone will act like it's charging (staying orange for a long time then turning green). But when I wait until it's green and try and turn it on no avail.
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Did it fall down by chance?
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Did it fall down by chance?
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yea once but that was like 2 weeks ago before this started to happen. do u think it would be the digitizer or a part inside the phone ?
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yea once but that was like 2 weeks ago before this started to happen. do u think it would be the digitizer or a part inside the phone ?
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Something could've gotten loose and normal shaking in the weeks to follow probably finished the job getting it undone. Did you call your carrier or HTC about it?
Just tell them it randomly shut down after the ICS update and then eventually it stopped coming on or something, yes I know that's lying, but I don't think hardware is usually covered under warranty, unless it was faulty from the get go.
try removing the back cover and pressing the power button. the button on my back cover doesn't work as well as it used to, it'll power the screen on when it feels like it....must've come loose.
Check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759925
-Also, did you buy the phone new? And you said you didn't root/unlock? If you bought it used the person before you may have installed a custom recovery.
very weird i agree just call htc and say you phone got messed up doe to the ics ota update im sure they will replace it :laugh:
I have NO clue what happened. Wife and I were driving to see my in laws, had my phone navigating us to a pit stop at a local restaurant before we touched down at the house. Phone randomly rebooted itself, then went black after the initial HTC screen. The charging light no longer came on, and no matter what I do, I can't get it to restart or respond at all. It's a highly advanced technological marvel of a paperweight, I do say so myself.
It was charging, about 65% full, navigating, no other active programs or processes that I had started recently. Phone was rooted, S-OFF, running MeanROM. Was noticing some issues with lag over the last couple of days, but it would always settle down after I killed a couple apps. No overheating (except if I was navigating with it attached to dashboard, but that's because it's been mid to high 90s for a month or more), no dropped calls. No shock, drop, or water damage. Just an unexpected, and untimely, death.
I bought it from BestBuy on launch day, but didn't get the Black Tie Protection, so I suppose I've got to take it to Sprint and pay my freaking deductible :crying:
Same thing happened to me on mean rom. Nothing would happen even if I pressed the power for a while. I knew my battery was charged. So I connected the charger and no red led. I left the charger connected for about five minutes and it recucitated by itself. Try that and I hope you get lucky like me.
If the above doesn't work. Leave it off the charger for a day or so, then try to reconnect it. I have had this happen with my og evo quite a few times. Sometimes it just doesn't want to recognize at all.
$9.99 on the first day of buying the phone at BB, and I'm on my third EVO! God bless the Black Tie protection program, lol.
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I have NO clue what happened. Wife and I were driving to see my in laws, had my phone navigating us to a pit stop at a local restaurant before we touched down at the house. Phone randomly rebooted itself, then went black after the initial HTC screen. The charging light no longer came on, and no matter what I do, I can't get it to restart or respond at all. It's a highly advanced technological marvel of a paperweight, I do say so myself.
It was charging, about 65% full, navigating, no other active programs or processes that I had started recently. Phone was rooted, S-OFF, running MeanROM. Was noticing some issues with lag over the last couple of days, but it would always settle down after I killed a couple apps. No overheating (except if I was navigating with it attached to dashboard, but that's because it's been mid to high 90s for a month or more), no dropped calls. No shock, drop, or water damage. Just an unexpected, and untimely, death.
I bought it from BestBuy on launch day, but didn't get the Black Tie Protection, so I suppose I've got to take it to Sprint and pay my freaking deductible :crying:
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Same thing happened to me on mean rom. Nothing would happen even if I pressed the power for a while. I knew my battery was charged. So I connected the charger and no red led. I left the charger connected for about five minutes and it recucitated by itself. Try that and I hope you get lucky like me.
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Which version of MeanRom were you guys running?
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Which version of MeanRom were you guys running?
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What type of car charge and how many milliamps was it. Was it plugged in when it died. The reason i ask is i keep reading about these problems, it even happened to me.
Sorry to hear hope it comes alive, mine never did
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Mines died with 77 percent & never came back on. I was running Mean Rom( not saying the rom was the problem) I got it from bestbuy and didn't get blacktie protection . I took it to Sprint & they unscrewed and took it apart . The tech couldnt fix it ,and the manager told me to go back to bestbuy to swap it out . When he walked to the back the tech handed me a new phone and said real loud "sorry we couldn't help you " winked at me and I mouthed thank you and left .
Is this a prevalent problem on MeanRom or has this happened to people on other ROMs or stock? Just asking since the 3 members who had this happen to them were all on that particular ROM.
This is not ROM specific...my phone did this day one I got it on preorder...it scared me...I just left it alone and plugged the charger up hours later then worked...it could be a quirk with these dam internal batteries
I was stock and not rooted
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This is not ROM specific...my phone did this day one I got it on preorder...it scared me...I just left it alone and plugged the charger up hours later then worked...it could be a quirk with these dam internal batteries
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Were you doing anything in particular on your phone when it happened and has it happened since?
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Mines died with 77 percent & never came back on. I was running Mean Rom( not saying the rom was the problem) I got it from bestbuy and didn't get blacktie protection . I took it to Sprint & they unscrewed and took it apart . The tech couldnt fix it ,and the manager told me to go back to bestbuy to swap it out . When he walked to the back the tech handed me a new phone and said real loud "sorry we couldn't help you " winked at me and I mouthed thank you and left .
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I call BS on that one lol
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Nope just basically calibrating the battery...charged it up and was letting it die
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Seems there are quite a few of these. Just an observation, I would use the opportunity to test whether the phone is "really" dead by seeing whether the unbrick tool at Lazy Panda sees the phone. Not to unbrick it but rather whether it can detect it.
http://unlimited.io/lazypanda-s-off-public-beta/evo-4g-lte-unbricker/ has a method of detecting bricked phones:" Run the following command in the terminal: chmod 755 brickdetect.sh PandaFinder"
Maybe one of their team would be kind enough to work with you on this : http://unlimited.io/jbsupport/
If it is truly a hardware issue, the phone won't be found. Who knows ? Perhaps you'll find a way around this issue.
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Seems there are quite a few of these. Just an observation, I would use the opportunity to test whether the phone is "really" dead by seeing whether the unbrick tool at Lazy Panda sees the phone. Not to unbrick it but rather whether it can detect it.
http://unlimited.io/lazypanda-s-off-public-beta/evo-4g-lte-unbricker/ has a method of detecting bricked phones:" Run the following command in the terminal: chmod 755 brickdetect.sh PandaFinder"
Maybe one of their team would be kind enough to work with you on this : http://unlimited.io/jbsupport/
If it is truly a hardware issue, the phone won't be found. Who knows ? Perhaps you'll find a way around this issue.
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No that will not help. However there are two possible situations that could be fixable that can exist on these phones.
1. The phone goes into download mode due to some random issue, despite there being nothing wrong with the phone. Holding power for 30 seconds should resolve this or alternatively this could be used http://unlimited.io/one-v-qhsusb_dload-fix/ .
2. Extreme sleep. We have encountered this state a few times on similar devices. The remedy for this is to plug the phone into the wall charger walk away and leave it for up to 8 hours, without attempting to power it on. There will be no charge light or any other sign of life from the phone during the time it is on the charger. It may power itself back on, if not, after 8 hours, attept to power it on.
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I call BS on that one lol
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Nope bs this really happened
Had this happen to my phone, pre root. Try this: Hold the volume down button and the power button.
Maybe volume up, but one of the two, and it got my phone working.
So this just happened to mine last night. I am also on Mean ROM, S-OFF, Updated radio and Firmware. Left the phone sitting on the coffee table and came back to use it. Pressed power button to turn the screen on and nothing happened.
I did the following.
Held power button for extended period of time...... Nothing
Plugged into AC charger....Nothing
Tried Volume down + Power...........Nothing
Volume UP+ Power.... Phone started up as normal and seems to be just fine.
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So this just happened to mine last night. I am also on Mean ROM, S-OFF, Updated radio and Firmware. Left the phone sitting on the coffee table and came back to use it. Pressed power button to turn the screen on and nothing happened.
I did the following.
Held power button for extended period of time...... Nothing
Plugged into AC charger....Nothing
Tried Volume down + Power...........Nothing
Volume UP+ Power.... Phone started up as normal and seems to be just fine.
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Mine died a few weeks back, i tried everything, i thought, but i can't remember if i tried vol up and power, good information.
Thanks, i also hot the thx button
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mcvoss said:
Mine died a few weeks back, i tried everything, i thought, but i can't remember if i tried vol up and power, good information.
Thanks, i also hot the thx button
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Didn't I say that?
shadowhawk2020 said:
Didn't I say that?
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I read threads all way good.
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