Just performed S-Off, USB wont connect or charge. help? - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

hey fellas, i was wondering if anyone had any insight on this problem? i wouldnt put it passed myself if i screwed something up while performing panda's S-Off but since i rely on my phone a ton i would appreciate some help.
thanks!
edit: so my pc's USB connecting now works (thank gawd) and now i can mount disk drive and also charge. ADB doesnt recognize my device however and also my wall charger shows "discharging" when connected. any more insight would be MUCH appreciated. thanks

I assume you've tried rebooting, wiping caches, ect?
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Rxpert said:
I assume you've tried rebooting, wiping caches, ect?
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yeah i've done all that. i'm considering flashing a completely fresh deodexed stock rom see if that does the trick.

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Help wifi home...emergency

So i got the evo 3d, and i have done a couple of the perma-temp roots, and now my phone just says obtaining ip when connecting to my router, but everything else can(4 evo 4gs and 2 ipods) i can connect everywhere else. I have tried wifi fixers from market and i have tried to forget all newtworks and then battery pull and nothing works, help i need it for business.
factory data reset...
try that from the options menu
I no this sounds weird but are u putting password correctl?
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Have you tried disabling some of the other devices like the evos and ipods and seen if that helps? Most routers can usually stand to give access to about 5 wireless devices at one time so it might just be loaded up to its maximum capacity.
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Have you tried it WITHOUT temp root? Did it connect before? Is your router B,g or n? Have you tried another say..g if it was n?.. How about a different channel?
really, dangg, lose all pics okay ill let ay know if it works.
I tried everything mentioned. All channels the whole 9 yards, so i factory data reseted, i guess well find out.
rtbluver said:
really, dangg, lose all pics okay ill let ay know if it works.
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You could back them up with the good ol'fashioned USB cable...
FaCtory reset worked...thanks
Just power cycle the darn router and be done with it..end of problem..

Usb/charging port fried after failed S-off attempt

Just throwing it out there. As the title states. I attempted the S-off, failed a couple of times, more than likely due to my timing on the wire trick. Then my computer was unable to find device anymore. Long story short, I got my rom to reboot, however the phone will not connect to computer or charge. Tried Pc, Mac, different usb cords. Wiped, reinstalled rom, pulled battery, etc..
This is a risk that I took, and I take full responsibility for that. But just beware that this could affect your hardware and not just your software too, which makes sense because you are messing with the hardware. I am def in the minority here, but I thought I would share. But something to think about. The phone now still functions but I have to take out the battery to charge, and I can't push any files to the phone.
ive never heard of anyone's usb port getting fried with the s-off method but i guess it's possible since your basically grounding your device out.
I know it won't help you with fastboot, but you can still do ADB over wireless. Look for instructions on how to enable it via terminal, or just go the the store and find a widget or app to enable it. At least with functional ADB, you can still push files to your phone using wifi tether or if they are on the same wireless network.
Someone else had the same issue and is testing a possible fix for me. If it works ill post a thread but there is a good chance it is dead.
con247 said:
Someone else had the same issue and is testing a possible fix for me. If it works ill post a thread but there is a good chance it is dead.
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do you think the wire trick is causing this? if soo that's kinda scary.
fix-this! said:
do you think the wire trick is causing this? if soo that's kinda scary.
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I had the exact same thing happen to me on my original Rezound, while I was doing all sorts of fastboot stuff to completely wipe it and prepare it to be shipped back to Verizon. In the end, it shipped back to them in a state where it would ONLY boot to hboot, because it had no /boot or /system or /data or /recovery partitions or anything. I don't really know what happened, but before I could run the RUU to complete the job, the USB connection just stopped working and it wouldn't charge. Exactly the same situation, except it was on its way back to Verizon anyway with a dead screen so I didn't bother to investigate any further.
To the people who have had the problem, were you using an uninsulated wire?
tekhna said:
To the people who have had the problem, were you using an uninsulated wire?
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Or else inadvertantly touched the wrong terminals ? Just trying to figure out how it could happen.
lack of usb function was a product of a corrupted misc image on the HTC Desire. It is possible the same thing happened here so that is being tested. It is worth looking into as a last resort before sending it back.
Yes I was using an insulated wire. I placed the wire exactly where the pictures show. I'm really not sure what happened. But at least I have a backup phone.
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con247 said:
Someone else had the same issue and is testing a possible fix for me. If it works ill post a thread but there is a good chance it is dead.
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Thanks con
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Knew I didn't wanna do it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620803
Here's a case of fried USB but no s-off. Currently unlocked. Any ideas?
Snuzzo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620803
Here's a case of fried USB but no s-off. Currently unlocked. Any ideas?
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Sounds like he is in the exact same boat as me. Will be following that thread as well.. Thanks.
Me three
In same Boat.
Please post a cure if you find one.
Another nice option for transferring files is SSHDroidPro used with something like WinSCP.
I know you tried wiping your rom, but did you try an RUU? On the off chance it is a corrupted partition that might be able to fix it. Worth a try anyway.

[Q] Trouble Syncing AT&T S3 to Kies on PC... Anyone else?

Title says it all. I've tried re installing 20 times(not literally) and re installing the drivers, rebooting the phone, the computer, nothing. Had no problems with my S2. Anyone else having similar issues and a possible work around? Thanks.
I had the same issue and swore it was my phone. I tried different cables and even a factory reset, however I plugged in my phone into my work laptop and it synced up just fine.
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I also had this issue. Randomly one day I connected it however and kiss said connecting and all of a sudden it was working. Have you tried to remove the drivers in safe mode?
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Same issue here but I'm using sprint version
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dmize said:
I also had this issue. Randomly one day I connected it however and kiss said connecting and all of a sudden it was working. Have you tried to remove the drivers in safe mode?
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Haven't tried removing them in safe mode. Sorry to sound stupid but what difference does it make removing them from safe mode? I'll give it a whirl but all the errors I get are on the phones end. I couldn't even copy music to my sdcard. I had to remove it, use the adapter and load it right on it from the port on my laptop.
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Haven't tried removing them in safe mode. Sorry to sound stupid but what difference does it make removing them from safe mode? I'll give it a whirl but all the errors I get are on the phones end. I couldn't even copy music to my sdcard. I had to remove it, use the adapter and load it right on it from the port on my laptop.
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statusnone said:
Title says it all. I've tried re installing 20 times(not literally) and re installing the drivers, rebooting the phone, the computer, nothing. Had no problems with my S2. Anyone else having similar issues and a possible work around? Thanks.
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I had the same issue and swore it was my phone. I tried different cables and even a factory reset, however I plugged in my phone into my work laptop and it synced up just fine.
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Had the same issues as well. Tried different cables including the one in the box, deleted and tried to reinstall drivers, checked regedit, and finally called Samsung Advanced Tech support, what a joke by the way. After 20 minutes said our only option is to do a factory reset which is exactly what I didn't want to do. But, it is fixed for now...

My phone is partially a dud

I don't know how many times I posted because of this, but I think I'm done trying to fix it.
My phone, regardless of ROM, computer, or cable, etc, will isn't seen by any computer
I've installed all the drivers (through HTC sync) multiple times and on multiple computers. I've tried new roms, stock roms, nothing. New cables old cables, nothing. I've even formatted my SD cards and tried that way, nothing. I've tried the wireless ADB, and I get "<waiting for device>" which of course is never going to be found. I don't really think there's anything else I can do at this point but assume that it's my phone's USB port is damaged, can I replace that though?
Any ideas? And also someone could tell me about replacing hardware on this phone, that'd be great.
Thanks anyone.
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I don't know how many times I posted because of this, but I think I'm done trying to fix it.
My phone, regardless of ROM, computer, or cable, etc, will isn't seen by any computer
I've installed all the drivers (through HTC sync) multiple times and on multiple computers. I've tried new roms, stock roms, nothing. New cables old cables, nothing. I've even formatted my SD cards and tried that way, nothing. I've tried the wireless ADB, and I get "<waiting for device>" which of course is never going to be found. I don't really think there's anything else I can do at this point but assume that it's my phone's USB port is damaged, can I replace that though?
Any ideas? And also someone could tell me about replacing hardware on this phone, that'd be great.
Thanks anyone.
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Does it charge over USB?
AshtonTS said:
Does it charge over USB?
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You mean if I plug it into a USB port will it charge?
Yes
All I know is that in my experience my phone stopped showing when I installed HTC drivers. It only came back up when I reinstalled windows. Try more computers before you determine it as a physical defect
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cincyelite22 said:
All I know is that in my experience my phone stopped showing when I installed HTC drivers. It only came back up when I reinstalled windows. Try more computers before you determine it as a physical defect
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I have tried 5, and I'm positive it isn't a problem with any of them.
If it charges over USB I have a hard time thinking the USB port has issues... There is one common denominator over the 5 computers you have tried
I had the same issue, unfortunately it was an issue with the USB port. I went through many, many cables and PCs ( xp, vista, win7) and I finally gave up. Called big red and got a warranty replacement
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If it charges over USB I have a hard time thinking the USB port has issues... There is one common denominator over the 5 computers you have tried
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I appreciate your input, but I seriously doubt it.
Computer 1: very old, used 3 other phones, all no problems, ReZound isn't seen
computer 2: not used much, used 1 other phone with it, ReZound ins't seen
Computer 3: Brand spanking new, ultimate specs, fresh driver intallation, ReZound isn't seen (also had 2 different software versions installed - Win 7 Home Premium and Ultimate)
Computer 4: Not used, barely a year old, fresh driver install, ReZound still isn't seen
Computer 5 - Laptop: Same deal, newdriver, nothing.
TheBr0ken said:
I had the same issue, unfortunately it was an issue with the USB port. I went through many, many cables and PCs ( xp, vista, win7) and I finally gave up. Called big red and got a warranty replacement
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I don't have warranty
I think I'm screwed
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I appreciate your input, but I seriously doubt it.
Computer 1: very old, used 3 other phones, all no problems, ReZound isn't seen
computer 2: not used much, used 1 other phone with it, ReZound ins't seen
Computer 3: Brand spanking new, ultimate specs, fresh driver intallation, ReZound isn't seen (also had 2 different software versions installed - Win 7 Home Premium and Ultimate)
Computer 4: Not used, barely a year old, fresh driver install, ReZound still isn't seen
Computer 5 - Laptop: Same deal, newdriver, nothing.
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Idk man I always have trouble with the drivers for windows.. That's why I use a Mac anyway does it say like android device or android 1.0 or HTC USB Device or something to that effect when you plug it in WITHOUT installing the drivers?
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Idk man I always have trouble with the drivers for windows.. That's why I use a Mac anyway does it say like android device or android 1.0 or HTC USB Device or something to that effect when you plug it in WITHOUT installing the drivers?
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Nothing, the phone doesn't even realize it's being connected, although if you restart the phone with a cable plugged in (whether or not it's plugged into a wall or computer) the phone pops up with the options to charge only, etc. None of the options do anything though.
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I don't have warranty
I think I'm screwed
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Just tell them it's a defect with the rezound they'll replace it with a refurb. They cover it as long as its not physical damage you did which isnt your case.
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cincyelite22 said:
Just tell them it's a defect with the rezound they'll replace it with a refurb. They cover it as long as its not physical damage you did which isnt your case.
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And what about the software changes? I can't RUU back because I can't re-lock or run the .exe
ο χάκερ said:
And what about the software changes? I can't RUU back because I can't re-lock or run the .exe
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Brick it
ο; χάκε;ρ;29430152 said:
I don't have warranty
I think I'm screwed
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How can you not? Us it physically damaged? Factory warranty should have you covered if not
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TheBr0ken said:
How can you not? Us it physically damaged? Factory warranty should have you covered if not
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Because he rooted it
ο; χάκε;ρ;29430501 said:
And what about the software changes? I can't RUU back because I can't re-lock or run the .exe
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Why can't you? It's time consuming but you can. Run the ruu to get yourself back to stock. Lock the bootloader and s-on. Then you will be stock, unrooted and bootloader will say either relocked or tampered or whatever. Root it. S-off with junipbear but do not install the modified hboot. Then ruu again. You will now be completely stock, unrooted and bootloader will say locked. Worked perfectly fine for me.
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Why can't you? It's time consuming but you can. Run the ruu to get yourself back to stock. Lock the bootloader and s-on. Then you will be stock, unrooted and bootloader will say either relocked or tampered or whatever. Root it. S-off with junipbear but do not install the modified hboot. Then ruu again. You will now be completely stock, unrooted and bootloader will say locked. Worked perfectly fine for me.
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I can't lock my bootloader because I can't make contact with my computer through a usb cable, that's the whole problem
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Brick it
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That's what I was thinking actually
Erase everything so it doesn't even turn on, then just be like "Iunno what happened"
ο; χάκε;ρ;29430276 said:
Nothing, the phone doesn't even realize it's being connected, although if you restart the phone with a cable plugged in (whether or not it's plugged into a wall or computer) the phone pops up with the options to charge only, etc. None of the options do anything though.
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If your phone doesn't realize it's plugged in, then you got a defect.
Verizon usually doesn't check for unlock/root and many people have successfully gotten replacements for rooted phones.
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Help!! Not charging or connecting to pc

Ok so last night I transferred some files with otg cable. Unmounted and then went to put it on charger and it does not recognize the charger. It did charge after I powered it down. But when the phone is on it doesn't recognize anything plugged into the usb port. Anyone have any suggestions? And if not how do I run a ruu or something to get back to stock for warranty without a connection to pc?
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Quick update. I am on 3.09.401.1 firmware and a 2.24.401.8 based rom. Not sure if that has anything to do with it but it will charge in recovery mode but not booted up. So seems like a firmware/software issue. Is there any way to flash firmware without using usb to pc? Because it won't recognize the usb at all.
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Clselfridge said:
Quick update. I am on 3.09.401.1 firmware and a 2.24.401.8 based rom. Not sure if that has anything to do with it but it will charge in recovery mode but not booted up. So seems like a firmware/software issue. Is there any way to flash firmware without using usb to pc? Because it won't recognize the usb at all.
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Weird problem. Not sure if it will work but you can try "flashify" from the play store to flash firmware, etc without usb. Keep us posted on your results.
Also see if you can access it through bootloader. You might be able to RUU. Alternatively, factory reset and install ROM in recovery. Or try side adb in recovery..
Clselfridge said:
Ok so last night I transferred some files with otg cable. Unmounted and then went to put it on charger and it does not recognize the charger. It did charge after I powered it down. But when the phone is on it doesn't recognize anything plugged into the usb port. Anyone have any suggestions? And if not how do I run a ruu or something to get back to stock for warranty without a connection to pc?
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I'm currently using the same firmware ROM base combination as you with no issues. Are you using the charger that came with your phone, have you replaced the usb cable to make sure it isn't faulty?
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suntzu said:
Weird problem. Not sure if it will work but you can try "flashify" from the play store to flash firmware, etc without usb. Keep us posted on your results.
Also see if you can access it through bootloader. You might be able to RUU. Alternatively, factory reset and install ROM in recovery. Or try side adb in recovery..
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I am going to look into flashify. That sounds interesting. I have tried getting the thing to pick up the usb in hboot. But no luck so far.
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I'm currently using the same firmware ROM base combination as you with no issues. Are you using the charger that came with your phone, have you replaced the usb cable to make sure it isn't faulty?
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I have tried three different HTC branded charger/cable combinations. With no luck while booted up. I charged to 100% while shut off.
I have been running this combo for a week or something. Ever since the firmware hit the forums. And had no issues until two nights ago when this first started giving me grief... so I don't know what has caused it.
I also posted this over in the international forums and there's a guy over there with the same issue.
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well i am downloading a stock backup and i have a stock recovery not sure how to get them both to work... because i have to flash the stock rom with twrp and then how do i get the stock recovery flashed with a stock rom.... i will figure it out. anyway my plan is to try to take an ota and have that change the firmware and then i will know if i have a hardware issue or a software issue.
Lol. Now I'm not sure what to do. I reverted back to stock rom and recovery and then realized the touch drivers I have aren't compatible.... But I am booted up and plugged into the pc and it is charging but not coming up on the pc as a device. I don't know if debug mode is on because I am stuck at the first setup screen... Ahh I can't seem to catch a break here...
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Lol. Now I'm not sure what to do. I reverted back to stock rom and recovery and then realized the touch drivers I have aren't compatible.... But I am booted up and plugged into the pc and it is charging but not coming up on the pc as a device. I don't know if debug mode is on because I am stuck at the first setup screen... Ahh I can't seem to catch a break here...
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Ruu back to stock AT&T and start over.
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Ruu back to stock AT&T and start over.
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That's what I am trying to do... However I can't get the pc or the phone to recognize the connection. I have been messing with this thing and getting nowhere for so long I feel like I'm just banging my head agains a wall...
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That's what I am trying to do... However I can't get the pc or the phone to recognize the connection. I have been messing with this thing and getting nowhere for so long I feel like I'm just banging my head agains a wall...
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...have you tried booting into safe mode and then see if it is recognized? Just a shot in the dark. :fingers-crossed:
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...have you tried booting into safe mode and then see if it is recognized? Just a shot in the dark. :fingers-crossed:
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How do I get into safe mode?
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Press the power button until the power options open. Tap and hold POWER OFF on the screen and the phone should ask if you'd like to boot into safe mode but if your touch panel is not working for you this is not going to work.
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Press the power button until the power options open. Tap and hold POWER OFF on the screen and the phone should ask if you'd like to boot into safe mode but if your touch panel is not working for you this is not going to work.
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Correct. I have totally screwed myself I think. I think I basically at this current time have a fairly lightweight brick that lights up. I have no touch capabilities at all and nothing recognized when plugged into PC. I have tried plugging into a windows 8 and also a Ubuntu machine with no dice in fast boot or adb....
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I dont think it is prob with some ROM. I used HTC One with stock rom (official stock by HTC) and after three months my phone stopped charging and also stop USB connection. I googled it and it was universal prob and also HTC knows about that.
See this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417377
Phone acted very strange. Details are in above link. And also there are 2 or 3 threads more like this.
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I dont think it is prob with some ROM. I used HTC One with stock rom (official stock by HTC) and after three months my phone stopped charging and also stop USB connection. I googled it and it was universal prob and also HTC knows about that.
See this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417377
Phone acted very strange. Details are in above link. And also there are 2 or 3 threads more like this.
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Did you end up getting it resolved and if so how?
I don't think AT&T will look kindly on me for having it unlocked and s-off and for having a rom/firmware mismatch...
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Clselfridge said:
Did you end up getting it resolved and if so how?
I don't think AT&T will look kindly on me for having it unlocked and s-off and for having a rom/firmware mismatch...
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Unless the OTA adapter screwed up the USB connector pins for data but not power, then you should be able to recover. However like stated there has been a few reports of failed USB connectors.
Does there seem like there is any damage to the usb pins in the connector on the phone?
Did you make sure to have the HTC device drivers installed on your PC before trying ADB. Do you have a Windows 7 PC to try?
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Unless the OTA adapter screwed up the USB connector pins for data but not power, then you should be able to recover. However like stated there has been a few reports of failed USB connectors.
Does there seem like there is any damage to the usb pins in the connector on the phone?
Did you make sure to have the HTC device drivers installed on your PC before trying ADB. Do you have a Windows 7 PC to try?
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So far I have tried on win8 winxp and Ubuntu.on the windows pcs the drivers were definitely installed. No dice on any of them. I am thinking the connector must be messed up. I can't see anything obvious looking at it but the fact that on three pcs one of them running Linux didn't find the phone but will charge it is pretty definitive. I don't have the money to pay for repairs due to having "tampered" with the phone(even though it doesn't say that) it is an AT&T phone with s-off and unlocked and a 1.55 hboot and has a inverted splash screen. Pretty obvious...
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Clselfridge said:
So far I have tried on win8 winxp and Ubuntu.on the windows pcs the drivers were definitely installed. No dice on any of them. I am thinking the connector must be messed up. I can't see anything obvious looking at it but the fact that on three pcs one of them running Linux didn't find the phone but will charge it is pretty definitive. I don't have the money to pay for repairs due to having "tampered" with the phone(even though it doesn't say that) it is an AT&T phone with s-off and unlocked and a 1.55 hboot and has a inverted splash screen. Pretty obvious...
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If you boot the phone into the bootloader without the cable attached it should come up and say fastboot. When you attach the USB cable does the display on the phone change to fastboot USB or stay only fastboot?
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If you boot the phone into the bootloader without the cable attached it should come up and say fastboot. When you attach the USB cable does the display on the phone change to fastboot USB or stay only fastboot?
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Only fastboot. Never changes.
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Only fastboot. Never changes.
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Yep, then it seems the pinouts on the USB connector have been damaged. Bummer.
On the plus side consider this: AT&T will probably still give you device exchange without charging you a fee. First, they mostly don't care about users modding their phones. Secondly there are so many exchange requests coming into them for the One, that all the defective units will just be sent back to HTC directly by AT&T and at that point HTC is not going to bother to go back to AT&T and say listen this list of devices were modified. If they did, that would create a backlog on work for AT&T to match the records to owners and then contacting them and trying to prove that the user did this so far removed from the exchange that it doesn't make business sense to them.
I have seen AT&T users report that they have sent in devices that were extremely modified and obvious, but AT&T proceeded with the exchange anyway because they would rather keep you as a happy customer than spending time trying to prove what you did was the only cause of the failure. Users have even sent back total bricks that they created by doing something stupid and AT&T still replaced the device without question.
When you modded the phone, that basically ended AT&T's obligation to help you with any service/software related issues, but the modding did not void the hardware warranty and it seems your device has a hardware issue that was unlikely caused by the software modifications.
The key in your case would be to do the defective device exchange via phone/mail and not via the walk in device service center.
If you don't want to do this because of the possible risk of flagging by them, then I may be willing to buy your bricked device if you are not going to do anything with it. PM if interested.

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