Need help with bricked evo (rooted,S-on) - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

hi guys,yesterday in the morning i noticed my evo wasnt responding. I had used it for a phone call earlier and now there is nothing.
When i plug it in nothing happens, no led charging light. I have tried holding the power button in for 30 seconds and also with the volume down.
I am not that familar with abd(i believe that is what it is called) or even if that would help. Any suggest would be greatly appreciated.
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I forgot to mention i am not s-off but i am rooted

Search this forum for the latest RUU for Jewel, which includes the recent OTA update and will keep you r00ted, if you use xHausx's deodexed ROM. Be careful to have enough battery before attempting. I'm hoping you used Titanium Backup or executed a nandroid? HTH!
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Don't think the ruu will do a whole lot of good if the phone isn't responding at all.
Edit: I know I've seen several other threads with people experiencing the same thing. As far I I remember, none of them were resolved and ended up getting a new phone. Do you have TEP?
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ya im downloading ruu atm, thanks and ya it worries me because it isnt responding at all. and yes i have done a titanium backup and nandroid backup.

Axe-08 said:
hi guys,yesterday in the morning i noticed my evo wasnt responding. I had used it for a phone call earlier and now there is nothing.
When i plug it in nothing happens, no led charging light. I have tried holding the power button in for 30 seconds and also with the volume down.
I am not that familar with abd(i believe that is what it is called) or even if that would help. Any suggest would be greatly appreciated.
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I forgot to mention i am not s-off but i am rooted
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If it won't turn on its dead, welcome to the club. I hate to say it. Was it just on a charger when you noticed it? If it was were you using the charger that came with the phone? That is happening to a lot of these phones. I get my new one tomorrow.
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Axe-08 said:
ya im downloading ruu atm, thanks and ya it worries me because it isnt responding at all. and yes i have done a titanium backup and nandroid backup.
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AFAIK, you need to be in either android or fastboot for the ruu to work but definitely worth a shot..
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well since its dead do you think i could return it to best buy even if it is rooted? and i dont think it was on the charger.

Axe-08 said:
well since its dead do you think i could return it to best buy even if it is rooted? and i dont think it was on the charger.
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Yes you can. I returned mine Sat to a sprint store. There are a bunch of threads on this, yet HTC says there is no problem. I read where several returned them to bb with no problems.
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mcvoss said:
Yes you can. I returned mine Sat to a sprint store. There are a bunch of threads on this, yet HTC says there is no problem. I read where several returned them to bb with no problems.
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Broken up volume rocker. Opinions

So my up volume rocker on my thunderbolt wont register a press. I spoke to tech support who said they would send me a new one, I just need to bring it to a store to show them I didn't drop it. only problem is I cant flash back to stock. Do you think they will visually inspect the phone or plug it in? Am I better off just paying the insurance deductible?
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Anyone?
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maybe if u can flash back a stock root rom they may not notice i also had to get my tb replaced bc the volume down button would not work and at verizon all they gonna do is turn it on and off and try a battery pull and try and press the volume button to make sure its a manufacture defect and make sure u bring ur tb box and sims card for faster replacement
i also droped my phone and put a small chip in it and it was no way related to the volume button so they could not say any thing
To unroot, just put the signed .ruu onto your SD card and boot into hboot via rom manager. It will install automatically and you will be unrooted, s-on and stock.
necosino said:
To unroot, just put the signed .ruu onto your SD card and boot into hboot via rom manager. It will install automatically and you will be unrooted, s-on and stock.
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My hboot makes me accept the update by pressing up arrow . The broken one.
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aostl said:
My hboot makes me accept the update by pressing up arrow . The broken one.
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Oh snap... I forgot that little step...
What's the worSt they can say? Your phones not under warranty? Or your contract is void pay an etf?
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your best bet is to make it look at close to stock as possible and just delete any root apps like superusers n setcpu n do a instore exchange
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My hboot makes me accept the update by pressing up arrow . The broken one.
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I never thought about that either, Damn I wonder if there is another way?
I've seen a couple of posts like this bit I got to ask, how do you break your volume or power button in the first place? And if you did just return it.
^_^_^'s tbolt
I would make a thread asking for a completely stock nandroid backup. Just load that up before you go in.
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Well I booted into the bootloader a million times and slammed the up arrow with a pen until it worked lol. So I'm back to stock. And when I went to Verizon they didn't even really look at the phone, they just said they would ship me a new one. Also, to answer a question, the rocker just stopped registering while I was at work one day.
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My guess is the warranty department will be looking at all returns much, much closer now looking for a rooted phone so they can void warranties. Its good you were able to flash the stock RUU, for others who don't I bet you might find a $600 charge on your next Verizon bill. I do believe you could have used adb to push the stock RUU as well.
aostl said:
Well I booted into the bootloader a million times and slammed the up arrow with a pen until it worked lol. So I'm back to stock. And when I went to Verizon they didn't even really look at the phone, they just said they would ship me a new one. Also, to answer a question, the rocker just stopped registering while I was at work one day.
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No Need To Battery Pull

I hear people are still pulilng there battery all the time to reset there frozen non responding phone.
Just so everybody knows if you hold down volume up, volume down and power all at the same time the phone will reset without having to pull the battery out.
Just passing this on as it seems a lot of people are saying still they had to do a battery pull.
Thanks, I'm no technotard but didn't know this. Will most certainly try it next time!
frickin awesome!
I'm always pulling the Damn battery
Evo 3D in full Affect
But does it work while the phone is frozen?
If so, this is really amazing.
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But does it work while the phone is frozen?
If so, this is really amazing.
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Yeah, its also working, when your phone is frozen/in a bootloop or whatever.
...I knew of this feature for some months now - was working on my hd2 running android too.
I wonder, if this is a general android or htc feature.
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Well I'll be............ Great post!
Sometimes it doesn't work but the majority of the time it does!
NICE ...... this is another reason why I love this site, everyone helping each other weather it is something major or something small like this that actually eliminates alot of headaches.
thanks. will test it out next time my phone gets stuck. it's actually very helpful to me...pulling my battery entails removing the skeleton, the rubber cover, the case, and then the battery door...so it's a lot of steps for me
My phone has yet to freeze on the stock rom, but thanks for the info.
Doesn't this work for most devices? I know that's how I reset my touch pad too.
boom!! from my shooter
Awesome, did not know this either
Thanks for the tip. I been using HTC android phones for a year now, rooting, flashing and all, and didn't know abt this.
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Well yes, but pulling battery also disconnects the phone from the cell towers which can reset poor data/ voice connections
Are there many people who experience their phones freezing that often? I honestly havent had my phone freeze on me once.
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Uchennadi said:
Thanks for the tip. I been using HTC android phones for a year now, rooting, flashing and all, and didn't know abt this.
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Same here.
Via My HTC Evo 3D On The Now Network From Sprint.
Thanks for the tip. Repped!
Quis89 said:
Are there many people who experience their phones freezing that often? I honestly havent had my phone freeze on me once.
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It doesn't freeze often but every once in a while mine will freeze or reboot.
Thanks for the tip. Didn't know about it. Whnever I'm connected to my computer and it freezes I just fire up a command prompt and "adb reboot". Faster, unless your not around your comp.
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Need to know

Hi, im haveing my EVO View repaired by HTC and i need to know how to un-revolutionary, because i dont have usb connectivity (The charging port is not working)
Could somone help me? I need to get back to S-ON
Just hope they don't charge. I asked the same thing before I shipped it out. Luckily they just emailed me today saying it's fixed and said they are going to ship back. How did you damage the port?
I mistakenly tried to put the wrong side of the charger plug in.
Very sensitive the port is
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No clue, I was tethering one day and I ubplugged then when I went back to the pc, it didn't work anymore, and it dosent work for a/c anymore now either
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Damn! You don't think you may have pulled too hard? Wish sounds ridiculous! I know!
Just asking because if they would have charged me i would have been pissed because I think their port is very faulty. So i really am afraid of it happening again. I know this time I'm going to baby it even more. My gf is going to hate me lol.
Good luck I really hope it all works out or if someone can help.
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bsmoove386 said:
Damn! You don't think you may have pulled too hard? Wish sounds ridiculous! I know!
Just asking because if they would have charged me i would have been pissed because I think their port is very faulty. So i really am afraid of it happening again. I know this time I'm going to baby it even more. My gf is going to hate me lol.
Good luck I really hope it all works out or if someone can help.
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Thx for the info
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Thx for the info
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Could you possibly download a RUU to your sdcard to flash or something ? Just throwing ideas out there..
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Gumby63 said:
Could you possibly download a RUU to your sdcard to flash or something ? Just throwing ideas out there..
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That won't over write the hboot. You need to be able to push the hboot with adb from recovery. Really not sure if there is a way to do it without a USB connection. Maybe in a terminal emulatorwhile booted although I am not sure if trying to push an hboot while fully booted
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Maybe globatron would know a way.
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Gumby63 said:
Maybe globatron would know a way.
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Maybe
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So, does anyone know if they can even tell? at this point the device wont power on, but they would have to repair it and charge it up to even know its rooted, right?
Whoareyou said:
So, does anyone know if they can even tell? at this point the device wont power on, but they would have to repair it and charge it up to even know its rooted, right?
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Correct. And the only way to do this would be to somehow dd a stock HBOOT (I could provide one) over the revolutionary one, and reflash the stock ROM. It would go like this, but since your device isn't powered it's kinda useless:
1. Install the stock RUU on your device (extract the rom.zip from it, google extract rom.zip extract RUU) rename the rom.zip PG41IMG and place on sdcard >>> reboot into hboot.
2. After 2 complete passes, reboot into the system with the hboot of the RUU on the sd. DD it using Terminal Emulator (a command like this, don't actually run it: dd if=/hboot.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18)
3. Reboot into fast boot to confirm the stock restore.
4. ???
5. Profit
Now obviously the device will require power here and when I used this method I had to stop midway to charge, so even 40% battery isn't an option.
EDIT: If you can get some battery, just do HTC Unlock. Although it's a warranty void, I think HTC would provide support rather to the guy who used their tools instead of a third party one.
My 2 cents, but their 1950 special edition ones so don't lose em!
Oh yeah I just realized you could take your sdcard out and put it into the computer to put files on it, if you can even get it charged though :/
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AidenM said:
Correct. And the only way to do this would be to somehow dd a stock HBOOT (I could provide one) over the revolutionary one, and reflash the stock ROM. It would go like this, but since your device isn't powered it's kinda useless:
1. Install the stock RUU on your device (extract the rom.zip from it, google extract rom.zip extract RUU) rename the rom.zip PG41IMG and place on sdcard >>> reboot into hboot.
2. After 2 complete passes, reboot into the system with the hboot of the RUU on the sd. DD it using Terminal Emulator (a command like this, don't actually run it: dd if=/hboot.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18)
3. Reboot into fast boot to confirm the stock restore.
4. ???
5. Profit
Now obviously the device will require power here and when I used this method I had to stop midway to charge, so even 40% battery isn't an option.
EDIT: If you can get some battery, just do HTC Unlock. Although it's a warranty void, I think HTC would provide support rather to the guy who used their tools instead of a third party one.
My 2 cents, but their 1950 special edition ones so don't lose em!
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Okay. So your saying that since it can't boot I'm fine, the would HAVE to fix it because it disent have enough charge?
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I had the same problem back in December. My advice is to turn off your device and conserve as much battery power as you can until you figure out what to do, because once you run out, you're stuck. Unfortunately for me, I found out my port was broken when I plugged it in when I ran out of batteries. I sent it to HTC though, and within a couple weeks I had it back, with HC on it. If you do send it in, make sure to back everything up because they flashed mine.
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Okay. So your saying that since it can't boot I'm fine, the would HAVE to fix it because it disent have enough charge?
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Well if HTC fixes the port and charges it up and finds revolutionary, I doubt they would refuse to send it back. They've fixed it already.
there have been a couple of people who managed to charge their flyer by taking off the back plate and charging the battery directly. This would only fix a portion of your problem. In the end if you do not have usb connectivity I am not sure you can replace the Hboot. If the port is broken it really has nothing to do with being S Off. I can not see why it would impact the repairs, although I think you stand a decent chance of recieving an invoice.

Think My Amaze Is DEAD.

so today i got one of those crazy auto reboots on my phone. it turned off, i turned it back on, unlocked my phone, and it turned back off....repeated this process for about 10 times. did a few battery pulls, and nothing.
now my phone doesnt get passed the HTC screen. spent over 4 hours on trying to fix it and nothings working. flashed EVERY rom available for the phone along with different kernel combinations. still nothing. i am a very patient person but COME ON! this is getting ridiculous. im a pretty "important" person, if you will. and i know i have tons of calls and texts i cant get back to that are probably important.
If anyone has any ideas please let me know asap.
HTC ville here i come
My phones been running hot as of today..I hope it doesn't end up like yours. Gonna go stock when I get back home. Gonna even wipe the phone internal memory just to see if there mite be something causing it to suck.
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Have you tried this method ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310506
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droidemere said:
Have you tried this method ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310506
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im charging the phone while its off now, then ill try that. im just so confused on WHY it just started spazzing out on me and "soft bricked" itself...... ughh
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links are broken, im screwed =[
fuego77 said:
im charging the phone while its off now, then ill try that. im just so confused on WHY it just started spazzing out on me and "soft bricked" itself...... ughh
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links are broken, im screwed =[
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1335703
Which recovery did you have installed?
This can actually get closed now
I charged the battery all the way then took the battery out. Let it sit for a few hours then wiped, reflashed another Rom and it went through smoothly
VERY weird.
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Phone died getting new one want to stop OTA on activation

Well my phone died today, rebooted and would not turn on.. held down power button, power vol dn, etc.
Sprint is ordering me a new phone. My question is, hopefully the phone will not have the latest OTA installed. Is there a way to stop the OTA when I go to activate the new phone? Hopefully it wont just install no matter what.
Thanks
It's possible that the newest version will already be put on there before you even get it.
Otherwise if it's not on there, when you get the ota, let it download and the just don't install it when it ask. Simple as that.
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Make sure the sales person doesn't activate it in store, if u are going to a store to get it.
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Anthonicia said:
Make sure the sales person doesn't activate it in store, if u are going to a store to get it.
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Had my Sprint HTC EV 4G LTe for 5 weeks. Rooted phone after week 1. No problems until week 5 when I had left it in my windshield mount for 2 hours in the sun. After that there were several unexpected re-boots then after executing a "Mirror" app it froze. Any attempt to reboot phone gave continuous white HTC screen with vibrate or boot loop. Bestbuy junked it out replacing the phone. New phone is now updated with new OTA update waiting for new root code... No indication that Bestbuy detected "tampered" screen with root.
Otherwise very happy with phone!
Micro Maniac
Micro Maniac said:
Had my Sprint HTC EV 4G LTe for 5 weeks. Rooted phone after week 1. No problems until week 5 when I had left it in my windshield mount for 2 hours in the sun. After that there were several unexpected re-boots then after executing a "Mirror" app it froze. Any attempt to reboot phone gave continuous white HTC screen with vibrate or boot loop. Bestbuy junked it out replacing the phone. New phone is now updated with new OTA update waiting for new root code... No indication that Bestbuy detected "tampered" screen with root.
Otherwise very happy with phone!
Micro Maniac
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Rooted my exchanged EVO as well. Had no trouble w the exchange at best buy either, but was before ota update. The girl doing my activation didn't turn over my new phone until after all the updates had been performed when the phone is first powered on. Snatch it from them before they accept HTC update is all I'm saying.
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If you get the OTA, it is not that big of a deal. You can still root using this method: http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/ Did it yesterday and it worked like a charm.
Anthonicia said:
Make sure the sales person doesn't activate it in store, if u are going to a store to get it.
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^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^
I always tell them not to accept it. Cause they won't ask of course. But like the first guy said, it may already be in there.
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reverepats said:
^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^
I always tell them not to accept it. Cause they won't ask of course. But like the first guy said, it may already be in there.
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Yeah I dont trust them. Worst case if it comes with the new OTA I'll just do the HTCdev unlock and root. From everything I read it puts me back pretty much where I was with root and s-off.
Just pisses me off quite a few people are having the same issue the phone dies for no apparent reason.
I'm on my wifes og EVO because last night, I plugged in to charge and this morning when I woke up, phone was dead... No button combination worked and I gotta assume its a paperweight... Off to the Sprint store I go, maybe tomorrow... I just hope I don't get shafted with a newer version... Prolly will...
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drob311 said:
I'm on my wifes og EVO because last night, I plugged in to charge and this morning when I woke up, phone was dead... No button combination worked and I gotta assume its a paperweight... Off to the Sprint store I go, maybe tomorrow... I just hope I don't get shafted with a newer version... Prolly will...
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Thats how mine died. Plugged in to charge, and it died. Were you using the charger that came with the LTE or a different one. I was using a charger from my EVO OG. I wonder if that has something to do wih it.
R u sure the charger isn't broken and it just died from being on all nite? Try a different charger
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R u sure the charger isn't broken and it just died from being on all nite? Try a different charger
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Mine still had a 40 percent charge and was only on the charger for 5 mins. I am seeing a trend, from others that this has happened to. Most if not all were not using the charger that came with the phone.
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Mine was at 50%... I was using one of the numerous HTC chargers I have, but probably not the one that came with EVO LTE. I'll have my replacement on Tuesday, just sucks it will prolly be updated... No soff is a bummer...
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