EVO Refused to turn on last night - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

Last night, for no apparent reason, my EVOLTE decided it didn't want to turn on.
I hit the power button to turn on the screen and got nothing. It was odd because I should have had plenty of battery so I held the power button down and still nothing, except the capacitive buttons flashed a few times.
I figured something happened and my battery drained completely. Got in the car and plugged the phone into the charger and didn't even get the orange charging light. Waited a few minutes, tried to power it on again, still nothing but blinking lights.
Then I just decided to hold the power button for a really long time. Lights blinked, then stopped. I kept holding the power button and still nothing, set the phone on the passenger seat (all this time it was plugged in about 15 min) and out of nowhere, boom, it starts booting up.
Once it booted up completely, everything was normal and I had 73% battery. No way it would have gotten to 73% in 15 min if it had drained completely.
Still no idea what happened.

Hopefully someone can help you that had the same issue but its definitely uncommon.
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Are you running stock or a rooted ROM, dev ROM, etc.? If stock, you might be in a handset replacement scenario. Sprint can run diags on it.
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Next time power button plus volume up should take care of it. It has happened to a bunch of us in the past.

shadowhawk2020 said:
Next time power button plus volume up should take care of it. It has happened to a bunch of us in the past.
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whats power button and volume up do????

evo401 said:
whats power button and volume up do????
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He means Power and Volume Down
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Power button + vol down will go to bootloader.
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I too have had this happen a number of times since the OTA update. I'm stock, non-rooted.
Very annoying to have to wait until phone decides it's going to turn back on.

I just had this happen for the first time to me right now. So far hasn't turned back on.

It happened to me at the first few weeks. I tried all combo's, not sure which one worked. Try holding all of them down, I may have just started button mashing towards the end.

I am stock unrooted and took the OTA.
I did try to boot into bootloader which also did not work.
Glad (not really) to hear that it has happened to others. Thought about taking it to Sprint, might still do that.
Anyone else that had this issue take theirs to Sprint for diagnostics?

The All-In-One Toolkit Might Help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730751

reverepats said:
He means Power and Volume Down
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No, it was power and volume up. I am on the phone so I don't want to search, but holding those together got my phone back.

That happened to me with fast boot enabled, holding power button brought it back. I don't use fast boot anymore lol
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This same thing happened to me. Turned the phone off to take it out of my defender and wipe it down. When I went to power back on nothing. Plugged into power and got no led. I had fast boot on. I now have fastboot off hopefully I don't run into this again. But I agree I am somewhat happy to see this has happened to others since the OTA. Btw I am stock unrooted.
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[urgent Q] Halp! - it's so terrible i can't even spell it

gingerbread, ah finally, i start installing it on the PC, go to undo the super charger.
well, i didn't get that far. I got stumbled at *clicks power button, holds power button, begs power button to do something*
*rips battery out, puts back in, holds power button*, resultless
*puts charger in tries to start phone up, once with battery, once without*, resultless
*writes down time of death 4:00pm threw 7:00pm based on last call*
*starts crying, throws phone at wall* - > this is what i will do if i get an answer saying i'm stuck
MY DROID X2 IS DEAD(i think). well that's dandy
I ROOTED MY PHONE 2 days ago for bloatfreezer.
(i froze safe stuff like my Verizon and whatnot)
problem = IT'S ROOTED AND UNABLE TO TURN ON - > i know this sometimes voids warranty
{the green light comes on when charging, i just literally can't turn the phone on}
can i really just return it like this and demand a new one, -or if there's a fix-?
I'm extremely grateful to any advice/knowledge on what to do
Try powering up while holding the volume down button. Try it with the charger plugged in and without. If Fastboot appears at the top keep pressing volume down until you get to android recovery and press volume up to select it and try factory resetting. If it works you'll lose your data but at least you'll have a phone.
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Have you tried to SBF your phone? You might still be able to get it to connect to RSD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175300
dead5hea said:
Try powering up while holding the volume down button. Try it with the charger plugged in and without. If Fastboot appears at the top keep pressing volume down until you get to android recovery and press volume up to select it and try factory resetting. If it works you'll lose your data but at least you'll have a phone.
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Yea try that first ^^^
Whole post doesn't make alot of sense you tried to install gingerbread from your computer?
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dead5hea i figured that wouldn't work at first, as when i plugged it into the charger it kept rebooting to the eye and then freezing even when i had the volume button down, but on vaguely the 20'th attempt it responded to it, i did a recovery and now everything is dandy *excluding the apps are gone but at least the contacts are on gmail*. I wondered if it was out of juice but it was 70% on recovery so who knows, i hope it doesn't happen again.
thanks bud =)
-not to be rude(kinda is anyway) thanks for nothing lancer, take a guess before a bump, i put the top in green and then the problem in caps to express that it was extra detail.

[q] htc flyer best buy frozen solid

I pressed the vol up and down at the same time. My tablet then made 5 vibrations blinked the yellow light once. Now it will not turn on. Does anybody know how to wake this up again? I hope I didn't brick it. It was turning itself off at will. Sometimes during the boot, sometimes after 10 minutes. But most often it would only stay on for 2 or 3 minutes and then just shut down. One time it said battery was low. I have charged it so that my battery is full, and I am stumped. What needs to be done to get it working again?
What did you do to it prior
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Ok, so here's another question. If it won't turn on , how do you know the battery is charged? Have you tried to access it via ADB?
HTC
I sent this in to HTC, they said no warranty because it has revolutionary on it.
I am the second owner of the tablet. I would like to return it to original if that is possible. I have not tried ADB. When I connect the tablet to the computer via USB I do not even hear the connection note I used to hear. So I think when I hit both up and down volume I put it into a deep sleep. Or like I said it is frozen or bricked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I think this is going to be a really tough one.
It just responded again!
I just got it to vibrate 5 times again now I have it plugged into a wall charger and have a green steady light. I am going to leave it alone and hope someone can help me from this point. It has not done a thing for 2 days so this is really good news, maybe there is hope.
TOMAS3896 said:
I pressed the vol up and down at the same time. My tablet then made 5 vibrations blinked the yellow light once. Now it will not turn on. Does anybody know how to wake this up again? I hope I didn't brick it. It was turning itself off at will. Sometimes during the boot, sometimes after 10 minutes. But most often it would only stay on for 2 or 3 minutes and then just shut down. One time it said battery was low. I have charged it so that my battery is full, and I am stumped. What needs to be done to get it working again?
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Try pressing and holding the power button for 10 seconds?
pressed power for 10 seconds
The green light went out. Not a budge...
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The green light went out. Not a budge...
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Now, press and hold volume down and then hit power. This should bring you to HBoot.
It does not do anything
I pressed the power button held in for 10 seconds and then held the vol down button and then pressed the power. Nothing at all. Plugged the power back in and the led was orange for about 2 seconds and then went out.

[Q] Evo LTE wont turn on. Help?

Purchased My EVO LTE this morning. Walked out of the store about 11am.
Placed it on the charger after setting up.
Started to use it (full battery) this afternoon for about 20 minutes. Sense restarted a few times, and Had a spontaneous reboot. After reboot the phone was acting odd so I decided to power down all the way. Before the power down the battery indicator was still on full. The phone was cool to the touch.
Now, the phone will not power on. The charging light will not illuminate when plugged in. Have tried holding power button 15 seconds, and a few other button combinations. Is there any help, for this other than a new phone?
I would take it back to the store you got it at and just get a new one. Sounds like a BAD EGG
Ouch. At least 1 other person experienced the sane thing,...with 2 devices in a row. Did you put an SD card in it yet?
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
Put in SD card before first power up. Saw the SD just fine. Already tried pulling the SD card.
jmt000 said:
Now, the phone will not power on. The charging light will not illuminate when plugged in. Have tried holding power button 15 seconds, and a few other button combinations. Is there any help, for this other than a new phone?
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Might be totally pointless but have you tried holding the power button down for over 20 seconds? I read in one of the user guides that if you hold it for 20 seconds the soft keys will start to flash, once they stop flashing release the power button and it should reboot. Like I said, it might not work but still worth a shot.
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That makes me not even want to buy one. I've had 2 friends get bad eggs and now that's 4 I know of.. I think I'm staying with my Epic
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Fixed ( Sort of )
Got My EVO LTE to turn on finally.
Solution: Put it in the freezer.
Phone had been dead for several hours.
Directly before putting it in everything to get it going was a NO.
Let it chill..... and power button turned it on.
So more than likely the problem is battery related or battery ribbon cable related?
What else would cold effect?
I had two from the same store do the exact same thing.
I had last nights replacement again replaced but this time from a store 100 miles away.
Different hardware version and absolutely no issues now.
Your newest is he 004? This phone is 003.
Sometimes very slow to wake. Also sometimes touchscreen not responsive. Aka ring won't move to unlock.. But at least it turned on again
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hold down the power and home buttons at the same time
racosta201045 said:
That makes me not even want to buy one. I've had 2 friends get bad eggs and now that's 4 I know of.. I think I'm staying with my Epic
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Four or five bad phones out of how many thousands sold I'd say that's not too bad at all. I bet the epic line has never seen such atrocities.
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Update:
Phone worked ok for a bit when it finally came back on. Sometimes it would lag on powerup on the lockscreen aka ring wouldnt move then 45 sec later it would unlock so it was getting the touch input. then Got it hot with heavy use etc. Then at about 60% battery on the second charge after it came alive again, it started acting slow. Wifi connectivity problems etc. Speed test was 30mbit by 5 mbit on wifi at first boot. Went to unresponsive websitefis on wifi and 1mbit by 600k on speedtest when acting up. 3g connectivity was fine. and wifi on / off and or airplane mode didnt fix it. speedtest to same server on same wifi via laptop when phone slow got 39mbit by 5mbit.
Not that the other wierdness matters, anyhow...... Turned it off again and it turned into a brick same as before.
My wifes LTE runs like a champ though.
pluged evo into usb hub vibrated and now wont turn on no status light
ok so i traded my galaxy nexus for the lte .i t now it wont turn on the chrge light wont turn on or anything . wen i plugged it into the usb hub with the official htc usb cord . the phone vibrated and then wen dead . i waited about a half hour then i got it to turn on but it was stuck in fast boot and it said re locked ???????? but i know the battery was extremely low so now the phone has sat on the official htc usb wall charger all night i have tried all the key tricks multiple time hold power holod power and volume to no avail . i have the box but i traded on craigslist and i dont think i can add insurance any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated thank u all in advance .
krise11385 said:
ok so i traded my galaxy nexus for the lte .i t now it wont turn on the chrge light wont turn on or anything . wen i plugged it into the usb hub with the official htc usb cord . the phone vibrated and then wen dead . i waited about a half hour then i got it to turn on but it was stuck in fast boot and it said re locked ???????? but i know the battery was extremely low so now the phone has sat on the official htc usb wall charger all night i have tried all the key tricks multiple time hold power holod power and volume to no avail . i have the box but i traded on craigslist and i dont think i can add insurance any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated thank u all in advance .
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You tried holding the power button down for 20 seconds until the buttons light up?
I had a issue after the unlock where it wouldn't power on, or charge. But finally got it turned on after various different combo's and I think long holding the power button worked.
oOflyeyesOo said:
You tried holding the power button down for 20 seconds until the buttons light up?
I had a issue after the unlock where it wouldn't power on, or charge. But finally got it turned on after various different combo's and I think long holding the power button worked.
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yes i have tried all issues and methods ....... all of nothing working . idk wat to do so i went back to my epic touch 4g for a while til i can somehow fix this
how do you check the hardware number?
I would return all those evos asap.
On my Evo lte the capacitive buttons are on but nothing is on the screen. Will the freezer thing work?

Weird problem. Phone Freezes in middle of night?

So This happened about a month ago.. Ironically same night of the week (Saturday night) So I got lucky i didn't have work the next morning so my Alarm didn't need to go off.
I was originally HTC Unlocked, Now I am S-OFF. The first time this happened is when I was HTC Unlocked, the 2nd time, S-OFF.
Phone was not turned off. Phone was at good battery life (~90%). I hit the power button, screen would not turn on. I plug it into charge, light does not come on. I have to hold down the Volume Down+Power for a while, then eventually it resets itself.
Now, I do not think this is ROM or Baseband+Radio Specific because I'm on completetly different ROM/Baseband then I was earlier. And also, this is the 2nd time it happened since I had the phone.
I'm running 1.05.11.0606 Baseband, 2.45_003 PRI, MeanRom ICS. However... I'm almost certain it's not a ROM specific issue because I was running a totally different one.
It *COULD* be an app. However I am very picky and make sure almost nothing is running in the background of my phone (just the internet browser).
Does anyone have any idea why my phone would go into this sort of... "Deep Sleep" in the middle of the night, and not wake out of it? Where it's happened only on a Saturday Night so far. There is also NO way I can think of replicating it. If I install Logcat, Will I even be able to monitor something like this?
Edit: I must note, both times it was NOT plugged in charging. Usually I have my phone charging overnight. I'm going to start charging my phone before going to sleep to keep it unplugged while sleeping to see what happens
Thanks..
Mark
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So I was at work today and was using my phone with no problem, Came back to it when I was leaving, hit the power button to turn on the screen and nothing...
Needed to hold the power + volume down button for about 20 seconds for it to boot up again.
I can't seem to narrow it down if it's a hardware, software, or kernel issue. It seems like it's hard locking up while sleeping (can't charge it at this point either). I am going to do a full wipe, reinstall apps one more time, and see what happens.
What Rom are you running?
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This sounds like a hardware panic, that would need specific diagnostics run, in order to identify potential root-cause issues. That might mean taking your battery out and hooking it up to a tester, etc.
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So I was at work today and was using my phone with no problem, Came back to it when I was leaving, hit the power button to turn on the screen and nothing...
Needed to hold the power + volume down button for about 20 seconds for it to boot up again.
I can't seem to narrow it down if it's a hardware, software, or kernel issue. It seems like it's hard locking up while sleeping (can't charge it at this point either). I am going to do a full wipe, reinstall apps one more time, and see what happens.
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After it happened and you rebooted the phone, you need to get last_kmsg and send it to developer of the rom you are on. He might be able to figure out the problem.
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[Q] Phone won't turn on (black screen) but it vibrates once every 34 seconds

I'm completely at a loss here. I was running a 4.3 rom for the past week or two with no issues. Pulled my phone out of my pocket 30 min ago, hit the power button and the screen wouldn't light up. I tried it again and still no go. I tried swiping to unlock, even with the black screen and i felt it vibrate.
Ever since then my phone is non responsive. I can't get it to boot, can't hard reset it, nothing. The vibrates stop when I'm holding down power and down volume but that's about it. I timed the constant vibrates and they happen every 34 seconds according to the Win8 clock (which i've heard in inaccurate).
I'm gonna let the battery drain and hope that it will boot back up after it dies...but until then, any ideas?
Try plugging it into your computer and see what comes up. Which 4.3 ROM were you on?
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FinZ28 said:
Try plugging it into your computer and see what comes up. Which 4.3 ROM were you on?
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That's the first thing I tried. I get nothing when i plug it into my comp. Nothing pops up in device manager. The comp doesn't detect it at all.
And I was running the 8/23 release of carbon 4.3 and I didn't have one problem with it until this happened :\
EDIT: The phone's battery finally ran out. It stopped vibrating and after a bit i plugged it in. After a few min it just starting doing it again.
I disassembled the phone and removed the battery for awhile hoping it would somehow help. Didn't do anything. It showed the flashing charge light (like when it's really low) for maybe a minute then it stop lighting up at all. Sometimes if i leave it unplugged for a bit and plug it back in it will flash the light again. That's about all I'm getting out of it now.
I'm thinking something failed internally. It happened while it was on and I was using it so there's no possibility that it was from a flash or anything like that.
Took my phone to the sprint store. The tech wasn't sure either but he thought it might be the screen that died. The vibrating could be the phone trying to boot then realizing there's no screen. They took it apart to check for moisture/damage and said I'm good to go for the $50 replacement.
So my new Evo will be here Tuesday.
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Took my phone to the sprint store. The tech wasn't sure either but he thought it might be the screen that died. The vibrating could be the phone trying to boot then realizing there's no screen. They took it apart to check for moisture/damage and said I'm good to go for the $50 replacement.
So my new Evo will be here Tuesday.
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did you resolved it i'm having same had same issue as you mine is htc sensation but think is the same thing ive replacet the digitizer some day ago and it was working very good untill it start to vibrate and than died, now it flashes an orange light when i try to charge and after a while stops but i cant power it on nothing hapens when i press power button
Did you resolve the issue?
Did you ever resolve this issue? My Evo LTE started doing the exact same thing this evening and all of the Sprint stores are closed until tomorrow. I figure it's something internal that died and I can't see what it's trying to do... I guess you just got the replacement and didn't ever get it resolved with that particular phone?
BiNiaRiS said:
I'm completely at a loss here. I was running a 4.3 rom for the past week or two with no issues. Pulled my phone out of my pocket 30 min ago, hit the power button and the screen wouldn't light up. I tried it again and still no go. I tried swiping to unlock, even with the black screen and i felt it vibrate.
Ever since then my phone is non responsive. I can't get it to boot, can't hard reset it, nothing. The vibrates stop when I'm holding down power and down volume but that's about it. I timed the constant vibrates and they happen every 34 seconds according to the Win8 clock (which i've heard in inaccurate).
I'm gonna let the battery drain and hope that it will boot back up after it dies...but until then, any ideas?
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