Does anyone's phone power off( seems to only happen in my pocket ) and won't power on until I hook it up to some kind of charger? This is my third replacement, got lucky to be able to s-off but, never had this problem on the other devices. Been running synergy 9-7, and superlte r133.... Stock kernel. No odd ball apps. Any help would be great. Tia...
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I've been having issues with proximity sensor, only seems like phone is down until battery dies, looks dead though, look to the left of htc logo to see if you see a faded red glow. I don't think that any sense roms have issues with sensor though.
I'm gonnas go back to a 1.22 build and see what happens. I think its a defect in the phone itself though.
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I'm gonnas go back to a 1.22 build and see what happens. I think its a defect in the phone itself though.
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What did you find here? My phone is doing the exact same thing. Randomly powers off and will not power back on until I connect to charger. And when it finally boots up battery is at near 100% which means the battery did not die. Didn't see this until after running lazy panda and meanrom but even then, it was fine for a month before this started to happen.
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What did you find here? My phone is doing the exact same thing. Randomly powers off and will not power back on until I connect to charger. And when it finally boots up battery is at near 100% which means the battery did not die. Didn't see this until after running lazy panda and meanrom but even then, it was fine for a month before this started to happen.
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I'm running MR and am S-OFF never had any reboots
My phone will power cycle sometimes when in my pocket and I'm sitting down. It does it because my leg is pressing the lock/power button. I don't have to plug it in to get it to work though. If nothing else holding the power/lock button for 10 or so seconds will power it back on. Have you tried that??
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My phone will power cycle sometimes when in my pocket and I'm sitting down. It does it because my leg is pressing the lock/power button. I don't have to plug it in to get it to work though. If nothing else holding the power/lock button for 10 or so seconds will power it back on. Have you tried that??
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Yes, held power for 60+ seconds and also tried power/volDown for 60+ seconds. The phone won't do anything until it is plugged back in. I just can't figure this out. I did a hard reset and it still does it. I don't have insurance but the phone is obviously less than a year old. How does sprint handle cases like this these days? Is it in store exchange or a shipment to HTC?
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Yes, held power for 60+ seconds and also tried power/volDown for 60+ seconds. The phone won't do anything until it is plugged back in. I just can't figure this out. I did a hard reset and it still does it. I don't have insurance but the phone is obviously less than a year old. How does sprint handle cases like this these days? Is it in store exchange or a shipment to HTC?
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It depends. Is the problem reproducible?? That's one of the things techs would try to do when someone hands them their phone. What I would do if someone gave it to me is flash the software with the RUU.
If they can reproduce it after flashing it with the RUU, as long as there is no abuse/liquid/physical damage, they will replace it in the store. The difficulty you face is being able to reproduce the issue in the store....
They should still flash it for you without being able to reproduce the issue. Have you tried different roms??
I would take it in to them and at least start the process. That way there will be a ticket with your issues on it and if it continues that will be good for you.
(BTW, I think you have to lock your bootloader for the RUU to run. And if they can't run it from the android OS tell them to run it from the bootloader or fastboot. (I know some techs know what they're doing but some are just new at it...))
So I have been trying different things recently and this seems to be EXACTLY as the OP described. It only does this when I put the phone in my pocket. I can be using the phone all day in my cube at work with no problem. I can cruise around with the phone in my car and it's fine. But if i stand up and slide the phone into and out of my pocket, it will be powered down with no way to power back up unless charge cable is plugged in for at least ~15 seconds. I've hard reset and tried different ROM...same behavior. I have not tried going back to S-ON (phone is S-OFF via lazy panda). Any thoughts?
Hperry,
I'm sorry to tell you but, I'm 100% certain that this issue is either a broken USB or from a board fracture. I tried ruu's and multiple wipes of main system to refresh the install but, nothing fixed this. What I did do take the device in multiple times to the same tech until he was tired of me coming in. No insurance makes it a $35 exchange. New phone in hand and no more shut downs.
I'm very sorry you experienced this and I hope this helps you.
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I'm having a hard time turning my phone on while its charging. It is difficult otherwise, but impossible during charging. Am I the only one with this issue?
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I literally just experienced this, so frustrating. Especially with a case.
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Are you rooted and have clockwork? There are issues with it with power when off, not charging and could be result kept it.
I don't have clockwork, have the other one. Name escapes me currently.
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This is one of the reasons I am going for the SGS2. Most times I have to--have to--do a battery pull to get it to turn back on. Sometimes the SDcard too. Sometimes it doesn't even charge. Sometimes I charge it while on and wake up to a green light, phone locked hard off (requiring battery pull and sdcard pull), and when I boot it up (if I can) the battery is completely dead.
It's a major issue with the 3d. There have been a ton of threads. And BTW, it happens on rooted AND stock devices. My phone died last night. Took me 32 effin minutes to get it to come back on. One of the reasons I'm getting rid of it
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It's a major issue with the 3d. There have been a ton of threads. And BTW, it happens on rooted AND stock devices. My phone died last night. Took me 32 effin minutes to get it to come back on. One of the reasons I'm getting rid of it
sent from my DAMN 3D!!!
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2 days before release I stopped into my local Radioshack to play with the demo phone. I saw it turn on, we played with it. Powered off...and never came back on. One of my friends did that eventually too.
...can't say I'm not scared of that happening to me.
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2 days before release I stopped into my local Radioshack to play with the demo phone. I saw it turn on, we played with it. Powered off...and never came back on. One of my friends did that eventually too.
...can't say I'm not scared of that happening to me.
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I can believe it...
How the f this thing made it into production with this big of a software glitch Or whatever the he'll it is riddles me
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I can believe it...
How the f this thing made it into production with this big of a software glitch Or whatever the he'll it is riddles me
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It's not a glitch. For some reason, HTC designed it that way. If the phone is off and rooted, but still connected to some sort of AC power or USB power, the phone is actually in recovery mode, however, the screen just appears black. You wouldn't even know it!! LOL.....but, if you pull the AC power or USB power from the phone, and wait like 5-10 seconds it will boot right up, no problem or issues.
Crazy, huh? It may be a bug with revolutionary root; I reported it to IMFDM or however you spell it and the above is what he told me.
If you noticed, before you were rooted, it wasn't a problem. Don't keep removing the case and pulling the battery, just wait a bit after you pull the plug, It will be good to. Trust me, I go through it regulary!!
Hope that explains it for you guys...and helps you out.
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It's not a glitch. For some reason, HTC designed it that way. If the phone is off and rooted, but still connected to some sort of AC power or USB power, the phone is actually in recovery mode, however, the screen just appears black. You wouldn't even know it!! LOL.....but, if you pull the AC power or USB power from the phone, and wait like 5-10 seconds it will boot right up, no problem or issues.
Crazy, huh? It may be a bug with revolutionary root; I reported it to IMFDM or however you spell it and the above is what he told me.
If you noticed, before you were rooted, it wasn't a problem. Don't keep removing the case and pulling the battery, just wait a bit after you pull the plug, It will be good to. Trust me, I go through it regulary!!
Hope that explains it for you guys...and helps you out.
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Actually I absolutely noticed this before rooting...but back then I barely ever powered off. Nothing to flash, no way to flash it. I'm pretty sure it was just the same except we had much much much less reason to power off and reboot.
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Actually I absolutely noticed this before rooting...but back then I barely ever powered off. Nothing to flash, no way to flash it. I'm pretty sure it was just the same except we had much much much less reason to power off and reboot.
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I never did. I could power it on no problem before rooting. Didn't flash anything (I like Sense, what can i say...)....anyways, I noticed it afterwards and maybe it is true what that guy at AlphaRev said, it is the way HTC designed it for some weird reason....
Not a big deal for me though, now that he told me that...
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It's not a glitch. For some reason, HTC designed it that way. If the phone is off and rooted, but still connected to some sort of AC power or USB power, the phone is actually in recovery mode, however, the screen just appears black. You wouldn't even know it!! LOL.....but, if you pull the AC power or USB power from the phone, and wait like 5-10 seconds it will boot right up, no problem or issues.
Crazy, huh? It may be a bug with revolutionary root; I reported it to IMFDM or however you spell it and the above is what he told me.
If you noticed, before you were rooted, it wasn't a problem. Don't keep removing the case and pulling the battery, just wait a bit after you pull the plug, It will be good to. Trust me, I go through it regulary!!
Hope that explains it for you guys...and helps you out.
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this happens to my coworker that has this phone, and she is NOT rooted. And the above method never worked for me. Ive done that a million times trying to get it back on. Thanks for the tip though..
This has happened to me as well several hundred times it seems! It also did it when the phone was new. We had gone away on vacation like the week after the 3D came out, my phone had died while we were out, I plugged it into the charger, went to power it back on a couple hours later, and NOTHING! Probably took me a good 20-25 minutes to finally get it to come back on, with me eventually pulling the battery. This was stock at the time.
My 2 biggest gripes with the 3D, signal/call quality, and the power on glitch...
Is there anybody in the community that repairs a unit that is bricked.
HTC Flyer Best Buy wi-fi version. Has revolutionary software on it.
Unit will not turn on.
Yesterday, I saw a video on YouTube about it. Is a method to back to Download mode, but I think the way to do this is not a same for all phones. There's a lot of videos on YouTube about it, and on ebay you can buy the cables or the accessories to do the job.
Hope this info help you.
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Unit will not turn on
This is not a phone. It is the Best Buy tablet version. It won't even turn on.
Needs a good repairman
What did you do to it?
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I do NOT want to fix this myself. I have tried everything but am new to this and do not want to make things worse than they are. If I press the up and down volume at the same time, it vibrates 5 times then I get a green steady light. If I press just the up volume and hold it. It will vibrate 3 times and I get a flashing yellow or orange light. If I hold the power button for about 15 seconds it turns the light off. You can hear this connect and disconnect from the computer through the speakers. But the display never goes on. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this.
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I do NOT want to fix this myself. I have tried everything but am new to this and do not want to make things worse than they are. If I press the up and down volume at the same time, it vibrates 5 times then I get a green steady light. If I press just the up volume and hold it. It will vibrate 3 times and I get a flashing yellow or orange light. If I hold the power button for about 15 seconds it turns the light off. You can hear this connect and disconnect from the computer through the speakers. But the display never goes on. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this.
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Try booting into hboot by doing holding down the volume down and power button at the same time for like 10 seconds
So many ways to boot, does not recognize them.
I described above what happens, the vol down and power do not work anymore. The power only for 60 seconds does not work anymore. I personally think the battery is dead, or the unit is in a deep sleep, or the battery charge system is disabled. But it still vibrates 5 times when I hit the vol up and down at the same time, Like I said I have spoken with HTC they do not know, (they can't tell you anything on the phone, because this has revolutionary on it) but they tell me I can get help here. So here I am. They want $290.00 to fix it. I just hope someone here can help.
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I described above what happens, the vol down and power do not work anymore. The power only for 60 seconds does not work anymore. I personally think the battery is dead, or the unit is in a deep sleep, or the battery charge system is disabled. But it still vibrates 5 times when I hit the vol up and down at the same time, Like I said I have spoken with HTC they do not know, (they can't tell you anything on the phone, because this has revolutionary on it) but they tell me I can get help here. So here I am. They want $290.00 to fix it. I just hope someone here can help.
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Well what exactly happened to it in the first place? Were you flashing a ROM and something went wrong?
Unit turns off
Sure: I was having problems with the unit turning itself off for no reason at all.
Most of the times it would make it through the boot process to the home screen, wait about 30 seconds then shut down. If the unit stayed on for longer than 30 seconds it might last 1 to 5 minutes. Then out of nowhere just shut down. I could turn it on, it might do the same thing, or not even boot completely. Then I would let it charge for hours and try again. With the same results as above. So now I figure the battery is not charging. But like I said it is beyond me. For software it has HTC HC on it with revolutionary. I have reset it to factory software a few times. I hope this helps you figure what's up.
HTC said they heard of some way to turn battery charging back on, but would not give me that information. Do you think that might be the problem?
Thanks so much for the reply's. I sure am confused....
Smells like a hardware problem to me.
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Sure: I was having problems with the unit turning itself off for no reason at all.
Most of the times it would make it through the boot process to the home screen, wait about 30 seconds then shut down. If the unit stayed on for longer than 30 seconds it might last 1 to 5 minutes. Then out of nowhere just shut down. I could turn it on, it might do the same thing, or not even boot completely. Then I would let it charge for hours and try again. With the same results as above. So now I figure the battery is not charging. But like I said it is beyond me. For software it has HTC HC on it with revolutionary. I have reset it to factory software a few times. I hope this helps you figure what's up.
HTC said they heard of some way to turn battery charging back on, but would not give me that information. Do you think that might be the problem?
Thanks so much for the reply's. I sure am confused....
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Just to be sure, you didn't take the HC update while running GB revolutionary s-off right? Cuz that could be a problem. But really it just sounds like a hardware issue to me. You might just have to get it fixed or get a new one :/
Found problem
Took case off using an online site that shows you how to take apart a flyer.
I wanted to get to the battery so I could "disconnect it" then connect. Hoping that would reset the circuit board and cpu. I did that but had the same issues. I then looked at the battery connector, and I noticed it was crooked. I took it off again and put it on completely straight. The minute I turned the power on it started to work like designed. The battery connection is not well designed. The wires to the connector just make it to the circuit board. So that any wire movement, and a slight drop might and probably would loosen this connection. However my connection was clearly put on slightly crooked. It worked until it needed more connection from the battery connector to the circuit board connector. The battery connector was on an angle so as not to make 100 percent connection. I would say it had about 75 percent connection. This connector has more than a positive and negative wire. There were about 5 wires on this. Probably why this unit still had life to it. It is charging much easier than it did. And it is working good so far. Thank you very much for the reply's, from the people that tried to help.
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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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?
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Didn't I say that?
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I read threads all way good.
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All:
Tonight my 4GLTE was plugged into it's charging cord and was at about 95% battery. I received a phone call, picked up the phone and pushed "answer". When I did the phone turned off and it won't turn back on. I've tried the "on & down volume" many times and nothing will happen. When I plug the power cord in the charging light isn't coming on.
I have had no problems with the phone. I'm on the Tranquility ROM and everything has been perfect. When I went through the S-off process back in Dec. the phone "bricked", it acted exactly like the phone is now, will not turn on, no lights come on, nothing. The great people at Dirty Racun walked me step by step through their procedure to unbrick the phone and it started up and has been perfect from Dec. til tonight.
I'm baffled and wish like hell this phone had a battery I could pull. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
DC
I take it the capacitive lights don't light up when you hold the power button down for several seconds?
Leave it plugged in overnight and try to power it on in the morning.
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All:
Tonight my 4GLTE was plugged into it's charging cord and was at about 95% battery. I received a phone call, picked up the phone and pushed "answer". When I did the phone turned off and it won't turn back on. I've tried the "on & down volume" many times and nothing will happen. When I plug the power cord in the charging light isn't coming on.
I have had no problems with the phone. I'm on the Tranquility ROM and everything has been perfect. When I went through the S-off process back in Dec. the phone "bricked", it acted exactly like the phone is now, will not turn on, no lights come on, nothing. The great people at Dirty Racun walked me step by step through their procedure to unbrick the phone and it started up and has been perfect from Dec. til tonight.
I'm baffled and wish like hell this phone had a battery I could pull. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
DC
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I know is very frustating cause It's happened to me as well.
I did some searching and found some tips. Nothing solid.
Leave the phone charging even though the led doesn't turn one. Sometimes for me it will revive after a while being plugged.
Other is to hold the power button for a very long time. 1-2 minutes and hope it reboots.
chemjb said:
I know is very frustating cause It's happened to me as well.
I did some searching and found some tips. Nothing solid.
Leave the phone charging even though the led doesn't turn one. Sometimes for me it will revive after a while being plugged.
Other is to hold the power button for a very long time. 1-2 minutes and hope it reboots.
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Curious, but were you S-off, and if so, did you use Dirty Racun?
Also, did you have any luck resurrecting your phone?
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I also had my evo lte just die. I'm in the process of mailing it out to HTC. I was completely stock no root. It just never powered back on after it charged over night
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FinZ28 said:
I take it the capacitive lights don't light up when you hold the power button down for several seconds?
Leave it plugged in overnight and try to power it on in the morning.
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Nothing lights up, that's why I described it as being dead. I'm not a novice with these phones as far as rooting and installing ROMs etc. One item I left out last night is that in the last few weeks I've had to "move" the micro usb connector around to get the charge light to come on. It would always light up and charge but had probably gotten worse, not better. Also I have my Evo4G (which I just activated so I have a phone) and with this charge cord I also have to move it around to get it to activate the charging light. I'm going to buy a fresh micro usb cord this morning in the hope that the new cord will make a difference.
I'm really not optimistic that a new cord will change anything. I declined to buy the insurance for the phone when I got it in Dec. I;ve had bad experiences with Sprint and their cost to repair the Evo4G even with the insurance. I think I'm going to install Unix on my netbook again and try the procedure that Dirty Racun walked me through when the phone "bricked" last Dec. They brought it back to life for me although this time I'm afraid it has something to do with the usb port causing the phone to shut off and die. As I said last night, the phone was charged to 95% when the call came in and I picked the phone up and it suddenly went black.
I love this phone and having to go back to the Evo4G is a real step backwards, plus I've got lots of data on the internal SD card of the LTE that I need. I'm in pulling my hair out mode now....thanks for the suggestions, if anyone thinks of anything else please let me know.
DC
Went through this a few days ago. Battery was at 40% and i was playing CSR Racing from the market. Anyways, my phone got super hot so i ended the game and went back to my home screen....few seconds later screen went off and phone was unresponsive. Nothing i did could make it turn on again tried for a few hours. My sister has a evo lte as well so i took apart our phones and switched her battery in place of mine and voila it booted up. Didn't expect the battery to just go out like that.
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Went through this a few days ago. Battery was at 40% and i was playing CSR Racing from the market. Anyways, my phone got super hot so i ended the game and went back to my home screen....few seconds later screen went off and phone was unresponsive. Nothing i did could make it turn on again tried for a few hours. My sister has a evo lte as well so i took apart our phones and switched her battery in place of mine and voila it booted up. Didn't expect the battery to just go out like that.
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That's interesting, my battery has been excellent. I do remember a few weeks ago it getting really hot while charging but it's been fine ever since. I've got the phone apart now. I needed to replace the glass screen and bought, what I thought, were replacement parts for the lcd-glass screen. I've just found out from a video that the lcd and glass screen come together as one part. I don't know if I can take the broken one off and install the new glass screen or if I have to buy the lcd and glass. I'm ticked off because the ebay seller claimed this is all I needed to replace a cracked screen OR an unresponsive LCD touchscreen. I'm glad I didn't pay much for the glass.
Thanks for the info about replacing the battery.
DC
Update: I talked with a Sprint rep at a corporate store yesterday and he told me to bring the LTE in and he was certain HTC would fix/replace it under the 12 month warranty as long as there was no physical damage "not turning on could be blamed for". I told him damage didn't cause it to suddenly go black while plugged in at 95% charge when a call came in.
I'll have to replace my screen before taking it in although the truth is my screen had a crack in it for 2 months before this happened and had nothing to do with the phone bricking itself suddenly.
Any updates?
My wife's phone had this happen at a ridiculously inconvenient time.
Here's what to try:
1. Pseudo-Battery-Pull: Hold power button for 15 seconds, this will force the phone to shut down (if it works). Try powering back up. If nothing, then:
2. Hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power for 2 MINUTES, and then release. That should reset the battery charge logic. (Note: this will only work at all if the phone is truly powered off) If that doesn't work:
3. Disassemble the phone, disconnect the battery. Wait 20 seconds and then reconnect the battery, and reassemble the phone.
Step 3 worked for me. Hope this helps somebody!
Thanks,
Josh
joshdv said:
My wife's phone had this happen at a ridiculously inconvenient time.
Here's what to try:
1. Pseudo-Battery-Pull: Hold power button for 15 seconds, this will force the phone to shut down (if it works). Try powering back up. If nothing, then:
2. Hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power for 2 MINUTES, and then release. That should reset the battery charge logic. (Note: this will only work at all if the phone is truly powered off) If that doesn't work:
3. Disassemble the phone, disconnect the battery. Wait 20 seconds and then reconnect the battery, and reassemble the phone.
Step 3 worked for me. Hope this helps somebody!
Thanks,
Josh
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Thanks alot for the suggestions, I'll give them a try when I buy a new screen/lcd etc. and install it. Going back to my once loved Evo4G is such a step backwards I can't explain it.
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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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?
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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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