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The market was acting a little flaky on my Evo3D, so I thought I'd reboot the phone. I recently flashed ViperROM RC 1.3, so now I get the option to "Hot Restart". Sure, why not I thought. So I choose the "Hot Restart" option. And my phone never came back on.
Tried every combination I could think of, pulled the battery, held the power button down for a minute, held volume down and the power button.. Nothing happens. No flickering of the screen, no lights, nothing.
If I plug it into AC, the charge light comes on red, stays red for a few seconds, turns green, then turns off. The battery was fully charged when I tried to reboot it.
If I plug it into a PC, and issue an "adb devices", I get the following:
D:\Downloads>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT16CHX00895 recovery
Recovery?!?
I can adb shell into the phone, and it looks like I have root (I get a "/ #" prompt).
I can push/pull from the phone.
I tried all combinations of adb reboot (with and without bootloader or recovery), and while it does reboot the phone (and the screen DOES flicker at this point), it just goes dark and again and appears to shut down (but adb devices still shows it as in recovery mode).
After about a minute, the phone appears to go to full sleep mode, and adb disconnects.
I've searched google and xda-developers, and can't find ANYTHING about this.
Anyone have ANY ideas???
Getting desperate here folks!
Scott
This happened to me as well. I dont really remember how I got phone to turn on but I did. Try pulling battery for longer duration. I do know that I pulled the battery. I will try and think more of what I did when it happened to me. So you cant get into the bootloader or recovery?
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adb reboot usually works for me when i get stuck during hot restart... pull the battery and wait 10-15 seconds then press the power button for like 3 seconds, put the battery back in and see if that helps
thesparky007 said:
adb reboot usually works for me when i get stuck during hot restart... pull the battery and wait 10-15 seconds then press the power button for like 3 seconds, put the battery back in and see if that helps
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Thanks for your assistance.
I pulled the battery, let it sit for about 2 minutes, held the power button down for 15 seconds, put the batter back in, hit the power button again for 5 seconds. Nothing.
Scott
Sometimes you'll need to hold the power button down for more than ten seconds, with the battery in of course.
smark72 said:
This happened to me as well. I dont really remember how I got phone to turn on but I did. Try pulling battery for longer duration. I do know that I pulled the battery. I will try and think more of what I did when it happened to me. So you cant get into the bootloader or recovery?
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I pulled the battery, let it sit for several minutes, put the battery back in, held down the volume down and the power button. Nothing
No, I can't get anything anything on the phone. Absolutely nothing happens when I hit the power button, no led's blink, the screen doesn't flicker, nothing.
ADB does appear to work. ADB REBOOT does make the phone reboot, and it does make the screen flicker, but then it just goes dead again.
Thanks for your help!
Scott
phatmanxxl said:
Sometimes you'll need to hold the power button down for more than ten seconds, with the battery in of course.
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I just tried holding it down for about a minute.. Nothing
Thanks for your help,
Scott
Delvorak said:
I pulled the battery, let it sit for several minutes, put the battery back in, held down the volume down and the power button. Nothing
No, I can't get anything anything on the phone. Absolutely nothing happens when I hit the power button, no led's blink, the screen doesn't flicker, nothing.
ADB does appear to work. ADB REBOOT does make the phone reboot, and it does make the screen flicker, but then it just goes dead again.
Thanks for your help!
Scott
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Try what the other poster said. When I read it I kind of remember holding the power button in for a little once I replaced the battery after the pull. I recall holding the power button for more than 5 sec, letting go then hit power again and it finally came on. If that doesnt work maybe you can pm the dev from viperrom and ask for help.
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There was a thing where some people needed to pull their sdcard for some reason.... Once powered up without it you could shut down and restart and put it back and we're all good.... I needed to once, though the charge light never came on for me... Worth a shot
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I have never used ADB before but could you push a PG86100 update zip if there was one on your sd card or does that have to be done through the bootloader?
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daneurysm said:
There was a thing where some people needed to pull their sdcard for some reason.... Once powered up without it you could shut down and restart and put it back and we're all good.... I needed to once, though the charge light never came on for me... Worth a shot
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Progress! Removing the sd card makes the
adb reboot bootloader
command work, so I can get into the bootloader now... but , if I select reboot, it goes back to doing the same thing.... and I select bootloader, and then recovery, it does the same thing.
Trying a bunch of other stuff, nothing's panning out yet.
Any ideas now that I can get into bootloader?
Thanks!
Scott
Delvorak said:
Progress! Removing the sd card makes the
adb reboot bootloader
command work, so I can get into the bootloader now... but , if I select reboot, it goes back to doing the same thing.... and I select bootloader, and then recovery, it does the same thing.
Trying a bunch of other stuff, nothing's panning out yet.
Any ideas now that I can get into bootloader?
Thanks!
Scott
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can you read anything on your sd card when you plug in the usb? I would guess not if you cant see the screen to choose storage instead of charge only. Sounds like somehow flashing a stock update.zip would get you going again, I just wouldnt know how to do it. Can you put your sd card in an adapter for pc to get the PG86100 image on it then place it back into your phone and run it from bootloader?
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do a battery pull and hold down the power for 10 seconds with the battery out, put the battery back in and hold volume up and press and hold power until it turns on
if that doesnt work, flash a new recovery through adb and see if it boots up
Delvorak said:
Progress! Removing the sd card makes the
adb reboot bootloader
command work, so I can get into the bootloader now... but , if I select reboot, it goes back to doing the same thing.... and I select bootloader, and then recovery, it does the same thing.
Trying a bunch of other stuff, nothing's panning out yet.
Any ideas now that I can get into bootloader?
Thanks!
Scott
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So, hboot works, adb works...does fastboot work?
Either way, I'd flash a recovery and a rom....I was also thinking maybe refresh hboot, but, if you are getting to the bootloader I don't think it's corrupted, but, maybe the other parts are....
I'd start with recovery and a rom...if no luck there flash another hboot on top. I'm a big fan of the eng hboot.
Problem solved!
It was the battery, somehow. When I got home from work, I swapped out the chinese knockoff battery with the original stock battery, hit the power button, and it started right up. Swapped out for the same knockoff battery, and it won't start again. WTF?
Anyway, thanks everyone for your suggestions, I appreciate it!
Scott
Delvorak said:
Problem solved!
It was the battery, somehow. When I got home from work, I swapped out the chinese knockoff battery with the original stock battery, hit the power button, and it started right up. Swapped out for the same knockoff battery, and it won't start again. WTF?
Anyway, thanks everyone for your suggestions, I appreciate it!
Scott
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when the battery gets depleted completely you need to charge it a while for it to be able to start up again may be thats what happened...
I noticed this, that even with both of our Rezounds having been De-Sensed, and all the bloat removed, that they take an insanely long time to boot up.
One phone is unlocked and perm rooted, the other is not. Both phones have "fast boot" enabled, but they both take a solid 2 minutes to boot up and get to the lock screen.
Any idears?
You would think that not having to load Sense or any of the 20 useless bloat apps, that the phone would boot faster, but it takes longer than any phone I have ever owned, bar none.
It's the way that HTC decided to build Android on the Rezound...nothing more, nothing less. You'll probably see significantly lowered times when we get AOSP on here. I mean my OG Droid took a good minute to load until I got my first AOSP ROM(Cyanogenmod)
Mine boots in like 5 seconds from a dead power off. Fastest phone I've ever had.
If i "reboot" then it takes about a 2 minutes.
Ok, so it isn't just me then... I mean, I have a 3 year old laptop running Windows7 that takes 1/3 the time to boot up than this phone takes, which seems crazy to me.
So I guess it is better to turn the phone off and then boot it, instead of rebooting it? I will try that and time it and see what the difference is.
I was wondering this too. Good to know!
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With me turning my smartphone off every night I see this long load time every day. I don't use Fastboot either.
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ifitwasnt4u said:
Mine boots in like 5 seconds from a dead power off. Fastest phone I've ever had.
If i "reboot" then it takes about a 2 minutes.
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SquireSCA said:
Ok, so it isn't just me then... I mean, I have a 3 year old laptop running Windows7 that takes 1/3 the time to boot up than this phone takes, which seems crazy to me.
So I guess it is better to turn the phone off and then boot it, instead of rebooting it? I will try that and time it and see what the difference is.
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With fastboot enabled, it will boot that fast from a power down...
I noticed this too when I first got it on launch day. I was at the bar with a friend and she had a Droid 2 and I mentioned that it takes insanely long to boot up, so I decided to set up a "race". I hit reboot about 5-10 seconds before she rebooted hers and her's was fully loaded before mine even got to the sense lockscreen! After freezing all the apps I didn't like, installing a custom ROM and using autorun manager it seemed to shorten a lot. Haven't re-tested the "race" yet though just to see if it's placebo or not.
ifitwasnt4u said:
Mine boots in like 5 seconds from a dead power off. Fastest phone I've ever had.
If i "reboot" then it takes about a 2 minutes.
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That's like booting from hibernation on a PC
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With custom ROM root and no apps my phone booted in like 30 secs. Now it takes like 1 min 45sec
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My phone boots in under 30 seconds every time, even after a battery pull. I get the haptic vibrate before the LTE animation finishes. I don't use Fastboot.
then clearly you've got the one magical rezound out there, because every single rezound i've ever used and booted up takes god damn forever, including mine lol
AtLemacks said:
My phone boots in under 30 seconds every time, even after a battery pull. I get the haptic vibrate before the LTE animation finishes. I don't use Fastboot.
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Mine only takes 30-40 secs on fastboot to boot up.
When I power off and power back on, it's very fast, less than a minute. If I reboot, it takes a long time, 2 to 3 minutes. Strange.
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Just tested mine and from the time I pushed "restart" on the reboot screen to the time the lock screen came on it took 2 minutes and 15 seconds. I then shut the phone down and from the time I pushed the power button until the lock screen came on was 1 minute and 35 seconds.
My CleanROM 1.5 boots in 42 seconds from a battery pull.
scrosler said:
My CleanROM 1.5 boots in 42 seconds from a battery pull.
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I rock SenselessROM, probably similar times? Or could it be DSB's kernel?
Has anyone tried using the ROM Toolbox Auto Start Manager to disable applications from loading at boot?
I feel like that might help out with boot times.
I too notice that doing a shut down and then cold power on takes like 30 seconds, but a reboot takes 2-3 minutes full turnaround.
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I rock SenselessROM, probably similar times? Or could it be DSB's kernel?
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duh, then NO WONDER you boot in like 30 seconds...should've said that in your first post
Power off and power on is different than a full restart. This phone goes into hibernation when you power off that's why it boots faster. Full restart or battery pull is what the post is talking about.
disabling apps from starting on boot does help boot time. Also certain roms boot faster.
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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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My phone was working perfectly fine until someone called my phone and the screen did not turn on so I kept pressing power hoping it would turn on. It would not turn on so I held the power button for 30 seconds to do a full reboot. 5 seconds later my phone vibrates, but the screen does not turn on. Now it is vibrating every 43 seconds non stop. I tried plugging in my charger to the phone, but the charging light does not light up.
INFO:
Rooted
Stock RRU 4.13
Custom HBOOT FireWater
TWRP Recovery
lreyes said:
My phone was working perfectly fine until someone called my phone and the screen did not turn on so I kept pressing power hoping it would turn on. It would not turn on so I held the power button for 30 seconds to do a full reboot. 5 seconds later my phone vibrates, but the screen does not turn on. Now it is vibrating every 43 seconds non stop. I tried plugging in my charger to the phone, but the charging light does not light up.
INFO:
Rooted
Stock RRU 4.13
Custom HBOOT FireWater
TWRP Recovery
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Friends had the same issue. Hers is done for. Try holding the power and both volume up and down for two minutes. Then try to charge. Holding the buttons is supposed to reset the battery charge logic.
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Hi
I'll have that year old one max, it was rooted and I was going to get it back to stock. It was connected to comp and recovery mode while I went to open a door, was off around 5 min, my 3 year old daughter got it in her hands and now it's stuck in that boot screen "htc powered by android". Can't turn it off to get back to recovery or anything. Expensive sceet or is there anything what I could do?
It is seems international cause I live in Finland.
Isotuoppi said:
Hi
I'll have that year old one max, it was rooted and I was going to get it back to stock. It was connected to comp and recovery mode while I went to open a door, was off around 5 min, my 3 year old daughter got it in her hands and now it's stuck in that boot screen "htc powered by android". Can't turn it off to get back to recovery or anything. Expensive sceet or is there anything what I could do?
It is seems international cause I live in Finland.
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Try holding down the power + volume up buttons for at least 7-10 seconds. The screen will reboot and then hold power + volume down to boot into HBOOT.
Flyhalf205 said:
Try holding down the power + volume up buttons for at least 7-10 seconds. The screen will reboot and then hold power + volume down to boot into HBOOT.
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Thx, it helped. You saved me like many times before when I started to play with HTC.