Unbrick hard brick via motherboard cmos battery pull? - HTC Amaze 4G

i cant really find much about this but i did read somewhere that one possible way to easily unbrick a hard brick phone (one that doesnt even turn on) is to open the phone up and remove a small battery that looks liike a wristwatch battery, and put it back in again. this will reset the bios and hopefully alloow you to turn on the phone again.
i own a bricked HTC amaze 4g and i tried doing this although it seems like that battery is soldered on. does anyone have any tips to easily detach this battery?
thanks,

Btw - that battery has in most of the cases just a single purpose - keeping RTC (Real Time Clock) running even when "the big" battery is discharged or removed so phone doesn't lose the track of time and date. Bricking a phone does usually involve damaging/erasing data from the persistent storage (flash memory), and no battery is used there.

What you're referring to is not so common with todays phones - smart or "dumb". Its mosly a computer phenomenon. The fact that the phone wont power on doesn't necessarily mean its hardbricked. As rbeavers suggested, its usually a case of corrupted or damaged data in system memory - probably the bootloader. You could try flashing a new bootloader.

Can you tell me how can I flash bootloader when phone is not booting up ??
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shubham211995 said:
Can you tell me how can I flash bootloader when phone is not booting up ??
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Pull our battery.
Put battery back in.
Then out the back on.
Then hold volume down for a few seconds and keep it pressed.
Hold power button a few seconds after you've been holding volume down.
Tada you're in the bootloader.
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Hey sorry but you told that if anyone has corrupted bootloader than he should flash a new one.
But I told that how can he flash if phone is not booting ??
And you showed the way to how to open bootloader...
But I want to Learn to survive in above situation.
Have you any idea???
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Bootloader: unlocked
s-off
superCID
Rooted

shubham211995 said:
Hey sorry but you told that if anyone has corrupted bootloader than he should flash a new one.
But I told that how can he flash if phone is not booting ??
And you showed the way to how to open bootloader...
But I want to Learn to survive in above situation.
Have you any idea???
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Bootloader: unlocked
s-off
superCID
Rooted
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You can flash anything you want even though the phone theoretically may not boot.
And you probably won't even be in that situation since you already did all the mods for the international amaze. So don't worry about it. It is very hard to completely brick a HTC phone.
I never heard of bootloaders being corrupted. Its hard to imagine that. If that happened I guess you can just use a RUU.
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Please help guys :-(

I have a big problem !!! I had on my phone root s-off ROM Shooter Beats 1,7 and I flashed CWM 4.0.1.-shooteru via fastboot.
BUT when I was in fastboot USB I was thinking that I will try to have root with s-on on the screen on HBOOT. So I used command that I read in unroot section.
fastboot oem fastboot oem writesecureflag 3 and then reboot bootloader and my pfone is off and I cannot turn it on and dont know what to do :-( I am scared
you need to s-off your device again.using cmd
yes, I know, but I cannot turn on the phone.. I cannot do anything
Bricked
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There is nothing else to do?? :-(
What about warranty? If I cannot get to my phone, HTC cannot know if it doesnt work because of root, right? Do I have a chance?
What about a simple RUU? Just to try, and may it gives you s-on back and hboot and Kernel, so you maybe can boot into fastboot loader
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I cannot turn my phone on, I cannot go to bootloader, I cannot do anything. But when there is battery there is little red light on and when I remove battery it goes off. It is not blinking it is just permanent weak red colour (it is hardly to see).
When I connect Evo 3D to laptop, there is a sound that something is through USB connected, but the drivers are not regognized (in system there is only something QHUSB_DLOAD)
I was trying cmd and fastboot reboot and it is waiting for device
I was trying adb restart and nothing..
when I try RUU, it cannot find my device
Castellano2 said:
I cannot turn my phone on, I cannot go to bootloader, I cannot do anything. But when there is battery there is little red light on and when I remove battery it goes off. It is not blinking it is just permanent weak red colour (it is hardly to see).
When I connect Evo 3D to laptop, there is a sound that something is through USB connected, but the drivers are not regognized (in system there is only something QHUSB_DLOAD)
I was trying cmd and fastboot reboot and it is waiting for device
I was trying adb restart and nothing..
when I try RUU, it cannot find my device
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try to use a RUU
If all fails send it back to HTC and say it stopped working overnight
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Did you have recovery? If you do, the problem you ran into might be an easy one.
1. Plug your phone to a power source (Long press the power button for few seconds and see if the light is on)
2. If the light is on, press the camera button (may be few times if first time doesn't work) and wait.
3. The first two steps should have already taken you into the boot screen. If it doesn't, then sorry.
thre3aces said:
If all fails send it back to HTC and say it stopped working overnight
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Try to push camera, volume up+down and power Buttonand hold it down for a few seconds and see if the phone boots. Then plug in charger and charge it. So you can see if the battery was dead!
Thank you guys for advices but
1, I tried use RUU and as I said it doesnt find my device (there are not drivers anymore)
2, volume plus camera button and so on.. this problem I solved many times.. it was problem with CWM 5.0.2. but I have there 4.0.1. which has no battery bug.
My phone doesnt work and cannot go on.
I googled little bit and find out that people with Desire HD had the same issue and they sent it to service and got new phone. I hope it will be the same I love my phone so muuuuuuch..
I think the problem is that I would need to get drivers for my mobile to get sdk ready.. but :/
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Castellano2 said:
Thank you guys for advices but
1, I tried use RUU and as I said it doesnt find my device (there are not drivers anymore)
2, volume plus camera button and so on.. this problem I solved many times.. it was problem with CWM 5.0.2. but I have there 4.0.1. which has no battery bug.
My phone doesnt work and cannot go on.
I googled little bit and find out that people with Desire HD had the same issue and they sent it to service and got new phone. I hope it will be the same I love my phone so muuuuuuch..
I think the problem is that I would need to get drivers for my mobile to get sdk ready.. but :/
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bricked...there are a few reports here that did the same procedure and bricked it too.
I really cant understand why people play with those things although they have no idea of what they are risking.
..i mean, you could have been very proud that you got a device which csn achieve s-off. Thousands still dteaming of it.
Why the hell you wanted to went back to son and root?
If you would read through the forums you should have nitice, that you cant flash custom kernels easily - just with flash img gui. And flashing radios is
Is completly not possible with son.
Son makes life so much more painful.
And you still did it...sry tried it
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j4n87 said:
bricked...there are a few reports here that did the same procedure and bricked it too.
I really cant understand why people play with those things although they have no idea of what they are risking.
..i mean, you could have been very proud that you got a device which csn achieve s-off. Thousands still dteaming of it.
Why the hell you wanted to went back to son and root?
If you would read through the forums you should have nitice, that you cant flash custom kernels easily - just with flash img gui. And flashing radios is
Is completly not possible with son.
Son makes life so much more painful.
And you still did it...sry tried it
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I know, I read through forum and find out that problem with QHUSB_DLOAD is always dead end. You cannot understand why people do that? I read a lot of topic where people have written that I tried to unroot their phone because of warranty and in finally step - whitesecure flag 3 - it bricked. They do it exactly how it was in "manual", so they have just bad luck.
I want to have s-on because my cable conector was wrong and I was afraid when I won´t connect my phone to computer, I cannot remove root and my quarantee will finished.. But I didnt flash stock Rom because I want to give it on sd card and when my usb cable won´t work, I could just reflash to stock ROM from my backup..
Right now my phone is in service..

Did I just brick my phone?

okay! so I have a S-on amaze 4g. Unlocked bootloader and have clock work recovery, Im also on tmobile. I was running Bulletproof's rom v2.5
so yesterday I was looking at some roms and I came accross mike 1986's android revolution ROM that was based on tmobile's sense 3.6 and android 4.0. I decided to ditch my current ROM and go for mike's ROM instead
Well last night I followed his instructions. Put the PH85IMG, Rom and Super wipe to my phone's SD card. I booted into bootloader and it loaded the PH85IMG but it didnt seem to have done anything so it loaded back to bootloader. I selected "Recovery" and booted into recovery. I deleted my files and cache using clockwork recovery. Then applied the Superwipe zip then installed the ROM. It said it installed the rom and then I proceeded to reboot my amaze 4g. Ok I rebooted my phone and it got stuck on the HTC screen for some quit time WITHOUT THE QUIETLY BRILLIANT. So i decided to redo this all over again. and again the same problem happened. stuck on the HTC logo. so I took out my batterys and went to bed since i wanted to get some shut eye
now this is where my problem comes from. When ever I turn on my phone it wont turn on! i wanted to boot into bootlader but when ever i press on the power button with the volume rocker down it wont start up. So i plug in my USB cable and the LED that indicates charging comes on. and my computer detects the phone... i click on the search capacitive button and the phone disconnects from my computer and it boots into the HTC screen and the screen turns blank
if anyone can help me please help.
come on 43 views and no help
Leave your phone in the charger overnight. See what happens in the morning.
hasoon2000 said:
Leave your phone in the charger overnight. See what happens in the morning.
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i dont think thats going to work but ill give it a try
Just curious. What version of CWM was installed?
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So you cant get the the phone to turn on, but u were able to turn it on when it was connected to the computer?
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Ok. First don't panic. Can you explain by "I clicked the capactive search button". Have you really try power it on without your computer?
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jp2dj1 said:
Ok. First don't panic. Can you explain by "I clicked the capactive search button". Have you really try power it on without your computer?
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what i mean by that is when i touch the search button (the magnifying glass icon on the far right) when its charging it would boot into the HTC screen then the screen would turn off
aj_2423 said:
So you cant get the the phone to turn on, but u were able to turn it on when it was connected to the computer?
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i cant get the phone to turn on when its connected to the computer or wall charger
i just noticed that my LED would blink when first charging then it boot into the HTC screen on its own then the screen would turn off or go blank. after that the LED wouldnt come on so i dont know if its still charging since the orange light isnt there
any more help it would be greatly appreciated
I tried the same rom yesterday and it failed for me also. I've seen quite a few fails on it. Mine didn't die like yours, mine just froze on the splash screen. I had to pull the battery and hboot and re install my recovery so I could restore my backup. Does anything happen if you pull the battery and try to get into bootloader?
jimczyz said:
I tried the same rom yesterday and it failed for me also. I've seen quite a few fails on it. Mine didn't die like yours, mine just froze on the splash screen. I had to pull the battery and hboot and re install my recovery so I could restore my backup. Does anything happen if you pull the battery and try to get into bootloader?
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i cant even get my phone to get into hboot when i press down on the power and volume buttons.
it did work yesterday after i failed... but when i woke up today i cant even get into hboot for some reason.
You might have to get an external charger to charge your battery, or if you know anyone to swap batteries with to charge yours and try theirs to see if it's just a dead battery. Sounds like it might be.
Download the latest RUU for your phone. You said the computer detects the device see if the RUU will see it as well. Hoping that it does just run it and it will flash your phone back to stock stock and you may have to unlock and install clockwork again but if it works you'll have a working phone again good luck chief
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I believe the Rom u were trying to flash is for s-off only....I might be wrong though...
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If i recall, you were supposed to lock the bootloader before you placed the PH85.img, because it wouldn't recognize the file without it on an S-On device. Also, where you using Xboarder's Clockwork recovery touch? or an older version?
Try this and tell me what happens. Change your phone by your computer USB and turn it on by search button and "HOLD THE DOWN VOL BUTTON AT THE SAME TIME" try it a couple of times.
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I think it's a problem with the version of cwm installed, it won't charge the battery right if it dies all the way pull the battery then charge it for about 20 mins then battery pull again and charge for a minute or two and try and turn it on
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Downgrading from 1.50 to 1.40...Can't Brick Phone..Help?

I'm trying to brick my device so i can downgrade to 1.40. Everything is fine up until the point where i have to pull the battery out and run off AC power without battery. When i pull out the battery the phone stays on like it is supposed to, but when i press volume + button to start update the phone immediately turns off.
I relocked my device and am running this stock rom. If anyone can offer some advice it would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Are you using the actual HTC charger that came with the phone? I've read here on XDA that the stock HTC charger puts out a little more power than normal chargers. Also, you can't use USB via your PC.
thefsfempire said:
Are you using the actual HTC charger that came with the phone? I've read here on XDA that the stock HTC charger puts out a little more power than normal chargers. Also, you can't use USB via your PC.
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Yep, using the one that came with the phone and i'm plugged into the wall. I even tried a couple different outlets. Do i need to have a certain rom installed?
jeffhbo said:
Yep, using the one that came with the phone and i'm plugged into the wall. I even tried a couple different outlets. Do i need to have a certain rom installed?
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That shouldn't matter since we're dealing with just the bootloader. I'm not sure which guide you're using (if there's even more than one now) but here is the link I followed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547695
Make sure you boot recovery, remove back cover, plug in phone then pull battery when it says.
Yesss this sh*t is impossible.! I actually got pissed off cuz I COULDNT brick the damn phone lol
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ognimnella said:
Yesss this sh*t is impossible.! I actually got pissed off cuz I COULDNT brick the damn phone lol
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I know right! Never thought I'd be mad cause i couldn't brick my phone. Next time someone says they're scared about rooting cause they dont wanna break their phone, I'll tell them they couldn't do it if they tried.
I think I'm going to go back to HTC unlock. The only reason I decided to downgrade my phone in the first place was because i wanted to flash Newtoroot's rls3 and was not able to get it running without losing service. At this point I think I can get that rom to work on 1.50 before i can get this SOB to brick, much less get through the rest of this damn process. If not, I'll just go back to rls1, cause i had that version running perfectly (bugs listed in OP excluded).
Good luck to anyone who's trying to do this...may you have better luck than I did lol.
Sincerely,
J
thefsfempire said:
That shouldn't matter since we're dealing with just the bootloader. I'm not sure which guide you're using (if there's even more than one now) but here is the link I followed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547695
Make sure you boot recovery, remove back cover, plug in phone then pull battery when it says.
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I had this problem where my phone would turn off as well..I was using a stock htc charger that came with the E3d. What I did was hold my charger steady because if I moved it too much the charge would leave. No I didnt have a shortage in my charger but it just read like that in the laptop. Probably because being plugged into the laptop or cpu it doesnt feed off enough voltage. Hope this works for you.

HTC EVO 3D won't turn on at all!!

I just bought an HTC 3D evo off craigslist, the seller said that he loaded the wrong ROM into it, he had android 4.0, tried to upgrade to 4.1.
I don't know if it is rooted or not, doesn't turn on at all (nothing happens, light, vibration, etc), i tried removing-the-battery trick, didn't work. I just want to load a new ROM into it so i can get it working again..
How do i do that?
Thanks.
Does the small led come on when plugged into a charger? Have you tried to hold down the volume down button and power button down at the same time to access the bootloader, also please specify if your phone is gsm or cdma.
(Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh!
flashallthetime said:
Does the small led come on when plugged into a charger? Have you tried to hold down the volume down button and power button down at the same time to access the bootloader, also please specify if your phone is gsm or cdma.
(Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh!
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the small led light does not turn on when pressing the power button (no signs of life at all!), i tried to reset (power button+volume down) it but nothing happens and it is a GSM phone.
Looks like your friend hoodwinked you bro. It sounds like he gave you a bricked phone. Unfortunately if your not able to access bootloader then its a paper weight now.
Jsparta26 said:
Looks like your friend hoodwinked you bro. It sounds like he gave you a bricked phone. Unfortunately if your not able to access bootloader then its a paper weight now.
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Can't i just install another firmware using my pc? using something like flashtool for Xperia, for HTC?
looooboooo said:
Can't i just install another firmware using my pc? using something like flashtool for Xperia, for HTC?
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As I have said, you need to be able to boot into bootloader mode to flash firmware. Whoever sold you that phone didn't tell you he hard bricked the phone in the process. The hboot had to have gottened corrupted. That's why you can't turn it on.
Jsparta26 said:
As I have said, you need to be able to boot into bootloader mode to flash firmware. Whoever sold you that phone didn't tell you he hard bricked the phone in the process. The hboot had to have gottened corrupted. That's why you can't turn it on.
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How can i get it to boot into bootloader using adb reboot?
looooboooo said:
How can i get it to boot into bootloader using adb reboot?
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Go ahead and give it a shot. Try adb reboot bootoader.
Jsparta26 said:
Go ahead and give it a shot. Try adb reboot bootoader.
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How do i do that exactely? plz help me
looooboooo said:
How do i do that exactely? plz help me
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Here's a tutorial that you might find useful in helping you set up adb http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751439.
Now do not take this the wrong way, you should listen to what I'm telling about your phone instead of ignoring me and trying to prove me wrong. Especially since I'm educating you on adb. I gave you that link so I dont have to explain how to set adb up. You have to be able to access bootloader, recovery or have phone completely on to run adb. In the end you will realize what I have told you. The person who sold it to you screwed you over. Your phone is completely bricked. Truly bricked. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm always open to learn new things.
I would definitely concur with Jsparta26, you unfortunately bought your phone from a unscrupulous, deceitful azz wipe.
(Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh!
looooboooo said:
I just bought an HTC 3D evo off craigslist, the seller said that he loaded the wrong ROM into it, he had android 4.0, tried to upgrade to 4.1.
I don't know if it is rooted or not, doesn't turn on at all (nothing happens, light, vibration, etc), i tried removing-the-battery trick, didn't work. I just want to load a new ROM into it so i can get it working again..
How do i do that?
Thanks.
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I read your problem and read through the other suggestions, It does sound bricked but have you tried a different battery?, I had a battery one time that once it went completly dead the phone would not charge it, I had to charge it though an external charger, once it had some juice in it it would charge fine with the phone. All i am saying is make sure it is not something as simple as a bad battery before you decide to use it as a paperweight. If you do get it to turn on, let me know and I can help you get it working again.
mcerk02 said:
I read your problem and read through the other suggestions, It does sound bricked but have you tried a different battery?, I had a battery one time that once it went completly dead the phone would not charge it, I had to charge it though an external charger, once it had some juice in it it would charge fine with the phone. All i am saying is make sure it is not something as simple as a bad battery before you decide to use it as a paperweight. If you do get it to turn on, let me know and I can help you get it working again.[/
God I'm catching one of my migraines again ugh
Edit: my bad I guess you read the posts. He wouldn't need anymore help seeing how his main concern was getting his phone turned on.
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Yeaa ur phones bricked lol....I bought a faulty HTC sensation 4G off of eBay nd when it came it would not charge ....then I connected it to my laptop nd came up as qhsusb_dload soo yea haha -_-...I would just return it to the seller as theres nothin u can do. Best of luck man hope they return ur money :thumbup::thumbup:
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Thanks everyone wholeheartedly! i was abale to pay a guy 40 bucks to fix it using his jtag Apparentely he only had to rewrite the boot.
So for everyone having the same problem, JTag is your solution nothing else
Juste a small question, i have viper 3d rom on it and i was wondering is it the best ?
looooboooo said:
Thanks everyone wholeheartedly! i was abale to pay a guy 40 bucks to fix it using his jtag Apparentely he only had to rewrite the boot.
So for everyone having the same problem, JTag is your solution nothing else
Juste a small question, i have viper 3d rom on it and i was wondering is it the best ?
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Its like I said. Your hboot was corrupted. That's great you got your phone booted back up.
Now as for viper 3d there's no "best" ROM. Its a subjective topic so its basically not allowed. I can tell you its very stable, has lots of tweaks, and highly customizable. Only thing is that is doesn't have 4g or 3d. And it works on any hboot.
Jsparta26 said:
Its like I said. Your hboot was corrupted. That's great you got your phone booted back up.
Now as for viper 3d there's no "best" ROM. Its a subjective topic so its basically not allowed. I can tell you its very stable, has lots of tweaks, and highly customizable. Only thing is that is doesn't have 4g or 3d. And it works on any hboot.
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here we go again! the phone is rebooting periodically now... wth do i do? as for viper , i want a rom that has 3d and is as good as viper, thank u!
The only roms with fully working 3d camera are sense 3.6 roms
(Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh!
brick fixable
I had the same thing going on w/my phone. Problem was: the hboot was corrupted.. The only way to fix this is with linux.. I don't recall the exact files or command that I ran but if you search you will find them and it will bring your phone back to life.. NOTE: every thread i found had old information with older hboots which have different filenames.. Once you find the information on how to fix your hboot aka "brick" you simply need to get your exact hboot file and replace (flash) it through linux.. there is even an ubuntu cd you can download and boot into so that you don't have to install Linux.. I'd give you more info, but I'm at work right now and don't have time to research it. Good luck..!!
looooboooo said:
I just bought an HTC 3D evo off craigslist, the seller said that he loaded the wrong ROM into it, he had android 4.0, tried to upgrade to 4.1.
I don't know if it is rooted or not, doesn't turn on at all (nothing happens, light, vibration, etc), i tried removing-the-battery trick, didn't work. I just want to load a new ROM into it so i can get it working again..
How do i do that?
Thanks.
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today i have a problem with my evo. i loss my phone in my car, and at night was frost, - 20 C.
half of day phone dosnt power on. my first opinion was that the battery died, but when i measured voltage, i see 3.75V, thats normal for X-Polimer Battery. after i Inserting the battery at her place, and press power button, phone turn on
i dont know, may be i had to remove the battery for a long time, or during this time dry condensate, after frost.

[Q] Probable brick, unsure, please help!

I was given a htc DNA and it's been one headache after another. It had a cracked digitizer, s-off, eng hboot, unlocked boot loader and a custom recovery installed on it when it was given to me. Trying to make a long story short, I ended up having to replace the board with the sim card reader on it and immediately after putting the new board in the cameras quit working along with the speakers and microphone. I was able to get all but the cameras working, but then I bricked it, and here is how. I was attempting to return back to stock, relocked the boot loader, was attempting to use a ruu which wasn't working, so I decided to unlock my boot loader again. The story ends with me attempting the unlock with ez-unlock, and when I did it said successful and I was able to keep using the phone as normal, but after turning the phone off it wouldnt turn back on, and the only sign of life comes when I plug it into my computer. As soon as i connect it to my computer, htc sync manager opens up but says no phone connected, device manager will show the phone as my htc and android 1.0.. I've experienced similar signs of life from an htc vivid, but it's issues were due to a bad battery, so I am hoping for the best but expecting this to end with jtag. Can anybody help me out please, it would be great to not require jtag services, but it would be better yet if I could gain a better understanding of at least what went wrong. Thank you
TELE-FLASH said:
I was given a htc DNA and it's been one headache after another. It had a cracked digitizer, s-off, eng hboot, unlocked boot loader and a custom recovery installed on it when it was given to me. Trying to make a long story short, I ended up having to replace the board with the sim card reader on it and immediately after putting the new board in the cameras quit working along with the speakers and microphone. I was able to get all but the cameras working, but then I bricked it, and here is how. I was attempting to return back to stock, relocked the boot loader, was attempting to use a ruu which wasn't working, so I decided to unlock my boot loader again. The story ends with me attempting the unlock with ez-unlock, and when I did it said successful and I was able to keep using the phone as normal, but after turning the phone off it wouldnt turn back on, and the only sign of life comes when I plug it into my computer. As soon as i connect it to my computer, htc sync manager opens up but says no phone connected, device manager will show the phone as my htc and android 1.0.. I've experienced similar signs of life from an htc vivid, but it's issues were due to a bad battery, so I am hoping for the best but expecting this to end with jtag. Can anybody help me out please, it would be great to not require jtag services, but it would be better yet if I could gain a better understanding of at least what went wrong. Thank you
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You can't boot into anything? Not even bootloader mode?
.torrented said:
You can't boot into anything? Not even bootloader mode?
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Sadly no, I can't get it to boot at all. I also need to mention that the lights don't come on when it's plugged in either. I'm thrown for a loop by it all because my computers will still react to it if I hook it up to them with usb, but that's about all they will do. Why would sync manager open up when I plug it in, but then state that there is no device connected.
Ive seen where people have said to leave phone charging for 24 hours without trying to turn it on and it worked. I've also seen people run a calibration test on the battery but I forgot how to do it.
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EZ-Unlock is an unsupported method by the DNA hardware. It will always cause a hard-brick. Which you have done. I did this to myself at one point, too. I tried EZ-Unlock and it hard-bricked my DNA. Call Verizon. Tell them that it just randomly started doing this. Don't mention root or anything. They'll replace it for free. That's what I did.
Sorry about that bud. Try to do some more research before modding your phone next time.
TELE-FLASH said:
Sadly no, I can't get it to boot at all. I also need to mention that the lights don't come on when it's plugged in either. I'm thrown for a loop by it all because my computers will still react to it if I hook it up to them with usb, but that's about all they will do. Why would sync manager open up when I plug it in, but then state that there is no device connected.
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Oh I see.
ryanguy426 said:
EZ-Unlock is an unsupported method by the DNA hardware. It will always cause a hard-brick. Which you have done. I did this to myself at one point, too. I tried EZ-Unlock and it hard-bricked my DNA. Call Verizon. Tell them that it just randomly started doing this. Don't mention root or anything. They'll replace it for free. That's what I did.
Sorry about that bud. Try to do some more research before modding your phone next time.
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Or, he could so kindly ask Zarboz to jtag it for him and fix it possibly. I'm not saying he will jtag it but he does jtag work, so if you want to know more you should pm him about it.
Yeah I forgot Z could JTAG it... Thanks for posting that. I am sure that he will be more than happy to JTAG it for him.
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Can you get into the bootloader by holding power+volume down for any amount of time?
Have you let it sit on the charger over night?
Hold power down for at least 20 seconds to a minute?
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.torrented said:
Oh I see.
Or, he could so kindly ask Zarboz to jtag it for him and fix it possibly. I'm not saying he will jtag it but he does jtag work, so if you want to know more you should pm him about it.
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Well thank you for your feedback, and assistance. I owe most everything I know about phones to XDA and it's members! Regarding my situation with the DNA, yup sure enough it is bricked. I figured it was, but have had similar reactions from a bad battery in the past, so.. Regarding the process of unlocking the boot loader, this is the first time I've ever directly seen anything regarding the cid. Not sure if maybe it has been part of the process in ways that I was unaware of in the past with other phones or if this is more device specific, but either way would anybody possibly know where I could find more in depth information regarding this and if there is anybody who is knowledgeable with this that wouldn't mind helping somebody out?
sorry for the run on sentences lol
oh, and thank you for the referral to Zarboz, I will definitely be getting in touch with him.

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