It happened so that my HTC One X+ achieved a depth of 2 m with power up and stayed there for about 30 secs.
After this accident it was disassembled and professionally dried up with cleaning by aerosols.
Finally everything works fine except:
1. No Imei. *#06# shows empty string. However Fastboot in Show Barcode option shows correct imei.
2. Radio module version is unknown.
3. Big power consumption. Even with power down, battery will be discharged within a week so deeply, that even date and time will be forgotten. (Battery is ok – tested well) Main power consummer is Android System even more than Plants Vs Zombies 2 (if not to play much).
This happened half a year ago.
No regress.
So I decided to try to restore somehow and also try new custom firmware.
I do understand that most probably this is hardware problem.
However looking through forums I can see that many guys getting same problem with imei and radio module after flashing kernel.
I opened bootloader and installed OmniRom with recovery and proper kernel.
This does not solve any from 3 problems.
Now I found your site and see that radio module also could be flashed.
Maybe this is my solution?
Very sorry it is difficult to find proper info on your site due to my not well English.
I failed after few attempts.
Can someone help me by advice?
Many thanks in advance!
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has anyone come across the problem that when you move to say 3g from gsm or back or you loose signal as your in a bad signal area and then get it back, the phone actually looses the radio says "operation failed" and relocks on to the signal?
mine will sometimes loose the signal need restarting and on the boot screen will show NOGSM when its clearly installed as it worked 20seconds ago. i have tried many types of radio rangeing from 1.07 to 1.41 and all their varients. i am at a loss why my phone just looses it and then forgets it has actually lost it untill i try to make a call or send an sms. no calls or sms's can be received by me whilst the phones done this and it does it a hell of a lot.
sometimes it also just looses the radio half way through a call or data call.
anyone got any ideas?
i have a m3100
IPL 1.04
bootloader 2.10oli
and the XDA live OS installed. however it does it on any OS i have tried so far. and thats alot of them.
Same for me.
Same problem for me.
Often I get the message "operation failed" or "the phone is not ready, wait 15 seconds and try again". Thought it was a problem with the new 1.38 radio, but it seems to be something different.
i also get all those error msg's. i have no idea how to fix it either and no 1 here seems to have a clue either :-(
i Had the same problem with mine it due to hardware i guess. Your phone might have fell down or something then this kind of problem starts I fixed mine by opening my phone up and fixed the arial part properly
torrentulla
is there a guide you follow for that or can you give me any tips to do it myself?
thanks
Smith2001 said:
torrentulla
is there a guide you follow for that or can you give me any tips to do it myself?
thanks
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I fixed my phone almost the same way as Torrentulla did. I'm my case it seems that something was damaged when I dropped my phone a few weeks back. I discovered that when I pushed at a spot right below the flashlight that the radio kept coming up all the time.
These are the steps I took to repair:
Remove all 4 screws (very small torx) at the back of your hermes
Remove back
Put a little piece of paper on the "pressure" spot
Put your phone back together
Turn it on and enjoy!
I hope you'll manage to fix yours aswell!
Phone sometimes shows No GSM, fails to ring
Hey guys, I posted this in the dead hermes thread, but decided to post it here as it's not really bricked. I think it may be a faulty component or something.
My phone was working fine this morning, then in the afternoon I noticed I would have to try to make a call 3 or 4 times before it would go through, it kept on giving me the error (Can't connect, or something along those lines).
Then, I checked my voicemail and found that I had 10 messages from people who had been trying to get in touch with me, but my phone hadn't been ringing.
The kicker came when I soft reset my phone and all of a sudden No GSM popped up! I soft reset it again, and it was gone, and worked fine for a couple of hours. Now its back to not ringing again.
I flashed radio 1.41.00.10 about a week ago, and have been running fine with no problems since. I haven't flashed any rom's in the past week, and this problem just started yesterday. No new software has been installed (except Pimp my black v0.1).
I don't know a lot about the radio, but I didn't think it could become corrupted during regular use, I thought you could only mess it up when you were flashing the phone. I wonder if there is something wrong with the radio? Could the hardware be faulty? This phone is about 8 months old and hasn't had any problems up to this date.
I'm going to flash radio 1.40.10.0 again and see if that makes a difference, but I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas as to what could be causing this.
Sorry this post was so long,
Thanks
-Kai
it seems i don't have a pressure point on mine as the radio is working as and when it likes. which is not alot
gotta sort it out somehow, will take it apart and see if theres anything obvious.
I have the same problem too, phone sometimes shows NO GSM on startup and sometimes it works. Here's where I posted : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=306073
Now its not even showing NO GSM it just says: NONE, NONE
Also, I noticed that it will only last about 6 hours on a full charge before the battery is absolutely dead.
I'm beginning to think that it may be my radio 1.41.00.10
It seems strange that all of these people are suddenly having this problem now.
Whats the warranty like on these devices? Is it a 1 years parts and defects warranty? Or is it some ****ty 90 day warranty?
As it is my phone is a piece of garbage, not worth using at all, I am very disapointed in it.
It's a hardware problem.
Hi guys,
I'm experiencing the same problems since two months and I've been struggling with all kind of OS, ROM, RADIO and bootloader, without even gettin close to solve them.
My phone randomly loads the RADIO (otherwise I get the "No Gsm" message), even when loaded, the connection is not suitable and my phone is often unreachable on the net. The battery life is very short because the phone always looses the signal and then seraches till he find it, before loosing it again.
So I disassembled my phone and did a lot of testing with hardware connections. I have found that the motherboard connection with the flash/scroll module isn't stable at all. You can easily move it and find that this affects the phone ability to load the RADIO. It seem strange but it's true. I can't solve the problem and I'm very upset with HTC because of their hardware components lack of quality. I would like to try to change the module to but I can't find a place where i can buy HTC hardware parts.
So I'm going to change my pda, I'll never buy HTC anymore.
Any help?
Has anyone figured out the problem? If it is hardware, what "pressure" spot is it? I tried, but wondered if I'm not in the right place.
In my case it was a spot right below the flash/scroll-part. As said earlier, i put a piece of paper on the spot and reassembled the phone. It still works excellent after a week!
My dopod can't connect to the mobile network as well, but only with the 3 network. It seems fine when being connected to an Optus network. Have you guys tried using a different network simcard?
I'm not sure if mine is a physical problem but maybe a setting which i need to configure so i can connect to a 3 network. Help anyone?
ROM version : Pro BLACK 3.0
ROM date : 01/04/07
Radio version : 1.41.00.10
mine also works just under the flash with the cover off, but if i hold it too hard then the screen goes all white and doesn't work, until i can get the case off its a hit and miss game at the moment.
thanks very much for the tips and help
Dan
Larrys said:
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So I'm going to change my pda, I'll never buy HTC anymore.
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I cannot agree with this more.
I am sick to death of this phone. I had one of the first in the country for normal sales and spent weeks arguing with HTC who flatly denied the screen alignment issue. EVENTUALLY I got them to fix this after referencing posts in this forum.
I continued to suffer the "coma" software issue - why is it so F*((&&^ dificult for a device to wake up when its auto-sleeped?
And finaly, to top it off, I have been suffering this problem. I cannot express how mad I am. Did I buy a cheap phone? NO. I have had nothing but problems with this phone and will NOT buy another HTC.
Oh and if anyone knows how to repair a failed Radio upgrade, please help me! I don't have any choice but to use it until the IMate Ultimates come out.
Due to seeing this radio problem I thought I would try downgrading the radio from 1.4.summint or other (the latest) to a slightly older version. This was of course before I saw this thread. During the downgrade the installer stopped at 15%. Now no matter what I do it sits at the IPL/SPL screen (3 colour bars+white). I have done the obvious i.e. follow the installers error procedure (remove the battery).
Device: HERM200
IPL-1.04
SPL-2.10.Olipro
Please help me be able to use this for another month or two at most - i hope!
Thanks guys
update:
OK Guys
thanks to this thread: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Unbrick
I now have it trying to boot the o/s. I get the message "No GSM" on the boot screen but when it boots up it asks me for my pin number and freezes. I guess its locking up because it has no "phone" part? According to the instructions in the other thread I am supposed to flash it again but I can't as the phone locks on boot.....
Any ideas?
*FINALY* got it back into pre-flash feck up situation. Sadly, this still leaves me with the hardware problem. HTC can go poke themselves until the cows come home. Im taking my money somewhere else.
First purchased a HERM200 TYTN by HTC off of eBay a few weeks ago. Last week finally got around to using it as a phone and ran into a ton of difficulties that I thought were hardware issues. Couldn't properly flash an updated WM6 ROM - phone had TEST ONLY when first booting.
Flashed but I think I corrupted the phone on the initial flash. Did install HardSPL so I got it back.
Was getting NO GSM errors and assumed the radio was bad. Tried a reflash and it basically got stuck at about 20%. Tried just a radio and it did flash.
Today charged the phone - cleared out the memory with MTTY.exe checked for bad blocks and found none.
Attempted a flash with the standard release HTC for Hermes WM6. To my surprise it flashed fully without any errors and no real freezing except for a small bit during the GSM part.
Power cycled a few times and haven't had no GSM yet.
QUESTION:
Is there a bug with the DPad keys? When pressing down key it works for a while in TODAY screen then stops. Can't press any of the softkeys at this point. Can start it again by using scroll wheel or putting in standby and resuming.
Tried in EXCEL and keys work repeatedly. In PROGRAM menu will also stop.
Is this a hardware problem or is this a know software problem.
I think you found WHY they sold it on ebay.... Sounds like a problem with the directional board. You may experience the dreaded whitescreen too as the LCD is processed through the d-pad board. Could be 1 of a heap of different reasons. Theres a whole thread related to these problems. Use search to find, they might help you fix the problem...
Cheers...
Hi,
Can anybody help me with this? My gps keeps failing. A reboot sometimes works, I've tried running quick gps but this makes no difference, Sometimes it will reboot itself after it fails (sometimes repeatedly!!) normally when using copilot 8. It doesn't seem to be an issue with copilot as google maps and chartcross gps also fail to work.
rom htc 3.14.405.2(04666)wwe date 29/09/2010
radio 2.15.50.14
protocol 15.42.50.11U
os 5.2.21913(21913.5.0.94)
many thanks
Does it fail in all usage situations (indoor, outdoor)?
Do you use Quick GPS?
Did you try another Radio ROM?
tictac0566 said:
Does it fail in all usage situations (indoor, outdoor)?
Do you use Quick GPS?
Did you try another Radio ROM?
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Yes
Yes
No, I've not changed radio.
I tried again last night. Co pilot worked for a minute or so then lost gps, then "gps back, determining position..." then rebooted itself, repeatedly and did freeze on boot up once. I soft reset it and tried google maps, it found no sats and rebooted itself, tried again and it was ok for about 10 minutes on copilot then I had finished my journey... It's infurating I do know! Would it be worth trying a different radio as I've not changed it from stock and it's only recently benn misbehaving?
It's still misbehaving... Is there anything in the registry that might cause it?
This may be a bit too drastic, but a hard reset can rule out the registry as the culprit.
I'm trying to avoid a hard reset if I can. I'd have to reinstall the modified rom if I did wouldn't I? (from htc website)
This is really getting me down now... Last night co-pilot worked for 10 minutes then without warning or apparent loss of gps phone rebooted, then without opening any apps or even touching it, it rebooted itself 4 times. I'm thinking a hard reset has got to be tried..
Forgive my ignorance, but if I hard reset will I have then to reinstall the updated rom and patches I installed from htc late last year to remedy daylight saving issues etc and will I be able to reinstall paid for software from marketplace without buying again?
Can anyone help please?
I've read about the rebooting problem with other users. This was caused by bent battery pins.
Did look at those?
thanks. battery pins look fine to me. i will try a hard reset, i'm just wondering if i can reinstall my paid for marketplace software or will i have to buy again and i presume i will have to reinstall htc patches and updated rom after hard reset. please forgive my ignorance. it threw a fit this morning too. i switched it to silent for an hour whilst at a funeral and when i came out battery was totally discharged. it was about 90% beforehand. it seems to be dying!!!!!!
Does nobody know, please?
i am sorry to say that ur problem is the same with mine,and i think its main board broblem,i open it and remove the gps part and then restart the phone,the same problem the phone keep freezing and restart it self,so i think its mainboard broblem,i bought another used hd2 ,and the old one for parts,
sorry to say this
abufaris said:
i am sorry to say that ur problem is the same with mine,and i think its main board broblem,i open it and remove the gps part and then restart the phone,the same problem the phone keep freezing and restart it self,so i think its mainboard broblem,i bought another used hd2 ,and the old one for parts,
sorry to say this
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Thanks for the bad news but I think you may be correct.... I've hard reset it and the gps and rebooting side of things is exactly the same, but now it also seems to be eating the battery(COMPLETELY drained in 16 hours with approx 15 minutes of calls made and a brief use of copilot and googlemaps) and I've not installed any additional software or made any changes from "out of box" condition apart from reinstalling my contacts and the latest version of facebook.... It now also is not porting facebook profile photos into contact list even though I have recreated the links.... I have emailed htc but had no response from their "crack" support team as yet (it's only been 26 hours so far). I only got the HD2 in August last year so hope that it will be a warranty issue. I seem to remember people having issues with facebook contact photos but can't find the posts. Can anyone help??
Well, an update. After 3 months and the unit going back to the repair centre FOUR TIMES and a TWO replacement units I appear to have a working device again. HTC repair centre seem to be totally useless. I've had no info from them regards any repairs that have been carried out. Each time it went away for repair it was back within 4 days so very little testing was done.(I did find out on 1 repair the speaker and the wireless card were replaced....Why???) The first replacement unit took 2 weeks to arrive though and that had absolutely no gps.......The second replacement took 3 1/2 to arrive but so far the gps is ok but I still have no facebook profile photos in my contacts list....... Any ideas how to rectify this??
I have seen a lot of posts about this on the internet but after 2 days of searching I still havent found the answer. The only thing i found out is that it may or may not have something to day with a corrupted EFS folder.
I'll describe the situation: when I came home from a night out I suddenly had no signal. The status bar showed no signal, an x above empty bars. Then I checked my settings, It said airplane mode was turning off, but however long I let it be it never does. When I remove/replace the sim card it doesn't detect anything. The IMEI number is displayed as unknown. I've tried a lot of things like reset, hard reset, restarting with the sim card halfway up, turning of fast boot etc., about anything i could find on the internet accept flashing roms and boot.img or something like that.
The things I can tell is that i can still see the IMEI in the barcode option when hold the power and volume down button. I have always used an IPhone and don't yet have experience with manipulating android or loading something else.
My question is if anyone has ever solved this and can tell me how, if this involves thins like flashing things to the phone a little extra 'how to for dummies' instructions would certainly be appreciated. I hope there is a solution, for me and other people reading this with the same problem as there doesn't seem to be anyone who has figured this puzzle out yet.
Nobody?
Nobody?
If restoring with the RUU doesn't help, there's not much else you can do. The phone is 3 years old, if there hasn't been a solution yet, not likely there is going to be one. Developers have moved on to newer devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593037
That's the ATT version. If you have the International version, you must use the appropriate RUU. You can only use one that has the same software version (not just the Android version) as what is currently on it.
Newbie here! I have a Google pixel 1 and I don't know its history but it won't boot up. Stuck on Google logo, no command, boot locked. Troubleshooted with Google and their repairers gave some costs but it's frankly more than the phone is worth. Especially if it's the motherboard. Not afraid of doing the technical stuff. Is there a way to check one way or another if it's a software or hardware issue? I'd love to get it working as it would then be the best phone I have. Thanks.
@bexibex
First thing of all things I'ld do to test whether it's a software ( Android OS ) or hardware related issue is to replace built-in battery with a new, fully charged one: often it's a dead battery that causes problems like the one that you reported.
That is difficult - but I'd like to assume the battery is fine as it has an extraordinarily long battery life. E.g. I looked at it about 3 weeks later and it's still got power. I'd like to look at tests to see if it is the Android OS as I desperately need a phone (I have a rubbish slow samsung s4) so shoot with the software / diagnostics. I have tried a few things on Google to no avail so far. Thanks.
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@bexibex
First thing of all things I'ld do to test whether it's a software ( Android OS ) or hardware related issue is to replace built-in battery with a new, fully charged one: often it's a dead battery that causes problems like the one that you reported.
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That is difficult - but I'd like to assume the battery is fine as it has an extraordinarily long battery life. E.g. I looked at it about 3 weeks later and it's still got power. I'd like to look at tests to see if it is the Android OS as I desperately need a phone (I have a rubbish slow samsung s4) so shoot with the software / diagnostics. I have tried a few things on Google to no avail so far. Thanks.
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IMO as long as something appears on phone's display ( e.g. Google logo ) then you know that motherboard isn't dead, that a software problem is given, for example bootloader got corrupted or is missing or whatelse.
Again: Some months ago have experienced that a weak ( almost totally drained ) battery prevents a phone from booting and shutting down mid way before a complete boot. Replacing the battery fixed the problem.