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AARGH!!!! Hard reset problem

Hi
I have just had a really bad thing happen to my XDAIIs :evil:
I disconnected it from the USB Power/Sync cable and it did a hard reset!!!
So Now I have to re-install all my apps etc, which are currently 3000 miles away in UK (I am in USA this week).
Apart from the obvious inconvenience of spending an hour or so getting everything setup as I want it again, wht caused this to happen.
On a side note, what's the "best"backup software to use to help mediate against this happening again.
Cheers

Ouch nasty :-(
I keep hard resetting mine by accidently pushing power button as I push stylus in (just the way I hold it). :-(
I'm using Sprite Backup:
http://www.spritesoftware.com/home.html
Sorry again to hear about this :-(

thanks for the advice - I'll look at sprite
I have not managed to do a hard reset by pushing the power button, how do you manage to do that?

Well when I do a reset, I hold the device with my left hand and the thumb on the left hand side and my fingers on the right/top right.
But then as I go to push the stylus in the hole I always have to tilt it up to find the hole (strangely the microphone won't reset it) and in doing so I automatically move my index finger to the top to stop me pushing the device straight out my hand with the stylus and it always rests on the power button.
As I push the stylus the entire device moves and a little... and voila.
It's obviously just me as never heard anyone else having this "problem", but must say I find it a bit annoying and always have to try and remember to move my finger first!
Hope that made sense?

I think I figured out what you're doing, but I can not get my BA to hard reset when doing this, it just powers off

It should do!
If you're pushing power button WHILST pushing the reset hole/button with the stylus that should perform a hard reset (as that's the only way it's supposed to do it - apart from removing battery for 20+ mins!)

Ahh - I now understand what you're doing to hard reset; I had misunderstood before.
I rarely need to soft reset now that I've removed O2 actived & connections.exe (thanks to this forum)

Happened to me
The other day, I was to be on the phone for about an hour (Siemens SX66) and decided to plug the car charger in to save my battery for the day. Got in the car, plugged in the cable to the phone but did not have the other end in the 12volt outlet. At first when I looked at the phone, it appeared to do a soft reset, then I realized it was a hard reset. No explanation on what happened. My fingers were no where near the power button and I did not push the reset button under the phone. Thankfully I just did a backup via activesync, so I went back into the house and restored. Took over an hour, but my phone was back to where it was from 2 hours ago. Only 2 apps I could think of that would cause this is Spb Pocket Plus OR Phone Alarm. My newest additions to the phone.

At least I'm not the only one who has experienced this type of problem - it might be some sort of "spike" when connecting/disconnecting from the external power connector because my problem occurs just as I disconnected from my USB power/sync lead (not the cradle, just a flying lead)
I've now bought a copy of Sprite and am backing up my XDA on a daily basis. Only takes a few minutes. I'm going to hard reset at the weekend & try to restore a backup.

I too have experianced a hard reset many many times. On saturday evening the battery was full. Sunday morning, it was dead, plugged in the charger and it reset. Sometime i have caught it early, for some reason somthing seems to make the battery drain very fast like 100% to 20% in minutes, and not even in use, but powered off.
Another problem is the backup battery is naff, if i remove the main battery, even for a split second, it resets. Apparantly a common fault, and summat to do with the rear switch not making good contact.

You could be on to something here. I remember that my XDA was plugged in to my laptop via a USB2.0 port on a PCMCIA card. I have since found out that this port DOES NOT provide sufficient power to charge the battery (I can see it discharging) , so I must ensure that I use the USB1.1 port on my laptop's motherboard which I know can charge up the XDA. My settings are to leave the PDA switched on when connected via external power and so it could have easily drained the battery overnight and when I removed it in the morning *POOF*

It's dead Jim, dead

Hi, I have a dropped MDA III. I Replaced the broken touch screen, now nothing works. No lights or screen, just gets hot when on charge. Won't hard reset and can't get into bootmode.
any ideas, apart from the bin?

rocketrobot said:
Hi, I have a dropped MDA III. I Replaced the broken touch screen, now nothing works. No lights or screen, just gets hot when on charge. Won't hard reset and can't get into bootmode.
any ideas, apart from the bin?
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I don't think the dilithium crystals can take it any longer.

she canny take much more than this cap'n

Hi friend ,
please check follow this.
+ Power botton
+ Battery contact ( any cracked on it ??)
+ Re-solder flash and RAM, and power IC by hotgun
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The first time I changed the tochscreen digitiser on my Orbit I had this. After much messing about I tried putting the cases back together without the power button in the case, and when I pressed the power button inside with my stylus it worked fine. The reason I tried this was because months before my power button was messing-about, working intermittently.
I tried fitting the button back in and re-assembling the cases but still the phone wouldn't come on. In the end I shaved about 1mm off the silicone press-pad on the back of the power button and it worked 1st time.

Possible broken Power IC? Bricked phone? Assistance needed.

Hi everyone, I am looking to troubleshoot my T-Mobile Galaxy S4 which I believe has suffered from a Power IC malfunction. It has all the symptoms that relate to a broken power button, which of I already sent in for repair and that didn't seem to fix the problem. The guy installed a brand new power button and the problem still persists. Continued researching and it might be a broken Power IC chip.
The phone will power on for a second and display the Samsung logo, then shut off and reboot itself and sometimes be in a constant vibration cycle like it's trying to power on. Sometimes it just freezes on the Samsung logo and will not continue past that. Sometimes if I'm lucky, it will boot up like normal but once it gets to the T-Mobile splash screen, the screen will distort and then reboot itself where it will just go through either of the symptoms already mentioned. Weird thing is, I am still able to boot into recovery (takes a couple tries though) and download mode fine without any reboots or anything. I have tried flashing numerous stock firmwares/ROMs via download mode/recovery in hope maybe that'll correct something, but to no avail.
The problem happened shortly after I accidentally dropped my phone getting out of the car. The phone worked fine for a day and then one day while driving, the phone did something crazy and froze up, displayed the power menu, and then shut off by itself. Then after that is when all the problems happened. I took the phone apart and cleaned the power button. Rubbed the contacts with rubbing alcohol and even tried to get inside the power button with some. Took a can of air and sprayed the button until it was dry. I think that was my mistake because I think some alcohol got onto, or into the power IC located near the power button and fried something.
Looking for possible answers as to what could have caused this. The phone will not charge normally unless I boot into recovery/download mode. Plugging the phone in while powered off displays the charging icon with the grey battery and a circle in the middle but doesn't continue past that and reboots itself after a while. Tried a different battery as well and it's all the same symptoms which is why it's something internally.
On a side note, if anybody has experience with replacing the Power IC and would like to offer their service to me, we can arrange a price and continue from there. Please be a reputable member though. Thanks for reading. Hope to resolve this annoying issue.

If you are able to go into recovery mode, have you maybe considered flashing a new ROM?
Do you have some sort of custom recovery? If yes, maybe you could first back up all your stuff to an SD card (in case nothing helps bring the phone back to life).
Since your boot up logo shows up, but the ROM doesn't seem to start, to me it looks like your onboard flash memory might be the problem, not the power IC. The S4 is actually an awesome phone from a repairability standpoint.
Best of Luck! :good:

I will be starting to do power IC replacements in these phone in a couple weeks actually! I have a little cell repair business that i started a few months ago, but I have never done this specific repair. It isn't difficult, and as soon as I have a few successful attempts under my belt I will update you! Although, usually the phone won't boot at all if it has a bad power IC. I would do more research and see what can cause your specific problem. Feel free to message me or just reply on here with questions

deke997 said:
I will be starting to do power IC replacements in these phone in a couple weeks actually! I have a little cell repair business that i started a few months ago, but I have never done this specific repair. It isn't difficult, and as soon as I have a few successful attempts under my belt I will update you! Although, usually the phone won't boot at all if it has a bad power IC. I would do more research and see what can cause your specific problem. Feel free to message me or just reply on here with questions
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Hi Deke. Sorry for not replying sooner. Kind of forgot about this thread after giving up on trying to fix it. But if you are willing to repair it in the future please let me know! I'll give you some business for your repair shop. Congrats on starting one too .
As for the phone not powering on at all if the problem was the power IC, that's what I thought at first too. But after getting a new power button installed and the problem still persisted, the power IC was the next option.
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Please Help Zenfone2 Dead, will not turn on or charge

Hello can somebody please help me I have had this phone for six months with no problems everything been fine with all original android/stock , I have been using it today and had about 60 percent battery left, I went to check it and it wouldn't respond to me pressing the power button, it also will not charge either, the charging light does not come on, I have tried press the volume button up, down and both at same time with the power button for long and short periods of time I am totally stuck what to do , it is dead After reading some more things online I would like to state it has not been connected to a PC or anything. If anyone could recommend something, I am in the U.K the phone isn't on sale here so I am not sure if warranty is covered.

You need to do a battery pull. Its rather simple, just remove the screws and back cover. Afterwards disconnect the battery cable and reconnect it
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Would this affect my warranty (IF I have one in the UK) If I open it up?

just an update I have spoke to Asus they have emailed me to say I am not under warranty here in the UK as it was purchased from another country ( I bought off ebay ) so not sure what to do now.

just a quick update I have stripped the back off disconnected/reconnected the battery still nothing totally dead?

Phone died out of nowhere, is there anything I can do?

My stock Nexus 5x was working fine this morning. On my drive to work, the phone had 39% batter remaining (I forgot to charge it overnight), and I attempted to make a call over my car's built-in blue tooth. When the outgoing call failed a second time, I looked down at my phone and noticed the screen was black. I have tried holding the power button for various amounts of time but nothing happens. I've also tried charging the phone, in case the battery meter was out of calibration, but nothing seems to elicit any sign of life.
I recall from past mobile devices that there's a combination of buttons that can be pressed and held for so many seconds to force a reboot. Is there such a procedure for the 5x? I have some past experience with rooting phones, connecting them to my computer with Odin, ADB, etc. Is there anything I can try?
Thanks for any pointers, this sucks!

@Dirt_Bag: Hold Vol-, then press Power until the 1st screen. Then immediatly the base menu of bootloader appears. Good luck.

rp158 said:
@Dirt_Bag: Hold Vol-, then press Power until the 1st screen. Then immediatly the base menu of bootloader appears. Good luck.
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Thanks for the instructions but it's not working. My phone shows no signs of life... I should have all my photos backed up elsewhere, but in case I don't, is there anyway to access the internal storage?

@Dirt_Bag: maybe experts can read it. I've no idea.

Try pressing and holding the power button for at least 30 seconds.

My wife's Google Nexus 5x died yesterday too. Go to load recovery mode, and it does nothing. I can get into developer boot screen, but that's it... Nothing works.

had a friend's nexus 5x die in a similar way just a few days ago too. won't power on at all. not sure this is the bootloop issue, seems more like a battery thing. but no idea

Contact LG chat. Explain it to them and that you were told the warranty was extended to 30 months on the Nexus 5X. They'll have you put in a repair request. Takes about 2 weeks or so.
If you can get into bootloader but the phone WILL NOT boot into the OS.... it's a bootloop. If the device is hard dead, it's still part of the bootloop.
Bottom line... LG extended the Nexus 5X to a 30 month hardware defect warranty. You send in your phone, you'll get a new (hopefully revised) mainboard with your same IMEI.

LancerEVA06 said:
...you'll get a new (hopefully revised) mainboard with your same IMEI.
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Whenever I've received back my phone from repair the IMEI has been different.
Is IMEI important for CDMA networks?