Ok so lets start from the beginning. I dropped my phone and although no visible physical damage is visible my volume up button stopped working. When i used to turn on my phone the volume display wouldnt quit showing unless i pressed the volume down button, but volume up would not respond (im guessing vol up is constantly pressed)
I decided to flash my phone, but i also decided to perform Task29 (format internal storage) (From Here)because i have been flashing quite a bit. While doing this i completely forgot that my vol up button isnt working... so i was stuck on the first boot screen, with no internal memory, and since my vol up button is broken no way to get into the bootloader.
I decided to turn it off and leave my phone of the charger and go to sleep (because thats just what i do at night)
In the morning my phone would not turn on at all
Any ideas? I cant send it for repair to T-Mo because its HardSPL and i cant really return it to stock if it wouldnt turn on :/
Edit: Ok i think the non powering issue is battery, the main concern however is, how to enter bootloader without the use of the volume buttons... or flash a rom in any way so that the phone is actually usable.
Thanks in advance
Ok somehow on the millionth's time of trying to get into the bootloader (holding the vol down button) it finally worked =]
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Phone seemed fine until earlier when the volume just decided to go right down and it started vibrating. I restarted it and now I'm stuck at recovery as the volume rocker seems to be stuck from the inside. The rocker switch seems to work ok but it's as if the volume is stuck in the down position so that whenever I get into the recovery menu, the cursor just goes loopy as if the vol down is being held.
Has anyone heard of such a thing before and recovered from it or is it a warranty repair job?
Also, any tips on how to RUU the handset in this state?
Any help greatly appreciated.
you can run a RUU while in fastboot mode.
since vol down is constantly pressed i dunno if you will be able to get into it.
try switching phone off, then switching it on pressing BACK + POWER buttons
hopefully this will boot into fastboot rather than bootloader.
if succesful, just plug your phone with a usb cable to PC and run the RUU.exe
A friend has asked me to look at his Wildfire, he said it was updating the Market and then blank screened. Since then it will not turn on, vibrates, then nothing.
I suspected screen (replaced a few wildfire ones now) but no sign of life from touch buttons, volume key, etc - so suspect it is bricked.
Tried to flash it with RUU but the phone will not go into the boot menu via volume down & power on. I've tried numerous times and it went into boot menu once, but you could not select anything, no keys working.
Hooked up to laptop and laptop could see it, but when you try to run the RUU you get Error 170, probably becaused it's not actualy in USB Boot mode.
Has anyone seen this? Any other tricks to get it into boot menu? Anything I can run from laptop or SD card to force it into a recovery or boot menu?
This is a stock ROM phone, not modified at all.
Any help much appreciated*
I have a way but I cant remember it lol
If I can remember when I get home, i'll re-post.
OK, cool
Made slight progress today, even though I had the boot menu come up once yesterday, but no response from keys, I did notice that even though I was trying to access boot menu, it was actually acting like it was in the menu, just blank screen, i.e. if I held power button afterwards I got no vibration, but if I did pull battery and hold power, I did, as if it was booting up.
I wonder if in actual fact the screen is dead, but also there is a software hang up, as if display was dead, you would still be able to swipe the screen, get touch keys to light up when pressed, etc.
Anyway, so I went into boot mode, blank screen, pressed power anyway which would be FASTBOOT - right?
Hooked up to PC, ran an RUU and it connected OK, went through process but failed on ID, because the phone has a T-Mobile ROM and I was trying to flash with non-branded one.
So I either need to find a T-MOB UK RUU, I found one but it wouldn't run, or I need to create a goldcard (can I do that with a semi bricked device?) and go down that route.
Either way, I'm pretty sure the LCD is dead, so for the sake of £7.50 I'll replace that first, even if it has got further issues, having a working LCD will help!!
yeah get the screen fixed first.
you will only have to fix the screen later and the hassle of trying to fix a phone with broken screen, to have to have it fixed later anyway isnt really the most logical way of doing things
Hi,
I've locked my phone yesterday and I've found a problem that doesn't let me unlock the device. I couldn't unlock and reboot the phone, so I took off the battery and placed it on and started up the phone. It freezed again on the unlocking. Tried this a couple of times - same problem. It has no wallpaper, the SD card reacts very slowly, the network also, and the screen doesn't turn off by itself if you don't do it so. Sometimes I can't even answer a call, it shows somthing like "Application not responding. Wait/Force close". I doubt it's the HTC Sense broken down or something similar. Please help me, I need my phone very quickly!
P.S. The phone is NOT rooted
Thanks!
kdervisov said:
Hi,
I've locked my phone yesterday and I've found a problem that doesn't let me unlock the device. I couldn't unlock and reboot the phone, so I took off the battery and placed it on and started up the phone. It freezed again on the unlocking. Tried this a couple of times - same problem. It has no wallpaper, the SD card reacts very slowly, the network also, and the screen doesn't turn off by itself if you don't do it so. Sometimes I can't even answer a call, it shows somthing like "Application not responding. Wait/Force close". I doubt it's the HTC Sense broken down or something similar. Please help me, I need my phone very quickly!
P.S. The phone is NOT rooted
Thanks!
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You will lose all your data by doing this.
Boot into the bootloader (power off, press and hold volume down, press and hold power).
Wait for some green writing to appear and then disappear (about 7 seconds).
Use the volume down button to navigate to "clear storage", then press power.
Once this is done, reboot the phone and hope for the best.
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If this doesn't work, make a goldcard (google how to) with any other android phone you may have, insert the goldcard in your desire
download the latest WWE RUU (look on resources in my guide)
boot into fastboot mode (hold back & power) and plug it in via USB to your PC
Run RUU.exe and do not touch the phone til it completes.
bortak said:
You will lose all your data by doing this.
Boot into the bootloader (power off, press and hold volume down, press and hold power).
Wait for some green writing to appear and then disappear (about 7 seconds).
Use the volume down button to navigate to "clear storage", then press power.
Once this is done, reboot the phone and hope for the best.
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If this doesn't work, make a goldcard (google how to) with any other android phone you may have, insert the goldcard in your desire
download the latest WWE RUU (look on resources in my guide)
boot into fastboot mode (hold back & power) and plug it in via USB to your PC
Run RUU.exe and do not touch the phone til it completes.
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Well thanks man for the work, but I'm kinda n00b at all these phone system stuff, is there any other way that has less consequences than this, I mean, no losing all the data stored?
no, not without a properly functioning device.
Hi all, my S3's display shattered and the touchscreen doesn't work, and I can't see anything. I need to get the files on it onto my computer, but I have a lockscreen enabled so I'd have to unlock my phone for my computer to mount it. Obviously that isn't possible since the screen is broken.
I do have ADB enabled (I think/hope, i know I used titanium so I'm pretty sure I enabled it), so is there any way I can access it through there? I don't need my custom rom intact, so I could possibly wipe my phone from recovery, and then it should automount on a fresh boot. Could someone provide cwm instructions for me? I have the latest version installed, but without the display I don't know what to press. Something like "volume down, volume down, power button, volume down, etc" would really help.
many thanks
It's
Down
Down
Power
Down
Down
Down
Down
Down
Down
Down
Power (this is the factory reset)
Wait a few seconds, then Power (reboot)
So Down x2, Power, Down x7, Power, wait about 10 seconds, Power
Good Luck
Hello Everyone
TL;DR Screen doesn't come on at all, battery led only flashes while it is rebooting (More details below), and When plugged in to my windows pc, a bunch of "Local Disk Found" pop up, some of the volumes I can access, most I cannot.
I have searched and searched the internet the past 24 for solutions, and have yet to find one. So imma walk you through what led up to the issue, as well what solutions I have tried.
Yesterday while I was trying to update my rom, I ended up getting stuck in what I thought was a boot loop. I then decided to hard reset my phone and go into recovery in hope to try to reinstall the rom. To my surprise, I could not access the internal sd card in the phone. Data was unmounted in the "Mount" settings and I could not what so ever remount it. After this I tried to side load it, but to no avail.
In response to all my attempts to fix the phone at that point, in frustration, I just said "**** it" and went into factory reset in the bootloader. This is where the hard brick happened. At this point, the screen would not come one, and the battery led was not lit when plugged in. I tried letting my phone charge over night and then, tried the "Battery Recalibrate method". I then tried the "Hold Pwr + Volume up for 10 seconds, then Power + volume Down until you access the bootloader"
After that, I then thought that the firmware was corrupted, so I tried to see if I could push an img to the phone, however fastboot does not see the device. I tried RUU, it does not see the device. I tried the HTC Unbrick method by Dexter that required me to install ubuntu and do some things in terminal, that also did not find the device. And here I am stuck. One thing unique to my situation that I have yet seen reported in the countless threads I have searched, is that when I plug my phone to my pc, a large amount of disk drives are found. Most of them are not accessible, but there are a couple that I can go in and see files for. Windows asks me if I want to format the ones I can't access. When hooked to my pc, I tried the the Power + volume button combinations, the only thing that seems to happen off of this is that my phone seems to reboots, and the battery indicator briefly shows.
Anyways, this is all I can remember. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I don't really think it is a hardware related issue since my phone does somewhat boot. However it seems it can't get to a bootloader what so ever.
Try holding power and vol up for a long time, like a minute or more. Try with and without charger attached, and after sitting on charger overnight.
If the bootloader is intact, the phone is likely not truly bricked (recoverable). And I don't see how you could have damaged hboot by the actions you mentioned.
What is the phone's original CID (carrier version) and are you s-on or s-off?
redpoint73 said:
Try holding power and vol up for a long time, like a minute or more. Try with and without charger attached, and after sitting on charger overnight.
If the bootloader is intact, the phone is likely not truly bricked (recoverable). And I don't see how you could have damaged hboot by the actions you mentioned.
What is the phone's original CID (carrier version) and are you s-on or s-off?
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Verizon is the carrier version, and I am s-off.
Held vol + up for 5 minutes both with and without the charger. One time with the charger into my computer, and another into the wall. When it was in my pc, I can tell its doing nothing but rebooting over and over by the notification sound, and the constant "Found new disk" notifications I got. However still no luck, no screen turns on, no sign of hboot. I'm hoping to have some luck after leaving it on charge overnight and trying again.
TheBizkit said:
Held vol + up for 5 minutes both with and without the charger. One time with the charger into my computer, and another into the wall. When it was in my pc, I can tell its doing nothing but rebooting over and over by the notification sound, and the constant "Found new disk" notifications I got. However still no luck, no screen turns on, no sign of hboot. I'm hoping to have some luck after leaving it on charge overnight and trying again.
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So still nothing after leaving it on charge overnight and I held vol + up for about 5 minutes. Things seem grim.
I think the proper thing to do when you discovered internal storage was not mountable, would have been to use the TWRP option to format internal storage (in Advanced Wipe options).
But now I'm baffled as to what happened that would have rendered the phone unable to boot into fastboot mode. Fastboot won't recognize the device if you can't boot into fastboot mode, which leaves use kinda stuck.
So you didn't try to flash anything during the course of all this troubleshooting?
What you did - "Hold Pwr + Volume up for 10 seconds, then Power + volume Down until you access the bootloader" is totally wrong
I used to get this bunch of local disk pop-up and this is how I get out the problem
Connect the device to pc, you can hear notification sound on pc that device is connected. Ignore all those bunch of local disk pop-up
Press & hold both power button & volume up button until you hear another notification sound that device is disconnected from PC (that's the indication that device is restarted)
Release both power & volume up button and quickly press & hold volume down button (only this one button)
This should get you on bootloader
redpoint73 said:
I think the proper thing to do when you discovered internal storage was not mountable, would have been to use the TWRP option to format internal storage (in Advanced Wipe options).
But now I'm baffled as to what happened that would have rendered the phone unable to boot into fastboot mode. Fastboot won't recognize the device if you can't boot into fastboot mode, which leaves use kinda stuck.
So you didn't try to flash anything during the course of all this troubleshooting?
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No, nothing was flashed except the original Rom update that got this snowball rolling (Not saying its the roms fault, most likely mine).
ckpv5 said:
What you did - "Hold Pwr + Volume up for 10 seconds, then Power + volume Down until you access the bootloader" is totally wrong
I used to get this bunch of local disk pop-up and this is how I get out the problem
Connect the device to pc, you can hear notification sound on pc that device is connected. Ignore all those bunch of local disk pop-up
Press & hold both power button & volume up button until you hear another notification sound that device is disconnected from PC (that's the indication that device is restarted)
Release both power & volume up button and quickly press & hold volume down button (only this one button)
This should get you on bootloader
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This is the one combination I forgot to mention in the op, sorry for that.
But I have tried this, before and after your post, still no luck.
If it worth mentioning, I can just hold power + down and it still reboots over and over. As well as just power. As a matter of fact, all button combinations reboot the phone over and over.
TheBizkit said:
If it worth mentioning, I can just hold power + down and it still reboots over and over. As well as just power. As a matter of fact, all button combinations reboot the phone over and over.
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I thought the screen was dead? If so, how do you know its rebooting?
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I thought the screen was dead? If so, how do you know its rebooting?
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By it constantly connecting and disconnecting from my pc. If that doesn't mean its rebooting, then I guess I'm mistaken.
TheBizkit said:
By it constantly connecting and disconnecting from my pc. If that doesn't mean its rebooting, then I guess I'm mistaken.
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Well, it might mean that.
If it in fact is rebooting over and over on its won, simply holding the vol down button for a long time, should put you into bootloader (on the next reboot "cycle"). Again, assuming it is in fact rebooting, and that bootloader is intact.