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Stock G2 won't turn on

I have a stock Tmobile G2 that I have not rooted or done a thing too. I've been enjoying it just like it is.
Last night, I plugged it in at night and went to bed. This morning, the green LED was on saying it was fully charged, but it wouldn't power on? I finally pulled the battery and it powered on to the standard white HTC screen, but hung there for 5+ mins. I pulled the battery and again and I think the HTC screen came up again and hung again. After that battery pull, I could no longer get it to even power on.
Here's what I've noticed.
-After a battery pull and then plugging it in, I get an "orange" LED, but nothing happens. Can't power on, and it doesn't ever seem to turn green even after hours on the charger. When I remove the plug, the orange LED stays on and nothing happens.
- If I pull the battery and try to turn it on before plugging it , nothing happens, but in the same token, it won't show the orange LED if I plug it in.
The only thing different I did last night was that I used a Mini to Micro converter plug for the first time. I have a ton of Mini-USB plugs, so just ordered 2 of these. Could have been coincidence, but thought I would mention it.
My battery has been fine and has shown no issues of being bad, but wondering if they just crap out or something? The no charging LED after trying to turn it on is strange?
Any ideas?

Return it and call shenanigans?
That's really quite strange. Have you modded anything on the system that would affect it at all?

yeah, the hardware in your phone is simply broken. to make sure this is true, try doing a recovery. pull the battery, put it back in, hold the volume DOWN key, while hitting the power on button, use the volume rocker to go down to recovery, and then follow the instructions to recover the phone. but it sounds to me like water damage of some sort around the plug, or you pulled out the charger wrong and broke it. **this will remove all apps you have installed, but its better than having to wait for t-mo to send you a new one**

dietotherhythm said:
Return it and call shenanigans?
That's really quite strange. Have you modded anything on the system that would affect it at all?
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Haven't touched a thing on this phone. I have an older G1 I've played with ROM's on and stuff, but I've left the G2 alone.
Only thing is standard apps from the market.

jenlow said:
yeah, the hardware in your phone is simply broken. to make sure this is true, try doing a recovery. pull the battery, put it back in, hold the volume DOWN key, while hitting the power on button, use the volume rocker to go down to recovery, and then follow the instructions to recover the phone. but it sounds to me like water damage of some sort around the plug, or you pulled out the charger wrong and broke it. **this will remove all apps you have installed, but its better than having to wait for t-mo to send you a new one**
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Just tried the recovery, but nothing.
No water damage or anything. Phone has been well taken care of and looks new.
I guess its just a failure. Only had it a month or so. Guess I'll contact tmobile about a replacement.

These things happen, my original G1 died after about a week of use, though I would have expected that after a month you would be in the clear.

raitchison said:
These things happen, my original G1 died after about a week of use, though I would have expected that after a month you would be in the clear.
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Yeah, kind of surprised myself. Electronics do fail though.

BlueLghtning said:
I have a stock Tmobile G2 that I have not rooted or done a thing too. I've been enjoying it just like it is.
Last night, I plugged it in at night and went to bed. This morning, the green LED was on saying it was fully charged, but it wouldn't power on? I finally pulled the battery and it powered on to the standard white HTC screen, but hung there for 5+ mins. I pulled the battery and again and I think the HTC screen came up again and hung again. After that battery pull, I could no longer get it to even power on.
Here's what I've noticed.
-After a battery pull and then plugging it in, I get an "orange" LED, but nothing happens. Can't power on, and it doesn't ever seem to turn green even after hours on the charger. When I remove the plug, the orange LED stays on and nothing happens.
- If I pull the battery and try to turn it on before plugging it , nothing happens, but in the same token, it won't show the orange LED if I plug it in.
The only thing different I did last night was that I used a Mini to Micro converter plug for the first time. I have a ton of Mini-USB plugs, so just ordered 2 of these. Could have been coincidence, but thought I would mention it.
My battery has been fine and has shown no issues of being bad, but wondering if they just crap out or something? The no charging LED after trying to turn it on is strange?
Any ideas?
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I'm on my 4th G2. The screen kept going out on two of them and the other one, all the apps were force closing on me. I almost gave up on this phone and went to a nexus s but I love the quality of this phone as in it don't feel or look cheap. Also I would have missed my hardware keyboard for my fat fingers lol. I was not going to get a mytouch 4g. Wanted to get as stock vanilla android as I could.
Just send it back and get a new one. Hopefully the next one won't give you these problems.
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Those are usually the signs of water damage or a fried battery
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Tmobile assisted me and all is well!

[Q] Help!! Evo wont turn on

I have been rooted for a while and successfully flashed a few Roms/Kerenels using rom manager. I was flashing the newest version of Myn and one of the "warm" kernels that it offered with it. Everything was going normally the rom loaded fashed the rom and kerenel the phone was reseting then out of nowhere i got the image of the white box and android guy with an arrw as if to say "android taken out of box" I left it like that for about 5 min then took the batt out and tried to reset it. I got the same image then i tried vol. up & power it vibrated 3x and did nothing. My buddy had the same problem yesterday and he got it workin. I called him and he said all he did was pull batt/restart over and over till it booted normally. I tried that about 10x then it would not turn on again. Plugged it in, no response no led light up.
Am I bricked past the point of no return, and if not what can I do to get back in business

Stay calm, pull battery out for 5 minutes and then put it back in, then put charger in and see if LED comes on.

did that batt was out for about 20 min plugged it back in nothing

let phone charge 30 minutes

will do.. from what you know does this sound like a typical brick scenario? I feel like I didnt do anything different from all the other times I flashed roms/kerenels it just kinda flipped out on me this time?

it just happened to me, my phone wouldnt turn on or charge. Pull out battery for 1 minutre, (make sure phone isnt plugged in) out battery in, DONT PLUG IN CHARGER YET.
power phone on, once u see the white evo splashscreen, plug charger in and wait seconds and u will see LED turn on.
keep me updated

No mtter what I do or at least nothing ive tried I cannot get the Evo to respond by turning on or lighting up or doing anything

To get into bootloader, you need to press and hold vol *down* and power. Sometimes mine is finicky...be sure to firmly press those buttons, and keep them just as firmly held until you see the bootloader screen.
If that doesn't work, you might have a dead battery. Can you swap batteries with a friend?

I had this happen to me with my girls evo. Its usually related to overheating. Do you happen to have a second battery? If yu had an htc hero, they have same battery. Worked for me.
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This happened to me while flashing the newest EViO. Don't worry, if your phone turns on a little youre most likely fine.
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Never got it working or turned on but I took it to a Sprint tech center andt they gave me a new one... It would not power on even when they opened it up. they just replaced it.

Won't power on

Hey guys, I'm having a problem I thought you might be able to help me with.
I had my phone hooked to the charger. When I went back to it a few minutes later, the phone was powered off. There was also no charge LED lit either.
Now, I am not able to power the phone on at all. I get no LEDs when I plug it up.
I have tried taking the battery out several times. Has anyone else ran into this issue.
Also, I am not rooted, I am running on stock software.

You don't get the slash screen or anything?
Have you tried to get into recovery via adb?
We're you rooted / custom rom name?
You sound bricked

I do not get a splash screen or anything what so ever.
This phone has never been rooted. My original phone was, but after an issue with roaming and 3g I swapped it and decided not to root the new phone.
I have tried powering on with the volume button down, but still nothing. My pc does not recognize it at all when I plug it in either.
Also, I have tried 3 different charges and cables as well.

I had the same problems. I just weighted and mess with the power button and the battery. Steps that I did
1. hold the power button for like 5 second w/battery on phone
2. than while holding the p/button took the battery out and than put it back
I did this like 5 time, than it came on.I don't know what it was luck or what but it work for me. All of this happen before I rooted the phone.

Didn't work
Thanks for the input though.
It might just be dead. Maybe a power surge or something. idk.

Well, I finally got it working. It ended up being the battery. When it messed up, it was plugged into my g19 keyboard. This ended up completely draining my battery.
I swapped batteries with my friend to verify this. It than took over an hour to charge my battery to the point of the Orange led comming on.

[Q] Flashed Caulkin's_format_all.zip, will not turn on

I had flashed Caulkin's_format_all.zip and I managed to accidentally reboot my phone before flashing a rom or anything. The phone will not power on, and if I plug it in, the charge indicator will not turn on. I've already tried pulling the batt for 5 minutes with no luck. any suggestions?

I did this once by being too quick at pushing the power button , I was able to reboot into recovery by pushing volume down and power button and then install a backup or you could flash rom. Hope this helps.

problem is, I can't even get it to boot, be it normal boot or bootloader.

If you hook it up to the computer, is it recognized?

Your going to have to borrow someones battery. I've seen people with this problem and for some reason, your phone won't recognize your battery and since it won't it won't charge it. Trust me, stick in a different battery and you will boot right up.

I've tried using my sprint extended life batt and the stock htc batt. neither worked.

and pc won't even recognize it.

spalding1028 said:
I've tried using my sprint extended life batt and the stock htc batt. neither worked.
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So 100% sure that both batteries you've tried have a charge on them? And still no led when plugged in, to computer or wall? That sucks, because it sounds like it got bricked, somehow. I have also accidentally booted after flashing calk's format all from hitting the power button too quick, and as the other guy said, I was able to get to the bootloader by voldown+power, and restore a nandroid. I don't know what went differently in your case, but if you're positive that the batteries you've tried are good and charged, and you get no power led plugged into the wall, then it does sound like you somehow got a brick? Did you try leaving it plugged in for some time? A couple hours maybe, just to see if the led comes on?

Also make sure you are using a wall charger, I know if my battery charge is too low or dead the usb on my computer won't work, I then have to use the wall charger. The led will flash at first before starting to charge. When led is flashing phone won't turn on.
Edit:I just saw wall charging mentioned in previous post. I guess it shows the importance of it

I haven't tried leaving it plugged in. doing that now.

so I took it into the sprint store today and even the techs couldnt figure it out. I've got a replacement on the way. thanks for your suggestions guys!

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so I took it into the sprint store today and even the techs couldnt figure it out. I've got a replacement on the way. thanks for your suggestions guys!
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Well i guess that may be a way of doing it. Completely break the phone if something goes wrong during root

hmmm.... weird.... your phone decided it had enough flashing apparently
First ive seen of a phone completely bricked that wasn't during a radio update.

[SOLVED] My phone died and I don't know what happened. SHERLOCK HOLMES NEEDED!

So here's the story.
It was last night. It was dark, and I proceeded to charge my phone. I didn't see where I was plugging in the adapter into the wall, so instead of having both adapters in the correct sockets, I had the right prong of the adapter into the left hole of the power bar socket, and the left prong of the adapter into nothing.
Of course, being dark, I didn't see, but it went in so I thought I plugged it in properly.
So my phone is "charging", and I proceeded to flash a new ROM (Android Overdrive). My battery at that time was at around 30%. So I went to recovery, did the regular full factory reset, and flashed it, and when it rebooted, it had the 4-coloured X boot animation playing, when I heard a funny, continuous, low electronic humming sound eminating from my phone and the screen started getting funky and turned a shade of purple. I quickly unplugged the usb, and proceeded to restart the phone.
Phone freezes at boot animation.
I went into bootloader, and successfully navigated to recovery. I proceeded to do a full wipe, and reflash the old rom.
It flashed successfully but I had the same problem of getting stuck on the bootanimation.
Now the phone won't turn on when I press the power button. When I plug it into the wall it shows the charging icon thing, then it turns off, then it turns back on, and repeats like that forever.
When I press the power button when it's plugged in the phone gets stuck at the charging battery screen (The screen freezes).
Also, when I plug my phone into my computer, my computer (windows 7) makes a disconnect sound, followed by three short beeps in quick succession that are at the same pitch as the last note of the two-note disconnect melody. It does this on repeat forever.
PS: I just managed to put the phone into bootloader mode and I am leaving it plugged in. I am going to see if it is still responsive after 30 minutes of just sitting there on the homepage of bootloader mode.
PPS: It was stable after 30 mins; I could still press up and down and select whatever i want. BUT as soon as I unplugged the USB, the device shut off. Is it the battery problem?
Does anyone know yet what's wrong with my phone?

A friend of mine had a similar problem... Never solved it, keep us updated mate...

Sounds like a battery problem. You might wanna get a replacement battery if you can. Word of advice. Never ever flash anything if your phone isn't fully charged or at a good battery percentage. Personal experience
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EcHoFiiVe said:
Sounds like a battery problem. You might wanna get a replacement battery if you can. Word of advice. Never ever flash anything if your phone isn't fully charged or at a good battery percentage. Personal experience
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Yes sir you are correct! I have a friend who also had a Gnex, and I swapped batteries and lo and behold, my phone works again! Now I don't have to drop $400 on a nexus 4 =D