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I updated my radio using recovery mode in clockworkmod, and after flashing, the phone rebooted. Upon reboot, it just showed the android coming out of a box icon. I pulled the battery out to reboot, and after that, the phone won't turn on anymore. Is it dead forever?
The battery was fully charged when I did this, so I don't think it's that, however I don't have another battery to test it with currently. Any help would be much appreciated.
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I updated my radio using recovery mode in clockworkmod, and after flashing, the phone rebooted. Upon reboot, it just showed the android coming out of a box icon. I pulled the battery out to reboot, and after that, the phone won't turn on anymore. Is it dead forever?
The battery was fully charged when I did this, so I don't think it's that, however I don't have another battery to test it with currently. Any help would be much appreciated.
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You should not have pulled out the battery, it was installing the radio upgrade. Flashing radios is one of very few ways you can actually brick your device.
Can you still access Recovery?
As above, pulling the battery mid radio flash is a sure way to totally brick your device.
Installing a radio goes through 2 reboots, and you should never ever interrupt the process. Unless you can access recovery it looks like you have brick.
torptube said:
I updated my radio using recovery mode in clockworkmod, and after flashing, the phone rebooted. Upon reboot, it just showed the android coming out of a box icon. I pulled the battery out to reboot, and after that, the phone won't turn on anymore. Is it dead forever?
The battery was fully charged when I did this, so I don't think it's that, however I don't have another battery to test it with currently. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Don't know where you heard about pulling the battery out while flashing but that desire is no more than dust now.
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If you can't access Recovery by holding volume down and power button when the phone is off, you have bricked it. The only way you can recover it now is to find someone with a RIFF box & JTAG or to send it back to HTC and pay an extortionate amount for them to do it for you.
Hmmm bad luck buddy... seems that its bricked indefinitely... is it still under warranty? I know its unethical, but maybe try sending it back and mention that you dropped it or something, you might get lucky.
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Thanks for the reply guys, I guess I truly did brick it, as it won't even power on anymore.
Does anyone have an idea how much HTC would charge for the repair? Am I better off buying a new phone?
torptube said:
Thanks for the reply guys, I guess I truly did brick it, as it won't even power on anymore.
Does anyone have an idea how much HTC would charge for the repair? Am I better off buying a new phone?
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This is why you should always read up on what you are doing before you drive right in, your best bet now is to claim on the insurance or to contact HTC and see what they can do for you. They will without doubt be able to repair it for you, the question is, how much will they charge?
Lesson learned. Unfortunately, I was following the instructions at the cyanogenmod wiki for the Desire.
I thought the radio update was required to update the ROM, but it seems that that is not the case. Hopefully HTC will be willing to repair it.
As a long shot, is anyone here able to do the riff box/jtag repair?
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Lesson learned. Unfortunately, I was following the instructions at the cyanogenmod wiki for the Desire.
I thought the radio update was required to update the ROM, but it seems that that is not the case. Hopefully HTC will be willing to repair it.
As a long shot, is anyone here able to do the riff box/jtag repair?
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I would think they will charge you somewhere in the region of $200+ to repair it, at least. Try looking here I had a little search for people with RIFF Boxes, at the bottom of the page are a list of people who can repair phones, shoot off a few e-mails and see how much they charge to save your Desire, it might work out substantially cheaper than sending it off to HTC.
Thanks! There's even a guy in San Jose. Hopefully he can work on short notice.
Was the $200+ HTC's potential repair fee, or the riff-boxers?
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Thanks! There's even a guy in San Jose. Hopefully he can work on short notice.
Was the $200+ HTC's potential repair fee, or the riff-boxers?
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The potential repair fee. RIF Boxes aren't actually that expensive, ~$150 or so, but it's all about having the know-how to use the damned thing.
Morning hey, can use some help here. My EVO rooted, and using CM7 RC4. Unfortunately, it somehow died last night. Here is what happened. I hooked it up on my PC to charge the phone before I went to bed. I checked the batter status, there were still like 40% left. However, when I woke up. I found out the LED is not on (you know, orange light when you are charging). I tried to press power key to turn on screen, no response. So I took out the battery, and then put it back. After that, I hold the power key, no any response either. No LED light on even i tried to charge it again.
I guess i suppose to go to a local store to check what's going on unless you guys have some better idea there, please help.
Just in case that I have to go the store, will they check if the phone is rooted or not if i'm asking for a change or anything, and, i mean, it's under one year, so it should be under warranty still, right?
Thanks millions in adv here.
Good weekend, guys.
Try to get into the bootloader screen by pressing the down volume button while also pressing the power button. If you are able to start your device via this method, go ahead and select recovery and once you've enter into recovery, select reboot. If you are unsuccessful and are certain it's not a defective battery or something, take it back to Sprint and exchange it.
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Try to get into the bootloader screen by pressing the down volume button while also pressing the power button. If you are able to start your device via this method, go ahead and select recovery and once you've enter into recovery, select reboot. If you are unsuccessful and are certain it's not a defective battery or something, take it back to Sprint and exchange it.
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I did try that way to get in the bootloader. Unfortunately, it didn't work, I mean, it's just like the whole screen cant lit on. no even "HTC EVO4G" white screen.
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I did try that way to get in the bootloader. Unfortunately, it didn't work, I mean, it's just like the whole screen cant lit on. no even "HTC EVO4G" white screen.
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I hear ya. Take it to a nearby Sprint store for an exchange. If you can't get it to work, I doubt they will be able to. They should do the usual check for physical & water damages.
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I hear ya. Take it to a nearby Sprint store for an exchange. If you can't get it to work, I doubt they will be able to. They should do the usual check for physical & water damages.
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Really appreciate it, man.
Have you tried plugging it into the wall charger?
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Have you tried plugging it into the wall charger?
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Agreed. I vaguely remember having a similar problem once and switching batteries (if you have a spare) fixed it. It seemed like the original battery had no charge. I charged it with my external battery charger and it booted up. Oddly enough after that both batteries worked just fine.
Your battery is toasted. It may have not charged, due to either a bad cable, or possibly a broken USB/charging port, and then the battery died to the point that it wont accept a charge. I would see if another battery will power on the device, and then see if you can determine what the charging issue is.
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just back from the local store. yes, buckely, you were totally right. they checked my phone, batteries toasted, they just tried another battery, all things works well. I cannot do exchange on local store, cuz they knew it's rooted phone, I have to call HTC for exchange.
JvIo55iBl3r said:
just back from the local store. yes, buckely, you were totally right. they checked my phone, batteries toasted, they just tried another battery, all things works well. I cannot do exchange on local store, cuz they knew it's rooted phone, I have to call HTC for exchange.
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So is it the charging port that is the actual problem? Is that the malfunction, which is why the battery died to begin with?
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So is it the charging port that is the actual problem? Is that the malfunction, which is why the battery died to begin with?
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Actually, before yesterday, I did noticed there are some problem at the charging port a few days ago, i mean, the port on the evo side, not cable. but i can adjust some angle so to charge the phone. I will try to ask one of friends to borrow his battery to do another check next week. if it's really the charging port problem, i m thinking to unroot my phone, and then ask for exchange it. Just not sure if the local store still can find out or not
JvIo55iBl3r said:
Actually, before yesterday, I did noticed there are some problem at the charging port a few days ago, i mean, the port on the evo side, not cable. but i can adjust some angle so to charge the phone. I will try to ask one of friends to borrow his battery to do another check next week. if it's really the charging port problem, i m thinking to unroot my phone, and then ask for exchange it. Just not sure if the local store still can find out or not
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Yea, if you were experiencing issues with it prior to this happening, then I would unroot it. They wont know, as long as you you turn it to S on, and don't let them see the root related stuff on your SD card (just remove your card). Hopefully Sprint will take care of it for you, but I've heard of some stores being a pain about that specific issue. Others have reported no issues at all,and sprint replaced it on spot. Just depends on the employees at that store.
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Yea, if you were experiencing issues with it prior to this happening, then I would unroot it. They wont know, as long as you you turn it to S on, and don't let them see the root related stuff on your SD card (just remove your card). Hopefully Sprint will take care of it for you, but I've heard of some stores being a pain about that specific issue. Others have reported no issues at all,and sprint replaced it on spot. Just depends on the employees at that store.
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Thanks, man. A little question though. About the part you mentioned "as long as you turn it to S on", how can I do that? I mean, i didn't do unroot before, but have read a few threads here and AndroidCentral months ago. Point is I just know it should use RUU. you think you can give me some links which instruct me to do that? I really appreciate it.
btw, I didn't use UnrEVOked to root my phone,
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Thanks, man. A little question though. About the part you mentioned "as long as you turn it to S on", how can I do that? I mean, i didn't do unroot before, but have read a few threads here and AndroidCentral months ago. Point is I just know it should use RUU. you think you can give me some links which instruct me to do that? I really appreciate it.
btw, I didn't use UnrEVOked to root my phone,
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If you have never used unrevoked forever (keep in mind that some other root methods still use unrevoked forever. Toasts method does not use it though) then an RUU should be all you need to turn s on, and return to stock. If you ever did use unrevoked forever, you just simply need to flash the unrevoked s on tool, in recovery. After that, run RUU as normal.
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If you have never used unrevoked forever (keep in mind that some other root methods still use unrevoked forever. Toasts method does not use it though) then an RUU should be all you need to turn s on, and return to stock. If you ever did use unrevoked forever, you just simply need to flash the unrevoked s on tool, in recovery. After that, run RUU as normal.
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I believe when I rooted my phone, I used some app which is like automatically run steps of toasts method to root phone, called "simple3" or something.
will there be some damage or brick the phone if i flash unrevoked_foerver_son.zip on the phone which didn't use unRevoked method?
Sorry to be someone annoying here keeping asking you, but i'm curious, since i've been one of local stores already, will another store have my phone records showing my phone is rooted, and wont check it for me next time i m going?
JvIo55iBl3r said:
I believe when I rooted my phone, I used some app which is like automatically run steps of toasts method to root phone, called "simple3" or something.
will there be some damage or brick the phone if i flash unrevoked_foerver_son.zip on the phone which didn't use unRevoked method?
Sorry to be someone annoying here keeping asking you, but i'm curious, since i've been one of local stores already, will another store have my phone records showing my phone is rooted, and wont check it for me next time i m going?
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I believe the method you're referring to was called simple root. I'm actually not too familiar with it. Flashing the s on tool should do no harm. I'm honestly not sure if you need it, due to the root method you used, but if you flash it, and s is still off, you probably just need to run the RUU, and you'll be good.
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I believe the method you're referring to was called simple root. I'm actually not too familiar with it. Flashing the s on tool should do no harm. I'm honestly not sure if you need it, due to the root method you used, but if you flash it, and s is still off, you probably just need to run the RUU, and you'll be good.
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Thanks millions for your time and patience, your instruction is really helpful to me. I guess i might just run s-on.zip first, then flash RUU.
Sorry, one more question here. Correct me if i m wrong. most recent Unroot just need to flash RUU zip file (maybe after turn s-on by s-on.zip), then everything is done; Not like before, i have to connect my phone to PC, run some sync and RUU apps. Am I right?
JvIo55iBl3r said:
Thanks millions for your time and patience, your instruction is really helpful to me. I guess i might just run s-on.zip first, then flash RUU.
Sorry, one more question here. Correct me if i m wrong. most recent Unroot just need to flash RUU zip file (maybe after turn s-on by s-on.zip), then everything is done; Not like before, i have to connect my phone to PC, run some sync and RUU apps. Am I right?
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You're welcome, and no need to be sorry.
Yes, you can put an RUU zip (PC36IMG.zip) on your SD card, and run it from the bootloader. That would negate you from needing to run the RUU from your computer. You only need to do it one way or the other.
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Again, thank you, buckley, so much.
Since i've been one of local stores already, they used another battery and powered up my phone, they already know my phone is rooted. I m curious if this will be some record, which is bad cuz another store will find out immediately and decline to exchange for me?
JvIo55iBl3r said:
Again, thank you, buckley, so much.
Since i've been one of local stores already, they used another battery and powered up my phone, they already know my phone is rooted. I m curious if this will be some record, which is bad cuz another store will find out immediately and decline to exchange for me?
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I would tend to think that they wouldn't have red flagged your account, but you never know. I'd go to a different store, and see what happens. Chances are that you'll be fine though.
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This is probably completely a result of my stupidity but I rooted my phone a while ago. I had a nandroid back up set before i flashed to any custom roms just in case anything happened. Then i flashed to the back up again and wasn't running any custom roms. it was just still rooted because i never got a chance to unroot it. I then installed an update not thinking about it at all and im pretty sure bricked my phone. When it first happened it had two green arrows in a circle around another green arrow pointing down at a picture of a phone. I pulled the battery and drove home all day. I just got home and tried to turn it on and nothing is working. The charge light is not coming on when it is plugged in, vol up+ power and vol down+power button doesnt work. it seems like nothing i can do can turn this phone on. any ideas on how i can fix this?
ps. i have also checked and made sure the battery works and everything
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This is probably completely a result of my stupidity but I rooted my phone a while ago. I had a nandroid back up set before i flashed to any custom roms just in case anything happened. Then i flashed to the back up again and wasn't running any custom roms. it was just still rooted because i never got a chance to unroot it. I then installed an update not thinking about it at all and im pretty sure bricked my phone. When it first happened it had two green arrows in a circle around another green arrow pointing down at a picture of a phone. I pulled the battery and drove home all day. I just got home and tried to turn it on and nothing is working. The charge light is not coming on when it is plugged in, vol up+ power and vol down+power button doesnt work. it seems like nothing i can do can turn this phone on. any ideas on how i can fix this?
ps. i have also checked and made sure the battery works and everything
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seems like you bricked it, your not support to pull out during any installation radios,updates..etc. keep it on the charger for a while and then try to boot up or try to go into hboot again
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seems like you bricked it, your not support to pull out during any installation radios,updates..etc. keep it on the charger for a while and then try to boot up or try to go into hboot again
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i didnt pull during the installation. i let it download and install and it rebooted by itself. so it seems like everything was installed properly it just bricked afterwards any idea? thanks for the help though
If you pulled the battery during the arrow pointing at the phone stage, you're bricked. That was most likely a radio update, and pulling the battery during that will give you a phone that'll never turn on again.
When exactly did you pull the battery?
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yeah, you can't pull the bettery with that logo on, sometimes after an update the phone will go into that mode where it seems unresponsive but it always pulls through. If you pulled it out during that time then the previous posters are correct and you likely have a very handy paper weight (hope you have insurance, or have a clean phone that has no damage so you can claim a warranty issue). If you didn't pull the battery during this time and it just died or powered off on you then you could have a battery issue, while unlikely it doesn't mean that it isn't possible. I would take the advice and let it sit on the charger overnight, if that doesn't wory then I would just take it to sprint and play dumb. If it's bricked and won't turn on then they won't be able to tell that it was rooted, just say you plugged it in at night and woke up and it was dead. Not that i'm an advocate of screwing sprint, but we put up with ****ty wimax so whatcha gonna do....
yep, if you got insurance just go to sprint and tell them you updated to 2.3 and then it just shut off
damn, i didnt realize that it was still updating. thanks for the heads up, it's definitely bricked lol but i have insurance thankfully. best way to go about getting a new phone? is there a specific excuse i should use or just play dumb? but thanks for all the help. i really do appreciate it
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damn, i didnt realize that it was still updating. thanks for the heads up, it's definitely bricked lol but i have insurance thankfully. best way to go about getting a new phone? is there a specific excuse i should use or just play dumb? but thanks for all the help. i really do appreciate it
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As others before me have stated, just tell sprint that you ran the "new update" and it restarted your phone and now it does not work.
Make sure you don't mention anything about being rooted or pulling out the battery....
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As others before me have stated, just tell sprint that you ran the "new update" and it restarted your phone and now it does not work.
Make sure you don't mention anything about being rooted or pulling out the battery....
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okay thanks again!
Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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So insurance premium raising never has to do with wanting higher profits? And this whole time I thought insurance companies were blood suckers.
All jokes aside, insurance fraud is not cool.
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So insurance premium raising never has to do with wanting higher profits? And this whole time I thought insurance companies were blood suckers.
All jokes aside, insurance fraud is not cool.
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insurance companies deserve to pay. Especially auto insurance. ****ing highway robbery.
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Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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It wasn't root that bricked his phone, it was HTC and Sprint pushing an update without instructing users properly. He pulled the battery thinking it was stuck. It was an accident. Just like dropping or losing your phone. That's what insurance is for.
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possibly bricked evo 4g's
i just received 2 evo 4g's from a friend that couldn't get them to start up and was wondering if there was a procedure beside power and down volume buttons...i have tried holding them down for about 5 mins and also just holding down the power button by itself to no avail.....any help would be greatly appreciated.....
ps they were plugged in all night and also made sure the battery was working by putting it on another evo and they also work....just wanted to see if anything else comes to mind.....btw they are out of contract so no insurance..
Love the phone but getting kind of sick of this stuff. The phone has been crashing lately, went into a boot loop today that took me at least half an hour to get working again (pulled the sim, sd card and battery till it worked), about 5 minutes ago my phone was on charge and I was sending sms messages using browser texting, and I noticed I hadn't received any replies for a while, so I looked at my phone and noticed it was a phone icon with a red triangle and a red exclamation mark, I pulled the battery and everything booted up like normal, then I went to unlock my phone a minute later and it wasn't responding, but the green notification led was flashing. This is the second phone I've bought, this time with warranty so that's good, I generally really like the phone and I feel if I can fix these weird problems and get the battery life a little better it'll be perfect. Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking of doing a factory restore but I basically just got this phone, and I have so many apps installed (May possibly the problem). I'm running Juice Defender Beta... I think I might try and use Ultimate and not beta and see if that helps the situation, other then that, any ideas guys?
Okay so right now after rebooting my phone again, the phone locked and isn't responding again with the bottom soft keys lit up. This phone is driving me crazy I'm going to uninstall juice defender see if that helps.
Is the phone rooted? If you installed a buggy custom rom it could cause the problems you're seeing.
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Is the phone rooted? If you installed a buggy custom rom it could cause the problems you're seeing.
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Thanks for the reply, my phone is completely stock running the 2.3.3 OTA firmware. I uninstalled a few programs, juice defender beta being one of them and everything is working wonderfully now hmmm, besides my poor battery life of course.
Just had another crash while downloading 2 things from the market and now I have the red triangle and exclamation mark thing again..
And now my phone isn't turning on again!. I'm having so much luck with these wonderful devices. What should I do?
the only things, that comes to my mind needs root. root breaks your warranty.
So - i would try factory reset and after this, if it wount help, give it back to the shop for repair.
The red triangle/exclamation mark is stock recovery, you can pull up a menu in it by pressing vol up + power.
Do you get any error messages in that recovery? especially along the lines of:
E: Can't mount cache
If so, it might be a bad emmc chip.
-Nipqer
I didn't see any errors and now the phone wont turn on at all. Looks like I'll have to take it back
Okay so I got a brand new one replaced through warranty, it was the 28th day of the 28 day return period and it was the last one in stock, this one has nothing wrong with the screen which is good. Anyway I was wondering if anyone is willing to bounce ideas off me as to why this has happened to me twice. Bad apps? Juice defender? Custom launcher? (Zeam)? I find it hard to believe this is possible, but it could be.
Definitely don't think it was Zeam. Could just be rotten luck. Perhaps try installing your desired apps one at a time to verify that wasn't the cause. Best of luck.
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Definitely don't think it was Zeam. Could just be rotten luck. Perhaps try installing your desired apps one at a time to verify that wasn't the cause. Best of luck.
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Good because I like Zeam . The problem with that is it's pretty much impossible to narrow it down like that, the first one took 3 months to die, second one took 2 weeks, I can't install an app then wait until it dies then determine that's the app that does it.
Don't think it was apps that caused your device to behave like that. Probably just faulty device...
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Don't think it was apps that caused your device to behave like that. Probably just faulty device...
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I think this has to be the case, an app couldn't fry the device like that could it? Even if it was trying to? I just sincerely hope this one isn't faulty... 3rd times the charm . So basically everyone's in agreement I don't have to do anything special just use the device like normal? Some people are saying don't install too many things, while others are saying just use it like normal what do you guys think. I don't think the amount of apps installed would do that, I had plenty of space left on my phone.
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Okay so I got a brand new one replaced through warranty, it was the 28th day of the 28 day return period and it was the last one in stock, this one has nothing wrong with the screen which is good. Anyway I was wondering if anyone is willing to bounce ideas off me as to why this has happened to me twice. Bad apps? Juice defender? Custom launcher? (Zeam)? I find it hard to believe this is possible, but it could be.
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It's probably closer to what Nipqer said with bad EMMC chip. I fully bricked my Desire Z and boy the s--t I did to that phone warranty would have been gone in a few seconds of research. I mean I rooted it, flashed it well over a hundred times. I took it into the HTC repair shop opened up my phone into CWM -- remember if a tech sees CWM -- warranty voided period. I showed him the E:/ can't mount error and he replaced the phone no questions asked. I think this is something that HTC is keeping under wraps instead of doing a massive recall just replacing any unit where this occurs no questions asked. Probably worried about getting a massive class action lawsuit where a judge will force them into doing a recall and giving thier customers a major settlement. Obviously this is only speculation, but I also talked to a good friend who is the west coast business manager for all of Rogers in Canada and he said that every Desire Z that is having problems is getting returned no questions asked, and he said that is completely out of the ordinary for HTC. So my guess something is up and we will never really find out the truth, just count your blessings with this.
Hmm interesting, thanks for your reply gave me something to think about. I guess it makes sense, the phones over a year old and HTC doesn't want to deal with it. I was surprised how quickly and easily I walked out of the Vodafone store with a brand new desire z, tho I've never done it before and it could be standard procedure. Anyway I hope this ones okay, otherwise I'll just take it back again.
Screen has gone black. Sometimes i can see everything fine for a second and then it just goes black. I know the phone is still on because I can feel the haptic feedback of the buttons even when its black. My question is how do I unroot my phone so I can return it through verizon without the use of the screen? Any help would be appreciated I am at a loss on this.
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Screen has gone black. Sometimes i can see everything fine for a second and then it just goes black. I know the phone is still on because I can feel the haptic feedback of the buttons even when its black. My question is how do I unroot my phone so I can return it through verizon without the use of the screen? Any help would be appreciated I am at a loss on this.
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Have you tried a battery pull? Can you still access your recovery?
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I have done a battery pull and it did nothing. I have not tried recovery but I dont think that will help, I believe it is a hardware issue with the screen.
Just smack it like the fonz! Lol
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Just smack it like the fonz! Lol
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You know I actually tried that, I even did the haaaa with the thumbs out thing but that didnt work.:laugh: So I am guessing by the lack of responses that I am just screwed and I will not be able to fix it. If anyone has any ideas i would really appreciate it.
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You know I actually tried that, I even did the haaaa with the thumbs out thing but that didnt work.:laugh: So I am guessing by the lack of responses that I am just screwed and I will not be able to fix it. If anyone has any ideas i would really appreciate it.
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Well, at least try to access your bootloader first and then narrate what happened.
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bc13 said:
You know I actually tried that, I even did the haaaa with the thumbs out thing but that didnt work.:laugh: So I am guessing by the lack of responses that I am just screwed and I will not be able to fix it. If anyone has any ideas i would really appreciate it.
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Like david_hume suggested I would try getting into boot loader first.
My guess is that its hardware failure. If you no longer have warranty/insurance on your phone you could try taking your phone apart. It could be as simple as the connection for the LCD came loose. My other guesses would be the LCD could have went bad or the connection on the PCB failed. You might want to start looking for a donor phone if you can find one cheap. Or if you aren't up for the DIY challenge it could be time for a new phone. If you decide to try fixing it I highly recommend looking for a good tear down video on YouTube.
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The phone is still under the htc 1 year warranty so I could have it replaced under that. My only question is will they be able to tell its rooted by hooking it up to a computer or will they just give me a new one since the screen went dead.
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The phone is still under the htc 1 year warranty so I could have it replaced under that. My only question is will they be able to tell its rooted by hooking it up to a computer or will they just give me a new one since the screen went dead.
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I'm not sure about that. I've never done an exchange through them. I have heard of people getting warranty replacements while their phone is rooted but not sure if that is through VZW or HTC.
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