Hello everyone,
I received my cousin's phone asking me to see if I can repair it for him. I've tried turning it on and there is the initial vibrate, and thats it. No sound and no display. Nor do the buytons light up. It's like there is no andriod installed at all lol. I have mangead to get it to boot in hboot but again, there is no display. I don't know but could the screen be dead? Is there any advice that may help fix the phone?
I don't even know what firmware it would be running. All I have managed to do it install the HTC Bootloader while trying to root it.
Thanks all in advance
Simon
Go to hboot --> clean storage
if it not works:
did you rooted? if yes, with clockworkmod installed, you can make a hard reset and install other rom
Hello anmnimo95,
Can you tell me how many times I have to press volume - then power button as ike I said, my screen is completely blank, even on hboot mode. It doesnt look like the screen or the front buttons are powering on but the phone itself seems to power up as it vibrates to say its on.
I don't think this phone is rooted but I can't exactly see it as, like i said, screen seems dead
simonwong1989 said:
Hello anmnimo95,
Can you tell me how many times I have to press volume - then power button as ike I said, my screen is completely blank, even on hboot mode. It doesnt look like the screen or the front buttons are powering on but the phone itself seems to power up as it vibrates to say its on.
I don't think this phone is rooted but I can't exactly see it as, like i said, screen seems dead
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you have to press volume+power pressed at the same time for 3-5 seconds
sorry, i meant as in the hboot menu. I can get into it but i dont know how many time i need to press vol- to get to that option
right.. found the source of the problem. Decided to dig deep into the phone... LCD digitzer and the LCD screen ribbon cables are broken. Going to replace these in the hope that it will work. FINGERS CROSSED!
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Hey guys, I'm new here - so Hi! *Waves*
I've searched and couldn't really see anything like my issue, so thought I'd post:
Having some weird issues with my HTC desire... earlier this morning I heard my phone randomly restart (was just sitting beside my bed) and for some reason it started in safe mode.
The power button wouldn't work so I could turn off / restart. So I removed the battery and put it back in, the phone went to the white screen with Hboot on it.
The Up / Down buttons do not work so I can't select anything, neither does the power button.
Everytime the phone boots up not it goes straight to hboot. I don't press anything, it just automatically starts when the battery is in and I can't do anything or even turn it off.
Now it has decided not to power back on - mainboard stuffed maybe?
Any ideas? :s
phil_boy said:
Hey guys, I'm new here - so Hi! *Waves*
I've searched and couldn't really see anything like my issue, so thought I'd post:
Having some weird issues with my HTC desire... earlier this morning I heard my phone randomly restart (was just sitting beside my bed) and for some reason it started in safe mode.
The power button wouldn't work so I could turn off / restart. So I removed the battery and put it back in, the phone went to the white screen with Hboot on it.
The Up / Down buttons do not work so I can't select anything, neither does the power button.
Everytime the phone boots up not it goes straight to hboot. I don't press anything, it just automatically starts when the battery is in and I can't do anything or even turn it off.
Now it has decided not to power back on - mainboard stuffed maybe?
Any ideas? :s
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check whether you power/volume up/down buttons are stuck inside as if it is pressed.
Are you rooted and s-off? what did you do to your mobile before this issue?
is your SD card working properly? try to post the screenshot of your phone screen with that issue you are trying to explain
sounds like you none working up/down buttons are actuallly but stuck in the down position taking you to hboot on power up. need to free them
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331493&page=2 same ****, different toilet, no way to flush.
bortak said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331493&page=2 same ****, different toilet, no way to flush.
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you really had made detailed trouble shooting guide (came to know from your signature). most of the issues encountered by the users are there. keep it up.
kmaq said:
you really had made detailed trouble shooting guide (came to know from your signature). most of the issues encountered by the users are there. keep it up.
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I know ^_^ tis the point.. good guide = less threads about the same thing.
Hi i m having the same problems here with my desire dunno if its a bit late but
have you managed to fix your desire is not could you try some thing when it loads to HBoot try pressing all of the lower buttons on the desire (home menu track pad back and search) and see if you have any response because once doing this for a few seconds in a random order frantically pressing them my desire had response but would only move up the list? cheers
I have a sort of weird issue. I've got a rooted evo4g with an unlocked bootloader running alter rom. I had some issues with it a while back, so I ran fix permissions and cleared the caches through amon-ra. when I did that, all hell broke loose. my power button stopped working and the volume button took over to wake up the screen. Not only does the power button not work when booted anymore, it won't even work in recovery or in the bootloader. the volume buttons will navigate in recovery, but not in bootloader.
I would like to do a nandroid backup so I can reflash my phone and then just restore my texts, call logs, etc on a clean flash...but since I can't select any menu options in recovery I can't do a nandroid backup.
I have cwm touch for my nexus s 4g, but I don't see one for evo 4g....only standard evo. is that one the same? can I still use it on an evo4g? I know some phones are not interchangeable with recovery on variants...like nexus s, for example hs two recoveries...one for 3g, one for 4g.
also, does anyone have any idea what may have caused the buttons to go haywire like this? I've never seen anything like it. I mean, sure buttons die. All moving parts fail at some point...it's in their nature....but switching control to another hw button???? That jusy makes my head hurt to think about how it could have happened!! lol
Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
johnny.dalvik-cache said:
even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
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hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
death-by-soap said:
Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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hp420 said:
hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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I can't say if it looks pressed since it's not currently in front of me...I know exactly what you mean, though. The inner workings of the button get stuck, and the outer rubber piece will be sort of caved in instead of sticking out like it should.
I build gaming computers as a side-hobby. I'm sure a little disassembly won't be too difficult, as long as I'm not removing any of the guts and I can just get to it by opening the case, I should be ok....too much more and I run into issues when things are that tightly packed into a case.
(reading a tear-down tut now )
Awesome! It should be a piece of cake for you, especially with your video game background. Cool. Let me know how it goes.
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Hi Guys,
Recently my screen has stopped working. The screen remains black but I know the phone is still working because when I press the power button the menu buttons light up. I am able to fix the situation temporarily by doing a soft reset, holding down power button for 10 seconds, and screen will turn on, but later my phone screen stops working again.
BTW I am on Android Revolution HD 9.7.2
Do any of you guys know what I should do?
Thanks.
DarkyHero
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kartik50 said:
Hi Guys,
Recently my screen has stopped working. The screen remains black but I know the phone is still working because when I press the power button the menu buttons light up. I am able to fix the situation temporarily by doing a soft reset, holding down power button for 10 seconds, and screen will turn on, but later my phone screen stops working again.
BTW I am on Android Revolution HD 9.7.2
Do any of you guys know what I should do?
Thanks.
DarkyHero
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Sounds like an bad display...try to get it to service if u still have a warranty
I think it could be related to your custom rom. You should try a different rom or go back to stock rom before sending your hox to repair. If screen is booting up properly when you did a soft reset, it sounds more like a software problem for me than a hardware one.
Hey guys,
I recently installed a new rom but it kept turning off if i take any action so I used Odin and went back to stock unrooted. It was okay for half a day
and it started to shut off randomly as well.
*NOW it's in a constant boot loop. Once I insert the battery it vibrates and turns on by itself and shows the Tmobile logo for a sec and turns off -> vibrate x infite showing black screen
I was told that this could be a "sticky power button, stuck power button" so I opened the housing and used air can, and kinda cleaned and messed around a bit but I dont see how it will fix anything (Suggestions please!) Didn't look like it was sticky or stuck at all @@
I can't get into download / recovery mode because phone just shuts off before I can do anything and vibrates over and over.
Is my phone bricked? or that sticky power button issue? I heard theres not really a simple cure for the stuck power button.... is there?
Does samsung do anything about this even though device is out of warranty? I'm so confused atm >< please share your thoughts and guide me please!
Try
kp0815 said:
Hey guys,
I recently installed a new rom but it kept turning off if i take any action so I used Odin and went back to stock unrooted. It was okay for half a day
and it started to shut off randomly as well.
*NOW it's in a constant boot loop. Once I insert the battery it vibrates and turns on by itself and shows the Tmobile logo for a sec and turns off -> vibrate x infite showing black screen
I was told that this could be a "sticky power button, stuck power button" so I opened the housing and used air can, and kinda cleaned and messed around a bit but I dont see how it will fix anything (Suggestions please!) Didn't look like it was sticky or stuck at all @@
I can't get into download / recovery mode because phone just shuts off before I can do anything and vibrates over and over.
Is my phone bricked? or that sticky power button issue? I heard theres not really a simple cure for the stuck power button.... is there?
Does samsung do anything about this even though device is out of warranty? I'm so confused atm >< please share your thoughts and guide me please!
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Try holding down the volume up and volume down, then hold down the power button until it vibrates twice then release the power then volume buttons. Not sure if you have tryed this yet but that should boot you into recovery.
I dont think that your phone is bricked. I had the same problem and thought the same thing you have. That maybe it bricked or what not. I tried flashing different roms and that didnt work. I went to a repair shop and I got my power button repairs and I flashed it back to stock 4.1.2 unrooted. It has been working fine for me ever since. You might just need to get yours repaired. Hope this helps.
it's not bricked, this happened to me about a month ago. Your power button is broken most likely and needs to be replaced. I got mine fixed for $40.
vencc said:
it's not bricked, this happened to me about a month ago. Your power button is broken most likely and needs to be replaced. I got mine fixed for $40.
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Could you tell me how / where you got ur power button fixed?
Thanks ><
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Could you tell me how / where you got ur power button fixed?
Thanks ><
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Google search is a prerequisite for troubleshooting. Here's a couple links which might help, if it's actually a bad power button.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32653594
and maybe this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xMMn1DRWs
If it helps thank the dude who did the posting. Good luck n stuff!:good:
The power button on my S3 (SGH-i747) is pretty messed up. When i'm not touching it, it decides to register a press and completely messes up everything im doing on the phone. It has such frequent reboots that i can barely boot into recovery. The only way i can actually boot is by holding the phone horizontally with the power button facing down. Is there any fix to this? I'm on CM10.1.0 so would flashing back to stock decrease the sensitivity of this button? Or is it necessary to fix at the shop?
Also i have a cracked screen, so im not sure it would be accepted under the warranty even if it's unrooted.
r8revealed said:
The power button on my S3 (SGH-i747) is pretty messed up. When i'm not touching it, it decides to register a press and completely messes up everything im doing on the phone. It has such frequent reboots that i can barely boot into recovery. The only way i can actually boot is by holding the phone horizontally with the power button facing down. Is there any fix to this? I'm on CM10.1.0 so would flashing back to stock decrease the sensitivity of this button? Or is it necessary to fix at the shop?
Also i have a cracked screen, so im not sure it would be accepted under the warranty even if it's unrooted.
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Hardware failure, repair it or get a new phone
nothing you can do, the flex cable that connect's the button to the board is either busted or shorted
Danvdh said:
Hardware failure, repair it or get a new phone
nothing you can do, the flex cable that connect's the button to the board is either busted or shorted
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I'm having the same issue.
There's absolutely nothing I can do? I thought maybe if I'd open up the device and tinker with it... maybe I can get it working.
s1mpd1ddy said:
I'm having the same issue.
There's absolutely nothing I can do? I thought maybe if I'd open up the device and tinker with it... maybe I can get it working.
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Yes this is quite an annoying problem. If you're having the same problem, are you able to boot into download mode? I can't for some reason.
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Yes this is quite an annoying problem. If you're having the same problem, are you able to boot into download mode? I can't for some reason.
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Something like this you don't want to boot into download mode. What if it resets while you're pushing a file? then your whole phone will be messed up.
I got mine to boot. My method is a bit unorthodox though.... i kept pressing the power button throughout the boot process up until the lock screen. Once it finally loads... i flicked the power button a few times really hard.... it seems to stay in the position but remains extremely sensitive.. as in, i dont even have to press it to turn off the screen.
sucks man... i think this is happening to a lot of power users. I'm literally one week past my warranty.
s1mpd1ddy said:
Something like this you don't want to boot into download mode. What if it resets while you're pushing a file? then your whole phone will be messed up.
I got mine to boot. My method is a bit unorthodox though.... i kept pressing the power button throughout the boot process up until the lock screen. Once it finally loads... i flicked the power button a few times really hard.... it seems to stay in the position but remains extremely sensitive.. as in, i dont even have to press it to turn off the screen.
sucks man... i think this is happening to a lot of power users. I'm literally one week past my warranty.
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Yeah i didnt want anything to happen while anything is installing etc. I somehow got into recovery, but it shut down within a second. (thankfully the first option in cwm is reboot, so that saved me). I can't return for warranty because I'm rooted on CM10.1.0, which was why i wanted to attempt unrooting (but that seems impossible at the moment).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753574
That thread seems to be the solution to our problem, but i feel that if i open it up, something worse will happen. Right now, the phone boots up fine when held horizontally (but shuts down ~2min later) and i can easily backup my data.
One strange thing that i've noticed with this problem that maybe isn't right. Normally , do you have to hold down the power button to shut it off? I always used to think that a power menu would show, THEN you could select shut down, but here, it just shuts down. The power menu flashes sometimes, but shuts down anyway. This may also have me believe that something other than the power button is the problem.
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Yeah i didnt want anything to happen while anything is installing etc. I somehow got into recovery, but it shut down within a second. (thankfully the first option in cwm is reboot, so that saved me). I can't return for warranty because I'm rooted on CM10.1.0, which was why i wanted to attempt unrooting (but that seems impossible at the moment).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753574
That thread seems to be the solution to our problem, but i feel that if i open it up, something worse will happen. Right now, the phone boots up fine when held horizontally (but shuts down ~2min later) and i can easily backup my data.
One strange thing that i've noticed with this problem that maybe isn't right. Normally , do you have to hold down the power button to shut it off? I always used to think that a power menu would show, THEN you could select shut down, but here, it just shuts down. The power menu flashes sometimes, but shuts down anyway. This may also have me believe that something other than the power button is the problem.
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if you hold the power button for 5 seconds or more , it will skip that power menu and reboot. So this still sounds like power button to me.
thanks for the link, been searching everywhere... so fckin hard to search all the S3 threads on XDA. They need to consolidate
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Yeah i didnt want anything to happen while anything is installing etc. I somehow got into recovery, but it shut down within a second. (thankfully the first option in cwm is reboot, so that saved me). I can't return for warranty because I'm rooted on CM10.1.0, which was why i wanted to attempt unrooting (but that seems impossible at the moment).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753574
That thread seems to be the solution to our problem, but i feel that if i open it up, something worse will happen. Right now, the phone boots up fine when held horizontally (but shuts down ~2min later) and i can easily backup my data.
One strange thing that i've noticed with this problem that maybe isn't right. Normally , do you have to hold down the power button to shut it off? I always used to think that a power menu would show, THEN you could select shut down, but here, it just shuts down. The power menu flashes sometimes, but shuts down anyway. This may also have me believe that something other than the power button is the problem.
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Were you able to fix your problem with the fix in that link? I seem to be having the same problem as you.
No, I ended up buying a new phone (I was going to upgrade anyway). I took out the power button, but that wasn't the problem. In a way, it was the button under the button that was sensitive. I would have to take out the motherboard to see the exact problem.
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