Blank screen and damaged SD card after restart - Desire General

Hi guys this has happened twice now.
I get up in the morning to check my phone (its in sleep mode not turned off), press the power button and there is no display, but the bottom buttons light up.
Take out the battery and restart, and it comes up saying the SD card is damaged.
Format SD and reload stuff onto it and thought it was all sorted but its done it again today.
Does anyone know what this could be?

dude give us more info.... Rom etc

All standard android 2.1 never been messed with had it since january, do you need info from the settings page?

Wow I thought every 1 was atleast on froyo and not 2.1 lol bro firstly I'd recommend updating ur phone via HTC sync .. remember to back everything up
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HTC Desire won't shut down / power off

Turned off the phone last night, returned to it this morning (6+ hours) with "Power off - shutting down" on the screen. I ended up pulling the battery and booting from cold.
The phone turned back on with no problems, but 45 minutes after turning it off again - it is displaying the same screen and not shutting down. Pulling the battery, turning on and then turning off the phone immediately has the same problem.
Tasks running before the shut down are normal, I have almost no 3rd party apps installed yet.
Ideas anyone?
Sounds like a similar problem that I and a number of others seem to be having. The bad news is that there doesn't seem to be a simple fix at the moment, but the good news is that with it happening to increasing numbers of us, hopefully it will be remediable in a future update.
DoAndroidsDream said:
Gak. Didn't see the main post for the issue. *waves to admins for deletion*
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Hi there,
What main post are you referring to for this issue?
If you could please direct me, thanks.
I'm having the same problem, last week I was turning the phone off and it would turn off in half hour or so.
This morning, I turned the phone off, and it has been "Shutting down" for about 3 hours now...
extremely frustrating!!!
Try to install "aLogCat" application. This app could show Android log files.
And see if you can spot something there ...
I also have this issue. I took out the battery.
The thing is ... after turned on ... you can turn off without any problem.
unmount sd card before shutting down.
Will change it from never to shutting down to shutting down in <10 seconds
Spineli said:
Hi there,
What main post are you referring to for this issue?
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Perhaps this? :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=666332
Had the same issue when I first got my desire from T-Mobile. SD Card later failed on me, and after getting a replacement from T-Mobile, the phone works perfectly and shuts down instantly. So my guess is that your problem is the SD card. You could try walking to the retailer and try to get a replacement SD card. When mine failed T-Mobile even gave me a 8gb one instead of the orignal 4gb
Im 99% sure its an app/widget causing the prob. I had the same, but its gone when I uninstalled most of my apps. Not sure which app caused the prob though...
I had that problem. After a hard reset it is not present any more. So i guess that some app caused it. Couldnt tell wich one.
hrcro said:
I had that problem. After a hard reset it is not present any more. So i guess that some app caused it. Couldnt tell wich one.
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It might be harder to diagnose than uninstalling/killing something and trying again, as it might be due to memory leaks, services, other tasks. I've read that it might be related to the backup to sd card which happens from time to time, so unless you're in the middle of a backup then you'd not have a problem (assuming there is a connection). You can only tell over time.
HTC Desire won't power off
I had the exact same problem. I only had 2 widgets active: 1 was the Handcent SMS widget the other was a Battery widget from mippin.com. I changed the Handcent widget to the program shortcut but did not uninstall and uninstalled the Battery widget. Now it powers off with no problem
i have the same issue with my desire.. i have a 8gb sd card in there.. which is nearly full.. maybe thats an issue?
how do you unmount card before shutting down?
micks_address said:
how do you unmount card before shutting down?
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Menu > Settings > SD and Phone Storage > Unmount SD Card
thanks for that.. is there any downside to doing a hard reset? is that setting - privacy - factory data reset?
Gana1991 said:
Menu > Settings > SD and Phone Storage > Unmount SD Card
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Once I tried to unmount sd card and then it wasn't possible at all to shut down the phone. I had to remove battery
hey buddy, try to remove quick links like back light and soft reset, it works also try with flash light same...worked with me..good luck. or try toms power off zip.
DESIRE doesnt turn off
It sucks..all night long, this morning i found out it was still in the process of shutting down..turning off the cell phone should be a priority program,all others tasks must shut down..i think HTC should make an update since a lot of users experience same problem.
It used to hang at shutting down with me too. But, and I have no idea what changed, it now shuts down just fine. Weird stuff!
I shut mine down last night. It used to take about 60seconds to shut down but last night it just said "shutting down" for hours. I left it to see what happened. 11hours later it still said "shutting down". I picked it up and was going to open it up and remove battery. I obviously didn't want to do that to get dust and crap into the back of phone. As soon as I turned it over to remove back the screen went white! HTC. And it started up. ? ? ? coincidence or did me moving it around cause the restart after 11hours?
Anyway, I can tell it now has 237mb free (using advanced task killer to check memory available). It never normally has more than 150mb free. Maybe there is a memory leak somewhere in Sense UI? It seems the longer you have used thephone without a restart, the more likley it will hang during shutdown.
I hope HTC are aware of this issue. I logged a support call too, as I'm sure many of you did.
anyway, shake the phone around a bit before you remove the back to see if that helps. It did for me after 11 hours of being stuck on "shutting down!" screen.
Oh by the way, I had unmounted the card befre the shut down in the hopes it would be quicker than 60seconds. It made no difference!
i had this issue also.. a factory reset fixed it.. i think it was an app i installed did the damage.. some mentioned unmounting the sd card first but i tried that and it made no difference..

phone wont wake from sleep

Iv'e had my desire for all of about 3 days. Absolutely love the phone; however, I've been having a few problems. The phone doesn't seem to wake up when I receive a text message, and as of about an hour ago, the phone doesn't wake up *AT ALL* when it goes to sleep. I have to pull out the battery and turn the phone back on, but then as soon as it goes back to sleep, or if I touch the power button to manually put it to sleep, it wont wake up.
Has anyone else had this problem? I've tried a hard reset and the problem remains.
wow first saw this post and thought i had clicked on the htc touch hd android section, but does your phone always turn off when you press the top button?
Tried a master reset? What rom you running? If it's first t-mobile one try an update or even try Generic rom.
I've got the similar problem. On vibration profile, when a text message arrives the phone vibrates but the screen doesn't wake up. It wakes up when I receive a call though.
Is this by design? Does your screen wake up when you receive a text message?
No wake on notifications for me ... is Android meant to?
I solved this and posted a reply, but it seems to have disappeared.
The problem I was having was because of a corrupt SD card. I was using an 8GB card that I'd been using in my Touch HD for the last 2 years and running things like XDAndroid from it.
The problem disappeared when I replaced the sd card with a new one.
sleepnow said:
I solved this and posted a reply, but it seems to have disappeared.
The problem I was having was because of a corrupt SD card. I was using an 8GB card that I'd been using in my Touch HD for the last 2 years and running things like XDAndroid from it.
The problem disappeared when I replaced the sd card with a new one.
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I don't het it, is the system meant to wake on notifications?
I also had the same problem of not being able to unlock the phone once when I was copying a large movie file to the phone, but automatically worked after it was done.
So it seems to be related to the micro SD card in some way.
O and O said:
I don't het it, is the system meant to wake on notifications?
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no, it could if you want it to,he's talking about his phone not waking up after he puts it to sleep or turns off the screen... sms aren't supposd to wake up ur phone and I'm thankful for that, it was handy back in the day when I had the wing but ur screen waking up for no reason that's stupid I mean even if u have ur phone inside ur pocket... doesn't make sense to me as long as the led flashes I'm fine

[Q]Devastating HTC Desire HD Problem[Q]

After being on a few websites, I found a few people saying that this problem seemed to be hardware related, however I now know this is not true, as a hard-reset has managed to get functionality back again.
Anyway, I was taking pictures on my phone today, and I've only had it for two days. I took about 7 pictures with the flash on, and the saturation edited a little bit to give my pictures more colour, ect. Anyway on the 8th photo or however many it was my phone decided to turn off. This only happened if the flash was turned on, however if I went into the flashlight application the LED's worked fine... The only way to fix was by doing a hard-reset + the phone wouldn't turn on unless I removed the battery. As of now, my camera is working fine, but if this happens again, what should I do?
I heard of that. It seems to happen sometimes when the battery is low. Try charging your battery and see if this happens again
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Ah, thanks. At the time u was suffering from a low battery, and I was out on the country roads about 20 miles away from my house, that's a big help because if it happens again I know not to reset my phone. Thanks mate.
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OMW the drama of that title.
I was expecting a Bollywood script. Damn it, i want my money back
i had exatly the same problem on my desire hd with leedroid on.
i would take a photo, the first couple would be ok then bam the phone was off. to restart the battery would have to be removed. i cleared dalvik, etc and eventually reflashed with no change.
i gave up then all of a sudden i was getting sdcard unextpected eject on mp3 playback.....
this kept happening so i put the card into my pc and ran scan disk, no probs.....
i then decided to put my other 16gb card in and put that card into my archos a5a. when copying over i noticed the proccedure would freeze, then all of a sudden my open disk would show up. the card works fine when cool but as soon as fast moving data and lots of it (8mp pics for example) it would fail.
im currently waiting for a rma on that card as i have noticed it has a five year warrenty (pny) - could this be your problem?

[Q] HTC D Z touchscreen issue

Hi Every one
IS there anybody who can guide me on my HTC Dz for following issue.
I am facing this problem from 2 days back.
My phone is HTC desire z singapore based model running on 2.2.1 update.
Never rooted ,working on stock rom. Using since last december 2010.
I love it .
But fom past few days its touchscreen sceen hanging after wake up each time.
even touch screen buttons i.e. home , back menu , etc. wont work in that situation.
Each time I have to press power butto to wake him up and slide unlock slider.
But whatever that time I was running on screen that keep running, i just cant interact with it.
When ever I connect USB cable for any purpose , it even not respond to any touch, just keep charging.
Before this issue I was only browsing inbuild You Tube app on phone and nothing download from outside app market.
To solve by my side , I try with Complete power off and start up, remove battery and card for few second and also with factory reset. But still there is problem.
I am waiting for update from htc for 2.3 so may be it can solve issue..if this is related with ROM.
Can anyone give me suggestion on this ?
Thanks in advance.
Did u also try to do a full factory reset?
First a fall , thanks for your feedback
Yes I did
I already try with factory reset + battery removal for few second + sd card removal + sim card removal + restarts and power offs for many times
But still the same situation

[Q] Phone Troubles.

Ok my friend has a droid incredible and he may have screwed it up permanently. He rooted the phone then flashed cyanogen mod kernel and now the phone will not mount the sd card. Clockwork recovery won't even launch because it needs the sd card mounted. He can access hboot but I don't think it's functioning properly. The phone will not power on unless you remove the battery then plug it into the usb charger. I think that may be a symptom of the bad kernel. I have a samsung vibrant so its very simple to revert back to stock with odin if you semi-brick your phone. How would I revert back to stock on an htc droid incredible thats unable to mount the sd card? Is it even possible? Is there a simple solution or is game over for this phone?
If you try to turn the phone on without it being plugged in, does it vibrate five times and the notification light blink green?
godsmacked4653 said:
If you try to turn the phone on without it being plugged in, does it vibrate five times and the notification light blink green?
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Yes. I'm not 100% sure that it vibrates five times but it does vibrate when you try to turn it on with out the usb plugged in and then the light blinks green like you described. I don't have the phone in my possession but what you described is exactly what is happening when you turn it on without it being plugged in.
Yes 5x vibrate then the damn green light of death!!! HELP
blue tooth, sd card and wifi don't work anymore cant mount sd card...
computer doesnt recongnize the phone.. cant do anything..
Can you boot into hboot? (Power and volume down).
I'd try using a card reader to put the RUU on the SD card, then boot into hboot to install it.
k_nivesout said:
Can you boot into hboot? (Power and volume down).
I'd try using a card reader to put the RUU on the SD card, then boot into hboot to install it.
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can't mount sd card at all... card works on the computer... only powers on after hitting the power button then when the HTC Incredible screen pops up you insert the power cable the it turns on... without doing that you get 5 vibrations followed by a flashing green light and nothing works.. when phone is on, the WIFI, bluetooth and the sd card doesn't work.. can't even take picture due to it saying insert sd card??? any suggestions?
forgot to mention that now the phones has strange white lines that flow threw the screen when using it... glitches
Lines across the screen on any device usually points to some sort of hardware failure (usually video); I think that's what the 5x vibrate means too, is some sort of hardware failure.
what about all the other stuff not working... can i bring phone back to verizon and get a new one??? what if they see superuser is that avoid on warrenty?
The 5X vibration thing screwed my phone up. I took it to Verizon, showed them it wouldn't boot, got a refurb, no questions asked. I had the unrevoked splash and everything.
Just take it to Verizon. I don't know of anyone that's fixed their phone after this started happening, sorry.
Thanks brotha I will deff run over there and see what's up will they still give me a new phone without paying. The $5 a month warrenty... ie there like a one yea manufactur warranty or something?
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There should be a one year manufacturers warranty if you got the phone from Verizon.

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