I have a chance to buy a dinc for a really cheap price, the problem is, it is stuck on the white HTC screen. Story is they flashed it to use on a different carrier, and apparently it didn't work.
Is this phone worth getting? To fix will it be a simple reflash back to verizon, or is there the possibility of not getting it back to working?
Thanks for any help, advise.
If they are telling the truth about what they did to it, then it should be an easy fix. But the phone could also have a hardware problem.
If you can't get it to come up in bootloader, it's a brick. I wouldn't bother with it. There's no way to tell what actually went wrong with it, but something clearly did.
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Hey guys I have an Evo but my buddy has an Dinc and we rooted it and flashed CM6 and its never had a problem. Lately it started randomly rebooting and now it wont get past the splash screen; he cant even boot into recovery he said and an RUU doesnt even recognize the phone.
any help is greatly appreciated guys, thanks.
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mic.mayorga said:
Hey guys I have an Evo but my buddy has an Dinc and we rooted it and flashed CM6 and its never had a problem. Lately it started randomly rebooting and now it wont get past the splash screen; he cant even boot into recovery he said and an RUU doesnt even recognize the phone.
any help is greatly appreciated guys, thanks.
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mic, what is the model number of the device? There are 3 for the Incredible, the ADR6300, 6300VW2 and VW3. Also, how early (after the phone hit the market) is the phone?
I couldn't tell you exactly. He bought like the first one, the one that came with the OLED screen.
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I see. I had one of the original ones as well, and began to have an issue similar to this. What happened was some of early models had defective hardware radio chips. To find out if this is the issue with your friend's phone, have the phone deactivated from service, and then shut off the phone for 20 minutes. If you turn it back on and it powers on with no problems, you may have a device that needs replacement. If so, at least it will make you able to unroot and flash back to stock so you can get replaced with verizon/htc.
If this doesn't change anything, let us know, we'll get to the bottom of this.
well i tried calling him and i got his google voice thing when he didnt answer. idk if that means hes back on the Dinc or not. he had to go back to the enV 3 for a working phone lol. the only problem is that if he asked Verizon for a replacement but he bought it contractless on ebay...
They'd probably just tell him no.
mic.mayorga said:
well i tried calling him and i got his google voice thing when he didnt answer. idk if that means hes back on the Dinc or not. he had to go back to the enV 3 for a working phone lol. the only problem is that if he asked Verizon for a replacement but he bought it contractless on ebay...
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mic.mayorga said:
well i tried calling him and i got his google voice thing when he didnt answer. idk if that means hes back on the Dinc or not. he had to go back to the enV 3 for a working phone lol. the only problem is that if he asked Verizon for a replacement but he bought it contractless on ebay...
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Might be able to make a claim with HTC, but the warranty claims are made through a third party. I had some luck with calling HTC, getting them to say that they'll do something about it, and when the third party tried to charge me money, I just flipped **** and gave them the loyal customer speech. Worth a shot. If you can't get it for free, ***** and see if that helps
haha okay ill let him know to look into that. also ill ask him about the whole 20 minutes thing. thanks a lot for the help
Wonky SD Card?
CM 'interactively' uses elements of the SD card, I believe.
That said, have you tried a different SD card?
Meaning, d/l another ROM onto the 'other' SD card, put it in the device w/ power off (after unmounting SD, powering down, and removing 'first' SD card)
Load/flash new ROM from recovery off of 'other' SD after wiping everything, and see if it boots.
The story goes like this:
I have a Desire and today saw a local Ad where a guy sells a Htc Desire Z stuck at boot after upgrading. Thats the only info provided.
Now, the price is around 160 euros or 222 us dollars.
I have lots of experience with root/s-off from the Desire and anything with that shouldn't be a problem.
My questions are:
Is there a way to brick this phone?
Can it be somehow unbricked?
If the guy tried to update the phone to the latest one, can i root it then or downgrade it perhaps and root then?
Thank you very much whoever answers this.
Well hopefully some brighter folks than I can ellucidate whether it is possible to get out of a bootloop.
What I can offer however is my opinion on the purchase overall. $222USD is a good chunk of change. If there's a chance that it is not recoverable, I don't think it would be worth the gamble. Now if it were the nearly unbrickable Vibrant or something, I'd say go for it.
I bought my G2 in near mint condition for $275.
It all depends, Is it S-off? Does he have a custom recovery installed? Can you boot into Hboot and then into recovery(Clockworkmod Recovery)? If so then you probably can install a rom on the sdcard and flash them from recovery.
If its in a boot loop with S-on I would not touch it.
Boot loop with S-ON means it still has Nand protection which means you can't do shiz with it. I do have a little story though.
Bought a G1 off craigslist and shortly after the screen started acting wonky so I said what the hell and called Tmo. Explained the problem and hoped theyd have some pointers since the G1 was new and resources like this didn't exist at the time. They ended up being able to look up the phone and determined it still had warranty time left on the device so they exchanged it for me. Sometimes warranty carries over with phones. I'd call Tmo before I bought though and have them go ahead and send me a refurb then go buy the bootlooped one and send it back.
Supposedly he tried to install a different ROM which implies that he's rooted.
That should be fixable then, right?
Or is s-off really necessary for the Z?
UPDATE:
he just lowered the price to around 100 euros.
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Boot loop with S-ON means it still has Nand protection which means you can't do shiz with it. I do have a little story though.
Bought a G1 off craigslist and shortly after the screen started acting wonky so I said what the hell and called Tmo. Explained the problem and hoped theyd have some pointers since the G1 was new and resources like this didn't exist at the time. They ended up being able to look up the phone and determined it still had warranty time left on the device so they exchanged it for me. Sometimes warranty carries over with phones. I'd call Tmo before I bought though and have them go ahead and send me a refurb then go buy the bootlooped one and send it back.
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I actually just did something similar. I bought a used G2 that was in perfect physical working order but with physical blemishes etc. and was about 3months old. About a week later dust started to accumulate under the screen. Even though the phone was used and I was on a EM+ plan with no contract and I didnt purchase the phone from a T-mo store, they still replaced it for free. More of a statement about how great T-mo support is than anything, but I think its interesting that they will support the device even though its used.
Now anything more than this is quite borderline not very ethical depending on who you ask, but I wouldn't really feel like buying a bootlooped phone just to try and send it back to T-mo and claim you don't know what happened. If that was very possible then the guy that currently has the phone would probably have done that already...
Yeah, i bought it.
The problem is/are it won't boot or turn on at all.
I'll send it to the repair shop to see if anything can be done.
And guess what.
Do you remember when the HTC vision/g2/desire z got leaked?
This picture here
It turns out, it's the same phone
THE SAME PHONE, Look at the serial numberl
DanijelDesire said:
Yeah, i bought it.
The problem is/are it won't boot or turn on at all.
I'll send it to the repair shop to see if anything can be done.
And guess what.
Do you remember when the HTC vision/g2/desire z got leaked?
This picture here
It turns out, it's the same phone
THE SAME PHONE, Look at the serial numberl
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PLEASE tell me you kept that. That would be like getting that first iphone that homeboy lost in the bar.
My Vision's screen has a loose connection. the picture flips up and down, changes colors, and doesn't show up most of the time. I can't see the screen clearly enough to unroot, and since it's a problem with the hardware and not my fault T-Mobile should suck it, anyway. But no one will help me because it's rooted.
Any way to unroot and return to stock with limited screen access, or would I be better off voiding the warranty completely and fixing it myself?
Edit: If I flash the official G2 rom with the engineering HBOOT installed will it brick the phone?
I dunno what you can do as far as a personal hardware fix, but if your screen doesn't turn on right, tmo/HTC shouldn't be able to tell if you are rooted at all.
They will probably not even try to fix your phone, but rather send you a replacement. I dunno, worth a shot I guess..
Good luck.
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I dunno what you can do as far as a personal hardware fix, but if your screen doesn't turn on right, tmo/HTC shouldn't be able to tell if you are rooted at all.
They will probably not even try to fix your phone, but rather send you a replacement. I dunno, worth a shot I guess..
Good luck.
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I called HTC and they're going to send me a replacement phone. I'm sending them mine and if they can get the screen working they're probably going to resent all the software, too.
So, whatever.
Thanks, anyway.
After flashing the stock google (yukju) roms on my galaxy nexus, everything went fine for a couple of months and now I am getting weird haywire issues with my touch screen. Without me touching anything, the phone will act like a part of my screen is being touched, it will not respond when I am indeed touching it at times, the screen will flicker back and forth and generally act strangely. Then for the other 70% of the time it is fine. I have re-flashed all stock roms, did a factory reset, and the problem persists.
Is anyone else having these problems?
any idea what to do next.
After contacting my provider, they said they cant help me because I had unlocked the phone. I have since relocked the phone so I might try calling back and seeing if it will fool them, but I doubt it. Now that I have re-locked the phone should I try to deal with Samsung?
Any help appreciated!
It sounds like a hardware issue. Most likely the touchscreen itself is bad. If you still have warranty or insurance coverage then bring it back to the store and tell them it is defective. By the way, NEVER mention that you have ever unlocked or rooted your phone.
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Thanks for the reply. Im worried that, like you say, it is a hardware issue because I bought it used, and therefore will probably have problems with warranty/insurance. My carrier has already said that they wont help me with it so I would have to go right to Samsung. Any tips on dealing with Samsung? I have already returned to stock and re-lock the phone and I never rooted it, I certainly wont say I did anything to it in any way. Anything else I should be aware of? Will they even help me out since I wasn't the one who bought the phone in the first place?
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Thanks for the reply. Im worried that, like you say, it is a hardware issue because I bought it used, and therefore will probably have problems with warranty/insurance. My carrier has already said that they wont help me with it so I would have to go right to Samsung. Any tips on dealing with Samsung? I have already returned to stock and re-lock the phone and I never rooted it, I certainly wont say I did anything to it in any way. Anything else I should be aware of? Will they even help me out since I wasn't the one who bought the phone in the first place?
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Although most manufacturers offer a 1 year warranty on hardware, I doubt they will honor it since you were not the original owner. Your next option is repairing it yourself. It took a look at prices on eBay and it looks like the digitizer (touchscreen) for a galaxy nexus goes for about $30 and the combination of digitizer and LCD screen go for about $150. I don't know how difficult it would be to separate the digitizer from the LCD on your phone, but $150 for the set is still better than buying a new phone.
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As has been said, it is probably a hardware issue - I had an HTC Desire S before my GNex and had the same issue with it, started all of a sudden. (The screen would go haywire as you said, almost as if a ghost was pushing buttons quickly - that's the best way I can describe it). Mine did not have warranty coverage because I had rooted and unlocked it but the HTC rep was helpful and said it happens sometimes because of moisture or humidity or some such thing and to replace the lcd/digitizer. Cost me a little ($110) but phone was as good as new after that, used it for six months before selling it and buying the GNex.
So I bought a phone with a cracked screen, replaced the digitizer and screen. Then unlocked it and rooted, flashed a rom, etc. It's a Verizon phone and wanted to put it on Pageplus. Somewhere along the way... I've screwed it up by flashing the wrong ROM. The phone is a SCH-i605v. I've flashed international version of GT-N7100 on it. I did try to go the support route... thinking the broadband and imei were just wiped out somehow. The professional online service told me it was trashed. Well... considering they also said they have never seen a phone that still boots wiped out this bad... I'm not doing too bad. I just have a Tablet with no phone functions at this point. Now... I'm thinking there is always a way... it's just finding the one person who has the knowledge to fix it. Anyone out there like a challenge?
I would really appreciate any insight into this. I'm perfectly willing to take it to Samsung if that's required... but it's an hour drive away so I'm dragging my feet on it since the girl put me on hold and never came back. For some reason that just pisses me off... they need to hire better phone people.
just try odin and proper rom.
there is thread with rescue firmwares, start with that and go back to stock.