Hello xda!
I'm in the process of sending my phone of to be reclyced. Gets me a bit of money and helps the environment or a third world person!
However, I think I have bricked my HTC Desire.
I wanted to put stock ROM on it, and I tried to flasjh a custom rom too it. Now its stuck at the purple circle at boot. (T-Mobile Desire)
Obviously could fix it going into bootloader, but the Vol Down button doesn't work so I don't know how to do it!
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Tim
Have you tried pushing, really really hard?
I thought mine was completely broken until I really had no other choice but to push it very hard.
Try that and when it does not work, battery out and in and try the same until it works.
Dont push so hard that something breaks inside
Just so u know my buttons dont work for bout 90 seconds so maybe just leave it for 2 mins.
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jmcclue said:
Just so u know my buttons dont work for bout 90 seconds so maybe just leave it for 2 mins.
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I dont know what you mean you hold vol- down and switch it on, when the htc sign comes up it didnt work.
So you push that vol down very hard and keep pressing it and turn it on
When it works you are in the bootloader 3 seconds after you turned it on.
Black screen and then the bootloader.
When you see the HTC sign instead of the bootloader, take the battery out immeadiatly and retry.
Do that maybe 5 times and press a little harder each time.
You can also turn your phone off and hold the back arrow button and power on, from there you can go to recovery with the volume up button ?!
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I've tried the Power On + Back Button, doesn't boot into anything, same purple-never ending screen.
I've tried pressing the Vol Down button really hard, nothing. Weird, as all other buttons are fine!
Tjcrazy said:
I've tried the Power On + Back Button, doesn't boot into anything, same purple-never ending screen.
I've tried pressing the Vol Down button really hard, nothing. Weird, as all other buttons are fine!
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Hold Back + power. not power + back
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jmcclue said:
Hold Back + power. not power + back
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+1 do this......my volume down is also not working ..... Keep pressing/holding back key and hold power key for 3 seconds or so....
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If he read my post right he would be in bootloader & recovery hours ago !
Starting to feel stupid now.
Pressing back + power, but still purple screen.
I'm guessing you mean hold down the back button first, then hold down the power button?
Yes !
Don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm pressing down the back button, then I press down the power button. Then it boots to the purple circle.
Tjcrazy said:
Don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm pressing down the back button, then I press down the power button. Then it boots to the purple circle.
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Pull out the batt first, just to make sure the phone was completely shut down and do it again !
Took a video for you, so I can show you what I'm doing. Maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Tim
Lol why r u banging ur phone. Pull battery out for atleast a min
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First off ... banging your phone does not turn it off ! Strange situation here ....
I was taking the battery out . It sounds like I'm hitting it much harder than I am.
I'll try taking the battery out for a while and try again.
Tjcrazy said:
I was taking the battery out . It sounds like I'm hitting it much harder than I am.
I'll try taking the battery out for a while and try again.
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Lol
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And take your time pushing the buttons, hold down the back button for a second or 2 and then power.....do not hit the buttons instantly
OK, I'll wait 5 minutes... take another video and show you exactly what I'm doing.
Tim
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Hey lads,
this is probably a very dumb Q, but since I am new to all this android schmuzzle and couldn't find ballocks on that, don't judge me too hard ;]
I've noticed that when u press both VolUp and VolDown ( put pressure kinda in the middle or the rocker ) the phone vibrates once and then after several seconds (seems to vary) it vibrates three times fast. Now what the flick is that? Not that much of a big deal but it gets annoying given that even when the screen is off and the phone is locked doesn't seem to give a damn
thanks
has happened to me too but hard to reproduce. I have no ideas why it happens. Sometimes it occurs when the phone is booting up for me as well.
Put ur finger in the middle of the rocker and press ( not even hard ). It happens every time in my case. even when the phone is locked
I get the same behaviour, sure is strange.
Kinda old thread but I didn't want to start a new one either. I've noticed this too by accident. When you turn off your screen and press both volume buttons at the same time it vibrates once and every other time twice or thrice. If it vibrates only once it will vibrate again a couple of times after about 10 seconds. Has someone found a reason to this already?
Hawks556 said:
Has someone found a reason to this already?
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Maybe HTC thought "Why not? Let's do this and see how they discuss about it." ^^
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These buttons are part of combimation of three finger salute (at least look like that)...if you press voulme up + Down and power button, phone will reboot....so might be vibration is just an indicator to show go ahead and press the power button for restart.......Just a Guess
Pressing Volume Up + Down simultaneously while having USB Debugging turned on creates a bug report in the bugreports folder on your SD card.
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These buttons are part of combimation of three finger salute (at least look like that)...if you press voulme up + Down and power button, phone will reboot....so might be vibration is just an indicator to show go ahead and press the power button for restart.......Just a Guess
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I can't get it to reboot by pressing the 3 buttons.
olivierlee said:
Pressing Volume Up + Down simultaneously while having USB Debugging turned on creates a bug report in the bugreports folder on your SD card.
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This is correct, there's always a new bugreport after I press the volume buttons. I don't think that it's even necessary to have usb debugging on.
Thanks for the quick answers, but could there be something more to it?
Hawks556 said:
I can't get it to reboot by pressing the 3 buttons.
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Press the power button first and then press volume up and down..you will get a reboot...
Nope, can't get it to reboot. Perhaps this is rom related?
Hawks556 said:
Nope, can't get it to reboot. Perhaps this is rom related?
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It shouldn't be, but its really hard to get it if you are trying to press three button, you can try power button and middle vol button......any ways I also tried lot of times before I got my first reboot....
1) Pressing both VOL UP & VOL DOWN at the same time = Vibrations & all processes' states and stacktraces dumped to /data/arn/traces.txt (thanks to alind_)
2) Pressing both VOL UP & VOL DOWN at the same time + POWER BUTTON once = instant reboot
Works for me with CM7 and Stock Sense.
Hey. I have a big problem with my HTC ONE X. When I put it in my pocket it restarts because if you press the power button for over 5 seconds it hard resets. I read somewhere else that the combo for hard reset is the volume and power button. Is this true? If yes why my HTC ONE X resets only with the power button? Can I change it somewhere? Is very annoying because every time I put the phone in my pocket then next time I will unlock the phone it will request my SIM unlock code. Soooo annoying.
Thanks
Long pressing the power button forces the phone to abnormally restart, and the combo takes the phone to bootloader mode.
Tony Tan said:
Long pressing the power button forces the phone to abnormally restart, and the combo takes the phone to bootloader mode.
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Oh there is nothing to do about it Just keep it always in my hand I guess.
Press the power button for 10 secs, the phone will have a force restart, which is helpful when it freezes. You can use a cover which makes the power button harder to reach, so it doesnt get pressed when in your pocket.
lazos said:
Oh there is nothing to do about it Just keep it always in my hand I guess.
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If you want to keep it in your pocket, make sure the power button faces up
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eyosen said:
If you want to keep it in your pocket, make sure the power button faces up
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
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It is a solution, when you don't have a silicone case as I did, and has the same problem. When I was sit at my ofiice, or car, the power button was pushed, and surprise...restart!!!
I like HOX, but I don't like where they've put the power button!!!
abnormal reset
hiya guys
how about when the handset has not been sitting in your pocket and has been on charge in a location where there has been no chance of the powere button being interfered with, just happened to me 5 mins ago.
cheers
I was in the process of rooting my Samsung S3 with Odin3, everything was going well, I was following the steps from theunlokr.com .. it looked like all the processes were done but at the end the screen never came on. I keep pressing the power button still don’t turn on. I hold the 3 buttons at the same time (Vol Up+Home+Power) nothing happen.
I press the on/off button and it plays the start up ring shows the Samsung logo and then it goes black.
Can anyone help please, I hope I can fix it ASAP, need my phone for work. Can't understand what went wrong.
Need your help
Thank you!!
First mistake was using a site other than XDA to root your phone. Pull the battery and hold the power putton for about ten seconds. Put the battery back in, hold the down volume button + the home button + the power button until you feel it vibrate and then let go of the power button while holding the home and volume down buttons. It should go into download mode and ask you to confirm by pressing the up volume button. If this works then using Odin on the computer to flash back to stock rooted.
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I was in the process of rooting my Samsung S3 with Odin3, everything was going well, I was following the steps from theunlokr.com .. it looked like all the processes were done but at the end the screen never came on. I keep pressing the power button still don’t turn on. I hold the 3 buttons at the same time (Vol Up+Home+Power) nothing happen.
I press the on/off button and it plays the start up ring shows the Samsung logo and then it goes black.
Can anyone help please, I hope I can fix it ASAP, need my phone for work. Can't understand what went wrong.
Need your help
Thank you!!
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Thanks a lot
beaverslayer said:
First mistake was using a site other than XDA to root your phone. Pull the battery and hold the power putton for about ten seconds. Put the battery back in, hold the down volume button + the home button + the power button until you feel it vibrate and then let go of the power button while holding the home and volume down buttons. It should go into download mode and ask you to confirm by pressing the up volume button. If this works then using Odin on the computer to flash back to stock rooted.
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Thanks a bunch! I finally got my phone to work>>> your advice helped a lot and I got my standard ROM on and I'll keep it till later tonight, as I needed for the day, really needed at work> but as soon as I get home I am planning to get a different ROM on it
can you suggest any ?
Thanks again, you made my day!
Vadim G said:
Thanks a bunch! I finally got my phone to work>>> your advice helped a lot and I got my standard ROM on and I'll keep it till later tonight, as I needed for the day, really needed at work> but as soon as I get home I am planning to get a different ROM on it
can you suggest any ?
Thanks again, you made my day!
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Some solid ROMs include: CNA (codenameandroid), Kyan, CM.
I used to use BlackJelly as my daily-driver, but couldn't do without the AllShareCast functionality, so I'm back to stock-rooted, until I find a ROM that both looks awesome and supports AllShareCast.
I have been using my LG Optimus G for about 6 months now and everything was working fine, untill yesterday.
My phone ran out of battery and i left it over night to recharge. In the morning when i tried to turn it on
the screen just stayed black and it wouldnt start. The only thing i can get out of it is when its plugged in
and i hold the power button for about 10-15 seconds the led light shines red for about 7 seconds.
Other than that i cant do anything with it, cant even get the lg logo or the vibration from the boot.
Tried a hard reset-didnt work
Ive looked a little bit online but i couldnt find any problems like this and i really dont want to buy a anew phone
since ill have to save up for like 6 months
Please help
Thank you in advance
PS: Sucks to have this as my first post
Had also that problem. For me it helped to press the power button as long as it takes untill phone goes on even if it takes some minutes. But if it not help, try to boot in bootloader(volume up+power+home). In Bootloader mode press 2times volume down and power button to get to your recovery. If getting succesfully to recovery make a full wipe and install your rom.
cyraxx84 said:
Had also that problem. For me it helped to press the power button as long as it takes untill phone goes on even if it takes some minutes. But if it not help, try to boot in bootloader(volume up+power+home). In Bootloader mode press 2times volume down and power button to get to your recovery. If getting succesfully to recovery make a full wipe and install your rom.
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Held the power for 2 min and no effect. And for the second point, what do you mean by Vol up+ Power+Home, because my phone doesent have a physical home button.
Press volume up+ home+ power (all together). Home button which you usualy use all the time, yes that button in the mid, i know its not really pressing so hold your finger on it. After that you will come to the Bootloder mode, in there you should press 2x volume down and then power, this will bring you to your recovery.
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Press volume up+ home+ power (all together). Home button which you usualy use all the time, yes that button in the mid, i know its not really pressing so hold your finger on it. After that you will come to the Bootloder mode, in there you should press 2x volume down and then power, this will bring you to your recovery.
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Wont work . This looks more like a hardware malfunction.
It seems the battery is not charging. If your phone is not modified in anyway,send it to warranty. If you're rooted and have a custom rom,go to a gsm service,at least to make it turn on. If they do that,flash stock and up to warranty with it.
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Hi there, i just installed teaMseven-perfromance_v4.zip.. after all the operation.. and looks like gone well.. said that is failed.
Then i reboot system and now doesn't switch on.
The button down flash but nothing happen.. i try to hold on power on for 15 sec.. for 15 flash.. and nothing.. also with volume down.
What can i do.. there a way to hard reset or similar with terminal off?
Please help.. thanks for fast reply.
Stefano
stefanoferruggiara said:
Hi there, i just installed teaMseven-perfromance_v4.zip.. after all the operation.. and looks like gone well.. said that is failed.
Then i reboot system and now doesn't switch on.
The button down flash but nothing happen.. i try to hold on power on for 15 sec.. for 15 flash.. and nothing.. also with volume down.
What can i do.. there a way to hard reset or similar with terminal off?
Please help.. thanks for fast reply.
Stefano
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you can't get to fastboot? by holding power and volume down??
you should see the soft keys start blinking but don't let got yet!!
wait until your phone gets into fastboot.
let me know if that works.
andybones said:
you can't get to fastboot? by holding power and volume down??
you should see the soft keys start blinking but don't let got yet!!
wait until your phone gets into fastboot.
let me know if that works.
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Listen.. i don't know how.. i click on all button.. now is in clockmode.. Team Win Recovery Project.. what i have to do now
the fastboot .. using vol down .. and power.. doesnt' work.. i hold on power.. and the logo .. and the screen sometime go on after .. holding the power.. i touch the button.. htc logo and menu.. and .. i don't know but now i'm in the recovery menu
stefanoferruggiara said:
Listen.. i don't know how.. i click on all button.. now is in clockmode.. Team Win Recovery Project.. what i have to do now
the fastboot .. using vol down .. and power.. doesnt' work.. i hold on power.. and the logo .. and the screen sometime go on after .. holding the power.. i touch the button.. htc logo and menu.. and .. i don't know but now i'm in the recovery menu
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You listen,
YOU rooted your phone, NOT me, NOT anyone else.
This 100% your fault and
I just told you what to do.
turn phone on, where it gets to the HTC green logo,
hold power and volume down until it gets to fastboot. the screen that is white, DO NOT let go of power or volume until this happens.
If this doesn't work you are either not following my directions, or there is something wrong with your phone.
andybones said:
You listen,
YOU rooted your phone, NOT me, NOT anyone else.
This 100% your fault and
I was going to help you
but you're on your own now
best of luck :silly:
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Sorry my english is not so good... you can help me or you don't know how help me? this is the screeshot of my screen...
What i can do from here please?
stefanoferruggiara said:
Sorry my english is not so good... you can help me or you don't know how help me? this is the screeshot of my screen...
What i can do from here please?
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go into recovery WIPE fully, system, cache, dalvik cahche and data, then re-flash a ROM, or a nandroid.
problem solved.
andybones said:
go into recovery WIPE fully, system, cache, dalvik cahche and data, then re-flash a ROM, or a nandroid.
problem solved.
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Thanks.. listen.. you can suggest me the correct ROM (mine is Europa) where i can find it .. and how to push on the phone the rom?
andybones said:
You listen,
YOU rooted your phone, NOT me, NOT anyone else.
This 100% your fault and
I just told you what to do.
turn phone on, where it gets to the HTC green logo,
hold power and volume down until it gets to fastboot. the screen that is white, DO NOT let go of power or volume until this happens.
If this doesn't work you are either not following my directions, or there is something wrong with your phone.
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For information.. if i turn the phone on ... nothing happen! With soft click nothing .. with long click.. the soft button flash.. and nothing happen for many many time ... then i try test different why .. and what work is: POWER ON HOLD ON + MENU SOFT KEY HOLD ON for 7 second more or less.. alfter appear white screen with HTC green logo.. without take off my finger from the power i click on volume down.. and i enter in recovery.. now i'm here..
Maybe can be useful for other people...
stefanoferruggiara said:
For information.. if i turn the phone on ... nothing happen! With soft click nothing .. with long click.. the soft button flash.. and nothing happen for many many time ... then i try test different why .. and what work is: POWER ON HOLD ON + MENU SOFT KEY HOLD ON for 7 second more or less.. alfter appear white screen with HTC green logo.. without take off my finger from the power i click on volume down.. and i enter in recovery.. now i'm here..
Maybe can be useful for other people...
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the language barrier here isn't going to work..
this phone doesn't even have a menu button so how could you have help it for 7 seconds??
IT is KNOWN that to hold the power + volume to get to fastboot..
As I said, you hold power + volume down for a LONG time don't let go until in fastboot... could take up to 20 seconds..
then you get to recovery and flash your ROM, or backup..
nothing new was discovered here.
we just fixed your user error.
Personally if you can get into recovery (team win recovery project) or stock - try just doing a factory reset (wipe data and cache).
Also- you are in the wrong forum. This is the USA Verizon wireless HTC One forum. You should be in the international One forum.
Thirdly - it sounds like you really don't understand any of this so you need to do some reading on how the entire process works because if you end up having to wipe your system its going to get complicated
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk 4
andybones said:
the language barrier here isn't going to work..
this phone doesn't even have a menu button so how could you have help it for 7 seconds??
IT is KNOWN that to hold the power + volume to get to fastboot..
As I said, you hold power + volume down for a LONG time don't let go until in fastboot... could take up to 20 seconds..
then you get to recovery and flash your ROM, or backup..
nothing new was discovered here.
we just fixed your user error.
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OK.. i just do as you say.. it's enought 3 minute hold power and volume down?
Nothing .. the soft button flash and nothing happen..
stefanoferruggiara said:
OK.. i just do as you say.. it's enought 3 minute hold power and volume down?
Nothing .. the soft button flash and nothing happen..
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that is long enough.
if you can't get into fastboot by holding power and volume down, I am at a loss, sorry
wish I could be more helpful..
andybones said:
that is long enough.
if you can't get into fastboot by holding power and volume down, I am at a loss, sorry
wish I could be more helpful..
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Sorry but now.. i would say that.. i was in recovery one hour ago and you insist to say to me to do in your way and not mine.. when i told you the menu button i'm talking about the soft key on the right of the logo.. and this .. one ore ago work.. not .. power off .. power on and is the system is not stable.. go down.. i wasn't better that from the recovery you suggest me which rom i can push and i do??? Came one.. now ... it's worse than before cause now i'm not able to go in the recovery after follow your step..
Anyone can help me.. how to recover STOCK ROM with the HTC ONE switch off?
Like he said, if the phone is off, hold the volume button down and press the power button down and hold them down until you enter that white screen you took a picture of.
Is that still working for you?
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thepolishguy said:
Like he said, if the phone is off, hold the volume button down and press the power button down and hold them down until you enter that white screen you took a picture of.
Is that still working for you?
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk 4
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I am going to post saying "thank you".
Since XDA limits us.
thepolishguy said:
Like he said, if the phone is off, hold the volume button down and press the power button down and hold them down until you enter that white screen you took a picture of.
Is that still working for you?
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk 4
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Sorry cause maybe i sepack chinese... IIIII DOOOOOO ... DOESNT WOOOOORK ... I DO FOR MORE THAN 3 MINUTE!!!!
DOESN'T WORK!!!
But when i posted the first time.. work on my way.. and i need just to know how proceed.. now.. doing like that is completly off!!!
CLEAR?!!
stefanoferruggiara said:
Sorry cause maybe i sepack chinese... IIIII DOOOOOO ... DOESNT WOOOOORK ... I DO FOR MORE THAN 3 MINUTE!!!!
DOESN'T WORK!!!
But when i posted the first time.. work on my way.. and i need just to know how proceed.. now.. doing like that is completly off!!!
CLEAR?!!
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Why are you getting mad at the people trying to help you?
This is an English speaking forum.
I hope you get your phone working properly soon.
Take care.
andybones said:
Why are you getting mad at the people trying to help you?
This is an English speaking forum.
I hope you get your phone working properly soon.
Take care.
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Help is understand other problem not worse my situation and repeat 10 time the same things! Sorry.. try to understand..
If you plug the phone into the wall do you get a charging light? Or are you trying to do this while the phone is plugged in to a power source? Maybe you have killed your battery trying to fix it?
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stefanoferruggiara said:
Help is understand other problem not worse my situation and repeat 10 time the same things! Sorry.. try to understand..
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When people can't understand you, it isn't our fault..
I really hope you get your issue resolved soon, but I don't think I am the one who can help you with this issue. Take care and hope to see this thread with a happy ending.
thepolishguy said:
If you plug the phone into the wall do you get a charging light? Or are you trying to do this while the phone is plugged in to a power source? Maybe you have killed your battery trying to fix it?
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Thank you for helping him.
I don't think he understands without you, he is on his own.