I've had a G2 for a couple of years now that hasn't been working. I've exchanged batteries, but cannot get anything to boot. The phone was having problems with freezing prior to the supposed brick, and the phone is completely stock.
As of now, I have it plugged in via USB and I didn't hear any sort of notification that the computer even recognizes the phone, my other android phones will get picked up with the power off.
Long story short, is there a way to get into "upgrade mode", or something similar that HTC might have? Something from ADB that could trigger the phone to power on in the hardware doesn't power on itself?
Thanks.
EDIT: The charge LED does NOT come on while plugged on to the charger.
well before i say no can you get a battery that you know works and try this first
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demkantor said:
well before i say no can you get a battery that you know works and try this first
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Try what? I've tried another battery in the past. But shouldn't the LED come on when plugged into USB with or without battery?
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Check that the leads on the battery are touching the contacts in the phone properly!
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Check that the leads on the battery are touching the contacts in the phone properly!
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All good there.
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stevew84 said:
Try what? I've tried another battery in the past. But shouldn't the LED come on when plugged into USB with or without battery?
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not always, if it were just a weak battery than yes but if it malfunction in some ways than no. our phone need to send power through a working batt to turn on
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not always, if it were just a weak battery than yes but if it malfunction in some ways than no. our phone need to send power through a working batt to turn on
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Well I can't get power to it what so ever.
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well chances are you will need to open it up and use a soldering station to fix it then. maybe someone else here has a good tip for you to try but my best guess is it will be sold for parts
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My G2 is freezing constantly.its a few years old with very light use.I think its just the phone.I prefer Samsung over HTC
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travis2387 said:
My G2 is freezing constantly.its a few years old with very light use.I think its just the phone.I prefer Samsung over HTC
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Well that certainly contributed to this thread.
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travis2387 said:
My G2 is freezing constantly.its a few years old with very light use.I think its just the phone.I prefer Samsung over HTC
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HTC is way better imo charging port could be dead.
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Stupid thing has water damage..the VOID sticker wasn't where it was supposed to be, but I saw some pink residue from the sticker. I'm gonna take it to see if I can get it fixed. I believe it's worth it, it isn't the first batch of G2's, it was one of the warranty replacements that didn't have those weird issues.
Take a multi meter to the contacts with the phone open. See if any power is getting through.
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Hi everyone !
Yesterday I was using my phone, and after a few minutes without using it, when I tried to wake it up, nothing happened ! The screen stays black all the time, and the charging LED light doesn't turn on too.
I don't understand, nothing happened to the phone (no fall or anything). And now it just seems ... dead !!!
Could someone help me ?
Thanks !
The phone is rooted with S-Off and a custom ROM ...
If you pull out the battery and place it back does it boot then?
Try pulling the battery and then replace it while holding both volume buttons and the power button.
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fbum said:
Try pulling the battery and then replace it while holding both volume buttons and the power button.
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You mean volume down & power
Already tried it, nothing happens
I also tried while charging or not, with no results ...
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Already tried it, nothing happens
I also tried while charging or not, with no results ...
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Have you ever rooted it?
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If pulling the battery doesn't do it, it's probably really dead. I also once had a dead Desire, stopped working from one moment to the other. If there's warranty left, send it in.
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Have you ever rooted it?
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Yes the phone is rooted since the first day
That's what i was thinking muellersmattes. The warranty is over since a few months
Your phone is dead.
That happened to my first desire hd. I had to take it in to vodafone for them to send off for repair :-(
Question : when you do take in for repair can they tell if you rooted it ?
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Yes the phone is rooted since the first day
That's what i was thinking muellersmattes. The warranty is over since a few months
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Well can you get into dl mode
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Well can you get into dl mode
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How u are dooing that?
spinky360 said:
How u are dooing that?
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You hold volume buttons but battery in connect USB and it should go into it. What phone do you have?
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Download mode from samsung doesn't work with htc
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kotag82 said:
Download mode from samsung doesn't work with htc
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Hmm dang
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anyhow ... my phone is dead ... wont do nothing after flashing so ... i put it on e-bay )... no usb detection, no power on, no led from charging
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anyhow ... my phone is dead ... wont do nothing after flashing so ... i put it on e-bay )... no usb detection, no power on, no led from charging
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Lol nice.
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Yeah clearly I think my phone is dead. I'll try to repair it and sell it.
Anyway, I bought a Galaxy S I9000, I hope it will last a bit longer !
I had two problems with my DHD. But to keep history short, I'll tell only the second:
My seemed bricked. It didn't power on and when I plugged the charger, the LED didn't turn on.
As I work with electronics, I measured the phone's battery and it had 0.0V. So, I took an adjustable power supply and charged the battery for 2 minutes with 3.7V.
I put the battery back in the phone, plugged the charger and the LED turned orange!
Perhaps you could try the same procedure...
And tomorrow I'll try to fix the 1st problem.
Idk wat happen my trackpad and green notification light won't light up when there is notification (msg,email) any idea? Usually it light up last time,now it can't even glow or light up,unless an incoming call then the trackpad blink rapidly.. any idea?
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Any idea guys? I'm trying to get that trackpad light up on sms... =\ but no success
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Haven't used that rom but it could be specific to it, some developers have it in there some may not
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Haven't used that rom but it could be specific to it, some developers have it in there some may not
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But virtuous rom used to have that feature,but now no more
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sounds like a hardware problem. could be a fuse thats gone on the circuit board.
i read about this sometime ago on the internet, but luckily for the guy he just unrooted his phone back to stock and took it in under warranty.
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sounds like a hardware problem. could be a fuse thats gone on the circuit board.
i read about this sometime ago on the internet, but luckily for the guy he just unrooted his phone back to stock and took it in under warranty.
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Too bad for me then... well,thanks anyway
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Last night my DHD's battery died so i plugged it into the wall outlet and walked away, i came back ten mins later and the phone wasn't turning on, and i also began to notice that the Orange LED at the top was slowly blinking at me, i tried plugging it into a PC but to no avail.
Can anyone tell me whats going on, and where the fault it (i'm guessing its the USB cable)
Thank you.
Happened to me one, scared the B Jesus out of me. Pulling the battery and plugging it into a charger got it to boot without issues
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Happened to me one, scared the B Jesus out of me. Pulling the battery and plugging it into a charger got it to boot without issues
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Thank You! This method works perfectly for me!
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Thank You! This method works perfectly for me!
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Glad I could help a few people have had this problem, kinda scary when it happens but it's an easy fix
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Glad I could help a few people have had this problem, kinda scary when it happens but it's an easy fix
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Yeah, I see, I'm also new to the Desire HD community, and my Desire HD has just developed another problem, the volume buttons dont work anymore so now i cant unlock the bootloader
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Yeah, I see, I'm also new to the Desire HD community, and my Desire HD has just developed another problem, the volume buttons dont work anymore so now i cant unlock the bootloader
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That's a bummer...
AFAIK it's a cheap fix, I think its only a few $
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That's a bummer...
AFAIK it's a cheap fix, I think its only a few $
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Yeah, if shops are open on Christmas Eve i'll send it to one to get it fixed
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Since December I've been running CM10 on my GS-III with little to no issues. I flash CM 10.1 mid January and even though it was an unstable nightly it was very stable.
Flashing the nightlies as they became available with no issues at all.
Then today my phone starts slowing down and froze up.
Keep in mind that I hadn't flashed a nightly in like a day or 2 do I had been using the past nightly as a daily driver.
When my phone decided to freeze I rebooted it and it booted just fine.
About 2 minutes in the screen goes black. Holding the power button it's unresponsive.
Now my phone is completely unresponsive to all button presses. I've tried the 3 button combos for recovery and download mode with no luck. I've even held the buttons for a full minute but nothing is working.
Is my phone dead or is there a possibility of resurrecting it?
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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No you're not insulting by asking that. I use to record music and when something wasn't wasn't working that's the first thing we asked and re asked.
Unfortunately I do believe I checked that out. When I plug in a charger it doesn't even show me a battery charging logo.
I have noticed that when I pull out the battery and connect the charger the led turns red.
I'll see if i can't swap batteries with one of my friends and see if that helps.
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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I'm checking that right now
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Well unfortunately there's no response from adb or phone.
However the computer does make a usb device connected sound.
Not sure if that's just a standard sound from the computer or if the phone is triggering it.
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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Android_Monsters said:
Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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A usb jig should do it most of the time it do work and if it doesn't oh well you could sell it out for parts i guess ?
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You would probably make most of your back if you sold it for spare parts and may only have to pay $50 for a replacement. Good luck!
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I'm not sure I understand how a jig is going to help him when the phone won't turn on.
I would try another battery first. You said you were going to try this but I don't see where you confirmed that it wasn't the issue.
Hmm you could have ran into that now infamous mb crash and burn error although I'm not sure how since you were running aosp. Anyone else want to chime in?
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If the battery truly died plugging it in won't be any help
Try another battery, I'm betting that's the issue. T-Mobile will have one or two on hand in store so you can try
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a spare battery to test this with as soon as I'm off work.
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Well unfortunately the spare battery i used on my phone was no good in getting the phone to respond.
Now my next step is to attempt to hope that the jig will do something for my phone.
If not i guess that i will have a nice paper weight of luxury lol
Either that or i can sell it to someone.
So far those are the only options that i think i have at the moment.
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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He cannot flash anything his phone doesn't answer to anything i don't see how he could do that..
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The phone is dead. My friend's gs3 died suddenly one day while I just happen to be using it. I plugged in an otg plug and few minutes later the screen just went black. I was sure it was dead when I plug in a charger and there was no sign of life from the phone.
I don't know if you have to pay a deductible but Samsung is supposedly replacing galaxy s3 for free because there is a known defect which cause the motherboard to go bad. My friend's was a Verizon model and they just replaced it free.
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Hello, I'm new to this form. Okay so today I traded my galaxy note 1. For a nexus 4 and an HTC one x. I was really excited to see the one x for the first time. The one x is with AT&T. When I took it home and plugged it in the charger the red light on started to flash which I think means the battery doesn't have enough power yet, so I waited until it would be steady. But when I looked at it after about 10mins or so, there was no light at all. Unplugging and plugging back in didn't work. When plugged in for along time it just keeps flashing red for abit then stops (repeatedly). I can't power it on at all or go into bootloader.. Etc.. I've even tried doing the hold volume up and down with power button for 2 minutes, nothing.. So now I'm just thinking it's defective. But before I sent it to HTC to diagnose it, I wanted to see what you guys think it is and how I can possibly fix it. Now the person I got it from said it needed some kind of jtag fix for $50 but idk what this is at all. I'm just hoping to god it isn't the main board that is damaged. The bottom area where the soft buttons are is cracked but it's not serious. Another thing that I'm not sure is normal, is the power button, it feels very soft when I press on it and I can't feel it click at all htc told me this could be normal cause the newer one series phones had soft power buttons. I thought the power button was the issue, but the phone won't even charge. The most I've left it plugged it was about less than an hour, I also saw people saying if you plug it in a computer it can fix it, but Idk how that will solve the issue, I will be going to a friends in the morning to try that though. Anyways that's about all.. I hope that someone can help me with this, and If I can fix it I will be sooo happy! Before I go to bed I will leave it plugged in all night to see what happens. Thanks.
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Seems that way, if it does not turn on after hours on charge. And all button combinations don't work either.....then yeah, nothing you can do really.
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Mr Hofs said:
Seems that way, if it does not turn on after hours on charge. And all button combinations don't work either.....then yeah, nothing you can do really.
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If i send it to htc they will be able to do something to figure out what's wrong right? I mean everything is fixable.
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Yes everything is fixable, but it might cost you money. If it's not rooted or custom rommed (locked bootloader) then you have the biggest chance on getting warranty.
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Yes everything is fixable, but it might cost you money. If it's not rooted or custom rommed (locked bootloader) then you have the biggest chance on getting warranty.
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Hmm. Well is it normal that the power button feels soft and no kind of clicking in it to know weather it is being pressed down or not? Also if the phone is flashing red when charger is plugged in does that mean the port is still okay?
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Well mine has a little click when i press it. Can't say for other hoxes, haven't had that many in my hand.
Yeah port is fine, my guess it's a hardware fault. Maybe the battery itself is faulty or the battery circuit is not functioning the way it should
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Well mine has a little click when i press it. Can't say for other hoxes, haven't had that many in my hand.
Yeah port is fine, my guess it's a hardware fault. Maybe the battery itself is faulty or the battery circuit is not functioning the way it should
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I've left it plugged in for about 40m and it's just blinking red every 7 or so mins. My power button I'm afraid is broken.. Maybe that's why I can't get any signs that it can turn on or not.
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Well the blinking should be static red after a while. Leave it on charge for many hours (8-9) and then try again some button combo's
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Well the blinking should be static red after a while. Leave it on charge for many hours (8-9) and then try again some button combo's
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So I plugged it in my computer and it said it was in a download mode. And the guy I got it from said it needed jtag repair. Which I think that's what it is.
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Then you cant fix it at home !