I have had my desire for nearly 2 years and had another android phone before that, and have been running custom roms for 90% of the time. My problems started (as far as I can remember) since I have been using Sandvold's ICS Rom since roughly beta 0.3.8.1 and recently nikez JB rom. The problem is that when I have my sim card in my phone it causes it to hang and freeze randomly and the only solution is to pull the battery and reboot. The freezes occur at different times, sometimes I can go for an hour, sometimes I can barely get passed booting before it freezes. Also half of the time the phone freezes then hot reboots (ie bypassing the splash screen and going straight to the boot animation) and stays hot rebooting until I pull the battery and restart. However, if I take my sim card out the phone functions brilliantly and doesn't freeze or hang at all.
I have tried searching but nothing sems to replicate my predicament.
Phone INFO:
Bravo PVT3 S-OFF
HBOOT-6.93.1002
Radio -5.17.05.23
SD - SanDisk mobile Ultra 16GB microSDHC
The title gives it away. Its probably the sim. Try a different sim to check.
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I do not have a spare vodafone sim to check it with, however, the sim card works fine in my other phone and only started playing up on my desire since I have been using ICS/JB, on GB it was running perfectly fine, which is the confusing part.
Delta1292 said:
I do not have a spare vodafone sim to check it with, however, the sim card works fine in my other phone and only started playing up on my desire since I have been using ICS/JB, on GB it was running perfectly fine, which is the confusing part.
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Just one more proof that ICS/JB simply need a lot of more work to be done.
Simply go back to GB.
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I was able to boot into android perfectly fine until about a week ago where it would just hand at the boot screen. today i tried to fix it by formatting my sd card and doing a clean install. now i can boot into android perfectly fine, but if i leave my phone idle and let it sleep, after a couple of minutes a green led will turn on and my phone will not wake up and i am forced to reset my phone.
anyone know what the issue could be? i flashed a new rom today, but i doubt that has anything to do with this.
is my sd card bad?
viper786 said:
I was able to boot into android perfectly fine until about a week ago where it would just hand at the boot screen. today i tried to fix it by formatting my sd card and doing a clean install. now i can boot into android perfectly fine, but if i leave my phone idle and let it sleep, after a couple of minutes a green led will turn on and my phone will not wake up and i am forced to reset my phone.
anyone know what the issue could be? i flashed a new rom today, but i doubt that has anything to do with this.
is my sd card bad?
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Do you have it overclocked in your startup.txt? That will cause this issue.
ahh yes, i overclocked it to 700mhz. so basically, i cant overclock at all without facing this issue?
Does anyone know if the Windows Mobile ROM on the phone affect how high one can go with an overclock? Like would using the stripped down ROM help to achieve a higher clock speed as opposed to using a loaded ROM like EnergyROM?
Yes, it seems the OC will crash android once it tries to sleep. One workaround some people have said works is add "htc_battery_smem.fake=1" to your startup.txt cmdline. Your phone will not crash anymore, however your battery life will be a little shorter due to the fact its not sleeping as deeply.
I have a six months old desire (still under guaranty), not rooted, with froyo.
Lattely it it doing some weird things:
- randomly (once a day) the phone freezes, so i have to push home button after that happens and the phone goes to stand by, i cant wake it- the buttons lights up but the screen stays dark (i have to take out the battery to restsrt the phone)
-sometimes my phone isnt ringing when someone is calling
Can someone please help me, what should i do (should i root and try another ROM or sent it into repair?).
tank you
First try a normal factory reset. If the problem is gone you can root or keep using it unrooted. If the problem is still there just send it to repair.
I have already tried a factory reset and it is the same. Does that mean it is a hardware problem?
Would say so, if it's unrooted there is no other real reason for these problems. You can try to see if a custom rom fixes it but I wouldn't try to fix a phone still under warranty by breaking the warranty. Just send it back to HTC unless you can't miss your phone for a month.
Could it be possible that my sd card is causing the problems?
yesterday i have inserted another sd card and the phone seems working fine now.
I tried running the card i previous had in the phone on my computer ani it did not work ( didnt even find it).
So im wondering if the card was fault for the desire behaving weird? I gues i will have to wait for a couple of days and see what happens.
What do you guys think?
Sounds exactly the same as mine. I had to remove battery once a day due to freezing, missed so many calls.
Tried rom upgrades, factory resets, new SD card, still the same.
Finally sent it to HTC UK service who replaced the mainboard, all good now.
Phone was returned in less than a week, really happy with their service.
Same here sent it to repair got a new main board and all is good. HTC repair is better than most
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Heya.
I am running Android Revolution 2.0.16, Kernel 2.6.32.29_BUZZ1.3.3_OCUV with radio Radio_12.35d.60.140fU_26.06.03.24_M2.
I've been running this for ~1.5 weeks and I think this started about 1 week ago, not sure. Sometimes randomly (sometimes when I'm playing and sometimes when the phone has been idle for few hours) the phone boots. I see the white background with the green HTC logo and after a while it asks for my Pin number. Sometimes this happens once/day and sometimes it happens three times in a row. With stock it never did this.
What could be the cause?
How could I fix this?
I'm interested in Android Revolution 2.1 but can't find it after the 3.0 and 4.0 came along. I'm not ready for unofficial Gingerbread yet and 3.0 is using 1.84 for Orange and I'm not completly sure if I should use it with my unbranded Finland located phone.
Thanks for your time!
Hi. This has nothing to do with the ROM you are running it is a physical problem with the phone and is quite a common fault on the Desire HD.
It is a problem with the placement of the SIM card underneath the cover. I just stuck a bit of selotape across the SIM card to keep it in place and mine has been fine since. Other than that flash back to default and send it back under the warranty.
I don't think it's about loose Sim card. I tried to move the sim card while the phone was on the finally removed the sim card. The phone didn't boot but I got a message that said that phone can't locate sim card and I must either restart or shut off the phone.
This isn't what I mean with the restarting. It just restarts, boots, without any error message. Like I would have pressed the power button and selected restart.
Its because of the kernel, like mine your cpu seems to be sensitive to undervolt, try leedroids kernel
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So although all DHD have the same type of CPU, each specific CPU reacts differently to UC/OV? Strange, how widespread is this? Personally I've had no problems.
Had the same random boots with revolution 3.0 and 3.1, reverted back to stock 1.72 with the same(BUZZ) kernel and same setcpu settings as I used with revolution, and reboots are gone for me
Heya. Thanks for the replies. I was thinking going back to stock too but decided to try Revolution 3.2 and it seems to work. Atleast one day without boots, but we'll see how it's in the long run.
Hello,
I have problem with my HTC Desire HD, which is not rooted & i have 2.3.5 official verison. Yesterday i was downloading updates from Play & I didn't noticed my battery got drained & phone got switched off. After that I tried to switch on the phone & it wont start up! it got stuck with black screen with dim light! hard reset is also not working. i tried to get the battery, sim & memory card out & then tried, it switched on & working perfectly! but then when i tried to get back on the sim! it went black again! with memory card it starts sometimes & sometimes not! I had this problem before but at that time it wasn't starting up completely & I gave back to the service centre but they kept it for 2 months, so i am scared to give them back! is there any solution to this problem???
Please Help!
Troubleshoot. Try with a different sim and a different memory card. First one, then the other and so on until you try both of those at the same time.
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really? Always beaten by teichopsia.
But I'd say the same. With SIM, without, with sd card, without, with charger, without, different battery
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hi i upgraded my xps lt26 i on ics to build (ICS)6.1.a.2.55 ota and it was so far going smooth with no mess around till yesterday night
my battery was drained after a whol day use and i came back home left phone plugged for charge(switched off) turned on later on, the phone then stayed for half an hour and then the problem started
phone started rebooting and random boots
the phone since then is behaving like that
i left it like that at 11 o clock the battery was drained(morning)
i was upset.
i figured out the phone is switching off it self, searched out to find the issue but no luck, well
then i noticed that the phone is saying sim error( only once i seen this) i removed the sim card( which actually is not cutted the way it should be, means it was a full sime card( regular orange sim card) i tried to make it micro sim card and cutted in a bad shape but it was working fine
now i have removed the sim card from phone, inserted another sim card in the phone, and the phone is no longer rebooting( i will update this)
i felt:
it might be the sim card reading error on sim tray cause mine was slightly cutted in bad shape plus the reading pannels were also bit trimmed
secondly i have seen there is a bug in ics causing random reboots
if people around faced this issue, they have possibly solutions to hard reset, clean memory by hard reset( power plus volume up), refreshing the firmware via sony pc suite, or finally sending it to repair centre but MINE IS not in warrnty
if any one else had this issue in past or facing this problem can add ,
please share your experience and any possible solution.
Do a factory reset and then update again with PCC, problem is you would loose root then. But there's no else solution available for the random reboots.
Happened with me too, So I decided to stick at Firmware 0.50 since 0.55 offers nothing new or special
reboots
Well
I haven't been rebooted since afternoon
I am sure it's SIM card issue I m facing but personally speaking I started hating Sony
Its waste of money
Look at each flagship leader Sony comes up
Then tons of issues
I will update if anything happened again
Thanks
auni said:
Do a factory reset and then update again with PCC, problem is you would loose root then. But there's no else solution available for the random reboots.
Happened with me too, So I decided to stick at Firmware 0.50 since 0.55 offers nothing new or special
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