Hello !!!
Toady i went for running and i left my phone in the car.When i finished my workout i got into the car and because of the cold weather the inside of the car got moisture.....
When i arrived at home i had to make a call and then i saw that the icon of headphones was blinking (like i was pluging and unpluging the headphones every second or something like that) then i decided to power off the phone and start it over..........
Now that is the problem i have....When it starts it shows the logo of HTC and after 5 secs it shows the "HTC quietly briliant " logo with the sound and after 2 mins it makes again the sound and shows the "HTC quietly briliant " logo and that goes over and over again..........It is something like a restart loop
Firstly my thoughts is maybe the phone got inside some moisture and that causes some kind of short circuit but if that happened the phone shouldn' even start...correct ?
I've let the phone near the radiator/heater for almost an hour (without the battery ofcourse )but the problem still remains........
Do you have any solutions ???
Please i need your help.I only got this phone for about a week...
p.s my volume keys don't work......Is there any other solution for doing a hard reset ?
p.s 2 my phone is not rooted and has android 2.3.5 and HTC Sense 3.0
Thanks in advance !!!
I have an idea but it is a long shot. I had a phone (non-HTC) that did the same thing and to fix it I removed the SD-Card, so if you have one inserted that may help.
Also if it is moisture related you could try sticking it in a bag of uncooked white rice for about 24 hours, it helps suck the moisture out, sticking it on a heater may do more harm than good.
nsmith4 said:
I have an idea but it is a long shot. I had a phone (non-HTC) that did the same thing and to fix it I removed the SD-Card, so if you have one inserted that may help.
Also if it is moisture related you could try sticking it in a bag of uncooked white rice for about 24 hours, it helps suck the moisture out, sticking it on a heater may do more harm than good.
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I already tried with no Sim and no SD card but nothing !!!
Tomorrow i will go to a shop that service mobile components and ask the price of the side keys and to give it a look.........
I was trying not to get my hands in my pockets for this ,but its inevitable
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So I accidentally put my Desire in about half an inch of water upside down. So my ear speaker, my camera lenses and flash and my head phone jack and my external speaker got submerged. It didn't sit in the water very long, probably about 3 seconds but still long enough to make it start doing some weird things. So my problems are that everything has to load everytime I want to use it. If I'm in my messages and I go to my home screen it goes to the white screen with the green HTC letters and I have to wait for it to load everything every time without fail. It also has to load all my messages when I go into them. Another thing that happens is that my power button message opens randomly and for awhile my power button wasn't working and sometimes it doesn't. So my questions for whoever can answer them is what can I do to fix those problems and where are the moisture detection papers in my phone in case I want to get it fixed under warranty? Thanks a lot.
try putting your device in an air tight container, filled with rice. the rice should absorb most or all of the moisture from your device, leave it for 12-24 hours, then boot it up and try again good luck
Anyone else? I would still like to know where the moisture detection strips are and if anyone else can help me. Thanks.
The moisture detection strips are located on the battery near the connectors and on the phone next to the battery connectors... I went swimming with my HTC desire last summer, it was fully submerged for at least 30 seconds (phone was on).. left it to dry for 5 days in dry rice, and 6 months on it still works, do defenitely try drying it further.
There is a third one too.
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The third is inside the actual handset located directly next to the usb port. Of which mine is completely pink.
Thought it might be interesting info for anyone else who manages to water/liquid damage their devices.
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The OP says that he got the upper part submerged, so there is a chance that none of the stickers got red.
That is excellent news. Thanks everyone.
Hiya,
my Desire HD got wet in the front pocket of my fleece, not drowned just some droplets of water that got inside the Otterbox case and into the phone. I did try and turn it on before I realised it had got wet, it wouldn't power up.
I removed the phone from the Otterbox and dried everything and tried to turn it on again as there was only very slight traces of moisture apparent. There was condensation and a couple of little drops of water inside. I discovered there must have been enough moisture to short out the battery as there was a little residue mark above the contacts on the inside of the casing. I then noticed the liquid indicators had turned red.
I removed the battery cover and dried the phone gently using an electric room heater for hours, I also put the phone in a bag of rice for a couple of days.
I tried to power it up again after a few days in the rice and it wouldn't start up. I measured across the battery contacts with a multi meter and found the battery was open circuit, so I know it must have shorted. Hoping that this was the only damage I bought a new replacement battery. When I fitted the new battery nearly a week later and switched on the phone, everything seemed to be fine but the display seemed to flash, and as I had a Leedroid rom installed I heard R2D2 chirping and could see the device start to boot up as normal on the screen. Then the display went dark and hasn't worked since. I stripped the phone and cleaned a couple of patches of residue, one of which was right in the lcd connector.
Now when I try and start the phone there is no display, the phone vibrates once when I hold in the power button. Approximately 40 or 50 seconds later I can hear R2D2 making his tweeting noises which always happens on boot up. I didn't think it took so long to hear R2D2 but maybe the phone is checking the file system or something now, and I just can't see it.
It may be that I just need a new screen & digitizer to repair the phone, but I can't tell what might be on the display - maybe it's the phone unlock screen asking for my pin number etc. I can't see any image on the screen, that you would normally see when the baclight is faulty, I have tried to view it with a desk lamp, but it's just black. The capacitive buttons at the bottom don't seem to have any effect, perhaps they are not enabled if it's sitting at the password screen, if it is at that screen.
The l.e.d's don't light up at the top when I turn it on or plug in the charger.
I might have also damaged the volume key switch/ribbon slightly.
What would you do with this phone, any advice on how I could proceed ?
Would it be working just with no display, as R2D2 is squeaking(Leedroid rom has this when the device boots and has an animation of a pc booting up with the post screen) ?
No l.e.d's is a bit worrying and it doesn't seem to know when on charge etc. but perhaps they only work once the phone has booted, I can't remember DOH!
I just thought I would ask, as there are a lot of knowledgeable people on here and it might be possible to save my droid.
Grateful for any help or advice
kind regards
Barry
Hi guys, Got an issue with my Desire HD flashed with Cyanogenmod 7.0.2
In those freaky thunderstorms in the UK we had yesterday my phone got somewhat damp with no way to keep it dry in my pocket , and has since been acting strange and now refuses to boot at all.
Yesterday it all was working fine for texting / music playing but today when I turn it on it slips into bootloader and I cannot use the volume or power buttons to activate the reload / fastboot selection.
The volume buttons wont move the selection, and the power button wont select it,
I have tried booting without my SD card in, without the SIM card in and with both removed, and the only way I can turn it off is by battery pull.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get around this? Phone is kinda my lifeline and being a student cant particularly afford a new one right now
Thanks for any help
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Hi guys, Got an issue with my Desire HD flashed with Cyanogenmod 7.0.2
In those freaky thunderstorms in the UK we had yesterday my phone got somewhat damp with no way to keep it dry in my pocket , and has since been acting strange and now refuses to boot at all.
Yesterday it all was working fine for texting / music playing but today when I turn it on it slips into bootloader and I cannot use the volume or power buttons to activate the reload / fastboot selection.
The volume buttons wont move the selection, and the power button wont select it,
I have tried booting without my SD card in, without the SIM card in and with both removed, and the only way I can turn it off is by battery pull.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get around this? Phone is kinda my lifeline and being a student cant particularly afford a new one right now
Thanks for any help
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Use a hair drier to dry it up with the battery and sim covers off...but I would take it to service. If got damp then u might start experiencing issues in the near future.
After you knew it got damp, you should have shut the phone down and let it dry for at least 2 days. Anyways, as suggested by the previous post, use a hair dryer with all the covers off and keep the phone as it is for a couple of days. And then you can start the phone and see if you are having any issues.
Even if you take it to service, if your phone is still under warranty, you'll be charged the fees for the repair.
Get a ZipLoc bag, fill it with UNCOOKED, DRY rice, chuck the phone in for a day or two and it should work. If not return it to HTC or network and say you don't know what happened. I find it strange that it goes straight to bootloader and not boot the ROM.
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Remove the battery and keep it off for tow days and use the hair dryer - not in hot mode- then try to turn it on.
I hope it will be fine.
Also, when purtting it in the bag, take out the battery and dry it
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You probably have water damage, and it's probably too late now. Sorry man, never turn the phone on if you know it got water damage...
So I was shopping for pants today, but I forgot I had my Desire in my pocket (front right one, if you want to know).
So, my phone fell on the ground and the battery and the cover flew off.
I quickly bought my pants and rushed out to see the damage...
IT WAS HORRIBLE!
The thing didn't want to boot, all it did was flash the red and green LED...
I (somehow) managed to get into bootloader to see the damage...
That was ALSO HORRIBLE!
The recovery kept restarting (4EXT, the loading screen that says 'preparing boot') and all I could do was take out the battery...
Thank god, Fastboot worked, so as soon as I came home I started running the RUU (from fastboot)...
Again, HORRIBLE!
when the RUU said the phone was gonna reboot into bootloader, it DIDN'T - the LEDs just kept flashing!
So I pressed power+vol- and that did the trick, but after the RUU finished ... again, flashy LEDs...
So, is this a software or hardware issue, and how to fix it (other than going to a guy and pay him to do it, which I'll do anyway if you people (god, no!) don't know the answer...)
I think I'll go to Fastboot next and clear all storage...
EDIT: Held the power button for a few secs, and the HTC boot logo shows up...
EDIT2: THE BOOTANIMATION!!! FINALLY!!!
Still, I'd like to know what the issue was, since it seems like it'll work normally from here on...?
Seems like all I've damaged are the LEDs and the camera Flash (the camera says it's too cold to use flash...)
I'll heat up the battery and report again
P.S.
Sorry for the double post... My PC is laggy today...
EDIT: Can't boot into 4EXT, no matter what... I tried CWM and it worked fine, but 4EXT won't...
And just today, I bought a new SDcard so I'd have more space and speed so I could partition it...
EDIT2: Also, the battery doesn't want to fill up... The second I take the charger out, it shuts down... Looks like I'm in need of a new battery... (curse my pants' pockets for being so big!)
It won't be bad to disassemble your phone and see if some connector disconnected.
How do I do that...? Is there like a hardware manual somewhere...? Because I'll need to know what screwdrivers I have to buy (I'm all out anyways...)
Yeah, it's probably the connector, since I can hear something shaking when I shake the phone (or it's something broken... hope it's the first thing)
Otherwise, there's a little power button glitch when turning the thing on... The LEDs flash and I can only boot if I hold the vol- button (can't do anything, not even bootloader!)
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I was just waiting when you'd reply (oh, Great one!)
Youtube is a miracle...
You'll need TORX screewdriver (star shape 6 angles), a small one.
Took my phone apart, saw the drivers I need... Just gotta wait till morning so BauHaus opens up...
I saw the tut on how to replace the screen, so that will help... Other solutions WILL be YouTube, since I don't understand anything from those pictures (but the text part of the guide is great)
I found another glitch: The LEDs flash if charging even if the battery is 60 meters away... I don't believe that's a sign of a disconnected connector... Hope it is
EDIT: Installed SetCPU, and my battery has been at 0% for the last 12 hours (without charging)... And the phone works... It just won't turn on sometimes...
Picking up those screwdrivers at about 6 pm
Just one question:
Is it possible for a connector to break? And if so, if one is broken in my phone, is it possible to replace it...? (haven't gotten the screwdrivers yet...)
If not, do I have to replace the whole cable, whole motherboard or only the component of the connector...? Or even the whole phone...?
I just popped it open... Now what? I disconnected and connected every single connector, reassembled it and the LEDs still glitch... And the phone won't go beyond the boot logo...
Could it be the battery? I saw a new scratch today, could I've damaged the battery and that is what's wrong...?
EDIT: Disassembled it again, looking for anything unusual (note that I don't have a single clue about what I'm looking for...)
Looks like I'm leaving the Android phone world... for the next 4-6 years... :'( Good old Nokia, I'm glad I didn't throw you away...
And it appears I'm yet again talking to myself...
Anyways, I'm taking the phone to a check to a repair shop, so I'll know what's wrong...
EDIT: The guy in the shop said a check is free, so I'm just gonna chill and play Minecraft for the next few days until he calls
Meh... The guy at the store checked it (FINALLY!) and he said the motherboard was dead...
And that costs 200€ to repair...
Anyways, I went to another shop and got me an Xperia S...
Goodbye, developer phone
wow 200 for mobo, u could get a good second hand desire that aint pvt1 for 100 lol. ah well hope u get better luck with ur new phone
Sent from my HTC Desire
I bought my Desire a few months ago, in June, for 120€ (PVT3). It was used, but it was the only used Desire in town... (seriously, I was the only person with a HTC Desire in my town (with 200k people!))
Ah well...
Guess I'll be the only owner of a Xperia S in 4 years
I was at a party and had my phone in my clothes since i didn' have a pocket for it..
It was working fine, came to hotel few hours later and i saw that on my lower part off my screen had a different colour, liiiiiiittle darker just like fog. But it worked perfect...
Then i was going to sleep, i rebootet my phone and had it on charge, the problem was that my phone didn't start again...
I had it on charge the entire night without any red or green lamps showing on.. I came home yesterday and since then i tried with rice, and i tried have it in the fridge and i tried charge it through PC and regular... Nothing is working.... What can be wrong? And what should i do....???
My HTC ONE X is rooted with this rom: Android Revolution HD 18.1
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I can not do ANYTHING, not even vol- +power...
I turned in my phone today and they said that it is PROBABLY moist that has been casing this.... Fkk, i don't like that...
Well, i was hoping that someone here would answer me and maybe know a trick but like i said i turned it in for service and hopefully i will have it back before the end of March .... Untill then i am using one of my VERY old abd broken Nokia N85, it's really sucky to downgrade like that, damn! Hahaha:cyclops:
Probably a hardware fault my friend. Its strange that a moist would penetrate the tiny little gaps on the corner. I did accidentally splash water to my phone but nothing happened and still working fine till now.:good:
flammin_ice1986 said:
Probably a hardware fault my friend. Its strange that a moist would penetrate the tiny little gaps on the corner. I did accidentally splash water to my phone but nothing happened and still working fine till now.:good:
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Thank you for your answer!! =)
Well, since i turned it in i hope that you are right...
My question is then... i have rooted my phone and using custom rom.. Is is still on warranty??