[Q] Bricked my Desire HD. - Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, first off I don't really know what all the terms mean , but my phone is rooted, and has a ROM? installed, I'm not 100% sure on what it is as I've forgotten, but I think it is Cyanogenmod?
The past few weeks my phone has been restarting randomly and freezing every now and again. This morning when I tried to unlock it the touchscreen wasn't responding, and this had happened before. I took the battery out and tried to turn it back on. I see HTC splash screen pop up, and that's all I get. I've tried turning it on whilst plugged in charging, and still nothing. It's all fully charged. I've tried turning it on whilst holding the volume down button and it vibrates 3 times and still nothing.
Thanks for any help!

can you still go to bootloader then recovery?

Hold the power button and volume up to get into bootloader, then select recovery. Try to clear cache and davik cache then restart. If its wont work u should freshly reinstall.
I was in your case when using Jellytime R11...my phone started and freezed at boot screen. No matter how manytimes I removed the battery n restarted the phone just stood still. All I can do is go to recovery...
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Thỏ Tung Tăng said:
Hold the power button and volume up to get into bootloader, then select recovery. Try to clear cache and davik cache then restart. If its wont work u should freshly reinstall.
I was in your case when using Jellytime R11...my phone started and freezed at boot screen. No matter how manytimes I removed the battery n restarted the phone just stood still. All I can do is go to recovery...
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I've just tried that, and unfortunately it didn't work. When I do that the phone vibrates 3 times, and the orange LED flashes, and has been flashing for around 5 minutes now. The screen also doesn't turn on at any point.
Thanks for the help!

U press Volume Up or Down?
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Thỏ Tung Tăng said:
U press Volume Up or Down?
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I've tried both and they both end up with the same result; the 3 vibrations and then the orange LED flashing.

if u cant go to recovery then relock and flash Ruu
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Thỏ Tung Tăng said:
if u cant go to recovery then relock and flash Ruu
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Thanks, I've looked around and can't find a tutorial on how to do that on a Desire HD. Do you know of one, or a good generic tutorial I could follow?
Thanks again.

Take the Sim SDCard Out as well as battery. Wait a few minutes then only replace the battery back and see if it fully boots If it does then power down the phone pull the battery wait again a few minutes then boot with the VOL DOWN key and then factory reset it.
With this done its one more battery pull and boot again it should be fine after that.

hacktrix2006 said:
Take the Sim SDCard Out as well as battery. Wait a few minutes then only replace the battery back and see if it fully boots If it does then power down the phone pull the battery wait again a few minutes then boot with the VOL DOWN key and then factory reset it.
With this done its one more battery pull and boot again it should be fine after that.
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Unfortunately that didn't work. I'm not sure if this is of any help, but when booting normally, almost immediately after the white HTC splash screen, the screen flashes blue for half a second.
Thanks for the help!

No clue how I've done it, but I've been pressing button for the last 10 minutes and managed to get in to what I believe is the bootloader? It's a white screen with Fastboot, Recovery, Factory Reset etc and the options. What shall I do from here?
I wiped the cache, and booted and then it froze saying "Android is upgrading, starting apps"

This step takes a while. But if you could get into the bootloader which is Fastboot Recovery and Factory reset you could of choose Factory Reset to see if that fixed the issue.

yup, since you can now access your bootloader, from the recovery just flash your rom, remember to do full wipe first, data, cache and dalvik cache...

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[Q] Black screen. Fix please?

I flashed the latest MIUI ROM for the HTC Vision.
A few hours later, I tried to unlock my phone so I can update my Facebook status and it wouldn't wake. I took out the battery, reinserted it, and turned it on. It booted, but the screen wouldn't turn on. Unusually, the capacitive buttons and the keyboard lights work.
Diagnosis anyone?
Can you boot into Bootloader? (pressing the - volume button and power). Or from ADB by typing "restart bootloader"
dumraden said:
Can you boot into Bootloader? (pressing the - volume button and power). Or from ADB by typing "restart bootloader"
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If you can do this, I would recommend downloading it again via the actual MIUI.us site, and flashing from bootloader after wipe. I've had some problems before from flashing MIUI. Usually goes away after a rewipe and flash from zip on sdcard.
Oh also search XDA for G2superwipe+ by ghul. This wipes better than ROM Manager does natively, and usually solves black screen problems, no wallpaper(All black backround), and some data issues.
Draketh said:
If you can do this, I would recommend downloading it again via the actual MIUI.us site, and flashing from bootloader after wipe. I've had some problems before from flashing MIUI. Usually goes away after a rewipe and flash from zip on sdcard.
Oh also search XDA for G2superwipe+ by ghul. This wipes better than ROM Manager does natively, and usually solves black screen problems, no wallpaper(All black backround), and some data issues.
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Apparently I can, but the problem is that the screen isn't working.
I only know this because every time I hit the power button (when I assumed it was off) it vibrated.
Do the screen is black when you are in bootloader?
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stuck on green htc logo with while background

This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
Pull the battery, wait five minutes.
Press and hold the volume down button, then press the power button. Don't let go. Wait.... wait, should go into recovery.
Full wipe.
Format data/factory reset.
Wipe dalvik
Format all partitions except sd card.
Restore a back up.
Then read how to get that rom working. Been posted too many times as for me to repeat it. Check the thread somewhere below yours, the title of the thread I believe is the same as the rom, answer is there.
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lopax53186 said:
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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Just saw the HBoot screen but lost it. What I did was, took out the battery, sdcard, SIM. Replace the battery but not the cover of the battery. Then I hit power and volume(plus/minus) button, the HBoot menu came up, but because the batter cover was not placed, the menu was lost when I did not hold the phone tight, meaning batter got loose. Now I am trying to get back to HBoot menu again after replace battery and cover but to no avail. I still have sdcard, SIM out of the phone. I think there is some combination of keys you've to press coming out from cold boot vs. not. will keep on trying unless someone already knows.
lopax53186 said:
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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That is common flashing that rom. Choose full wipe in aroma installer even if you did it manually. When the flash is done, don't choose to reboot with aroma installer...DO IT MANUALLY from recovery!!...that should solve it...:good:
The same happened to me and found that solution in their thread.
lopax53186 said:
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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Teichopsia said:
Pull the battery, wait five minutes.
Press and hold the volume down button, then press the power button. Don't let go. Wait.... wait, should go into recovery.
Full wipe.
Format data/factory reset.
Wipe dalvik
Format all partitions except sd card.
Restore a back up.
Then read how to get that rom working. Been posted too many times as for me to repeat it. Check the thread somewhere below yours, the title of the thread I believe is the same as the rom, answer is there.
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yes thanks for the answers, will follow up on your suggestion. was not doing the 5 minutes battery thing. That was my problem and also i was trying power and vol+ button to get to HBoot menu rather vol- button. much kudos... to you
lopax53186 said:
yes thanks for the answers, will follow up on your suggestion. was not doing the 5 minutes battery thing. That was my problem and also i was trying power and vol+ button to get to HBoot menu rather vol- button. much kudos... to you
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I was able to get to HBoot, choose recovery, came up with CWM touch, did the wipe data/app, delvic, cache, did format /data, /* all the mentioned other than /sdcard. Then went to install from sdcard and choose that Blackout rom. went through the installer but at the end chose not to reboot from the installer as suggested. Then came back to CWM touch menu and did the reboot from there. It stuck on that logo screen again for 5 minutes. Now again took out the battery for few minutes, and want to go back to HBoot, but could not. Do I have to take out SDCARD as well, Do not think so but not sure. And why do we have to take out battery for so long, any idea, taking battery out for a minute isn't enough?
5 minutes just in case.
You missed one step. Wipe from aroma as well.
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Teichopsia said:
5 minutes just in case.
You missed one step. Wipe from aroma as well.
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Sorry to mention that, yep did that(wipe from aroma which is set to default, did not change it there). still same problem. will keep trying.
it is just weird that i can not get to HBoot in the consistent basis.
lopax53186 said:
Sorry to mention that, yep did that(wipe from aroma which is set to default, did not change it there). still same problem. will keep trying.
it is just weird that i can not get to HBoot in the consistent basis.
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Should work without battery pull as long as you power off. But when it doesn't, battery pull.
Just volume down, the power, both pressed till it turns on.
Oh, and fastboot unchecked
Edit: if it stll doesnt work, could be a bad download.
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Teichopsia said:
Should work without battery pull as long as you power off. But when it doesn't, battery pull.
Just volume down, the power, both pressed till it turns on.
Oh, and fastboot unchecked
Edit: if it stll doesnt work, could be a bad download.
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what u mean fastboot unchecked(from within the phone, if yes, remember i can not boot the phone)
yes it could be the bad download, once i can get to recovery i will restore my old cynongenmod 7 from CWM.
Thanks for ur help, i will definitely let you know if or when i succeed.
It was for future reference. Let us know.
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Was able to restore cm using recovery. Will try redownloding ROM again tonight and give a try
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So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
If that doesn't work this straight booted bricked phone when nothing else would. Took 2 months of searching but I got it working within 5 minutes. It's from a thunderbolt forum but I think the commands are the same except for the img name.http://androidforums.com/thunderbolt-all-things-root/480350-easier-way-flash-pg05img-files.htmli was stuck with hboot s-on, no recovery whatsoever, security warning, no sd card, NOTHING.
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So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
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After monkeying around with this ROM for a day, it was actually problem with CWM recovery. It looks like this ROM is not compatible with this recovery. I replaced cwm with 4ext recovery and voila I was able to flash this new ROM. Thank you guys so much for helping out. This community is really great to be part of.
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So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
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Do I use the thank button or thanking on the thread is good enough. If latter I already did
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I had the same problem after unlocking the bootloader on HTCdev. After a lot of searching, it seems that the HTC process keeps the boot partition locked from recovery but not from fastboot.
I was able to get around this by unzipping the Rom and flashing boot.IMG using fastboot and then flashing the Rom again.
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Restarting Issue

My Galaxy S2 from Tmobile was working ok. I had update to ICS 4.0.3 i think a few days ago via Kies. Out of the blue the phone starts to restart. When it boots it gets to the animation with the android then vibrates and reboots. It vibrates a few more times then keeps trying to boot but keeps rebooting. When it finally loads The screen locks and when i press the power button to unlock it flashes many times then vibrates and starts with the whole rebooting loop. I tried to flash it to stock but when I put it in download mode I press the continue option its says "downloading" the restarts. I thought maybe the power button got stuck so I took it apart and cleaned it and all. put it back together and nothing. Any thoughts?
Thank you so much in advance
dante0027 said:
My Galaxy S2 from Tmobile was working ok. I had update to ICS 4.0.3 i think a few days ago via Kies. Out of the blue the phone starts to restart. When it boots it gets to the animation with the android then vibrates and reboots. It vibrates a few more times then keeps trying to boot but keeps rebooting. When it finally loads The screen locks and when i press the power button to unlock it flashes many times then vibrates and starts with the whole rebooting loop. I tried to flash it to stock but when I put it in download mode I press the continue option its says "downloading" the restarts. I thought maybe the power button got stuck so I took it apart and cleaned it and all. put it back together and nothing. Any thoughts?
Thank you so much in advance
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wipe dalvik wipe cahe reboot
richardlibeau said:
wipe dalvik wipe cahe reboot
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When i try to enter into that mode it does the same
dante0027 said:
When i try to enter into that mode it does the same
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Wipe out the whole ROM then try odin
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Wipe out the whole ROM then try odin
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How do I do this?

Phone won't boot for 2 minutes after flashing rom

After flashing arhd 7.0, before hitting reboot button in twrp, my phone turns off and I can't get it back to life. I keep holding power button + volume up or down being in panic for a couple of minutes. After that my phone boots.I am not sure after what combination of buttons.This happened several times. Does anyone has any suggestions? I 'm afraid my phone won't boot again eventually after flashing a new update
morfini said:
After flashing arhd 7.0, before hitting reboot button in twrp, my phone turns off and I can't get it back to life. I keep holding power button + volume up or down being in panic for a couple of minutes. After that my phone boots.I am not sure after what combination of buttons.This happened several times. Does anyone has any suggestions? I 'm afraid my phone won't boot again eventually after flashing a new update
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In the twrp settings screen turn off the screen saver setting. I forget what it says exactly but once you turn this off that should stop happening.
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In the twrp settings screen turn off the screen saver setting. I forget what it says exactly but once you turn this off that should stop happening.
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Thanks I will try this. Hope won't happen again
I panicked after flashing AR7.0 as I thought I had bricked my M8. The screen goes black and doesnt respond, but I found that if you just leave it for a good few minutes it will boot up properly. It stays on the white HTC splash screen for a while too.
Happens to me too. I'm not sure if it's really the screen lock, but if you just leave it alone for a bit the screen will come back on and then you can tell TWRP to reboot.
First time i flashed and the screen turned off nearly gave me a heart attack
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First time i flashed and the screen turned off nearly gave me a heart attack
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Yes so I did I. My first attempt at flashing an android custom ROM and I thought I'd balls'd it up!!
ASL3312 said:
Yes so I did I. My first attempt at flashing an android custom ROM and I thought I'd balls'd it up!!
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pls help i did this to my phone went off and hasnt turn back on pls help
Press power + vol. Up button,
Before you flash any rom on TWRP, go to setting-screen- uncheck screen timeout on TWRP
morfini said:
After flashing arhd 7.0, before hitting reboot button in twrp, my phone turns off and I can't get it back to life. I keep holding power button + volume up or down being in panic for a couple of minutes. After that my phone boots.I am not sure after what combination of buttons.This happened several times. Does anyone has any suggestions? I 'm afraid my phone won't boot again eventually after flashing a new update
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HTC won't boot

I tried to root my HTC Desire 820. While rooting it with supersu i checked reboot system instead of wipe cache/delvik (which is probably why it wasn't detected as rooted). I noticed it, so I went back in, and while choosing .zip directory i went away for ~5mins and now my phone doesn't boot (LED doesn't blink either); battery is well over 80% and charging. What should I do?
savagecheeze said:
I tried to root my HTC Desire 820. While rooting it with supersu i checked reboot system instead of wipe cache/delvik (which is probably why it wasn't detected as rooted). I noticed it, so I went back in, and while choosing .zip directory i went away for ~5mins and now my phone doesn't boot (LED doesn't blink either); battery is well over 80% and charging. What should I do?
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Reboot a couple more times, or is that blank screen caused by the TWRP screen saver?
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Reboot a couple more times, or is that blank screen caused by the TWRP screen saver?
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Well if I had to guess I'd say it's a screensaver because I didn't really press anything; I can't access it in anyway, unless there is a special type of button combination?
savagecheeze said:
Well if I had to guess I'd say it's a screensaver because I didn't really press anything; I can't access it in anyway, unless there is a special type of button combination?
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Try holding power and VOL+ together for some times. It should then bring up the HTC boot screen. Then the device should start boot normally again.
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Try holding power and VOL+ together for some times. It should then bring up the HTC boot screen. Then the device should start boot normally again.
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So I guess Volume down doesn't work that way? I tried pressing vol- and power but it didn't work, haven't thought about vol+. Thanks a lot for saving my ass.
savagecheeze said:
So I guess Volume down doesn't work that way? I tried pressing vol- and power but it didn't work, haven't thought about vol+. Thanks a lot for saving my ass.
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You are welcomed?.
For most of the Android device that has a non-removable battery (not by screws), VOL+ and Power button is a universal trick to force reboot/shutdown your device.
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i have question if im tired of this save screen becouse ii failed root phone, how to fix this? i can't enter on recovery mode its annoying...

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