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The story of me and my HTC Desire

After some negotiating with my girlfriend I decided I’d buy an Android phone, an HTC Desire from PDAShop.be, where I’ve bought my previous HTC Touch 3G.
As always, the delivery of the phone was quick and soon I unpacked the phone and started playing around with it. I improrted contacts from SIM to phone and linked them to Facebook and Twitter contacts. Piece of pie. I also installed some apps and games from the Android Market (no paid apps here in Belgium, yet) and fiddled around with them, as I also did with various settings in the HTC Sense UI.
After a few hours playing with the phone, I went outside with the phone in my back pocket of my jeans, and I heard the HTC startup again. I thought that somehow I managed to press the power button by accident. Nope, the phone restarted several times on different occasions.
When I went to sleep, the phone was on and the battery was almost charged to 60%. The next morning, 8 hours later, the device was turned off and when I charged it via USB on the PC, the battery was fully drained… 0%!
I then called HTC support, and the kind person on the other end of the line listened to my story and told me I needed a hard-reset of the device. From the mail he sent me:
With the phone turned off, press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button. 2. Wait for the screen with the 3 Android images to appear, and then release the VOLUME DOWN button. 3. Press VOLUME DOWN to select CLEAR STORAGE, and then press POWER. 4. When asked to confirm, press VOLUME UP
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I tried that, but the phone just wouldn’t complete the hard-reset. So I called PDAShop and they told me that I could bring the phone in. I removed my SIM from Mobile Vikings and put it in my other phone and drove to them.
To my amazement the guy at the shop managed to hard-reset (without a SIM) the device, and stress-tested it with some rapid movements, changing styles in the UI, setting up a Live-wallpaper. The device didn’t freeze… So I drove back to home.
I put my SIM back in, and voila… the device started to hang on me again. I even tried the hard-reset with the SIM with no luck whatsoever. I contacted PDAShop again and the same person helped me further. He said I can send the phone back to them and they will replace it with a new one…
I really hope this isn’t becoming some part of long tragedy waiting to happen. I really want to enjoy this Android phone, as I am fed up with the current status of Windows Mobile on my brilliant HTC Touch 3G.

Hey
Sorry to heard your story, you must be very unlucky :/ . If it's of any comfort, my desire has a mobile vikings sim in it aswell and functions excellent, so it's probably a faulty model.

Sorry for you, it's probably a faulty device or a faulty ROM, either way, my phone and the ones of multiple other person works fine so keep hope!

I would advise you to recontact Coolbleu (aka pdashop) and tell them that you went there they did reset it and tested it but that it didn't fix the problem. I would be surprised if they wouldn't offer to give u a new one. (I bought several phones at coolbleu and I've always been happy with after sale support) BTW I'm also using Mobile Vikings (but on HTC Legend) and I don't have any problems with it at all.

@JonasDroid & @Cooki3s:
Good to know that, because the person at coolblue received some disturbing calls from people with MobileVikings SIM cards. How old are your SIM cards?
@All Thanks for the support, I really hope my next Desire will be somthing that I can actually enjoy
Will keep you posted.
Cheers!

I tried a hard reset again, but without a SIM and SD card inserted. This seemed to work.
I then did go through all the settings in the wizard and rebooted. Then I shut it down, inserted to SD again and I went into Settings > SD and Storage, unmounted the card, formatted it, and rebooted the phone. I stress-tested it for a while, and then I shut it down, inserted my SIM and it still works.
Could it be that some corrupt data on the card caused the instant reboots and faulty hard-resets?
I'm going to charge my phone and test it throughout the day to see if it still hangs/reboots on its own. Fingers crossed!
EDIT:
I spoke too soon... a few minutes later and the device was shut down when I tried to bring the screen back up. Now it reboots until it hangs itself... I don't hear the startup-sound either when it come to "Quitely Brilliant"
The phone will be sent back to pdashop!
Edit2:
I narrowed the problem down to a device-specific issue... It shuts down/freezes/reboots randomly even when no SIM and no SD card are in the device... I really hope the next device I'll receive doesn't have these issues

Have you got any apps installed on it? If so what? I had issues with some apps that changed the APN when the internet wasnt being used.

its a faulty device

langers1 said:
Have you got any apps installed on it? If so what? I had issues with some apps that changed the APN when the internet wasnt being used.
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No external apps installed since first hard reset
dexteral said:
its a faulty device
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That's what I thought also

Hey,
My SIM dates from early January this year.

I love my desire
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I bought it unlocked no problems.

jimlad said:
I love my desire
I bought it unlocked no problems.
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Very usefull and mature. We all thank you for enlightening us!

Airplane mode problems

Does anyone else's Airplane Mode automatically turn on randomly? I've seen it a couple of times where it auto turns on but only shows that I have 0 bars, it doesn't show the airplane icon unless I physically turn it on myself.
I'm sorry in advance if there is already a thread on this. I don't think there's a search button on the XDA app
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Anyone? Lol
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shadowstewie said:
Does anyone else's Airplane Mode automatically turn on randomly? I've seen it a couple of times where it auto turns on but only shows that I have 0 bars, it doesn't show the airplane icon unless I physically turn it on myself.
I'm sorry in advance if there is already a thread on this. I don't think there's a search button on the XDA app
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
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It sounds like you are simply loosing the cell signal and not that Airplane mode is turning on. If the signal isn't actually going out, but rather the phone is not picking up the signal, I'd contact Verizon. Turning the Airplane Mode on and off is a common cure for signal loss. If the signal comes back when you toggle Airplane Mode, they you are experiencing signal loss - not a good thing.
Good luck.

Nah its actually turning on Airplane Mode. If I randomly have no signal, I'll press and hold the power button and it says Airplane Mode/Airplane mode is On.
This first SS is what I'm talking about. It shows I'm in Airplane Mode and it happens a couple times a day.
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This second one is what happens when I turn Airplane Mode off.
And this third one is what happens when I turn Airplane Mode on. Notice the airplane icon that wasn't showing in the first picture. I don't know why it randomly turns it on as shown in the first picture.
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Ahh those pictures are in the wrong order. Here is what the first one is.
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Yes, it happens to me every couple of days. Phone thinks it's in airplane mode, but curiously only GSM doesn't work, wifi and bluetooth are still functional. Turning airplane mode off is impossible and triggers a hang/restart after a while. Only way to get back calling functionality is to reboot.

There has been an issue logged for this, as I've seen from another post. Please star if you can so we can get more eyes on the issue
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22503

Alright cool. Yeah I was seeing if anybody else was having this problem. It gets annoying after the first couple times it does it.
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Here is the most active thread on this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387943

[Q] Wildfire s does not turn and flash black screen

Hi guys, first sorry for my English.I have a problem with my wildfire s, I upgrade to RuuEurope_2.13.401.3 and complete updating the wilfire s,i tstarted to flash black screen and blinkingred light.I try to do hard reset but nothing happens and I try to charge the battery,the light turns orange and takes off.
any solution?

your english is not the problem, it's more the lack of whitespaces and detailed information about what you've done ...

theq86 said:
your english is not the problem, it's more the lack of whitespaces and detailed information about what you've done ...
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sorry for the white spaces, simply i upgrade to RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.13.401.2 to 401.3 and finished correctly but to the reset the phone now flasing black screen and it do not turn.
could be the low battery the problem?

no. does your phone vibrate 3 times when turning on?

theq86 said:
no. does your phone vibrate 3 times when turning on?
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it does not , thanks for help me

paperweight, try hold volume down - and press power for 5 secs. if it boots in hboot, you can still repair it

m1ndh4x8r said:
paperweight, try hold volume down - and press power for 5 secs. if it boots in hboot, you can still repair it
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i tried this a lot of times, first i remove the battery, i wait 20 minutes after try hold volume down - and press power for 5 secs, however it only turn on and flash black screen appears with a horizontal line with rain and when I try to charge the battery light appears orange and soon the light is removed and flash the black screen appears and it does not charge

I'm sorry to say it's
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send to htc or warranty.

I'm sorry but

not problem, i supposed it , i will send to htc by warranty

Hi,
I had similar situation.
Whent I did flash from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 RuuEurope_2.13.401.3, Wildfire S stopped working. Black blinking screen with power on, without any vibration. Doesn't work service menu, hard reset etc.
I send HTC to service on the warranty. They Repaired it for free.
Service's Raport:
They replaced the motherboard (with new IMEI), memory and the LITEON module.
Phone befor this accident was on Official HTC 2.3.3 without Root.
So, I hope that, the HTC will repair Your Wildfire on warranty.
Good luck

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no. does your phone vibrate 3 times when turning on?
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My phone will not power on or take a charge. And it does vibrate 3 times when trying to turn on. I hope I asked this question in the correct area...

guillerlp said:
My phone will not power on or take a charge. And it does vibrate 3 times when trying to turn on. I hope I asked this question in the correct area...
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It's in Qualcomm Diagnostics Mode, there is a tutorial on how to get out of it but I need to look for it.

LG G4 Completely Crazy

Hello guys.
Today I woke up to some strange events happening to my phone.
I left my phone turned on while I slept, as usual. When I woke up, I noticed that the phone auto brightness wasn't working at all. It was stuck at the minimum brightness and it wouldn't change even if I pointed the phone at the sun. Rebooting the device did not fix the issue.
After a while I decided to pass some music from the computer to the phone with the cable. The cable kept disconnecting the phone, like it had a bad contact. I had a really hard time to put my music on the phone (lot's of phone and PC reboots).
Then, when I finally put the music in it, I plugged the headphones and tried to listen to music, only to be presented with lots of white noise mixed with the music. The white noise "changed" if I moved the cable thingy. Again, reboot didn't fix the problem. I plugged the headphones in my computer and they worked just fine.
I left the phone alone and went on my business. Some time passed and I noticed that the LED light had a permanent green light that would just not go away. I managed to fix this by rebooting in safe mode and booting back to normal mode. This seemed to fix it permanently since it did not happen again.
Now, I tried to use my GPS to play some Pokemon Go. While I was playing I noticed that I was not able to use the button that made the map point in my direction. I installed a Compass app and to my surprise, it said that I didn't have a sensor for it. My compass seems to be gone.
I went ahead and did a factory reset. It did not work. Every single of those issues keeps happening.
Then I tried to use the "refurbish" option on LG UP. I'm always getting "Error: Error Code = 0x2000, Can't decide current device mode
Any suggestions? My device is the European with stock firmware. My S/N begins with 604. I really didn't want to send my phone to repair, I know it will take ages. RIght now in my city it has been really hot (43ºC in the shadow), but there's really nothing I can do about the heat. This never happened with my Galaxy S4 Mini. Help?

That sounds crazy!
Any possible water damage?
Try going to the service menu and testing everything from there. This is done by dialing a code in the dialer app.
So for the international version it is *#546368#*815#
For the Dual sim version it is *#546368#*818#
I assume for the NA version it is *#546368#*811#

htr5 said:
That sounds crazy!
Any possible water damage?
Try going to the service menu and testing everything from there. This is done by dialing a code in the dialer app.
So for the international version it is *#546368#*815#
For the Dual sim version it is *#546368#*818#
I assume for the NA version it is *#546368#*811#
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Hey, thanks for the reply. And I told you it's too damn hot here so the only water contact the phone might have was with my sweat.
As for the tests, the phone failed Barometer, something called TL wrong and the proximity test. The GPS itself was fine tho
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joelalmeidaptg said:
Hey, thanks for the reply. And I told you it's too damn hot here so the only water contact the phone might have was with my sweat.
As for the tests, the phone failed Barometer, something called TL wrong and the proximity test. The GPS itself was fine tho
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In that menu, try going to Device Test and choose SAAT. Then tap on Service Menu Manual Test and then tap on Key and next tap on Test then Cal Start. This will help you recalibrate the proximity sensors. Use your phone after the recalibration to check if it works properly.

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In that menu, try going to Device Test and choose SAAT. Then tap on Service Menu Manual Test and then tap on Key and next tap on Test then Cal Start. This will help you recalibrate the proximity sensors. Use your phone after the recalibration to check if it works properly.
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I tried that but this is all I see in the Key menu
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I guess it's time to send it for repair. At least my humidity thingy hasn't been triggered.

Touchscreen works only sometimes, screen flicker

Hello,
I have a problem with a Galaxy S9. It started acting up today and not registering touches.
It took me many many tries to access the recovery because it just wouldnt let me power down and all possible volume down /up, bixby and power combinations didnt seem to work and the screen often just stayed black while giving vibrations. So I finally were able to access recovery after 20 tries with vol down, bixby, power and then quickly change it to vol up.
Now comes the questions what I should do to troubleshoot. The recovery menu seemed pretty laggy as well.
I wiped cache and restarted, but no improvements. Touchscreen works every 30th press, screen sometimes flickers.
Issues:
Touchscreen doesnt work (every 30th press approximately)
accessing recovery is a game of luck
screen flickers (sometimes bright flashes) I attached a picture of one of those seizures
random vibrations
Last resort is a complete wipe but I'm hesitant because it seems likely to be a hardware issue and replacing the screen wouldn't require the need to delete all data.
I hope someone has an idea. What confused me most were the issue accessing recovery.
Thanks and Best Regards.
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ffdeal said:
Hello,
I have a problem with a Galaxy S9. It started acting up today and not registering touches.
It took me many many tries to access the recovery because it just wouldnt let me power down and all possible volume down /up, bixby and power combinations didnt seem to work and the screen often just stayed black while giving vibrations. So I finally were able to access recovery after 20 tries with vol down, bixby, power and then quickly change it to vol up.
Now comes the questions what I should do to troubleshoot. The recovery menu seemed pretty laggy as well.
I wiped cache and restarted, but no improvements. Touchscreen works every 30th press, screen sometimes flickers.
Issues:
Touchscreen doesnt work (every 30th press approximately)
accessing recovery is a game of luck
screen flickers (sometimes bright flashes) I attached a picture of one of those seizures
random vibrations
Last resort is a complete wipe but I'm hesitant because it seems likely to be a hardware issue and replacing the screen wouldn't require the need to delete all data.
I hope someone has an idea. What confused me most were the issue accessing recovery.
Thanks and Best Regards.
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It's a issue with samsung. They dont know what it is. Either the screen or hardware. If it's under warranty that's your only option. Look up samsung green screen and you'll see

TheMadScientist said:
It's a issue with samsung. They dont know what it is. Either the screen or hardware. If it's under warranty that's your only option. Look up samsung green screen and you'll see
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I'll check if the warranty is still valid. I dont know if you can help with this question as well:
The screen has had a little unobtrusive crack in one corner for a while, I suppose when they do a hardware repair they will have to replace the screen as well and charge for it? Or is it irrelevant in a warranty case?
Thanks and BR

ffdeal said:
I'll check if the warranty is still valid. I dont know if you can help with this question as well:
The screen has had a little unobtrusive crack in one corner for a while, I suppose when they do a hardware repair they will have to replace the screen as well and charge for it? Or is it irrelevant in a warranty case?
Thanks and BR
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If its damaged in any form you will have to pay