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Hi,
I'm sorry if this has already been answered I just can't find it.
My Wildfire's screen froze a couple of times, then the last time I removed the battery and reinserted it.
When I tried to power back up I got the vibrate but nothing on the screen, so I repeated a couple of times with no luck.
I then tried the Hboot method (Hold vol - and power) and I got the Hboot on, but when I tried to navigate using the volume buttons nothing happened, so removed battery and tried to repeat, I couldn't get back to Hboot. I have only been able to get the Hboot screen that one time.
When I power up, I get 1 vibrate and nothing on screen.
When I hold volume + and power button, I get three vibrates and the green light comes on.
When I hold volume - and power I don't get any vibrates, unless I remove the volume - then the power button but still only one vibrate.
I've tried installing the CyanogenMod but no luck.
Is there anything that can be done to save my Wildfire?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Seems like you're in Qualcomm Diagnostic mode. Though I don't remember the solution, some Googling might help
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Any help please
I've tried the method stated on this forum but with no luck.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks!
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So you wrote your question again in the "Wildfire S" (Marvel) Forums - in this case the much more important question would be: what phone are you talking about? A Wildfire (Buzz) or a "Wildfire S" (Marvel). Despite the name those have almost nothing in common - they are totally different devices
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I'll answer in this thread although you opened another one in Q&A.
You haven't been too specific with your problem but sometimes it helps to have all the details
So here we go:
a) did the phone work correct (besides the freezes) before you took out the battery?
b) is your WF rooted & s-off?
c) which ROM?
d)
When I hold volume + and power button, I get three vibrates and the green light comes on
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does this happen when connected to PC or charger or not
e)
When I hold volume - and power I don't get any vibrates, unless I remove the volume
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did you hold both at least 5-10 secs or so?
f)
I've tried installing the CyanogenMod but no luck
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you mean after your problem occured? How did you do that?
Believe me: the more details you provide the more likely someone might have a solution or at least an idea what's going on
OK, sorry for the lack of info!
My phone is a Wildfire, not a WildfireS.
A: Yes, was working.
B: No, never needed to.
C: Not sure, never kept a record of it. It's one of the first models though if that helps.
D: This happens without USB cord attached. When the USB cord is attached I pull the battery and the green light stays on.
E: Yes, I've tried this for over 10secs before.
F: Yes, after blank screen. I installed on SD card and followed the directions. Bare in mind, I cant set Debug or the charge only setting.
Thanks!
stefan2519 said:
OK, sorry for the lack of info!
My phone is a Wildfire, not a WildfireS
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ok, you should mention it in the Marvel forums, too, to avoid misunderstandings At least you're in the right forum here.
B: No, never needed to.
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That's what I thought. In this case you won't be able to flash any other ROM - you could just do the usual upgrades by HTC
This doesn't sound to me to be a minor problem (but probably someone else might correct me here) - nevertheless - just to make sure: have you tried to do a hard factory reset following the HTC user guide?
- With the phone turned off, press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button (instead of holding it)
if this boots your phone up:
- Wait for the screen with the three Android images to appear, and then release the VOLUME DOWN button.
- Press VOLUME DOWN to select CLEAR STORAGE, and then press POWER.
- Press VOLUME UP to start the factory reset
(errm and yes: this will delete all your user data, of course...)
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But I assume you have done that anyway - did you try to connect your phone to the PC (HTC drivers installed, of course)?
How about charging - does the phone seem to behave normal - i.e. if you keep it from charging for a few hrs does it show the red LED for charging mode and the green one for being fully charged?
That's pretty much all I could suggest from scratch. - Hopefully someone else with a good idea will step in here :fingers-crossed:
OK, still have the Wildfire with the annoying blank screen.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a fix?
Thanks!
stefan2519 said:
OK, still have the Wildfire with the annoying blank screen.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a fix?
Thanks!
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besides the suggestion of the Qualcomm diagnostic mode (no I don't know anything about that): did you try to power up without the sdcard, yet?
Furthermore I slightly remember that you could do a factory reset using a key combination - but I'm not sure about it.
Same goes for a RUU. Are you able to connect to the phone with the PC?
Really just random guessing - hard if no error messages appear...
Yes, tried with the SD card.
Because I can't see the screen I tried it loads of times, all with different combinations.
I can't get any vibrate from volume down + long hold power.
I will only get a vibrate from volume down + short hold power.
What would be ideal if there's a way to use ODIN PC to flash a new ROM, well that's what I think it is, faulty ROM?
Thanks!
stefan2519 said:
Yes, tried with the SD card.
Because I can't see the screen I tried it loads of times, all with different combinations.
I can't get any vibrate from volume down + long hold power.
I will only get a vibrate from volume down + short hold power.
What would be ideal if there's a way to use ODIN PC to flash a new ROM, well that's what I think it is, faulty ROM?
Thanks!
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really hard to say as there's not a little information what's going on. What if just the screen is dead? have you tried to wait after boot and insert your pin after a while (I mean try to guess where the numbers might be) and call your number?
Why anyone want's to use ODIN on non-samsung?!
ODIN is purely just for SAMSUNG products
If you have warranty.. put it to service centre.. they will fix it
Need hard reset power off your phone press volume DOWN and power. YOU WILL FIX IT EASYLI.
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Hey there!
I'm bumping this because I have the same problem and creating a new thread seemed more bad to me.
Anyway, I'll start from the beginning.
I found out my battery was swollen 5 days ago. It's probably because of my charging habits. My battery life have shortened everyday this 5 days. Yesterday morning I wiped my battery stats to get a better battery life. When I was back home my phone's battery has depleted while I was listening to music.
I came to home, plugged my phone to charge and waited 15 mins to get it charged a bit to open. When I tried to open it, it vibrated but the "green htc text on white background" screen didn't come up. The screen wasn't working. I tried what is said before in this tried. Once I got managed to see the bootloader but the volume keys weren't working (as above) After some moments of rage, my brother offered to test the touch, I opened the phone, (as I dont have a PIN) we waited for some minutes and then he called me. I mimiced the answering gestured and boom, I could talk with my brother.
I bought a new screen as I think screen is broken. But it could be because mainboards screen part is damaged (probably because of my faulty battery, voltage wavings etc.) or something completely different.
Please guys help me. I can't buy a new phone atm so I have to fix this
zephyri-xr said:
Hey there!
I'm bumping this because I have the same problem and creating a new thread seemed more bad to me.
Anyway, I'll start from the beginning.
I found out my battery was swollen 5 days ago. It's probably because of my charging habits. My battery life have shortened everyday this 5 days. Yesterday morning I wiped my battery stats to get a better battery life. When I was back home my phone's battery has depleted while I was listening to music.
I came to home, plugged my phone to charge and waited 15 mins to get it charged a bit to open. When I tried to open it, it vibrated but the "green htc text on white background" screen didn't come up. The screen wasn't working. I tried what is said before in this tried. Once I got managed to see the bootloader but the volume keys weren't working (as above) After some moments of rage, my brother offered to test the touch, I opened the phone, (as I dont have a PIN) we waited for some minutes and then he called me. I mimiced the answering gestured and boom, I could talk with my brother.
I bought a new screen as I think screen is broken. But it could be because mainboards screen part is damaged (probably because of my faulty battery, voltage wavings etc.) or something completely different.
Please guys help me. I can't buy a new phone atm so I have to fix this
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Ouch sounds like a rough one :/ OK so you have no visual, but do have touch and audio? Are you s-off or s-on? You could try to "blind feed" the rom.zip of a ruu to the bootloader to try restore it. But it may well be that your battery has killed the screen. Have you ordered a new battery?
tapped out from my sexy sensation XE
heavy_metal_man said:
Ouch sounds like a rough one :/ OK so you have no visual, but do have touch and audio? Are you s-off or s-on? You could try to "blind feed" the rom.zip of a ruu to the bootloader to try restore it. But it may well be that your battery has killed the screen. Have you ordered a new battery?
tapped out from my sexy sensation XE
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I'm S-OFF. I had it written in my old sig.
I too think that it was the battery that killed the screen. Ordered both a screen and a battery but they won't be coming before 20 days at least. Damn you China, why you have to be that far.
Anyhoo, I can't get to the bootloader anymore. Or I think I can't get it. I once managed to get it but volume buttons weren't working. After that in every try I couln't see the bootloader screen. But you're right. When I can't see the bootloader, it doesn't mean I don't get the screen. I could do it with a fellow's help. But only after a few days. I'm getting a surgery in 10 hours. Can't really care about my phone right now
zephyri-xr said:
I'm S-OFF. I had it written in my old sig.
I too think that it was the battery that killed the screen. Ordered both a screen and a battery but they won't be coming before 20 days at least. Damn you China, why you have to be that far.
Anyhoo, I can't get to the bootloader anymore. Or I think I can't get it. I once managed to get it but volume buttons weren't working. After that in every try I couln't see the bootloader screen. But you're right. When I can't see the bootloader, it doesn't mean I don't get the screen. I could do it with a fellow's help. But only after a few days. I'm getting a surgery in 10 hours. Can't really care about my phone right now
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As always man look after your self, then your family and friends, then your tec
Damn china indeed well I believe I know the blind flash procedure so hit this thread when you are better and will will rock on
tapped out from my sexy sensation XE
heavy_metal_man said:
As always man look after your self, then your family and friends, then your tec
Damn china indeed well I believe I know the blind flash procedure so hit this thread when you are better and will will rock on
tapped out from my sexy sensation XE
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Hey I'm back
First I have to ask, do you get a vibration feedback when you are getting into bootloader by VolDown + Power buttons?
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Hey I'm back
First I have to ask, do you get a vibration feedback when you are getting into bootloader by VolDown + Power buttons?
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I don't think so :-\ it just depends. If its going to do it standardly then it will go once, if it goes 3 or 5 times your in trouble...
Tapped out from my sexy nexus 7
heavy_metal_man said:
I don't think so :-\ it just depends. If its going to do it standardly then it will go once, if it goes 3 or 5 times your in trouble...
Tapped out from my sexy nexus 7
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I'm just not sure I can get into bootloader. When I Vol- + Power no vibration, no light on softkeys nothing.
There is no vibration when going to bootloader.
So, been rooting, fiddling, installing ROMs, etc for a couple years. By no means am I an expert, I can just do research and read. I've had bootloops, and crashes, and all the same issues everyone else on this forum has had over the course of learning this stuff. So, when my phone wouldn't boot up even into recovery, I didn't sweat it at first. But, well, I've tried everything and nothing works. I can't boot, I can't charge it. Nothing works.
So, here's the breakdown.
Lt28i
Was running stock
Phone was rooted
CWM recovery
Bootloader is unlockable via regular means.
Hated it since a recent update. Phone was slow and i wanted JB. So i started the process.
I installed a new kernel, was in the process of installing a new ROM, but the instructions said to delete /system. I did.
From that point on, phone would not boot. Would not charge and would not get into recovery.
I can't connect via adb/fastboot.
It's a brick sitting on my desk. I've since gotten an HTC one, which IS AWESOME guys, but I hate having a perfectly fine piece of hardware just sitting on my desk collecting dust, (not to mention hate admitting defeat) so I'd like to get it working and either give it to a friend or sell it. Can anyone help.
Symptoms. As soon as i plug it in, the red light goes on. After about 15 minutes, the sony logo comes on with the red light off for just under 10 mins or so, then black screen and red light on. So, it's in a kernel boot-loop of sorts, but never gets past it and therefore doesn't charge. I've left it unattanded for over a week to drain the battery, hoping it'll reset, but no change. Immediately the red light goes on when plugged in. No way to boot into recovery. No way to connect to fastboot.
Any ideas?
Have tried the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
and a bunch of others. None has worked.
So your bootloader is locked?
You can't flash any custom kernel on locked bl.
First, connect your phone to a wall charger for whole night.
Then use Update Service or PCC to repair it.
Remember: do not connect your phone to PC until it ask you to do so.
Press vol down when connecting to PC.
cities516 said:
So your bootloader is locked?
You can't flash any custom kernel on locked bl.
First, connect your phone to a wall charger for whole night.
Then use Update Service or PCC to repair it.
Remember: do not connect your phone to PC until it ask you to do so.
Press vol down when connecting to PC.
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sorry, my mistake. The plan was to flash a kernel, but i never got around to it. I had looked into unlocking the bootloader, but wanted to see if I could get any good JB roms first. Sorry about that false info.
I have both let the phone die completely, or so I think, unless it keeps its charge for over a week and charged it for about 40 hours. Like I said, it does the bootloader boot loop which seems to keep it from charging. I never get to the screen where it shows the charging icon, so I can't tell, but I've definitely left it on a charger (not PC) for at least a day and a half. No go.No amount of pressing vol down works.
Does flashtool work on bricked phones?
lewis021 said:
Does flashtool work on bricked phones?
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Yes, Unless your device is hard bricked meaning it wont show any led or wont do anything basically
AndroidHoneyComb said:
Yes, Unless your device is hard bricked meaning it wont show any led or wont do anything basically
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Well, that's why I'm hopeful, cause the led does light up immediately on plugin. And the Sony logo screen shows up for a few minutes, then disappears. I have tried flashtool, but it won't connect. No go.
vijn said:
Well, that's why I'm hopeful, cause the led does light up immediately on plugin. And the Sony logo screen shows up for a few minutes, then disappears. I have tried flashtool, but it won't connect. No go.
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Your either using flash tool wrong (Hold the down button while plugging in the usb to go in flashmode and then flash the ftf quick before flashmode restarts of being idle) The Sony logo is still there so there should be no reason to send it in until all possible repair techniques have been used
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Your either using flash tool wrong (Hold the down button while plugging in the usb to go in flashmode and then flash the ftf quick before flashmode restarts of being idle) The Sony logo is still there so there should be no reason to send it in until all possible repair techniques have been used
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Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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Does Flashtool show anything after you connect your phone to PC with flashmode?
"Drivers have to be installed" or somethimg?
vijn said:
Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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If you can see the Sony Logo then it has to work, Hold the down key, while plugging it in and it will show a green led... I had the same problem as you (cause I do things that sony may not like, on my phone)
1. Make sure you have the correct drivers installed.
2. Turn your phone off and unplug USB cord.
3. Hold the VOLUME DOWN button while inserting the USB cord.
4. You should see your small notification light in the top right of the phone turn green.
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If you can see the Sony Logo then it has to work, Hold the down key, while plugging it in and it will show a green led... I had the same problem as you (cause I do things that sony may not like, on my phone)
1. Make sure you have the correct drivers installed.
2. Turn your phone off and unplug USB cord.
3. Hold the VOLUME DOWN button while inserting the USB cord.
4. You should see your small notification light in the top right of the phone turn green.
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Ya, first of all. I can neither turn the phone on or off. I have no control of it. It "turns on" when it wants and off when it wants. But when i say turns on, it only turn onto the sony logo screen after about 20 mins of being plugged in, when I guess the charge is just enough to allow it to start the boot process. Then the sony logo screen turns on, until that tiny charge dies and the phone turns off and the red LED comes on. Process repeats over and over again. I even put a rubber band on the phone to keep the volume down button pressed so that when the charge does reach the right level for the boot process that the vol down button will trigger recovery, but no deal. If this is the only way to get this thing working, is what you've recommended above, then phone is completely bricked, cause the phone has been like this for 2 weeks and nothing has worked. I know i have the drivers, cause up until this issue, flashtool worked fine. But the PC doesn't even recognize that there's a device plugged in at all now, cause the phone never boots. So, it's like plugging in a usb HDD that is off. I didn't really expect anyone to have a solution, cause i've done extensive research and tried almost everything I've read that seemed relevant, but I still had hope. I suspect the only way to fix it is to open it and connect directly to the mobo in some other way, but i don't have the tools or resources for that. Not even sure I can send it in to be repaired cause it's rooted. Unless someone has a eureka solution, my only option is to send it in to a 3rd party repair guy. Any other thoughts?
The most important thing is: what have you done to your phone before?
Flash something or edit something?
To turn off your phone, long press power + vol up until 3 vibrations.
Then connect your phone to a wallcharger for whole night.
(Do not use PC cable... It won't charge much...)
Then flash stock ftf via Flashtool.
Sent from my LT26i using xda app-developers app
Just read my first 2 posts in the recovery thread sticky'd in the general section.
Then reinstall ALL drivers available in flashtool.
Then use the rubber band trick from my thread. Make sure that the rubber band pushes the button in.
Sit back and wait ,believe me this is the hardest step.
From my Xperia LT28at ION
ToledoJab said:
Then use the rubber band trick from my thread. Make sure that the rubber band pushes the button in.
Sit back and wait ,believe me this is the hardest step.
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I laughed at the method simplicity, and got amazed on how effective is it.
So when you connect the phone to your PC while holding the volume down key...no green light, and its not recognized by your PC at all, right? Assuming you're using windows; does windows try to install any drivers or anything? Are you prompted in any way that a device has been connected?
and did you try the above mentioned? Hold UP and power button for like 10 seconds...you'll feel it vibrate once...then a few seconds later it should vibrate 3 times...I bricked my phone to some degree Sunday...only I had no response whatsoever...no led while charging, or otherwise...and literally no response from anything...until i tried that vibrate 3 times thing...and it booted right up after...
NO GO!
Well, I've tried it all. @ToledoJab I've read and reread that original post a bunch of times. followed all instructions, in fact, I had read that post many times before even posting in this forum with no luck, but I thought I'd be patient and try again, Used the rubber band technique. Nothing. Seems, when the rubber band is used, the phone doesn't even start the boot process, meaning never shows the sony logo screen.
@jtr what no one seems to understand is, there is absolutely no response to using the power button to turn this on or off. No vibrate, nothing. There are only 2 states. 1. When plugged into wall or PC, LED is red and after 20 mins Sony logo shows up if the vol down button isn't pressed. 2. When not plugged in no led.
Flashtool has been open for 2 days, phone has been plugged in, with rubber band. Drivers installed. Phone is never recognized because it never turns on. it's in perpetual red light on mode.
I don't know guys. I'd say this is an official brick. Not sure there's any way to fix this without opening it up. Still open to any ideas, but please read what I've posted because all the recommendations so far have been things I've already said I've tried, and numerous times. I can't imagine there's anything else to try, but thought I'd update you guys nonetheless.
cool, i understand.
If the volume down key is preventing it from going into that boot loop, though...it seems to be responding to physical input to some degree...
Have you tried any of this without a sim card? I know that sounds trivial, but after a full week of messing with mine a fresh sim-less start knocked out several bugs...and i hadn't read much of that on xda, but the AT&T return directions suggested a without sim boot up as the first thing to do? and at the time, i too, was dealing with some sort of varying degree of brick.
There are also varying ways to drain a permanent phone battery...i wouldn't say thats the best way to go about this, but a friend of mine has a screwed up car charger that does exactly this...which he's kept to bring his samsung nexus out of hard bricks multiple times...i'd say that's definitely a last resort though...the stuff you'd need would only be a couple bucks at radio shack i'd imagine haha.
If you get the Sony screen you should get in to flash mode, and I say should.
With the phone plugged in to PC with flashtool ready to flash, try to do a one vibration reset at Sony screen then immediately press and hold volume down.
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Hi guys,
yesterday I tried to recover the original ROM for Desire HD. During the process in bootloader, my phone shutdown, and I can't turn it on now, even the bootloader wont run. I think my battery was too low, even tought the phone showed 99% (it happened before, even though the battery was almost dead), and it died during the update. Basically, I'm not able to access any feature right now, I'm not sure, if the phone is charging - when I plug it in, the orange light turns on, but when I unplug, the light stays on. Bootloader won't start, but when I press both volume buttons and power button, the phone vibrates 3 times, green light turns on, and thats all.
If you need more info, please ask.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
You were recovering official ROM from the RUU? This should not result in your device being bricked.
Please try removing the battery for about 10 seconds, then press Vol Dn+Power button and a partial bootloader showing RUU failed or a similar error should open.
Then connect your phone to your PC and again run the Official RUU Setup.
Hit "Thanks" if I helped you. Also click "Donate to me" on the left if u wanna give something in return
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You were recovering official ROM from the RUU? This should not result in your device being bricked.
Please try removing the battery for about 10 seconds, then press Vol Dn+Power button and a partial bootloader showing RUU failed or a similar error should open.
Then connect your phone to your PC and again run the Official RUU Setup.
Hit "Thanks" if I helped you. Also click "Donate to me" on the left if u wanna give something in return
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Hi, thanks, nothing happens when I push down volume down and power buttons, even after removing batteries. I believe something is actually happening ,but nothing shows on the screen, because when I push volume down and power, and then I plug in the power cable, the orange light does not turn on, while when I plug it in without the combination, it does turn on.
I think that was an official Rom, because I've used it before, and my phone was not rooted afterwards - I did this successfully two times before. However, I recovered it from SD card (pd98img zip copied on the ssd).
Maybe you can try it...just try let the charge is plug in...n leave it be for a hour maybe...don't try to turn on the phone..
After a hour you can try unplug the charge...and remove your battery first...then put it in again...then try power on with pressing volume down+power button..just let see if this time the phone can go to bootloader or not..
Hope this can help..
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Maybe you can try it...just try let the charge is plug in...n leave it be for a hour maybe...don't try to turn on the phone..
After a hour you can try unplug the charge...and remove your battery first...then put it in again...then try power on with pressing volume down+power button..just let see if this time the phone can go to bootloader or not..
Hope this can help..
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No luck there :/
Fluorescent222 said:
No luck there :/
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you mean still not turn on..?
what about if tried with a different battery..?
JJeamy said:
you mean still not turn on..?
what about if tried with a different battery..?
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yeah. I thought about that, but I dont have any desire hd battery here, and I don't know how to charge this one without the phone.
I appear to be having similar problems with it not turning on. when i plug in the charger i get no orange light atall.. if i leave it plugged in (usually within 1hr to 2) eventually it will boot to custom recovery and from there i can reboot the phone and will boot to android. but it does not last very long atall usually about 30mins. have reset battery stats from recovery but doesnt seem to help.
from what i can find online its dieing but can anyone advise on if it will be the battery or the phone itself???
i have just spent $30 fixing digitizer and lcd in the past month. if it is needing a new battery i will proberbly do that but if not it can go..
hope this may help with your problem or any other....
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I appear to be having similar problems with it not turning on. when i plug in the charger i get no orange light atall.. if i leave it plugged in (usually within 1hr to 2) eventually it will boot to custom recovery and from there i can reboot the phone and will boot to android. but it does not last very long atall usually about 30mins. have reset battery stats from recovery but doesnt seem to help.
from what i can find online its dieing but can anyone advise on if it will be the battery or the phone itself???
i have just spent $30 fixing digitizer and lcd in the past month. if it is needing a new battery i will proberbly do that but if not it can go..
hope this may help with your problem or any other....
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probably won't help my problem.
but to solve yours, download one of the apps that tells you how much battery health you have. You might also get a pretty good deal on a new battery from ebay
Hi,
some weeks, maybe even 2 or 3 months ago, I tried to root my Z1C because I wanted to be able to use tcpdump. I didn't want to use KingRoot because of some warnings I had read about it, so I decided to flash a new image onto the device. I could kick myself for doing this in quite a busy time but I somehow hurried through it.
After that I rebooted the device and it didn't come back. The only thing I saw after booting was the Sony logo which just stayed forever. Even worse, I recognized I wasn't able to turn it off anymore by holding the power key!
Having done that for my job (app developer) and needing a device for testing I bought another phone for about 100 €, and thought of the Sony as a permanent loss. Because there was much stress in my job at that time I didn't immediately try to fix this, but now, after some time has passed, I wonder if I can do anything to resurrect the device. If not, I won't need to bother anymore. The situation right now is unsatisfying, I have it lying around because there might still be hope, on the other hand, I have no clue what to try.
I can only turn it off by draining the battery, which is relatively easy. The screen stays on all the time showing the Sony logo, and the battery drain is high in this mode. I'm not really able to press any buttons on boot because I only have one try at the exact moment the device starts up after leaving it connected to the charger for some time. After that, I have to drain the battery again to reboot it.
This might be a question of the perfect timing, but I'm not sure. For me, the fact that the power button doesn't turn it off sounds like it has been hard bricked by installing a kernel that didn't match. In this case, holding any of the other buttons at boot time won't do anything, too. Unfortunately, I can't remember what thread I followed, so I can't tell for sure if it was a kernel mismatch... Any ideas? Or should I just dump it and forget about it?
Thanks in advance for any advice
Oliver
olik79 said:
Hi,
some weeks, maybe even 2 or 3 months ago, I tried to root my Z1C because I wanted to be able to use tcpdump. I didn't want to use KingRoot because of some warnings I had read about it, so I decided to flash a new image onto the device. I could kick myself for doing this in quite a busy time but I somehow hurried through it.
After that I rebooted the device and it didn't come back. The only thing I saw after booting was the Sony logo which just stayed forever. Even worse, I recognized I wasn't able to turn it off anymore by holding the power key!
Having done that for my job (app developer) and needing a device for testing I bought another phone for about 100 €, and thought of the Sony as a permanent loss. Because there was much stress in my job at that time I didn't immediately try to fix this, but now, after some time has passed, I wonder if I can do anything to resurrect the device. If not, I won't need to bother anymore. The situation right now is unsatisfying, I have it lying around because there might still be hope, on the other hand, I have no clue what to try.
I can only turn it off by draining the battery, which is relatively easy. The screen stays on all the time showing the Sony logo, and the battery drain is high in this mode. I'm not really able to press any buttons on boot because I only have one try at the exact moment the device starts up after leaving it connected to the charger for some time. After that, I have to drain the battery again to reboot it.
This might be a question of the perfect timing, but I'm not sure. For me, the fact that the power button doesn't turn it off sounds like it has been hard bricked by installing a kernel that didn't match. In this case, holding any of the other buttons at boot time won't do anything, too. Unfortunately, I can't remember what thread I followed, so I can't tell for sure if it was a kernel mismatch... Any ideas? Or should I just dump it and forget about it?
Thanks in advance for any advice
Oliver
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It used to be that holding vol up and power for 2 or 3 seconds would power off. I'm not sure why, but with certain AOSP toms starting with LP 5.1, you would have to hold the buttons for 8 - 10 seconds, then it would power off, and without the usual 3 vibrations. Try that out. I would be surprised if it was really hard-bricked just from a bad flash. Try fastboot with a custom kernel and recovery IMG, and see if you can get into recovery.
levone1 said:
It used to be that holding vol up and power for 2 or 3 seconds would power off. I'm not sure why, but with certain AOSP toms starting with LP 5.1, you would have to hold the buttons for 8 - 10 seconds, then it would power off, and without the usual 3 vibrations. Try that out. I would be surprised if it was really hard-bricked just from a bad flash. Try fastboot with a custom kernel and recovery IMG, and see if you can get into recovery.
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Thank you SO much! I wasn't really able to boot using power and volume up, BUT after your encouraging words and the idea that I might just be using wrong keys, I researched some more and found out about this little red button within the sim card slot! It allowed me to reboot, get into fastboot, install recovery and cyanogenmod afterwards! I'm happy again
I have a Nokia 6.1 TA-1043. I have not unlocked the bootloader, and it runs the default operating system (Android One, probably Nokia flavoured). It has gotten slower over the years, and it had a period where it crashed every now and then (sudden reboot). Anyway , some days ago I decided to reboot the phone because it was slow, and it instantly shut off. After waiting probably 20 seconds without response, I decided to hold the power button down to force it. I don't remember exactly what I did, but after trying to again hold the button down to turn it on again, it vibrated as usual but the screen remained black. I then most likely tried holding volume + and power to force another reboot, unsuccessfully. I then tried holding volume - and power to enter download mode. It might have vibrated, or I might have touched the cable making me think it vibrated, but nothing happened. I pressed some random buttons after I think.
Now, the phone does seem to charge. It gets warm when I plug in the charger. I've searched for hours on different forums, and some people say that their phone was magically resurrected after the battery went completely flat after few days. I have tried plugging the phone a bit and testing every button combination (including volume +, volume - and power at the same time) for a few days now. It's dead.
The phone is also seemingly not recognised at all on my windows 10 PC. Haven't tried on Linux.
I have a few theories:
1. The phone simply hard bricked itself due to some hardware failure.
2. I bricked the phone by (blindly due to screen being blank) entering recovery mode and unknowingly factory resetting the phone and shutting it off mid process.
3. The battery is messed up? Some suggest deconnecting the battery. It would require the use of a heat gun to even open the phone though.
I've seen some people suggest entering EDL-mode either by shorting some pins or using a modified USB-cable. However, that would either require opening a phone that isn't supposed to be opened easily, or plugging a modified USB-cable into my computer, nether of which seem safe. I've also seen people mention that whatever needs to be flashed in EDL-mode must be signed by Nokia, which I can't do obviously haha.
It's probably time to move on right? Has someone managed to get a phone in that state to work again?
Hi i can explain some of your theories:
The first one: It's impossible to make the phone hard bricked itself.
The second one: Factory reset is only wipe your data not the OS itself so if you Factory reset and force reboot it should get in to Download mode and you need to unlock bootloader to reflash the ROM. (I'm not in that situation so I'm not sure it's correct or not.)
The third one: No, I don't think so.
That's all so if you have any question ask me. Thanks!
alprtewwqfr said:
Hi i can explain some of your theories:
The first one: It's impossible to make the phone hard bricked itself.
The second one: Factory reset is only wipe your data not the OS itself so if you Factory reset and force reboot it should get in to Download mode and you need to unlock bootloader to reflash the ROM. (I'm not in that situation so I'm not sure it's correct or not.)
The third one: No, I don't think so.
That's all so if you have any question ask me. Thanks!
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Thanks for replying My phone seems unresponsive, so I haven't managed to get in to download mode, at least not visually on the screen. Also, my phone is not recognised on PC, making me suspect it's not really turned on. I also tried holding volume up + power for 40+ minutes by stuffing it between a few books when making dinner haha, and it still didn't respond. Would you move on in this situation?
speedrocket2110 said:
Thanks for replying My phone seems unresponsive, so I haven't managed to get in to download mode, at least not visually on the screen. Also, my phone is not recognised on PC, making me suspect it's not really turned on. I also tried holding volume up + power for 40+ minutes by stuffing it between a few books when making dinner haha, and it still didn't respond. Would you move on in this situations
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I don't know because I'm not in that situation, but I had a similar one but only boot to download mode.