Ok, I've owned my M8 for less than 2 weeks and my god what a phone it is!
or was...
Today at half 4pm I was using my phone and was curious as to what happens if you cover one of the cameras and take a photo. I turned my phone round, covered the top camera, turned it back around and accidentally pressed the volume button (i think) and took a photo as the little error it gives about having the top camera covered appeared.
The phone turned off...
I turned it back on, the white 'HTC Powered by Android' screen appeared, then went off again.
I tried again, and again. By the 4th time my 'uuuurgh I CANNOT be bothered for this' mood starts to kick in. However I discovered that it will boot, and work fine, when connected to the mains.
It appears that I have a power issue, however not a hardware power issue. The only times that the phone will now stay on without being plugged in is either in the recovery or HBOOT menu. I've confirmed this by keeping the phone in the HBOOT menu for over an hour on battery. If I boot the phone up whilst plugged in, it will cut out when the power cable is disconnected BUT ONLY when the battery icon goes from charging to discharging. There's a split second between them but it stays on until the icon changes every time.
I phoned HTC, the lady said that I can send it back for repairs but they'll have it 8-10 days. I haven't owned the phone myself for much longer than that!
Tomorrow I'll take it back to carphone warehouse and see what they can do. I don't want to have to look into rooting just yet (if that will sort anything) as I'm happy with it as it is stock. I'm just so gutted. PLUS none of my spare phones fit nano sims.
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I'm open to anything right now and I know that a lot of you reading this are a lot more knowledgeable than myself on the way android works so I'm hoping someone can shed some light. any light
Cheers guys
spears93 said:
Ok, I've owned my M8 for less than 2 weeks and my god what a phone it is!
or was...
Today at half 4pm I was using my phone and was curious as to what happens if you cover one of the cameras and take a photo. I turned my phone round, covered the top camera, turned it back around and accidentally pressed the volume button (i think) and took a photo as the little error it gives about having the top camera covered appeared.
The phone turned off...
I turned it back on, the white 'HTC Powered by Android' screen appeared, then went off again.
I tried again, and again. By the 4th time my 'uuuurgh I CANNOT be bothered for this' mood starts to kick in. However I discovered that it will boot, and work fine, when connected to the mains.
It appears that I have a power issue, however not a hardware power issue. The only times that the phone will now stay on without being plugged in is either in the recovery or HBOOT menu. I've confirmed this by keeping the phone in the HBOOT menu for over an hour on battery. If I boot the phone up whilst plugged in, it will cut out when the power cable is disconnected BUT ONLY when the battery icon goes from charging to discharging. There's a split second between them but it stays on until the icon changes every time.
I phoned HTC, the lady said that I can send it back for repairs but they'll have it 8-10 days. I haven't owned the phone myself for much longer than that!
Tomorrow I'll take it back to carphone warehouse and see what they can do. I don't want to have to look into rooting just yet (if that will sort anything) as I'm happy with it as it is stock. I'm just so gutted. PLUS none of my spare phones fit nano sims.
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I'm open to anything right now and I know that a lot of you reading this are a lot more knowledgeable than myself on the way android works so I'm hoping someone can shed some light. any light
Cheers guys
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all will be good your in your 28 days so cpw should hand you a new one take your box and bits with you
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Went out jogging this morning, I use endomondo to track my progress and routes. However when I went to check my progress, the phone, which was in it's leather pouch, slipped out of my hand and onto concrete. When I took the phone out of the pouch to see if it was okay it appeared to be turned off I tried to switch it on but it wouldn't turn on. The led kept on flashing from orange to green. I then continuously kept pressing the power button on the phone, then the white welcome screen came on, which stayed on for a couple of seconds then switched off. I tried powering up the phone again but it wouldn't work.
When I got home I decided to charge it while I was out at work. I tried it again when I got back home from work and the phone still didn't switch on but the led's continue to flash orange/green constantly. I then took out the battery, sim and the memory card and left them out a few hours, then put them back into the phone and still nothing has changed. I am also unable to boot into boot loader mode.
I will take the handset into CPW tomorrow for repair, the phone is not marked or cracked in any way so I hope they don't realise it has been dropped. Now I am stuck with my old i8910 for now and it feels like I have gone 10 years back in terms of technology.
Sorry to hear about that.
It sounds like a hardware fault to me though. Have you tried booting it into 'safe mode' (Not recovery mode) and see if it starts up?
By safe mode do you mean by holding down the menu and power keys.? Sorry I'm not all that clued up on the tech in and outs of the Desire, if so then no. I have just tried booting into bootloader mode again and I get to that. But I am not sure where to take it from there.
Two weeks ago my galaxy just stopped working. it was at a decent battery; just stopped. I tried charging it but the phone would vibrate. phone would come on, then shut off. I tried it multiple times and same result; a few times the phone would make it to the samsung startup animation, sometimes it would just flash the samsung logo, once it compleley got to my screen start before shutting off.
I brought my phone to get fixed. It took a whole week and the guy said my phone was just not fixable. It would work for a few hours then shut off again, according to him. I suspect he didnt work much on it though as hed rather fix phones with easy problems as mine was a tough one.
I've had to replace my phone with an iphone now, but right now, out of curiosity, I completely took my phone apart, and started using tweezers to play the power on button. The camera part just broke off (not the actual camera) but now my phone is actually charging! The red light is on, and click the main button, it shows the battery being charged. This has not happened ever since the phone broke.
Am I bricked? Is there hope for this phone??? Please tell me there is lol.
EDIT: My phone seems to have restarted! Turned it on and it's asking for my simcard what is GOING ON LOL
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Two weeks ago my galaxy just stopped working. it was at a decent battery; just stopped. I tried charging it but the phone would vibrate. phone would come on, then shut off. I tried it multiple times and same result; a few times the phone would make it to the samsung startup animation, sometimes it would just flash the samsung logo, once it compleley got to my screen start before shutting off.
I brought my phone to get fixed. It took a whole week and the guy said my phone was just not fixable. It would work for a few hours then shut off again, according to him. I suspect he didnt work much on it though as hed rather fix phones with easy problems as mine was a tough one.
I've had to replace my phone with an iphone now, but right now, out of curiosity, I completely took my phone apart, and started using tweezers to play the power on button. The camera part just broke off (not the actual camera) but now my phone is actually charging! The red light is on, and click the main button, it shows the battery being charged. This has not happened ever since the phone broke.
Am I bricked? Is there hope for this phone??? Please tell me there is lol.
EDIT: My phone seems to have restarted! Turned it on and it's asking for my simcard what is GOING ON LOL
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idont know what you did there, but it worked plus you gotta be more specific to how the phone broke and could not boot-up to screen
winosxbuntu said:
idont know what you did there, but it worked plus you gotta be more specific to how the phone broke and could not boot-up to screen
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It just randomly shut off. It was if someone would constantly be turning the phone off as soon as I turned it on. But then I couldn't even charge the phone. No red light, no screen, nothing, just vibration. I would try to turn it on sometimes it would get to the boot up, sometimes not, sometimes nothing, just a vibrate.
I literally took tweezers and lifted the green board out from around the power on button (it's an actual tiny white button on the inside). and then it randomly started working again
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It just randomly shut off. It was if someone would constantly be turning the phone off as soon as I turned it on. But then I couldn't even charge the phone. No red light, no screen, nothing, just vibration. I would try to turn it on sometimes it would get to the boot up, sometimes not, sometimes nothing, just a vibrate.
I literally took tweezers and lifted the green board out from around the power on button (it's an actual tiny white button on the inside). and then it randomly started working again
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Could be a power button failure. Happens somewhat often.
Could be battery related too, a cheap replacement battery could strike that off.
polobunny said:
Could be a power button failure. Happens somewhat often.
Could be battery related too, a cheap replacement battery could strike that off.
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agree with what he said, it could be a problem with the power button or battery is not working
off topic did you really get 176Mb/s download or is it fake
if its real then was it WIFI or DATA , i have never topped 50Mb/s both wifi and data) but DATA seems to be 10x faster than my wifi
Howdy, guys.
I've got my One rooted, unlocked, and was running a CM10.2 nightly build. Everything was working fine until yesterday, when my battery started to rapidly discharge. I woke up with 100% battery, and after about 15 minutes of playing music it was down to 30%. I recharged it and started noticing rapid battery loss, about 10% per 15 minutes when the phone was idle.
Worried that this had to do with my ROM, I flashed the Eclipse Google Play Edition v1.2 ROM. However, the drain issue continued. I decided to let the phone fully discharge, then try powering it up again.
When it was fully discharged, I tried plugging in the phone. No LED came on and I couldn't turn the phone on. I've let it sit for over 2 hours now with the same result.
Some posts with similar symptoms have mentioned plugging the phone into a Windows PC and experiencing the "USB device plugged in" sound alert. I am not having any such luck, and what I currently have is a very aesthetically pleasing paperweight with no function whatsoever.
Has anyone else experienced a similar issue, or found a fix?
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I would take that back to Verizon were i you, sounds like a bad battery to me, chances are remote that it's the phone/hardware/software. they have to repair it despite the fact it's rooted, they probably wont even notice lol
Were it me, back to verizon we go
Last Sunday, listening to music with HTC One (bought on Sep 11) on the charger, it suddenly went dark. Would not reboot, no charge light either. Went to a VZW store, they're shipping me a warranty replacement.
I wonder whether my habit of leaving it charger-connected whenever it's sitting on my desk (i.e., way beyond the fully-charged point) somehow stressed the battery (or the charging circuitry) -- though that habit never impacted my two previous HTC models.
When you hold Vol+Down and Power do your home and back arrows blink? If so, point the phone sensors (the two on the front on the left hand side) into a bright light. Then hold down Vol+Down and Power. It should boot. I'm not sure why. But it worked for me today after installing a custom recovery. -shrugs-
musicman625 said:
I would take that back to Verizon were i you, sounds like a bad battery to me, chances are remote that it's the phone/hardware/software. they have to repair it despite the fact it's rooted, they probably wont even notice lol
Were it me, back to verizon we go
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I've got a replacement being shipped to me, and I'll send them the old one when it comes in. Currently using an old Samsung Stratosphere as a replacement, I was just hoping there'd be an easier fix or something simple. Thanks, though!
Please look into this guys;
Last night, I charged my HOX from 18%-28%, used it for a few minutes and then turned it off (it was still at 28%). I then plugged it into the HTC "black box" usb charger (I've been using the same one since I got the phone like six months ago) but turned on charging after 2 hours - and left it charging for like 6½ hours.
EDIT: My brother actually switched on charging two hours after I switched the phone off. [IT WAS TURNED OFF FOR 2 HOURS]
In the morning, the red LED wasn't on, so I disconnected it and tried turning it on - it didn't work.
I tried holding all three buttons for minutes and all of that, but it still didn't work.
I googled the issue and went through a bunch of threads where the exact same thing happened, and most people said the battery either died permanently or something similar. This one person said he fixed his HOX by using a different charger, apparently the chargers themselves can die.
I plugged my HOX into my mom's Samsung charger, and booted it into bootloader, and selected RECOVERY. After a few minutes and to my orgasmic relief, my phone turned on.
I'm still confused as to what happened.
1) Is there something terribly wrong with my phone's battery now? (When it turned on it was at 1%, whereas I turned it off 6½ hours prior at 28%)
2) My HTC black box charger is obviously not to be used now, right?
3) Is there any problem with using a samsung charger on my HOX from now on? Or should I search for another HTC Black Box Charger?
I'll leave it on charge until it reaches around 60-70% and test it out, and let you know if it's fine. But until then, could you please try answering my questions?
THANKS!
On a side note:
I recently had my HOX repaired at the UK service center under warranty. The phone actually had a bunch of issues; yellow spots on the screen, the ruined wifi antennae thing.. Well, they replaced the screen and display, and replaced the Wifi wiring. When I got it back, it turned out that they forgot to remove a plastic cover from the in-call speaker. Thus I cannot use the phone for phone calls outside of extremely quiet places, unless I use earphones with a mic. I let HTC know this, and they said, "Oh, no problem, just send it back to center"
I reside outside of the UK. I had to send it there with my own money and bring it back with my own money. So now I have to choose between spending another $90 or being able to use my phone for phone calls.
Thanks again, whoever bothers to read this and helps me
Hi guys,
I have an HTC One X+ 64GB.
My phone is kinda dead. It used to randomly switch off since the last month or so, irrespective of whether the phone was heated or no. My phone had fallen down once in-between about a fortnight ago. Even after the fall, the phone worked perfectly fine. Then on sunday, i don’t know why i downloaded the flipkart app. The phone felt slow after that, so i thought I'd uninstall it during the day but i got busy with other things and i didn’t do it. Later during the day, the phone would switch off once disconnected from the charger but it would remain powered up and functional so long as it was connected to the charger. Same was the case yesterday i.e. monday.
But last night, i.e., tuesday, before going to bed, i wanted to make sure the alarm would ring. So i set it for 2 mins later. it didn’t ring. when i connected the charger and tried switching on the phone, it just wouldn’t.
So now, it just switches on for a couple of seconds till the quietly brilliant logo screen and then switches off as soon as it reaches the home screen…battery is showing to hold a good charge. phone is not heated up either.
I tried the power button and volume down keys but before making a selection, the phone switches off. Sometimes it shows the message that battery too low to flash??
Would really appreciate some help. I don't know whether this is some internal screen connection problem or whether i need to get the factory reset done and all will be okay.
Thanks in advance!!