I have issue with my HTC 10 was wondering if anybody has any information or is having similar issues;
My Verizon-Branded, Bootloader-Locked, Stock, Un-Rooted, S-ON soft bricked itself...Boggles my mind a bit, a softbrick that rebricks itself before you can boot to any menu that would allow you to fix it.
During normal use the phone shut off and stayed off. I attempted a reboot, but it would stop at the HTC splash screen every time. I can get to the rainbow menu by VOL DOWN+ POWER until nav keys flash 10 times then quickly pressing VOL UP+VOL DOWN + POWER before screen goes fully lit and HTC Logo pops up. At this "rainbow menu" I think its the stock recovery for the phone it lists S-ON, Locked, then options;
Power Down
Reboot Bootloader Mode
Recovery Mode
Download Mode
Reboot
I've tried every option but they all end up in my phone hanging at the HTC Screen and stays there until the battery is drained. I've tried different Micro SDs, letting the phone's battery go to 0%, charging, rebooting while plugged in, ect.
Anyone have any idea or experience similar issues? I know this is a verizon model phone, but I thought I'd have a better chance getting answers if posting here.
Brought it in to Verizon, they couldn't get any recovery mode bootloader mode to work either. Verizon rep talkedt to HTC and they are sending me a new phone. I was curious if anyone else has heard of this issue on the Unrooted, Locked, S-ON, HTC 10.
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So I'm running CM 10.2 android version 4.3 and I started to notice that when I pressed the power button, it brought up the reboot menu instead putting my screen to sleep so I downloaded the newest nightly and figured it was probably just a bug and went to flash the latest nightly. Upon reboot, my phone got in an infinite bootloop so I pulled the battery, let it sit for a minute and then held the power, volume up and menu button to enter recovery. I got the blue words in corner that you will normally see when booting into recovery, then saw the S3 screen that you'll see right before entering recovery, however, my phone started rebooting again constantly vibrating etc. So then I decided to try and get into download and flash back to stock with Odin. So I entered download mode, pressed volume up on the confirm screen and then it entered download mode and then immediately rebooted and wouldn't stop. Is my phone bricked? I'm wondering if the power button is broken since when in download mode, it reboots which normally occurs when you hold the power button in download mode. Sorry for the long description but just wanted you guys to know what I've done so far and am experiencing. Any help is appreciated. I've been rooting phones from all manufacturers for years now and I'm out of ideas at this point. Thanks!
Definition of a bricked phone: A completely unresponsive device which doesn't turn on at all. Doesn't vibrate upon start up and doesn't have any signs of life.
You most likely have a jammed power button as that has been the issue with the GS3. Not a brick.
Clearly not bricked as the first reply explained. And for the love of god, please use some white space (paragraphs) next time.
If you think that a button is jammed, see if you can physically unjam it without causing damage. If you believe that the flash may be messed up, the mskip's Samsung Toolkit may be able to reflash a known good ROM even with a stuck button. And look into some of the button remapping apps like the aptly titled Fix Broken Power Button app.
Good luck.
i seem to have hard bricked the device and i have been attempting to find a way i can fix it for hours.. i seem to be stuck. Its stuck on the boot animation cyanogenMod logo. I am unable to get into the recovery mode, as well as fast boot mode. i let it sit on that boot logo for hours without anything at all happening. No progress what so ever. Now the biggest thing i am trying to figure out is how i even managed to get this to happen. there was a software update notification that i received, so i figured it may have been the Android L update or something, so without taking into considering what exactly i was agreeing to i accepted, and continued. Let it reboot, and thats how i got to come across this issue. Any suggestions.
So if you hold down "volume up", "volume down", and then press and hold the power button, does it not boot into the bootloader? You may have to hold all three down for 15 seconds or so... Based on the fact that you can see the boot animation, it tells me that your bootloader is indeed functional, so, once booted into the bootloader, you can easily flash the factory images (as per this) and restore your device to working condition.
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So if you hold down "volume up", "volume down", and then press and hold the power button, does it not boot into the bootloader? You may have to hold all three down for 15 seconds or so... Based on the fact that you can see the boot animation, it tells me that your bootloader is indeed functional, so, once booted into the bootloader, you can easily flash the factory images (as per this) and restore your device to working condition.
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Yeah ive tried that, and nothing is working it just keeps going back to that same boot animation & im out of ideas. Iknow there has to be a way though.
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Yeah ive tried that, and nothing is working it just keeps going back to that same boot animation & im out of ideas. Iknow there has to be a way though.
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What I find strange is that it boots to the boot animation -- that means the bootloader has loaded up the kernel and Android is attempting to start. The bootloader loads up before anything, so it is obviously working. Don't know why you can't access its menu though with the 3-key press. Maybe one of your volumes keys is not working properly? By holding those three keys down, it should not boot to the boot animation...
Can you get into download mode? Hold only volume down and press and hold power. If so, then you can use Odin and flash a stock ROM as per this thread.
In any case, if you can't get into the bootloader or download mode, then your only option is using OMAPFlash (as per this thread). That will re-flash your bootloader. If you still can't get into the bootloader menu after that, then there is a hardware issue.
Hello everyone! So I've had my phone (HTC One M8) rooted and custom recovery and rom installed for a little while now. The latest rom I've installed was Android Revolution HD 22.1. I also have twrp 2.8.1.0 installed. The other day my phone got wet and started to constantly reboot itself, wouldn't shut off and stay off, would never actually start. I put it in a cup of rice for 2 days, then proceeded to plug it in to charge it. Once charged enough I tried to turn it on. It only made it the HTC One logo screen and would vibrate every 10 seconds or so. I tried rebooting several times and no matter what I did with different button combinations I could not get it to load into bootloader. Eventually with restarting different ways and "mechanically stressing" the phone (short temper lol) I managed to get it to loading into the rom itself. From there I opened hasoons all in one toolkit to reboot directly into recovery and recovered to the stock rom. So the phone will now reboot with no problem into this rom. I haven't tried reflashing the ARHD 22.1 rom again because im afraid it'll break again. However, while in the stock rom everything work fines except for the volume up button which does nothing, except for while the screen is off, if I turn my phone to landscape the camera app will open without me even pressing the volume up button. If I reboot into bootloader via the quickboot app or hasoons toolkit, my volume down button with make the cursor go up, the volume up button does nothing, and the power button does nothing. The only thing I can do in bootloader is to hold power+volume up to get the phone to reboot. I also cannot get bootloader to load by holding volume down+power. So, After all that explaining, my main question would be, do you think that the buttons are shorting in a weird way because of water damage, or do you think my software got corrupted because of all the rebooting it did? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Tim
(PS: I posted this in XDA assist originally but figured it would be better being posted here.)
UPDATE: my power button will now lock my phone but not unlock it.
So, I tried to restore a backup from TWRP. During the process, the system and cache were restored fine, but couldn't restore the data (for some reason, it said failed), so I figured it's alright, I'll just have to install all the apps again, no big deal. But, after I clicked the "reboot system", the screen went off and never turn back on.
I can't get in bootloader screen in any way, I haven't tried the Vol up + power button for 10s, and the vol down + power button, and the 3 button all together... Nothing works.
When I press the power button normally, nothing happens, not even the Htc logo screen.
When I plug it in, it only shows the battery charging icon. So I tried the buttons combination again (coz I thought at least the screen turns on now), but still, nothing happens, just the screen switch between black and the charging icon.
So, I left it charging overnight, and tried the buttons combination again, nothing works still.
Now I have no idea what to do, can anyone please help me?
Htc one m8 international
Rooted, TWRP recovery, S-ON
It sounds like you hard bricked your phone. Try using this guide youtu . be/ rpA71FXddyU[/ but Im not sure it will work.
Only thing what you need is that computer recognize your phone, because when It doesnt then you should take your phone to local phone repair.
HI guys,
Hoping you guys can help me. I have a HTC One X I picked up 2nd hand (apparently wouldn't charge). When I received it, I cleaned out the USB port (little bit of fluff) and plugged it into the charger... no light (expected).. I left it on and shortly after, a solid red light appeared..
After a little while on charge, the phone turned itself on but stayed on the 'HTC' splash screen and went no further. I tried powering it off completely so it would charge without draining battery or slowing the charge because the phone was on.. but every-time I tried turning it off (either holding Power button for several seconds until screen went black... or holding Vol Down + Power button for 10sec as some suggested) the phone would just reboot back to the HTC logo splash screen and stay there.
Eventually I got the screen off (not sure how) and continued to charge, then it came back on again... :/
I tried to boot into the 'Bootloader' to Factory Reset etc.. but I am unable to do so. Every-time I try, the phone would just reset back to the HTC screen.. even if I kept the Vol Down + Power button held down, the phone would just loop to that HTC screen...
As I type this, the phone is sitting, plugged in, Red LED Light Solid lit but phone on (stuck on HTC screen)... just wondering if anyone has any tips ?
Is it possible to reset the phone via ADB if I can't get into the Bootloader ?
Thanks in advance..
UPDATE: Somehow I managed to boot into the Bootloader, and by the looks of it, the previous owner rooted the phone as it have CWM v5.8.4.0 installed. Wiping Cashe, data, factory reset, Dalvick cache etc.. still no change, sits on the HTC splash screen.
i did notice in the Bootloader though, it said the battery was too low to flash .. so I guess I have to leave it on charge for longer to try flash the phone again (maybe previous owner borked the ROM installation or something?)... unless is there anything else I can do? Maybe with ADB ?
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Sorry for any inconvenience.