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[Q] HTC Desire will not boot past red ring

I have had an HTC Desire via T-Mobile UK for a couple of months. It runs Android 2.1 with HTC's Sense interface. I have made no modifications to the phone. This evening the phone would not turn off so I removed the battery. Then it would not boot.
When I press the power button, the screen comes on, the phone vibrates (once) and I get the red ring -- and that's it. It sits with a blank screen apart from the red ring/disc.
I have tried removing the battery (that's the only way to switch it off), removing memory card and SIM. Still nothing. Then I tried a factory reset by clearing the memory, which appeared to work -- but no improvement. It remains stuck at the red disc.
Is my phone goosed? Is this a hardware fault?
The only thing I did before this problem was to try to install Swype using a APK file via my memory card and installing a third party app installer. The app installer did not find the APK file on my memory card so I couldn't install Swype - but I noticed a lot of forced closes before I tried to switch off. I presumed switching off the phone would resolve this. Then my problems began...

I don't think it's f***ed... try a hard reset, if that doesn't work flash an original HTC rom again.

bobbyelliott said:
I have had an HTC Desire via T-Mobile UK for a couple of months. It runs Android 2.1 with HTC's Sense interface. I have made no modifications to the phone. This evening the phone would not turn off so I removed the battery. Then it would not boot.
When I press the power button, the screen comes on, the phone vibrates (once) and I get the red ring -- and that's it. It sits with a blank screen apart from the red ring/disc.
I have tried removing the battery (that's the only way to switch it off), removing memory card and SIM. Still nothing. Then I tried a factory reset by clearing the memory, which appeared to work -- but no improvement. It remains stuck at the red disc.
Is my phone goosed? Is this a hardware fault?
The only thing I did before this problem was to try to install Swype using a APK file via my memory card and installing a third party app installer. The app installer did not find the APK file on my memory card so I couldn't install Swype - but I noticed a lot of forced closes before I tried to switch off. I presumed switching off the phone would resolve this. Then my problems began...
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does the triangle look like this... /!\ if so press volume up and tap the power button.
hope this helps! good luck!

The device has been factory reset. Several times. No difference. Maybe a new ROM will cure it. I'm surprised that a ROM could be so easily corrupted. This "red ring of death" on an HTC Desire might become more common in the months ahead.

OK. I promised to report back when the problem was resolved.
I got the phone back yesterday, one month and three days after I sent it for repair. The company I sent it to (the one I had the warranty with) could not fix it so sent it to HTC.
The device has a new IMEI, which tells me that the motherboard was replaced. It was, therefore, a major hardware fault and not an OS/software fault.
I'm not sure if it was a coincidence that I was messing around with non-standard software (using a non-Market source) or whether this goosed my mobo but my mobo was most certainly goosed.
So, for posterity, the red ring of death on an HTC Desire (and possibly some other handsets) is, indeed, a ring of death. The phone is f*cked.

The red ring you talk about seems to be some kind of error screen on T-mobile handsets. As far as I know, a non T-mobile handset has a black screen with 4 triangles, 1 in each corner.
Glad you got it sorted though

rolfd said:
The red ring you talk about seems to be some kind of error screen on T-mobile handsets. As far as I know, a non T-mobile handset has a black screen with 4 triangles, 1 in each corner.
Glad you got it sorted though
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its no error screen it is part of the t-mob boot up process

[Q] Phone randomly booting (Android Revolution)

Heya.
I am running Android Revolution 2.0.16, Kernel 2.6.32.29_BUZZ1.3.3_OCUV with radio Radio_12.35d.60.140fU_26.06.03.24_M2.
I've been running this for ~1.5 weeks and I think this started about 1 week ago, not sure. Sometimes randomly (sometimes when I'm playing and sometimes when the phone has been idle for few hours) the phone boots. I see the white background with the green HTC logo and after a while it asks for my Pin number. Sometimes this happens once/day and sometimes it happens three times in a row. With stock it never did this.
What could be the cause?
How could I fix this?
I'm interested in Android Revolution 2.1 but can't find it after the 3.0 and 4.0 came along. I'm not ready for unofficial Gingerbread yet and 3.0 is using 1.84 for Orange and I'm not completly sure if I should use it with my unbranded Finland located phone.
Thanks for your time!

Hi. This has nothing to do with the ROM you are running it is a physical problem with the phone and is quite a common fault on the Desire HD.
It is a problem with the placement of the SIM card underneath the cover. I just stuck a bit of selotape across the SIM card to keep it in place and mine has been fine since. Other than that flash back to default and send it back under the warranty.

I don't think it's about loose Sim card. I tried to move the sim card while the phone was on the finally removed the sim card. The phone didn't boot but I got a message that said that phone can't locate sim card and I must either restart or shut off the phone.
This isn't what I mean with the restarting. It just restarts, boots, without any error message. Like I would have pressed the power button and selected restart.

Its because of the kernel, like mine your cpu seems to be sensitive to undervolt, try leedroids kernel
Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

So although all DHD have the same type of CPU, each specific CPU reacts differently to UC/OV? Strange, how widespread is this? Personally I've had no problems.

Had the same random boots with revolution 3.0 and 3.1, reverted back to stock 1.72 with the same(BUZZ) kernel and same setcpu settings as I used with revolution, and reboots are gone for me

Heya. Thanks for the replies. I was thinking going back to stock too but decided to try Revolution 3.2 and it seems to work. Atleast one day without boots, but we'll see how it's in the long run.

Screen problem

I have rooted my desire z (about a half year ago) and now I am having a problem.
When I boot my phone my screen stays black during the phase that normally would show that htc logo and white background. And after that colors are weirdly blueish (it goes back to normal after I put my phone to sleep and wake it). Also bootloader is black (I know that it boots to bootloader because when I push vol- and the power it goes to clockworkmod). And clockworkmod is also weirdly blueish. I got this problem when I was trying that unofficial CM9 rom and I have used superwipe, tried several other roms and backups of other roms, but the problem don't go away. Any ideas how to fix this?

It seems that my screen problems change when I open/ close keyboard. So could the cable be a bit broken?

Most probably the cable. If you are still in warranty, take it to be serviced. If not, I'm sure that wouldn't cost much.
Either way, sounds like a hardware problem.

[Q] Desire HD Boot problem

HI guys
I've got a desire Hd, over 2 years old now so out of warranty. Not rooted, Android 2.3.5 ( I think), standard ROM on the T-mobile UK network.
When i turn it on, it a t-mobile screen shows, then the HTC screen (green HTC on white background), then another t-mobile screen.
After a minute or two, when it would normally show an android screen, the screen goes blank. The phone is still on, and the screen is still on but in a very dark grey. if you hold it on an angle the backlight appears to be on. But from that point nothing happens, the buttons no longer respond, and I have to remove the battery to turn it off.
I've booted into the recovery menu, but not sure what I am doing in there, so haven't played with much. I cleared the system cache but that did not help If i go to the fastboot menu, and connect to the usb cable, fastboot on the PC lists the phone in its devices, but ADB says nothing is connected.
I've not backed up in a while and there is data on there I would like to recover. For this reason, I've not tried a factory reset.
I guess I should also mention that the SD card slot stopped working several months ago, so any solution needing the card isn't going to help.
Not overly fussed about the device, but would definitely like to recover the data!
Thanks for your help.
Cheers
Jarrod

[Q] modded/rooted One X screen issues: hardware related?

So, recently my One X (EU version, endeavoru) begin showing some problems, as outlined below. It was the newest stable CM (10.3) and a somewhat older version of CWRM. After the problems showed, I managed to upgrade to the latest CWRM and CM. Here's the problem:
- When I tried to unlock my phone, the screen stayed black, so I reset the phone.
- When it started up, the HTC logo looked fine, but the CM logo was shifted down and banded: the top of the circle was visible on the bottom of the screen and the bottom of the circle on top of the screen. After that logo the screen turned black.
- It DID boot though, as I could feel the haptic feedback when trying to unlock, and I could hear the sounds of making a screenshot (power+vol down).
- After some resetting etc I finally got an image of the screen again, and saw that I moved some widgets around, so the touch screen def. works when the screen was black.
- I wanted to make sure it was a hardware problem, so I did a total wipe (factory/dalvik) and flashed a new recovery. This worked, but a few times when working in recovery the image froze. I'm not sure if the recovery crashed and did not respond to input, or that the screen just froze, as CWRM only has visual feedback.
- I managed to install the latest CM, tried it, it worked, and then the screen showed some green lines, and a slight shift upwards (the top rows of the status bar showed at the bottom), and I couldn't do anything anymore as far as I could tell.
- The bootloader also showed some problems: the letters were enlarged and overlapped while the image was also smeared across the screen.
Now, basically my question is: can I be sure this is a hardware problem? HTC will fix it if that's the case, but otherwise I will have to be a bunch of money for nothing, because then they will pin the problem on the custom software/firmware/recovery installed. However, I don't think any of the firm/software can actually influence the bootloader, am I right? So if there are problems with the bootloader, it cannot be the case that something I installed on the phone causes the problem.

i think what u have there is Screen Flickering ,, and it's due to a hardware problem ,,someone had the same problem and he had to replace the screen and the motherboard !!!
again am not sure !!

hasan.nj said:
i think what u have there is Screen Flickering ,, and it's due to a hardware problem ,,someone had the same problem and he had to replace the screen and the motherboard !!!
again am not sure !!
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Thanks! I searched for one x screen flicker and found a video that showcased my problem perfectly:
youtube.com/watch?v=BfnwMFtD2_A
One of the comments said that if they pressed the screen just below the HTC logo it worked again (temporary), and I could reproduce this on my phone. Now I have no doubt at all it's a hardware issue, and I will contact HTC for repairs!