ok, just picked up a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 second gen from WooT, they say it is refurb'd.
Out of the box, it booted fine, I was able to go through the setup and add my amazon account, downloaded a few kindle books.
went to eat, came back, and the device is blank. Nothing I would do would bring it back, pressed power button for about 10 seconds and I see screen goes black ( it was black before, but with backlighting from the device being powered on). Touch poerbutton and it start booting, I think - displays a static 'kindlefire' white/orange logo for about 10 seconds, and then the screen is black again.
I have not attempted anything yet on this device - no root, no rom, nothing. WTH is going on.. put on a charger for a few hours, but there's no lights or indicators on this thing to show if it is charging or not. Did the searches and just find links to stories/videos of fols holding power button for 20 or 60 seconds and then it just works after that. Not mine.. nothing is changing ...
Is this thing dead? I really want it not to be, but I'm thinking in another day or so I'm going to return this to Woot for my money back if I can't figure out how to get this thing working .
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I think the unit had some serious issues. Was able to replace it with a different unit, and the new unit behaves as expected.
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Any problems with the Desire anyone?
Got mine last night, put my SIM in and charged it for four hours, turned it on and can't get to do anything with it.
I'm on T-Mobile and get a pink circle solid pink trailing off (I,m guessing this maybe chases itself around like the busy cursor in Vista) then it shows the htc splash screen, white background with htc in the middle in green letters, this stays a second then goes off for then the splash screen again for a second then off for two etc., you get the picture. That's all it does, will not turn off you have to take the back off and remove the battery, tried rebooting several times and always the same. I put it back on charge overnight and tried it again this morning and the same, left it on for about twenty minutes to see if it should do this for a while and the phone and screen get quite warm.
Well hacked off!! Can't even take it back 'cos it's Easter Sunday and everywhere is shut!!!
Anyone had similar experiences?
As I can't reset via the phone software I did the phone button one, see below, still with no improvement. Mine is going back tomorrow.
Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
If you cannot turn on your phone or access the phone settings, you can still perform a factory reset by using the buttons on the phone.
With the phone turned off, press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button.
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.
Cheers.
wow seems odd, usually if ts defective it wouldn't show you the boot screen even. but this looks like a software glitch, somehow, .. but again, if its software than you shouldnt be the only one experiencing that
thanx for sharing, .. , hope you can get a replacement ASAP
Other users seem to be experiencing the same problem, I've had a look on the T-Mobile forums and it's reported there.
Sorted, swiftly replaced this morning, this phone is awesome!
Hello there,
Since maybe 2 or 3 hours now, my brand new HTC One X (got it since thursday) got a weird prob.
I can change the volume up/down (I can hear the sounds), I know I have a message because the green light is flashing.. When I push the power button, the 3 buttons of the phone lights up (back, home, windows), etc.. But the screen remains black ! I tried some adb reboot, sometimes I can get back the screen, and it powers off again randomly.. I'm trying to fully charge the phone to see if there's a difference (I was about 15-20% battery left), but did anyone get that prob before ?
I have a stock rom, didn't have time yet to flash it.
My sensation died, I bought that one, and I have AGAIN some probs.. Starting to get angry with HTC :/
Problem found, seems it comes from the power plug, when I plug the cable and I move it a bit, the screen "comes back to life". Seems I'll have to send it back to HTC.. *sigh*
Hi guys,
I rooted my phone and flashed cm10.2 on it a while ago. It has been working fine and maybe froze twice here and there.
So, 30 minutes ago I was using my phone and put it down to go eat. I come back, and the screen won't turn on. I tried hitting the home button, and the power button. Neither worked. So I ended up pulling the battery. I plugged the battery back in, and hit the power button. The phone quickly flashed the samsung logo, and then went black. I gave it a minute and nothing happened. I pulled the battery again, and it turned on itself (vibrated as soon as i put it in), then flashed the samsung logo, and then cut right to the cm10.2 logo, and then went black again.
Any ideas? I havent been messing with bad software or anything like that.
Thanks!
I just managed to get it into download mode but it keeps turning off.
update - I managed to plug it into the computer and a red light came on in the phone. It vibrated, and then went dark again. Does this mean anything?
update 2 - I've given up and am going with the "its a faulty power button" - explained here - brickedmyphone.com/ products/ power-button-replacement/
Hi!
The TV was not mine to begin with so I don't know how it got in this mode, but i suspect that the last owner was fiddeling with the service mode settings(I bought it as defect by an insurance company)
So. As soon as i plug in the TV it loops the colors Black, White, Red, Blue, Green. No response to any buttons on remote/TV, ONLY the powerbutton. But that rarely. I need to press the powerbutton many times so it responds.
I tried many key combinations, Input + power, menu + OK etc etc. I tried spamming everything, no response.
I wanted to try to get the TV to reflash android software by plugging in USB with android 8.0 and pressing power while plugging in, but no response, the USB led lights up on the usb stick but the TV doesnt show if it's reflashing or not. it just loops the colors.
I tried leave it on, maybe the test ends by itself and goes to normal, but after 15-20 minutes the TV turns of by itself. no help
Any idea on what I can do? can I factory reset it in another way?
How much did you pay for it?
Hello
I think i f#cked up and gain an new dart target.
So, i had an eletric problem that shuts down the power a few times.
Betwin the power shuts the tv was on.
After the tv starts to behave like this:
Turn on, show tcl logo, and goes screen off (back light on), when i touch any button (remote or local) it show the gear with the red cross and reboot.
Other times same behaviour, but before goes black it shows the android loading animation.
So i thinked, ok something went wrong, i grabbed an pkg file (at this time i dnt know which one) put it on a pen, on port usb 2.0, and rebboot tv holding power button... Its show update bar.
After a while screen went black, waited 30min, nothing... So i did a reset, removing power.
Since them when i power on, the white led goes on, and nothing more.
Tried power cycle.
Tried power cycle holding power button while off grid, while pluging it in etc.
Tried a bunch of diferent img zip pkg files, and nothing.
I suspect it will be necessary to jtag the SoC... Hope no...
So two point
1) where to find an main board to buy on europe, in case i need a new one... And part number if anyone has open is tv.
2) is there anything i can do at this moment? Recovery? Etc
Thanks you all
Hello,
After send it to repair shop, and a two week work, there is no solution.
Even bootload is dead.
Need new motherboard board.
Anyone know the part number and where to buy? (or campatible tv models)
Thanks