Hi there
I recently attempted to change the digitizer on my one x, breaking the lcd in the process.
I ordered one from eBay and installed it along with my new digitizer. Both went well and my one x was looking fresh again.
With the housing off still, I wasnt 100% happy with the double sided tape i used so decided to redo the bonding process.
Anyways... Long story short.
My wife accidentally spilled the tiniest bit of water on the surface my phone was on. It did get on the phone but not too much, I broke down the components and put them in a rice bag overnight. now the lcd screen is cloudy (not a problem really, can get another for £20) but the htc logo comes on with a vibration as normal but then after 3 seconds goes off and repeats. Thinking my battery could be drained I've had it on charge for at least half hour with no luck.
I hope this isn't a hardware issue. I can't afford this right now.
Trying to boot into recovery brings up the low battery text too but again reboots after 3 seconds. Ive triple checked all ribbons/cables/connections and everything seems fine.
Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks
Edit: A post on this thread... http://androidforums.com/htc-one-x-xl/635327-help-my-htc-one-x-wont-stop-rebooting.html hints at it possibly being an issue with the powerflex cable attached to the power button. After a few wiggles and playabouts the phone went on to the bootanimation but then rebooted. So its possible it is the cable?! How do i go about changing this and further testing to make sure it is exactly this?
Edit II: Seems to be now the powerflex cable is faulty, as when I disconnect it from the slot, the charge LED now remains constant. I've disconnected everything else. Leaving it to charge for a while then gonna research the power cable. tried connecting the power cable but it just causes it to restart with LED flashing every 3 secs. hence why i know it restarts.
chalmizzle said:
Hi there
I recently attempted to change the digitizer on my one x, breaking the lcd in the process.
I ordered one from eBay and installed it along with my new digitizer. Both went well and my one x was looking fresh again.
With the housing off still, I wasnt 100% happy with the double sided tape i used so decided to redo the bonding process.
Anyways... Long story short.
My wife accidentally spilled the tiniest bit of water on the surface my phone was on. It did get on the phone but not too much, I broke down the components and put them in a rice bag overnight. now the lcd screen is cloudy (not a problem really, can get another for £20) but the htc logo comes on with a vibration as normal but then after 3 seconds goes off and repeats. Thinking my battery could be drained I've had it on charge for at least half hour with no luck.
I hope this isn't a hardware issue. I can't afford this right now.
Trying to boot into recovery brings up the low battery text too but again reboots after 3 seconds. Ive triple checked all ribbons/cables/connections and everything seems fine.
Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks
Edit: A post on this thread... http://androidforums.com/htc-one-x-xl/635327-help-my-htc-one-x-wont-stop-rebooting.html hints at it possibly being an issue with the powerflex cable attached to the power button. After a few wiggles and playabouts the phone went on to the bootanimation but then rebooted. So its possible it is the cable?! How do i go about changing this and further testing to make sure it is exactly this?
Edit II: Seems to be now the powerflex cable is faulty, as when I disconnect it from the slot, the charge LED now remains constant. I've disconnected everything else. Leaving it to charge for a while then gonna research the power cable. tried connecting the power cable but it just causes it to restart with LED flashing every 3 secs. hence why i know it restarts.
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you should be happy atleast your motherboard is okay now try getting a new power flex cable and check whether your htc still reboots or not with the new one,,,best ov luck :good:
Cheers mate. One is on order from eBay. I ended up removing the power cable because it just interfered with boot ups. It's a bugger having to use sweep to wake and ADB commands but at least it now works
Also no mic for calls but that's OK. Loudspeaker works still
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chalmizzle said:
Cheers mate. One is on order from eBay. I ended up removing the power cable because it just interfered with boot ups. It's a bugger having to use sweep to wake and ADB commands but at least it now works
Also no mic for calls but that's OK. Loudspeaker works still
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those are minor parts you can change them well congrats um happy for your reborn HTC ONE X :good::highfive:
My mother's nexus 5x has just died.
no fastboot no recovery nothing.
I have tried to charge it, but after more than an hour connected to the charger still nothing.
I checked that this charger works on my nexus 5x so it's not the problem.
I also tried to connect it to a computer, but the computer detected nothing.
the phone had 7.1.2 stock (either april or may security update I don't remember which one).
Anyone has an idea why it happened or how to fix this?
Thanks,
Orma
Wow, my 5X just died this morning. Wonder if it isn't just a coincidence or maybe some update like to the Fi app or something messed it up. So I'll post in case others have also had the same thing happen. The Fi app was last updated May 8, so that's not it. But maybe there was some other app or something updated that caused problems. Some of the core apps were recently updated and my phone tried to update some behind the scenes type app, but it didn't work. So I tried manually and it did work. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. Can't remember which app, but checking on my Google playstore apps, maybe it was Google Connectivity Services.
Mine was fully charged and I was using it while still connected to the charger after waking up in the morning. It just went black suddenly. I tried holding power button to shut it down, but it never made any vibration as if it was force shutting off. Power button and volume down button didn't work to shut down or boot either. The computer recognized it the first time I plugged it in showing Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 has completed setup. But after that it would show as device unrecognized.
The only way I got anything to look like it was starting ok was by disconnecting the battery for a while. Then it started booting and then the screen just went black again. I unhooked the battery again for a while, reassembled, and plugged the phone in and the battery charging screen showed up, but then went black again without showing the filling up graphics.
So it seems to momentarily kinda act ok, but then soon goes black. Disconnecting the battery seems to reset it to a state where it can try again.
The battery read as 4.16 volts, so seems to be fully charged as I thought it was. I'm going to try doing the battery disconnect again, but I'm thinking this thing is done.
This may not just be a random thing. Several people on Google forums have the same sounding issue from yesterday or today.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/iKXTmQ04YeM;context-place=forum/nexus
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/DINPhe1nb4c;context-place=forum/nexus
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/lWKu7eEfHhc;context-place=forum/nexus
By disconnecting the battery and then reassembling, I was able to get to the recovery menu. I chose Restart Bootloader, and after a few moments, go a screen showing the android character laying on the ground with a triangle with an exclamation point and "No Command" text at the bottom.
Holding power button and volume down got it to go back to the menu.
So I tried Recovery and it showed Google in white letters, then went black. Trying Start does the same thing.
This problem is common in the Nexus 5x, I advice you to check the warranty
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kakah2011 said:
This problem is common in the Nexus 5x, I advice you to check the warranty
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Voicebox said:
By disconnecting the battery and then reassembling, I was able to get to the recovery menu. I chose Restart Bootloader, and after a few moments, go a screen showing the android character laying on the ground with a triangle with an exclamation point and "No Command" text at the bottom.
Holding power button and volume down got it to go back to the menu.
So I tried Recovery and it showed Google in white letters, then went black. Trying Start does the same thing.
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if I open the phone to disconnect the battery will it void the warranty?
any one has any idea on why it happened?
my nexus 5x is totally fine
edit: I tried again to turn it on, but this time the notification light turned red, so i tried to connect it to the charger again and it seems to be alive now,
that's really weird but it turned on with 1% meaning that for some reason when I charged it yesterday it wasn't really charging
orma1 said:
if I open the phone to disconnect the battery will it void the warranty?
any one has any idea on why it happened?
my nexus 5x is totally fine
edit: I tried again to turn it on, but this time the notification light turned red, so i tried to connect it to the charger again and it seems to be alive now,
that's really weird but it turned on with 1% meaning that for some reason when I charged it yesterday it wasn't really charging
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Sounds like you got lucky.
As far as I could see, there is nothing inside the phone that would indicate that you had opened it up. There's no glue, except under the battery, and maybe under the motherboard. But you don't need to lift those to disconnect the battery connector. However, it does require prying the back off and then unscrewing 10 screws. Then lifting off two pieces with stuff like the fingerprint sensor and speaker attached to them. If you make any dings in the plastic back cover while prying, they could see that. And the screws have lock tite on the threads so take some care to remove. I think I slightly stripped the top of one. So if someone really looked, they could see that. But otherwise, except for leaving fingerprints on parts or debris or whatever in there, I don't think they'd notice. I highly doubt they'd have someone go check for other than obvious signs of prying the back off. I'm 2 months past warranty so it was a non-issue for me.
Following someone's advice on the Google forum, I cooled the phone down in an ice bath (in a bag of course) and was able to get it to boot to recovery and even installed the OTA via adb. It then booted to the point of the 4 colorful circles and died again. After putting it in the freezer, it then returned to acting somewhat normal, as in it showed the battery charging graphic while off. The battery is about 1/2 full. But then I booted and it would get pretty far into the 4 circles spinning, then boot looped. So mine is bootlooping and I'm going to see if I can get Google to step up even though it is 2 months past warranty since I bought it from them. The Google people say to contact them with the bootloop problem. I hope they are quietly replacing them since this this appears to result from the last OS update for many people.
That other person was able to boot it and pull their pictures off it. But looks like mine is down for the count. I luckily had backed up pictures and most of my other stuff recently before I went on a trip. And I uploaded pictures while on the trip and pulled pictures off the phone right after the trip. But I've lost some info that I hadn't copied off the phone.
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This problem is common in the Nexus 5x, I advice you to check the warranty
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I'm 2 months out of warranty, so I hope Google does something since I bought it from them and they seem to be providing some relief since this seems to be due to the most recent OS update. Or at least some of the people in their forums seem to imply they'll do something.
Well here you go. Explanation was at XDA all along. There's a class action lawsuit against LG for using solder that didn't withstand the level of heat or heating and cooling cycles. Started with the G4, but in April the 5X and other phones were added to the class action. So I guess I could try touching up solder points and get my phone maybe to start up, or try for warranty repair since they seem to have extended the warranty because of this lawsuit.
https://www.xda-developers.com/lg-bootloop-lawsuit-adds-nexus-5x-lg-g5-v20-case/
One guy at bottom of this thread has screen capture and says his 18 month old 5X shows as covered by warranty in their system.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/PZrVO8g9Y9M;context-place=forum/nexus
Same here.
Nexus died after some freezes. After 7-10 failed boots it suddenly booted, just to freeze again after 1 or 2 minutes.
Tried every button combo with and without power plugged, no luck at all, just a dead brick with no signs of life at all.
Device was perfectly working till yesterday. No issues at all
Latest purenexus version. Everything was fine.
Don't get it.
Only thing what came to my mind was that we have been to the beach the day before. Had the phone in the backpack, but it went still really hot since the sun was strong.
But hey. Have been to definitiv hotter places last year in Croatia.
I thought i try the revive Motherboard in oven trick, since this oven thing already worked once for my laptop graphic chip which died also from overheating.
Put the MB in the oven for 12min at 200C.
No luck. Dead brick.
Any ideas?
Thanks for reading!
When my Nexus 5x died, LG replaced the motherboard and then everything was even much better than before.
quark-lepton said:
When my Nexus 5x died, LG replaced the motherboard and then everything was even much better than before.
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Well. Got it from ebay.. No invoice.
Don't know if i can claim warrenty?
SchWeinSAuG said:
Well. Got it from ebay.. No invoice.
Don't know if i can claim warrenty?
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LG has agreed to extend warranties on a case by case basis after they were sued. One lawsuit was dropped as a result, but the other remains. So they may be more willing than usual to fix it without proof of purchase, but only way to know is to call them.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/25/one-lawsuits-lg-nexus-5x-bootloop-dropped/
If you can't get any warranty help, then you can try the heatgun method. This seems to basically melt the solder again so that it'll work. If you're lucky, you get the one or few connections that are messed up.
Using a heatgun, I got mine from completely dead to where it performed normally for 9 hours. I thought I was back in business until it rebooted. Then it lasted a bit before rebooting, and every time would get shorter and shorter before rebooting. Now it is bootlooping at startup, but still alive. So I can adb the OTA back on there, clear cache and factory reset. And it charges. But it just bootloops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQrsC2VZY0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxQehPw4yPY
By they way, I tried a hairdryer for 30 seconds and it did boot to where I could unlock it, then it froze. The hairdryer just doesn't get hot enough to melt solder and only just heats things up to where there might be a temporary restoration of whatever connection or solder is broken. So I tried about 2 minutes and I could boot and swipe one screen left before it died. The heatgun took 1 minute 30 seconds to get it to where it would boot and work. I'm not going to go at it again since I have a chance at just getting a warranty swap if they extend it since I'm 2 months past the year coverage.
So dropped the pixel in pooring rain, picked it up within 5 seconds and the screen was smashed, but the phone still worked for a little bit. Then it entered a boot loop and couldn't get out of it. I took it to a repair shop and they said the thing is toast. I did a little bit of research on line, and the verdict is that it could be the flex cable. The way to test it is to just hold down the volume down and it should go into recovery mode. I told the repair shop and they said they tried it, but no such luck. I'm not sure if they actually tried it or not, but I'm not ready to give up on this thing. I've taken it apart and while charging it, I could feel it vibrate as if it would turn on, and it would repeatedly do this every 20-30 seconds. I removed the power flex cable and examined it. It doesn't seem to be damaged, but while I had it removed, the device also stopped vibrating. Since I can't see the screen I don't know if it's off, or removing the flex cable stopped the boot loop. Any ideas from the brain trust on there's hope for this thing, or should I just trash it?
Also, I just realized that when I pulled the flex cable off and put my finger on the finger print scanner the device vibrates.
Hi,
a couple of days ago my ASUS ZenFone 2 (Z00AD, ZE551ML, 4 GB RAM, 8 GB ROM, 1.8 GHz) started behaving very erratically on its own. It's not been rooted nor has been the bootloader/recovery modified.
OS version was the latest: WW-4.21.40.352.
Before it all happened, I cracked my screen and replaced it.
The phone worked perfecty (aside from the screen not being original (occasional flicker)) for a week, after which I started to lose signal in the SIM1 slot. It took me 6 weeks to realize, it might've been the antenna cable. I disassembled the phone again and inserted the cable again. It then worked perfectly for a couple of days.
Then it looked like it was damaged by water, which of course was not the case.
It started with continuous vibration and black screen, and only a forced shutdown (by holding the power button for a couple of seconds) helped. Then, it started to restart on its own and lose signal. Then the speaker stopped working, until poking its area. And at last, the phone thouht I have View Flip Cover on and all I could do was to force shutdown.
Then the phone didn't wan't to turn on at all. It didn't even charge and was not being detected by the computer.
I then read, one has to pull the battery cable twice and it did help.
The phone worked fine for a day, until it started going into black screen/constant vibration state, in which only a forced shutdown helped.
I followed a guide to redo hard brick and it's helped for a while, but now the phone constantly goes into black screen/constant vibration state at random, the same hapenning sometimes when charging while turned off or when choosing any option in the stock bootloader. It also doesn't boot completely (the ASUS logo shows up much later) and the WLAN doesn't work.
I followed the unbrick guide correctly. I read up, the mainboard might be corrupt.
What do you suggest? I of course, lost my guarantee the moment I cracked my screen.
Many thanks in advance.
Check the connection of the flex cable on the daughter board. Pretty sure there is loose connection.
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Check the connection of the flex cable on the daughter board. Pretty sure there is loose connection.
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Had to shelf my phone for a year because of this. Gotta clean the connector and press the cable in there good.
Phone keeps acting like I plug in the charger. Every 15 seconds it beeps the screen dims as if I connected something and it wont stop.
Reset my phone cleaned the USB port looking for sugfestions.
Anyone else have this problem?
Thanks.
Meyere309 said:
Phone keeps acting like I plug in the charger. Every 15 seconds it beeps the screen dims as if I connected something and it wont stop.
Reset my phone cleaned the USB port looking for sugfestions.
Anyone else have this problem?
Thanks.
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Same issue I HAD.
I purchased a LG G7 thinQ off of Craigslist.
Everything was fine minus the back glass being completely cracked and shattered.
I went on eBay and purchased the back glass with the finger print scanner and camera lens included, as well as a new battery (since I was already going to be inside the phone).
Completed the task, charged to 100 with phone off. Two days later as I left for vacation, the battery went from 17% to 10% then it shut off. I couldn't get it to take a charge, at all. So I messaged the eBay battery seller and had him send me a newer one. The previous battery date was 11-02-2018.
Once I got back into town, I opened the new battery and the date was 06-05-2019.
So far so good! I'd suggest watching YouTube and getting a heatgun or hairdryer.
I was in between it being a battery issue or the charging port itself. My back screen is cracked as well I habe always had a case on it but maybe with it being cracked with the humidity moisture has got to the battery???
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I have the same problem too, it started after upgrade to android pie