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Is my Kaiser dead?

Hi, recently my extUSB broke down, so I was unable to coonect anything. My friend changed the connector in proffesional way with IR gun. But now Kaiser won´t even boot up, no vibration on startup, only green LED is lit up.
I bought D2, but I am curious if there is any way to fix it.
Thanks in advance

What does your friend say?
What happens if, while holding down the camera button (on the same side as the power button but further down), you press the power button to power it on - do you get a stripy screen? If you do, you can poke the stylus into the reset hole to reset the device out of the bootloader screen. What did the friend have to say about it - personally I'd much rather have a TyTN II which boots and works fine except for a broken USB port (I presume it was working fine before the 'repair'), than one with a shiny new port that won't work at all.

Nothing happens it looks like it is absoluttely dead.
The USB port was faulty, that was reason, why I let it change.
Well, it is strange, but actually I am very satisfied with with D2, even more than with Kaiser...

Well I suppose you could always get an expert to look at it but if its motherboard is damaged (or there's other hardware damage), it may be more expensive to repair than it's worth. You could see what your local HTC people have to say about it.

Flying Kiwi said:
Well I suppose you could always get an expert to look at it but if its motherboard is damaged (or there's other hardware damage), it may be more expensive to repair than it's worth. You could see what your local HTC people have to say about it.
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Or you could sell it in the market section, plenty of people that would like to get a crack at fixing it or use it for parts.

Hi, I just encountered the very same issue. I know I'm ressurecting a very old thread, but I rather do this than creating a new one
I flashed my Kaiser with Android about two months back. Everything was quite stable, no hardware issues. Suddenly, it won't turn on.
When I plug a charger in the extUSB, the orange LED won't show up. And if I try to turn on the phone, the green LED shows up and stays solid. However, the short familiar vibration isn't there and also the screen remains black. Nothing was wrong with the USB port. I tried multiple chargers...

janys said:
Hi, I just encountered the very same issue. I know I'm ressurecting a very old thread, but I rather do this than creating a new one
I flashed my Kaiser with Android about two months back. Everything was quite stable, no hardware issues. Suddenly, it won't turn on.
When I plug a charger in the extUSB, the orange LED won't show up. And if I try to turn on the phone, the green LED shows up and stays solid. However, the short familiar vibration isn't there and also the screen remains black. Nothing was wrong with the USB port. I tried multiple chargers...
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Have you tried to reflash or hard reset?. Also maybe your battery is gone..try another one.

Some things to try
janys said:
When I plug a charger in the extUSB, the orange LED won't show up. And if I try to turn on the phone, the green LED shows up and stays solid. However, the short familiar vibration isn't there and also the screen remains black.
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I realise you cant flash if it's not booting but if your battery has sufficient charge remaining (won't work if it's flat) it'd be worth trying a hard reset using the D pad key + stylus in the hole method (can be done at switch on time without needing a full boot).
Nothing was wrong with the USB port. I tried multiple chargers...
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How do you know that a fault hasn't now developed with it - I wouldn't rule that out at this stage. Have you tried a known good battery that is fully charged in the phone also is it the original charger you are trying (not all chargers with the same plug are compatible)? Are you able to get the bootloader screen to show and if so, what does it display?

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I realise you cant flash if it's not booting but if your battery has sufficient charge remaining (won't work if it's flat) it'd be worth trying a hard reset using the D pad key + stylus in the hole method (can be done at switch on time without needing a full boot).
How do you know that a fault hasn't now developed with it - I wouldn't rule that out at this stage. Have you tried a known good battery that is fully charged in the phone also is it the original charger you are trying (not all chargers with the same plug are compatible)? Are you able to get the bootloader screen to show and if so, what does it display?
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No bootloader, no nothing - just black screen (there's not even a hint of backlight). I'll try a different battery today.
I tried using my old AC charger, my colleague's AC charger (for TouchPRO2), USB cable... the orange LED still doesn't come up.
What's the hardreset using Dpad key? I tried holding the power button + camera and also holding the two "context" keys (above explorer and messages buttons) and touching the reset button with the stylus.
I'll see whether a different battery will do the trick.
Thanks a lot for all your suggestions, guys! Much appreciated!

janys said:
No bootloader, no nothing - just black screen (there's not even a hint of backlight).
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What's the hardreset using Dpad key? I tried holding the power button + camera and also holding the two "context" keys (above explorer and messages buttons) and touching the reset button with the stylus.
I'll see whether a different battery will do the trick.
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The context key one you mentioned is what I refer to as a D Pad hard reset. The one where you press the power button while already holding down the camera button is how to get into the boot loader - it's all explained in the Kaiser wiki. Sounds like another battery is definitely worth a shot - especially if you only have one (I have 3 for my Kaiser and on some days with heavy GPS use, I need all of them). What happened between it working and not working - what were you installing or doing with it?

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The context key one you mentioned is what I refer to as a D Pad hard reset. The one where you press the power button while already holding down the camera button is how to get into the boot loader - it's all explained in the Kaiser wiki. Sounds like another battery is definitely worth a shot - especially if you only have one (I have 3 for my Kaiser and on some days with heavy GPS use, I need all of them). What happened between it working and not working - what were you installing or doing with it?
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I tried another (fully charged) battery from my gf's Kaiser today. No change. When I press the power button, the green LED shows up and stays solid (no blinking/flashing). Screen is black, no short vibration. I tried all sorts of hardresets and also tried to get into the bootloader. No luck.
Also, I took my multimeter and measured voltages on the charger, the battery and the pins in the phone where battery resides. Everything seemed to give a correct voltage. So it's really not a power issue
Thanks for all your help, but I'm afraid I have a total brick in my hand.

My Kaiser
Hi I have a HTC Kaiser I bought the first week it came out and it was f=ine for quite a while but 6 months ago it stopped working. It'll go to bootloader but won't flash. When trying to turn it on it'll go and just get stuck on the splash screen. I figured it was a battery because I'm very hard on my phones but I just got a replacement battery last week and all 3 of my batteries act the same way. I may have been trying to flsh went it went down it was a few months ago so I can't remember.
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My Kaiser got wet and I had to have the usb port replaced and the dpad replaced. The usb acts fine but the middle dpad button does not work
The charging light will stay orange or green after I unplug the charger
After reading for the last week I think its either bricked or maybe has a bad hardspl on it?!?
Thanks in Advance for any help you guys may give.

jaygriggs said:
My Kaiser got wet and I had to have the usb port replaced and the dpad replaced. The usb acts fine but the middle dpad button does not work
The charging light will stay orange or green after I unplug the charger
After reading for the last week I think its either bricked or maybe has a bad hardspl on it?!?
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Time for it to visit the same phone repair shop (or HTC) again for an assesment/possible repair if economically viable. If it's only recently got wet, you may be able to catch it before corrosion sets in and causes any damage but if it's not dryed out/cleaned quickly, the damage (from the resulting corrosion) will eventually show up (possibly in all the ways you've described).

Diamond does not Power On

Hi i have a few issues on my diamond. I hope you guys could help..
1st issue: lately my diamond keeps on resetting by itself.
2nd issue: later I've learned that when I record my voice using the software within the ROM, I don't hear anything but when I record my voice using my htc headset/earphones there is a sound.
What I did was:
This day I've flashed a new rom (Energy Rom) into my Diamond. It works ok then I flashed the Radio (Radio_1.13.25.24). I was able to use my diamond for a few hours.
Now..
3rd issue: My diamond is not powering on..
What i did before this happened was...
I pressed and hold the power button for about a few seconds so the ShutXP would pop up and I could soft reset my diamond.Before I clicked the soft reset button, I was checking out all the functions of it. then i clicked, a little icon,which is the Setup Timer Action. Here's the setup:
Action: Turn Off Pocket PC
In: (i don't exactly have seen the time indicated)
As curious as i am, I Clicked the Set Action button. It did shut my diamond off. Then I tried turning it on, but all it was doing was vibrate and the screen was black. At first I was hearing the start up sound a few times but later it didn't hear it anymore. I plugged in the charger but there's no white light on the circle button which used to have a light on the borders of the circle button when plugged in the usb cable. I tried pressing the power button plus the Volume down so the bootloader would appear but it did not. What shall I do?

Are you sure that the screen working because the phone vibrate and play the startup sound so if think its the screen that have som serious problem !!

HELP
I also flashed a new rom (Energy Rom) into my Diamond before.
It cannot run window mobile6.5.........how can I do???
I cannot connect to PC .......

I recently also had a similiar problem, after attempting a flash of the Rom, the ROM update stopped halfway through and reported that it had lost connection to the device....
The whole phone would not vibrate/power on, nothing - no glowing ring around the middle button to indicate it charging at all.
I had to return to the repair centre and somehow they didn't notice that I had modified the firmware and replaced the whole phone for free citing a hardware issue ...
Doesnt sound good if you cannot hard reset the device

Diamond reboot loop w. original ROM

hi there,
this morning, without any interactiom, i heard the vibration of my touch diamond restarting.(with original newest ROM from htc website that ran without any problem for several months). battery was about 80% yesterday evening.
but it wasn´t starting at all. after the HTC animation and the green windows mobile screen, it started again. after restarting for 20 minutes i took out the battery, put it in again and performed a hard reset as stated in the manual.
now, on the "rainbow" screen i get a message like
psoc diam stage_pvt 0x32
then i did the Volume-Up reset, and now i don´t even get the red version information in the lower right screen. as it doesn´t even start i cannot get an active sync connection.
any ideas? is my phone broken? i didn´t do anything special, and i wonder why it rebooted without interaction this morning.
any ideas what i can do?
thanks in advance,
jkersch

Mine started doing this about 2 weeks ago it woke me up in the middle of night while sleeping with its vibrator and start sound.
The only thing I have found is that my little reset button at the pen holder dosent work anymore. To do a hard reset i have to takeout the battery and then put it in, hold the volume key and enter key then power it to get it. Flashed by holding volume down and the power on, it hold for about 10min just enough to get the flash.
I managed to flash it once but it dosent help, it constantly reset at the thouch diamond screen. Some times i get to the green windows mobile screen.
As warrenty is out on my phone and ive given up and using another phone.

Same problem in a different thread
Have a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5279740.

install a new radio worked for me

Kaiser will not stop charging

Hi all i'm new to the whole smartphone/ pocket pc scene and decided to buy a kaiser. However for some reason it constantly thinks it is charging when unplugged and not charging when plugged in. Also I cannot turn it off as soon as I do it turns itself back on. I have also hard reset it but that didn't work either. I have searched for people with similar problems but have found nothing. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Ty in advance.

I don't have the charging issue but mine turns itself back on too. I tried a solution using MemMaid and it didn't work. I've searched the forums too and found no solution.

mr_fosi said:
I don't have the charging issue but mine turns itself back on too. I tried a solution using MemMaid and it didn't work. I've searched the forums too and found no solution.
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Maybe it's a ghost.. . Sorry I couldn't hold that.
Back to topic,
Have you hard reset your device? as the fellow OP did. What rom are running? More info porfavor.
Cheers,

Hard Reset = Yes
ROM = 3.34.721.2 WWE
Radio = 1.70.19.09
Oli's HardSPL
It's got a problem with the front face buttons... It occasionally registers a center button press though I haven't pressed it. I can use the navigation/arrow buttons and it frees up the center button, but it's annoying.
No other issues. If I let it send itself into standby, it stays stood-by.

mr_fosi said:
Hard Reset = Yes
ROM = 3.34.721.2 WWE
Radio = 1.70.19.09
Oli's HardSPL
It's got a problem with the front face buttons... It occasionally registers a center button press though I haven't pressed it. I can use the navigation/arrow buttons and it frees up the center button, but it's annoying.
No other issues. If I let it send itself into standby, it stays stood-by.
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it seems you are using a WM6.1 ROM...am i correct?
if so, you are using the wrong hardspl...i have been using an htc hd2 for the last month and i'm already starting to forget the various versions and tips and tricks for the kaiser. i think you need hardspl 3.29 at least if you are using WM6.1...someone please correct me if i am wrong.

it was doing this before the hardspl install

mr_fosi said:
it was doing this before the hardspl install
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ok, i see. still, you may run into other issues with a mismatched hspl.
regarding your ghost button presses, might be some dust/gunk/corrosion under the buttons that is causing the ghost button presses. also, might be a faulty main flex cable (the cable that connects the top half with the motherboard in the bottom half) because this cable takes the signals from the buttons in the top half to the motherboard.
finally, putting it into standby manually doesn't stick? but if the device is left to enter standby according to the timeout, it stays in standby? hmmmmm its hard to say but really seems to sound like a radio/hspl problem...but if the issue exists with stock ROM+radio+spl, then might be a faulty camera button. i remember reading somewhere here in the kaiser general forums that if the camera button is half pressed (like when you press to focus the camera), then putting the device to standby will wake up the device. so check the camera button for dust/gunk/corrosion also.

I'll check the buttons for crud.
In the meantime it's now:
WM6.1
ROM: 3.34.721.2 WWE
Radio: 1.70.19.09
HardSPL: 3.56
And it's still having the problem.

Same Problem on Vogue
Hey, I'm having the same problem on my vogue, this is killing the battery life and it only partly charges over night. Same issue, goes into charging state even after phone is unplugged from charger. I have multiple batteries I have tried this with and multiple chargers, so the problem is with the phone. I've also tried multiple android ROMs as well as WM6.1, same issue. PLEASE HELP

stealthbear said:
Hey, I'm having the same problem on my vogue, this is killing the battery life and it only partly charges over night. Same issue, goes into charging state even after phone is unplugged from charger. I have multiple batteries I have tried this with and multiple chargers, so the problem is with the phone. I've also tried multiple android ROMs as well as WM6.1, same issue. PLEASE HELP
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Hi stealthbear, you are not posting in the correct forum. This thread is intended for the kaiser please search here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=389. I hope that you solve your problem.

Black Screen After An Ordeal...

The situation- Friend gave me his htc g1 which had a cracked lcd but was in full working order, got it repaired from a shop. Couple of weeks later whilst attempting to root the phone the screen died, opened it up and the flex cable was broken. Repaired it myself this time and once I did the backlight now worked but there was no picture. It plugs into the computer fine,I think I've factory reset it(it vibrated a second time after i held the keys). Any ideas on how I can fix the problem or what could be the problem? I have tried to unroot with a blank screen as well and so I have no idea what the status of the phone software wise is...Although I can hear sounds occasionally when I press the camera button or the volume buttons when the phone is on- It vibrates when it is turned on.
Kind regards, Nabeel

Is it bricked? IS there anythign I can try? Any help would be appreciated...

Bump =(...I am currently trying to drain the battery and then charging it overnight....This may take a while....

Battery was drained,charged it up using my computer and a min-usb cable, still nothing...Is it bricked...Any help would be nice...