So, I've been getting the BLOD lately. Every time my phone turns off, the LED turns blue and I can't boot it up. At first I could pull the battery and then it would work, but it's been getting progressively worse (boots less and less often). Now I can't even get it to boot at all!
Does anyone know what this is and how to fix it?
Sources: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=476262
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4120301
are you holding the track ball when booting? thats the only way i get the blue light? lol is this xbox?
hiroots said:
are you holding the track ball when booting? thats the only way i get the blue light? lol is this xbox?
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lol... I'm pretty sure its windows XP
Can you boot in recovery?
what i will suggest is to do a fresh install of whatever rom you are running. that should sort things out. make sure you wipe your device clean before proceeding with the rom.
Doesn't sound good. You could have a failing ROM chip or something has turned to the worse.
I'd suggest flash a stock standard Cupcake 1.5 and see if that cures the issue, or else you may have a paperweight judging from this.
After lots of finicking around, I got it to boot. The problem is hardware. I couldn't even boot into it at all to flash anything.
The problem was my trackball was registering as "pushed in" all the time. I'll need to buy a new one on cnn.cn or ebay, where do you guys recommend?
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Hi. Ok, first of all I have done some research on the forum, but I haven't really found any answer for my problem.
I have a Htc touch diamond. And I installed a rom from the forum, i beleive it was the "shine"-rom. However now i gets weird....
The day after, everything was normal, and then all of a sudden my backlight gets really dim. Ok, could be a small bug i thought.
A few hours later it got darker and it was hard to see what was on the display.
And later on the evening it got almost all black. I couldn't quite tell what was what on the display.
The next day, and still, its totally dead. There is no light in the "ring" when i plug in the charger, and i cant get it to show any life.
I have tried everything, left it in the charger for a whole day, swapped battery, reset, hard reset, super hard reset. left it without battery for a day. Nothing.
Help me out. Any ideas?
Ps. There is no warranty on the phone.
Thanks!!
Wow... have not seen this before...
Even now, are you unable to even switch on your diamond? If you can't, don't see any way to revive it. If you can, try to flash another ROM and see if it improves...
How?
How can I flash it again, if I cant even turn it on? hmmm....
Help
Nothing? No idea?
I opened it up, but that didn't shed any major light on the situation....
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How can I flash it again, if I cant even turn it on? hmmm....
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Can you get it into bootloader? {Hold Vol. down button while pressing power}
If it will go into bootloader, you can flash from there
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Can you get it into bootloader? {Hold Vol. down button while pressing power}
If it will go into bootloader, you can flash from there
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Nope. He can't even get it to turn on. Don't think it'll be able to boot into bootloader...
otacon said:
Nope. He can't even get it to turn on. Don't think it'll be able to boot into bootloader...
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It just seems odd that bootloader won't even load. If it was something that damaged the OS then the BL should at least fire up. But, I just re-read everything again & see that there is no mention of Hard-SPL, so maybe it damaged the Boot sector as well.
If he didn't Hard_SPL then: This is a great example as to why you should always Hard-SPL before flashing anything.
If he did Hard_SPL: Then this is one for the medical journals {a disease that no-one's heard of & it's a killer}
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Hi again.
I did actually Hard-Spl. And i have tried different ROM's earlier and I never had any problems.
I dont have a clue what to do, and without any warranty im basicly screwed.
I was thinkin, maybe I could get som spare part? Seeing how the "ring" doesn't even light up when I plug in the charger??
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When my "ring" didn't light up I had to send the phone back to HTC and they changed the motherboard. Phone wasn't charging or turning on at all.
Well heres the story. I flashed cyanogen 6.0 and all was great,fast,smooth,perfect... Then it all went downhill. The backlight cut out. After wiping,reflashing,doing everything possible as far as that it was still the same.
I soon figured out that if i lock my phone while it was closed, then slid it open and hit menu the backlight would turn on, but it will not work when its not slid open at all.
Problem #2
As i have been dealing with the first problem and i dont have alot of time to fix it because of work and all, it grew even worse. Now when i do what i was doing to get the backlight to come on, The phone will randomly freeze/backlight wont come on at all/ Screen wont even come on.
When i turn on the phone sometimes the screen wont even come on but the backlight will and it wont get anywhere."blank lit black screen no tmobile g1 logo"
This also happens when i go to recovery using home+power. I remedy that by taking out the battery and starting the phone till it works.
Could someone please help me out here i dont really have to much to spend on a new phone and it would be great if i can get this one going like it should again.
you need to wipe before reinstall
if you have armonR, you wipe everything the wipe menu and flash the rom and the flash gapp-3
ive done that many times, hasnt solved anything. i dont know whats going on..getting to the point where i might just break down and get a htc hd2 and put android on it
Try flashing the Defanged Base (which you can find on the cyanogen wiki) then flash the Rom again.
to be honest it was time for an upgrade anyways, now i have the samsung vibrant. Its awesome. Thank you for the help anyways though.
tank65 said:
to be honest it was time for an upgrade anyways, now i have the samsung vibrant. Its awesome. Thank you for the help anyways though.
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You lucky f***! How are you liking it? I was thinking about getting one soon but i havent talked to anyone with one. Is there anything you dont like about it?
My Hero CDMA just died on me! It was running on AOSPCMOD. Everything was fine for a whole day. Until just now, I got it playing some mp3s. It kind of froze up on me for a little bit, so I decided to reboot it. It wouldn't reboot from the "end" power button, so I decided to take out the battery. Then BAM, put back the battery and the damn thing never turn back on.
Anyone know whats wrong with it? LOL
Possible causes? I had CWM3.0 installed before flashing aospCMOD rom, which is fine. Then I was messing around with the pre-installed Rom Managers, and I think it downgraded my CWM3.0 to 1.5. Could that be the cause of the brick? That's the only thing I could think of. Anyone got any idea??
You think BestBuy can replace my phone? I only had their insurance for about a week, and it wasn't even for the Hero. I bought an Epic, but didn't like it so I gave it to my g/f and I took over her old Hero. Do you think Bestbuy will notice?
Damnit...me and my good ol' luck! or stupidity....either way...FML!!
normally i would say your screwed but i think i know your problem. its probably because of the room i would say format and reflash it. take your sd card out first and put it in an sd card reader and backup as many files as you can.
Well does the red light still come on??? And the chances are razor thin that you bricked it unless you flashed a gsm radio. If the red light comes on just let it charge untill its green. Then try to boot up. If it boots try to raising or lowering your cpu frequencies in settings/canyogenmod settings/performance /cpu settings /min/max frequency. Try raising your min and lowering your max or vice versa. A clock speed to low when the screen shuts off may cause something like that. And don't forget to check the little box to apply on boot. Hope it helps good luck.
Yea its me again with the
Modified Hero--
How do I re-format and reflash? the darn thing wouldn't power on or connect to my computer. If I could get into recovery then that wouldn't be a problem.
I wish the red line would magically appear, lol.
So your red light does not come on at all??? If not then try a different usb cable if you have one.
Yea its me again with the
Modified Hero--
Yea...I did just that, lol. Thank for the reply. For some reason, CM's Rom, the LED light is disable. But I removed the battery out for awhile then used a different usb cable, the phone finally came back on. Whew! I can breath now.
LMAO. I've been there before. Glad to see you got it all worked out. If you need anything else let me know. If I can help I will. Good luck.
Yea its me again with the
Modified Hero--
hey so i have a Samsung captivate and i just installed continuum v5.5 but every time to turn off my phone all my apps get erased. what can i do about that?
You flash the rom from cwm 2.5? That's my guess...
Try reflashing from where there. With talon kernel that has cwm 3.
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You flash the rom from cwm 2.5? That's my guess...
Try reflashing from where there. With talon kernel that has cwm 3.
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im sorry but im really new to this and i have no idea what that means. All i have one is install the new package and now when i turn off my phone all my apps that i downloaded from the market get erased.
What you were on before you flashed that?
Anyway...from where you are now just boot into recovery
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache
Go into advanced and wipe dalvik cache
Then reflash the rom.
umm for some reason i cant get into recovery mode.........haha any tips on that first
Turn off the phone. Hold volume up and power...that should do it
The extended power menu while it's on...
Or adb...
I have been trying those. none work, all that show up is a white screen that have AT&t and that says world phone. what should i do?
wait up!! AT&T screen?? FOUND THE PROBLEM!!!!!! although i have no idea how you have been able to boot at all... you still have stock eclair/froyo bootloaders. thats a gingerbread rom requiring updated bootloaders..so how it even got into the os is confusing me?
use this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995143
then take a few days and READ!!! you skipped a HUGE step.
Im so confused now. it just stopped working? when i turn on my phone all that shows up is the AT&T world globe thingy and i cant get farther then that. I tired clicking the power and volume buttons but im just stick on the globe thing. is my phone like broken now??
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Im so confused now. it just stopped working? when i turn on my phone all that shows up is the AT&T world globe thingy and i cant get farther then that. I tired clicking the power and volume buttons but im just stick on the globe thing. is my phone like broken now??
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no. if it comes on its not broken.
what you need to do is pull the battery...and leave it off. come back to the forums and after you have spent several hours READING up on what exactly you are doing to your phone THEN you will have the knowledge to fix your phone.
this **** shouldnt be taken so lightly if you have literally no idea what you are doing.
yaaaaa i think im going to be done with all the rooting thing in till ive learned more about it. But is their a way to get it back to the way that i bought it.?
Yeah you just put it into download mode and use odin one click
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This is a perfect example of why I ask that everyone to spend at least a day learning about what they are doing before doing it. Flashing a Rom to your device has some very major side effects if even one step is done wrong.
I tried to put it in download mode. it doesn't work, my phone will turn on and off but will just sit in the start up screen but thats all that it will do?
You will need a jig to force download mode.
Go to mobiletechvideos.com he has a video on how to make one actually heres the link to that video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0... if you can't get yours to work or think it might be to difficult after watching the video he also sells them pre made for under 10 us dollars.
There are also quite a lot of useful videos for beginners to watch and learn about what you're doing.http://mobiletechvideos.com/blog/?page_id=31 that whole page is worth a look...
so theirs no other way to get the phone back to normal? If their isn't anther way to get it back to normal then can i just call AT&T to send me anther phone because this phone is only 3 days old??
thats what all of my posts have been trying to do. get you to normal.
especially the ones WITH LINKS!!
yaa ik, sorry what i was trying to say was that is their any other ways to get the phone into download mode that doesn't take making that JIG?
with phone off try holding both volumes and inserting the usb cable thats connected to your pc.
or take out the battery, plug it in and hold the volume buttons, then with the buttons still held indert the battery.
if those dont work the jig will. its easy to make...or if you cant manage its cheap to buy...
what is it with people so resistant to trying to make/buy a jig? both ways its under 10 bucks, and that beats the hell out of not having a phone, and the frustration of trying everything else before you get around to a jig. make/buy one now you will have it for future use. its never not handy to have. i made one before i flashed anything so i would have an out if it went bad.
Okay well thanks to everyone who helped, im going to try to make the jig thingy but if i can't make that then im just going to throw it against a wall and use the insurance to get a new one. thanks though
Hi Guys,
Would really appreciate some help. My galaxy s wont turn on and gets very very hot right where the processor is i presume, just below the samsung badge on the screen. & when it does turn on i can only very faintly see the screen in a flickering blue,
So my question is, Is it worth fixing or should i just get a new phone?
Phone was overclocked at 1200Mhz if that helps.
Thanks
Boot into download mode and flash a new firmware. That should fix it, unless it's a hardware issue.
Yeah, It doesent boot at all, Just gets really hot. Maybe shows a little blue on the screen but thats it.
I think he proccessor is trying to boot constantly reading (reason for hotness) but it can't find the files to boot i think it's a corrupted file or something try flash a fresh firmware using odin it should boot and won't be hot again
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Rhys.. said:
Yeah, It doesent boot at all, Just gets really hot. Maybe shows a little blue on the screen but thats it.
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I realize that it doesn't boot, but does that mean it won't boot into Android, recovery, or download mode? If it doesn't boot into any of those, you need to buy a USB Jig off eBay (or make one yourself) to get it into download mode. And if that doesn't work, you have bricked your device.
If you would provide us with more information we can give you better answers. How did your phone get into this state? A million things could cause this, including throwing your phone at a wall. If you did that, we can't help you. But if it's software related, we potentially can. So how did you get your phone into this position?