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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.
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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?!?
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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).
Tonight my G1 displayed some very odd behavior. It was running normally and I pressed the power button to make it sleep and I set it aside. About half an hour later I picked it up and tried to turn it on by pressing menu. The phone gave no response other than lighting up the five buttons on the bottom. I tried sliding the keyboard out and the keyboard lit up as well, but the display remained black. Plugging it in via USB to my computer did absolutely nothing (no sounds, no notification light, etc.), and I got the same result when I plugged it into the charger. I finally decided to take the battery out in order to turn the phone off, and then put it back in and pressed the power button. The phone booted up normally, and now everything seems to be working in proper order. I am slightly concerned, however, as I have never had this behavior in the year that I have owned my G1. I am running Cyanogen 4.1.999 with the Hard SPL boot loader. I am unsure whether this behavior has anything to do with the mod and I am wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar. I do realize that if my phone is bricked it is my fault, and I want to determine if this was simply a freak accident or if I need to do something differently with the phone.
first of all if your phone was bricked you wouldn't be able to use it. as for your problem it doesnt sound too serious so if i were you i wouldn't worry about it. but if it does happen again reflash your phone and if it happens after that, pitch it to cyanogen to see if there is a problem with the rom.
I do realize that it isn't bricked now, but I am worried that this behavior could mean that I am pushing the phone too hard. I am mostly curious as to whether or not anyone else has experienced similar behavior from their G1.
Turn off compatibility mode in spare parts.
don't worry this is a common problen It happens to me all the time any hero I flash plays nice for about a day. and then boom no problems with cyan!
I had the same problem, but unfortunately my G1 is still not working properly.
In the morning, turning off the alarm I left the phone for 5 minutes. An attempt to turn it on did not work: there was no reaction on display, although the buttons were lighting up. I restarted phone taking the battery out and now I have following:
- keyboard fully closed: no reaction/black display, buttons are lighted up
- keyboard open: I can do everything: change ROM/make call/write messages/Internet/GPS/... - everything what is possible to do with rooted G1
- keyboard partially open (visible only lowest row with such buttons as ALT, SHIFT, SPACE): similar to 'open' but with changed orientation
Can anyone help/advise? Did almost everything: ROM changed, full wipe, recovery
Greetings,
I'm not experienced with android devices, so i thought i'd ask here first before trying to do anything.
Since a few months ago some weird things started happening to my X8 - random display glitches and blackouts at completely random intervals (sometimes one or even two a day, sometimes it can last two or more weeks w/o an incident, i haven't figured out any relation yet).
Glitches manifest in distorted view on screen - shifted up/down/sideways - or colored graphics artefacts - up to completely bizarre patterns of random-colored pixels covering the whole screen. Weirdly enough, pushing power button as if to lock the screen usually alleviates the issue, sometimes i need to do it few times to remove completely, but it works. Touchscreen works fine, but i need to tap the "right" spot on the screen, not where it's displayed on the screen ("right" as in where the element is when the screen is not glitching).
The other issue (may be related) i'm having with the phone is random screen "blackouts" - the screen goes completely black and the power button cycling doesn't help - but the phone still reacts to screen input (i.e. i can unlock the screen by dragging the slider, launch app, start/stop music playback and so on). I can see the backlight on, so it's definitely screen/gfx hardware issue, not backlight. If i try to reboot the phone, it hangs on either shutdown or boot up. Removing the battery, placing it back and booting the phone up doesn't help - it vibrates as usual, i see the backlight go up, but screen stays black and i can't interact with the phone even if i leave it there for a few minutes (which is more than enough for it to boot up - it usually takes ~30 seconds till full boot). Also the backlight won't go off. It usually helps to boot normally if i hit the phone with a palm on the back side and/or leave it alone for a while. This issue is much more rare (only had it three times), but it puts the phone out of service for a while, so it's an issue for me.
Now, the device info:
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 E15i
015 baseband
10W44
Unlocked bootloader
Alfs8 kernel (2.6.29.6-Alfs v08a 24/03/2012)
GingerDX v026 ROM
No cpu tweaks done, cpu governor "ONDEMAND", cpu speeds 122-600.
The glitches started when i was still using the older version, GindgerDX v013 with locked bootloader, i have done factory reset and flashed a new version with new kernel (and unlocked the loader along the way), but apparently it did not help fix the issues.
I can't provide and screenshots/photos of the issue because the only camera i have access to at most times when it happens is my phone one and, obviously, i can't use that in this case
The question is: can i still try to fix it by myself (i can do it if it doesn't involve disassembling the phone completely - i don't have the screwdrivers required) by software tweaks or other techniques or should i reflash stock kernel/rom, apply for warranty and hope they find the defect and fix it? I really do like the phone. Or, maybe, you have encountered anything resembling these issues and may shed some light on what's happening.
Appreciate any input in trying to figure out and fix this.
Thank you if you have read all this even if you can't help me, cheers!
1st problem could be 'Screen Cut' issue which is solved using kernel without FPS Cap...
2nd problem usually happens on my phone with miniCM9 3.0.2 but shows splash and boot animation...
Can you see the splash screen and the bootanimation? Because my friends' Xperia Ray has the issue on official firmware... so it could be hardware damage...
Try unlocking the screen then press the power button then press it again...
and also try flashing the stock firmware... If it doesn't work... I think you should live with it...
Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Reflash stock kernel and ROM and full wipe and then flash a different ROM and see it it still happens. If it does I think it is advisable to send it to Sony for repair.
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Thanks for your replies, i'll try reflashing the stock rom and see if it still happens.
@Lily48: no, no splashcreen or boot animation, just black screen and visible backlight.
I have the same problem and I checked it many times and my conclusion is....ITS A HARDWARE PROBLEM NOT SOFTWARE..
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I have the same problem and I checked it many times and my conclusion is....ITS A HARDWARE PROBLEM NOT SOFTWARE..
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Well, notify me if you find a solution, thanks
Sorry for double post, but this is important update:
My phone died this morning with the permanent black screen syndrome. Until i rebooted i could use it to receive phone calls or even listen to music (i knew where to touch to activate the features). However it would not boot sompletely after restart, even if i leave it for ~hour. Connecting to flashtool showed that it does boot to a certain stage, but no GUI (for user interaction with haptic feedback) available - the flashtool does show that device connected with usb debugging enabled.
I reflashed the stock ROM, now it's apparently stuck in some sort of bootloop - it keeps on connecting and disconnecting. But the screen is still black, with backlight. If i remove the battery, replace it and just connect to pc w/o trying to boot on, it acts normally as if trying to charge - backlight activates for a few seconds if i touch a key and green led is lit, but still the screen is black.
I will RMA it tomorrow, thanks for help, hopefully i'll get a new one, or they'll repair this one so it does not glitch on me again. Anyway it was/is a good phone, i absolutely love it.
Wish me luck =]
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Sorry for double post, but this is important update:
My phone died this morning with the permanent black screen syndrome. Until i rebooted i could use it to receive phone calls or even listen to music (i knew where to touch to activate the features). However it would not boot sompletely after restart, even if i leave it for ~hour. Connecting to flashtool showed that it does boot to a certain stage, but no GUI (for user interaction with haptic feedback) available - the flashtool does show that device connected with usb debugging enabled.
I reflashed the stock ROM, now it's apparently stuck in some sort of bootloop - it keeps on connecting and disconnecting. But the screen is still black, with backlight. If i remove the battery, replace it and just connect to pc w/o trying to boot on, it acts normally as if trying to charge - backlight activates for a few seconds if i touch a key and green led is lit, but still the screen is black.
I will RMA it tomorrow, thanks for help, hopefully i'll get a new one, or they'll repair this one so it does not glitch on me again. Anyway it was/is a good phone, i absolutely love it.
Wish me luck =]
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It is a hardware problem and Sony Service Center is the last option you have.. if your X8 is in warranty period.
I did the same and they replaced its display with new one.
Hello, reporting back in:
Just got my X8 back, it really was a hardware problem. They changed the screen now it works as good as new =]
Thanks everyone for support
*Hey guys!
So I'm switching over to using a GT-I9000 for a few weeks, while my 1+3T arrives. To ease my pain, I formatted this phone (after God knows how long it's not been used), and tried flashing a few ROMs.
While doing so, I noticed something really strange: When I plug the phone in to charge (or to my PC for that matter), the screen thinks I'm constantly holding one of my fingers on the screen, thus making it unresponsive to touch while plugged in. As soon as I disconnect the phone, the screen starts working fine again.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?*
Okay, nevermind, found out the cause, please delete the thread.
I have a Galaxy Note 8 model SM-N950F/DS which I bought on the beginning of 2018 from Qatar with UAE FW, yesterday I was talking to my wife through a video call on Facebook Messenger for almost 1 hour, noting that I was calling her everyday since last January as I'm residing in another country for the whole day and never experienced the following problem except the heat one around 1 or 2 times only just lasts for a few seconds to a couple of minutes!
The phone was standing on wooden stand from IKEA Belgium inside a back cover from AUTO FOCUS and the phone is coated by mobile outfitters (these information may help in the over heating issue) and while we were talking the screen freeze and there were a couple of colored lines in a small area in the top quarter of the screen.
I took the phone and found it over heated from the back side at the bottom quarter and not responding with freeze screen, I searched the internet and found that I can restart the device by holding the power button with volume down button, it worked and the device restarted and gave me a black screen with blue blinking LED then I did use again the power button with the volume down button and it worked but turned off after requesting the OS login pin code.
After that I switched it ON and did the same for around more 2 times then stopped working!
I found on the web that I have to connect it to a wall charger via the original charging cable for around 10 minutes and then try the power button with the volume down, it worked and gave me the charging screen with the phone OFF and it was reading something in 20s percentage so I left it until it reached around 44% then tried to power ON the device again and the same thing happened, it gave me the "Galaxy Note 8" logo then asked for the OS boot pin and after I entered the pin it gave me "starting phone..." then stopped!
I tried to leave it again for 10 minutes in the charger and do the power button with the volume down and it gave me the charging screen again!
I left it until it reached 70 or 77% (don't remember exactly) and then tried to switch it on to the boot menu using the power button + Bixby button + volume up button and wiped the cache partition, after wiping that partition the phone restarted and never came up again!
None of the above worked again! Not leaving it charging for 10 minutes then try the power key + volume down key! Not the power + Bixby + volume up! I even found someone connected the charger for seconds then removed it then pressed power + Bixby + volume down and his phone worked, it didn't work to me!
Overall this, the phone isn't warming up when it connected to the charger back! so either it has a full battery or it stopped charging for hardware failure!
I don't know what to do, I almost tried everything and I can't imagine how it can have a hardware malfunction because of the over heating and worked several times after that! As I'm an electronics engineer I faced this before in certain embedded systems boards but it has to stop directly if there's a short circuit or certain damage in the circuitry.
I hope if someone can help regarding this!
I would bring it in for repairs. Sounds like a fried board.
Happened to my wife's redmi note. Phone was left on car dashboard under the sun with waze running and battery charging. Outside temperature was around 37 degrees celsius. When she reached the destination 1 hour later the phone was too hot to hold.
The phone screen froze. Managed to reboot it but phone never booted up again.
Got it fixed under warranty though.. Was a new phone back then. Change of board fixed it.
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I would bring it in for repairs. Sounds like a fried board.
Happened to my wife's redmi note. Phone was left on car dashboard under the sun with waze running and battery charging. Outside temperature was around 37 degrees celsius. When she reached the destination 1 hour later the phone was too hot to hold.
The phone screen froze. Managed to reboot it but phone never booted up again.
Got it fixed under warranty though.. Was a new phone back then. Change of board fixed it.
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Thanks for your response, it seems like this is the only way but since that I have to take an appointment because of the current situation of the pandemic and since there still time for this appointment I though to post the problem here may someone discover a solution to try if the problem still software not hardware!
Now I understood what it really may happened if the problem is hardware and it's obvious now that it's definitely hardware!
If it's a fried board so it seems like the tracks on board was about to damage and this explains why it worked several times, during these several times, the passing current in this fried board starts to lose the connection damaging the board more and more until it became a total loss, which switched the phone OFF totally, so if this explanation is correct I don't think that I have anything to do except waiting until the service center open the phone chassis and look inside!
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Now I understood what it really may happened if the problem is hardware and it's obvious now that it's definitely hardware!
If it's a fried board so it seems like the tracks on board was about to damage and this explains why it worked several times, during these several times, the passing current in this fried board starts to lose the connection damaging the board more and more until it became a total loss, which switched the phone OFF totally, so if this explanation is correct I don't think that I have anything to do except waiting until the service center open the phone chassis and look inside!
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Could be the integrated circuit board as well. Thousands of mini gold threads in it.
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Could be the integrated circuit board as well. Thousands of mini gold threads in it.
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That's what I was wondering from the beginning, if there's a damaged IC from the over heating, how could you explain that it worked several times after the heating issue? Do you mean there was a partial damage in the beginning doesn't prevent the phone from working back again?
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That's what I was wondering from the beginning, if there's a damaged IC from the over heating, how could you explain that it worked several times after the heating issue? Do you mean there was a partial damage in the beginning doesn't prevent the phone from working back again?
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Sometimes when something is about to fail but isn't completely dead.. Sometimes it works intermittently.
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I have a new update, after I left the phone for around 4 hours since our earlier conversation, I tried the combination of power button + volume down + Bixby key, the phone worked and gave me a green screen, when I pressed volume down to cancel and restart it, it didn't restart but gave my a black screen, I connected the charger and it gave me the charging screen with 0% battery!
Could be a battery issue?! The device was OFF, how did it drain the battery without operation?!
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Sometimes when something is about to fail but isn't completely dead.. Sometimes it works intermittently.
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It seems like it still working! Now how can I tell there's no hardware issue beside the battery if it's the problem? Should I wait till the service center too or can I confirm with anything else? I'll leave it until reaches 100% and try to switch it ON while the charger plugged in, so it can boot up again easily!
Could it be the power management IC has something wrong? So it can't operate the phone very well?
After the phone reached up to 93%, I tried to switch it ON in Safe mode, but it didn't continue. I tried to open the recovery menu, it stuck in installing updates 3 times, each time it restarts, after that it could enter but without giving me the menu options, instead in the Android console screen it gave me some errors, the first one was that it can't load the recovery menu with no such file or directory between brackets!
To keep all of you updated with the phone's situation, I went today morning to Samsung Service Center and after they tried to operate it, they said the device is acting weird because it login to the OS then shuts off directly and this could be due to either the main board, the battery, or the operating system, but they refused to receive the phone after they knew that it came from outside Europe, so I took it to a 3rd party Service Center and I'm waiting for them to call me after their analysis!
Today the service center called me to pick up the phone and he said it might be the main board nothing else because the system doesn't load to the to the end, so I told him it might be a partial damage in the ROM so there are some corrupted sectors which prevent the system from logging because the loss of some files, he said yes maybe, then I asked him if he opened the phone he said yes, I asked if he noticed any damages in the main board like burns or anything, he said no!