Hi,
Searched the forum and didn't really find anything like the problem I'm experiencing (even though I might be very wrong on this ).
My device is S-OFF, has clockwork recovery etc. And I was using a custom ICS build (namely this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424260 )
And earlier today it froze (not super uncommon ). But I had to remove the battery because it was non responsive.
But anyway. Now it's dead!
Nothing happens when I press the power button.
Tried it by removing the battery a couple of times, pushing the button again.
No sound, no buzz, just pitch black screen.
Tried booting into the bootloader with "Vol Down + Power button". Same result here. Just black screen.
Tried connecting it to the PC to boot into bootloader from there. But the PC doesnt even recognize that I have plugged something in
(using dmesg says nothing about a device being connected.. which usually is not so good )
The only sign of "life" I get is when I connect the phone to the charger (or usb cable to the computer) without ever tried booting it with "power button" or "power button + vol down" is that the LED lights up orange.
If I have tried to turn it on it will not light up orange.
I have tried to have it for a few hours (with the light orange) on the charger, then booting it.. But with no luck
I kinda feels like my device has died! I dont really feel it has been bricked? Maybe hardware malfunction? which sucks since my warranty will not be valid because of S-OFF
Anyone have any ideas or tips on what I could possibly try with?
If you were overclocking, the cpu may have overshot. Probably 'hardwear'...
You might take it to a repair facility to diagnose if they can help.
If computer doesn't read it and no boot, nothing you can "do" yourself...
Sounds like brick :what:
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Check to see if it responds to any ADB/fastboot commands
cant run any adb commands
Since it's not recognized at all by my computer I cant do any adb commands.
Not list the device, not do fastboot etc.
I still have warranty on the phone, will the repair shop be able to see that I have taken it S-OFF? Or will they most likely just replace the motherboard?
The company I have to leave it to is notorious for being the biggest assholes in the history of this earth
and yeah... I had it overclocked! but only by one step (from oc virtious quattro) or perhaps 2 steps max.
If you cannot see the device on the PC at all, the service centre won't know that you are s-off. If you have a windows install, check in the device manager to see if the phone is detected at all.
Yeah htc has so many repairs they don't have time to mess around dude. They'll try to turn it on, and it won't, so they'll try a fully charged battery and it won't turn on again, they'll throw from anew motherboard in after that and if that doesn't work they'll give you a brand new phone. I'd say you have a 5% chance of them finding out your s-off.
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I've been reading forums all day long looking for answers but I can't seem to find a solution, so my apologies if someone has a solution in a thread that I missed but I couldn't find anything.
I have Rogers Captivate which I had applied the One Click Lag Fix that worked great. I then decided to flash a custom rom with Odin. In the middle of the flash, my pc lost power (battery ran out, forgot to plug it into the wall) and the bar on my Captivate showing the progress stopped. After I turned the computer back on, I turned off my phone (since it was stuck an I thought it was a good idea) and tried to turn it on with no success.
As far as I can tell, it's COMPLETELY dead.
Here's everything I've tried:
- ALL (and I mean ALL) button combinations
- There's no power bar, absolutely nothing showing
- I've taken sim and battery out and tried connecting to the pc, no luck
- I've tried letting it charge although the screen is dead (meaning black) and the soft keys don't light up so I have no idea if it's charging
- When I plug the phone into my pc, it doesn't even detect it
- Can't get ANYTHING to show up on the screen. I hold power, it doesn't turn on. I hold Vol up and down and nothing.
I don't know if there's anything on the board I can do to reset or something. Is my phone completely toast? If so, I'll have to resort to getting a replacement through the 1 year manufacturer's warranty which sucks, but oh well.
Thank you all for any assistance you can provide. I would hate to go back to my iPhone 4 ((
AZ
Did you try pulling battery, then holding Vol+ and Vol- and plugging in USB?
Have you tried a USB jig?
I had to disconnect my phone mid-Odin a few times before. I was able to use a JIG to get back into Download Mode and restore it to a working state. Might wanna try that!
Dungeon47 said:
Did you try pulling battery, then holding Vol+ and Vol- and plugging in USB?
Have you tried a USB jig?
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I think this guy's phone really is toast though - no activity, nadda?
The only other thing I can think of - is make sure the USB cable is plugged directly into your computer's motherboard USB Ports.
Then try the above - pull out sime batt etc... plug in the USB with the battery out - then jam the battery back in while holding down the volume buttons.
If this doesn't work or the Jig.. Warranty Time with AT&T (Happy Times )
I would say the jig is worth a shot, I have seen several people say they came back from a black screen with the jig.
If you are just getting a black screen when you try to turn it on then the phone is most likely done. I know it's too late but it is extremely important that when flashing your phone that there is no chance of loosing power to your compuer.
I would still suggest to try the JIG option if you haven't already. Each bricked phone acts differently. My first phone I was able to get into download mode with the JIG but even after flashing it 3 times it still would be stuck on the AT&T logo loop. Likely because of a hardware related issue. I would check with your carrier and see what you options are after trying to use a JIG. Or you can call Samung and they might be able to repair the phone for a couple hundred. Which is still cheaper then paying $400 for a new one.
I had a similar issue where I got a purple screen flashin stock with odin...and then phone acted ''dead'' no response on any end...what I did was take take sim out and battery and did the volume down and power while putting in batter after every attempt with all other button attempts and putting usb in
About ten seconds the time it takes the art screen in my case to flash and after about fifty attempts it went into d.l mode
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Mine got stuck in the white ATT logo loop once, and it just took many, many tries to get ODIN to recognize, but it eventually came around, and has been great ever since. If it is really bricked, you have nothing to lose, so you might as well go hardcore.
Same thing happen to me yesterday! And the jigg saved my phone. Thank you jigg
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hey guys!
Can anyone please help me with my problem.
I was trying to root my device using this toolkit HTC_QuickRoot_1.1.10_Release (1)
The process worked fine until it rebooted my sensation XL.
Now it wont turn on. I tried charging it and it is currently connected to my PC through USB,,the orange LED on the top of the device doesnt even show.
I am hoping its only a battery problem.
If anyone has had the same problem and has any fix just in case it is not a battery problem would be much appreciated.
You can try taking it to a phone store, and asking to try a diffrent battery in your phone. But it sounds to me like a H/W fault. The method of root you used is not familiar to me. Are you sure its compatible with the SXL?
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i think that the HTC_QuickRoot has never been tested with SXL
anyway remove and replug the battery and try to enter bootloader mode with power+vol Down
if its working u can unlock, flash new hboot, recovery and a custom rom
everything Here thanks to stona175
if u can't enter the boot loader connect the SXL to your PC and check in device manager for this device
QUALCOMM QHUSB_DLOAD, if u find it, it means that your phone is bricked
Ok so i took out sim + battery for about 20 mins. Put it all together then plugged it through usb.
good thing and I hope it only gets better. Orange led is now showing,
I thoroughly searched for QUALCOMM QHUSB_DLOAD in my device manager and it is nowhere to be found.
Tried POWER + Vol DOWN button to enter bootloader, but nothing happen
is there a tool when i can access my device through the PC?
well my SXL seems like its totalled. Orange LED is still on even though it is not charging or connect through USB
jemza said:
well my SXL seems like its totalled. Orange LED is still on even though it is not charging or connect through USB
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To enter bootloader try this: remove battery, put it in again, hold FIRST vol down and THEN (without releasing vol down) power. Give it a try, you never know...
jemza said:
Ok so i took out sim + battery for about 20 mins. Put it all together then plugged it through usb.
good thing and I hope it only gets better. Orange led is now showing,
I thoroughly searched for QUALCOMM QHUSB_DLOAD in my device manager and it is nowhere to be found.
Tried POWER + Vol DOWN button to enter bootloader, but nothing happen
is there a tool when i can access my device through the PC?
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If your device is showing as QHUSB_DLOAD, then your going to need to use something like jtag to repair it, or a service centre.
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Well along with the entire world it seems I've done something wrong trying to get 4.3 on my phone. I've been around the block a few times, so I've done all the expected things, but my phone is stuck at the White HTC screen and won't turn off. When this happened the phone was in S-OFF, Relocked, and I was trying to flashback to stock 4.1. Holding down the power button or power button + volume down does nothing but flash the lights. I've held them down for 2-3 minutes with nothing but flashing, no reboot. Hooking the device to the computer recognizes the phone as an MTP device but I think that's just the default for a powered usb port.
With the usb cable connected, the charge light does not come on so it will eventually die when the battery is expended. I don't know that it will recharge, which may be good if I'm going to get sprint to swap it.
Any suggestions?
OK. So I was actually able to get the bright light trick to work, but now I have the issue of trying to get an OS on the phone. TWRP fails ADB sideload because it can't find /data and it won't let me check the mount box. Is there a way to fix the partitions?
Thank you for the PMs everyone. I've got it under control!
Hi, I posted a question on this already but the situation has changed. So firstly what happened was i rooted, flashed cwm recovery and was running the sinless rom GPE. this was fine for about a month and then i decided to s-off...the s-off process went smoothly and the phone powered back on like normal. Then i flashed another rom and there was a cyan colour filling the screen at boot so I decided to restore from a previous backup. However this backup was done before the s-off process. After restoring successfully I clicked "reboot phone" on CWM and since that the phone never turned on or show any signs of life.
At first it would connect to the computer but show up in device manager as QHSUSB_DLOAD but now when I connect the phone to the computer it jus disconnects and reconnects over and over.
Things I tried:
Holding power button for over 2 minutes (with and without bright light on the sensor).
Left charging for over 4 days.
Holding Power+VOL down for over 2 minutes.
Holding Power+VOL up for over 2 minutes.
Holding all three hardware buttons for over 2 minutes.
In the process of trying all these things not once did the led even blink or did the phone even show any signs of life. Can anyone help with this situation?
devon4786 said:
Hi, I posted a question on this already but the situation has changed. So firstly what happened was i rooted, flashed cwm recovery and was running the sinless rom GPE. this was fine for about a month and then i decided to s-off...the s-off process went smoothly and the phone powered back on like normal. Then i flashed another rom and there was a cyan colour filling the screen at boot so I decided to restore from a previous backup. However this backup was done before the s-off process. After restoring successfully I clicked "reboot phone" on CWM and since that the phone never turned on or show any signs of life.
At first it would connect to the computer but show up in device manager as QHSUSB_DLOAD but now when I connect the phone to the computer it jus disconnects and reconnects over and over.
Things I tried:
Holding power button for over 2 minutes (with and without bright light on the sensor).
Left charging for over 4 days.
Holding Power+VOL down for over 2 minutes.
Holding Power+VOL up for over 2 minutes.
Holding all three hardware buttons for over 2 minutes.
In the process of trying all these things not once did the led even blink or did the phone even show any signs of life. Can anyone help with this situation?
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Hi mate, as i know, the QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, is the same to say: bricked phone...
So, probably, you have to send it to htc for warranty and they have to change your motherboard...
Guich said:
Hi mate, as i know, the QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, is the same to say: bricked phone...
So, probably, you have to send it to htc for warranty and they have to change your motherboard...
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I was hoping that wasn't the case..but oh well...would they be able to know if I was s-off or anything?
devon4786 said:
I was hoping that wasn't the case..but oh well...would they be able to know if I was s-off or anything?
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Theoretically no, because the mainboard won't work...
I think is the possibility that your phone is bricked is hard
HTC One, Froze, Restart, Cannot turn on, NO LED etc.
Guich said:
Theoretically no, because the mainboard won't work...
I think is the possibility that your phone is bricked is hard
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I also had the case of my HTC One, my battery was still at 55% while I was watching a video until it froze, so I decided to shut it down to reboot but when I tried to switch it on, it already does not show the Red LED, did any possible combinations of power on and pressing down the volume also under bright light, but there's no luck on it. However, I tried plugging my phone to the PC and there are still the sounds that it has connected. I checked it on the devmgmt.msc but it says that:
Base System Device, QHSUSB_DLOAD and Unidentified Device - All appeared to say "No Driver Found"
It has been a day since I left my phone wall charged, plugged it in the PC with the USB detected sounds but still can't turn it on. Is there any other way to turn on the phone again? Since I badly wanted to recover all my photos and other stuff from the phone Any possible help/tip/advice would be much appreciated! Would there be any way before sending it to the HTC Company? Thank you in advance!
There is a possible fix for that around here somewhere, a Guide to fix hard bricks, typical I cant find it now.
EDIT: Here it is, only supports M7_UL devices though, never had to use it so I cant answer any further queries on it, if you have any problems trying it you'll have to post in that thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684
Hey everyone,
So my friend’s HTC One was having some troubles, he said out of no where it got stuck in the ‘TAMPERED’ screen and he didn’t know what to do. Now he definitely didn’t try to root it or anything like that, it is completely stock. So yesterday he gave me the phone so I could take a look at it. The battery was dead when I got it so I plugged it in and got the red notification light to say it’s charging. A little while later I attempted to turn it on, surely enough I was shown the ‘tampered, locked, security warning etc.’ screen. So I wasn’t really sure what to do from there, I tried to see if I could get into the recovery mode but it just seemed to power down. I booted back up and went to the restore factory settings option, it showed me a progress bar for a bit but powered down again. Now it appears to be bricked… When I plug it in I don’t get the red notification light anymore and I’ve tried holding vol down + power again and again to no avail. I also tried the bright light trick.
If anyone has any ideas on what I could try next I would really appreciate any help at all.
Thanks guys.
the tampered screen wont appear out of nowhere, he must have tried a custom recovery, kernel or something.
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the tampered screen wont appear out of nowhere, he must have tried a custom recovery, kernel or something.
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From a bit of googling around I saw some people that let their phones' batteries die completely flat and were faced with the tampered screen when they turned it on again so I guess this is what happened to my friend. I'm sure he didn't try anything custom.
Here are two examples:
http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/60279
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433477
What happens when its plugged the PC. Does it show up at all or does it show QHSUSB_DLOAD. If it does show that, then it is bricked and only a motherboard replacement will bring it back to life. If not then charge the phone for 24 hours. dont mess with it, then holding POWER + VOLDOWN (phone under a bright light,) after about 5 seconds, buttons should start blinking, and after 20 to 30 seconds, phone should reboot or you may at least get into bootloader.
you may need to try 2 or 3 times, to get it to work.
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What happens when its plugged the PC. Does it show up at all or does it show QHSUSB_DLOAD. If it does show that, then it is bricked and only a motherboard replacement will bring it back to life. If not then charge the phone for 24 hours. dont mess with it, then holding POWER + VOLDOWN (phone under a bright light,) after about 5 seconds, buttons should start blinking, and after 20 to 30 seconds, phone should reboot or you may at least get into bootloader.
you may need to try 2 or 3 times, to get it to work.
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How can I check for QHSUSB_DLOAD? Install the HTC Sync and HTC drives then adb devices or something?
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How can I check for QHSUSB_DLOAD? Install the HTC Sync and HTC drives then adb devices or something?
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You must have HTC drivers installed anyway. Download and run HTC sync and let it complete. then just uninstall HTC Sync. The drivers will remain.
You must also have adb and fastboot setup on your PC. I take it you are set up for those
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You must have HTC drivers installed anyway. Download and run HTC sync and let it complete. then just uninstall HTC Sync. The drivers will remain.
You must also have adb and fastboot setup on your PC. I take it you are set up for those
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Ok so i got the drivers, adb and fastboot installed. I plugged in the phone and in device manager it is showing QHSUSB_DLOAD under other devices. So for sure now this thing needs a motherboard replacement? Have you ever heard of a phone getting bricked from the restore to factory settings option? Seems a bit strange to me.
I just called my friend to double check with him that he didn't try anything custom...he had no idea what I was talking about so it's definitely all stock here. Why on earth would a factory restore cause a brick? Would I be right in saying that HTC should replace this for free...?
There is no factory restore option. Only factory reset.
Keep out plugged in over night and then tomorrow keep trying to power on with a bright light. It should turn up
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