dropped my Vivid yesterday, battery fell out. Put it back together, and started it up. It runs through the white HTC screen, Beats Audio, ATT bubbles, then runs through the ICS Android app upgrading screen.
Then it goes blank. The backlight is still working, the orange light comes on when plugged in. The screen isn't broken, took it apart and checked all of the connections, can't get the hard reset to show either, nothing.
Did try to root a while ago, but the flash didn't take, phone ran fine for 3 weeks after till i dropped it.
any suggestions?
Try running a ruu...it can be obtained from HTC...just go to their website, then support choose our phone click software update and download the ruu
When its downloaded just run it like any other windows program
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Thanks, I'll try it this afternoon, let you know if it works.
That was it, thanks a bunch. I owe you a beer
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ok my hero met an unfortunate death in lake michigan today (don't ask first phone I ever killed honest!)
anyways got a used hero off craigslist, was told it was new within the last month but guessing not at this point not a huge deal since it works fine but it looks like it was previously rooted possibly since if I go power and vol down I get the option to go into recovery, but then it goes to the phone with and exclamation point error. at this point I was thinking I would just start over its running the .6 version of 2.1 from sprint so I downloaded the .5 RUU but it hangs on the HTC screen when the phone reboots and won't install, so I'm kinda stuck at this point and not sure what's hanging me up, any ideas?
Run the RUU a second time while its stuck at the HTC screen, usb connection error 171 right?
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tried that and no luck. but after a couple hours of messing with the phone I found a post on here about someone who had the same issue. Was suggested to boot the phone with vol - up then plug in usb then run the RUU and it worked. so its up and running now thank goodness.
i currently have a htc touch pro -mighty rom(sprint) and a while ago i once screwed the Touch Screen Digitizer so i bought another one. i just bought a used hero and the screen looks like it is in excellent condition, although i cannot swipe anything on the screen (had a user name and password lock when i got it and so i wiped it) after wiping at the very end i watched as it flashed a message really fast something about screen locked. when i see windows or whatever it is i push menu twice and it appears to unlock the phone as power save mode is all that i can see otherwise so now since i can see the icons but cannot touch anything only the buttons work, my question , is the screen broken? i click the talk button and i get a "sorry , the process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly.please try again." i was going to try and install Aloysius 1.0 v2 to see if the talk would work then although it seems alot more difficult to install a custom rom then the touch pro. i tried to find a Android Rooting in 1-click (limited time only… until it gets patched) to no avail
thank for any help
Try re-running the official RUU via your PC. See this thread to download it (scroll down to post #2 for the RUU): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694572
Don't worry about following all those rooting steps in the first long post #1. Just scroll down to post #2 and download the .5 RUU file, then run it from your PC with the phone plugged into USB.
It will completely wipe the phone and revert it back to factory stock settings. If your touch screen is still broken/messed up after this, then yes there's something wrong with the screen and you should take the phone back or replace it or whatever.
take it into sprint. hell you may even luck out and get an evo or epic out of it. i hear they are trying to push those phones on customers.
sorry i did not mention that i bought it at a swap meet for $30 and the phone seemed locked and said too many password attempts and the touch never worked , so i wiped it. i noticed on the side of the screen by the voulme controls , looks like some tweeker tried to maybe bull the battery out and did not know how to open the back.lol and tried to pry in that area a kinda bent the shiny piece slightly below the - vol button and cracked that chrome plated piece that seems to be inbetween the screen and the back case. i will still try the RUU and check it out, i never did try to replace the digitizer on the touch since the walkthrough seemed too detailed. i wounder about the hero.
trying to reset using RUU although says, error 170 usb i tried to install HTC sync can cant connect with it either. i dont understand how to properly install the drivers i suppose.
any advise
Does it just have the white HTC screen. And you can use all hard buttons but nothing else???
If so its because your phone was rooted and then someone did a factory reset. It happened to mine. Its a way of them locking you out of your phone after rooting.. I ran the ruu back to 2.1 and then rerooted it.
Try this RUU..
http://www.4shared.com/file/2uQunBaV/RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_2276515_R_si.html
Also you just download the htc sync here..
http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/
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Does it just have the white HTC screen. And you can use all hard buttons but nothing else???
http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/
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no the OS seems to be functioning fine , except for everytime i push send it get the "sorry! the process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. please try again"
so i tried to power up holding on to vol + and doing the RUU as well as having the phone as normal as can be and running RUU and i get
error(170) usb connection error
rom update utility cannot connect to your phone.
i installed the file HTC_Sync_2.0.40.exe and ran RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_2.27.651.5_R_signed_release.exe when told powered the phone and clicked next and always get the 170usb error. i still am guessing that the drivers are not installed properly as when i plug in the phone i dont hear the normal usb sound made by the pc. also i never noted that i dont have the offical usb sync cable i have 2 of them , one is shape the same as the area to insert it on the hero, it is the htc touch pro cable . and the other usb cable is the basic one that works for alot of stuff that it fits into, except for motorola`s cell phones to charge them.lol
heeeeeelp
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I am having this exact problem with an HTC Hero. I started before it had ever been rooted. I have rooted, loaded custom roms, wiped everything, ran two diff RUUs, and replaced the digitizer.
If I boot the phone to the HBoot, at the top of the screen it says TOUCH PANEL-fail.
Wondering if it is hardware or software at this point. I had it working earlier today somehow after doing a full wipe, but when i reactivated the phone and started dialing a number to test it it froze up. Rebooted and it was back to the same problem.
I dropped my nexus from about 4 feet and cracked the screen. I opened up my phone, and replaced the screen myself. Turned it back on, and everything except the wireless and bluetooth worked. I also notice that the phone has been extremely buggy, constant freezes. I used it like this for about 2 weeks.
Last night, i was talking on gchat, then plugged my phone in to charge and went to sleep.
I wake up this morning to find my phone wont turn on. I remove the battery, and turn it back on. Now it is stuck on the boot screen. I can get into the bootloader, but not recovery. I tried clearing the storage, still no luck.
I have tried to remove the battery for 20 minutes, removed both the sim and sd card, none of these worked.
The phone is unlocked with CM6 installed.
Under the circumstances, I think it's more likely to be a physical problem than a software one...
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That's what I'm thinking too.....I was hoping it's not, and someone knew some trick or something.
Yeah I'd say your phone is toast only thing you can do is take it apart and see if there is any thing loose inside it connectors etc
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Damn.....most expensive and short lived phone I've ever had.
C'mon at&t.....get some good android phones!
Well a little while now my phone been reacting on it's own. Keep going haywire as if some sort of bug/virus infected the phone.
Also i notice sometimes when i connect the USB it chimes like a bird for several minutes.
I been looking up to see if anyone has the same issues and seen that some call it ghost screen and only way to get rid of it is hard mod or replacement.
But i only seem to get this issue the day i install a process manager which had 3 processes which i notice that sort of vanished from the menu. So i'm not sure if this has cause the issue with the phone.
So i went ahead and installed GoT and CyanogenMod which boot up nicely btw.
But still i get the USB Chimes going crazy once in a while and half the screen is is no responsive . I can't even unlock the phone using touch screen. Cause the sec i swipe to almost the middle of the screen it stops. But at least the random ghost touch thing is gone i think.
Anyone know my issues? Before installing i did wipe/reset/everything.
Could it be my firmware is corrupted? But doesn't that get refreshed when i install the got/mod?
I wish to get my phone re-installed to a fresh status like go back to a fresh copy of 2.1 to see is that works how do i do this?
That was how my phone acted before I lost functionality of part of my touchscreen.
To go back to stock, flash a stock sbf using rsdlite. Sbf's can be found here. Use the non service versions.
http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone#section21
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sileshn said:
That was how my phone acted before I lost functionality of part of my touchscreen.
To go back to stock, flash a stock sbf using rsdlite. Sbf's can be found here. Use the non service versions.
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Ok will try it out as soon as i get home from work.. Will update on post.
Ok i did it but still half the touchscreen is un-responsive same side as before but while playing around with the button it seems to lagg a bit also like sometimes it won't let me dial
What the hell is wrong with this phone
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Ok i did it but still half the touchscreen is un-responsive same side as before but while playing around with the button it seems to lagg a bit also like sometimes it won't let me dial
What the hell is wrong with this phone
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Exactly my problem. Is it the left side right up to the top? I cannot use the back button nor any icons on that column.
It is a hardware problem.
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Sounds like you need to replace the digitizer?
I had my touch screen going crazy. Couldn't use my phone at all no matter what rom. Flashing it back to stock didn't work either. I put it in the oven as per other thread and it's been working over a month now.
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Dunno if this is relevant, but had same issue when i was using cheap but extra small chinese charger
It is relevant, because if I use wall sockets without grounding (@countryside, par example) it goes nuts while charging. Same sh*t happens when connected to USB, no matter if the PC/laptop is plugged in a grounded wall socket.
I'm going through the same problem. There is like a line in the screen where nothing works, it's around the 5th home screen page (I can't select it). Since I have this phone for almost two months, I'll try checking with authorized support.
My phones battery died over the weekend, I got it charged back up, the phone was acting real sluggish so I restarted it, came back a few hours later and noticed it was still on the white HTC screen, I watched it for a few minutes and noticed it would sit on this screen for about a minute, then go dark, then back to the HTC screen and we go round and round.
I tried hboot, all the options do this. Fastboot, recovery even factory restore all trigger this infinite loop...
What has happened? How can I fix this?
Note that it was a stock phone, no mods, no custom ROMs or anything else. It was OTA updated to ICS about a week ago, and has been fine since then.
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My phones battery died over the weekend, I got it charged back up, the phone was acting real sluggish so I restarted it, came back a few hours later and noticed it was still on the white HTC screen, I watched it for a few minutes and noticed it would sit on this screen for about a minute, then go dark, then back to the HTC screen and we go round and round.
I tried hboot, all the options do this. Fastboot, recovery even factory restore all trigger this infinite loop...
What has happened? How can I fix this?
Note that it was a stock phone, no mods, no custom ROMs or anything else. It was OTA updated to ICS about a week ago, and has been fine since then.
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So can you get to the bootloader and send fastboot commands?
Sorry I am not a modder or anything like that, do you mean select the "fastboot" option?
I tried running fastboot reboot from my PC while it was plugged in and my phone was in the hboot area, and it just says "waiting for device" and never does anything.
If I select "fastboot" from the hboot menu the phone restarts, a bar goes up the side of the HTC screen then about 30 or so seconds later it goes black and repeats process.
Ah, yes I can. I figured it out, plug into USB, select fastboot, then it goes to USB. I was able to reboot the phone.
EDIT: Tried running the update from HTC's website, took it about 5 - 10 minutes or so. It completed without issues, however the phone is still doing this infinite rebooting cycle...
You mean the RUU? And for ICS? That is supposed to be the ultimate method to unbrick and return to stock. Sounds like the OTA messed something up. When you say go dark you mean the screen goes of then it comes back to the HTC screen? This is probably obvious but have you tried a battery pull? Taking out aim card anything is worth a shot.
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Yes the RUU update from HTC's website. The phone started this morning without issues. Then after a restart it starts the whole cycle over again.