[Q] Phone won't start, but buttons vibrate - HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity

Now I experiencing a major problem
the phone battery died on me earlier tonight, I tried one time to see if i could of get it on but no juice
Now I get home it's not coming on at all
I have it plugged in one time was able to get to the boot loader screen bow nothing
and when i touch the buttons in front I feel the phone vibrating but nothing comes on not even the charging light
what do you think is the problem?
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You are using clockworkmod...
Switch to twrp
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rignfool said:
You are using clockworkmod...
Switch to twrp
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How do I do that if I can't get it on?
Or will I be able to still accedd the bootloader if I plug it up to the PC to flash it?
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positiveg said:
How do I do that if I can't get it on?
Or will I be able to still accedd the bootloader if I plug it up to the PC to flash it?
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Nope - you'll need to charge it externally, then you need to get new recovery. CWM doesn't support off mode charging, so if your battery dies, you have to charge it out of the phone. Go to ATT store and ask them if they can charge it for you for a while

Just a question what is off mode charging?
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Ok guys I think I got it.
What I did was
Take out the battery
Put the batter back in
Plug in the charger
When the light come on hold down Vol down and power button
When phone boots to bootlader choose recovery
you will get white HTC creen, leave phone plugged in for a while 30 mins or so
then while leaving charger plugged in attempt to power phone pn
phone should boot regularly
Finally.... don't let phone battery run down or get external charger or change to twrp as one person suggested.
I'm just glad that I was able to get my phone booted, as I live outside the US can't go to an ATT store and HTC phones aren't the most popular here.
I'm wondering if I should order a battery from Amazon just in case :silly:

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Dead Battery issue (minor freak out)

I just wanted to recap my experience for the benefit of others. I am running the latest rum runner ROM with CWM 5.0.x.x. I have not updated my CWM yet because I do not have an external sd card right now, and don't want to upgrade until I do, since 5.5.x.x mounts external sd, not internal.
So yesterday I let my phone completely die before I got home for the night. I plugged it in, and it booted straight into recovery as soon as I booted. If I chose reboot option in recovery, it would just reboot back into recovery again. If I unplugged my phone and chose reboot option, it would just shut the phone off. Plug charger back in, and phone would turn itself on and back into recovery. After letting it sit on the charger in recovery (which does not show a charging light btw) for about 30 minutes, it was still doing the same thing. After about another 30 minutes on the charger, I tried it one more time before I was going to start thinking of other options. I guess it built up enough of a charge to boot without being plugged in, and since it was not plugged in, it booted normally.
I just wanted to share my experience in case this happens to anyone else. Just leave the phone on the charger sitting in recovery mode. Even though there is not light on, the phone is still charging.
I'm glad someone posted this. The very samething happened to me and I was freaking out too. I knew the phone wasn't bricked bc it would always boot back into recovery but it just wouldn't boot into the rom. I too left on the charger for about an hour until it finally booted back up. I'm not running a custom rom but I am rooted.
That is an issue with the 5.5 rec. It's causing devices which are off and plugged in to boot to rec.
Just let it charge for a few minutes to make sure it has some juice, then pull the battery and unplug it. Then turn it on, wait ten seconds to get past the initial bootup, and then plug back in. Also I think you can avoid it all by using fastboot in settings/power.
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I guess it is an issue in the 5.0 recovery too. I guess the best thing to do is to just shut your phone off once it hits a couple of percent
I am also using CWM 5.0. I haven't upgraded to 5.5 yet.
I upgraded using ROM manger and let my phones battery die and now it will not charge. So now that my battery will not charge my phone will not turn back on. I have tried every thing I can think of and nothing is working. Anyone have any ideas?
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Neodous said:
I upgraded using ROM manger and let my phones battery die and now it will not charge. So now that my battery will not charge my phone will not turn back on. I have tried every thing I can think of and nothing is working. Anyone have any ideas?
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Did you read what the OP had posted??
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I did read that but I was not getting into recovery. But now I did get the phone to boot into hboot. Tired to flash the old cwr but it tells me that the battery is to low and it fails. So do you know if the phone will charge in hboot?
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I seem to have fixed the issue by using adb and booting into hboot and letting the phone charge enough to turn it on. After which I reflashed the 1st CWR that I had on the phone and now everything seem to be just fine.

[Q] Can't Boot Phone

So I've been running HoliRaider v1 and it's been working beautifully however last night my phone died, and when it dies it boots into recovery. This is usually fine however the phone will not charge in recovery but instantly boots into it if i plug it in. Basically, it's stuck there because it only charges (as shown by the orange light indicator) for a second before entering recovery. Then, it just stays there. I'm not sure if I should even restore at this point, as that wouldn't exactly work with 0 battery. If anyone has any idea what to do please let me know.
Looks like you either need to charge the battery using a stock phone from either a friend or go to the att store and see if they will let you charge your battery on their floor unit for a few
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at this point getting the battery charged is priority. this is probably your best bet without having to buy some kind of charger or new battery
ccb101 said:
Looks like you either need to charge the battery using a stock phone from either a friend or go to the att store and see if they will let you charge your battery on their floor unit for a few
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I had this happen when I first got the phone. Should you eventually get it to boot (I did after taking out the battery, putting it back in, and then trying to turn it on while plugging it in, it took many attempts), let it charge to 100%, then flash thecubed's ClockworkMod which supports chargemode when powered off. You should be fine after that.
you can flash the recovery in fastboot if the phone stays on long enough.
formicae said:
I had this happen when I first got the phone. Should you eventually get it to boot (I did after taking out the battery, putting it back in, and then trying to turn it on while plugging it in, it took many attempts), let it charge to 100%, then flash thecubed's ClockworkMod which supports chargemode when powered off. You should be fine after that.
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rft3ch said:
you can flash the recovery in fastboot if the phone stays on long enough.
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Personally I wouldn't flash anything with a battery that may conk-out mid-write.

Run vivid with no battery?

Is this possible? I can get it to boot into hboot, then remove the batt. With charger plugged in and it still functions. When I try to boot from recovery from hboot, it switches to HTC screen then shuts off. Can't be a hardware issue since it boots to hboot with no batt. Would be cool feature if I could boot with no batt.
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XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Is this possible? I can get it to boot into hboot, then remove the batt. With charger plugged in and it still functions. When I try to boot from recovery from hboot, it switches to HTC screen then shuts off. Can't be a hardware issue since it boots to hboot with no batt. Would be cool feature if I could boot with no batt.
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Going into the bootloader doesnt require that much power... Hence why it works with no battery. but once you start going into recovery it starts loading more and more stuff requiring more battery and having no battery and only being pluged in isnt enough juice for it
There is a hack I did with my droid 2 where you get a usb cord and put the wires on the terminals of the phone to give it power and it will boot up I forget what it was but I think I bricked it with no battery power and had to do that to boot to bootloader and flash the file to return it to stock I would Google that and try it out
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I'm gonna use this phone as a media server when I get my new one. Didn't want to leave in the battery plugged in all the time. I check it out. And the battery provides the less than the charger. If you use a phone while charging, it charges. Which means charger is outputing more than batt.
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[Q] HTC Vivid won't charge or turn on

As the title says, my HTC Vivid won't turn on, charge or anything. The orange light that says it's charging doesn't turn on, buttons don't vibrate or anything. It shouldn't be bricked because I haven't done anything to brick it. I was using Xbox Smartglass on it, I locked the phone and went back to my game, about 15 minutes later I tried to unlock it and it did nothing. The battery shouldn't have been dead because I charged it the night before. Any suggestions or help please?
Switch to twrp from CWM...
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Switch to twrp from CWM...
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I haven't done any modding to it, and I have no clue what twrp and CWM are, sorry. I'm new here.
Got a friend with a vivid?
Try their battery...
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Got a friend with a vivid?
Try their battery...
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LOL The reason I got a Vivid is because he gave it to me. Sadly, I was hoping there would be a technical solution instead of trying a new battery. I've got one ordered though. :/
Some have bad batteries.
Mine started doing the same thing. For a while I thought the battery life on Vivid was horrible compared to the Aria I had at the time. Then it progressed and one day finally quit completely and would not take a charge from any charger I had. So, being a techhead I decided to probe the battery with a multimeter and it showed very little voltage, so low I guess the charger wouldn't even recognize or try to charge it.
So what I did was take a battery charger I had for a walkie talkie radio and touched the leads to the battery for 3-5 seconds or so, put battery back in phone and it would then charge. I did this a few times until I could get to ATT store and the guy ordered a new one through warranty. Haven't had a problem with the Vivid since.
Same Problem
Last night I pulled my battery at 21% after shutting the phone off to clear the memory. I put the battery back in and put it on the charger, I tried to turn the phone on and nothing. It is not showing that it is charging. I have four batteries for this phone and none of them will turn on the phone. I am at a loss here. The phone was working fine until i shut it down and removed the battery. Any ideas on what is causing this or any way to force it to turn on.
krekol said:
Last night I pulled my battery at 21% after shutting the phone off to clear the memory. I put the battery back in and put it on the charger, I tried to turn the phone on and nothing. It is not showing that it is charging. I have four batteries for this phone and none of them will turn on the phone. I am at a loss here. The phone was working fine until i shut it down and removed the battery. Any ideas on what is causing this or any way to force it to turn on.
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That sounds like a royal pain.
Could it be the changer or its USB cable? Work some contact cleaner into the power button?
I'm having this same issue. I'm not sure if it's the battery, since the phone boots to bootloader just fine. But the battery won't charge when the phone is off (red light comes on for a second, then quits) and I can't get past the HTC screen booting to ROM or recovery. Where is a good place to buy a battery?
Even if the power button was bad the phone should still charge a battery. I have a charger that will charge the batteries without the phone so I know the batteries are charged. I have several different chargers and none of them will show the phone charging. I even tried connecting it to my computer. The phone is dead, I guess I am going to have to crack it open and see if anything has come loose inside. I really like this phone and am going to hate loosing it. I paid a lot for this phone. That shinny penny I paid to get this phone was my favorite.
Have you tried plugging the phone USB into a desktop and using that to try rebooting the phone into bootloader or recovery?
Hasoon2000's Vivid All-In-One Toolkit in the dev section can do that pretty simply. i used an earlier version of that to unlock the phone a year and a half ago.
i don't remember if the phone has to have debugging turned on for the desktop to feed it commands.
Even if this works i dunno whatall it'll prove.
i like this phone too a lot, and am sorry yours seem to be having hardware problems.
stuffed_tiger said:
I'm having this same issue. I'm not sure if it's the battery, since the phone boots to bootloader just fine. But the battery won't charge when the phone is off (red light comes on for a second, then quits) and I can't get past the HTC screen booting to ROM or recovery. Where is a good place to buy a battery?
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That sounds like you lost your boot image... try flashing a new one that you know works... and if it won't charge with power off... sounds like you have CWM installed... switch to twrp...
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lowfatmilk said:
Have you tried plugging the phone USB into a desktop and using that to try rebooting the phone into bootloader or recovery?
Hasoon2000's Vivid All-In-One Toolkit in the dev section can do that pretty simply. i used an earlier version of that to unlock the phone a year and a half ago.
i don't remember if the phone has to have debugging turned on for the desktop to feed it commands.
Even if this works i dunno whatall it'll prove.
i like this phone too a lot, and am sorry yours seem to be having hardware problems.
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The phone does not turn on at all so getting to the bootloader is impossible. It does nothing. Does not even charge a battery. .
krekol said:
The phone does not turn on at all so getting to the bootloader is impossible. It does nothing. Does not even charge a battery. .
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That's the definition of a bricked phone, was what i meant. No screen, no led, no button function, no sign of life, and from no explicable cause.
Android phones don't have real on-off switches that directly disconnects the phone from power. Its failure to manifest signs of life doesn't absolutely indicate irreversible hardware failure. There's a bit of a chance it's firmware.
Aside from the power button, Android phones can be controlled thru the USB port.
I took your advise and plugged the phone into the computer and left it over night. This morning I rebooted the computer and the phone screen lit up. I got all excited and tried to use adb to reboot into bootloader, Of course the phone was not found. I took the phone off the cord and the screen shut off. I pushed the power button and the screen lit up. Let go of the power button and the screen goes off. I tried another usb cord and now the screen no longer lites up. Maybe there is hope for this phone.
If the screen lights up like that... there is power to it...
Sounds like you have dirt in your power button... or the button isn't making contact...
Time to disassemble and check the power button...
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This morning I rebooted the computer and the phone screen lit up. I got all excited and tried to use adb to reboot into bootloader, Of course the phone was not found. I took the phone off the cord and the screen shut off. I pushed the power button and the screen lit up. Let go of the power button and the screen goes off. I tried another usb cord and now the screen no longer lites up. Maybe there is hope for this phone.
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Yeah, that part where the phone was seen by the desktop, and then not, can have something to do with the Windows drivers. Most of the folks on these forums know what's with this stuff better than me; i usually have to tell windows to stop the hardware, disconnect and reconnect the phone USB and start the connection up again, every time before i do one set of commands, like put the phone into bootloader and download a kernel image into it.
There's a Vivid unbricking project over in the dev subforum, you must've seen that. Whether or not you get your phone working again, i hope it'll be a productive journey for you.
i was perfectly happy just messing with apps until i bricked my tablet; that got me into all this device unlocking and rom burning and fun stuff. It's too bad the Vivid isn't simpler to hack.
my phone cant boot to desktop after i flash the kanel
my phone cant boot to desktop after i flash the kanel please can you help me
9 times out of 10, if the phone will not turn on at all it is the battery. For some reason, the Vivid will occasionally stop seeing the battery. I have fixed this on mine when that happened by using an external charger. That worked because my battery was actually OK, the Vivid just wouldn't charge it or even see it. Once it was charged it was fine. If your battery really is dead (sounds like it might be the case), get a new battery. There is a 2000 mHr battery on Amazon that is not too much worse than the original (when new).
I had the same issue once, it turns out that I fixed it using a external charger

rooted my device and now my phone wont power up?

I had over 80 percent in battery and now my phone wont charge or turn on or even be in fastboot mode... please help
miguel11691 said:
I had over 80 percent in battery and now my phone wont charge or turn on or even be in fastboot mode... please help
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Did you get this to work?
Based on your post count, this is probably a stupid question but:
You tried charging in an outlet (not through computer), right? Any under-the-hood work makes my Bionic run hot and burn through the battery.
More technical: I read somewhere that someone upgraded to windows 8 and fastboot stopped working. Windows 7 fixed the problem (if you're saying that fastboot is the problem, not Vol - & power button recovery mode).
Were you in the process of rooting?
LJ6782 said:
Did you get this to work?
Based on your post count, this is probably a stupid question but:
You tried charging in an outlet (not through computer), right? Any under-the-hood work makes my Bionic run hot and burn through the battery.
More technical: I read somewhere that someone upgraded to windows 8 and fastboot stopped working. Windows 7 fixed the problem (if you're saying that fastboot is the problem, not Vol - & power button recovery mode).
Were you in the process of rooting?
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I am kind of having the same problem. I recenty got a droid bionic where I had to replace the LCD screen and battery since when I got it it did not have a battery with it. I got an NON-OEM extended battery and every thing was working fine for three days. In that time I was able to upgrade everyting to the latest software, fireware, and Android version (4.1.2 JB) but after those three days the phoe woould not power on. When I plugged it into my computer and tried, the white power light would just blink at me. when I unplugged it from the computer and tried it would not even come on. I thought it was the battery so I sent it back and got an OEM extended batter and a OEM dock/charger. When I got everything I plugged it all in and the screen came on with the Motorola M logo and then showed me a picture of the battery at 5%, so I let it charger over night. In the morning I pressed the power button while still plugged into the charger, the phone light up saying the battery was at 100%. So I took it off the charger and tried to power up. Nothing happened. I plugged it into my computer and the white power light came on and stayed solid but still no power-up. I just tries the Volume Up/Down power while plugged into the wall charger and I can get to the recovery screen and try the normal boot up, I get the Motorola M Logo screen, I just now tried recovery and the little Droid just showed up with its stomach with a red triangle and an ! in it and is just sittin there. and now it when back to the Motorola M Logo screen then the battery screen. Does this mean mine is bricked as well? Please some one help.
Bumping because of no help yet. I can access the recovery screen but does not seem to help any, it also has to be plugged into the wall charger for this to happen but I can not power it up whether it is plugged in or not. Please Help someone so I can get this figures out.
Alright strange thing to try, plug it into your computer, while plugged in take it the battery, give it a minute and put it back in while still plugged in.
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Did as you suggest but when I took out the battery. the white light stayed on. Still could do nothing. Waited 2 minutes, put the battery back in and still nothing. All I get is the white light staying on. I unplug from the computer, the light turns off and still nothing, not even the recovery screen will boot up.
Can you get to the fast boot option by holding both volume buttons and power
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B.E.McAllister said:
Can you get to the fast boot option by holding both volume buttons and power
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As long as I keep it plugged into the wall charger I can. When I go there it says "Battery Low Cannot Program Connect USB Data Cable. But as soon as I unplug the wall charger it shuts off and I can not get back to fast boot. When I plug it into the USB cable and plug into the computer, I can not get to fast boot. I just check and it says my battery is at 100%. but when I first plug it in it says 5%.
Your gonna need to charge your battery with either an external charger or the usb charging hack before you can perform an fxz on it
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