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I don't really know what happened. When I press the power button my phone's screen lights just black then goes blank. When I press my buttons they vibrate but nothing happens. I've tried pulling the battery out several times, leaving it on the charge and all other kinds of things. It is just not working. Does anyone have the solution to this problem?
I'm not sure if this is the same issue..but along the process of rooting my rogers raider I encountered thus during a regular restart. I thought I bricked my phone but realize that the back light was just off and my phone was actually in the recovery menu. I put the phone under bright light and I could just barely see the headings in the recovery menu. It took some tilting and angling the phone just right to see it, but I was able to run a nandroid recovery and get back to a point before this happened. Once again, not sure if its the same thing but try tilting the phone around and using the volume keys to see if you can see the recovery menu in the blank screen.
Hope this helps
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Phazd said:
I don't really know what happened. When I press the power button my phone's screen lights just black then goes blank. When I press my buttons they vibrate but nothing happens. I've tried pulling the battery out several times, leaving it on the charge and all other kinds of things. It is just not working. Does anyone have the solution to this problem?
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richieroo said:
I'm not sure if this is the same issue..but along the process of rooting my rogers raider I encountered thus during a regular restart. I thought I bricked my phone but realize that the back light was just off and my phone was actually in the recovery menu. I put the phone under bright light and I could just barely see the headings in the recovery menu. It took some tilting and angling the phone just right to see it, but I was able to run a nandroid recovery and get back to a point before this happened. Once again, not sure if its the same thing but try tilting the phone around and using the volume keys to see if you can see the recovery menu in the blank screen.
Hope this helps
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
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This doesn't seem to be the situation I'm having but thank you anyway. +Thanks.
when you plug it in to charge, does the orange charge light come on for 4-5 seconds then go out again? have you tried to hold the vol down key and the power button to get into HBoot? If you can get into HBoot, you might be able to get into recovery.
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when you plug it in to charge, does the orange charge light come on for 4-5 seconds then go out again? have you tried to hold the vol down key and the power button to get into HBoot? If you can get into HBoot, you might be able to get into recovery.
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Yes, that is exactly what is happening. I tried what you said but it is not working. My phone won't go into Hboot.
I think your battery isn't charging (at least that was the issue I was having). Your battery will only charge when the orange light goes on, and if it's anything like what was happening to me, when the orange light went off, that's when the buttons would vibrate. If this is the case, it may sound tedious, but you have to watch the phone. When the orange light goes off, push the home button several times and the vibrating will stop. Then you should see the orange light come on again to signify the charging state. It'll go off again after 4-5 seconds and the buttons will vibrate. Repeat the process of pushing the home button and letting the orange light come on and eventually, the phone should try and turn on. You can try and see if it'll boot, but mine never had enough juice to turn on. So I would pull the battery when the HTC Logo came up and repeat the process with the orange light. This time though, I would hold the vol down button knowing that when it tried to turn on again, it would load into the bootloader. I can't guarantee this'll work for you, but give it a go. What might make it easier is borrow a charged battery from someone and see if it'll load into the bootloader. That might save you from that tedious process.
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I think your battery isn't charging (at least that was the issue I was having). Your battery will only charge when the orange light goes on, and if it's anything like what was happening to me, when the orange light went off, that's when the buttons would vibrate. If this is the case, it may sound tedious, but you have to watch the phone. When the orange light goes off, push the home button several times and the vibrating will stop. Then you should see the orange light come on again to signify the charging state. It'll go off again after 4-5 seconds and the buttons will vibrate. Repeat the process of pushing the home button and letting the orange light come on and eventually, the phone should try and turn on. You can try and see if it'll boot, but mine never had enough juice to turn on. So I would pull the battery when the HTC Logo came up and repeat the process with the orange light. This time though, I would hold the vol down button knowing that when it tried to turn on again, it would load into the bootloader. I can't guarantee this'll work for you, but give it a go. What might make it easier is borrow a charged battery from someone and see if it'll load into the bootloader. That might save you from that tedious process.
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Thank you, this method you gave me fixed my issue. +Thanks.
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I think your battery isn't charging (at least that was the issue I was having). Your battery will only charge when the orange light goes on, and if it's anything like what was happening to me, when the orange light went off, that's when the buttons would vibrate. If this is the case, it may sound tedious, but you have to watch the phone. When the orange light goes off, push the home button several times and the vibrating will stop. Then you should see the orange light come on again to signify the charging state. It'll go off again after 4-5 seconds and the buttons will vibrate. Repeat the process of pushing the home button and letting the orange light come on and eventually, the phone should try and turn on. You can try and see if it'll boot, but mine never had enough juice to turn on. So I would pull the battery when the HTC Logo came up and repeat the process with the orange light. This time though, I would hold the vol down button knowing that when it tried to turn on again, it would load into the bootloader. I can't guarantee this'll work for you, but give it a go. What might make it easier is borrow a charged battery from someone and see if it'll load into the bootloader. That might save you from that tedious process.
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I tried your method.. And when you said to tap the home button several times... It never stops vibrating.. It just keeps going.
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I think your battery isn't charging (at least that was the issue I was having). Your battery will only charge when the orange light goes on, and if it's anything like what was happening to me, when the orange light went off, that's when the buttons would vibrate. If this is the case, it may sound tedious, but you have to watch the phone. When the orange light goes off, push the home button several times and the vibrating will stop. Then you should see the orange light come on again to signify the charging state. It'll go off again after 4-5 seconds and the buttons will vibrate. Repeat the process of pushing the home button and letting the orange light come on and eventually, the phone should try and turn on. You can try and see if it'll boot, but mine never had enough juice to turn on. So I would pull the battery when the HTC Logo came up and repeat the process with the orange light. This time though, I would hold the vol down button knowing that when it tried to turn on again, it would load into the bootloader. I can't guarantee this'll work for you, but give it a go. What might make it easier is borrow a charged battery from someone and see if it'll load into the bootloader. That might save you from that tedious process.
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OK I get what you have to do now.... but it wont work... I plugged in my charger.. The light would go for 5 sec. then I would touch the buttons and they vibrate.. So I tap the home button constantly. And the orange light didnt come back up.. HELP! PLEASE!
help the charging light doesn't come back again.. vibration has stopped.. but still no charging light
help pleaseeee
Try different battery fully charged and see if your phone turns on. It it does then plug your phone for charging and see if charges.
Try connecting your phone with usb cable in computer and see if your computer recognize the phone.
there can be three issues.
1. Your battery is dead and won't charge
2. Your charging port on phone is not working
3. your phone backlight is not working.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1717766
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479060
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531208
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694017
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769616
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652689
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732268
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1754534
EDIT: I have stopped looking for these threads. The more I look, the more I find. If the above threads don't convince you that there is a serious issue with the vivid, then adding more of the same problem will no longer help.
I have added this thread to a growing list of similar threads. Please read the other threads and see if your issues seem familiar.
From what I understand... Don't let your battery run out on this phone. Some Vivids kill batteries.
Solution? None yet.
1. Buy a new battery once a couple of months-ish, until someone figures out why some Vivids are eating batteries. YMMV
*OR*
2. You might invest in a external charger and see if that can bring the "Vivid munched" battery back to life. YMMV
I vote to thread merge the above threads if this proves to be the issue.
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I hope to get an answer here to avoid a new thread. I was trying to return my vivid back to gb from ics. I had booted into the bootloader and i dont even remember at this point what i thought i was going to do. I think i got distracted. But anyway i pressed vol down to boot recovery because i was going to do a backup and i looked away from the phone for a minute and when i came back to it the phone was black screen. i hit the power thinking it was just on standby but nothing. I notice it was backlit on the screen but nothing would happen when i press anything. I pulled the battery waited a few min put it back and now totally black with no activity at all. no lights no vibrating no power on, no adb. I have played with a lot of phones and even iphones too so if this thing is fried i guess i will consider myself lucky that its the first ive actually killed out of probably 30 phones. I have searched and tried many things but i cant believe there is no way to recover it. I have recovered a lot of phones I thought I bricked before. any help is greatly appreciated. I was on ics and rooted. I also relocked the bootloader. (i was planning to go back to gb) I thought i had a recovery installed but maybe not. i posted in another thread that i was unable to get hboot by power + vol down method. i could only do it through the tool kit. so i dont know if any of that matters
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I hope to get an answer here to avoid a new thread. I was trying to return my vivid back to gb from ics. I had booted into the bootloader and i dont even remember at this point what i thought i was going to do. I think i got distracted. But anyway i pressed vol down to boot recovery because i was going to do a backup and i looked away from the phone for a minute and when i came back to it the phone was black screen. i hit the power thinking it was just on standby but nothing. I notice it was backlit on the screen but nothing would happen when i press anything. I pulled the battery waited a few min put it back and now totally black with no activity at all. no lights no vibrating no power on, no adb. I have played with a lot of phones and even iphones too so if this thing is fried i guess i will consider myself lucky that its the first ive actually killed out of probably 30 phones. I have searched and tried many things but i cant believe there is no way to recover it. I have recovered a lot of phones I thought I bricked before. any help is greatly appreciated. I was on ics and rooted. I also relocked the bootloader. (i was planning to go back to gb) I thought i had a recovery installed but maybe not. i posted in another thread that i was unable to get hboot by power + vol down method. i could only do it through the tool kit. so i dont know if any of that matters
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I hope someone resolves this issue, I've messed with lots of phones. But this is really weird. But I got the same problem where all that happens is that there is backlight on but no boot IMG no HTC logo, no bootloader, recovery. Completly non responsive. At first it wouldn't even power on until I would unplug from a power source. Whether it was unpluging the charger or removing the battery. That's when the backlight would flash. All this happened in the process of flashing a PH39IMG.zip
Is there no other fixes for this? Anyone? Please
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Is there no other fixes for this? Anyone? Please
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I once got stuck on the HTC screen (White background) and found out I could access the device in adb.
So, connect your phone to your pc and check if you can access it from adb (adb devices). If you can try get to the bootloader from here and see what happens (adb reboot-bootloader)!
And if you can access bootloader,
>If you need to get back to stock, get your carrier RUU, put rom.zip from it in an external sdcard and use reboot into hboot again, OR
>if you need a custom ROM unlock bootloader, flash a custom recovery (TWRP is cool) and you may use TWRP to install your ROM
I hope this helps... lets know...
I did mention I cant get it to recognize the phone. So no adb I tried all that before posting. Im afraid im just dead
So I am having the same problem. I eventually got it on yesterday but I turned off my phone and I am back to square one. Would using the vivid toolkit work to reboot to hboot? or am I stuck like this until i replace battery?
4 hours later I am back on!! never turning this thing off again
Had the same problem and just left the at&t store and its the battery. Once he exchanged batteries it worked fine
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Just bricked my phone. Non-responsive except for capacitative home and back flashing, no charge light nothing.
Option 1) Hold Volume Up & Down, then hold power for 90 seconds. Should vibrate/flash/respond somehow. Sometimes takes some time and a few tries with long waits in between.
Option 2) Hold phone up to bright light (headlight or lamp bulb) and hold power for 15 seconds. Orange charge light will illuminate. Play with power & volume buttons till it boots.
Option 3) If plugged in on USB because you were working in Fastboot, (optional: wait 30 seconds to ensure whatever is going is complete so you don't ACTUALLY brick it), then unplug USB: reboots.
Option 2 resurrected my phone right before I was about to give up. Hope this helps some of you!
Option 3 resurrected my phone the next time.
Did not expect Option 2 to work, but it was the only one working in the end (accidentally flashed a Sprint zip).
Thanks!
Amazing trick
Thanks a million times!
Incredibly for me, the light-bulb-and-play-with-buttons trick worked for me straight away.
Just incredible!
(I might be too noob, but what's the hidden logic for it?)
Thanks again !!
Thanks a million mate, it worked like a charm. God Bless you !!
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Just bricked my phone. Non-responsive except for capacitative home and back flashing, no charge light nothing.
Option 1) Hold Volume Up & Down, then hold power for 90 seconds. Should vibrate/flash/respond somehow. Sometimes takes some time and a few tries with long waits in between.
Option 2) Hold phone up to bright light (headlight or lamp bulb) and hold power for 15 seconds. Orange charge light will illuminate. Play with power & volume buttons till it boots.
Option 3) If plugged in on USB because you were working in Fastboot, (optional: wait 30 seconds to ensure whatever is going is complete so you don't ACTUALLY brick it), then unplug USB: reboots.
Option 2 resurrected my phone right before I was about to give up. Hope this helps some of you!
Option 3 resurrected my phone the next time.
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These are only soft bricks
Bricks!
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These are only soft bricks
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Yep. A real hard brick is a brick. Make a "I dragged my phone behind my car and this is how little it got beat up in my Otterbox" video.
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Incredibly for me, the light-bulb-and-play-with-buttons trick worked for me straight away. what's the hidden logic for it?
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It apparently has something to do with resetting input awareness. Either there's a photodiode that picks up on light levels, or the IR diode detects the heat from the bulb. Thus, when the phone's diode is fully activated, it apparently activates that reset. I haven't heard from anyone, but I strongly suspect if the battery were completely drained somehow, then it might allow you to charge it and turn it back on regularly. Otherwise, the option 2 bypass should still work even on a dead battery refusing to charge till it resets, since it may current from light/heat. I'm also curious to find if anyone can tell if the handset is actually still accepting a charge despite the lack of LED activity while its in the soft-bricked state, or if the charging circuitry refuses to allow current to pass to the battery. HTC? HTC?
Thumbs ups appreciated!
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Yep. A real hard brick is a brick. Make a "I dragged my phone behind my car and this is how little it got beat up in my Otterbox" video.
See you all at XDA: DevCon
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A real brick is when hboot is not accessible no matter what you do, and there is no sign of life.
Don't get sarcastic
Matt said:
A real brick is when hboot is not accessible no matter what you do, and there is no sign of life.
Don't get sarcastic
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I've tried the two steps from above and my phone still just flashes the Back and Home lights when I hold down power.
I was running a cyanogen nightly (from maybe 3 weeks ago) when the phone shut off randomly (not dead battery) and wouldn't turn back on.
When plugged in via usb the device shows up in the eject devices system tray but "fastboot devices" lists no devices. I have the phone plugged into a rear usb2.0 port.
Starting to get nervous...not sure what my options are.
EDIT: Holy smokes option two worked after a third try. That's so wild. Thank you!
XeoNiCaLiTy said:
Did not expect Option 2 to work, but it was the only one working in the end (accidentally flashed a Sprint zip).
Thanks!
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WOW after an hour of trying to fix the issue option number 2 worked for me lol i can't believe it. sounds so ridiculous
None of the options worked for me... Please help!
My HTC One shutdown and now I can't turn it back up.
Hardware is in flawless condition.
I tried all combinations and options and still my phone is dead.
I know it's not the hardware problem. Checked voltage regulator, phone is charging, voltage and amps are ok. Logic board is in excellent condition, checked with microscope and multimeter.
Was used regularly and one day just turned off by itself.
Also I haven't messed around software because I don't have need for that kind of work.
Again please help me, I'm pretty desperate.
dude!
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Just bricked my phone. Non-responsive except for capacitative home and back flashing, no charge light nothing.
Option 1) Hold Volume Up & Down, then hold power for 90 seconds. Should vibrate/flash/respond somehow. Sometimes takes some time and a few tries with long waits in between.
Option 2) Hold phone up to bright light (headlight or lamp bulb) and hold power for 15 seconds. Orange charge light will illuminate. Play with power & volume buttons till it boots.
Option 3) If plugged in on USB because you were working in Fastboot, (optional: wait 30 seconds to ensure whatever is going is complete so you don't ACTUALLY brick it), then unplug USB: reboots.
Option 2 resurrected my phone right before I was about to give up. Hope this helps some of you!
Option 3 resurrected my phone the next time.
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Option 2 did the trick for me!you'r a life saver mate!kudos
My is stuck in a reboot loop. It was running GPE which cause the sim unlock code not to stick. One person told me that I need to go back to stock so I tried to flash the stock RUU and now stuck in reboot loop.
Neither method work for me! I can get into fastboot screen but can't flash anything. Having a hard time trying to install adb driver though
HOLY BEJEEZUS!! I just tried your option 2! I thought i just bricked this thing, and i need to return it for the warranty exchange in a few days. Holy cow thank you!!!! I had the capacitive lights blinking and the red charging light on. Coudln't run commands. Held it up to a CFL bulb, played with the power and volume buttons and BAM!! Booted back up. Thanks tons!! Phew!!!
Now to get rid of the frigging tampered stamp in fastboot. Can't get rid of it for the life of me. Tried using just Revone, Tried the All in One toolkit. Nothing. Thanks again.
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HOLY BEJEEZUS!! I just tried your option 2! I thought i just bricked this thing, and i need to return it for the warranty exchange in a few days. Holy cow thank you!!!! I had the capacitive lights blinking and the red charging light on. Coudln't run commands. Held it up to a CFL bulb, played with the power and volume buttons and BAM!! Booted back up. Thanks tons!! Phew!!!
Now to get rid of the frigging tampered stamp in fastboot. Can't get rid of it for the life of me. Tried using just Revone, Tried the All in One toolkit. Nothing. Thanks again.
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Are you S-Off? if yes, you can either use adb commands (if your comfy with that): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477792
or just use this tool: http://www.htc1guru.com/guides/guru-bootloader-reset/
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Just bricked my phone. Non-responsive except for capacitative home and back flashing, no charge light nothing.
Option 1) Hold Volume Up & Down, then hold power for 90 seconds. Should vibrate/flash/respond somehow. Sometimes takes some time and a few tries with long waits in between.
Option 2) Hold phone up to bright light (headlight or lamp bulb) and hold power for 15 seconds. Orange charge light will illuminate. Play with power & volume buttons till it boots.
Option 3) If plugged in on USB because you were working in Fastboot, (optional: wait 30 seconds to ensure whatever is going is complete so you don't ACTUALLY brick it), then unplug USB: reboots.
Option 2 resurrected my phone right before I was about to give up. Hope this helps some of you!
Option 3 resurrected my phone the next time.
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Unfortunately, neither of these options worked for me. My phone is completely unresponsive with no charge light, no reaction to light, no USB recognition, no hard reset functionality, inability to access bootloader or anything for that matter.
I am uncertain as to what the problem is, but the phone had <40% charge when it failed. Are there any other alternatives?
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THANK YOU!!!!
Dude thank you so much, I just formatted my internal storage using the new TWRP 2.7 and for some reason I had a black screen with only the red light on. After a few minutes of failure, not being able to boot up to both recovery and bootloader, I tried OPTION 2, which saved my phone.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
No OS Installed.
Hi guys. I was flashing ARHD Rom and it was suddenly failed. Now I stuck at recovery mode, twrp 2.6.3.3. I forgot to do back up. and I did some factory reset and now that's how I stuck at the recovery mode. So yeah. I need help. Thanks.
Thanks a ton
Option 2nd worked... i installed insertcoin 2.1.4 and it happened.
flashed back to renovate.
once again thanks mate. cheers
Crazy way to unbrick M7
XeoNiCaLiTy said:
Did not expect Option 2 to work, but it was the only one working in the end (accidentally flashed a Sprint zip).
Thanks!
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Sounds like urban legend, but i tried everything else. Worked right quick.
BTW, my soft brick came from just trying out droidwall blocking a puzzle game. App must have crashed badly.
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Hi guys. I was flashing ARHD Rom and it was suddenly failed. Now I stuck at recovery mode, twrp 2.6.3.3. I forgot to do back up. and I did some factory reset and now that's how I stuck at the recovery mode. So yeah. I need help. Thanks.
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Try sending a rom using adb, then flashing to that rom. That's what I had to do when I had no OS installed on my Kindle Fire.
So my HTC ran out of battery last night, and I left it overnight to charge (red light was showing up).
So I turn it on this morning, and nothing happens. I unplug it from charger and red light is still on, and when I held down powerbutton the home and back buttons would blink, but phone would not come on.
So I read online and tried the home+vol button trick under a bright light and the red light did go away, but nothing else happened.
Now when I press power button nothing happens, not even the home/back button come up.
When I plug it in to the computer I see a driver for QHUSB_DLOAD failing to load. And if I hold down power button and volume while connected to PC, I can hear it "unplugging and replugging" noise from pc.
So is my phone bricked? This was NOT rooted, it was simply the stock device.
I really just want the pictures I have on there, is there any way to get that data back?
QHUSB_DLOAD is related to the boot partition of your phone and is an extremely tricky driver to find. If, for whatever reason, that driver is buggered, your phone may be bricked. As you haven't rooted there really isn't much you can do past try a USB jig or shine a light at the light sensor (two black circles on the front) whilst you try and turn it on. On the bright side though, you should be able to get a relatively easy replacement.
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QHUSB_DLOAD is related to the boot partition of your phone and is an extremely tricky driver to find. If, for whatever reason, that driver is buggered, your phone may be bricked. As you haven't rooted there really isn't much you can do past try a USB jig or shine a light at the light sensor (two black circles on the front) whilst you try and turn it on. On the bright side though, you should be able to get a relatively easy replacement.
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Where can I get a USB jig for a tmobile htc one?
My power button stopped working a couple days ago but I was still able to wake device with volume buttons. I was worried that if my phone were to shut off I wouldn't be able to turn it back on so I booted into bootloader and was going to try and flash "oem off-mode-charge 0" (which should then make the phone power on when plugged into charger).
At the time I couldn't detect the device using fastboot and as I was searching around on my computer the screen on the phone turned off (was in bootloader at the time). I'm not sure at this point if my phone was on and that both the power and volume buttons were not waking device or if the phone turned itself off.
I have tried the hold the volume down and plug the charger in trick to try and get back into bootloader but nothing happens. When I plug phone into my computer it takes about 20 seconds but I get the little windows ding that something has been connected but phone is still not responsive. I'm starting to think I'm a little screwed here but welcome any input.
You just looking to get the screen to light up so you can implement a way to use the device without the power button? You could try gravity screen or something but first things first...
If its not lighting up on plugin have you tried connecting to a computer and opening ADB and issuing the command adb devices followed with adb reboot. If you wanna go back to bootloader just adb reboot-bootloader. That will restart device so screen is back on and I would turn on the Ambient Display mode so when you pick it up the screen comes on or get a volume power button app or gravity screen app that turns on when you take it out of pocket. Thats all I can suggest and hope any of this helps.
With phone plugged into computer, nothing shows up when I check adb devices or fastboot devices. I guess I'm unsure on what state my phone is in. None of the buttons do anything and nothing happens when I plug my phone into my wall charger (no charge light or screen on). The only response I can get is when I plug the phone into my computer windows makes a noise.
Anyone know what happens when a powered off phone gets plugged into the computer? Does windows make the little noise indicating a device has been plugged in even with it off?
It does not make a noise if its off.. That much I know. Interesting though. Are you sure you have the correct drivers installed for your nexus phone if you are on windows. Go into hardware manager by right clicking on my computer and make sure that its reading it correctly in usb devices without a yellow triangle next to it.
I should have the correct drivers. I just went ahead and reinstalled them through the nexus toolkit. In device manager it says: unknown USB device (device descriptor request failed).
I checked adb devices before all this happened and it displayed correctly. I then rebooted into the bootloader but the fastboot devices command did not show anything. It was shortly after that that the screen turned off. Will the screen normally time out when in the bootloader? I'm wondering if my phone is still in the bootloader with the screen off and both power and volume buttons non functional.
Only thing I can think of is to wait for it to die, then volume down + plug in to pc and when bootloader screen appears issue command fastboot continue and it should boot up. Then get something to remap key or an app. If this all fails after it dies and you restart it assuming debugging wasnt on or its just reading phone as media device of sorts not allowing adb then you may have to get the power button assembly possibly and install it yourself or open the back case and hit the power contact under the button and see if you can get it on. Thats all the ideas I have.
I'd also suggest that after you reinstalled drivers make sure you did a reboot and then plug in the device and also try using a different USB port and or USB cord also as odd as that sounds Ive seen it work before. Im pretty tapped on ideas tho. Do you know if you had usb debugging enabled?
Wireless charger
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Power Button replacement is pretty easy and cheap, there's a Tutorial
On YouTube
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Power Button replacement is pretty easy and cheap, there's a Tutorial
On YouTube
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Ok, cool. I'll take a look.
Managed to get it back into the bootloader this morning. So I guess this is a PSA, if your screen times out while in the bootloader, the volume keys will not wake device so since my power button is broken I couldn't wake it. At that point, the phone is in a state where it cannot receive any fastboot commands, even though it is in bootloader with the screen off. What I had to do was wait overnight for the battery to drain and have the phone power itself off. At this point the volume down plus plug in charger trick worked to get it back into the bootloader with screen on. At that point I was able to 'fastboot reboot' back into system.
Thanks for the insight people
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coremania said:
Power Button replacement is pretty easy and cheap, there's a Tutorial
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It's easy but also annoying. Removing the 18 screws is the most annoying part
clapper66 said:
It's easy but also annoying. Removing the 18 screws is the most annoying part
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I think the Nexus 6 deserve it
brumby05 said:
I should have the correct drivers. I just went ahead and reinstalled them through the nexus toolkit. In device manager it says: unknown USB device (device descriptor request failed)......
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Driver issue.
Remove/uninstall the drivers from your PC when the phone is connected.
After that reinstall the adb/fastboot drivers.
N6 - Power mapped to VOL DOWN; turned off and can't get it back on
Hi all, I had to remap my power button - I mapped it to VOLUME DOWN. The other day I voluntarily powered down my N6 at a test center.....and haven't been able to get it to respond since. I do have a Pixel 2 XL on the way - but not that sure I'll want to keep it. The N6 is so sweet.
I've tried holding the volume buttons (POWER and VOLUME UP) for like a minute, but nothing. When I charge it, I see the battery symbol (full) but only for about 5 seconds.
ADB does not see any connected devices. Wug's NRT does not see any connected devices. I'm at a loss and afraid that I've lost my N6 and will have to use the Pixel 2 XL regardless what I think about it.
Any other ideas?
JMacD said:
Hi all, I had to remap my power button - I mapped it to VOLUME DOWN. The other day I voluntarily powered down my N6 at a test center.....and haven't been able to get it to respond since. I do have a Pixel 2 XL on the way - but not that sure I'll want to keep it. The N6 is so sweet.
I've tried holding the volume buttons (POWER and VOLUME UP) for like a minute, but nothing. When I charge it, I see the battery symbol (full) but only for about 5 seconds.
ADB does not see any connected devices. Wug's NRT does not see any connected devices. I'm at a loss and afraid that I've lost my N6 and will have to use the Pixel 2 XL regardless what I think about it.
Any other ideas?
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Wow - just got my N6 to boot using this little tip I found on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQue...ny_way_to_turn_on_phone_without_power_button/
I was holding down the Vol Up and Power buttons (which are both the Volume bar since I remapped my power to Vol Down), but I hit 'enter' on the 'fastboot continue' text in the CMD prompt just after I plugged in the USB and the battery icon came up. It booted into bootloader mode briefly first, then went into system reboot. Whew!
I think your button assembly is broken and I would replace it. You could try the work around in Broken power button, any way to boot? by altarity, post #3.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
Hey,
so I was running cm13 (some version from november) and i wanted to go back to zui so i restored a backup that i created when i first got the phone. i booted into twrp, pressed on restore and selected my backup. after waiting for the backup to restore i saw that the process failed. then i pressed on the return to system or whatever button and now my phone wont boot anymore. when i hold power it just vibrates and the notification led flashes once. when i plug it in to charge the notification led doesnt light up. also when connecting it to my pc it is recognized (sound when you plug something in/out) but its not recognized as a phone or storage. what do i do?
Hi,
small question.
Did you do a full wipe?
Please delete system and data partition.
Because you come from cm13 to stock.
Are you able to enter fastboot? Press and hold volume down button and then hold the power button. Alternatively if your phone is off just unplug it and leave it for a few minutes, then whilst holding just the volume down button plug it into your PC and then check with "fastboot devices" in your terminal (I'm assuming that you do have adb and fastboot tools on your phone since you had a custom ROM).
@djsven I just went into twrp and tried to restore my back up not more not less. I cant delete the data and system partition as my device isnt turning on and my pc doesnt recognize the phone as a storage device.
@Uivalf39 by holding volume down and power button i cant enter. all it did was vibrate + led flash. I think its on 0% power now because holding power now just makes the led flash once (no vibration anymore). can you tell me what exactly you mean by "check with "fastboot devices"".
thanks to everyone trying to help
mdeoinko said:
@djsven I just went into twrp and tried to restore my back up not more not less. I cant delete the data and system partition as my device isnt turning on and my pc doesnt recognize the phone as a storage device.
@Uivalf39 by holding volume down and power button i cant enter. all it did was vibrate + led flash. I think its on 0% power now because holding power now just makes the led flash once (no vibration anymore). can you tell me what exactly you mean by "check with "fastboot devices"".
thanks to everyone trying to help
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You'll first need to install adb and fastboot tools, as well as drivers for the phone and google utilities. I assume you already have these since you must have unlocked your phone and flashed twrp to install CM13.
Sending the "fastboot devices" command through an adb/fastboot enabled terminal will show you if your phone is fastboot-enabled. Your phone is bricked, the only way to go back to the original software is to follow the guide (available both here and on zukfans), TWRP backup won't work with stock ROMs.
Don't worry though, you should be able to recover it, but it'll be a lot of trial and error.
Have a read through here and here and here, seems like a lot of good troubleshooting material for bricked devices.
Let us know how you get on.
My phone was recognized as QUSB_BULK in device manager. i installed qhsusb drivers and now its in ports and its called "qualcomm hs-usb diagnostics 900e (com10)". trying to find out what to do now.
mdeoinko said:
My phone was recognized as QUSB_BULK in device manager. i installed qhsusb drivers and now its in ports and its called "qualcomm hs-usb diagnostics 900e (com10)". trying to find out what to do now.
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Oh dear, from the stuff I found on Google, it sounds like you'll have to disconnect the battery to force the phone to shut down everything before carrying on.
Check out this thread on zukfans, specifically these comments: [1] [2]
This is the danger of having phones with non-removable batteries. Sounds like you might have to remove the back glass, shouldn't be TOO difficult, looks like it's just glued down without any clasps so you'll need a heat gun (hair dryer should do). Here is a guide on doing that.
If you do end up doing that, would you be willing to film it and upload it to YouTube afterwards? I can't find any video of such a feat and it would be useful for anyone else who needs to do that. Maybe even add some comments of whether there are any clasps, how long you had to heat it up, etc.
In the past I've been successful in unbricking my phones by draining them until the battery protection circuitry wouldn't allow for any more power to be drawn. This would roughly be equivalent to unplugging the battery so it might work for you depending what the phone is currently doing. If the screen comes on then you should be able to drain it, if only your notification light flashes then it's a fool's errand.
NB: The zukfans poster's step 1 was to fully charge your phone as you'll need full battery for the solution. What I described above will probably not work but there's always multiple solutions to every problem and if you're weary of removing the back you can try that, don't hold me on this, but I it shouldn't do any damage.
@Uivalf39
I managed to remove the battery connector. after putting it back in and now im trying to do the sequence i still dont understand because of bad phrasing (hold vol up then hold power then after 0.5s plug usb in? hold vol up hold power for 0.5s after plugging in? idk). all i now get is a slow flashing led when connecting it to anything via usb no matter what i press. i dont even know if its charging
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@Uivalf39
I managed to remove the battery connector. after putting it back in and now im trying to do the sequence i still dont understand because of bad phrasing (hold vol up then hold power then after 0.5s plug usb in? hold vol up hold power for 0.5s after plugging in? idk). all i now get is a slow flashing led when connecting it to anything via usb no matter what i press. i dont even know if its charging
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After doing that, what do you have on device manager? Is it still as before with the 900e?
Alright, so from what I understand it goes something like this:
Unplug battery connector
Wait 10-15 seconds with the connector unplugged
Plug back battery connector
Press and HOLD volume up button
Whilst holding volume up press power button and hold it down
After 0.5s of holding power button plug in the usb (connected to the PC) - still keep holding the volume up and power button
Keep holding volume up and power button, and the ZUK logo should pop on the screen and phone should vibrate
Now release buttons and your phone should appear in device manager as port 9008
How did you find removing the glass back? How did you do it and how difficult would you say it was?
@Uivalf39 Im pretty sure im getting the timing right but all i get is a slowly flashing nofication led. no vibration and no logo. also my device doesnt get recognized at all on my pc i cant find it in device manager.
removing the back was pretty easy i just heated the 3 corners (the ones without a camera) on max for like 2 min each with a hair dryer. then i pushed in a plectrum and went around the edges with it.
@mdeoinko That's really strange, maybe we'll need to think a bit outside the box. What version of Windows are you using? Do you have the qualcomm/zuk/google drivers installed properly?
Here's one comment that might be useful.
Also, Francko from zukfans (main ROM guy so I guess he knows his stuff) did some trickery with the USB cable, not entirely sure what it is and how it works, but it looks like it does so you might want to look into this.
I'd say that you should maybe post to zukfans, you'll get more help there.
Godspeed my son!
@Uivalf39 damn i completely forgot about modifieng the cable brb hopefully i can fix it now
@mdeoinko
Hiya, any update? Hoping that your lack of posts means that you solved the issue and no longer need help. If so, could you post here what you did to solve it? Such that anyone else with this issue that comes across this thread might know what works and what doesn't.
Cheers!
i need help, cant signup into zukfans giving error as spam activity, cant go into 9008 mode, tried everything accept removing back of the fone. any guesses...