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To start i have no experience with "bricked" phones and could only assume to identify one if it just didnt work, so i could be way off here. I met a fellow who owns a Nexus One and he is trying to sell it as it no longer works. He tells me that he was preforming a firmware update, the phone "crashed" so he yanked the battery and since then he is unable to power it up. Im looking for more specifics on this to see exactly what is happening when he tries to power on. Given this info is it likely that his phone is bricked, and if so is there any way to fix it? Im inclined to think no, but would appre iate the opinions of others just like to make sure as he has offered it to me for next to nil. Thanks for any help.
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If he pulled the battery while flashing a radio image update, it is likely bricked.... but a bricked phone should power on to the static X initial boot image, and would stay there indefinitely.
Sounds like something else might be going on (battery dead/malfunctioning?), but I don't think it's officially "bricked" as much as "broken"
If it can't power on, I don't think there's any good in it
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Power buttons have been known to fail on a number of Nexus Ones.... maybe it's a case that the button is broke...
Think if you pull the batt while usb powered and put batt back in it will power on...
Thanks for the speedy replies. Ill wait for further info from the guy to see exactly what is happening and post again if its significant. Thanks again
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To start i have no experience with "bricked" phones and could only assume to identify one if it just didnt work, so i could be way off here. I met a fellow who owns a Nexus One and he is trying to sell it as it no longer works. He tells me that he was preforming a firmware update, the phone "crashed" so he yanked the battery and since then he is unable to power it up. Im looking for more specifics on this to see exactly what is happening when he tries to power on. Given this info is it likely that his phone is bricked, and if so is there any way to fix it? Im inclined to think no, but would appre iate the opinions of others just like to make sure as he has offered it to me for next to nil. Thanks for any help.
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If it doesn't even power on, I would just warranty the phone and get a new one.
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If it doesn't even power on, I would just warranty the phone and get a new one.
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Our warranties are non-transferable, so don't get yourself stuck in a hardplace.
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Our warranties are non-transferable, so don't get yourself stuck in a hardplace.
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I was actually referring to the original owner.
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Our warranties are non-transferable, so don't get yourself stuck in a hardplace.
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where did you learn that? that's not what htc told me..
qhsusb_dload is all I get. Buttons no work. Doesn't vibe or anything. Soft reset doesn't work. Any help or am I screwed. I flashed overcome 8.9 wiped prior and wiped dalvik after the reboot and black screen since.
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I'm really sorry but your device is done. The skyrocket people haven't been able to fix this yet by using a jig or qualcomm tools.
Reading and researching is really important. You can't flash any p73xx rom to the i957, it will brick.
This is exactly why I have tried to get a separate forum for the i957, but that hasn't worked yet.
Hope you are under warranty or that is an expensive mistake.
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I did the exact same thing you did. It is very confusing (Well not really, I just did'nt take my time to read). I was exhausted because I was very happy to have my new skyrocket and new lte tab. I researched and researched. I rooted, installed custom rom and kernel on my skyrocket. I then rooted my tablet and it was great. I then installed a custom rom for a 7300 on my i957 and Boom, gone. Luckily I was within my 30 day return policy. Everything in my home is either jailbroken, rooted, homebrewed, w/e. so I have somewhat experience.
But the combination of tiredness, excitedness, and what ever else comes along with getting new gadgets, I didn't pay attention and blew up my tablet.
Even with my experience and never bricking anything before, I bricked my tablet. I took it back to the store and making believe I never even heard about rooting, jailbreaking, homebrewing; the sales people tried starting it up and eventually they couldn't get it to start up. I got a new tablet, I told them I left the tablet charging overnight and left it charging when I went to work, because I forgot to disconnect it. When I got home from work it just didn't turn on.
Eventually they gave me a new tablet and said do not charge it for more than 8 hours. They said I was the first customer to ever return this tablet because it was defective (This tablet is a beast). I told them sure I learned my lesson.
When I went home, I rooted it lol and installed the oc kernel. Remember there are no roms for the 4g model.
Before I went back to the store where I purchased my phone&tablet, I found that there is a youtube store that fixes bricked phones and tablets (He has videos of him fixing them) but when I emailed him, he said their program does not support in unbricking the lte tablet. This was about a month ago so you can check to see if they support it now. I think to unbrick phones it was like 50-100 dollars (I forgot)
You are not alone, I made the same dumb mistake. Never do important stuff when you are tired or excited or anxious. Sorry man, good luck.
I may have put this in the wrong area it was late last night and I was frustrated. I tried putting a 7300 ROM on a 7300. I didn't try anything fancy lol. But I appreciate the responsses. You think I'll be able to take it back and see what they can do? Maybe they'll exchange it as if it was a defect? I'll take it there today. See if they will exchange.lesson learned for me. Lesson being wait for updates from Samsung. As slow as they are. Lol thanks for the input if anyone has the capability to fix this
Hit me up.
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A 7300 rom on a 7300 should only soft brick. Can you get into download or recovery?
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If you try to turn on your tablet and your screen turns on you can try to install the stock rom through odin again and it will work. There is a thread in this forums that explains how. If it is off and you turn it on and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happens and it just stays with the black screen, no vibration or anything then it is hard bricked.
If it is hard bricked you can try to take it back and act dumb, not sure how long ago you purchased the tablet. If you are still within the 30 days you should be good because the sales people I took my tablet to did not have the machine to see how many times my device was flashed. If you are outside the 30 days they will tell you to send it to a samsung repair dealer (which I think they will see how many times the device has been flashed). Once you rooted your tablet it voids the warranty and they either do not have to fix it or will charge you an amount equal to your tablet. I did hear of cases where people with rooted tablets just returned it and they fixed it for free. I guess it dpeneds on anything else in life (How lucky are you?)
Yes you did put your question on the right place since this is for all the 8.9 tablets. (Thats the problem I came across with, I wish they make two forums for both tablets because they are in fact different.
Posting from my mobile so I didn't read your post again.
It is extremely rare but sometimes this can happen. Did you have repartition checked in Odin? If so that's bad.
There is something called qpst - qualcomm product support tools - that people are trying to get to work to fix hard bricks.
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No prob man. I'll look that up. I'm gonna seems it in to Samsung see if they can fix it. It's under warranty. Anyone done this before?
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mobiletechvideos now has support for hard bricked tabs! finally! just sent the payment today and i will send out my tab once i get home from work. ill keep yall posted on how it goes.
here is the link: http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-8-9-jtag-brick-repair/
Thanks for updating us.
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Thanks to google: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19100269 (Not working)
Thanks to forum search: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19100269 (Look familiar?)
^: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226089 (Not working)
Can't access download mode by any combination of button presses.
Don't seem to find any difference between download mode and recovery mode
Can't find any proof Kies 2.x ever even existed (and Kies for my other Samsung phone (Galaxy S Blaze 4g) is "too new" for Exhibit II),
"One Click Unbrick" needs download mode? How's that work if the problem I'm trying to solve using it is not being able to access download mode?
Trying to flash from "Firmware upgrade failed" screen anyways (as directed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226089#post17487348) using Odin Multi Downloader v4.43 as directed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20394682#post20394682 also not working
Can't think of anything else searching has told me to try, but clearly missing something and need help.
Make a USB jig to access download mode when other options fail. If USB jig "dongle" doesn't work then I have no idea.
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Make a USB jig to access download mode when other options fail. If USB jig "dongle" doesn't work then I have no idea.
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"Make" a dongle?? That may be just a little beyond my skillset.
Honestly its not that hard to do, the hardest part is all the cutting. You can get around the soldering by making it two peices, the dongle that goes into the phone, then the resistors, just make sure you insulate them. Or if you dont want to bother doing that you can buy one on Amazon for about 3 - 5 bucks.
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Honestly its not that hard to do, the hardest part is all the cutting. You can get around the soldering by making it two peices, the dongle that goes into the phone, then the resistors, just make sure you insulate them. Or if you dont want to bother doing that you can buy one on Amazon for about 3 - 5 bucks.
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Soldering or not, wires and resistors = hard to do.
Sadly though, this seemingly being my only resort, could I ask for help selecting the correct piece from amazon?
ducky69247 said:
Soldering or not, wires and resistors = hard to do.
Sadly though, this seemingly being my only resort, could I ask for help selecting the correct piece from amazon?
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Think I found it (http://usbjig.com/)
Wish me luck I guess >.<
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Think I found it (http://usbjig.com/)
Wish me luck I guess >.<
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No luck with jig, phone comes on right to the upgrade fail screen, no amount of ****ing with it seems to get me back to download mode.
Well there goes nearly 200 bucks, that's what I get for eBaying it and skipping the 3rd party warranty -.-
I've got the phone for sale now on eBay "as is," if anyone wants it
Edit for Clarification: Original "Samsung Exhibit," not "Exhibit II/Galaxy Exhibit"
I flashed Paranoid Android after wiping ARHD 10.2, everything installed perfectly, phone was working great until I was listening to Pandora and checking Facebook..then my SIM card became unreadable and I had to take it out and put it back in, when I turned my phone back on it had gone from 42 percent battery to 4 percent, then 2, then dead. I charged it for a little while before going out for dinner, I came home and it wouldn't turn on, and it won't charge now whatsoever.
What the ****?
Alright, this will sound silly but place the phone in front of a light so that the sensor picks it up then try to turn it on. Will have to hold the power button for a while but it should turn back on. Or, if it won't, also try booting into your hboot. Reason for this is so you can't accidently turn on your phone in your pocket or something like that. It's been a while since I read this, I could be wrong but this won't hurt your phone so just give it a try
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Alright, this will sound silly but place the phone in front of a light so that the sensor picks it up then try to turn it on. Will have to hold the power button for a while but it should turn back on. Or, if it won't, also try booting into your hboot. Reason for this is so you can't accidently turn on your phone in your pocket or something like that. It's been a while since I read this, I could be wrong but this won't hurt your phone so just give it a try
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Light sensor trick didn't work. The phone won't even charge, let alone turn on.
I can't boot into recovery, nothing.
Have you tried a different charger, cable or wall port or all three?
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Have you tried a different charger, cable or wall port or all three?
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Yes, tried two chargers in two outlets along with USB only charging, none work. Both chargers worked this morning.
That happened to me today. Literally the exact same thing.
My solution:
Step 1. PANIC LIKE A MOTHA F******
Step 2. Contemplate spiking unibody sexiness into pavement because unibody is functionally retarded.
Step 3. Take a deep breath and remember why you love her...
Step 4. Hold down power button for 10 seconds or longer.
Step 5. Plug usb cable that came in your box into your device.
Step 6. Quit whimpering, people can hear you.
Step 7. Plug into PC. Watch for tiny red light at top of phone.
Step 8. Wait about 30 min.
Step 9. ??????
Step 10. PROFIT! !
Sent from my squash patch.
Followed your steps for 30 seconds of holding the power down, plugged in stock USB to phone, plugged into PC. Nothing. Black.
Sent HTC an e-mail, my phone shouldn't over-heat and brick while using Facebook and pandora and that's it. I'm about to swap this **** for a S4 and stop being a HTC fanboy. I'm upset.
Not every unit provided by manufacturer can be perfect. By the end of the day its electronics and something can go bad. If you feel s4 is better than get a s4. HTC One will be happy to leave you. I'm sorry for being rude and sarcastic but it is what it is.
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You shouldn't quickly jump to conclusions in my opinion. Just get a replacement set and see how it goes. If it still has problems then you can go for S4 or whatever device is out there. Of course in the end it's your decision but I'm just saying that you shouldn't cloud your decision just because of one defective set.
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Bump, any other suggestions?
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Bump, any other suggestions?
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Did you charge it overnight using the stock HTC charger and cable? That is about all I can thing of. Something in the ROM appears to have drained the battery flat, which is not normally possible.
This is device #4 that has died completely on a 10.1 rom
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This is device #4 that has died completely on a 10.1 rom
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Makes me wonder if they didn't do something to the safe charging capabilities, although I would think that stuff is in the hardware, not the ROM.
It seems if it was the base that's being used we would have a LOT of devices going down so can't really speculate the cause. I shouldn't have posted above in such a suggestive manner.
I don't imagine the rom would be stopping the phone from charging as the kernel etc is not loaded until after hboot, charging is dealt with well before this sequence in the boot process.
To be fair it sounds like a hardware failure, maybe an overheating issue, possible caused by the rom and many other factors but that's the risk you take flashing experimental 3rd party software to your device. I don't thing you will ever know, your not even getting a uart mode which to me says fried PCB..
Send it in for repair and play dumb
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This is device #4 that has died completely on a 10.1 rom
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Mine had the exact same too, using cm-10.1
Just overheated, drained dead and didnt want to turn on or charge anymore
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This is indicating that for the time being, there is something seriously wrong with 10.1 builds and it's dangerous to flash them...
It's a shame that the cause for the error cannot be found once the device is bricked...
Same with my phone. Using slimbean. Phone died and unfortunately htc said i installed 3rd party software and i need to pay the repairs.
I didnt know how they knew that i had a 3rd party software where my phone cant even charge or turn on
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Same with my phone. Using slimbean. Phone died and unfortunately htc said i installed 3rd party software and i need to pay the repairs.
I didnt know how they knew that i had a 3rd party software where my phone cant even charge or turn on
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You should raise that question with them to see if you can find out how they are getting the phone to turn on
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You should raise that question with them to see if you can find out how they are getting the phone to turn on
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I tried to ask them but they said they have somekind of hardware or software that can detect. Anyways im in a no win situation bec i knew all a long that if i flash 3rd party software its a goodbye to warranty
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I hope I am not duplicating a thread, the XDA search function appears to be down at the moment. Last night I put my phone on the charger (OEM HTC charger); the battery was low, but the phone was still on, and it appeared to be charging. When I woke up this morning (late, since my phone acts as my alarm), my phone was turned off. Now I am unable to turn on the phone at all, and there is no orange charging LED. Unfortunately I don't have the money for a warranty exchange/replacement/repair (and probably won't for a while), so I will be without a mobile until this gets resolved. Please help, you guys are my only hope.
Steps I have tried:
Leaving the phone plugged in for a long while.
Holding vol up and power for several minutes.
Holding vol down and power for several minutes.
Holding vol up and down and power for several minutes.
Plugging it into a computer.
Using several different chargers.
Removing my SIM card, and trying all of the above again.
Relevant links:
http://androidforums.com/htc-one/747522-resolved-wont-turn-charge.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130815191840AA8KwUz
http://forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/294342-htc-one-wont-turn-charge.html
https://support.t-mobile.com/thread/50805?start=0&tstart=0
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-7151
When mine hasn't switched on I did volume down and power holding both. And then the home and back buttons flash and then release and it should boot.
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When mine hasn't switched on I did volume down and power holding both. And then the home and back buttons flash and then release and it should boot.
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Unfortunately that doesn't appear to work for me. When you had to do this, was your device completely dead like mine, or were you able to see the orange charging light?
Just 2 days ago mine did nearly the same thing. It just seemed to run out of battery REALLY fast and wouldn't charge again until it completely ran out of battery. And then it wouldn't charge properly with any chargers, the led was flickering , cutting out then staying on for a few seconds etc. I left it overnight plugged in and it charged it finally me, but now my phone is going crazy.(270 rotation even when it's rotation locked, not recognising headphones or USB connection and more.) Maybe we both have faulty motherboards? I'm pretty sure mine isn't a software problem after numerous factory resets. I know this isn't really helpful but we're having a similar problem so if someone can help, this info could be useful? I just emailed HTC but I'm bootloader unlocked and running ARHD som I'm not that optimistic. They might try to blame that, even though I know it's not the problem.
Disappointing after 3 months of love and tender care that something like this goes wrong.
Um there might be 2 possibilityes:
1. Your phone is hard bricked (google it if you don't understand), witch may be caused by bootloader malfuncion while your phone was shutting diwn, in case that something might got corrupted
2. Hardware faliure. You might have something burned on your pcb, or you might have a dead battery
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Um there might be 2 possibilityes:
1. Your phone is hard bricked (google it if you don't understand), witch may be caused by bootloader malfuncion while your phone was shutting diwn, in case that something might got corrupted
2. Hardware faliure. You might have something burned on your pcb, or you might have a dead battery
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When I plug the phone into my PC, it now installs drivers for "qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008"; does this indicate a hard-brick? If so, I read somewhere else that if I used JTAG, I could potentially fix the phone. Is this a program that can be downloaded? If it helps, I do have one of SkOrPn's cables that I used a while ago to fix my Kindle Fire. T-Mobile is saying they won't do anything because the camera lens on the back has a small crack in it, even though they admit that it is unrelated to the issue at hand.
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When I plug the phone into my PC, it now installs drivers for "qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008"; does this indicate a hard-brick? If so, I read somewhere else that if I used JTAG, I could potentially fix the phone. Is this a program that can be downloaded? If it helps, I do have one of SkOrPn's cables that I used a while ago to fix my Kindle Fire. T-Mobile is saying they won't do anything because the camera lens on the back has a small crack in it, even though they admit that it is unrelated to the issue at hand.
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Now that you say the qload brick ,try this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136738 .
If not, jtag is an hardware tool, witch costs atound $250. I suggest you either try this tool, or find a unifficial service that has jtag riff box, that can help you out.
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Now that you say the qload brick ,try this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136738 .
If not, jtag is an hardware tool, witch costs atound $250. I suggest you either try this tool, or find a unifficial service that has jtag riff box, that can help you out.
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Thanks for the reply. I see that the tool they posted is for the AT&T Galaxy Note. Will this tool still work for the HTC One? I've got Linux machines available to use the tool if it will.
I had the phone for one month and it stopped charging. TMobile gave me a second charger at the store two weeks in since that's when it started. One month and a day after getting the phone it completely stopped charging. You had to rotate the cables in weird positions to get a charge. I think it's the USB connector on the phone or the battery. The store is mailing me a replacement for $20. IM using my backup S2 till then. I was rooted on Revolution the entire time. Suffice to say I think it's important to delicately remove the cable after charging. IM angry about this since I've had zero issues with my Samsung devices and thought I'd try the One.
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Thanks for the reply. I see that the tool they posted is for the AT&T Galaxy Note. Will this tool still work for the HTC One? I've got Linux machines available to use the tool if it will.
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Maybe, the probles is i didn't have a device with a h-boot so i have no expericence in this matter
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Maybe, the probles is i didn't have a device with a h-boot so i have no expericence in this matter
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I had the phone for one month and it stopped charging. TMobile gave me a second charger at the store two weeks in since that's when it started. One month and a day after getting the phone it completely stopped charging. You had to rotate the cables in weird positions to get a charge. I think it's the USB connector on the phone or the battery. The store is mailing me a replacement for $20. IM using my backup S2 till then. I was rooted on Revolution the entire time. Suffice to say I think it's important to delicately remove the cable after charging. IM angry about this since I've had zero issues with my Samsung devices and thought I'd try the One.
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I see, thanks for the help. Yeah I'm not very happy with T-Mobile right now. Basically, they won't even handle the repair/replacement because there is a small crack on the camera lens; I've spoken with two different representatives at T-Mobile who gave the same response. What's worse is that they admitted that it is obvious the cracked lens is completely unrelated to the fact that the phone won't boot. My next path is to interface directly with HTC to get it fixed, which is of course going to cost more money. If I at least had better coverage where I live and work, it might be a different story, but so far I've had nothing but bad luck with them. Once I can get out of this mess, I'll probably switch back to Verizon, and maybe give their Edge program a try. Sorry about the rant, but this is just getting silly.
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