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[Q] HTC Vivid Black Screen... :(

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
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA

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.

flip4life39 said:
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.

flip4life39 said:
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.

flip4life39 said:
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.

flip4life39 said:
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.

Hello
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

pinkmini said:
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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

pinkmini said:
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
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda app-developers app

Unbrick HTC One M7 (M7wls)

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 !!

RDshift said:
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!
MacHackz said:
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.
himhz said:
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!
See you all at XDA: DevCon

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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!
RDshift said:
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/

RDshift said:
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?
[pending update(s)]

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.

No OS Fix
heyAmirulS said:
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.

Some serius help needed. Bootloop, stuck, bootloader not working etc..

Hi. To start with I bought a phone from a friend which I knew was faulty but decided to take my chances and try to fix it. He claims he did nothing to the phone but don't know for sure. Phone is in constant bootloop, Goes until splash screen and reboots. Worst yet to come - even bootloader menu restarts on constant basis when i try to get into it. Meaning it goes into bootloader but restarts in few seconds before i can get to factory reset. Computer is not picking up this device but i also don't have any drivers installed but don't even know how to install them with a phone in this state. Is there anything i can do about it? Been with Samsung for the past few years and here is everything completely different so don't know much about adb but am a quick learner and can follow any steps! I can provide picture of bootloader if it would be any helpful.

michal_alton said:
Hi. To start with I bought a phone from a friend which I knew was faulty but decided to take my chances and try to fix it. He claims he did nothing to the phone but don't know for sure. Phone is in constant bootloop, Goes until splash screen and reboots. Worst yet to come - even bootloader menu restarts on constant basis when i try to get into it. Meaning it goes into bootloader but restarts in few seconds before i can get to factory reset. Computer is not picking up this device but i also don't have any drivers installed but don't even know how to install them with a phone in this state. Is there anything i can do about it? Been with Samsung for the past few years and here is everything completely different so don't know much about adb but am a quick learner and can follow any steps! I can provide picture of bootloader if it would be any helpful.
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Send a picture of the bootloader while I find the drivers you need

Seems like battery is completely dead as it only reboots when there is power supply connected, but then it won't turn off (any charging light don't come on, not sure if it should though). Just now i've seen a vodafone logo for a very short second when I connected to pc from charger. But phone rebooted again just after.
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Send a picture of the bootloader while I find the drivers you need
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edit. downloaded drivers (4.8) but that didn't change anything and windows still doesn't pick up device.
After connecting my one to computer for past 3 hours its started more frequently boot and showing Vodafone menu but still restarts shortly after. Vodafone logo shows on and lights on soft buttons starts flashing like 3 times and than it keeps rebooting. Does it mean anything?

michal_alton said:
Seems like battery is completely dead as it only reboots when there is power supply connected, but then it won't turn off (any charging light don't come on, not sure if it should though).
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Have you checked this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481211
michal_alton said:
After connecting my one to computer for past 3 hours its started more frequently boot and showing Vodafone menu but still restarts shortly after. Vodafone logo shows on and lights on soft buttons starts flashing like 3 times and than it keeps rebooting. Does it mean anything?
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That almost sounds like your POWER button is stuck!! Are you able to completely power off, and it stays off.

I think i know what it is. Power button stuck and keeps restarting device. Although i can feel pressing it, this is what it looks like.

nkk71 said:
Have you checked this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481211
That almost sounds like your POWER button is stuck!! Are you able to completely power off, and it stays off.
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Didn't see your comment but this is exactly how it looks to me. I can't switch off phone and in bootloader it acts like i was pressing power button. Although it operates normally meaning that it can be pressed down. Arranged warranty repair with HTC and they are collecting phone tomorrow.

michal_alton said:
Didn't see your comment but this is exactly how it looks to me. I can't switch off phone and in bootloader it acts like i was pressing power button. Although it operates normally meaning that it can be pressed down. Arranged warranty repair with HTC and they are collecting phone tomorrow.
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Good luck mate, but definitely sounds like the power button is stuck

It's been fixed under warranty by HTC. They replaced motherboard on mine HTC. So all good

[Q] Was stuck at TAMPERED screen, restored factory settings and now appears bricked

Hey everyone,
So my friend’s HTC One was having some troubles, he said out of no where it got stuck in the ‘TAMPERED’ screen and he didn’t know what to do. Now he definitely didn’t try to root it or anything like that, it is completely stock. So yesterday he gave me the phone so I could take a look at it. The battery was dead when I got it so I plugged it in and got the red notification light to say it’s charging. A little while later I attempted to turn it on, surely enough I was shown the ‘tampered, locked, security warning etc.’ screen. So I wasn’t really sure what to do from there, I tried to see if I could get into the recovery mode but it just seemed to power down. I booted back up and went to the restore factory settings option, it showed me a progress bar for a bit but powered down again. Now it appears to be bricked… When I plug it in I don’t get the red notification light anymore and I’ve tried holding vol down + power again and again to no avail. I also tried the bright light trick.
If anyone has any ideas on what I could try next I would really appreciate any help at all.
Thanks guys.

the tampered screen wont appear out of nowhere, he must have tried a custom recovery, kernel or something.

IINexusII said:
the tampered screen wont appear out of nowhere, he must have tried a custom recovery, kernel or something.
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From a bit of googling around I saw some people that let their phones' batteries die completely flat and were faced with the tampered screen when they turned it on again so I guess this is what happened to my friend. I'm sure he didn't try anything custom.
Here are two examples:
http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/60279
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433477

What happens when its plugged the PC. Does it show up at all or does it show QHSUSB_DLOAD. If it does show that, then it is bricked and only a motherboard replacement will bring it back to life. If not then charge the phone for 24 hours. dont mess with it, then holding POWER + VOLDOWN (phone under a bright light,) after about 5 seconds, buttons should start blinking, and after 20 to 30 seconds, phone should reboot or you may at least get into bootloader.
you may need to try 2 or 3 times, to get it to work.

bored_stupid said:
What happens when its plugged the PC. Does it show up at all or does it show QHSUSB_DLOAD. If it does show that, then it is bricked and only a motherboard replacement will bring it back to life. If not then charge the phone for 24 hours. dont mess with it, then holding POWER + VOLDOWN (phone under a bright light,) after about 5 seconds, buttons should start blinking, and after 20 to 30 seconds, phone should reboot or you may at least get into bootloader.
you may need to try 2 or 3 times, to get it to work.
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How can I check for QHSUSB_DLOAD? Install the HTC Sync and HTC drives then adb devices or something?

RoBz18 said:
How can I check for QHSUSB_DLOAD? Install the HTC Sync and HTC drives then adb devices or something?
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You must have HTC drivers installed anyway. Download and run HTC sync and let it complete. then just uninstall HTC Sync. The drivers will remain.
You must also have adb and fastboot setup on your PC. I take it you are set up for those

bored_stupid said:
You must have HTC drivers installed anyway. Download and run HTC sync and let it complete. then just uninstall HTC Sync. The drivers will remain.
You must also have adb and fastboot setup on your PC. I take it you are set up for those
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Ok so i got the drivers, adb and fastboot installed. I plugged in the phone and in device manager it is showing QHSUSB_DLOAD under other devices. So for sure now this thing needs a motherboard replacement? Have you ever heard of a phone getting bricked from the restore to factory settings option? Seems a bit strange to me.

I just called my friend to double check with him that he didn't try anything custom...he had no idea what I was talking about so it's definitely all stock here. Why on earth would a factory restore cause a brick? Would I be right in saying that HTC should replace this for free...?

There is no factory restore option. Only factory reset.
Keep out plugged in over night and then tomorrow keep trying to power on with a bright light. It should turn up
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Yes another bricked VS980, anyone help

Ok long story
I bricked my device (totally dead, no power no dl mode no led not nothing at all), i know what i did wrong, then after plenty of research I ended up tripping the area in motherboard to bring phone back to life and I was successful. I brought it back to life started over completely with a stock device like new, I rooted and loaded up some roms and all was ok. Then....
Someone I knew needed a new device but did not want it rooted as they knew nothing about root and wanted a stock device, so I TOT all the way back to stock and told them the device would run through all the updates up to Lollipop and it did, BUT the OTA to lollipop bricked the device
Yes with the phone stock and doing regular updates it bricked, they brought it to me and I was able to trip the capacitors again and was able to get into bulk mode and AGAIN was able to bring device back to life, so I sat there and one by one let the updates come in on a COMPLETELY STOCK DEVICE and ONCE AGAIN the freakin OTA bricked the device, so.....
I have not been able to get it back, I went through the same steps to get device back, and I have now done everything possible (I think) and cannot get it back.
I have tripped the IC capacitors and gotten the 9006 and 9008, when I get the 9006 and all the partitions pop up, I use the SRK tool and it works, but then when I go to reboot I used to get the LG logo bootloop and was able to turn off and go into download mode, but now download mode freezes on the little icon and download mode never opens up, so in turn I cant TOT or KDZ back to stock. I have tried the boarddiag, I have even tried the Ubuntu fix and nothing, my symptoms so far:
download mode frozen with the little icon but download mode does not show up, I sometimes get just a vibration on/off that never ends, I have also gotten a red LED & LG logo boot loop. I have literally lost 2 days trying to figure this out. My question is, is there anyone that will do this for me. I will pay to ship and return, Please anyone.

stay-down said:
Ok long story
I bricked my device (totally dead, no power no dl mode no led not nothing at all), i know what i did wrong, then after plenty of research I ended up tripping the area in motherboard to bring phone back to life and I was successful. I brought it back to life started over completely with a stock device like new, I rooted and loaded up some roms and all was ok. Then....
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Hi,
Have you tried this ? -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
LMK if it helped you.

iubjaved said:
Hi,
Have you tried this ? -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
LMK if it helped you.
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Yes I tried that and Ubuntu would never see my device. Upon entering the first command I would not get a return command identifying my device.

Can you do one more thing? Disassemble your battery, reassemble it , plug it in wall charger , charge it for some time and go to download mode, see if its working?

iubjaved said:
Can you do one more thing? Disassemble your battery, reassemble it , plug it in wall charger , charge it for some time and go to download mode, see if its working?
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charged up.
This is where I am right now.....If I turn on the device i get LG screen then it turns off and LED flashes red one time, then it loops doing the same thing.
If I hold vol up and plug in it will show download mode about to start but then powers off and red LED and it boot loops again.
I noticed if I power off and hold power button, then it will vibrate on and off while im holding power button, weird.
If I open up device to trip ic in motherboard, the device does the weird vibration while plugged in as i am attempting to trip mb.
I can trip it though and get 9006 or 9008 with all the partitions popping up and i have used every single program on here to unbrick but after all those programs all i get is the damn LG screen and red LED boot loop. I am totally giving up.

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Then i have no idea what could fix your phone. I recommend you bring it to a repair shop.

iubjaved said:
Then i have no idea what could fix your phone. I recommend you bring it to a repair shop.
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Yeeah I think I will just let it go, it gave me a good run and I will just hang on to it just to have another device in the drawer.
Thanks for the help

stay-down said:
Yeeah I think I will just let it go, it gave me a good run and I will just hang on to it just to have another device in the drawer.
Thanks for the help
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Even though i had to replace my LCD recently, im still using this device as my daily driver though!
Np.