Well I dropped my HTC one in the water, I quickly removed it, turned it off, dried it off and stuck it in a bag of rice. After about a hour it started restarting itself, only to the android boot screen then turns back off, approximately on for 3 seconds. I have tried holding the power button and the volume down to get to boot screen, I have selected all options but the phone turns back off before anything is actually done.
I left it to die overnight and waited a extra day before trying to charge it. After a minute of being plugged in the same bootloop occurs, I believe something is be shorted causing it to restart. What should I do? I would have to open the phone I assume.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
RuffRyder93 said:
Well I dropped my HTC one in the water, I quickly removed it, turned it off, dried it off and stuck it in a bag of rice. After about a hour it started restarting itself, only to the android boot screen then turns back off, approximately on for 3 seconds. I have tried holding the power button and the volume down to get to boot screen, I have selected all options but the phone turns back off before anything is actually done.
I left it to die overnight and waited a extra day before trying to charge it. After a minute of being plugged in the same bootloop occurs, I believe something is be shorted causing it to restart. What should I do? I would have to open the phone I assume.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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power plus volume up shuts the phone off
leave it in Rice 1 week
clsA said:
power plus volume up shuts the phone off
leave it in Rice 1 week
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I didn't respond because I wanted to test out your theory and report back after. The battery was already depleted so I didnt have to power down. I did leave it in rice for a week or so, put the phone on charge and it seems the same problem is occurring somehow. Not sure what happened to cause it, it must be getting shorted out somehow but after a week I would think it should be fine. Not sure what to do now, I may take it to a repair person but don't want to pay much money to get it fixed when the phones not worth as much anymore.
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I was using my atrix and put it down went to get something to eat came back 15mins later and it wont turn on! It was at 56% battery! So i plug it in and the green LED turns on but I can't do anything. I have pressed the power button, and I have pressed the power and volume down together both for 10+ secs and nothing is happening please help!
Ever get it back on? My battery drained to 1% last night, so I shut it down, charged it all night, and now mine wont turn on. Has the green light just like yours.
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Markyzz said:
Ever get it back on? My battery drained to 1% last night, so I shut it down, charged it all night, and now mine wont turn on. Has the green light just like yours.
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I had to reboot mine in to flash mode in order for mine to come back up. I had to hold the down volume (or up cannot remember right now) + power for a minute nearly. Then it rebooted correctly into normal mode.
Markyzz said:
Ever get it back on? My battery drained to 1% last night, so I shut it down, charged it all night, and now mine wont turn on. Has the green light just like yours.
Sent from my phone.
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So I ended up calling AT&T and they went ahead and shipped me a new MAHD.
I took the dead phone to work and tried charging with my work charger, and now it works! When it finally turned on, the battery level was at 3%. So lesson learned: Do not let your battery drain to 1%!
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me too....
Lionsbane said:
I was using my atrix and put it down went to get something to eat came back 15mins later and it wont turn on! It was at 56% battery! So i plug it in and the green LED turns on but I can't do anything. I have pressed the power button, and I have pressed the power and volume down together both for 10+ secs and nothing is happening please help!
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I am having the same problem. I can get the boot screen up if i hold the buttons in at a certain time while the phone is plugged in and attempting to turn on. however, the phone cuts out no matter what and repeats the cycle even with the boot screen up. during the few seconds i can get the boot screen up, i'm unable to select an option, only scroll up or down and highlight them. then the phone cuts out and 20 secs. later attempts to turn on again but never gets past the motorola icon. Any suggestions? I originally thought it was the battery so i ordered one and installed it correctly and charged it, but still the same thing is happening. When plugged into a pc, charge light comes on but phone won't attempt to turn on....?????????
katlic said:
I am having the same problem. I can get the boot screen up if i hold the buttons in at a certain time while the phone is plugged in and attempting to turn on. however, the phone cuts out no matter what and repeats the cycle even with the boot screen up. during the few seconds i can get the boot screen up, i'm unable to select an option, only scroll up or down and highlight them. then the phone cuts out and 20 secs. later attempts to turn on again but never gets past the motorola icon. Any suggestions? I originally thought it was the battery so i ordered one and installed it correctly and charged it, but still the same thing is happening. When plugged into a pc, charge light comes on but phone won't attempt to turn on....?????????
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Our phone doesn't receive power from the cable until it's fully booted. Factory cables are a good work around.
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I have the same problem.
I think it's impossible to fix.
I tested with original charger.
I have also tried every possible button combinations.
and does not start
Has anyone been able to fix it?
So I bought the T-Mobile 8X on the 16th and today at worked it completely bricked. It was plugged in charging and all I did was hit the power button to see if I had any text and the screen wouldn't turn on. Have tried everything from removing and re-inserting SIM, holding power button with a variety of buttons for 15-20 seconds, etc. Seems the phone is completely dead. Has anyone else run into this issue? And are there any other suggestions on how to maybe get back on? At this point I don't care if I have to hard reset it. I just want the damn thing working again.
Thanks.
KeyzerSoze said:
So I bought the T-Mobile 8X on the 16th and today at worked it completely bricked. It was plugged in charging and all I did was hit the power button to see if I had any text and the screen wouldn't turn on. Have tried everything from removing and re-inserting SIM, holding power button with a variety of buttons for 15-20 seconds, etc. Seems the phone is completely dead. Has anyone else run into this issue? And are there any other suggestions on how to maybe get back on? At this point I don't care if I have to hard reset it. I just want the damn thing working again.
Thanks.
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I'm telling you this not because I believe it's the case but still...
I have the HD7 (my Lumia 810 is due tomorrow) also made by HTC and for 7 months now it's been suffering from an issue where it would get stuck in charge mode after I unplugged it from the charger. The ONLY way to turn the phone off is to remove the battery. Holding down the power button, the hard reset combo (V+ V- and power), etc had no effect. Pulling the battery was the only way to use my phone. This happened maybe 40% of the time I unplugged the phone. What about the other 60% you ask? Well, half of that 60% the phone would behave normally until the next charge. But the other half of the time (this could be the scenario your phone is experiencing), it would appear normal until I'd get a text or an alarm would go off. Then I'd grab the phone and couldn't turn it on (in the alarm scenario, the alarm would be going off but I couldn't turn the phone on without pulling the battery.
Long story short, I'd read other accounts like this (most attributed it to a faulty micro usb port, but not sure if that was ever verified) and this was definitely one of the reasons I shied away from both HTC and from phones without removable batteries. My HD7 has been a bit annoying these last few months, but at least I could use the phone each day after a 30 second chore of removing the battery. If the HD7 had a irremovable battery I'd have been forced to ship it to HTC (out of warranty since it happened the 2nd year) and be without my phone for several weeks, if not longer.
That's good to know. I ended up going for an exchange. If this one bricks again it will be my last.
sounds like your phone was stuck in download mode. just hold both vol up and vol down for 2 minutes then press and hold power button while still holding vol buttons until phone vibrates. then the phone will power on.
My T-Mobile branded 8x has been in for repair 5 times. I've only owned it since April. HTC has escalated my ticket and are actually swapping the device. My most recent failure was exactly as you described...It happened about 1 day after I got it back from repair! I had it plugged into the car charger. I used the GPS of and on for my 2 hour drive. I got to my destination, unplugged it, made a phone call, and put it in my pocket. About 5 mins later, I pulled it out to make another phone call, and the screen was black. No combination of button holding would make it do anything... I then plugged it into the car charger, and it vibrated, showed me the HTC splash screen, went black, and then repeated that sequence. No amount of funky power-camera-volume button holding would get it to kick into any other mode.
Save your receipt. A lot of these phones were made in the december/january timeframe. HTC will need it eventually to "re-align" the warranty after the phone is past the date of manufacture.
Luckily, I picked up a Lumia 521 for $35 when Target had it mis-listed on their website.
If you are curious, here is my long history with my 8X:
1. Phone purchased mid-April, 2013. Brand new.
2. Phone quickly developed the "Peeling Edges" issue, where the rubber coating was wearing off around the edges. Sent it in for repair around Early November.
3. Phone worked great for two weeks, then started acting like the power button was randomly getting stuck down...phone would boot loop, I could enter various other modes by holding camera and volume buttons without touching the power button.
4. Sent it out for repair again. This time the touchscreen screen had a "Dead area" about 2/3 of the way down from the top.
5. Sent it in for repair AGAIN. This time it came back and everything was working fine. Then about a month later, the camera stopped working.
6. Sent it in for repair AGAIN. The unit I received back worked for 1 day, then died just like the OP's....
Hey all had my first phone about 9 months. It would not charge once, and eventually went to 0% and was fully dead. At first it got replaced with a new battery. I then went to hand the phone in once again! a month after... the battery was lasting half the day where as before it would just last me the whole day.
They sent me out a new handset (after i threatened them with the law (i have no insurance- however the phone is not lost, damaged or stolen)).
Now iv not noticed any problems with the handset.. I recently upgraded to the new firmware uk generic.. The phone went to 0% for the first time ever. I try to charge it and it does not charge. I have left the phone plugged in with the power button stuck down for an hour. And now what happens is, the phone boots to the load screen and just as the interface loads up it says Power off shutting down. And then keeps turning off and on off and on.. The phone will still not charge when turned off, but i cant get the phone to load up and start charging ?
Any help appreciated iv started to have enough of Sony these past two years
Thank you
Warwick
After continuously trying to boot the phone. It eventually goes dead again. I can charge the battery a little bit by holding the power button down. But then the light turns green thinking it must have enough charge to boot (but hasnt)
Is there a way to keep the force charging on for longer rather then it rebooting itself forever?
killa92 said:
After continuously trying to boot the phone. It eventually goes dead again. I can charge the battery a little bit by holding the power button down. But then the light turns green thinking it must have enough charge to boot (but hasnt)
Is there a way to keep the force charging on for longer rather then it rebooting itself forever?
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Keep the power button pressed with a rubber band while it's connected to the charger. Leave it for a couple of hours.
Why will the rubber help catalyse the battery?
killa92 said:
Why will the rubber help catalyse the battery?
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For some reason keeping the button pressed will allow the phone to charge. If you don't believe me Google it. I did, tried it, worked for me and was able to flash another FTF... not a big deal.
I think you misread my first post mate lol I was joking about the rubber
I'd already stuck the power button down. It's sorted now though but thanks for the post
I was on the phone, calling, and the phone suddenly slip from my hand, hit the table and land on the floor. I don't use any case. I check my 1 month old one mini 2 and the screen is off, trying to turn it on again and nothing happen. the device still on stock rom, not rooted. Battery was about 80% before it fell. I tried combination power + vol up button at 1 solid minutes and nothing happen. I tried to charge and LED wasn't turn on.
now I just charge it, but I check that neither phone and charger warm, just like when I do normal charging. I mean, WHY HTC?? it's only fell half meter and it now broke??
if anyone have this issue, are there any other solution beside send it to HTC? someone please help me.
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I was on the phone, calling, and the phone suddenly slip from my hand, hit the table and land on the floor. I don't use any case. I check my 1 month old one mini 2 and the screen is off, trying to turn it on again and nothing happen. the device still on stock rom, not rooted. Battery was about 80% before it fell. I tried combination power + vol up button at 1 solid minutes and nothing happen. I tried to charge and LED wasn't turn on.
now I just charge it, but I check that neither phone and charger warm, just like when I do normal charging. I mean, WHY HTC?? it's only fell half meter and it now broke??
if anyone have this issue, are there any other solution beside send it to HTC? someone please help me.
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if theres no marks, just send it to HTC and they will fix it.
just dont tell them about the fall and youll be fine.
They usually fix everything for free anyway.
They didnt charge to put back bootloader and stoxk rom.
Hi,
My brother's Z1 got in to a pool yesterday. After a couple of minutes, the phone shut down, and then turned back on. When it turned on and he got to the homescreen, the phone was working all by itself, randomly opned apps and was shut down, and then started again. And it went on like this for a couple of hours.
I told him to open all the flops, remove SD card and SIM card and whenever the phone turned on, hold the power button and the volup up button, so it didn't turn on. Today, the phone's battery was dead, so he had to charge it in order to turn the phone on. The problem is when he connects the charger, the red led begins to blink and the phone vibrates in three times rows. Like it vibrates three times, takes a little break, and then vibrates three times again.
Any suggestions, or are the phone completly dead? :/
Thanks
Skanin said:
Hi,
My brother's Z1 got in to a pool yesterday. After a couple of minutes, the phone shut down, and then turned back on. When it turned on and he got to the homescreen, the phone was working all by itself, randomly opned apps and was shut down, and then started again. And it went on like this for a couple of hours.
I told him to open all the flops, remove SD card and SIM card and whenever the phone turned on, hold the power button and the volup up button, so it didn't turn on. Today, the phone's battery was dead, so he had to charge it in order to turn the phone on. The problem is when he connects the charger, the red led begins to blink and the phone vibrates in three times rows. Like it vibrates three times, takes a little break, and then vibrates three times again.
Any suggestions, or are the phone completly dead? :/
Thanks
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If your lucky it could be a faulty cable as my phone did the same thing until i got a brand new cable, it seems unlikely that the phone is dead if you get some responsiveness however it's still a possibility, i'd put the phone in a bag of rice with all the flaps open and all the cards removed, and leave it in the bag for around 48 hours, then attempt to power the phone back on.