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[Q] hard bricked or power issues

My one wont charge or boot. I had it in a pocket in my uniform all day. I only noticed it stop working when I was leaving at the end of the day. I have a black screen and no amount of holding down power or volume keys will do anything. It wont hard reset and I cannot get to the bootloader. I dont get the charging light when I plug it into the computer or charger, however it does get pretty hot as if it is charging. I didnt do any serious software modding to it as I only unlocked the bootloader, installed twrp, and installed ARHD 9.4. Not sure what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

leetlikeawping said:
My one wont charge or boot. I had it in a pocket in my uniform all day. I only noticed it stop working when I was leaving at the end of the day. I have a black screen and no amount of holding down power or volume keys will do anything. It wont hard reset and I cannot get to the bootloader. I dont get the charging light when I plug it into the computer or charger, however it does get pretty hot as if it is charging. I didnt do any serious software modding to it as I only unlocked the bootloader, installed twrp, and installed ARHD 9.4. Not sure what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Sounds like the device is "on" but it's locked up with the screen off. When you're holding down the PWR + VOL DOWN button(for at least ~10-15seconds), are you in a brightly lit room or can you shine at light at the sensor? I know it sounds nuts, but there seems to be some safeguard on HTC's part that it will check the light sensor before rebooting in case the buttons get pushed in your pockets.
Alternatively, plug it into your computer and use ADB(or the All in One Toolkit) to issue the "adb reboot recovery" command.

unremarked said:
Sounds like the device is "on" but it's locked up with the screen off. When you're holding down the PWR + VOL DOWN button(for at least ~10-15seconds), are you in a brightly lit room or can you shine at light at the sensor? I know it sounds nuts, but there seems to be some safeguard on HTC's part that it will check the light sensor before rebooting in case the buttons get pushed in your pockets.
Alternatively, plug it into your computer and use ADB(or the All in One Toolkit) to issue the "adb reboot recovery" command.
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So i tried it in a very lit room but still nothing. I tried adb before but my computer is not even seeing the device. "adb devices" shows nothing and its not a driver issue because I am running linux and I was able to fastboot and adb this device before.
I was thinking the same thing that its kinda frozen. I never thought that not being able to access the battery would be an issue but in this situation it would be extremly helpfull. Maybe all I can do is wait until I am sure the battery is dead and try and charge it and see if the charging light comes on. This really sucks...

leetlikeawping said:
So i tried it in a very lit room but still nothing. I tried adb before but my computer is not even seeing the device. "adb devices" shows nothing and its not a driver issue because I am running linux and I was able to fastboot and adb this device before.
I was thinking the same thing that its kinda frozen. I never thought that not being able to access the battery would be an issue but in this situation it would be extremly helpfull. Maybe all I can do is wait until I am sure the battery is dead and try and charge it and see if the charging light comes on. This really sucks...
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I just had this happen to me and I followed these instructions and held it closer to the light and it came back on.

[Q] Xperia Z Wont turn un unless usb connected

Hello
Recently i've bought an broken screen Xperia Z, for repair it (i got it like $300 bucks cheaper) and i was ready to buy the screen, but i battery was drained and i could not test it right, when i connected to the charger, it started red light, vibrate, then 3 continuous vibes, read on the internet, OK BATTERY DRAINED, i left it charge THE WHOLE NIGHT, and when i woke up in the morning it was orange (charging), later in the day it was green (charged) but when i disconnect it, it wont turn on anyways, when i connect it to a pc, it goes blue light (wich later i read it was fastboot mode). i read for making a repair with PCC, but it didnt fixed it, then i flashed it with Flashtool, with the latest software (wich had the Sudden death issue fixed) no luck. it wont boot. for it to boot, i have to connect it to PC and with fastboot run "fastboot continue", but most of the time, it reboots and goes redlight and vibrate 3 times then reboot, so i press the power button and it enters fastboot mode (if connected to PC) or loads charging if connected to wall charger, but it reboots again and goes to redlight vibrate reboot, sometimes it stay charging or in fastboot mode, but only "works" if connected in the USB.
when it stays in fastboot, i do "fastboot continue" and it loads the OS, and it works (well, the things i can do with a broken LCD/Touchscreen, i put my sim card and could call it, and it works, but i cant pick up the call). i can explore the phone memory etc. but if it reboots or if i disconnect the USB, it will almost always turn off. i havn't found a solution (or idea) of what can happen, i dont know if its normal since it has broken lcd/touchscreen or it definitely have a huge problem,
any ideas?
thanks in advance!

Maybe the battery is damaged, and the phone knows it and boots into some sort of safe mode to spare internal damage? When the is has booted you can take screenshots with adb if you have usb debugging enabled. Maybe try see if the os says the battery is damaged?
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using Tapatalk 2

heavy_metal_man said:
Maybe the battery is damaged, and the phone knows it and boots into some sort of safe mode to spare internal damage? When the is has booted you can take screenshots with adb if you have usb debugging enabled. Maybe try see if the os says the battery is damaged?
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Well, actually it doesnt seem the battery is damaged, fisically looks ok and it holds charge, i cant debug because usb debugging comes off by default when flash stock software.

blackknigt said:
Well, actually it doesnt seem the battery is damaged, fisically looks ok and it holds charge, i cant debug because usb debugging comes off by default when flash stock software.
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Correct me if i am wrong but does the xperia z not support usg-otg and mhl? You could rig the phone up to the tv with a mhl-hdmi cable and maybe use a usb mouse to select things, and enable usb debugging?
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Nice idea, now i need to find who in this country (DR) have that adapter

i ordered the LCD screen assembly for repair it myself, but im still concerned about this, as i dont know if it will boot up anyways
my phone right now isnt booting. but as i cant see images i dont know what is it showing.
i noticed the touch screen is working indeed. (when booted, it plays sounds when tapping)
i will wait till the lcd assembly arrives. any ways, any other ideas on what may happen?
the ex-owner of the phone said it started like that when it fell and broke the lcd.

OK now, i've installed the LCD, the phone works, its ON, BUT the Volume Up button and the Power Button does not work when the phone is ON,
the Vol UP button seems always be pressed cause when i press the power button for some seconds, the Phone restarts and not power off or lock/unlock
Service tests: None of these buttons where recognized.
any ideas on any hardware fixes i could try?

I FIXED IT!!
dissasembled the phone, took out the side button flex cable and the volume up button on the flex was dirty, so it was having a false contact. (wich made the button always be pressed)
I took out the yellow tape and cleaned with alcohol and a needle (its so freakin small) and put the tape again and assembled the phone and voila! IT WORKS OK!!

Yes the vol up button pressed means u get fastboot. Now that you fixed the problem and repaired the phone enjoy. Btw nice job getting it up and running.
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[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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Xperia SP is Dead

HELP! My Xperia SP is dead after unlocking bootloader with official way!
It won't turn on even when I tried to boot it up by connecting via usb to laptop.
I tried to charge it, but it's useless
I also tried to force restart it from restart button but it doesn't wake up
HELPP! :crying:
#UPDATE: By some miracle, the phone boots itself up and get working again. All apps are gone (like factory reset). It shut down about 2 hours then suddenly it came back to life. Still don't get it why this can be happening though. But thank God!

reynaldi3 said:
HELP! My Xperia SP is dead after unlocking bootloader with official way!
It won't turn on even when I tried to boot it up by connecting via usb to laptop.
I tried to charge it, but it's useless
I also tried to force restart it from restart button but it doesn't wake up
HELPP! :crying:
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Have you tried the OFF button on the back?

You should try to connect your phone to pc, press volume button and keep it pressed. Then without releasing the volume button, press the restart button on the back until you see the led (blue or green depending on the volume you pressed). This means you have at the same time : usb + volume + reset button on the back.
You should keep it pressed during 3 to 15 seconds. If this doesn't work, put your phone to charge (on wall charger and preferably with stock charger) during 1-2 hours and try again.

Try reflash a stock ftf

Please provide more information to the things you did. Did you use EMMA or FLASHTOOL?

TLDGames said:
Have you tried the OFF button on the back?
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Yes, I tried but it still doesn't work, the phone heats up while there is no sign of life. But after 2 hours it turns back on! Weird
pec0ra said:
You should try to connect your phone to pc, press volume button and keep it pressed. Then without releasing the volume button, press the restart button on the back until you see the led (blue or green depending on the volume you pressed). This means you have at the same time : usb + volume + reset button on the back.
You should keep it pressed during 3 to 15 seconds. If this doesn't work, put your phone to charge (on wall charger and preferably with stock charger) during 1-2 hours and try again.
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I did that multiple times but there was no sign of life. No led pulse, dead screen, but only warm phone. But it came back on after 2 hours
lucasgta95 said:
Try reflash a stock ftf
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I can't since it won't connect to anything (wall charger, usb, etc). But thank God it has come to life !
Furrydaus said:
Please provide more information to the things you did. Did you use EMMA or FLASHTOOL?
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I use cmd since flashtool won't recognize my phone even I have install the correct driver. I read all the instructions from Sony web about unlocking bootloader and I suffer this situation. But after 2 hours it turns back on...

reynaldi3 said:
I use cmd since flashtool won't recognize my phone even I have install the correct driver. I read all the instructions from Sony web about unlocking bootloader and I suffer this situation. But after 2 hours it turns back on...
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You should have followed the unofficiall methods and not sony

reynaldi3 said:
I did that multiple times but there was no sign of life. No led pulse, dead screen, but only warm phone. But it came back on after 2 hours
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I have the same problem now and you made my hopes up. I was on PAC rom, normally working, but when i picked up my phone, it wasn't responding, OFF button isn't doing anything and my PC even doesn't recognize the phone over USB. So i hope it will be working again later. :fingers-crossed:
Edit: 12 hours later and still no signs of life, so im' doiwnloading ftf and i'm going to try flashing it...

Make sure you have the driver installed for your phone.
1. Download, install and run the driver update utility. Here's the link where you can download it.
http://www.driverscape.com/download/xperia-sp
2. If it doesn't detect your phone, download flashtool from here:
http://www.flashtool.net/downloads.php
Make sure you have the latest ftf image in order to flash to your phone. You can download from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2311964
3. Make sure your phone is off by force shut down (clicking the OFF hard key in the back)
4. Open flashtool. Press and hold the volume down key and then connect your phone to the computer by USB.
5. The notification bar will light green indicating that it is connected in flash mode.
You can then follow instructions on how to flash through Google search. If you are able to reach step 5 and don't know how to flash, let me know.

daubh said:
Make sure you have the driver installed for your phone.
1. Download, install and run the driver update utility. Here's the link where you can download it.
http://www.driverscape.com/download/xperia-sp
2. If it doesn't detect your phone, download flashtool from here:
http://www.flashtool.net/downloads.php
Make sure you have the latest ftf image in order to flash to your phone. You can download from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2311964
3. Make sure your phone is off by force shut down (clicking the OFF hard key in the back)
4. Open flashtool. Press and hold the volume down key and then connect your phone to the computer by USB.
5. The notification bar will light green indicating that it is connected in flash mode.
You can then follow instructions on how to flash through Google search. If you are able to reach step 5 and don't know how to flash, let me know.
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Thanks, i know how to flash ftf, but my phone shows no signs of life, when plugged to charger, the LED doesn't light up and i can't go to flash mode aswell. So now it seems that the only thing i can do is to take my phone to repair, as it seems there is some hardware problem...

Dead Xperia SP Also
I have same situation since 21st of December.. I left my Phone on. When I was going to bed. I woke Up and saw this fuzzy blank grey screen, then I pressed the reset button at the back of the phone thinking all will be fine, But since then I've been battling with it. First, No sign of life after plugging, then a day later after I left it connected to my PC, The LED LIGHT turned red, but dead screen. About 15MINS later it goes off, Then comes up again (LED LIGHT) I've tried connecting to PC, it recognises it for about 4seconds and it disconnects automatically, I've tried practically all the method I saw on here.. Rubber band trick,leaving it to charge all night connected to wall charger / PC..All proved abortive, I have been trying to get the MAGIC green LED LIGHT (FLASHMODE) but it never works.. I took it to a repair shop (NOT SONY) He said he only deals with HARDWARE that it wasn't hardware problem, and they then went ahead to flash it.. (I'm out of warranty) STILL NO LUCK.. I'll be glad if anyone can guide me through or come up with a Plausible SOLUTION, 'cause my BREAK has been horrible since my PHONE went M.I.A..... Thank you GUYS

So, finally I'm going to pick up my repaired SP :fingers-crossed:. They thought it was a problem caused by the reset button pushed too hard, but since they've informed me they've changed whole motherboard, the problem must have been somwhere else, maybe they'll tell me where.
(And it seems that despite the fact i've unlocked the bootloader and flashed ROM on it, they will accept it as a warranty repair, because i think they weren't able to get to know that )

My XSP must really hate me. After less than a week since i've picked it up from the repair, it's dead again (everything tried - reset button, leaving it to charge, usb) with no signs of life ... I guess there must be a much bigger problem than just motherboard That means another two weeks with my old slow LG OO. I'm gonna die without it, i've maintained almost a month without it back then, but i had a tablet borrowed for a review. Now it's worse...
Maybe they should give me another XSP instead of trying to repair this one again...

have you considered about the battery?
the battery might be dead for all we know

That may be the problem, but i must also keep in mind that it had its motherboard changed a week ago. Anyway, i took it to the service again, they also said that charger may be causing it, but battery seems more logical to me as there were no problems with charging.
So i have to wait another two long weeks and then i'll know what was it...

Oneplus 3t not work

Hi all .. I have a phone but nothing appears on the screen and when I connect the phone to the charger shows the sign of the charger until the green sign appears, which means full battery .. What do these things show? Is the screen damaged or motherboard problem ? Please Help

Try holding the power button down for 10 seconds or more, and see if there is any change. Also try power+vol up (which normally boots to bootloader) and hold for 10 seconds or more.
Jnoubileb said:
when I connect the phone to the charger shows the sign of the charger
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You mean the charging animation on the screen, or just the LED charge light?
If it's showing the charge animation, your screen is okay. And at least have a working bootloader, as well.

redpoint73 said:
Try holding the power button down for 10 seconds or more, and see if there is any change. Also try power+vol up (which normally boots to bootloader) and hold for 10 seconds or more.
You mean the charging animation on the screen, or just the LED charge light?
If it's showing the charge animation, your screen is okay. And at least have a working bootloader, as well.
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thanks for your replying >>
i mean the led charge light ..also when i connect my phone to laptop , all files on memory appear

Jnoubileb said:
thanks for your replying >>
i mean the led charge light ..also when i connect my phone to laptop , all files on memory appear
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I gave another suggestion about holding the power/vol buttons. I have no idea if you tried, and if so, whether there was any change.
Reading the files on internal storage to me, means the phone is booted to OS. So I agree that it appears the phone is on, but screen is either not working, or somehow darkened all the way.
What is the history of this device, and did anything happen before the current condition? Did it just happen spontaneously, or did you drop it or try to open it to fix anything? Try to install anything? Is the phone modified at all (TWRP, root, etc.) or basically still stock? Even if it happened spontaneously, did it happen when you were using it (and if so, what were you doing exactly)? Or just picked it up and it was this way?

I try to press power button 10 sec and more and power+ vol+ nothing happened on screen just vibrate ....the problem for my phone appear without any open to phone

Jnoubileb said:
I try to press power button 10 sec and more and power+ vol+ nothing happened on screen just vibrate ....the problem for my phone appear without any open to phone
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Do you have debugging turned on? Know how to use adb?

i think is on before the problem appear

Jnoubileb said:
i think is on before the problem appear
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Then connect the phone to a computer, type:
adb devices
And see if your phone's ID is returned, or if there is an error or just hangs "Waiting for device".
If it returns your phone's ID, then the phone is booted to OS (or alternately, booted to custom recovery will also allow adb connection). So to me, this means the phone is on, but the screen is not working (not displaying anything) like you suggested. adb won't connect if the phone is not on (and booted to OS).

redpoint73 said:
Then connect the phone to a computer, type:
adb devices
And see if your phone's ID is returned, or if there is an error or just hangs "Waiting for device".
If it returns your phone's ID, then the phone is booted to OS (or alternately, booted to custom recovery will also allow adb connection). So to me, this means the phone is on, but the screen is not working (not displaying anything) like you suggested. adb won't connect if the phone is not on (and booted to OS).
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the phone now on mtp mode
C:\WINDOWS\system32>adb devices
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
3a55e345 unauthorized

So it looks like adb is connecting. I think it is saying "unauthorized" since the phone's screen is trying to prompt you to authorize adb commands (which you obviously can't see or respond to). But it is obtaining the device's ID code. Which by the way, is unique to your device. So I would advise to remove it from your previous post. Don't know if it is dangerous for other folks to have this, but better safe than sorry. Simply telling us that an ID code was returned, would have been sufficient.
Moral of the story, I am thinking the phone is booted to OS, just the screen is not displaying anything. Screen may be broken, as you somewhat were guessing from your top post. I suppose there is a possibility it may be some software fault. You can try to eliminate this as the cause, by possibly booting to bootloader, which should allow fastboot access, then flash a stock recovery image. Although it may be tricky without seeing the display. Since if you need to see the display, or select anything during the process (don't recall if you do or not), you are out of luck.
Although I tend to think this is a hardware issue. Screen may be malfunctioning. Or it may be as simple as a loose connector.