Hi all,
A week ago, my power button and volume rocker broke, and ever since then I've been trying to live with it until I get a new phone. I opened the phone up and saw the damage: The flex cable was torn beyond repair. Today, however, I stupidly forgot to charge my phone and it's battery died. Is there any way for me to turn the phone on and get all of my data before switching to a new one?
Thanks.
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so i am thinking this was a port surge or similar. I had plugged my diamond into my pc (dell laptop) and was only connected to activesync, not flashing nothing.
I uunplugged it to do a reset and go into rom flash mode to load a new rom and it went blank.
the sequence was:
Hold power button down
Got shutdownXP
Chose soft rest
held volume down button
removed usb cable
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Nothing!
tried leaving battery out, checked power button functionality, pressed reset pin several times both with and without volume and/or power button held.
only thing i have yet to try is another battery which i will do tonight.
has anyone come accross this or have any ideas as to what it may be?
I figure best course of action is to buy new phone and/or source replacement mainboard.
and speaking of new mainboard, anyone know where to get one lol
Update:
Came home and put in original battery, phone started up...great. powered off cleanly, tried the battery it died with and now it's dead again. put original battery back in and it;s dead.
seems strange to me, is there some kind of overload timeout or something? i have three batteries and none work now. will leave it a bit longer again and try again later.
Yeah, if a different battery doesn't make any difference and you can't boot up or anything then you're due for a replacement. Look on ebay if you really wanna get a mainboard.
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....
I had A LOT of charging issues right out of the box when I got my first TL in April. The main issue was it had to be powered on to charge. Not a helpful situation when the Battery is at Zero. I had to do the workarounds just to get it to power on, and that was rarely successful the first try. It would also power down at 20% and record a different % when powered back on.
The last time it died it took being plugged in for over 12 hours to power back on. When It finally came to life, the touch screen was unresponsive, and any attempt to repair it VIA PC Companion or other programs failed. PC Companion would not recognize it being turned off + VOL Down, this likely tied to the fact that it would not charge if it was powered off.
Talked to Sony, They said mail it in. Luckily AT&T has two warranty repair centers close by. Tech Guy tried to hard reset it (Did that a 1,000 times myself) Power + Volume Up until 3 vibrates. When that failed, he Overnighted me a replacement no questions asked.
Got the new one today FedEx from Texas. Just the phone, no cables or box. I have to return the Borked one in the container this one arrived in FOC. First thing I do is plug it in. It Charges While Off!!! It gives the classic battery level indicator if the power button is tapped! The LED glows green when plugged in and asleep!
TLDR: If your TL or any Xperia does not charge the way you are used to a phone charging, this is not a simple glitch. Your phone is likely to fail and you should take it in and get it swapped via Warranty. Try your provider first
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Update: Have had the phone for almost 3 weeks and have not had a single problem! Battery percentage is correct, it will charge via any method, be it car/USB/wall.
Same problem here. I called them last night. Charged overnight, but when I got up, same issue. I'll call today and get another (my 2nd) phone.
So hi,
A couple weeks ago my Xperia Z started acting weird it was plugged in the wall charging. Like I would wake up in the morning, take the cable out of the phone and the led would just stay one and the phone wouldn't respond at all (screen wouldn't turn on nor did it do anything when I would play with volume buttons The only thing that would getting to respond was the old volume up + volume down + power button combination that would reboot the phone.
It's been doing that at least six or seven times since, and it happened last night. It was plugged, I went to turn on the screen and didn't work. Figured it was the same problem as before so I tried to reboot it. Led went off, phone went off, only this time it didn't reboot. I've tried leaving it plugged in the wall for the rest of the night, nothing. It's 1h45 p.m here in France and my phone doesn't do anything since 3 a.m.
So yeah, I think the issue has to do with the battery, and my question is: is there anything I can try or do I send it straight to customer care after contacting them?
Hi all,
a few days ago I accidentaly dropped my Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 to the sink full of water. Immediatelly I get it out and removed its battery. Afterward I removed the inner rear cover, and waited till it dried out (couple of hours), but during the reassembly the power key flex hes been broken. My first thought was that it won't be turned on again, but surprisingly after I connected the charger to the phone, it turned on. I was happy, but some days later I turned the phone off (removed the battery) and I cannot repoduce the turning-on manouver.
Now, when I plug in the charger it indicates that it charges, but I cannot power on the phone. The question is if I order a power key flex replecment part, or it went wrong, and cannot be helped. I've tried to short-circuit the rest of the power stuff on the motherboard, but no reaction. But it still responses to the charger.
The other question is can I turn it on to check if it is good, only the flex is needed (maybe some kind of Schmitt trigger or something else is needet to the turnin-on process in the short-circuiting). I don't want to spend money for it, if it is a brick.
Aron
there's apps in the playstore that you can remap the buttons... hmmm now how to turn it on?
EDIT: I just copied this from another forum., not even sure if it'll work on our i9000 but worth a try... Volume down, Home button and plugging in a charger or usb into a computer as if charging. Then press the volume down to reboot.