Apparently Im a complete noob and didn't realize there was a thread for this. Please delete my post :[
A few months ago I was trying to flash something and ended up, I think, bricking my phone. Looking at the contents of the sdcard, I was flashing one of the following, but Im not sure which:
-spl-zigned.zip
-G1-radio-2_22_23_02.zip
-update-cm-6.0.0-DS-RC1-signed.zip
-recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
I remember while I was booting into recovery after a flash of one of those, as I let go of the home button, I accidentally pressed it again. Not sure if that caused this, but that's all I can think of.
My phone will not start up with any combination of buttons.
Here's what I've observed:
-When plugged in to the wall or computer with battery I get a red LED forever.
-When plugged in to the wall or computer without battery I get no LED.
-Red LED goes off either when unplugged, battery removed, or power button is pressed.
-Red LED only comes back after removing and replacing both the battery and plug at the same time.
The only reason I think this may not be a brick is because all the bricks I've read about have been a boot loop, or stuck somewhere; I haven't read anyone complaining about their phone showing no signs of life.
Sorry for the long post, I'm just trying to be thorough.
Thanks for any help and all the response :]
UndeniablyRexer said:
Apparently Im a complete noob and didn't realize there was a thread for this. Please delete my post :[
A few months ago I was trying to flash something and ended up, I think, bricking my phone. Looking at the contents of the sdcard, I was flashing one of the following, but Im not sure which:
-spl-zigned.zip
-G1-radio-2_22_23_02.zip
-update-cm-6.0.0-DS-RC1-signed.zip
-recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
I remember while I was booting into recovery after a flash of one of those, as I let go of the home button, I accidentally pressed it again. Not sure if that caused this, but that's all I can think of.
My phone will not start up with any combination of buttons.
Here's what I've observed:
-When plugged in to the wall or computer with battery I get a red LED forever.
-When plugged in to the wall or computer without battery I get no LED.
-Red LED goes off either when unplugged, battery removed, or power button is pressed.
-Red LED only comes back after removing and replacing both the battery and plug at the same time.
The only reason I think this may not be a brick is because all the bricks I've read about have been a boot loop, or stuck somewhere; I haven't read anyone complaining about their phone showing no signs of life.
Sorry for the long post, I'm just trying to be thorough.
Thanks for any help and all the response :]
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The only one of those that I would suspect of causing a brick is the spl... but that would depend on which spl it actually is.
More likely, I suspect that you just broke something rather than bricking. You don't mention taking steps to get into recovery or fastboot.... so I suspect that you didn't try.
1) What happens when you try to turn it on with just the power button?
2) Hold HOME and press the power button?
3) Hold BACK and press the power button?
4) Hold CAMERA and press the power button?
Hello,
I've just installed this ROM after wiping Cache/Delvik Cache and system wipe.
Now the phone is stuck on the boot screen and I can not get back into recovery to sort it out.
I held down power & vol+ buttons to get into recovery but nothing happens. The Home & Back buttons flash after 3 seconds then nothing happens.
Any thing else I should do to get into recovery ( TWRP)
My friend whop is a member asked this question on the Developers forum and so far no luck.
we have tried the following:
This is suggested by chogardjr: Plug your phone in to charge. Don't use a USB port for power. After you plug it in try the hard reboot again.
PLEASE HELP
Just for the sake of testing... Have him hold power without holding the volume. It should force reboot, not to the bootloader, so he can get a feel for how the reboot works. It can be finicky during a bootloop cause there are processes trying to run in the background. But it should do it if you hold power long enough.
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Also find out if the charge light comes on when he plus it in.
Tried and no joy.......
rking786 said:
Hello,
I've just installed this ROM after wiping Cache/Delvik Cache and system wipe.
Now the phone is stuck on the boot screen and I can not get back into recovery to sort it out.
I held down power & vol+ buttons to get into recovery but nothing happens. The Home & Back buttons flash after 3 seconds then nothing happens.
Any thing else I should do to get into recovery ( TWRP)
My friend whop is a member asked this question on the Developers forum and so far no luck.
we have tried the following:
This is suggested by chogardjr: Plug your phone in to charge. Don't use a USB port for power. After you plug it in try the hard reboot again.
PLEASE HELP
Just for the sake of testing... Have him hold power without holding the volume. It should force reboot, not to the bootloader, so he can get a feel for how the reboot works. It can be finicky during a bootloop cause there are processes trying to run in the background. But it should do it if you hold power long enough.
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Also find out if the charge light comes on when he plus it in.
Tried and no joy.......
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I had a similar problem with a bad kernel flash and could not get the device to shut all the way off - thats why the keys are blinking. I plugged it in to a charger, left it like that for a few seconds, then unplugged, held it under a bright light and waited. After a few more seconds, it shut all the way down and I was able to boot to recovery in the usual way (power+down). You may have to try combinations or maybe not. But, you won't get to recovery until the phone shuts all the way down. High light under in the 'eyes', plugging and unplugging, and holding the power button for up to 30 seconds are all known ways to do this, but as was said before a bootloop has processes trying to run, so the machine can be 'confused' and have difficulty shutting down. Hope you are successful...
Thanks. I actually got it going with one of the answers posted for me, by powering it off under a bright light.
Sounds daft, but it works.
This just happened to me, and after some searching here and elsewhere I found that it seems to be an unsettlingly common issue. What was worse is the only solutions anyone had was RMA/replacement. Well, I called HTC customer service and the woman I spoke to was very helpful
She told me that the charging mode may need to be reset and gave the following instructions.
1. Turn phone OFF
2. Let charge for AT LEAST 10mins even if it doesn't look like it's charging (mine DID show the new charging animation)
3. Press and hold POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN for AT LEAST 2mins. Anything less will not reset the charge mode.
4. After 2mins release the buttons and the phone should boot as normal.
My phone is now charging normally.
Thx for share
Sent from my HTC 802w
Thanks for sharing, saved my device This info should be added to some sort of reference thread its very useful.
KiamatDusk said:
This just happened to me, and after some searching here and elsewhere I found that it seems to be an unsettlingly common issue. What was worse is the only solutions anyone had was RMA/replacement. Well, I called HTC customer service and the woman I spoke to was very helpful
She told me that the charging mode may need to be reset and gave the following instructions.
1. Turn phone OFF
2. Let charge for AT LEAST 10mins even if it doesn't look like it's charging (mine DID show the new charging animation)
3. Press and hold POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN for AT LEAST 2mins. Anything less will not reset the charge mode.
4. After 2mins release the buttons and the phone should boot as normal.
My phone is now charging normally.
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Is it supposed to be showing that HTC startup screen and like cycling through the beginning of an attempted reboot while I'm holding in the 3 buttons, or have I done it wrong every time?
Some notification will appear on the screen?
I hold the 3 buttons, and htc one is restarting continuously. 2 minutes and 30 seconds
And it did not work, still only charging power off.
leandroch said:
Some notification will appear on the screen?
I hold the 3 buttons, and htc one is restarting continuously. 2 minutes and 30 seconds
And it did not work, still only charging power off.
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Didn't work for me either.
I have to reboot to be able to charge with wall charger like it was before...
Thanks anyway:good:
I would put money down that the cause of this is those crappy usb ports my HD2 had exactly the same problem few years back and people realized it was the charging port getting rusted and shorting something in there causing the phone to act funny.
Time will tell...
leandroch said:
Some notification will appear on the screen?
I hold the 3 buttons, and htc one is restarting continuously. 2 minutes and 30 seconds
And it did not work, still only charging power off.
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This was a while ago, but I don't recall mine power cycling; it stayed off the entire time.
leandroch said:
Some notification will appear on the screen?
I hold the 3 buttons, and htc one is restarting continuously. 2 minutes and 30 seconds
And it did not work, still only charging power off.
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There were no notifications on the screen.
Help please
Hello mates, I have a question about my HTC One.
yesterday my home screen start to rotate like im on a website or something. i know this is not normal because i have for 6 months now and know that home screen canr rotate. It doesnt matter really if the rotate function is turned off or on.
And then it stops and everything is ok..and later on again.
I tried to reset my phone to factory and same thing after 20 min, but i noticed that happens after CAR app jumps out by itself without opening it.
And when i make a call i got speaker on automatically, like he thinks hes in a car mode. and i cant remove this app cause its custom built.
Also cant charge phone when in usb host mode appears often, then i reboot him and he charges.
I really dont know what can i do..anyone know something please help.
Thx in advance
Charging fix.
I was having the same problem with charging my HTC One. I contacted HTC and they told me to do the following which worked:
Step 1: Power off the device
Step 2: Press the Power button to initiate booting sequence and wait for the HTC logo to appear on the screen
Step 3: Press and hold the Volume Down button until entering OS
Step 4: You will notice that the device vibrates briefly during this process
Step 5: ‘Safe Mode’ wording will appear on the bottom left of the screen to confirm that device has entered safe mode.
After this safe mode start I restarted normally and no longer have issues charging the phone.
Cheers.
B.
strategyboy said:
I was having the same problem with charging my HTC One. I contacted HTC and they told me to do the following which worked:
Step 1: Power off the device
Step 2: Press the Power button to initiate booting sequence and wait for the HTC logo to appear on the screen
Step 3: Press and hold the Volume Down button until entering OS
Step 4: You will notice that the device vibrates briefly during this process
Step 5: ‘Safe Mode’ wording will appear on the bottom left of the screen to confirm that device has entered safe mode.
After this safe mode start I restarted normally and no longer have issues charging the phone.
Cheers.
B.
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This info should be very useful! Many users are facing this issue. :fingers-crossed: tanks for sharing this
strategyboy said:
I was having the same problem with charging my HTC One. I contacted HTC and they told me to do the following which worked:
Step 1: Power off the device
Step 2: Press the Power button to initiate booting sequence and wait for the HTC logo to appear on the screen
Step 3: Press and hold the Volume Down button until entering OS
Step 4: You will notice that the device vibrates briefly during this process
Step 5: ‘Safe Mode’ wording will appear on the bottom left of the screen to confirm that device has entered safe mode.
After this safe mode start I restarted normally and no longer have issues charging the phone.
Cheers.
B.
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This one didn't work either (for me )...
I got it into Safe Mode and in SF didn't charge and after reboot not only lost settings and stuff but still got the USB Host mode error.
I guess I'll be returning to stock soon and try to send it for repair before warranty expires.
Thanks anyway...
I have the same exact issue - phone will not charge and I get error about usb host mode... So far this "somewhat" worked for me - I am able to charge phone anytime via wall charger > but unable to connect to USB / charge via USB.
1. Start charging via phone wall charger. ( it will not charge at this time )
2. Reboot Phone (press power and hold > reboot)
3. After reboot your phone should be charging just fine, but ONLY via wall charger.
If you try to charge via USB it will not work. If you try to charge it via wall charger after USB charge attempt - it will also not work anymore, you will need to complete steps 1-3 again....
obviously this is NOT a solution and i think I'm gonna send the phone to repairs....
bonus: to get data off phone, you can do steps 1-3 then use file manager to drop off files to a network share! I use ES File Explorer. Get your data off before sending it to repairs because they will 100% wipe all your ****. Customer service is pretty bad, they do not care about you or your data.
I have been suffering this issue on and off for the last 12 months on my HTC one. Usb host mode, car mode popping up, airplane mode, screen going between landscape and normal on home page.
Out of the blue my phone started charging normally again the other day but stopped again a few days later. Noticed the day it stopped I was charging overnight and had the alarm set. So though I'll try that again so switched phone off after setting alarm and plugged it in to charge. Phone woke up to start alarm and it was charging while switched on again.
Tried all the other solutions without success, will now not set alarm to go off while phone is charging.
Hope this helps some people.
This is a manufacturing issue. I had to send the phone for repairs to HTC, they changed the motherboard, a logic board and a flex cable. Phone now works perfectly and came with Hboot 1.56.
My phone has not been charging correct for 2 days now. It only charges in boot loader mode using Samsung galaxy s4 charger. The HTC and Verizon chargers I have flicker charge in boot loader mode. I have tried everything I have read on here and on other sites with no luck. I am s-off and rooted with teamwin recovery but since I can't hook the phone up to a PC I can't s-on and unroot to try to see if I can do a warranty exchange via Verizon's extended warranty.
Only charging when off
KiamatDusk said:
This just happened to me, and after some searching here and elsewhere I found that it seems to be an unsettlingly common issue. What was worse is the only solutions anyone had was RMA/replacement. Well, I called HTC customer service and the woman I spoke to was very helpful
She told me that the charging mode may need to be reset and gave the following instructions.
1. Turn phone OFF
2. Let charge for AT LEAST 10mins even if it doesn't look like it's charging (mine DID show the new charging animation)
3. Press and hold POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN for AT LEAST 2mins. Anything less will not reset the charge mode.
4. After 2mins release the buttons and the phone should boot as normal.
My phone is now charging normally.
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Tried doing this (and the other reboot, and safe mode, using different chargers,etc), to no avail... I am going to get the USB charge port fixed and see if that will do the trick. I'll update if it fixes it.
UPDATE: Phone died. Getting it checked out but through a regular place and not through HTC as that would take too long. I'll see what they determine to be the issue... Though it's not likely going to be a cheap fix...
UPDATE 2: Could not determine issue, and can't send into HTC as it is not under the 1 year warranty anymore. Tried contacting HTC Canada, still haven't got back to me. Phone is done as far as I'm concerned; I realize now that HTC uses the bulk of their precision work on the exterior and beauty is skin deep because this is pathetic if multiple people are having this issue. Got a Nexus 5 instead.
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Problem solved
I just started having this issue today.
~VZW~[viperROM] ~2.0~ |Sense 5.5| ★★FLY KERNEL★★ *OneMAX*
kalealex said:
Tried doing this (and the other reboot, and safe mode, using different chargers,etc), to no avail... I am going to get the USB charge port fixed and see if that will do the trick. I'll update if it fixes it.
UPDATE: Phone died. Getting it checked out but through a regular place and not through HTC as that would take too long. I'll see what they determine to be the issue... Though it's not likely going to be a cheap fix...
UPDATE 2: Could not determine issue, and can't send into HTC as it is not under the 1 year warranty anymore. Tried contacting HTC Canada, still haven't got back to me. Phone is done as far as I'm concerned; I realize now that HTC uses the bulk of their precision work on the exterior and beauty is skin deep because this is pathetic if multiple people are having this issue. Got a Nexus 5 instead.
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Worked for me.
~VZW~[viperROM] ~2.0~ |Sense 5.5| ★★FLY KERNEL★★ *OneMAX*
Still Charges
I've been getting a notification with an explanation mark saying the phone will not charge and is in USB Host Mode. This message comes randomly. I haven't had an issue charging the phone but don't think I've tried while the message is up. I just close the message and it may come up a few hours later. Like I said, phone seems to work fine and has charged the few times since getting the phone 3 days ago.
Does anyone know how to get the phone off in this situation:
I'm trying to access the bootloader to fix something of a boot loop, but can't get it to turn off so that I can do power+vol down. It doesn't automatically loop, but it stays stuck in "Android is starting....Starting apps." Holding the power button pulls it out of that, but it just goes right back into booting up, optimizing apps (taking a long time as it usually does if you have a lot of apps), then stuck again at starting apps. It will start the boot no matter what I try. Holding power continuously; holding it just until the screen goes off then letting go; holding vol up or vol down with power once the screen goes off; holding both the whole time. No matter what, it goes into boot animation then everything mentioned above.
I can't think of anything else to try.
To give you as much of the picture as possible, this started after restoring a nandroid through TWRP, clearing cache and booting. Didn't get any errors on the restore. I've restored nandroid's on this phone before without issue, so I'm not sure what's going.
Anyone know how to get the phone to power off in this loop?
Man I miss removable batteries!!
I just got done chatting with Moto support, and I'll leave this here in case anyone else runs into this problem:
Hold power + vol down for 3 minutes then release. That should get you into the bootloader.
It worked for me, and hopefully its a universal fix for anyone in this situation.
I'm sorry to ask a question that may have been asked dozens of times, but I am unable to find a thread clearly describing the much talked about "Bootloop" issue with the G4. After reading through several threads, I've come to the conclusion that there may be an issue with the LG G4's with serial numbers that begin with 505.
My own G4 has been working great until this morning. I bought the device from a T-Mobile store in about June, 2015. It is not rooted, and is completely stock. This morning I woke up to find my phone would not turn on. I tried removing and replacing the battery, changing batteries, plugging it into a charger, booting without the sim and SD card.
Eventually I looked up how to boot it into recovery (power vol down, let go for one second at LG logo, then power and vol down until menu screen appears). My phone will not boot into recovery.
It starts to boot normally, but either reboots after the LG logo, reboots at the T-Mobile screen, or simply turns the screen off and stops. One time it actually booted to the home screen, but ran very sluggish, then the Lookout app reported that, "Malware has successfully been removed". Then the phone froze and I had to reboot.
From what I've read in several threads, this is a common issue and the only fix is to have LG replace the motherboard. But if this is such a common issue with this phone, why is there no sticky?
Thanks for any help or tips.
leebo said:
I'm sorry to ask a question that may have been asked dozens of times, but I am unable to find a thread clearly describing the much talked about "Bootloop" issue with the G4. After reading through several threads, I've come to the conclusion that there may be an issue with the LG G4's with serial numbers that begin with 505.
My own G4 has been working great until this morning. I bought the device from a T-Mobile store in about June, 2015. It is not rooted, and is completely stock. This morning I woke up to find my phone would not turn on. I tried removing and replacing the battery, changing batteries, plugging it into a charger, booting without the sim and SD card.
Eventually I looked up how to boot it into recovery (power vol down, let go for one second at LG logo, then power and vol down until menu screen appears). My phone will not boot into recovery.
It starts to boot normally, but either reboots after the LG logo, reboots at the T-Mobile screen, or simply turns the screen off and stops. One time it actually booted to the home screen, but ran very sluggish, then the Lookout app reported that, "Malware has successfully been removed". Then the phone froze and I had to reboot.
From what I've read in several threads, this is a common issue and the only fix is to have LG replace the motherboard. But if this is such a common issue with this phone, why is there no sticky?
Thanks for any help or tips.
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theres a few of them..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/help/lg-g4-stuck-bootloop-t3268734
Update: LG had me send it in and they replaced the motherboard, like many others have reported. Warranty was expired by several months, but they did not charge me. Working like new.