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Help! Wizard has completely died after installing ScreenLock

Hi, I just installed Screenlock:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14621
1 hour later my Xda Mini S which has worked fine for weeks is completely dead. It won't respond even after removing the battery, pressing the reset button, holding on/off. Even plugging in the charger doesn't make the LED light. This was all after I locked the screen with Screenlock, and tried to unlock it again.
Any ideas at all what on earth is going on or how to get back to a working state?

Re: Help! Wizard has completely died after installing Screen
CJSnet said:
Hi, I just installed Screenlock:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14621
1 hour later my Xda Mini S which has worked fine for weeks is completely dead. It won't respond even after removing the battery, pressing the reset button, holding on/off. Even plugging in the charger doesn't make the LED light. This was all after I locked the screen with Screenlock, and tried to unlock it again.
Any ideas at all what on earth is going on or how to get back to a working state?
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Enter Bootloader, - hold the "camera" and shortly press the reset button, don't release "camera" until you can see color screen, connect USB cable, and start to flash any ROM you like from ftp...

Okay, I have followed your directions exactly, but the device is dead beyond even that. Nothing happens whatsoever
Any other ideas?

Have you tried Hard reset?
What exatly have you tried when flashing?
Did it enter into bootloader?
Was the plugged charger original one?

saman-cz said:
Have you tried Hard reset?
What exatly have you tried when flashing?
Did it enter into bootloader?
Was the plugged charger original one?
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Yes, hard reset as directed in the post above.
I cannot flash, because the device won't even switch on, as explained.
Not even bootloader - nothing. The device just doesn't do anything.
I have tried 3 original chargers including a car charger. Additionally the device was fully charged when it failed.

Has screenlock worked uberhaupt ?

What does uberhaupt mean?
Screenlock worked for an hour as I said, but after an hour it wouldn't unlock the device and we have the situation I now see.

CJSnet said:
What does uberhaupt mean?
Screenlock worked for an hour as I said, but after an hour it wouldn't unlock the device and we have the situation I now see.
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when the device wouldn't unlock was there a graphical view or complete dead view ?

The screen was, and still is, completely blank as though off.

CJSnet said:
The screen was, and still is, completely blank as though off.
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Then i think it has nothing to do with the program screenlock.. you have just bad luck with youre MDA... it is just died...

Bit too much of a coincidence that. An hour after installing Screenlock, a program which switches the screen off and prevents you pressing any keys... my screen switches off permanently and I cannot press any keys... at all! :?

Continuing from the other thread... as I said, I have no problems.
As far as I know, it just runs in the background, intercepts button presses (like any other button manager), and detects whether the device's screen is brought back to full power - and switches it back to zero power again.
If it installed itself as a Startup item, you should still have been able to proceed to the Windows Mobile splash (if any)
If it were a device driver that loads firstmost, then you still should have been able to get to the manufacturer splash.
Even if it were to install itself in the extended ROM, you should still have been able to access the BootLoader.
I simply can't think of anything, other than mechanical failure/etc., that would cause what you're seeing.
That said, I'm sure people are sufficiently put off from downloading ScreenLock now

Update to this problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=213698#213698
(Replacement Mini S is also dead! Is battery the cause? Please reply at above thread)

Athena gone dead while unlocking

My phone is dead now unfortunately
i tried the Olipro unlocker on this athena (i have unlocked 2-3 before) but this time phone gone black screen. no boot-loader, no hardreset only red light on the joystick.
i was doing STEP 1 and program was asking the location to save the file. and suddenly gave me error message and i ignored it. i was waiting 1hour befor disconnect but nothing happened so i had to reset. after that nothing happened.
now the phone does not go into bootloader (when you press CAM+RESET)
does not turn on
does not hard reset
only red light on joystick
Please help
Thank you

xdaking said:
My phone is dead now unfortunately
i tried the Olipro unlocker on this athena (i have unlocked 2-3 before) but this time phone gone black screen. no boot-loader, no hardreset only red light on the joystick.
i was doing STEP 1 and program was asking the location to save the file. and suddenly gave me error message and i ignored it. i was waiting 1hour befor disconnect but nothing happened so i had to reset. after that nothing happened.
now the phone does not go into bootloader (when you press CAM+RESET)
does not turn on
does not hard reset
only red light on joystick
Please help
Thank you
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Remove Battery and wait 30 minutes. Remove any memory card. Replace battery and try to enter bootloader or hard reset. May not work, but you are nowhere otherwise.

Thank you raskell for your super reply. i have done the battery reset but still no good results. basicaly lcd does not turns on (no boot loader, no lights on lcd)
very unfortunate storey
i have unlocked HERMS and all the other HTCs without any problems. (hundreds of them)
but i dont know wot went wrong with this

I have the same problem.. Is there any solutions??

Which version of unlocker have you used? Last one? Dated 20-11-2007 in zip file?

I have used the last one

same here.
black screen, wont power on at all. no signs of life. looks grim.

this happened to me, i took usb cable out, took battery out put it back in, kept power button down till green light came on, kept the voice dial and camer button down and stuck the stylus in the reset hole this took it into the olipro boot loader, i then ran the athena project rom and it updated it, all working

I think there seems to be some confusion as to the OLI unlocker program. There are apparently two versions of the CID unlocker. One works with x7500 the other one works with both the x7500 and the x7501. Can someone please confirm this?
Thank you.

Same problem here also, i just tried to put it on unlock mode (2nd step) and after that blank screen, i can't access nothing anymore.

lmdiablo said:
Same problem here also, i just tried to put it on unlock mode (2nd step) and after that blank screen, i can't access nothing anymore.
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Wow! you revive a 5 month old thread rather than looking in the unlocking thread.
As you can't access nothing I assume you can access everything.

xdaking said:
My phone is dead now unfortunately
i tried the Olipro unlocker on this athena (i have unlocked 2-3 before) but this time phone gone black screen. no boot-loader, no hardreset only red light on the joystick.
i was doing STEP 1 and program was asking the location to save the file. and suddenly gave me error message and i ignored it. i was waiting 1hour befor disconnect but nothing happened so i had to reset. after that nothing happened.
now the phone does not go into bootloader (when you press CAM+RESET)
does not turn on
does not hard reset
only red light on joystick
Please help
Thank you
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I have the same problem.. Is there any solutions??!!!!! Help!!!!!!

Take the battery out. Leave for half an hour. Try again.

Confucious said:
Wow! you revive a 5 month old thread rather than looking in the unlocking thread.
As you can't access nothing I assume you can access everything.
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No, no, you've got it all wrong. What he's trying to say is:
"I can't access nothing."
1. Nothing is inaccessible.
Now let'S break this down.
Nothing (subject, which oddly enough is a thing) is (verb present tense) inaccessible (direct object, what the subject "is" ,in this case anyway).
Upon evaluating this, we find that just because we have no access to this "nothing", we do not necessarily have access to everything other than nothing.
Not that that means anything; the idea that our lack of access to nothing equals access to everything, of course....uhhh....I think. But who cares, because 24 hours from now, today will be tommorrow, on Thursdays anyway.

You are, of course, right.
I can access nothing so maybe he has got a fault with his phone.

Confucious said:
You are, of course, right.
I can access nothing so maybe he has got a fault with his phone.
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Indeed, maybe he should send it to htc with a post-it note:
"This thing's a piece of crap. I can't access nothing."

Shouldn't that be
"This thing's a piece of crap. I can't access nothing."?

Confucious said:
Shouldn't that be
"This thing's a piece of crap. I can't access nothing."?
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Ok damnit you win.
But of course I intentionally left out that apostrophe because I was impersonating the one (whoever that was) who started this whole "C.A.N." discussion, if only it had been a C.A.S. discussion, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Hope you have fun deciphering that monstrosity of a run-on sentence.

Please HELP! My Wing wont turn on!!!

Please Help me!
So I Flashed my Wing to a new rom (Open Touch v2.7), and it was working fine for a couple of hours, than it started acting up (Freezing up). so I pulled the battery and let it sit for a while, a little while after, I went to turn it on, and IT WOULDNT BOOT UP AT ALL (stays dead, off)!! After hours of trying to get it to respond, it finally got into bootloader mode and I flashed it back to the Shipped T-mobile Rom, it was working fine for a minute but when I turned it off and went to turn it back on IT WONT BOOT UP AGAIN, It just stays Dead! It doesnt even respond to charging (Unless I somehow get into bootloader mode after hours)
As of right now im continously trying to do a hard resset but it just stays dead and just trying to get it to start up at all, does anyone kno what the problem is Please?!

the battery?
or you got a lemon..... :'(

My Herald got the exact same problem after only 2 months of usage and back then it was still running WM5 stock ROM. I mailed the store I bought it from and got a replacement battery, that solved the problem.

battery
i put my battery into a diffirent Wing and it worked fine... do you still think changing the battery will help??

i put my battery into a diffirent Wing and it worked fine... do you still think changing the battery will help??
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If that is the case, no I don´t think it will help you.
If I read your post right it won´t charge but the chargelight will light up if you get it into bootloader? (tinking about this passage)
It doesnt even respond to charging (Unless I somehow get into bootloader mode after hours)
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Have you checked the batteryconnectors? They may be stuck and not quite touching the battery and when you try to hard reset the phone flexes a bit and suddenly you´ve got a connection. Also try and clean the small metal contact surfaces on the battery. As little as a fingerprint may result in a bad connection with the battery.

At least you flashed it back to stock-if it's still under warrenty and the tricks above don't work-send it in for replacement =)

At least you flashed it back to stock-if it's still under warrenty and the tricks above don't work-send it in for replacement =)
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Unless you used HardSPL and it still in there.

Good point!

i got the same problem today i flash my wing and i cant turn it on

Do a search for "unbrick"

WHO CAN HELP ME in this Thread... please!

I have a BIG problem because I install this app 'EveryWAN-Remote-Support-3-0-15760' from this http://www.sparus-software.com/spip....wnload&lang=en and I don't know why... my HD is death now I was in activesync with this app and I try all tools TaskManager, FileStorage and when I click the icon 'turn-off screen'... no more HD..., no charge... dont soft-reset, don't bootloader, etc. I'am now very un-happy because I don't understand what's happen with my HD

If nothing else work, why don't you try a hard reset?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puL795s1bY4 <- second half of the video is how you do it.

Hi,
Have you tried to remove the battery, wait a little, and place it back?
Also, refer to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=465601
Regards,
P.

Thanks for your help... I know do a Hard-Reset but the problem is don't charge, don't show the red led in top charging also, I put off the battery 20 minutes and no way... don't work the button Power... don't work the button Soft-Reset, I can't enter in Bootloader mode...

Hi,
Have you checked that thread I mentioned?
Look specially at this post:
pdc4 said:
Well, some other things to try:
- check if some button (including soft reset) is mal-functioning. Try to release, or clean them.
- is any card (sim or memory) in the phone? If yes, remove them.
- has the phone been exposed to moisture, liquids? ensure that it is dried out, but do not expose it directly to heat or to a dryer...
- try to connect the charger to the phone without battery, leave it a little then disconnect, then place battery and finally the charger , trying to power on
- have you contacted the author of the rom about the issue? Maybe he might have some ideas ...
Good luck!
Regards,
P.
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Yes I check and I follow all... my Rom is Pzucchell 1.7 but... when I have this problem... I was in AS with this app EveryWAN Remote and like I say before... when I click Turn-off screen I only see similar this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3106017&postcount=22

Qtek 9090, strange problems with power

Cero92 said:
Hi all, i just got a Qtek 9090 with WM2003 (ITA). I upgraded to WM6.1, but now it has some strange problems: first of all, when it goes in standby, sometimes it doesn't wake up. If i have to reset it, most of times it doesn't boot (it shut down before WM loads) or i get R: None G: None and i have to reset again (otherwise the phone won't work).
The lock at the boot doesn't happen when the phone is connected at the USB port (i think that's because it charges, maybe it's a battery problem?)
Another thing is that i can't turn it off: if i hold pressed the power button, it deactivate the backlught but the device stays on, and if i make another long press, i get the backlight back again... I had this problem also with WM2003, maybe it's normal?
What do you think? Whan can i do?
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Have you make a HardReset?
The correct HardReset, not only reset and press Power button!!!
See in my HowTo Section...
and why not WM6.5.5 see here

yep, hard reset is a good start, but about your other problems:
the device does not really turn off, like other phones. pressing the power button makes it go to hibernate, the display turns off, depending on your settings, it locks the hardware buttons and it shuts off wi-fi, it hardly uses any energy but gsm/gprs stay on.
the device seems to be off, yet the phone is one and you can be called. that is the closest you get to switching it off. when you turn on airplane mode, the battery consumption is even less so there is not really a need to turn it off.
pressing and holding the power button always was for the backlight. many other devices open up a shutdown menu when you do that, that would allow you to turn it off, soft reset, or switch off the backlight, but for the BA, that is not the standard. however, if i read it right, d-two is working on remapping the power button, probably for that cause.
the R: none G: none issue is known and not a problem with your phone, whenever you run out of power or remove the battery for a second, the next boot will be w/o radio (R and most roms don't allow booting without it. that's why you get stuck there and have to perform a soft reset. back in the days of wm2003 i used to remove the battery when the device froze to reset it w/o the stylus, because it didn't matter then. with cooked roms, it is different, just like the booting splash screen or the way to perform a hard reset, many things change on a cooked rom.
the issue with waking up from standby, or the SOD (standby of death) is an issue, that most likely has something to do with a backup, restored after flashing another os, or maybe you didn't perform a hard reset, as stated by d-two. you should do that, now that the device is still new, you have nothing to lose
also, read through the tutorials posted by d-two and myself, whether you missed anything while flashing.

The "real" hard reset is the one i can get by pressing camera + record button and reset? If so, i already did it after flash (i use d-two 6.1 Manila ROM in WWE)
It shows me 3 options, i put on YES "Clean Registry Hive" and "Format Storage" then i press the mail button, the screen become white for a while and the next boot al seems to be ok.
It seems, because after some time i get again the "standby of death" and, if i press the reset button, the most of time it won't boot up again (it turns off before i can get to WM), if it works phone doesn't. All these boot problem can be avoided by connecting the phone to the usb cradle, so maybe it's also a battery problem, i think...
@ d-two: i'll try your new ROM, however before i've tried your 6.1 ROM
I've already read your guide because i've got Windows 7 and i couldn't flash without your tutorial
NEWS: installed d-two new ROM, after flash i made the hard reset selecting the second and the third options, then i get the blank screen and, when viewing the htc screen, it shut down itself like it did before
As always, with the usb connected, it has no problem :\

It can be battery power - battery is old, and it doesn't provide current [A], or voltage drops [V] and phone think, it's empty.
Maybe you can try with new battery, or buy 2 nokia bl-4c batteries and repair orginal battery (somewhere on forum there is a tutorial about that - but use bl4c, not bl5c like in tutorial - bl5c are too thick to fit)

n0rbi666 said:
It can be battery power - battery is old, and it doesn't provide current [A], or voltage drops [V] and phone think, it's empty.
Maybe you can try with new battery, or buy 2 nokia bl-4c batteries and repair orginal battery (somewhere on forum there is a tutorial about that - but use bl4c, not bl5c like in tutorial - bl5c are too thick to fit)
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That's what i was thinking (and that's i hope it isn't)... Now with another recharge cycle it seems to be good also with cooked ROMs, i hope it's solved

Maybe you just have to charge/discharge it for 4-5 times, and it will restore it's capacity. Mine BA was turning off when battery indicator was showing ~60-70%, and now I'm waiting for new battery (i destroyed original )

"charge/discharge it for 4-5 times" does not have an effect on Li-ion kind of batteries. This is probably a software problem. When you turn your phone on (after removing a battery) it always shows "None" for R and G, so just press Reset button and it will be ok. I use Reset to power it on Then you can flash 6.5.5 which doesn't have problems, and do a hard reset. There should be no problem at all..

I also got the problem with the stock ROM :\
The R: None G: None error is the less important problem

Got any luck fixing it? I've had similar problems before, sometimes it turned itself off when the battery was at 60% in WM2003. Did you update to d-two's 6.5.5?

Yes, now i'm running d-two's 6.5.5 ROM.
No, i still had the problem Yesterday i called to the assistance service and they said me to remove the battery and after a while recharge it.
I put off the battery yesterday at 16 and i put it again in the phone this morning at 8, i charged it but i still have the problem
This evening i called again and they said me that i have to send it back, i'll flash the original ROM and send it on monday.
That's a shame, i really like this device, even if it's not mine, my sister uses it and she's not a pro user, what a waste

Didn't understand, what "assistance service"? This is very old phone, I just can't believe it has some kind of warranty
I have another battery, and using it the device turns it off sometimes while it's in the stand-by mode! Don't know why, the voltage on it is fine, I have measured it while working...

marko_serb said:
Didn't understand, what "assistance service"? This is very old phone, I just can't believe it has some kind of warranty
I have another battery, and using it the device turns it off sometimes while it's in the stand-by mode! Don't know why, the voltage on it is fine, I have measured it while working...
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I bought it on an eBay market and it offered 60 days warranty. It's not official HTC/Qtek warranty, but it doesn't make difference, as long as the device will work
If for you it happens only when it's in standby, maybe you just have the standby of death, the problem Chef Tony was talking about at post 3?

Cero92 said:
I bought it on an eBay market and it offered 60 days warranty. It's not official HTC/Qtek warranty, but it doesn't make difference, as long as the device will work
If for you it happens only when it's in standby, maybe you just have the standby of death, the problem Chef Tony was talking about at post 3?
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My Roms have no SOD
This is when vbase32 have all 01000000 base adress !!!
Search about SOD!!

No, this happens only with my old battery. I'll try it out now with this new ROM!

I was trying to understand his problem
Just to know, what kitchen do you use?

Cero92 said:
I was trying to understand his problem
Just to know, what kitchen do you use?
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First i have create my own kitchen but then i have found the OSBuilder and this is the best kitchen ever
With this kitchen you can look the Vbase32 for SOD!!!

Well, i trust you that your ROMs doesn't have SOD problem, in fact this happened to me also with the shipped WM2003 ROM, it's a real hardware issue

Cero92 said:
Well, i trust you that your ROMs doesn't have SOD problem, in fact this happened to me also with the shipped WM2003 ROM, it's a real hardware issue
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I think so, sorry

d-two said:
I think so, sorry
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No problem, i'll send it to the assistance on monday, i hope it won't take too much time :\

Cero92 said:
No problem, i'll send it to the assistance on monday, i hope it won't take too much time :\
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good luck But very cool that you have warranty