Hi guys,
I hope someone can help me out here.
Stupidly I dropped my Hermes in my bath this weekend , fortunately I could take it out again very quick but not without some water 'damage'.
After I had left it drying I tried to start it up but it freezed at the bootloader (tri-color screen). After some searching on the forum I've learned that I had to reload my ROM files which I tried and succeeded !
Unfortunately, when the devices reboots, it automatically resets, the flashlight flashes once and the device boots up to the bootloader (same result as holding ok+power and putting the stylus in the soft-reset hole).
So I'm back to square one.
I have dismantled my Hermes to verify that all moisture was gone and re-assembled the device.
I then reloaded again my ROM but with the same result after the reboot, one flash and freezing on the bootloader screen.
I already read through the JTLoader procedure but this is beyond my technical capabilities and I don't have material to do this.
So I hope someone can help me with this, otherwise I will need to contact my bank I'm afraid.
Thanks in advance guys !
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Please help !! I've just performed a hard-reset on the Magician (the S100, by pressing the "on" and "reset" buttons together) and it now boots up to the point where it asks the user to align the screen, I mean it lets me click on the 4 corners of the screen (on the little cross) and keeps on accepting my clicks (I must have clicked already over 20-30 times around the 4 corners of the screen and it doesn't proceed to the next step ... what should I do ?? ... should I leave it without the main battery for a couple of hours or something ?? is there any other way to (completely) hard-reset the unit ?? (i.e. I've read in the past in some posts something about a "bootloader" sequence ??
Hello there,
You seem having some troubles on digitizer.
Try to clean it under the cover using a thick piece of paper like a business card.
Sometimes, if someting is between the cover and the digitizer; this will not work very well.
Pass it all over the four sides removing dust, hairs and so on..
Then try again.
Let me know
cheers
There's no other way to hard-reset 'more completely' ... you are already doing the complete hard reset.
It's obviously very weird. I would agree, to clean the screen completely and see if that does the trick. Also, use the original stylus with the pointy head and not a pen cover or something ... make sure you're accurate when aligning the screen.
You can enter the bootloader but it won't help you ... you can re-flash the ROM from the bootloaded but it doesn't seem like it's a ROM problem. It sounds like it's the screen HW problem.
Today while riding in my car I was texting my friends. Then my phone froze up (not the first time), so I nonchalantly hit the soft reset button and waited. Except my phone never booted up, it froze on the WINDOWS MOBILE 6.0 screen, and has been there the rest of the day. I was running the TNT1437 Touch ROM on my MDA at the time, I do not know whether this was a hardware or software problem. Please repost with any advice or diagnosis you may have.
Try out Hard Reset,although,you'll loose all of your settings and personal data,but it might start to work,otherwise,get into Bootloaders (multicolor screen) and flash a new rom.It might be corruption of system files or Extended_Rom.Check the battery status,it must be fully charged.
Thats what I was planning on doing (flashing a new ROM), but i could not get activesync to make a connection because my phone will never fully boot up. How do you do a hard reset. And how do you enter bootloaders?
to enter bootloader you have to turn your phone off...them keep the connections button camera button and dialogue button and reset the device with the stylus...(both side bottons and camera)
Thanks for the help guys! I put it in bootloader and flashed a new ROM and now it works fine. I found this article that helped me, hopefully it will help anyother of you witht he same problem!
"When upgrading the ROM on the HTC Wizard, there is always a slight chance that the upgrade proces fails, leaving you with a device that won't fully boot. When that happens, people often fear that they turned their device into a useless brick. This is most often not the case.
The regular upgrade proces requires an working ActiveSync connection. When the upgrade proces failes and your device won't fully boot, you won't be able to set up the working ActiveSync connection, which could lead you to believe that there is no way to revive your device. Well, you can revive your device by putting it into the boot loader mode. Stephen writes:
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After researching the issue the only way to get around the problem was to put the unit in bootloader mode, then retrying the upgrade. All HTC devices have this mode and the Wizard is no exception.
To place the unit in bootloader mode, perform a soft reset, when the screen goes blank hold the camera button until a multi colored screen comes up [...]
When the unit is connected, USB is displayed at the bottom left.
Once in bootloader mode you can connect the unit via USB to your PC"
Wtf???!!! Ban This Tard!!!
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HELLO, CAN WE BAN THIS TARD???
THIS PERSON IS A SERIAL THREAD-JACKER WHO POSTS TOTAL SH*T!!!
Not sure if this is a battery related issue as I removed the cover and battery to put another SIM in to find out it's no. Since putting the battery and cover back on I get the splash screen for the ROM I'm running (Diamond), then the HTC annimation then it reboots. It will also only get that far when the power is connected - otherwise it won't even start to switch on.
Any ideas? Also is there a way to reflash as I don't want to send it back to the provider with a non-standard ROM.
Any help much appreciated.
A bit more information - if I leave the charger plugged in it just loops round and round with the splash screen and the HTC animation.
Maybe this will help..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403883
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A bit more information - if I leave the charger plugged in it just loops round and round with the splash screen and the HTC animation.
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I had this on my first polaris it did it on the 1st day so i returned it and got a new one... Couldn't hard reset either...
Try going to the bootloader manually and flashing a new rom following the instructions that are repeated over and over in these forums
Thanks for responses - it's working fine again now. I think one of the battery contacts may be faulty as it wouldn't run without the charger until I pressed them in and then re-inserted the battery.
Want either hard reset or go into boothloader
Hello, my polaris has stopped responding when I touch the screen, it is locked and the only thing that is working is reset, and after reset the screen is locked. It do`nt respond on hard reset or wìll not go into boot loader. On service they say there is now garanti(I understand) because I use a rom from XDA. Is there any way to get it into boothloader or hardreset, exept from the usual ways? or do I simply have to throw the hole thing?
I can reciew phone calls.
Here's the whole story:
My Cingular 8525 has sticked to bootloader about a month ago, and after the study ( flashing different ROMs, search wiki here ,search web pages, forum ) ,I finally sent it to some workshop to have one chip replaced.
After the replacement, everything goes fine.But now it sticks to bootloader again, it some time can boot into OS, but most of the time , it will boot into bootloader.I found taking battery out and leave the phone awhile then put the battery back could some time "help" the phone to boot into OS.
When boot, the phone seems to have not enough "strength" to boot into normal OS, so it select to boot only in bootloader.Maybe we could just give the phone some "strength"?
And this time, I guess,it is not the chip which might lead the problem.
So has someone any suggestion ? ( When I disassembly my phone, I found there's one little battery on the mainboard, might the battery has some thing to do with this ? )
What os are you using? If its wm6.1 that could be your problem - stability issues... You might have bad blocks. Check this using MTTY... Instructions on the Hermes upgrading forum.
Wouldn't remove the battery on the mainboard unless you know what it does. yYou could ask Mike Channon as he is the guru of hardware...
Hope this helps...
Cheers...
This happened to me too and all I had to do was hold the power button longer until the screen comes on
black981502 said:
This happened to me too and all I had to do was hold the power button longer until the screen comes on
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...and it can "cure" the bootloader ?
On my phone, I really need to hold power button longer, but the screen still comes with bootloader.
Recently I guess it might be because of the shield of the "mainboard-screen wire"(I 'm Chinese and does not know how to exactly express this stuff). When I replace the connector myself(I recently replaced this wire to fix the white screen problem , and white screen are gone, but the bootloader comes soon ), I found the wire is originally wrapped using some metal paper, and because the old metal paper has been stick to old wire using glue or something and hard to take it off, so I left the new wire "raw",after I assemble the phone, everything goes fine, but after one night , the phone goes into bootloader.
I'll disassemble the phone these days and add some new metal paper to wrap the wire and see the effect.
PS:
Appending to the sympton:
When the phone is booting
If the signal led turns green ,the phone will boot into OS, and soon the logo will appear.
But if the led does not light up, the bootloader will come soon.
After I disassemble the phone and add some metal paper to wrap the wire, 8525 first boot normally into OS.
But after one night continous power on, after one reset, the phone goes into bootloader again.
It was so frustrated!Maybe there really had some hardware issue in my phone ? Can someone figure it out ?
Has anyone any sugestion?
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During the one－night “OS Time”， when I reset the phone and intensionally boot the phone into bootloader, the phone cann't start card-flash process even if the condition of card-flash are all met( card, filename, FAT32 ).
But after the OS Time ,I reset the phone without pushing power+ok button, instead of boot up normally, the phone goes directly to bootloader and start to "card-flash", after the flash , the phone finally stick to bootloader.
Someone help me please, even some clue or where I could probably find any clue!!!
Hi,
A coworker of mine dropped her Diamond 2 in the toilet. True story!
Anyway, since it was brand new she dried it up and if you switch it on now you get to the tricolor screen. I tried attaching it to my pc, and the text at the bottom changed from serial to USB. I now thought I might have a chance to salvage the phone by trying to flash the original rom. owever, even if everything seems to have worked out fine during flashing, the screen (when ready flashing) turned blank only to go back to the tricolor screen again.
Any one have any idea on what to try next? Is it bricked for good?
The screen shows no sign of water damage whatsoever.
Regards -
/Ballista
BallistaSlim said:
Hi,
A coworker of mine dropped her Diamond 2 in the toilet. True story!
Anyway, since it was brand new she dried it up and if you switch it on now you get to the tricolor screen. I tried attaching it to my pc, and the text at the bottom changed from serial to USB. I now thought I might have a chance to salvage the phone by trying to flash the original rom. owever, even if everything seems to have worked out fine during flashing, the screen (when ready flashing) turned blank only to go back to the tricolor screen again.
Any one have any idea on what to try next? Is it bricked for good?
The screen shows no sign of water damage whatsoever.
Regards -
/Ballista
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The best thing to do in these situations is to immediately pull the battery and put into a bag of rice to absorb all of the moisture before putting power to the unit thus risking a short circuit.
You may still have water shorting out your hardware keys and its putting the phone into bootloader mode.
My wife put her phone on the kitchen counter, well, it got completely wet. In addition to using rice, I put the rice and the phone in one of the vacuum bags and pulled vacuum, left it in for 2 or 3 days and the phone worked and functioned 100%. 6 months later, still up and running.
Thanks for the answers. I think it is as dried up as it can be though. She have dried it with rice etc. Is there any tip on what to do from the tricolour screen?
Hi,
I maybe didn't understand when the screen goes blank, but since the situation looks pretty desperate why not try to install latest HSPL, it's still a flashing procedure and should end up succesfully if you don't have any hardware damage. If HSPL flashing works, you'll be able to flash any ROM you like, official ones included. Since the device is not yours sorry for the silly question: you have WMDC installed on your pc ,don't you?
The screen goes blank after the bar goes up to 100% on the telephone. I have WMDC installed, but I cant get it to connect to the phone, so installing HSPL will be a problem or?
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If you can't connect to WMDC you can't flash anything,I'm afraid...Any chance to flash by putting the ROM image into the SDcard? Problem is that official ROMs come in .exe format while flash procedure via SDcard needs the ROM image to be in .nbh format..I'm sorry, I'm stuck.
You most probably have a hardware problem, probably a button stuck. Try pressing volume up down repeatedly for example 30 times then try to turn on the device. If that doesn't work you will have to disassemble and dry off your device and check for a shortcircuit or some resistivity in the volume down area. Even if you dry your device on the outside, some water still remains on the inside (I know since I'm an electrician).
Sorry for posting in here - my issue is with an opal but it sounds like a very similar issue.
I tried to clean out the stylus holder on my opal with some washing up liquid on a cotton tip bud. Nothing happened at the time, but some washing up liquid must have got into the phone, as the next time I went back to it seemed to be bricked. I didn't know how to deal with washing up liquid so I disassembled the phone and put it into the freezer to see if that would get me anywhere. I didn't think rice would be much use at absorbing washing up liquid. Anyway, a few cycles in the freezer followed by a cold blast with the hair dyer seemed to have the phone able to get to the bootloader, and able to hard reset.
This is where I am now. Hard resets only get as far as displaying:
ONBL 1.27.000
SPL 1.27.000
GSM 03.29.90
with the 'smart mobility' splash below. That's it - after about 5 seconds the phone turns off. I can keep performing hard resets in this loop, and I can also get the phone into the bootloader 'tri-colour' screen where it shows
ONBL 1.27.000
SPL 1.27.000 (all in the red bar)
and then 'F256' in the green bar
the white bar will change from USB to SERIAL as appropriate.
I thought I'd cracked it when I downloaded the stock ROM from htc, and it seemed to run succesfully. However, once it got to 100% it turned itself off again and I was still only able to either unsuccessfully hard reset, or get to the bootloader screen. I've tried installing the stock ROM through an SD card too, and it seems to work again, but same result. I suspect the phone is a brick now, and there must be hardware damage somewhere important. Any ideas appreciated though.
BallistaSlim said:
A coworker of mine dropped her Diamond 2 in the toilet. True story!
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It might need re-flushing. hahah