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MDA Vario - Worst phone ever or just needs flashing??

Hi all,
After spending 2 days with my vario my dreams of a half-decent smartphone are shattered.
I've got a C500 which hasnt really caused me any problems in over a year, now 2 days after having a vario i'm almost pulling my hair out.. can this phone possibly have been released in such a bad state or is it just mine?
For starters it crashes, not now and then, but like it's a hobby of the vario's, i dont think i can leave it for an hour, come back and find it hasn't hung in some form.
Sometimes i have to do a soft reset, sometimes, i can press the power button, get the screen to light up but can't do anything. Sometimes I get icons but when I click them i'm told the shortcut doesnt exist.
Ooh another thing it seems to like doing is randomly going into flight mode, and one really good crash was when i called it and the source phone could hear the ringing but the vario was just sitting there doing nothing.
So is it just mine or is this the most unstable phone the UK has ever seen? Is it worth me asking for a replacement, or just flashing the k-jam/qtek rom over the t-mobile one? Is there a way to backup my t-mobile rom and flash it back should i find the qtek/kjam rom does the same?
I've tried hard-resetting then cancelling all the t-mobile gubbins that loads from extended rom, but that didnt make any diference.
Any advice gratefully appreciated
Thanks

Personally, I'd say get T-Mobile to replace it! Unless you've installed a buggy piece of 3rd party software (but if you did, you wouldn't on here complaining about the phone you'd be complaining about the software, right?).
I also have an MDA Vario. I haven't touched the Extended_ROM (was going to, had a look and decided it was running fine so don't mess with it).
It's solid as a rock. As per a thread on howardforums asking how many times per day have I soft-resetted the phone and my answer was an average of zero.
I hard reset it on the day I bought it (after installing GPRS Monitor which knackers the backlight turning back on after sleep) and took the battery out after T-Mobile decided to disconnect me from their network (at their support line's request).
Anyway, it's on 24/7, never needs a reset of any kind, gets mobile emails via ActiveSync and is generally a wonderful piece of kit!
List what apps you've installed (even if they're T-Mobile supplied ones from CD) since buying the phone as there may be something buggy there. If not, definitely get T-mobile to replace it as it's certainly not a crap model (mine is absolutely fantastic).

Thanks Andy,
I've literally not installed anything, i'm just about to install pocketcommander but that will be the first thing i've actually installed. I've hard reset the phone this morning and it's already hung once on me (
I'll give tmob a call and see if they can send me another out today or something

Yeah, then you've definitely got a knackered phone. They should replace it (how long have you had it) without problems.
Hope you enjoy the replacement, they really are a great bit of kit

Well just had my first ever dealings with tmobile supoprt and it's as bad as the phone
They say because my contract/phone is only 3 days old i need to go back to the people i bought the phone off to get a replacement, problem is they'l want me to send the whole boxed thing uip and all the box etc is at home since i work away during the week

That's got to be faulty, like others have said.
WHen I bought mine, (T-Mobile shop in Leeds), I was told that if it was faulty within the first 28 days, there'd be a straight replacement issued immediately.
Don't accept anything less.
For what it's worth, I always try to be exceptionally pleasant when returning things rather than going in "all guns blazing"; it gets results a lot more often than the "I know my rights" approach. Of course, when it all comes down to it, the "i know my rights" approach might be necessary, but hopefully it shouldn't be.
The phone is superb, so stick with it even tho it is a bit of hassle for you.
good luck!

hi there no problems with my vario either. seems to work fine. no soft/ hard resets needed so far. have had it for 10 days. only thing is after the xteended rom instals there is a file called canned text in words which opens up in a crazy language. does not go on hard resets. but does not cause a problem either. any ideas on what this file is. have othar vario users noticed this file. please help.

_Belial said:
Thanks Andy,
I've literally not installed anything, i'm just about to install pocketcommander but that will be the first thing i've actually installed. I've hard reset the phone this morning and it's already hung once on me (
I'll give tmob a call and see if they can send me another out today or something
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may not be relevant to your problem, but if skype is installed on yours from the hard reset install, it may be worth removing, on the k-jam as soon as i removed skype, reseting stopped happening

The mother of all bugs ...

I've been happy to look past most issues, knowing that a fix is on the way.. however, I'm not that happy right now.
I left my phone upstairs whilst I've been down here in the front room - and suddenly got an MSN from my friend asking why I called them and didn't say anything....
So just gone upstairs to investigate and found it's been randomly dialing people in my phone book
Even worse, I'm on vacation in the UK now, so most of my contacts are Taiwanese - meaning £1 a minute... it only stopped doing it as it's used up all my credit
The phone was just sitting on a desk. Locked. Nothing touching the screen or anything...

blanco360 said:
I've been happy to look past most issues, knowing that a fix is on the way.. however, I'm not that happy right now.
I left my phone upstairs whilst I've been down here in the front room - and suddenly got an MSN from my friend asking why I called them and didn't say anything....
So just gone upstairs to investigate and found it's been randomly dialing people in my phone book
Even worse, I'm on vacation in the UK now, so most of my contacts are Taiwanese - meaning £1 a minute... it only stopped doing it as it's used up all my credit
The phone was just sitting on a desk. Locked. Nothing touching the screen or anything...
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Wow that sucks! Are you using a custom or the stock rom/radio? Have you contacted HTC's support?

that certainly sounds bad!!
the only thing I had that was slightly similar was that when I firsts got the phone, I HATED it because the screen was too sensitive. I had sat and watched random 'ghost' screen presses that had resulted in a text to someone, various programs being opened etc.
luckily, I have installed some screen fix cabs and don't suffer any more but it was certinaly freaky to watch

Belive me or not, the exact same thing happend to me today! And that wasnt the first time.. Ive never mentioned that because I thought it was accidentaly. My bro came today, asking what I wanted.. I hat no clue what he meant. He showed me a call from me at a time, I wasnt at home and havent got my phone with me! It was still left in my room charging.
The number WAS dialed and there was a sms from my bro asking what I want.
A few days ago I got a sms from my other brother asking my why I called him. There was indeed a outgoing call noticed in history, but I never called him.
So I think if more people have this, its realy a bug. My brother said, it was a very short ringtime, not enough to answer the call.
My ROM is 1.48 HTC orginal German

Stock 1.48 Singapore rom.
Actually, thinking about it, last night the screen did keep lighting up randomly (as in when it should have just stayed off).
Thing is though, the phone was locked. And I doubt the sensitive screen issue could randomly do the swipe. Lol.
Will email HTC now.

I'm on the stock 1.48 rom and mine has never done this. Worrying though.
Would be an absolute disaster if my business clients started getting random calls off my phone without me knowing about it.
Do keep us posted on this one.
WB

Ok just noticed the screen wasn't locking - I'd forgotton the first time you turn on the phone you need to manually lock it (another bug they haven't fixed yet) - so it could be down to this over sensitive screen issue.
Making sure it's auto locking would then solve that.
Maybe a fly landed on it or something!

Just before I read this thread, I read this article on BBC news. I am not saying that is the cause of any of your phones auto dialing, but it is still something to think about.

I say you both keep an eye on your wives!

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I say you both keep an eye on your wives!
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Haha - my gf was one of the people it called!

The phone sees dead people (scary)
While talking about the phone doing stuff.. on its own.
I ve seen it happen. i had it nex to me on the desk.
Suddely the phone came on and it was browsing and moving.
Ive installed the latest rom update from HTC and the CAB to reduce the sense of the touchscreen.
Ive been told that the HD2 has this hyper responsive touch screen and it would even react to the smallest things.

I think it would be wise to hard reset your phone and leave it clean,see what happens. Then start installing applications, must be an application thats gone horribly wrong.

Sounds like a bug to me...
Did you check the room for big hairy spiders...?!

Didn't get this ever.
What I do get (almost every time) though, is that I can hear my interlocutor, when he calls me, prior to me picking up the phone (and no, I don't have any psychic abilities!).
P.S.: capacitive screens can are sensible even to grease, so pay lots of attention to that to.
P.P.S.: may I suggest a thick screen protector, like the ones from Zagg. You should definitely take a look!

I'm pretty sure it's just ghosts, are you staying at a haunted house in the UK?

blanco360 said:
I've been happy to look past most issues, knowing that a fix is on the way.. however, I'm not that happy right now.
I left my phone upstairs whilst I've been down here in the front room - and suddenly got an MSN from my friend asking why I called them and didn't say anything....
So just gone upstairs to investigate and found it's been randomly dialing people in my phone book
Even worse, I'm on vacation in the UK now, so most of my contacts are Taiwanese - meaning £1 a minute... it only stopped doing it as it's used up all my credit
The phone was just sitting on a desk. Locked. Nothing touching the screen or anything...
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I'm pretty sure what you are seeing here is the non pressed key bug, but its happened over a contact, so instead of pressing a random key, its dialed the contact. I've had the same thing happen. My Device has been confirmed as faulty by HTC. Just a thought guys.
See this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=595655

Thanks, installed the ghost key fix Was never aware that I need this because my phone is "nearly" accurate in typing.
Will have a close eye on my phone for the next days.

Grr - this takes the biscuit now. I installed the touchscreen sensitivity fix some time ago, but just got woken up by music from my phone - turned out it had called Thai Airways booking line and was on hold ... thats another 22 minutes of international calls ....

Maybe a trojan horse?

amang2205 said:
Didn't get this ever.
What I do get (almost every time) though, is that I can hear my interlocutor, when he calls me, prior to me picking up the phone (and no, I don't have any psychic abilities!).
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That's interesting. That implies data is being sent to your phone by your telco before you pick it up and your phone is quite happy to put it through the speaker while it's still ringing.

Oh god, should i take it back or what :(

This was my problem yesterday:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=634347&page=2
Basicaly it 'died' wouldn't boot up past the htc screen even after numurous hard resets. After i left it for a while it booted up. Yesterday evening, i updated the rom to 1.66 and all seemed well.
Phone has been running fine all day, listening to music etc. On my way home from work i was watching a movie on coreplayer and it crashed the phone giving a loud audio buzz with a frozen picture. Took battery out a few times, but same result after playing movie again (tried a different film also). Played music on it, same buzz and crash
Then it wouldn't boot passed the htc screen, then i left it for a while and it booted up but it was still crashing. Hard reset it and now it seems fine.
WHAT THE HELL SHOULD I DO? spent all day putting my cabs back on and getting my settings right and passwords etc and now i'm back to square 1 again, i can't be dealing with this hassle.
driving me insane, do i just see how it goes again or take it back tomorrow, thing is carphone warehouse dont have any stock and it means waiting.
what would you guys do?

first off all check the atached pic..
second.. I think you need backup software like sprint backup..
If this problem keeps apearing reflash your device or return it back to HTC..

i know man, i stress out. I think i'll give it 1 more chance before i take it back, i have OCD, IN EVERYTHING lol

Hmm, sounds a bit iffy to me. I certainly wouldn't risk utting HSPL on it. Id be tempted to just take it back for a swap out straight away (assuming you are still in teh first few weeks warranty)

samsamuel said:
Hmm, sounds a bit iffy to me. I certainly wouldn't risk utting HSPL on it. Id be tempted to just take it back for a swap out straight away (assuming you are still in teh first few weeks warranty)
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Would do the same, somethings strange with ur set and if u just bought it maybe u could get an easy swap.

samsamuel said:
Hmm, sounds a bit iffy to me. I certainly wouldn't risk utting HSPL on it. Id be tempted to just take it back for a swap out straight away (assuming you are still in teh first few weeks warranty)
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i've had it 2 weeks tomorrow, is it possible one of the cabs is causing it?
here is what i put on it:
coreplayer
currency symbols for keyboard
duttys task manager
keypadledcontrol
markallreadinbox
spb backup
vovicheck-jamrecords (more tabs for home screen)
also it says (in duttys task manager) after a soft reset, the memory is 37%! is that normal? no apps running!!
i think i'm gonna take it back, makes sense, i know i can swap it, just got to wait for stock

Why don't you just run the device "bare bones" for a few days and see if the problems you are having re-occur?
If they do I agree with others that, given the age of the device, its easier to swap it out than hang onto it trying to fix a problem where you are not sure of the cause but could be hardware related.
WB

Yeah, returned the device today, will have my replacement on Tuesday. Got an ancient Nokia to get me till then, awful

good choice, and only 4 more days til mini christmas! hehe

samsamuel said:
good choice, and only 4 more days til mini christmas! hehe
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True but trouble is i'm gonna be sH*t scared to do anything with it, treading on egg shells incase it all goes tits up again.
I love the phone, really hoping i don't get any more problems and that it wasn't me that caused it, i can't see that it was as the problem returned even after a hard reset and fresh flash to the new 1.66 rom.
Apart from a few tweaks i only want coreplayer on it and a satnav, so i'm not asking for much!

Probably just had a duff unit. I've had my HD2 for 2 weeks now, and I personally treat it like I stole it. I've flashed it to bits and stuck just about every other cab file on here. Then I go and mess with registry settings... She seems a lot more robust than my other WM devices.
Hope your replacement unit gives you many "a happy hour".

Help HD2 crashes when making calls and ends up with HUGE phone BIlls

help when i try to make a call on my HD2 the phone crashes then it i try to end the call my pressing the end key. i the lock the phone and guess what about 5mons later it decides it wants to call. i end up with calls 18mins long and a phone billl or £170 what do i do the is the phone faulty???? this phone has NOT been hardspl-ed and has always had a stock rom. what do i do is the phone faulty? and it has next to no apps. app it has it myphone, marketplace and the stock copilot which i dont this i have ever clicked on the app oh and netframwork 3.5 thats about it.

hard reset, the phone, if still happens take it back and demand a replacement and hope you can make it do it again when you are in the shop, never heard this one before but not good,
although i would of prob whipped the battery out if i could disconnect the call

Demon_man said:
hard reset, the phone, if still happens take it back and demand a replacement and hope you can make it do it again when you are in the shop, never heard this one before but not good,
although i would of prob whipped the battery out if i could disconnect the call
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ive done all them this is be second device. am i eligable for them to refund me or terminate the contract because the device is not fit for use under the sale of good act? what do you think? also gonna try and claim the money back from htc or the retairer

i got a 4,000.00 dollar phone bill once.... no one in the world can beat that....

ProjektFuze said:
i got a 4,000.00 dollar phone bill once.... no one in the world can beat that....
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was that with the hd2?

lnoormohamed said:
yeah but u were actually using it right? where i wasnt actually on the phone.
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I severely doubt he ran up a 4k phone bill through phone calls, texts and data charges he intentionally made.

Kalavere said:
I severely doubt he ran up a 4k phone bill through phone calls, texts and data charges he intentionally made.
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sota was thinking about that after i posted

lnoormohamed said:
help when i try to make a call on my HD2 the phone crashes then it i try to end the call my pressing the end key. i the lock the phone
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just confirm please, when you say the phone crashes, do you mean it actually crashes, or the screen becomes unresponsive? If it is the screen that stops responding, check you dont have 'increased tap time' tweak installed either as a cab or as part of bsbtweaks, because this causes unresponsive screen on call screen.

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just confirm please, when you say the phone crashes, do you mean it actually crashes, or the screen becomes unresponsive? If it is the screen that stops responding, check you dont have 'increased tap time' tweak installed either as a cab or as part of bsbtweaks, because this causes unresponsive screen on call screen.
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no litteraly the phone crashes the hardware buttons dont responding, you have to wait a while for it to work. i usally keep pressing the end key to try to stop dialing out but it has a mind of its own. useually the phone starts to dial outafter 5mins or so when the phone is locked

nice. if it were me, id give it a chance at a hard reset, then straight back to where it came from.
(course, it slightly possibly could be the sim card, know anyone on same network you can borrow a sim from?

yea... no one can believe it.... its almost impossible.... but i did... and at the time i wanted to shoot myself... but now i use it to make people shocked

samsamuel said:
nice. if it were me, id give it a chance at a hard reset, then straight back to where it came from.
(course, it slightly possibly could be the sim card, know anyone on same network you can borrow a sim from?
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No point because it's not the cause of the problem. I had this once about a week after i got my leo. At the time i was running the phone as delivered and it was hanging (not crashing. this is a "hang" in the traditional PC sense) all over the place. This particular situation is the same.
What's happening is the processor is becoming hot and is down clocking itself to allow it to cool. At the same time Sense is asking for a crap load of memory transfers all while your trying to make a call. The phone decides that Sense is more important than the user and stops responding to you until it has cleared it's instruction queue. This is why if you leave it for a while (10 minutes or so) the phone will suddenly start responding again. That is unless Sense gets an instruction timeout and actually does crash (had that a few times).
I cured it by installing Leocpuspeed and disabling the autoscalling and setting the clock speed to 998Mhz. It allows the processor to plough through it's queue faster giving it more free time to respond to the user. I've also noticed that the cooked 6.5.5 roms that have newer versions of sense also respond better OTB.
I can't explain it dialing by on it's own though. A few possibilities here. It could be someone dicking about with a paired bluetooth headset all the way to a virus picked up from a website or a poorly sourced app. I couldn't say for sure because the OP is being pretty vague tbf.

M3PH said:
No point because it's not the cause of the problem. I had this once about a week after i got my leo. At the time i was running the phone as delivered and it was hanging (not crashing. this is a "hang" in the traditional PC sense) all over the place. This particular situation is the same.
What's happening is the processor is becoming hot and is down clocking itself to allow it to cool. At the same time Sense is asking for a crap load of memory transfers all while your trying to make a call. The phone decides that Sense is more important than the user and stops responding to you until it has cleared it's instruction queue. This is why if you leave it for a while (10 minutes or so) the phone will suddenly start responding again. That is unless Sense gets an instruction timeout and actually does crash (had that a few times).
I cured it by installing Leocpuspeed and disabling the autoscalling and setting the clock speed to 998Mhz. It allows the processor to plough through it's queue faster giving it more free time to respond to the user. I've also noticed that the cooked 6.5.5 roms that have newer versions of sense also respond better OTB.
I can't explain it dialing by on it's own though. A few possibilities here. It could be someone dicking about with a paired bluetooth headset all the way to a virus picked up from a website or a poorly sourced app. I couldn't say for sure because the OP is being pretty vague tbf.
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thank for the info i am going to send it back to the retailer to try and cliam the costs back from the incrred callls. but i had trouble replcating the problems under camera
here is a video of my sis doing the demo of the fault http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Url7Z6Oqk
and only have installed
copilot stock install
myphone
marketplace
net 3.5
opera 10
and thats it.

ProjektFuze said:
i got a 4,000.00 dollar phone bill once.... no one in the world can beat that....
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I've worked for a company where one of our customers had a £855.00 phone call... (single call)
They really shouldn't let drunk people call 0906 numbers and then forget to hang up the phone until lunchtime the next day.
£1.50 x 570minutes (about 9.5 hours) = £855 ooops
Thing is the call they made was to our content line so we got the £640 of it (we did pay them it back as a good-will gesture minus the item cost and an administrative cost, although the cheeky sod tried to blame our system for forcing his telephone to stay connected to it... moron lol)

I would also speak to your operator and tell them you've had a fault which has led to a hefty bill, my daughter had a similiar issue with vodafone and infairness they refunded the full amount once we proved her phone had an issue at the vodafone store, it was a phone provided by vodafone and they were really good about it her bill was £280 for a month, they refunded the full difference to the normal £25 contract...
They might not refund it all but they might refund part of the cost as its obviously not your fault...

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I would also speak to your operator and tell them you've had a fault which has led to a hefty bill, my daughter had a similiar issue with vodafone and infairness they refunded the full amount once we proved her phone had an issue at the vodafone store, it was a phone provided by vodafone and they were really good about it her bill was £280 for a month, they refunded the full difference to the normal £25 contract...
They might not refund it all but they might refund part of the cost as its obviously not your fault...
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thank you so much for the info same sorta situation. i got me phone from mobilephonesdirect.co.uk reason is that they sell the phones unlocked and unbranded. phoned up vodafone they said have to see retaier or manufacter. phoned up retaier and they said to phone htc.
so phoned htc up 5 times today and could not get connected to anyone. just sent them an email explaing the fault and the video. hopefull they will give me a call and i hope that i can claim the money back....
now i have to play the waiting game.

yeah, call your service provider, if the large bill was due to a defect in their phone you should not be responsible to pay for it. If the phone does become unresponsive again and you can't hang up you can always soft reset or pull the battery and sim.

I just watched the video and read all the comments. From what you have said i think you may just struggle to get the refund. the reasons are thus:
You said the phone was not sold to you by your operator. this therefore means they have no obligation to refund any charges caused by a faulty device but i'll bet if you send your sister and get her to ask really nice, flutter the eyelids a little and maybe flash some skin you my get somewhere.
Next don't send the phone back. Waste of time!! from the video i can assure you that is a software fault (and one that would be very difficult to replicate in normal everyday usage) and the new phone will have the same problem. I suggest you look at using a cooked 6.5.5 rom with sense 2.5.2016 where the issue has been fixed. If the phone does ever need to be replaced then you can just flash a stock rom back on to it.

I actually got this for the first time yesterday when trying to make a call, the phone just locked up completely, just pulled the battery and re-booted and been fine since,

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I cured it by installing Leocpuspeed and disabling the autoscalling and setting the clock speed to 998Mhz. It allows the processor to plough through it's queue faster giving it more free time to respond to the user.
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thanks for this, dude. I've been having hanging oroblems for ages now and will give this a go this evening. I was convinced it was a sensd problem as the Windows menu srill seemed to respond during the freeze.
i have kinda had the phonecall thing, although I've always been able to catch it by whipping the battery out or mashing the end button as it tries to connect.

Possibly bricked forever - Stuck at Sumsung logo endless reboot

Stupid thing is that I can do everything to it aside from getting it to boot all the way to work! I tried reflashing OEM roms and I tried custom roms. They all work just fine and it just won't boot all the way. I can turn it on and off, use format option, download mode and magldr. I keep my sim out and memory card. Before this all happened I always used OEM OS. Last thing I did was check my bank account, close the browser and click the power button to turn it into sleep mode. Few weeks ago I did have an issue with it for a day. It kept turning on and off constantly boot to random points. Mostly to the AT&T screen. It would boot all the way rarely and I got it to stay on a couple times for about 10 mins to copy all my stuff from it. Is it possibly something to do with the hardware being a POS and Just crapping out for no reason because cell phones are poorly made expensive bricks?

I've seen this issue across the forum several times. Unfortunately, just one case seemed to "return" to life, without understanding the reasons behind the "lapse".
What I can suggest you can do (and feel free to disagree) is get in touch with Cottula (creator of MAGLDR) and see if you can help you. You can send him the phone, maybe he can analyze it and get something out of it.
GL, mate, and if you find a solution, I'm sure other folks here would be glad to hear it.

Ahhh ok thats what I figured. I browsed a bit, but most of what I saw is people couldn't do anything. I didn't see anyone saying they could do as much as what I can do with it. I'll try your advice and see if maybe he could help. I took apart the phone to see if maybe someone came loose, though I saw nothing. Clean as a whistle. What I think maybe happen is it burnt up finally. I notice at times it would run extremely hot, mostly when I'm talking on it for more then an hour.

Well, for your sake I hope it's not burned out (hardware issue). I hope it has some software component that's screwed and that has a chance of being investigated and maybe fixed.
Also, the getting hot while talking/browsing for periods more than 30 min it's a known issue. It's however supposed to be quite warm, but not actually really hot, if you know what I mean. It it however possible that exposing the phone to higher temperatures to cause hardware issues.
In any case, I wish you good luck. Who knows?

I gave AT&T a call to see what they could do. The software warranty is 6 months past and she wasn't able to override anything that much passed over. Though I was able to get my 2 years wavered and get a early upgrade. So I got myself a Xperia Ion. I'm happy I don't have to put up with a flip phone for another 4 months. lol
I tried working on my focus a bit more playing with zune and other programs I found. Though I don't see it coming back to life trying all the different ROMs. I would think to make it work again is to re-flash the actual phone bios itself. Just like a computer starting it still uses DOS then loads the OS. I don't know how a phone works to much, but I'd assume same process. Something to do with the root-root of the phone telling it to be stupid and not boot properly.
Another note, where is the best place to sell this to get some money out of it? Screen and other pieces of its hardware are 100%. Should I try ebaying it?

I had a similar issue, last thing i did was removing the SD card before re-flashing the MGLDR and custom ROM