Bricked HTC Legend? - Legend General

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Is your device rooted? What you were doing when this happened?

What do you mean by rooted? The device slowly began malfunctioning the second day I had it - not sure if this has anything to do with the unlocking of the cell phone but it shouldn't. The device wasn't dropped or abused in any way.

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Is my HD2 toast?

I've had my hd2 since mid-April and really has not given me any issues or problems until a few days ago when the touchscreen began to not respond as it would normally. I would have hang-ups on the lockscreen but it eventually respond and unlock after a few tries. Now, however, my phone refuses to unlock itself and every once in a while it will actually respond. I've hard reseted dozens of times, couldn't change roms as the computer doesn't even detect the damn phone in activesync, and now I'm back to using my old Nokia n95(man that thing is reliable). Are there any solutions or advice to help this situation? Or should I just call Tmo and have them send me my casket for this phone? Any help will be greatly appreciated....
you can flash roms from bootloader, phone doesn't have to be running and connected to active sync
Really? May I ask how do you do that?(sorry for being noobish) just that its my first time running into this problem since I got this phone since April.
Ah nvm, I figured out how to do it, still didn't solve the problem, screen isn't responding at all....time to order a replacement....awesome
ah well, better luck with the next one.

sudden death of the device, any tips welcomed!

Im owning an 32b HTC Magic and i finally just got the unlock codes and now the mobile phone wont boot.
If i put it in the charger i dont see a light or anything and the screen stays off. I think its somehow got to end of life.
I still have a year left and now the phone is dead, i find this unacceptable and questionable.
My question is, is there some way to check if it still has juice or can boot or anything? I tried fastboot (think thats home+power) but doesnt do jack..
Any advice would be appreciated, it was just all of a sudden that the phone stopped working no indication or anything.
Thanks for reading and hope you know a trick for this,
Dusk
you probably bricked it. Did you root?
Yea, its been rooted for over a year and i have not recently updated the os/SPL/radio. I Installed a 2.1 rom a while ago (two/three months) and since then i havent messed around with the internal stuff of the phone.
If im correct bricking means killing your phone by updating spl/radio. If thats the case than that should, i hope, be impossible considering i did not update the spl/radio.
If however i did brick the phone, are there any ways of debricking, i think as far as i heard bricking is pretty permanent. I also find it weird that there is no charge light whatsoever.

[Q] How do I short-circuit a HD2?

My HD2 with Clean Desire bricked through normal usage (calling, txt, 3G, etc...) a while ago. I looked far and wide throughout the internet in hopes of finding an answer. Apparently, my phone short-circuited, resulting in it turning into a sexy-looking brick. The solution was to re-short-circuit it and it will turn on like magic. Problem is, I don't know HOW to short-circuit ANYTHING. Could someone give me some advice?
tarik_9812 said:
My HD2 with Clean Desire bricked through normal usage (calling, txt, 3G, etc...) a while ago. I looked far and wide throughout the internet in hopes of finding an answer. Apparently, my phone short-circuited, resulting in it turning into a sexy-looking brick. The solution was to re-short-circuit it and it will turn on like magic. Problem is, I don't know HOW to short-circuit ANYTHING. Could someone give me some advice?
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I don't know where or who told you that you had to short circuit your HD2 to unbrick it bit that will not unbrick a HD2. I do know what you are talking about as I just had to look it up today as someone asked me a question about a Samsung Vibrant. With some Samsung devices you can use what is call a test JIG and plug it into the USB of the device and force it to boot into recovery/download mode and then you can flash a ROM back to it via ODIN. This is a fairly new technology for mobile devices.
But HTC phone can not do this you still have to do it the old fashion way and use a JTAG, Riffbox, and a adaptor to unbrick the device. This requires taking the main board completely out of the device to hook the JTAG to it. You then connect the JTAG to the Riffbox and the Riffbox to your computer then you resorrectcthe SPL and put the device back together.
Sorry but this is the only way to bring a bricked HD2 back from the beyond
tarik_9812 said:
The solution was to re-short-circuit it and it will turn on like magic.
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lolololololololol....
You'll never believe this...
I tried doing everything (except short-circuiting) and almost gave up. My parents came over my house yesterday and my dad had a look at it. He then literally bent the phone (not to the point where it damaged or reshaped anything) and...
...IT TURNED ON!!!
Once again, I wouldn't blame you guys for not believing me, but it worked. So if your HD2 is damaged to the point where there's nothing else you can do, just try bending it
(Actually, don't try this. I'm not held liable if your paperweight snaps in half.)
tarik_9812 said:
You'll never believe this...
I tried doing everything (except short-circuiting) and almost gave up. My parents came over my house yesterday and my dad had a look at it. He then literally bent the phone (not to the point where it damaged or reshaped anything) and...
...IT TURNED ON!!!
Once again, I wouldn't blame you guys for not believing me, but it worked. So if your HD2 is damaged to the point where there's nothing else you can do, just try bending it
(Actually, don't try this. I'm not held liable if your paperweight snaps in half.)
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I am... what.
That's genuinely impressive.

[Q] usb failure, how to unroot?

My phone has suddenly been experiencing really bad battery drain, it would go flat within 5 hours with no use.
When charging, it is always USB, despite using multiple AC chargers that all worked before.
I have done a hard reset and there is no improvement.
It also wont connect to my pc, which previously worked for rooting. It says unknown device, it appears there is some sort of failure in the connection.
I'm guessing a failure of this nature means I'm **** out of luck getting this back to unrooted.
I only unrooted to get titanium back up to work and adblock.
Never used any custom ROMs.
Is there any chance of google fixing a hardware failure under warranty despite it being rooted?
any advise would be appreciated.
Thanks
is there any way to unroot via bluetooth
Google/LG won't do any type of warranty work to your device if it's rooted. People here have posted email exchange's with Google where they have specifically said that a rooted device or one with an unlocked bootloader is a device without warranty.
they wont even repair it out of warranty. I should have just sent it in without being truthful. Now they I mentioned it, they said I can send it in but its on record so they might not look at it.
WTF, assholes.
Is there no other way to repair this damn phone or unroot it?
jlj76uk said:
WTF, assholes.
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They're A-holes because you voided your warranty?
Visa Declined said:
They're A-holes because you voided your warranty?
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They are assholes because I am not asking for a warranty fix, I am asking them to fix the hardware failure out of warranty. And what was annoying is that by being upfront about it being rooted, he noted it down on file and then told me send it in anyway, they might fix it if they dont notice it but if they do, I pay for postage! So I said what was the point if he already noted it
Anyway, the phone has been flaky since I got it, never rated LG and after waiting 6 weeks for the phone it breaks so quickly.
blah...
jlj76uk said:
they wont even repair it out of warranty. I should have just sent it in without being truthful. Now they I mentioned it, they said I can send it in but its on record so they might not look at it.
WTF, assholes.
Is there no other way to repair this damn phone or unroot it?
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It might be just your USB cable! Stock charger and cable are garbage! When charging mine with stock cable, it always says charging-usb no mater it`s plugged in a wall charger, and when I plug it in the pc Device is unrecognized! It all works well with my G2X cable....
Does the usb fail in bootloader/recovery mode too ?
meangreenie said:
Does the usb fail in bootloader/recovery mode too ?
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Tried different cables, which used to work before.
Multiple pcs that used to detect the phone before now just say unknown device and some malfunction.
Havent tried in recovery mode but I think its the connection on the phone.
Will see if phone insurance will repair it.

is my Battery Busted or my phone?

So today my Likely 1 month old S5 showed the unpleasant behavior to not charge...
Well yes i tunred it on and of
And yes i took out the Battery fpr more than 5 minutes
and yes i Tryed another Charger.
It sumes up to no, no, no and no,
But i Noticed that if i turn it off and plug in the Charger it´s Pulsing sometimes there is a Battery with a Exclamation Mark in the Middle.
So anyone who can help me? is it a softwar thing or a Hardware? i got still Warranty on this little piece of... I realy Considering buying an HTC one M8 or a Sony Xpreia Z2 instead....
Thanks for your help in Advance
Greetings Darkmind
Darkmind82 said:
So today my Likely 1 month old S5 showed the unpleasant behavior to not charge...
Well yes i tunred it on and of
And yes i took out the Battery fpr more than 5 minutes
and yes i Tryed another Charger.
It sumes up to no, no, no and no,
But i Noticed that if i turn it off and plug in the Charger it´s Pulsing sometimes there is a Battery with a Exclamation Mark in the Middle.
So anyone who can help me? is it a softwar thing or a Hardware? i got still Warranty on this little piece of... I realy Considering buying an HTC one M8 or a Sony Xpreia Z2 instead....
Thanks for your help in Advance
Greetings Darkmind
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Take it in for repair mate, it could be the battery, usb charging port or even your phone. No way we can tell from here. Btw i think the S5 is a great device, you`re just unlucky, it can happen sometimes.
gee2012 said:
Take it in for repair mate, it could be the battery, usb charging port or even your phone. No way we can tell from here. Btw i think the S5 is a great device, you`re just unlucky, it can happen sometimes.
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thanks for reply. does it matter rthat i rooted it with towelroot?
Darkmind82 said:
thanks for reply. does it matter rthat i rooted it with towelroot?
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To be sure try to unroot in the TR/superSU app, flash a stock rom and data factory reset.
As the follow up reply above suggests, you need to start by separating software from hardware issues. You can probably find out a lot more information by looking at the system log i.e. run a logcat to get more verbose details about the charging error. Depending on what you find there, you could proceed to steps such as resetting the battery stats or the suggestions that follow in this post.
If you aren't willing to do a logcat then the first thing that you should try is booting to recovery mode and wipe the system cache That may well resolve your issue right there.
If not, then heed the advice in the previous post. Backup anything important to you, then flash a 100% stock ROM, followed by a factory data reset. If that resolves the issue then the cause was almost certainly corrupt system files or settings.
If the problem still remains, then you have to start looking at hardware causes, starting with trying a different cable, different battery, gently rocking the cable in the USB socket at the base of the phone to try and discern if the pins are bent or making irregular contact, etc.
Whether the problem would be repaired free of charge under warranty is uncertain as we don't know yet if the cause is an unexpected failure or something that might be attributed to abuse e.g. dropped phone or damage to the USB port from rough use.
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