Hey everyone, I have been trying to diagnose my HD2 alone for quite some time now, and thought maybe someone on XDA can help. So when i first got the phone, it ran just fine, about a month in i decided it was time to load it with a cooked rom. I used Energy rom because i loved the look. Before i had huge problems flashing it in the first place, after i got the flash to stay stable, the phone ran just fine. A while back (2010) i dropped the phone and cracked my glass. After replacing that, i had problems with the boot all over again.
When my phone boots it will boot 50% of the time, it will either freeze on the boot image (no red text) or just start up like normal. after 12-24 hours of general use, the phone will just freeze up and i will need to pop the battery out. Once i put it in, it will not boot unless i let it sit for a while. the longer i let it sit, the longer the phone stays working before it freezes. it seems that the longer it sits past a day doesnt matter, but it does increase the odds of booting in the first place. only a few times has it posted the rom number and not booted.
Im wondering if this could be a mainboard problem, or something im overlooking. I also had android problems back when 2.1 was ran from the exe. i also ran many other roms, and just recently the Nand 2.2 droid.
My biggest problem is ive spent over $100 USD trying to fix the glass/lcd.
Any imput would be greatly appreciated. so what do you think?
mdnelson09 said:
Hey everyone, I have been trying to diagnose my HD2 alone for quite some time now, and thought maybe someone on XDA can help. So when i first got the phone, it ran just fine, about a month in i decided it was time to load it with a cooked rom. I used Energy rom because i loved the look. Before i had huge problems flashing it in the first place, after i got the flash to stay stable, the phone ran just fine. A while back (2010) i dropped the phone and cracked my glass. After replacing that, i had problems with the boot all over again.
When my phone boots it will boot 50% of the time, it will either freeze on the boot image (no red text) or just start up like normal. after 12-24 hours of general use, the phone will just freeze up and i will need to pop the battery out. Once i put it in, it will not boot unless i let it sit for a while. the longer i let it sit, the longer the phone stays working before it freezes. it seems that the longer it sits past a day doesnt matter, but it does increase the odds of booting in the first place. only a few times has it posted the rom number and not booted.
Im wondering if this could be a mainboard problem, or something im overlooking. I also had android problems back when 2.1 was ran from the exe. i also ran many other roms, and just recently the Nand 2.2 droid.
My biggest problem is ive spent over $100 USD trying to fix the glass/lcd.
Any imput would be greatly appreciated. so what do you think?
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Mate, I think it's rather hardware related problem. You better go back to the repair center before your warranty expires
silverwind said:
Mate, I think it's rather hardware related problem. You better go back to the repair center before your warranty expires
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I went back right after i cracked the glass, and they said my insurance never covered it, even tho i pay extra on my bill for it. i voided the warranty when i replaced the lcd too
Does anyone know where i can get it fixed say under the counter or anything?
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Hello all,
I have recently upgraded from my g1 to an HD2. HD2 is a great phone but still miss android . Anyways, today I wanted to get my g1 to work without a sim or data plan and was about to start working on it when my g1 screen dimmed to just the blacklight with a black screen. I turned it off and tried turning it back on but it just comes up with the backlight on a black screen. It does not even get to the G1 screen. I cannot get to recovery mode or any other mode for that matter. I have searched around but not found any real solution to this problem (if there is one). I am thinking my phone is bricked but have heard possibilities using ADB. I have never used ADB before and if anyone knows if this is a possible fix to my problem that would be great. It would be nice to know if it actually could fix my problem before looking into it and learning it all while finding out it has no chance of fixing my problem. I have tried using my sim card and a different sd card so those are not causing the problems.
So the background of what I am running on my g1. Right before I got my HD2 I was using Cyanogen version 4.2.14.1 with and ext 3. I had no problems with it until now. I got my HD2 a week ago and my g1 has been on about twice in that time without a sim card just for comparing purposes to the HD2. Then just today (about 2-3 days since I last turned it on) the screen just went black and I had my problems. I cannot return my phone because it has been over a year and I dont have insurance on the phone so these are not possibilities for me unfortunately. I also don't really want to get parts from other g1's and take apart and put my g1 back together. I am just looking for something with ADB or any other possible solution to the problem (if one exists).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I had this happen to me before. Apparently, it was a hardware GPU problem that would cause a boot loop because it couldn't draw anything on the screen. This happened on SuperD, AOSP, Cyanogen, and stock Donut.
If your problem is the same, you should be able to get into recovery, regardless of your ability to see what you're doing. Easy way of telling is to hit Camera+End on boot. If it doesn't vibrate, you're able to flash still. You may be able to get the screen back temporarily by either pulling the battery or letting the battery die and recharging.
Anyways, I ended up flashing the DREAIMG.nbh, and trying to upgrade back to 1.6 to remove traces of hacking. (Be careful if you have DangerSPL, you want to restore the default before flashing DREAIMG.nbh) I eventually got the screen working on 1.6, but it died again, so I sent it in to T-Mobile and got a replacement. I'm now using AOSP with no problems.
One small note, however, I did start having my problems using Cyanogen's mod. May want to bring it up with him?
Sorry if this sounds scatterbrained, it's a bit late and I should be asleep right now.
e:Just realized you said the warranty was void. You may be able to get something out of what I did, though? Good luck, in any case.
Thanks very much for the help even though it was really late. I did understand pretty much everything you said and I tried the camera plus power button and it didn't vibrate so it should mean I probably can flash things still. I have drained the battery and am charging it back up to see if that helped.
I have a friend who knows ADB so I am going to have him look at it to see if we can't get it working through there. Also the G1 screen has been popping up but then fading right when its about to change to the boot animation. So we will see how things go and I'll try a couple different things and report back if anything seems to work or open up more possibilities.
Thanks again for your information.
Ok, so my friend and I were going to flash a rom through fastboot. It was responding and such so we knew we were able to get it in there.
Anyone know what the command to flash a rom in fastboot is and if there are specific instructions to follow?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Ok, so my friend and I were going to flash a rom through fastboot. It was responding and such so we knew we were able to get it in there.
Anyone know what the command to flash a rom in fastboot is and if there are specific instructions to follow?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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google it. i did and got about 100 links telling me how to do it. "unroot g1 with fastboot."
sorry i have the same problem, but my g1 is not rooted nor has it been flashed before, my friend messed it up somehow? wen i turn it on all there is is a blank highlighted black screen. What do yall suggest i should do
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google it. i did and got about 100 links telling me how to do it. "unroot g1 with fastboot."
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First of all we are not trying to unroot the phone just flash another rom
Secondly we already tried your "fantastic" method of using google before coming to the forums
Ok I think I just bricked my G1
I was following the steps on theunlockr.com and was following the steps to the T like I always do.
The problem incurred after flashing the spl. I flashed the correct radio then ir rebooted and went back into recovery mode. Then I flashed the spl all seemed well home+back and never rebooted. It stayed on a black screen for over 30 mins. So I took out the battery and waited a few mins and put battery back in and same thing. Just a black screen nothing I can do. I have tried holding home+power and camera+power and back+power nothing. I am stuck have looked it up and this is the best forum I have found to post in.
Any input would be great.
thanks
nate
i cant get the phone to boot at all and it wont reinstall any roms as it always freezes at 0% is there anyway possible to restore this phone?
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i cant get the phone to boot at all and it wont reinstall any roms as it always freezes at 0% is there anyway possible to restore this phone?
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get start to give us some more information sir, witch rom/radio you gave install?
I have a very similar problem with my HD2. I do not know which radio is installed but it used to be and still is whatever came from the factory when I bought it from the T-Mobile USA. I used the NAND flash because i had issues with it. So let me first explain how i got here. The phone was good for a about a 6 month period of time and then the issues started. The issues were exactly the same with its stock WinMo as they are with Android so I really thin that it is the phone itself. The only question i have is, is there hope? Ok so it was bad and it would not boot or anything so I decided to put it in a ZipLock bag and put it in freezer. After taking it out and making sure that ZipLock get the condensation as opposed the device itself I started the NAND flash. I used HSPL3 and did that first (It used to be SPL-2.10.0000). Then I used the MAGLDR 1.11 and that worked too. then I used the DAF.exe NAND flash that was ported over from HTC Desire. So then I got stuck right after Rebooting message. So ALL was well but it would not reboot. I let it sit and then after no change in hours I pulled the battery. After that the phone would not start and Iput it back into freezer. After it got cold i started it just fineand Android was awesome. Up until the point where i went browsing through stuff on Android. Also note that I did go through "First time use" setup with no issues.Anyways, has anybody seen this behaviour on this phone and is there help? Thank you in advance.
Also to add. Every time the phone will not boot I can know ahead of time because it will have vibrations going off. So basically if I get vibrations (About eitgh of them in sequence) the phone will not start up. Yes, it was like this under WinMo as well.
I've had my phone for about 6 months. It was working fine, but lately it's been acting really strange. It freezes on boot and get stuck on the "Stick together" screen.
I've tried a HR, Update and it still persists.
I've wanted to flash a custom rom, but the phone also freezes on the boot loader so i can't even get the flash to follow through.
The one time i got the tmobile's latest flash update to work. It rebooted the phone and then the problem was still there. With it getting stuck on the "Stick together" screen.
A few times when i tried booting the phone, the phone vibrated 7 times and then turned off.
I've looked around the forum and searched for quite some time but haven't found anything. (It's a pretty big forum so i may have missed it). I will continue to keep looking but if anything has a fix or can help me please do.
Thanks!
(Glad to finally be part of this community)
-Raymon
Sounds silly but try these two things.
1. There are some pins on the battery that can be easily bent. Inspect them to make sure they're ok. There are usually other symptoms with this though, such as it won't take a charge or won't start at all, just thought I'd mention it.
2. Try it without the SD card in.
Hey, thanks for the reply!
The phone charges fine with the usb cable. It's at full charge right now actually.
I took out the sim card and sd card when i did the HR and before i put those back in, the phone still froze on boot.
Really not sure what's going on, I'm going to try flashing it again when i get home. But last time i tried, it got stuck at 0% and then my phone froze, was scared it was going to brick, but i don't think it did.
Any other insight would be great, i really hope to resolve this issue.
If any other information is needed, please don't hesitate to ask. I can provide as much as possible to get to a conclusion.
Thanks,
-Raymon.
I got the same problem -- freezes and 7 vibrations before it. I made formatting with mtty (task 29 and task2a), it didn't help.
Anybody knows about 7 vibrations signal? Is there leodiag like blackdiag for HD?
That 7 vibrations HAS to mean something...but i'll be damned if I know what. People in both Leo sections keep saying that their phones vibrate 7 times then shut off, and I don't know what that really means....some investigation is in order!
Just got done talking to t-mobile, my replacement is on it's way, still very weird.
Would love to know the solution to this.
Please tell me can I replace my faulty HD2 from T-Mobile? I bought it in Frys without contract and used it with another provider. I never had a T-Mobile contract.
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Please tell me can I replace my faulty HD2 from T-Mobile? I bought it in Frys without contract and used it with another provider. I never had a T-Mobile contract.
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same here, bought the phone on Ebay and i live in Albania.
i have the 7 vibrations and then i have to take off the battery , leave the phone cool down so i can use it again for the next 10-20 minutes and then back to the vibrations
I have the same problem, mostly when i used GPS application, the phone reboot then vibrate one on th esplash screen then 7 times and freeze, the solution for this is to remove the battery for 10-20 minutes, pray and put it back, it is very annoying. I have this problem with ROM including the stock ROM.
hd2 freezes on BOOT!!!
try to take out the sim and leave the SD card in you will notice that it will work much better and get past the stick together screen ..mine does the same thing i think i may theSIM card but who know??
Nice suggestion, but totally useless.
I think these 7 vibrations means fault in NAND operation, but didn't find any approves.
I've this problem too.
7 vibration and freeze.
I've try update new radio, task29, new custom rom but nothing better.
Did anyone found any solutions, Please share.
Thank you.
mine got same problem.. i put the hd2 in freezer (without battery) for 3 minutes, then take it out.. put battery.. and my hd2 can start.. but after a while, when the cold is gone.. my hd2 will off it self.. hehehe
Any solutions?
I have the same symptoms, though the vibrations aren't that frequent, as much as stucking is..
I am not in a position to get a replacement, what do I need to fix?
This seems to be a heating problem, the freezer solution seems to work
This isn't a request for help, but what I find to be the issue with my particular HD2. Originally, my HD2 would get stuck at the Tmobile "Stick Together" screen and would not boot past that. I tried a master reset, flashed an official Tmobile ROM update, a custom WINMO 6.5 custom ROM and now DFT's Windows Phone 7 ROM. What I noticed is that if I left the phone connected to the charger and casually used it for just navigating through system menus (no sd card or sim inserted) it worked fine for awhile and then shut off. I assumed due to the fact the phone was warm from charging etc. Try to reboot and it would get stuck at the start screen etc. Yesterday I finally popped my sim into the phone, did some casual web browsing etc, once again phone froze and then shut off. Took the battery out and laid the phone on my back porch for about 10 minutes, stuck it back in and the same thing happened after a few minutes of browsing. This made me believe that these damn HD2's are possibly suffering from the same issues that cause the XBOX 360 to RROD. I guessing the cpu etc is heating up and shutting down due to the heat which possibly is causing the solder points on the board to give out. Cooling down possibly is re-seating the solder points and allowing the phone to boot back up normally. Has anyone attempted a fix related to this issue dealing with the main board, maybe possibly re-soldering contact points? Don't know if it will work, but I may be wrong just giving my opinion to what I think the problem is with this phone. Emailed HTC, got a quote of $120-170 USD to fix my phone WTF!!!! I figure with how many people have had this issue they would atleast give a discounted repair rate or throw out a recall, oh well.
I also had this problem. no anwser from RMA.
so i acept it because i had no idea on it.
Hey Steeltippin visit this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982454
You can also either have your mainboard or try and do it yourself.
Peace.
Dang, wish I would had came across this a day or two ago. Sold the phone the other day for $150, bought a functional HD2 today with a cracked screen. Got an extra digitizer laying around that I bought that imma put in and be on my way.
Ive looked around the web and cant find anything thats really close to my problem. I mean, i did find one post that was similar but he was stuck at the bootloader due to another problem and it the answer wasnt ver helpful for my situation nor his. So I've come to last resort. Please Help...
I've had my HD2 for quite awhile now. I ended up flashing "Stock Gingerbread 2.1" onto it through the xdaDevelopers website; mainly for _ reasons; I tend to get bored with the same old same old, Windows Mobile was pissing me off with all its bugs, freezes, and boringness, and i didnt know about Android when I got the HD2. So anyway, when i got Android loadeded, the phone was perfect. It was fast and did everything I wanted and more. Unfortunately, I had a bit of an accident.. I ended of getting a bit of tequilla on the phone(and obviously in it). I got the battery taken out and wiped off with the help of a friend. After i got it plugged in the next day, it turned on, but only loaded to the boot loader screen... So I put it into a bowl of rice(battery out). A couple days later i tested it and it booted all the way up but since i could still see some liquid i put it back in the bowl of new rice. A couple days later I tried it again and its stuck on the boot loader screen again... If i try to do a factory reset, it just freezes at the "Press Volup" screen. I cant continue or cancel it....Im guessing its fried but is there any possible way to help it some how?? or atleast somewhere i could send it in for a fairly reasonable price??