help!
I have an TMOUS Hd2 that got bricked by a bad flash.
I can't access the boot loader or anything. LED light does not show when i plug it in a charger. When I plug it in my comp, it says QUALCOMM CDMA has been detected but cannot install drivers.
I have tried J-Tagging it at a local store but they say they can't get a connection.
what else can I do?
Is it permanently dead?
Hmmm sounds like the place you carried it to either did not use the right JTAG on it or did not know what they where doing. I know a member here that can do the JTAG but the you would have to send your phone to the US for him to work on it. If you might be interested I can PM you with more details, just let me know.
They "can't get a connection"? Did they take it apart?
Yes its dead but lots of people have used jtag to fix it.
"Can't get a connection" is an odd way to phrase it, is why I ask, sounds more like they think they can get to it thru the USB port or something,,
from what they said, they took it apart and tried jtagging it.
they said the jtag connection won't recognize the chipset... |:
i gave them a call and they said they used the RIFF Jtag.
anyway, @T-Macgnolia, please PM me with the information
I would LOVE to have this phone up and running again
froibet said:
from what they said, they took it apart and tried jtagging it.
they said the jtag connection won't recognize the chipset... |:
i gave them a call and they said they used the RIFF Jtag.
anyway, @T-Macgnolia, please PM me with the information
I would LOVE to have this phone up and running again
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Sounds like they did not use a JTAG fore the T-Mobile HTC HD2 as it is one for the TMOUS and one foe the international HD2. or they did not have the correct software for the HD2. I tend to think it was the first reason.
I got your PM froibet and sent one back to you with the info you wanted. best of luck man.
You from Charlotte?
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You from Charlotte?
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vancouver. It's very difficult to find a JTAG store in my area.
The repair shop said that they will give it one more go tonight and if everything fails, then they will just give it back to me no fees.
There are other repair stores here but from what I asked them, it seems like they do flashing only and not JTAG--they say that they do not disassemble the phone and just connect through usb, which I don't think will work.
Is there something I can tell the repair store that's JTAGing my HD2 right now? Such as using the TMOUS version instead of international?
froibet said:
vancouver. It's very difficult to find a JTAG store in my area.
The repair shop said that they will give it one more go tonight and if everything fails, then they will just give it back to me no fees.
There are other repair stores here but from what I asked them, it seems like they do flashing only and not JTAG--they say that they do not disassemble the phone and just connect through usb, which I don't think will work.
Is there something I can tell the repair store that's JTAGing my HD2 right now? Such as using the TMOUS version instead of international?
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If they are doing it via USB they will not get it to work no matter what they use.
Download the stock rom for your location, expand it, and rename the nbh file to LEOIMG.nbh, copy it to the root folder of SD card, put the SD card into HD2. Then, hold the vol-down and press power on. You will see a screen for flash original ROM.
tswp said:
Download the stock rom for your location, expand it, and rename the nbh file to LEOIMG.nbh, copy it to the root folder of SD card, put the SD card into HD2. Then, hold the vol-down and press power on. You will see a screen for flash original ROM.
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froibet said:
help!
I have an TMOUS Hd2 that got bricked by a bad flash.
I can't access the boot loader or anything. LED light does not show when i plug it in a charger. When I plug it in my comp, it says QUALCOMM CDMA has been detected but cannot install drivers.
I have tried J-Tagging it at a local store but they say they can't get a connection.
what else can I do?
Is it permanently dead?
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that's not going to work for him.
Can anyone shed any light on internal NAND failure?
okay. got it back from the shop. now it won't recognize as qualcomm :\
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Can anyone shed any light on internal NAND failure?
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Basically it means your NAND chip is screwed, and it is time for a new main board cause you can not replace the NAND chip by itself. The NAND is where your OS resides and other things to. Go to the link belowvto learn more about what a NAND chip iscand does.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
so not being able to establish a connection with the JTAG is pretty much a dead NAND?
it doesn't recognize the device as a qualcomm cdma anymore when plugged into my pc =_=
froibet said:
so not being able to establish a connection with the JTAG is pretty much a dead NAND?
it doesn't recognize the device as a qualcomm cdma anymore when plugged into my pc =_=
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Yeah if it is not recognizing it as qualcomm cdma anymore and they can not establish a connnection with the JTAG connected to the main board then you bread another main board as it sounds like not only your NAND chip iscahot but your processeor too.
what great luck. better give those guys at the store a call cuz before i gave the phone to them, it was recognizing the phone as a qualcomm and not anymore ughh
okay this IS VERY WEIRD.
I managed to get the HD2 to boot....
i just held the power button and popped in a battery and VOILA booted.
seriously, what the hell is happening in this phone?!
froibet said:
okay this IS VERY WEIRD.
I managed to get the HD2 to boot....
i just held the power button and popped in a battery and VOILA booted.
seriously, what the hell is happening in this phone?!
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Your HD2 is possessed ha ha....
No seriously though I have no idea what is wrong with your phone bit it is exhibiting odd behaviour. Maybe the repair shop did fix it with JTAG and just didn't think they did, if so you got out of having to pay them for it.
Or maybe it was not bricked in the first place and you just was not holding the volume down button down long enough or all the way down, who knows. But atleast it booted up that is a major plus. Keep us informed of any further updates man.
I bet you a thousand dollars it was as simple as the battery pins weren't completely touching the battery so it "didn't boot no matter what" then when you reinserted the battery it caught the pins and booted, lol.
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I bet you a thousand dollars it was as simple as the battery pins weren't completely touching the battery so it "didn't boot no matter what" then when you reinserted the battery it caught the pins and booted, lol.
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It still should have connected via JTAG though. I'm glad you got this going. PM me or Magnolia if you have any other issues.
Related
In playing around with the RomUpdateUtility.exe I finaly managed to brick my device. I hexedited the exe to do a task 2a after a task 29 and now I can't even power up my device
Any suggestions?
(and please don't tell me that I did a risky thing. I know that )
You might be able to revive it via JTAG. Have a look here. http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f475/htc-hd2-repair-dead-boot-possible-ort-jtag-1043210/
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You might be able to revive it via JTAG. Have a look here. http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f475/htc-hd2-repair-dead-boot-possible-ort-jtag-1043210/
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Thanks, it was also the first thing that came to my mind. A few days ago I read about this in a posting of Da_G. But... does this mean that I have to buy a 329 dollar device just to boot the HD2 up
Anyone any idea what HTC will charge for repairing a dead device?
OR.... anyone in the Utrecht area (land of the dutch people) that has a JTAG device
did you have bad blocks on your hd2 memory? oO
Just try to send it back and tell them it just dont wanted to turn on anymore
Maybe they trust you.
Edit: On Tylt TyTn... task 2a killed the HSPL, too. Maybe your phone has no SPL anymore.
are your sure its dead or just the screen isnt on?
i remember reading that someone killed his US phone by flashing a 51 radio, but actually managed to recover it as the phone was still detected by his computer when it was plugged in via USB without the battery in it.
might be a figment of my imagination though
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are your sure its dead or just the screen isnt on?
i remember reading that someone killed his US phone by flashing a 51 radio, but actually managed to recover it as the phone was still detected by his computer when it was plugged in via USB without the battery in it.
might be a figment of my imagination though
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It is really resting in peace.... No charger light, nothing..
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did you have bad blocks on your hd2 memory? oO
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Seems to be the case. I think I send it back to HTC with the argument that I had bad blocks and that a task 2a screwed up my device ...
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Seems to be the case. I think I send it back to HTC with the argument that I had bad blocks and that a task 2a screwed up my device ...
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Bad idea. I dont think the supportcenter wants to repair a task 2a device
You could say that the device didnt want to turn on after ROM update
Make a warranty claim at a HTC service centre. My service center replaced my motherboard for free knowing I had hacked it. Just speak nice to them, but don't tell them you hacked it at first, let them find out for themselves if they can, and then tell them with a sad face you didn't know that wasn't allowed.
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Thanks, it was also the first thing that came to my mind. A few days ago I read about this in a posting of Da_G. But... does this mean that I have to buy a 329 dollar device just to boot the HD2 up
Anyone any idea what HTC will charge for repairing a dead device?
OR.... anyone in the Utrecht area (land of the dutch people) that has a JTAG device
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I am doing similar work (for other purpose). you dun need a 329$ device to jtag your HD2.
Get a "bus pirate" from any eShop, QMAT (or not). Bus pirate includes a firmware interpreting jtag commands...
HD2 jtag pinouts are available somewhere on xda in the general question section.
Just...be freaking carefull when you open your HD2, the screen/touch pad and connectors are super easy to damage. good luck
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I am doing similar work (for other purpose). you dun need a 329$ device to jtag your HD2.
Get a "bus pirate" from any eShop, QMAT (or not). Bus pirate includes a firmware interpreting jtag commands...
HD2 jtag pinouts are available somewhere on xda in the general question section.
Just...be freaking carefull when you open your HD2, the screen/touch pad and connectors are super easy to damage. good luck
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Oeps, did miss this important response. Thanks!! I'm currently investigating this solution.
Hello everybody! It's samanen here, a newbie on xda. NOOOB
For first I'd like to apologize my not-so-good english, I'm 15 and from Finland so please keep the point in the problems and forget my english difficulties
Ok, splutting off and let's move to the point here
So I bought my HD2 (used) about two weeks ago, and right away tried to put WP7/android on it and sync music, contacts, videos and other stuff - but my USB connection didn't, and still doesn't work.
Ofcourse I tried reconnecting, cleaning the usb cable and port on the phone, tried another PCs and total of 10 different USB ports, another cable, Mac OS, Win7, WinXP, SyncMate, WMDC, ActiveSync, removing the battery, resetting the phone, removing SD-Card and SIM-Card, ActiveSync, Hard Disk and Faster data sync options, etc etc with no positive result. Its no fun having a mobile device with no access to put media and other stuff on it :/
Specs and facts:
HTC HD2 (aka Leo), non-T-Mobile (EU version?)
Software info:
Os Version : 5.2.21913 (21913.5.0.94)
Manila version : 2.5.20181527.0
ROM version : 3.14.405.2 (04666) WWE
ROM date : 09/29/10
Radio version : 2.15.50.14
Protocol version : 15.42.50.11U
Hardware info:
CPU : QUALCOMM(R) 8250B
Speed : 1024 Mhz
RAM size : 448MB
Flash memory size : 512MB
Enough numbers?
I think I have tried all the stuff I found here... Still no result, can't be detected on my PC. When I connect my phone to my PC, a notification pops up saying that USB device couldn't be detected/recognized, and it may be damaged. 1 second after it popped up it disappears and if I check the devices connected to the pc, there's no undetected devices anymore.. If I'm quick enough to click on the notification, it shows me what devices are connected and their situations, and I can see an undetected USB device there, but if I refresh (reopen) the window it disappears..
Also, if I use the option "When phone is on, do not charge the battery when connected to a PC." and connect to a PC via USB, it STILL does charge the battery. So my hypothesis is that the phone believes it's on a charger/car kit because its not getting recognized as a USB hard disk/device on my PC and still charges as it's connected to PC. Could this be possible in any way?
Also, when I got the phone and put it on the charger, CoPilot popped up every second (I closed it, it opened, etc) and I had to uncheck some option "When connected to a car kit open CoPilot automatically", so another thing there which refers to my phone being a psycho and believing its being on a charger.
I know there are people with this problem, and topics on this forum, but I think my problem is a bit different from theirs and nobody has really got an answer for this..
Then to my second problem. I can't enter Bootloader mode, or Hard Reset mode.
When I hold down the volDown button and press the bootup button, my phone either normally boots up or doesn't even boot up or show signs of booting into bootloader.
Once I got into the bootloader after dozens of tries, but as I'm stupid, I didn't write down the numbers shown there.. And now I seem not to be able to enter bootloader even after 20 tries.. Hardreset neither works. Same plan - either normally boots up or doesn't do anything. Weirdo much? Can anyone help? :/ I think I've bought an useless device..
Thanks,
samanen
Hi man! Try to flash your phone from SD card with stock ROM. Hope you will get good result! Let me know what happens!
Maybe it is your usb cable. I also can not sync with the cable that was delivered with the official carkit. It is just possible to load the device with that cable.
Your bootloader problem could be caused by broken volume buttons. I think they often get destroyed when replacing a broken touch screen. Do they work without problems inside the os?
Sent from my HTC HD2
Sawyer1103 said:
Hi man! Try to flash your phone from SD card with stock ROM. Hope you will get good result! Let me know what happens!
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Hai there! Thanks for your suggestion! What rom version would you recommend? I'm such a noob with these roms etc so I'd appreciate much if you/somebody could tell me what to use I will try that as soon as I find my microSD->SD adapter (Im afraid it got into vacuum cleaner as I cleaned my room ), also I have no idea how that's done but I believe there's a tutorial on xda.
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Maybe it is your usb cable. I also can not sync with the cable that was delivered with the official carkit. It is just possible to load the device with that cable.
Your bootloader problem could be caused by broken volume buttons. I think they often get destroyed when replacing a broken touch screen. Do they work without problems inside the os?
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I have tried 2 different cables, one from the package the previous owner provided me and another one from my dad's N97 mini. Could I be so unlucky that those cables are ones that don't work with HD2? I hope I am If you think its about the cable, what cable would you suggest me to get? Just a basic microusb cable from the electonic store? Also the previous owner told me he wiped out all the data and synced the phone before sending it to me WITH the cable provided, so.. Idk Strange.
No, my volume buttons are working great inside the os, I can adjust vol down and up well without any problems. Also my volbuttons are not sticky or feel like broken so I just don't believe that theyre damaged. Also the screen has never got damaged or repaired.
Another problem - Isn't it required to enter bootloader mode when updating the rom? :/
Thanks for both of you for your replies and suggestions, I will keep you updated if anything helps or gets clarified!
-samanen
Sorry then i can not help you. I do not think it is the cable. I bought one on amazon. It is official htc charging and syncing cable. This just came to my mind because you said that your copilot starts if you plug your phone in....
If you want to install another winmo rom you can do it when connected via active sync and it will automatically go to bootloader. If you want to install hspl for custom roms or android you have to go to bootloader for the installation.
Sent from my HTC HD2
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If you want to install another winmo rom you can do it when connected via active sync and it will automatically go to bootloader. If you want to install hspl for custom roms or android you have to go to bootloader for the installation.
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Connected via ActiveSync :/ But the problem is I can't connect my phone.. (bluethoot neither works -__-)
By your info i can say that you have European Model phone. You must firstly check volume buttons, after. Download official ROM by IMEI of you one. As i know sometimes problem in usb connector in phone. I repair some HD2's by replasing usb connector. I living near you) In little poor Belarus))) try this steps and let me know.
Also. If u want i can help you in repair process. Its very simple) i have a big experience with hd2's and iPhones) and other ones. Because i think you boughta bad repaired phone with bad volume buttons and usb connector
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Also. If u want i can help you in repair process. Its very simple) i have a big experience with hd2's and iPhones) and other ones. Because i think you boughta bad repaired phone with bad volume buttons and usb connector
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Man, do you think they could fix this in warranty/quaranty? I have still warranty left on this one and i think I could get a new one/HD7 in return
Yeah. They must fix it if you dont damaged phone mechanically(maybe previous owner replaced screen) or you dont flash hspl magld android Leo is still The King i think. Here more opportunities than in HD7 On eBay HD7 cheaper than HD2 because WP7 os not good than android let me know whats up!
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Yeah. They must fix it if you dont damaged phone mechanically(maybe previous owner replaced screen) or you dont flash hspl magld android Leo is still The King i think. Here more opportunities than in HD7 On eBay HD7 cheaper than HD2 because WP7 os not good than android let me know whats up!
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No, I've never dropped it or anything and when it came from the previous owner the usb didnt work, and he has never replaced anything on this model (his previous model was replaced to this, completely new one because his previous model stopped working with no reason).
Maybe I should contact the warranty Thanks for the answers, let's see what they can do!
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No, I've never dropped it or anything and when it came from the previous owner the usb didnt work, and he has never replaced anything on this model (his previous model was replaced to this, completely new one because his previous model stopped working with no reason).
Maybe I should contact the warranty Thanks for the answers, let's see what they can do!
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I think all will be good. By what price you bought this one?) Do you want to install android after warranty center?
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I think all will be good. By what price you bought this one?) Do you want to install android after warranty center?
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I changed my old iPhone 3G 16Gb white, in terrible condition to this HD2 and paid 100€ Yeah android or WP7 would be soo super cool, the customizability is the thing why I chose HD2! It's amazing how there are still developers developing new stuff for HD2, I highly aprreciate their work
Waiting for their reply from the warranty center!
Let me know. Whats going on! And i will help you to install all)
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Let me know. Whats going on! And i will help you to install all)
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Still no reply, wow. Today I got a message that my phone will be back in two weeks. Slow service.
They also told me, that as the usb is LOOSE when you plug the cable in, it may be my fault. wow. So they're not repairing it for free i quess..
My phone is back..
Ok, got my phone back. The mohterboard has been damaged, they told me it had got wet. That's something what's not under warranty, so they're not repairing it for free. The repair would cost almost 500€ so it's totally not worth it. The report says: USB-Connectiong is loose (from other components), also injury with water in screen and motherboard.
Seems that the last owner already knew it's damaged and sold me a damaged one, as he told me it's working 100%.
So, I don't have a clue what to do next. I think I should try repairing it myself but is it worth it? Or worth trying? Where can i get the parts and tutorials how to do this? I think i gotta only repair the usb thingy but i'm not sure - I'd love to get some help now. Thanks in advance.
-samanen
htc hds usb problems (using Android 2.3.4 CyanogenMod)
Hello guy's / lady's,
i need some help aswell. hope im at the good page for this.
i have a phone htc hd2 for a year now. i have put alot of android versions on it and with no problems at all. for this site Xda- developers. ( thnx guy's)
but on the last 1 that i have now i can't us my usb port anymore. other hand my battery is loading with the cable but the pc doesent see my phone ,
i habe boot load my phone to with volume button down and pressing off button and if i try to use the usb cable to connect to the phone i don't see and usb text comming up.
hope youguys can help me with this problem. want to update this version of android.
greetings Dolle
dollegek said:
Hello guy's / lady's,
i need some help aswell. hope im at the good page for this.
i have a phone htc hd2 for a year now. i have put alot of android versions on it and with no problems at all. for this site Xda- developers. ( thnx guy's)
but on the last 1 that i have now i can't us my usb port anymore. other hand my battery is loading with the cable but the pc doesent see my phone ,
i habe boot load my phone to with volume button down and pressing off button and if i try to use the usb cable to connect to the phone i don't see and usb text comming up.
hope youguys can help me with this problem. want to update this version of android.
greetings Dolle
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I had the exact same problem and it seemed that my cable was loose. You can try repairing it by yourself (it's not under warranty) or trying different pc/cable.
Try this : go to your pc and remove USB driver from application control panel,and after reconnect hd2.
Probably us not a cable problem, but drivers problems.
Bye.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
i have the same problem i can't go to bootloadr.
can any one help me How i can fix my hd2? plz
it's the screen stop on white HTC
Last night, I noticed that ROM Manager had an update in the Android market
(512mb LEO with Typhoon Cyanogenmod). I hit the update button, and walked away for a while while my phone did its thing, as usual.
I returned about 15 minutes after and noticed that my HD2 was off. I could not, however, turn it back on.
Removing and replacing the battery did not help. The phone wouldn't charge via the wall socket.
My linux PC will not detect it (I checked my dmesg log when plugging in and turning on)
I left the battery out overnight, plugged the phone into the wall, put the battery inside. No luck.
I checked the battery voltage with a multimeter, and it reads about 3.9v.
I don't think it's the battery. I think my HD2 is somehow bricked! Is there anything I can do?
It's not under warranty any more, but if I send it for repair, do you think they will deny it (because it has Android on it)?
Enlighten me with your wisdom, XDA! I don't want to say goodbye to this amazing device!
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Last night, I noticed that ROM Manager had an update in the Android market
(512mb LEO with Typhoon Cyanogenmod). I hit the update button, and walked away for a while while my phone did its thing, as usual.
I returned about 15 minutes after and noticed that my HD2 was off. I could not, however, turn it back on.
Removing and replacing the battery did not help. The phone wouldn't charge via the wall socket.
My linux PC will not detect it (I checked my dmesg log when plugging in and turning on)
I left the battery out overnight, plugged the phone into the wall, put the battery inside. No luck.
I checked the battery voltage with a multimeter, and it reads about 3.9v.
I don't think it's the battery. I think my HD2 is somehow bricked! Is there anything I can do?
It's not under warranty any more, but if I send it for repair, do you think they will deny it (because it has Android on it).
Enlighten me with your wisdom, XDA! I don't want to say goodbye to this amazing device!
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Did you try holding the volume down button and turning on the phone....
It should take you to the tri colored screen...
If you get there the phone is not bricked
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Did you try holding the volume down button and turning on the phone....
It should take you to the tri colored screen...
If you get there the phone is not bricked
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Yes I have tried that. Alas, nothing...
Do you recon they will fix it even if Android was on it?
xebozone said:
Yes I have tried that. Alas, nothing...
Do you recon they will fix it even if Android was on it?
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It is a little late for me to mention this, seeing as you have sent your HD2 in for repairs all ready. But your power/end button may have stopped working, if you still had the your HD2 you could try pressing the reset button by the SD card slot and see if the device booted up then. But that is not an option now.
If all you did was update ROM Manager via the Android Market. Then it should not have bricked your HD2 in any shape form or fashion. Further more it should not have caused your HD2 to turn off either. I mean when you are running NAND Android on the HD2 you are pretty safe from bricking your HD2 because both MAGLDR, cLK, and the actual Android ROM is flashed to the ROM partition of the NAND memory and never touches the real SPL bootloader partition of the HD2.
Plus did you check your battery pins before sending it in? One might have been bent slightly. Or it could have been dirty battery terminals not allowing a good connection.
Point is I very much highly doubt your HD2 was bricked. You probably just missed judged your situation is all. As far as will they fix it? If you are willing to pay the fee they charge then yes.
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It is a little late for me to mention this, seeing as you have sent your HD2 in for repairs all ready. But your power/end button may have stopped working, if you still had the your HD2 you could try pressing the reset button by the SD card slot and see if the device booted up then. But that is not an option now.
If all you did was update ROM Manager via the Android Market. Then it should not have bricked your HD2 in any shape form or fashion. Further more it should not have caused your HD2 to turn off either. I mean when you are running NAND Android on the HD2 you are pretty safe from bricking your HD2 because both MAGLDR, cLK, and the actual Android ROM is flashed to the ROM partition of the NAND memory and never touches the real SPL bootloader partition of the HD2.
Plus did you check your battery pins before sending it in? One might have been bent slightly. Or it could have been dirty battery terminals not allowing a good connection.
Point is I very much highly doubt your HD2 was bricked. You probably just missed judged your situation is all. As far as will they fix it? If you are willing to pay the fee they charge then yes.
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Hah. I don't know where you assumed that I have already sent it in. I'm the kind of person who tried to fix it myself first
Pressing the reset button doesn't do anything. I tried holding it down while inserting the battery too, and nothing,
The battery pins do not appear to be bent or dirty. I gently pushed them upright, and down, and scraped the surface gently in case there was any layers of dirt, still nothing.
I have a sibling with an HD2. I can test the batteries later.
Do you think somehow, the NAND can be worn from multiple reads/writes until it dies? It is flash memory after all, and that last write from the update could have pushed it...
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Hah. I don't know where you assumed that I have already sent it in. I'm the kind of person who tried to fix it myself first
Pressing the reset button doesn't do anything. I tried holding it down while inserting the battery too, and nothing,
The battery pins do not appear to be bent or dirty. I gently pushed them upright, and down, and scraped the surface gently in case there was any layers of dirt, still nothing.
I have a sibling with an HD2. I can test the batteries later.
Do you think somehow, the NAND can be worn from multiple reads/writes until it dies? It is flash memory after all, and that last write from the update could have pushed it...
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Hmmm sorry I thought you had sent it in for repair already. Guess I miss read that, my bad man.
Yes NAND chips are rated for only a number of flashes. But that number is very high. I can not remember the exact numbers right now but hey that is what google is for right? But you did not flash a ROM you just uninstalled a app and then installed the updated version of that app. But then again I guess when you install or uninstall a app it is performing a some what similar action. Still though flashing a ROM is flashing a ROM, and installing a app is installing a app. One is a a lot different than the other.
My money is with your battery being bad. I mean like I said updating your ROM Manager should not have caused your HD2 to turn off at all. Try your sibling's battery and report back, I really hope that fixes it for you.
I haven't actually installed any Android ROM myself. But I did lots of WinMo ROM updates. What strikes me is that you installed a new ROM through the Android Market. Is that a normal procedure to upgrade an Android ROM on the HD2?
T-Macgnolia said:
Hmmm sorry I thought you had sent it in for repair already. Guess I miss read that, my bad man.
Yes NAND chips are rated for only a number of flashes. But that number is very high. I can not remember the exact numbers right now but hey that is what google is for right? But you did not flash a ROM you just uninstalled a app and then installed the updated version of that app. But then again I guess when you install or uninstall a app it is performing a some what similar action. Still though flashing a ROM is flashing a ROM, and installing a app is installing a app. One is a a lot different than the other.
My money is with your battery being bad. I mean like I said updating your ROM Manager should not have caused your HD2 to turn off at all. Try your sibling's battery and report back, I really hope that fixes it for you.
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Hmm... I have an interesting development.
I tried my sibling's battery, and it didn't help, but what I did notice is that the phone vibrates slightly when I turn it on (as it should), but it does so very weakly. So weakly that I need to put my ear against the phone to hear it.
I don't think it's the LCD, because the charging light still doesn't work.
It probably needs a new mobo.
Any suggestions before I take it in for repair?
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I haven't actually installed any Android ROM myself. But I did lots of WinMo ROM updates. What strikes me is that you installed a new ROM through the Android Market. Is that a normal procedure to upgrade an Android ROM on the HD2?
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No, I didn't install a ROM on the market. It's an app called ROM Manager
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Hmm... I have an interesting development.
I tried my sibling's battery, and it didn't help, but what I did notice is that the phone vibrates slightly when I turn it on (as it should), but it does so very weakly. So weakly that I need to put my ear against the phone to hear it.
I don't think it's the LCD, because the charging light still doesn't work.
It probably needs a new mobo.
Any suggestions before I take it in for repair?
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Yeah I agree with you it sort of sounds like something in the main board has malfunctioned. My guess is the processor or the NAND chip one. I would just send it in for repair if I was you. Maybe your HD2 just finally died, I know it sucks. But if you are willing to pay for the repair then you should be back up and running in no time. I am assuming you plan to send it to HTC for repair right? If for some reason they do give you a hassle about Android being on your HD2 and will not repair it. Then contact me I might know somewhere you can get a new main board put in it.
I got my HD2 back today.
Apparently it's not worth fixing...
I also got robbed today... Just my luck.
I cannot afford any other phones atm, but what do u think would make a good candidate replacement for the future? I don't think any other phone has the same kind of mod-ability and support here at XDA, but I would be delighted if you could prove me wrong.
My friend has a Galaxy S2, which is cool, but it doesn't have notification LED :/
Is there much hacking/dev on the GS2?
Hi, i tried too install Android 4.0.4 on HTC H2 After many failes(Android stucked at GoGoGo) I have done next task29+radio, then on 96% it stucked vibrated few times and error occured. Now when i'm trying to turn on phone it keeps vibrating, and display nothing, cant get to bootloader either. Anything else i can do about that?
EDIT: ALSO when connecting phone to PC its system "sees" yet it keeping disconnecting and connectiong every 5-10 sec.
EDIT2: Is there an option, to buy some screen broken HD2 and just change motherboard?
can you see 4 colors with vol down + power??? (HSPL)
a2852 said:
cant get to bootloader either.
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No, i can't.
Try using ebay there are many many htc hd2s with touch broken
P.S. Here are some links from ebay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=htc+hd2+broken&_frs=1
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HTC-HD2-Tac...?pt=FR_Téléphones_mobiles&hash=item1e8fc43b41
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HTC-HD-2-T-...1255190083?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item1e8f6b4243
So the only choice is to replace "insides", thanks for help. I'll use my country's auction site a lot cheaper
a2852 said:
So the only choice is to replace "insides", thanks for help. I'll use my country's auction site a lot cheaper
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Yes i think the problem is the flash (ROM) chip. It is on motherboard so yes you must replace "insides". And i am sorry for your phone.:crying:
Have you tried to uninstall the drivers for the phone? And if your computer is Asus, do you have an app called Asus usb charger or something like that?
I had a problem with an Iphone which was not recognized by Itunes. And the device manager was going crazy, bcs the computer kept switching off the connection with the phone. It turned out there was an Asus app, called Asus usb charger or something like that, which was causing the problem.
So, check everything on your PC and find out why the connection keep getting switched off, format your memory card with SD formatter and after that try to flash it with Windows 6.5.
Best of luck!
bojan.sof said:
Yes i think the problem is the flash (ROM) chip. It is on motherboard so yes you must replace "insides". And i am sorry for your phone.:crying:
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I had the exact same problem, put the main board in the oven at 210c for 10 mins, not only is it fixed, it works better than before
So. I have used the unbrick tool several times before because sometimes I want to go back to out of the box factory. Locked bootloader, the whole nine. Well, it failed, so I unplugged it to try again, and no matter what I do, I can't get my computer to recognize that it's connected to the computer. I've been trying the holding volume up while plugging it in while in test mode. Like I said, I've used it before. I made sure I had plenty of battery life before I tried it, so I know the battery isn't dead. Do I need to look into getting another phone, or has anyone had a phone brick this badly and know how to fix it.
Just to rule out the obvious, have you tried different cable and computer?
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Just to rule out the obvious, have you tried different cable and computer?
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Yeah. I've tried both of my laptops. Works perfectly on both for my s8+, but won't register my OP5 at all. I plug it in and nothing even shows up in device manager on both laptops.
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Yeah. I've tried both of my laptops. Works perfectly on both for my s8+, but won't register my OP5 at all. I plug it in and nothing even shows up in device manager on both laptops.
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I'm not very familiar with windows, you could try booting a Ubuntu livecd and typing in a terminal: dmesg
Then plug in the phone.
see if you can find any reference to the device being connected within the kernel messages.
How did you brick your OP in the first place? Does it still charge?
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How did you brick your OP in the first place? Does it still charge?
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It bricked in the middle of using the unbrick tool. It literally doesn't do anything. No charging, no vibrations. Nothing.
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I'm not very familiar with windows, you could try booting a Ubuntu livecd and typing in a terminal: dmesg
Then plug in the phone.
see if you can find any reference to the device being connected within the kernel messages.
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device descriptor read/64, error -32
That's the error I got. Problems with USB communication.
The fact it does not even charge sounds like a hardware issue. Even when its bricked it should at least charge.
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device descriptor read/64, error -32
That's the error I got. Problems with USB communication.
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This is an EPIPE error, this means the device is not answering the USB protocol requests and the pipe is broken.
In my experience this has always been due to a faulty cable, but in your case I'm afraid the device is juts not behaving as it should.
Next step would be to troubleshoot the hardware; This is not my area but maybe someone experienced can help out indicating what should be the next steps.
It may be that some small hardware parts could be replaced or the damage could be more severe.
Did you power down the phone then hold the power and volume down buttons at the same time to try and boot directly into recovery? If you can boot into recovery and have TWRP you could format the data on your phone using TWRP. That would erase everything on your phone except TWRP. Your computer would recognize your phone as an external hard drive and you could copy and paste a full ROM zip onto the phone memory and flash it with TWRP. If the tool you used installed the stock recovery I'm not sure what your options are but being able to boot into recovery would be a sign that your phone isn't actually hard bricked. Using automated tools to flash your phone is a really bad idea. It is much safer to flash manually.
I think there is close to zero chance that you have a hardware issue based on what you described. I've never heard of anyone hard bricking an OP5 so I think your phone is recoverable. If you can't figure it out a competent phone repair shop should be able to get you up and running again.
There's also One Plus tech support but if you try to get help from them I would probably just tell them your phone got borked after an update. If you tell them the entire circumstance they probably won't even try to help you.
Good luck.
Did you try holding power button for >40 seconds?
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So. I have used the unbrick tool several times before because sometimes I want to go back to out of the box factory. Locked bootloader, the whole nine. Well, it failed, so I unplugged it to try again, and no matter what I do, I can't get my computer to recognize that it's connected to the computer. I've been trying the holding volume up while plugging it in while in test mode. Like I said, I've used it before. I made sure I had plenty of battery life before I tried it, so I know the battery isn't dead. Do I need to look into getting another phone, or has anyone had a phone brick this badly and know how to fix it.
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If it's totalled then one plus will have no idea what is wrong either, send it back mate.
After reviewing all the replies, which won't work for you.
Way back in 2016, I faced the same issue with my op3. My issue was fixed by one of my friend by detaching the battery and reinstall the battery so that the board can boot. If that doesn't work for you, then suggest you to please check the type c connector funtionality.
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If it's totalled then one plus will have no idea what is wrong either, send it back mate.
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I sent it back. They said the main board needed to be replaced. They fixed it under warranty. Just picked the phone back up today.
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After reviewing all the replies, which won't work for you.
Way back in 2016, I faced the same issue with my op3. My issue was fixed by one of my friend by detaching the battery and reinstall the battery so that the board can boot. If that doesn't work for you, then suggest you to please check the type c connector funtionality.
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I sent it back. They said the main board needed to be replaced. They fixed it under warranty. Just picked the phone back up today.
gabriwinter said:
This is an EPIPE error, this means the device is not answering the USB protocol requests and the pipe is broken.
In my experience this has always been due to a faulty cable, but in your case I'm afraid the device is juts not behaving as it should.
Next step would be to troubleshoot the hardware; This is not my area but maybe someone experienced can help out indicating what should be the next steps.
It may be that some small hardware parts could be replaced or the damage could be more severe.
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I sent it back. They said the main board needed to be replaced. They fixed it under warranty. Just picked the phone back up today.
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Did you power down the phone then hold the power and volume down buttons at the same time to try and boot directly into recovery? If you can boot into recovery and have TWRP you could format the data on your phone using TWRP. That would erase everything on your phone except TWRP. Your computer would recognize your phone as an external hard drive and you could copy and paste a full ROM zip onto the phone memory and flash it with TWRP. If the tool you used installed the stock recovery I'm not sure what your options are but being able to boot into recovery would be a sign that your phone isn't actually hard bricked. Using automated tools to flash your phone is a really bad idea. It is much safer to flash manually.
I think there is close to zero chance that you have a hardware issue based on what you described. I've never heard of anyone hard bricking an OP5 so I think your phone is recoverable. If you can't figure it out a competent phone repair shop should be able to get you up and running again.
There's also One Plus tech support but if you try to get help from them I would probably just tell them your phone got borked after an update. If you tell them the entire circumstance they probably won't even try to help you.
Good luck.
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I sent it back. They said the main board needed to be replaced. They fixed it under warranty. Just picked the phone back up today.