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Is My HD2 Really Bricked?

On Saturday night i was txting playing beer pong having a good time.
When all of a sudden a black screen came out saying something about how it was goin to restart and reset or something like that and that all my personal info would be gone.
So i did it and once it restarted it just stayed stuck on the boot up screen.
Not thinking twice about it as i was having fun i just put it in my pocket thinking maybe its gonna take a lil longer but then i realized after awhile it was still on that same screen.
I took out the batter turned it on again same thing happened.
I gave up and decided i'd just deal with it the next morning.
Next morning comes its now like around 1-ish crazy party haha
Point is phone is dead i charge it for 30 min? i try turning on and nothing.
So then i boot up pushing both buttons figured i would do a hard reset.
Still nothing!
My friend decides to take me home so i take this time to charge my phone a lil more with his car charger and at first it was charging then out of no where it doesn't charge?
No light?
No boot up?
Nothing?
I take the battery out and back in then plug it into the charger and the light doesn't turn on but my phone just starts vibrating uncontrollably...
This freaks me out so i take the battery out and again same thing.
I took the battery out for a couple minutes then put it back in and it started charging again.
yay!
Oh btw the whole time this happened i was able to get into bootloader mode so i figured it cant be bricked and i can fix it just got to charge it.
I got home battery wasn't that charged but i plugd it in to my computer in bootloader mode hoping it would charge for a bit then i downloaded a new rom and i read it was a good idea to use task29.
Sounded like a great idea to fix my phone.
I got the Repack by ShaDrac and flashed it on my phone.
One strange thing i did notice was that usually when i flash it i see HTC then a progress bar.
This time it was just blank all black but with the progress bar i saw it go all the way to 99% and 100% on my computer it even said successful flash.
But after that it just stayed off?
No reboot ?
NOTHING!
wont charge
wont turn on
no bootloader mode
completely bricked.
im sure the battery is just dead since it wasn't that charged to begin with but i have no way of charging it!
I did a lot of googleing and found no answers i refuse to believe its bricked!
it cant be rite??
If anyone could please help me i would really appreciate it.
Ive only had my HD2 for about a week =[
Oh and it's a T-Mobile US version unlocked.

javydawg said:
On Saturday night i was txting playing beer pong having a good time.
When all of a sudden a black screen came out saying something about how it was goin to restart and reset or something like that and that all my personal info would be gone.
So i did it and once it restarted it just stayed stuck on the boot up screen.
Not thinking twice about it as i was having fun i just put it in my pocket thinking maybe its gonna take a lil longer but then i realized after awhile it was still on that same screen.
I took out the batter turned it on again same thing happened.
I gave up and decided i'd just deal with it the next morning.
Next morning comes its now like around 1-ish crazy party haha
Point is phone is dead i charge it for 30 min? i try turning on and nothing.
So then i boot up pushing both buttons figured i would do a hard reset.
Still nothing!
My friend decides to take me home so i take this time to charge my phone a lil more with his car charger and at first it was charging then out of no where it doesn't charge?
No light?
No boot up?
Nothing?
I take the battery out and back in then plug it into the charger and the light doesn't turn on but my phone just starts vibrating uncontrollably...
This freaks me out so i take the battery out and again same thing.
I took the battery out for a couple minutes then put it back in and it started charging again.
yay!
Oh btw the whole time this happened i was able to get into bootloader mode so i figured it cant be bricked and i can fix it just got to charge it.
I got home battery wasn't that charged but i plugd it in to my computer in bootloader mode hoping it would charge for a bit then i downloaded a new rom and i read it was a good idea to use task29.
Sounded like a great idea to fix my phone.
I got the Repack by ShaDrac and flashed it on my phone.
One strange thing i did notice was that usually when i flash it i see HTC then a progress bar.
This time it was just blank all black but with the progress bar i saw it go all the way to 99% and 100% on my computer it even said successful flash.
But after that it just stayed off?
No reboot ?
NOTHING!
wont charge
wont turn on
no bootloader mode
completely bricked.
im sure the battery is just dead since it wasn't that charged to begin with but i have no way of charging it!
I did a lot of googleing and found no answers i refuse to believe its bricked!
it cant be rite??
If anyone could please help me i would really appreciate it.
Ive only had my HD2 for about a week =[
Oh and it's a T-Mobile US version unlocked.
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If you have only had it for a week then the best thing is to just take it back to wherever you bought it and ask for a direct replacement as it should still be within the time frame for that.
Sounds like you have done everything possible to bring it back, taking the battery out, hard reset. If it wont turn on, wont go into the bootloader and you cant get an activesync connection then theres not really much more you can do.
Mark.

yea i agree, dont waste time fiddling and trying to bring it back, get round the shop today.

Unfortunately thats not an option as i got it from someone else and then unlocked it since im on at&t. At most i would have to call htc and hope the manufactureres warranty can do something but i highly doubt it.
cant believe this is the end of my HD2

javydawg said:
Unfortunately thats not an option as i got it from someone else and then unlocked it since im on at&t. At most i would have to call htc and hope the manufactureres warranty can do something but i highly doubt it.
cant believe this is the end of my HD2
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You might try taking the battery out and leaving it out for at least 24 hours. Sometimes that will reset a few things and bring the screen back on but im not guarenteeing anything. Yo uhave nothing to lose at this stage though. You could also try connecting it to your pc via activesync and see if it connects. Even if the screen isnt coming on you might still get a connection which you could use to flash a new rom.
Even getting a replacement battery off ebay very cheaply might sort it out as I have heard of batterys going funny before.
Just a few sugestions.
Mark.

all the phones should (I think) be manufacturer warrantied for the first year, so I bet htc will fix it, though you might have to pay shipping.
dig out your regions htc repair center and get in touch. so long as they can't see the hspl it should be free.(

I dont have HD2 (<--nexus one), but one thing i have noticed with all HTC phones that I've had something similar happen is when i have tired to reboot the phone by turning it off and then trying to turn back on it wont. I would take the battery out and still it will not. I would do the same with the sd card and same but what fixes it is taking the SIM out press the power button few times with no battery and then putting everything back on and it turns on. It happens in a while. Maybe not the same problem but i guess its worth a try if you haven't yet. One more thing I would try is to take the battery out, the sd card and the SIM card out and then plug your phone into the charger and wait a few mins to see if the led or screen would come on. Try the same thing by plugging it to your computer. If computer does make sound and it does detect your phone then it might just a screen related issue which might be the case since you already flash it with a different rom and nothing came on. I know you probably have tried this but you didnt say in your post but have you tried this?
1. With the device turned off, press and hold the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons, then briefly press the POWER button.
2. Continue pressing the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons until you see this message on the screen:
“This operation will delete all your personal data, and reset all settings to the manufacturer default settings. Press VolUp to restore manufacturer defaults, or press other keys to cancel.”
3. Release the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons.
4. Press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.
Good luck

I agree with mskip about the 24H thing if you let the internal/backup battery die it could solve a possible brick then by reflashing
also what deanesn said about the HD phones its also true (same prob with G1 and excalibur) sometimes out off nowhere it wont turn on or its just going to give you a black screen... wierd huh!?
important things I wanna know is
what rom where you using? what radio version? what were the last app or apps you installed on your HD2?
anyways from what I've read&done ever since I joined XDA this is the best thing to do in a situation like yours
This is when you get a black screen
1 if its stuck on the boot screen try to do another hard reset
2. if you cant or nothing happeneds try to see if you can acces the bootloader screen
3. if you cant, remove the batterie for like 24H or maybe more so the internal batterie dries out (if you do that make sure that you try to estimate around 50% to 70% before removing the actual batterie for reflashing)
4. then insert the batterie and try to acces the bootloader or hard reset by pressing the key combanations dont try to see if by a miracle chance it would fix the problem (trust me at this point it wont)
5. if it actually DOES bootup find and download THE STOCK ROM FROM TMOBILE
6. HARD reset if nothing then do it agn but before it has a chance to, try to boot up
7. quickly acces the bootloader wipe your phone (task 29 for hd2) and flash the STOCK ROM (not a custom rom. I read somewhere that its always better to go with an official tmo rom)
thats it Ive try many things on my ALMOST bricked situations this are the things Ive done MAYBE IT WONT WORK FOR YOU, one time I thought my excalibur was dead until I left my phone without a batterie for like a weak then later out of nowhere it boots up only on the first tmobile splash screen and I was able to fix it
LOL even tho those steps prob dont apply to you what you can do is call HTC and tell them you have a black screen on your htc DONT TRY AND ACT all smart by telling them you have a brick and you had a custom rom and all of that cause that prob voids your warranty with HTC, from what I've read this one guy told them that his girlfriend was texting and then the phone froze and the she remove the batterie and the screen went black. And he got a replacement
also another one that I read is a guy telling them he was doing an OFFICIAL ROM UPDATE and the phone never turned back on.
hope it helps

Mark:
Thanks, and this is actually my plan lol I used to flash my old motorola rizr all the time even had to testpoint it to bring it back from a complete BRICK! but the one thing i couldnt fix was water damage haha but after a week of having the battery out some how... miraculously it came back
Deanesn:
How is the nexus one? I was gonna get a nexus one or a hd2 but the screen size ended up being the tie breaker although ever since my g1, android has had my heart haha
Ive always hated windows mobile but the hd2 was perfect!
I also agree with what u said, i have seen those symptons before.
But yea thanks on the advice.. sadly... already tried it and nothing.. =/
Tuppaacc:
Thnx thats exactly what im trying to do.
My only problem is my battery is dead and i need to charge it!

Oh i just noticed i forgot to answer ur questions Tuppaacc.
tuppaacc said:
important things I wanna know is
what rom where you using? what radio version? what were the last app or apps you installed on your HD2?
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I was using Duttys_Leo_Sense_2.5_5.2.21898.5.0.91_2.10_Radio_2.08.50.08.2_HG_V1.7_WWE Rom.
Im not really sure what radio i was using but if i had to guess i would say 2.10 since i dont remember flashing anything else and i heard the best radio was the one the HD2 already came with.
As for the last app installed ummm.... iGo8? not sure either but in total all the apps installed where
My Phone
Marketplace
Facebook
Myspace
iGo8
Aim
Flashlight
Glympse
umm cant think of any other ones. I know i didnt install much just had flashed the rom the night before.
again sorry for skipping your question.

try
try taking sd card out and boot it work for me

Here is what you have to do after I made a mistake and "killed" my US version HD2, but it's back to service.
First of all, you have to be sure the battery has at least 50% left. If the unit is able to charge the battery, leave it charged for a couple of hours.
Second, unplug all the cables from the unit, take the battery and wait for a few seconds, then put the battery back in. Press and hold volume down button and press red (end/power) button once. If everything goes well, you should see a tri-color screen.
Third, plug in the phone and run ROM update again.
WARNING: flashing will erase your personal data.
javydawg said:
Oh i just noticed i forgot to answer ur questions Tuppaacc.
I was using Duttys_Leo_Sense_2.5_5.2.21898.5.0.91_2.10_Radio_2.08.50.08.2_HG_V1.7_WWE Rom.
Im not really sure what radio i was using but if i had to guess i would say 2.10 since i dont remember flashing anything else and i heard the best radio was the one the HD2 already came with.
As for the last app installed ummm.... iGo8? not sure either but in total all the apps installed where
My Phone
Marketplace
Facebook
Myspace
iGo8
Aim
Flashlight
Glympse
umm cant think of any other ones. I know i didnt install much just had flashed the rom the night before.
again sorry for skipping your question.
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the thing is the phone itself wont charge the battery.
I plug it into the wall and no lights turn on to indicate its charging.

javydawg said:
the thing is the phone itself wont charge the battery.
I plug it into the wall and no lights turn on to indicate its charging.
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You need to get a desktop charger so you can plug the battery in and make sure its fully charged. I dont think they are available from shops but you can buy them online (ebay) for around a fiver.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Desktop-Battery...&otn=8&po=LVI&ps=63&clkid=9087015918333818927
That one says for the T8585 but im pretty sure they both use exactly the same battery. You might want to check on that though.
Mark.

My goodness, that OP is a real doozie.
That's pretty wild man, although I don't have much input, other than the obvious suggestions that have already been provided for you... I will say that was a worthy read.

Yea thats pretty much my only option I will be buying that desktop charger real sooon and ill get back to the forum with my results.
Cant believe they are so cheap haha
Ive even seen one that comes with an extra OEM battery and charger for under 15 dollars!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230460046498
Thnx for all the help and support. =]

U have a Bricked HD2 my friend

i bought the wall charger and it charged the battery but it still wouldnt turn on or go into bootloader mode or do anything!!
=[
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any luck with un-bricking your HD2?

Seems like OP bought a damaged phone in the first place or something, or something "happened" on the night of the party. Beer got on it, perhaps?

Hd2 wont stay off while charging..

Well since trying WP7 - when i switch my phone off and plug in the charger it automatically reboots.
I thought it may be a wp7 problem but now i have switched to a nand Desire z build (by dandiest) and i have the same problem..
Anyone have this problem? or know of a fix?
Thought it might be a charger problem but surely if the connectors were faulty it wouldnt allow me to flash various roms...
I have googled but no luck..

If you're using MAGLDR 1.13 there lies your answer

bates_1974 said:
If you're using MAGLDR 1.13 there lies your answer
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I am using Magldr 1.13 - is the problem from that?? is there a way to stop it?

cd78 said:
Well since trying WP7 - when i switch my phone off and plug in the charger it automatically reboots.
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I dont understand this exactly, so do your phone turn off or does it reboot? Or does it reboot, when you TRY to turn it off while the charger is pluged in? If this is the case, then its working like it should. (i guess, you are allready on magdlr 1.13)
hehe, and no, its not a problem, it a feature. But seriously why dont you read the first page in the magdl 1.13 thread?

greg17477 said:
I dont understand this exactly, so do your phone turn off or does it reboot? Or does it reboot, when you TRY to turn it off while the charger is pluged in? If this is the case, then its working like it should. (i guess, you are allready on magdlr 1.13)
hehe, and no, its not a problem, it a feature. But seriously why dont you read the first page in the magdl 1.13 thread?
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Yeah it turns on when the charger is plugged in..
Its a "Feature" bit of a strange one..I didnt read the Magldr thread because i didnt think that would be the problem.
this is a Q&A forum so i asked a Question.
Now solved. Mods please close thread// thanks

That was the only way cotulla could fix the problem of charging while off with magldr. With earlier versions, if you charged while off, it would not boot until you took battery out and replace... and people complained and wanted a fix, so he fixed it the only way possible: by making the phone boot up when connected to charger while off. You can go to earlier version of magldr if you want it the other way. Or just charge phone while it's on.

zarathustrax said:
That was the only way cotulla could fix the problem of charging while off with magldr. With earlier versions, if you charged while off, it would not boot until you took battery out and replace... and people complained and wanted a fix, so he fixed it the only way possible: by making the phone boot up when connected to charger while off. You can go to earlier version of magldr if you want it the other way. Or just charge phone while it's on.
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Thank you. Yeah the freeze/battery pull was pretty annoying too..not sure which is worse!

Stuck in HTC screen after MAGLDR 1.13
I have HSPL2.8 ... i got Stuck in HTC screen after MAGLDR 1.13 installation ..I tried SOFT and HARD resets no luck ....Plz help

It's better than it not turning back on after turning it off while charging it.

I rather go with the new 113 version. i hate that i have to take the battery out since my case is pretty hard to pull out and put back in. I can't think of any con with phone turning on while plug in when off.

pprabhu06 said:
I have HSPL2.8 ... i got Stuck in HTC screen after MAGLDR 1.13 installation ..I tried SOFT and HARD resets no luck ....Plz help
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Hold the power button while it's powering on. That'll get you into MAGLDR.

[Q] HD2 Not booting up Black screen! ;s

So , i had my hd2 and i got magldr on it and clockwork i think how its called , for installing android from sd. Android worked fine but then suddently it just turned off and i can't put it back on , not even in the bootloader ;s its just a black screen , no response or nothin , tried to plug it in , not even showing it is actually recharging , the battery was 60% at that time. Also i tried everything , hard reset , soft reset & taking the battery in and out, also tried to connect to my pc , but it didn't do anything. Any solutions for this? plz im desperate

It seems like your phone is bricked. That's the time when it becomes so unresponsive (like it's dead) to how you described it.

and is it possible to unbrick this?

jory9 said:
and is it possible to unbrick this?
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Not in your case. Only if you were able to boot into bootloader then you could.

you got any suggestions what i should do?

jory9 said:
you got any suggestions what i should do?
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A jtag method could fix it... pm send to you.

Bent battery pin.

how can i see this , how should the pins be?

If one is bent it is usually pretty obvious, all three should be sticking straight out, all the same, but they catch easily on the plastic surrounding the terminals on the battery.
The normal cause of your symptoms is a regular radio flashed to a tmous,, or a flat battery. If the option of putting another battery in your phone, or your battery in a different hd2 is possible, you should deff try that, just to rule it out.

the pins are all ok , i can see it on the led of my powerplug. when i put the battery out it is green when i put it back in it is red

Hello there
i have exactly the same problem with my HD2.
Did someone managed to restore his phone ?
Thanks

[Q] my HD2 hangs and doesn't respond at different screens even in MAGDLR

Hello, my hd2 was working fine when with no particular reason it shut off and couldn't reboot (like it wasnt charged).
After I removed the battery for some minutes the phone boot and froze at MAGDLR.
After leaving it for a day the phone booted in Android and froze after a couple of minutes.
I guess this is a hardware fault since the phone was working flawlessly and now it doesn't even start at some times.
I think it is a problem of overheating. Can anyone point me to a direction of what replacements I need to find and if this is overheating or something else?
I thank you very much in advance

Maybe the battery.
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How can it be a problem with battetry? It happens to me too, but sometimes it workes for 5 days and then for no reason it just hangs. Than i have to pull battery out and after that it works again for some time. I have installed android in nand and it happens with every android i've put on my phone. is it hardware problem or?

check if the battery pins are bent?

So youre saying that it can hang at lockscreen because of battery?

I checked it is not the battery... I changed the battery and things are the same. Also the pins are not bent

anyone that can help?

Which Android rom do you run?
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I am currently using NDT MIUI but the problem doesn't seem to be this as the phone stops loading even in the MAGDLR screen.
Is this a temperature problem ?

Is the phone really hot when you touch it?
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no not the phone, not the battery... however the problem remains. When the phone freezes it cannot boot, if you leave it for a bit it boots but only to MAGDLR or HTC Screen, if you let it for 1 day then it boots to build but then after a little it freezes

Can you check the radio rom?
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If you can get into CWM, make a backup and tehn Task29 your device and re-install MAGLDR and start over and if the problem remains then its a hardware issue.

typical cpu bga failure case. Place the phone in a bag, then place the bag in a fridge. Let the phone there for about 1 hour then open the fridge door and try to boot up the phone while keeping it in the fridge interior area. If you notice improvements in it's behaviour, then yep, it's cpu bga failure. I haven't yet found a quick and easy solution, as you can see be the topic link in my signature.

[Q] HD2 won't turn on — short vibration and black screen

Hi everyone,
I would really appreciate it if you could give me an advice for my TMOUS HD2 P81120, that won't turn on.
I bought it with some firmware problems, spent plenty of time flashing it and finally managed to install a stock ROM from SDCARD using a fridge (it couldn't install w/o such cooling).
After that, it booted to white splashscreen with pink logo (smth like "Bringing happinness", don't remember the text) and stuck on it. I rebooted, flashed HSPL 2.08 successfully.
After that the device won't turn on at all. When I hold the Power button, all I get a barely sensible short vibration, but the screen stays completely black, no signs of life. I kept it on AC charger overnight — nothing has changed. When I hook it to the charger w/o the battery, and put the battery in, HD2 powers on itself (same short vibration, no other signs of life). Tried removing the sdcard, different combinations of power-ons, still nothing. Tried freezing it again for 5-10 mins — still no luck.
Please let me know what else I can try.

and one more thing — when I plug the USB, the PC doesn't detect any device.
It seems that a JTAG is my last resort, still I'm not sure I can find the hardware for that.

kitjarik said:
and one more thing — when I plug the USB, the PC doesn't detect any device.
It seems that a JTAG is my last resort, still I'm not sure I can find the hardware for that.
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same sh*t her pall

the problem is that your HD2 are overheating so the only thing thats left in your case is to replace motherboard

BobbyManifesto said:
the problem is that your HD2 are overheating so the only thing thats left in your case is to replace motherboard
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Good point!

Make sure that none of the three pins on the phone that touch the battery are bent. One of the causes of constant reboot is when one of those pins are not touching the battery. Please let me know if it worked for you...

meb786 said:
Make sure that none of the three pins on the phone that touch the battery are bent. One of the causes of constant reboot is when one of those pins are not touching the battery. Please let me know if it worked for you...
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That were definitely not the battery pins.
If anyone cares - here's how it ended (or not yet )
I found a JTAG service in my city, they wanted 50$ to restore the device to a working condition. I agreed, they took the phone. After that they've called me and said they have restored the bootloader, but can't make HD2 actually boot (they flashed stock ROM directly through JTAG, but it always got stuck on "Stick Together Screen". Now I understand I have probably flashed the wrong rom/radio — that's what has bricked it. I paid them 7$ for "diagnostics" and got back a phone with a working bootloader.
After that, I used the "fridge" method to flash latest radio for HD2 and some custom Win6.5.3 ROM (10 mins of fridge before each step). Then I cooled it again and put the cold phone on a frozen chicken (still laughing on that). Guess what — it booted into WM6.5, I even managed to make a call, though it rebooted in 3-5 mins. Overheating problems confirmed, at least it's not a complete brick.
What I've done now is found a guy that will try to "reball" the CPU's BGA - sort of "reheat" the chip to get a firm contact of it with the motherboard, and solve the heat problems. He'll call me today and let me know how it went — i'll update this topic.
As a conclusion, I can only say: "Check three times what you're flashing before you actually are flashing". Otherwise, JTAG is a wonderful "resurrection" solution, although a bit pricey (my case is pure luck).