23/06/2011 EDIT: IT SEEMS HTC UK DO NOT REALLY CHECK/OR DO NOT CARE! THEY REPAIRED MY PHONE DESPITE IT BEING RADIO S-OFF AND CWM ON IT! Let's hope this lasts for the remainder of my 2 year warrenty!, although it would be better if the chip just didnt fail!
I checked the status of my repair today and it says " Your phone is ready for pick-up. Our customer service representatives or express delivery staff will contact you about a delivery schedule to return your HTC phone." Which means i should get it tomorrow, happy days
I was turning on my wi-fi when all of a sudden my Desire Z froze, completely!
This is on the second day of use after warrenty repair! (it froze and wouldn't turn on again)
So i pulled the battery out and now the phone is messed up, and i can't send it in for warrenty yet, as it clearly has Radio S-Off and Clockworkmod! (but i do not have eng hboot)
When i turn the phone on it stays at the HTC screen for ages, then after a while it fails to load anything and boots into recovery.
In clockwordmod It displays lots of E: failed to mount cache/recovery.....
I tried to flash a rom but it no longer detects my sdcard(s) (fails to mount that too)
i tried to flash via bootloader and pc10img.zip, but that fails with -fail-pu
i need to send it into htc, but will they check s-off and clockwordmod??? this is in the UK! The phone was only bought in march
Have you tried using a different sd card? If you are unable to mount the other partitions, you may be hosed I'm just curious if changing sd cards might help.
yep, i've tried two that i KNOW work, one of them works in bootloader, so i don't see why it shouldn't work in recovery
It's a hardware issue. You'll have to send it in how it is.
Everyone I've heard of with the issue got it replaced just fine despite being s-off.
There's a thread here about it.
-Nipqer
okay, let's hope it's the same for me!
i'm really annoyed at the fact that it broke 1 day after the first hardware failure!
damn im starting to see this issue more than before lately :s im even scared to flash new stuff now
the thing is, i s-offed it, flashed it ONCE since it was repaired and less than 24hours later it freezes and fails -_-
I had a mytouch 4g for a bit and their forums are blowing up about this issue too. It apparently has to do with the emmc chip. It falis to partition any longer or becomes corrupt. There are two that the g2 and the mytouch can come with and one of the chips is much more susceptible to the failure
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yes, i checked, the i had the "more susceptable" one
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yes, i checked, the i had the "more susceptable" one
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How exactly do we check the chip?? I would like to check mines to see if I have the bad chip!
Edit: Never mind.. just run this in a terminal or adb
cat /sys/devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:0001/name
So those of us getting replacements are more than likely gonna have this newer chip in it? Ugh!
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i don't trust this chip, they only fixed it on thursday, it took all of one day to fail!
and this time they can see that i have s-offed it! (last time it just failed to turn on at all) so i'm worried they'll charge me to fix it!
At least this has a 2year warrenty (length of my contract) but now i'm scared to s-off it when i get it back, incase they don't repair it again!
If you put an eng hboot on, you can brick it nice and proper so they can't see the s-off.
-Nipqer
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So those of us getting replacements are more than likely gonna have this newer chip in it? Ugh!
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So I'm right then. Those of us getting new phones are up **** crick and gonna brick it for rooting and s offing it huh this sux. I bet they did this **** on purpose so if we tried to s off it that it would bust it. This is ridiculous this is OUR hardware how DARE they.
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why dont you total it completely... take a capacitor, take the battery out.. charge the capacitor using a 9v battery and shock all the terminals... it wont turn on then... this is by no means a good way to get out of it but it may work... i hope we could find a solution to fix it but if the chips are crap then try it.... i have done it with my old nokia n95 when it kept freezing... i got a warrenty replacment
dont blame me if it doesnt work though lol its only a thought for you to ponder.... i would try and fix the problem using adb techniques if possible
i did try flash a eng hboot (and desire HD one to try and brick it) on, it fails with -fail-pu, so no can do there!
hopefully they'll fix it regardless, they're picking it up today.
i'm not going to do anything radical to the phone, just incase, if they charge me to fix it, i'll see how much it is, (i'd have to pay £20 to return it un-repaired anyway) if it's too pricey, i'll have it returned, and sell it on ebay and buy another HD2 with that money and whatever i can scrape together!
also, i don't have a capacitor
Not all new G2's are coming with the bad chip. I just got my latest a few weeks back (new in box) and it, thankfully, does have the good chip in it. So, not all hope is lost with getting a replacement.
Also, in the Mytouch 4g forum, many have sent their phones in for replacement just for this reason and many have been rooted and unable to UNroot due to this issue and they have all been replaced without any problems. So, hopefuly you are in that boat and don't have to worry.
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Not all new G2's are coming with the bad chip. I just got my latest a few weeks back (new in box) and it, thankfully, does have the good chip in it. So, not all hope is lost with getting a replacement.
Also, in the Mytouch 4g forum, many have sent their phones in for replacement just for this reason and many have been rooted and unable to UNroot due to this issue and they have all been replaced without any problems. So, hopefuly you are in that boat and don't have to worry.
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Well if it was a new one that might be way. It seems they stopped manufacturing these phones awhile ago so more than likely its been sitting on a stock shelf for months! Unlike a refurb where if the person who sent it back hardware bricked it or something, they probably had to change the emmc chip in it :/
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Title asks it all.
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Title asks it all.
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your best bet is to not root at all. sorry, really sucks i know. if you're willing to risk it then go ahead, i heard some people have bad eMMC chips but the phone hasn't died, at least yet.
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your best bet is to not root at all. sorry, really sucks i know. if you're willing to risk it then go ahead, i heard some people have bad eMMC chips but the phone hasn't died, at least yet.
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I had the bad chip on the MT4G I had and used a numerous ROMs from Derek, Faux, and evil; over 15+ ROMs. Nothing has happened during the time I owned it, so I think the OP should go ahead with it or sell the phone for one not plagued with bad eMMc chips.
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I had the bad chip on the MT4G I had and used a numerous ROMs from Derek, Faux, and evil; over 15+ ROMs. Nothing has happened during the time I owned it, so I think the OP should go ahead with it or sell the phone for one not plagued with bad eMMc chips.
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example right here. basically, if you're willing to take the risk, go ahead, but knowing that the eMMC might die be careful. my suggestion would be, if you root, find a good rom that you like, and stick with it. don't flash too much, as that could possibly shorten the chip's life.
how can you tell if the emmc is a bad one or a good one?
nvm found out how.
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I had the bad chip on the MT4G I had and used a numerous ROMs from Derek, Faux, and evil; over 15+ ROMs. Nothing has happened during the time I owned it, so I think the OP should go ahead with it or sell the phone for one not plagued with bad eMMc chips.
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+1. I also got bad emmc but I flash every couple of days and never had any single issue.
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+1. I also got bad emmc but I flash every couple of days and never had any single issue.
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my old phone had the bad eMMC chip, died after about a month after rooting. only flashed about three or four ROMS. not sure why it died so quickly though, but i guess some M4G2DE eMMCs are just worse than other M4G2DE and SEM04G...
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i guess some M4G2DE eMMCs are just worse than other M4G2DE and SEM04G...
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This.
It seems that some of the M4G2DE chips are bad and fail during flashing or normal use after a relatively short while.
There are many that don't fail.
The same chips are also used in G2, Desire HD, Desire S. These phones have the same reports - a small percentage of M4G2DE chips fails during use. If you're unfortunate enough to have the one that's destined to fail - it might fail during normal use or during installation of system update. I think you might as well just root and count on your warranty to cover that percentage.
Same here, only flashed my from stock to CM7 7.0.1 once using gfree and hboot eng s-off. fried itself in the middle of my grocery shopping trip. Had a bunch of failed auto-updates the day before, and got alot of FDW launcher fails at the store. Didn't know what happen till I got back home and tried to reflash. Seen a bunch of threads here and over at the forums for Cyanogenmod. I think its just an "educated" gamble as some non-rooted phones aka muggle phones, self destructed from the bad eMMC. I ordered a replacement "parts" MT4G that supposed to have a screen blanking issue for $80 bucks on ebay. Turns out the previous owner of the phone had a botched screen protector problem. Fixed it with a new screen protector, wow am I lucky or what!!! Unfortunately it also has the flaky eMMC M4G2DE At least I have a working although muggled phone
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Same here, only flashed my from stock to CM7 7.0.1 once using gfree and hboot eng s-off. fried itself in the middle of my grocery shopping trip. Had a bunch of failed auto-updates the day before, and got alot of FDW launcher fails at the store. Didn't know what happen till I got back home and tried to reflash. Seen a bunch of threads here and over at the forums for Cyanogenmod. I think its just an "educated" gamble as some non-rooted phones aka muggle phones, self destructed from the bad eMMC. I ordered a replacement "parts" MT4G that supposed to have a screen blanking issue for $80 bucks on ebay. Turns out the previous owner of the phone had a botched screen protector problem. Fixed it with a new screen protector, wow am I lucky or what!!! Unfortunately it also has the flaky eMMC M4G2DE At least I have a working although muggled phone
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Lol, thats just really unlucky, seeing as only about 15% of the phones have a bad emmc, but its good you have a working one now. Mayne this one wont be as bad and wont die as fast
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Lol, thats just really unlucky, seeing as only about 15% of the phones have a bad emmc, but its good you have a working one now. Mayne this one wont be as bad and wont die as fast
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Thank god for ebay! I'm going to play it safe for a while, although even OTA updates are just as risky.
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how can you tell if the emmc is a bad one or a good one?
nvm found out how.
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Posted just in-case someone else need to find out how...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081243
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Posted just in-case someone else need to find out how...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081243
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Thank you so much!
Hi,
A couple of days ago my emmc-chip got fried by pulling the battery and replacing it too soon. The problem is that the boot-screen still shows S-OFF, which WILL void my warranty, as been proven by many other people with the same problem. This is a disgrace, since it's clearly a hardware problem caused by HTC, and has nothing to do with software.
My question is, how kan i frie up the whole thing? I just want my htc to NOT boot at all. Black screen all the time! Someone said to just load up a capacitor of 9V and connect it with the battery connection pins, so everything will burn up, but that sounds a bit over the top.
I would like to know if there is a better way to achieve a similar result?
Thanks!
ugh, ban...
Before you do anything rash have you confirmed that it is definitely your emmc that has gone bad?
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I had my emmc burned sometime last year. had s-off and eng hboot. sent it in to HTC here in germany and there was no problem at all. just got my whole mainboard replaced because they know about this hardware issue. sent them some links to posts here too which confirmed it being the emmc. there is a test where you can check it to confirm this. so this was no problem at all.
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Sorry, but we won't allow discussion like this here. You know that S-off will void you warranty, regardless if it's the cause of any faults. Its the risk you take.
Posting other ways to "fry" your phone is akin to warranty fraud.
Please Guide me i am in very difficult situation...
i am going to buy mytouch 4g but i am really afraid of that so called " Bad Chip " issue ..
i am in asian country so no return or no warranty ..
so any one please help me what to do should i buy or not to buy i like to flash roms and etc
and i want to use it like a android should be used please need a little time of you to save my money...
This is not the best phone on the market...but if you buy it anyway, you should not have problem with bad chips unless you start flashing different rom on your phone..
I agree with above, this is not the latest phone out so you will be outdated by almost over 2 years, but if you still buy it just don't start flashing ROMS like a maniac. I have had no problems on either my phone or my wife's phone.
It's still an awesome phone. Go for it, the chip issue isn't a dealbreaker, I've had 4 "bad chips" and thus far, no 'Failed pu'
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It's still an awesome phone. Go for it, the chip issue isn't a dealbreaker, I've had 4 "bad chips" and thus far, no 'Failed pu'
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I agree with jjbadd, my friend has been flashing roms on his "bad chipped" MT4G for a good year and change now with no problems at all. I'd say go ahead and buy it, we get a lot of good roms on our phone. There is the risk of getting a faulty chip, but if you're willing to take that risk you'll enjoy the phone a lot.
Hi guys!
Just wanted to share my pain, hope you won´t mind...
This is what happened:
Yesterday I came home from work, pulled my S3 out of my pocket and saw it was turned off. I tried to turn it on, but no luck. The phone was dead! Tried pulling the battery out, leaving it alone for more than 10 mins... tried to boot it into recovery - nothing. Tried the download mode - no signs of life at all. It was just a shiny brick! Putting it on charger didn´t help. No reaction, no led flashing, NOTHING! And just half an hour before everything was fine.
I was running the latest official AOKP build the last couple of days, so I really don´t believe that the software has something to do with it since I didn´t flash anything yesterday. The other question is now if the Samsung guys will notice that the phone wasn´t running stock software and that the warranty is actually void... I hope they won´t! But if they too won´t be able to turn it on, I guess they won´t!
I took the phone to the Samsung service center this morning and didn´t receive any feedback yet. As soon as I know something I´ll share it.
Did anyone happen something similar to this?
awww sorry to hear that , i am sure its covered in warranty
I don't understand the warranty thing, if the phone is dead and not due to you installing a Rom or kernel or modding it then can't really see any reason to refuse fixing or replacing it.
If however it was because of the reason that you did install things then I can see how the warranty is void.
Hope you get it seen to
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In 2013, rooting won't be illegal. Too bad it happened to your device, that is just bad luck.
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i don't know where you live but i'm pretty sure rooting is not illegal anywhere it just voids your warranty. removing the simlock is an entirely different story
Has happened to me too, 1 week after purchase (got stuck on the Samsung Galaxy SIII on boot). Got mine replaced right there and then but i'm left wondering about the quality of the phone. I get it that there are always problems with every product but i see so many people reporting the same lately i start thinking it may be chronic. Some component failing or some batch where something went wrong..
Sorry to hear that, they are an absolute pain in the ass with warranty in my country. They didn't even want to replace mine because the dude was claiming the back of my phone was slightly scratched (i wasn't, even) and they are quite anal about modded phones but, wish you the best of lucks!
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In 2013, rooting won't be illegal. Too bad it happened to your device, that is just bad luck.
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Could you please be a little bit more precise? Is this a rumor or a new law to get passed?
exaclty the same happened to me. just in the middle of the day i realized that my sg3 was off. tried to turn it on but it didnt react. later at home i tried to charge but had the same bad result.
my biggest problem was, that it was rooted and running on a custom firmware since they tell you at every point, that you lose your warranty doing that...
after several hours of trying / searching and reading i became sure, that it would be an hardware fault and sent it to a local cellphone-support center.
they needed about 2 weeks to find out the problem, order a new main board, fix it and luckily didnt care about my custom firmware. they even updated it to the latest offical 4.1!
2 day ago i got it back and became happy - in this 2 weeks i realized how much i depend on this little thing
soo... i feel with you on this and good luck!
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Could you please be a little bit more precise? Is this a rumor or a new law to get passed?
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It is for the US, YMMV. Droid Life Article/
budx said:
exaclty the same happened to me. just in the middle of the day i realized that my sg3 was off. tried to turn it on but it didnt react. later at home i tried to charge but had the same bad result.
my biggest problem was, that it was rooted and running on a custom firmware since they tell you at every point, that you lose your warranty doing that...
after several hours of trying / searching and reading i became sure, that it would be an hardware fault and sent it to a local cellphone-support center.
they needed about 2 weeks to find out the problem, order a new main board, fix it and luckily didnt care about my custom firmware. they even updated it to the latest offical 4.1!
2 day ago i got it back and became happy - in this 2 weeks i realized how much i depend on this little thing
soo... i feel with you on this and good luck!
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Thanks!
This is actually what I´m thinking... that the motherboard died... I just hope that tomorrow or on wednesday, I will at least get informed what is wrong with it... Don´t even dare to think how long it will take to have it again... And yes... I depend on it too!!! Maybe even too much!!! LOL
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Hi guys!
Just wanted to share my pain, hope you won´t mind...
This is what happened:
Yesterday I came home from work, pulled my S3 out of my pocket and saw it was turned off. I tried to turn it on, but no luck. The phone was dead! Tried pulling the battery out, leaving it alone for more than 10 mins... tried to boot it into recovery - nothing. Tried the download mode - no signs of life at all. It was just a shiny brick! Putting it on charger didn´t help. No reaction, no led flashing, NOTHING! And just half an hour before everything was fine.
I was running the latest official AOKP build the last couple of days, so I really don´t believe that the software has something to do with it since I didn´t flash anything yesterday. The other question is now if the Samsung guys will notice that the phone wasn´t running stock software and that the warranty is actually void... I hope they won´t! But if they too won´t be able to turn it on, I guess they won´t!
I took the phone to the Samsung service center this morning and didn´t receive any feedback yet. As soon as I know something I´ll share it.
Did anyone happen something similar to this?
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Stop flashing whatever roms you don't know ,or u will suffer a sever consequence "i'm talking about hard brick" .READ FORUMS AND TUTORIALS
Mine completely died just about 2 weeks ago, stock rom but rooted. Dropped it off at a service centre and got it back today with a shiny new motherboard (and JB)... As long as it's properly dead, they can't tell what's on it as the only way to revive it is to change the innards.
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Stop flashing whatever roms you don't know ,or u will suffer a sever consequence "i'm talking about hard brick" .READ FORUMS AND TUTORIALS
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Dude, I´m not a noob, what happened has nothing to do with software.
I entirely accept that this is a generalism and as such is bound to attract a hoard of punters contradicting it, but in many years on these boards I can recall few if any instances where repairs have been refused due to the installation of non-standard ROMs. It is sensible for manufacturers to discourage the practice - XDA-Developers is plagued with ill-informed noobs charging off to do things beyond their technical capabilities without doing adequate research - but I suspect a refusal to play the game would be counterproductive.
That said, I would always be inclined to revert back to a stock ROM and clean up a bit if I had the option before doing a return for repair.
its the same thing that happened to my phone running cm10 about 2 days ago.
sent my phone in for repairs to samsung. they probably won't be able to find out it was modified. probably needs to change hardware to even boot the phone up.
disappointing experience. :/
by any means, did you played with the clock levels?
oc/uc?
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It's not illegal. You won't go to prison or even get sued (Android is not Apple). It just void your warranty.
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just got back my phone.
They fixed it even though I rooted & had custom rom installed.
Guess they couldn't tell as the phone couldn't even start up. hahah.
Now restoring the latest nandroid I had.
Nice to here that pal, hope this will not happen to anyone in future... this is my 2nd GS 3 (first broken due to Barca loss vs Madrid in August) and never had hardware problems.
So... here I am again...
Got my phone back yesterday. And it was the motherboard so they replaced it.
Man was I happy to have my phone back! But... my hapiness didn't last long.
When I came home I had to discover that now the gyroscope is not working. No autorotate whatsoever, no games that require the accelerometer...
Means they just replaced the mother board, flashed the latest firmware but didn't bother to test the device.
So tomorrow I'm going back to the service center and I'm going to yell my soul out at whoever responsible...
Unbelievable!
(screen rotation is checked, I tried calibrating the gyro, pulling out the battery, etc...)
This is such a disappointing experience... I'll think twice before buying a Samsung phone again...
Has anyone any experience sending their phone to the HTC repair centre after bricking their phone?
Long story short but i flashed the wrong boot animation and completely wiped the phone and despite several attempts to get a ROM on it again (spent days) I was unable to do so so brought it back to the shops where I bought it (was locked to o2 but I got it unlocked)
They sent it to company here called Fonemenders, i got a text today saying it has to be sent for level 3 repairs and mentioned something about the motherboard, now that has scared me a bit, it's bad enough I have to wait another 7 to 10 days but does anyone think I'll get charged given they'll see that it says tampered on it, i fail to see how it could be a problem with the motherboard too.
Has anyone any experience sending their phone to the HTC repair centre and what was the process.
Seriously contemplating never flashing anything again on my phone after this nightmare
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I don't have any experience with HTC's repair centers, but I've sent in several rooted Samsung devices and a bricked Asus Transformer for repair. My experience has been that the people in the repair centers really don't give a crap. Relax and hope for the best :good:
Samsung phones are seriously easy to modify compared to HTC, I'm no noob and read extensively on here and followed instructions to a t but still couldnt manage to get a stock or custom ROM back on my phone after that bad flash and me wiping it, no matter what I done.
Feel like I'm missing a limb here have gone over a week without it and now have another week wait, i won't rest easy until I have a fully working phone again.
Hope you are right my friend.
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I don't think HTC phones are difficult to flash, sure, not as easy as Samsung, but on the other hand, much harder to brick.
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I'm a bit concerned though why they mentioned the motherboard (see attached) there was nothing wrong with the motherboard all that needed to be done is for stock ROM to be flashed back on it.
I'm reading some reports of people being charged a lot when they are informed the motherboard has to be replaced, i should have just sent it into a repair shop in town for €25.
Well the flash ROM is soldered to the motherboard, if it is bricked, it would require a new motherboard.
It's probably not bricked, but in order to maintain your warranty, sometimes they say they must return it in "factory condition", which means unlocked. Which means a new motherboard. That's probably not really true in most cases, but once it's been unlocked, it's possible to overvoltage and overclock, which has the potential, however slight, to cause hardware damage.
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they r very easy to flash
I'm very curious to see how HTC will replace the motherboard without causing dents in white polymer or screen damage, as we saw in ifix only with heat and a scalpel can be open the ONE.
Unless HTC repair center have an opening method that we dont know, they should give you a new device.
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I'm very curious to see how HTC will replace the motherboard without causing dents in white polymer or screen damage, as we saw in ifix only with heat and a scalpel can be open the ONE.
Unless HTC repair center have an opening method that we dont know, they should give you a new device.
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I sincerely hope you are right mate, I'd snap up a new device now.
I will report back anyway, if they come up with obscene charges I'll have to just leave it into a mobile repair shop here, i already went there and they said it would take a week and I thought that was too long but in retrospect I should have just left it with them.
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Well the flash ROM is soldered to the motherboard, if it is bricked, it would require a new motherboard.
It's probably not bricked, but in order to maintain your warranty, sometimes they say they must return it in "factory condition", which means unlocked. Which means a new motherboard. That's probably not really true in most cases, but once it's been unlocked, it's possible to overvoltage and overclock, which has the potential, however slight, to cause hardware damage.
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Sorry when I said bricked it's just a term, i could get into recovery and I even relocked the bootloader so i tried all the various commands but i simply could not get anything to work, can't they just flash a ruu.exe for my device, i tried that myself but the ruu.exe in question was not compatible with my phone (earlier version)
What happens in an event that they fix it and then try and charge me and I refuse to pay or is it likely they'll be contact me first to inform me of this, and if i refuse to pay they'll just give me back the phone as it is?
I'm skint and haven't really got the money to pay for repairs, can afford a few quid but not over €100
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I'm very curious to see how HTC will replace the motherboard without causing dents in white polymer or screen damage, as we saw in ifix only with heat and a scalpel can be open the ONE.
Unless HTC repair center have an opening method that we dont know, they should give you a new device.
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iFixits teardown was flawed. If you pop the two speaker enclosures off there are screws that allow you to open the device.
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iFixits teardown was flawed. If you pop the two speaker enclosures off there are screws that allow you to open the device.
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Oh lord...... I hope that is true, in that case the chances of choosing the ONE increase to 95%, because I'd really like to have one.
Even i will not have the need to open it, I get psychologically rested with this subject.
thx.
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Oh lord...... I hope that is true, in that case the chances of choosing the ONE increase to 95%, because I'd really like to have one.
Even i will not have the need to open it, I get psychologically rested with this subject.
thx.
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Yup. The detachable speaker covers are the last seal in the assembly but iFixit acted under the assumption it's fully zero gap, so they broke it
Check the anandtech review discussing assembly :good:
is it possible to buy the speaker covers, i dented one of them :crying:
ant78 said:
is it possible to buy the speaker covers, i dented one of them :crying:
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I haven't been able to find just the speaker covers But you can buy a ton of other parts here.
I'd bookmark it, they might add the speaker covers eventually. And who knows, if you're feeling adventurous maybe you can just do a color swap
Acetherockr said:
Yup. The detachable speaker covers are the last seal in the assembly but iFixit acted under the assumption it's fully zero gap, so they broke it
Check the anandtech review discussing assembly :good:
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Could you show me the path to that discussion, already searched on google and can't find.
thx.
If they have identified an issue with hardware then thats good for you as you'll get a new device and your flashing has not been identified as they issue..... Your lucky they're doing it under warranty.
Mate don't worry about sending it off I've done it before sometimes its delivered earlier than expected and had my screen replaced before and there was nothing wrong with it as far as I'm concerned...I was happy with the service some people may have different experiences
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HTC repair centres vary by country. HTC usually employ a company to look at them. So each experience will be different.
ste1164 said:
HTC repair centres vary by country. HTC usually employ a company to look at them. So each experience will be different.
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Apparently they are
www.sbeglobalservice.com/ireland
Who are the HTC repair authorised people here
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JDR0iD said:
If they have identified an issue with hardware then thats good for you as you'll get a new device and your flashing has not been identified as they issue..... Your lucky they're doing it under warranty.
Mate don't worry about sending it off I've done it before sometimes its delivered earlier than expected and had my screen replaced before and there was nothing wrong with it as far as I'm concerned...I was happy with the service some people may have different experiences
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Hope you are right mate
Fingers crossed
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