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[Q] bricked tmous hd2 from freezing android?

hi all, long time viewer first time poster, i have been reading many post on the net trying to find a definite answer on my tmous hd2 but with no luck. My problem started when i was running android (sandisk mirco sd, yes i know the incompatibility issues, it came with the phone). I was playing music through headphones while charging and suddenly the phone froze with a buzzing sound until i battery flipped, first thing it did when i started it back up again is vibrate approximately 5 times at boot flash screen (indicating excessive heat?), so i battery flipped again and waited 10 mins then i tried to start again and it just froze at boot screen, it would keep doing this and every now and then it will boot to wm, but sooner or later it will freeze in wm and then have booting problems, its still doing this today after doing all the following: 1.flash another custom rom. 2.flashed another radio. 3.task 29. 4. flashed stock rom & radio. 5. flashed nandroid 6.tried different capacity and brand sd cards & none at all.
I now have a hd7 because I couldnt fix it and didnt want to shed the cash they are still asking for a hd2, but i do want to fix the phone to play around more with it, i did look at the possible solution unbrick with jtag thread but im thinking the phone is perma bricked, when it was working it has had alot of custom rom flashes so i dont know if that makes much a difference but i would greatly appreciate some advice, THANKYOU XDA FOR ALL YOUR HELP!

lewy255 said:
hi all, long time viewer first time poster, i have been reading many post on the net trying to find a definite answer on my tmous hd2 but with no luck. My problem started when i was running android (sandisk mirco sd, yes i know the incompatibility issues, it came with the phone). I was playing music through headphones while charging and suddenly the phone froze with a buzzing sound until i battery flipped, first thing it did when i started it back up again is vibrate approximately 5 times at boot flash screen (indicating excessive heat?), so i battery flipped again and waited 10 mins then i tried to start again and it just froze at boot screen, it would keep doing this and every now and then it will boot to wm, but sooner or later it will freeze in wm and then have booting problems, its still doing this today after doing all the following: 1.flash another custom rom. 2.flashed another radio. 3.task 29. 4. flashed stock rom & radio. 5. flashed nandroid 6.tried different capacity and brand sd cards & none at all.
I now have a hd7 because I couldnt fix it and didnt want to shed the cash they are still asking for a hd2, but i do want to fix the phone to play around more with it, i did look at the possible solution unbrick with jtag thread but im thinking the phone is perma bricked, when it was working it has had alot of custom rom flashes so i dont know if that makes much a difference but i would greatly appreciate some advice, THANKYOU XDA FOR ALL YOUR HELP!
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Please mention your RADIO, HSPL and the last Android Rom in which this happened!

If your phone is booting, it's not bricked. Did you try another SD card? Have you tried doing a low level format on your SD card? If it were me I'd Format the SD card with an adapter on my PC, low level. Then I would put it back in the phone then run Task29. Then flash MAGLDR 1.1. Then Flash the CMY 1.4n Desire HD Nand build in the HD2 Nand Android Development forum. It's the most stable Nand build up there right now.
I would use the 2.15 radio that comes with the newest Tmobile ROM. You might have to download the 3.14 ROM from Tmobile and flash it first to get the Radio in there. Then Task29 after that. MAGLDR, Then the NAND build. Make sure you find the Task29.exe that doesn't have a radio paired with it. it's on this site somewhere.
lewy255 said:
hi all, long time viewer first time poster, i have been reading many post on the net trying to find a definite answer on my tmous hd2 but with no luck. My problem started when i was running android (sandisk mirco sd, yes i know the incompatibility issues, it came with the phone). I was playing music through headphones while charging and suddenly the phone froze with a buzzing sound until i battery flipped, first thing it did when i started it back up again is vibrate approximately 5 times at boot flash screen (indicating excessive heat?), so i battery flipped again and waited 10 mins then i tried to start again and it just froze at boot screen, it would keep doing this and every now and then it will boot to wm, but sooner or later it will freeze in wm and then have booting problems, its still doing this today after doing all the following: 1.flash another custom rom. 2.flashed another radio. 3.task 29. 4. flashed stock rom & radio. 5. flashed nandroid 6.tried different capacity and brand sd cards & none at all.
I now have a hd7 because I couldnt fix it and didnt want to shed the cash they are still asking for a hd2, but i do want to fix the phone to play around more with it, i did look at the possible solution unbrick with jtag thread but im thinking the phone is perma bricked, when it was working it has had alot of custom rom flashes so i dont know if that makes much a difference but i would greatly appreciate some advice, THANKYOU XDA FOR ALL YOUR HELP!
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hd2 running MIUI freezing up too
I'm a complete noob here so bare with me. I'm currently experiencing the same probs as lewy255 with the hd2 freezing up. It happens every now and then when I'm accessing certain apps. When the hd2 does freeze up, i have to take the battery out, wait, then boot up again. Once it tries to boot up it freezes on magldr, then i got to take out the battery again, wait, then power it on again. It seemed to happen when i first rooted my hd2. The first ROM i flashed after rooting was typhoon CM7. Currently have:
HSPL 2.08
radio 2.15.50.14
MIUI version: 1.5.27
I hope this isnt a hardware issue cause i bought this phone from one of my friends and he didn't have the receipt. Please advise on what i can do to fix this freezing issue.
Thanks

Sounds like cpu overheat freeze. When you were playing music and charging it the first time it froze, was the phone and/or battery hot?
It's very possible that it got too hot once, and now the cpu its self gets too hot much easier now that it has already happened once.
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Cpu overheat freeze? So its a hardware issue? What if I ran task29, and reinstalled magldr, clockworkMod, and then MIUI, do u think that would fix the freezing issue?
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germotlp said:
Cpu overheat freeze? So its a hardware issue? What if I ran task29, and reinstalled magldr, clockworkMod, and then MIUI, do u think that would fix the freezing issue?
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No I do not think that will help your situation. I think your HD2 is starting to show signs of hardware break down. More specifically a breakdown in the connection of the processor and the main board. The only permanent if this is the case is to replace the main board.

T-Macgnolia said:
No I do not think that will help your situation. I think your HD2 is starting to show signs of hardware break down. More specifically a breakdown in the connection of the processor and the main board. The only permanent if this is the case is to replace the main board.
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t-mac
I tried installing setCPU and adjusted the temperature setting so if got too hot then the speed of the phone would be reduced, but still no luck.
What if i unrooted the phone and put everything back to stock? I think that way i will know for sure that its a hardware issue. I dont know much about phones but your probably right. I'll try running task29 and reinstall everything and see if that works, if not then i will un-root and put everything back to stock and test.

Is it an undervolted kernel? Might cause problems, but I'm with mac here on it being a hardware problem, since you flashed back to winmo stock and you still had problems.

Kailkti said:
Is it an undervolted kernel? Might cause problems, but I'm with mac here on it being a hardware problem, since you flashed back to winmo stock and you still had problems.
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I'm a newbie here. Not sure what u mean by undervolted kernel. Could u explain to me? Btw I have not flashed back to winMo yet.
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i have same problem with miui roms. I think this problem is about Miui Roms. Miui developers must solve this issue, there is no way..
When i try other Roms, there is no problem like this issue..

germotlp said:
I'm a newbie here. Not sure what u mean by undervolted kernel. Could u explain to me? Btw I have not flashed back to winMo yet.
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in my opinion and its just my opinion, but you should flash a winmo 6.5 build than boot android from sd its safer because theres no need to worry about battery dying in magldr. and if theres a nand rom you want to try out i suggest using port a droid. im using now with the new nexus 2.8 with a 1gb data.img and it runs great plus i have 3 other builds on there also.

[Q] I need your help! Random Reboot sucks!

Hello,
i have problems with random reboots since the Android NAND Version.
My HD2 just reboots automatically after a few hours or also sometimes after a few minutes (it doesnt matter which android rom I installed..) - I also updated on MAGLDR 1.12 but the bug is still here.
Does anybody know, how to fix this bug?
Thanks!

same here i doo task 29 no problem .....

always use task 29 and no problem

do task 29 no more problems trust mi its easy and safe i do thet..radio is same but at the and put in boot loader and install rom what you wish
BUT can be also radio what rom and what radio you have

Well, what do you mean with task 29?
I'm using MDJ's Cyanogenmod 2.6 NAND with the newest radio (2....whatever lol)

hd21337 said:
Well, what do you mean with task 29?
I'm using MDJ's Cyanogenmod 2.6 NAND with the newest radio (2....whatever lol)
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Use this tool and select the Task29 only. Task29 formats the NAND memory area. After completing the Task29 the phone will reboot, as it does hold the volume down button so you boot back into bootloader mode (if you miss this the phone will hang as there is no longer any rom to boot into - it's been formatted ) If this happens just remove the battery and boot into bootloader mode yourself. You will then need to reinstall magldr and reflash your Android rom.

Are you using setcpu to overclock? Going higher than what your device can stand can cause reboots. Also make sure you are not low on memory.
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Thank you for your tipps guys.
I just used Task 29, installed MAGLDR 1.12 and installed MDJ's Cyanogenmod 2.6, thought that it worked but he rebootet two times in the last 3 hours again.
So is there anything else i can try? I mean, a friend of mine has the same bug, but with MAGLDR 1.11 and an older version of Cyanogenmod... :/
Oh and im not overclocking my phone, just use it with the default settings etc.

same here.
Random reboots ever since nand.

Yeah, it just sucks.
Would be interesting to know, why it works on other devices without problems... i dunno but maybe its the radio?

+1
i also have the same problem.. the frequency of the reboots vary from radio to radio, i have flashed ALL the available radios and ended up on 2.14.50.04, this giving me around 40-60 hours between the reboots.. my solution to the annoyance was to turn of PIN lock thus eliminating the need to enter PIN code when the phone resets.
no solution to the problem yet..
problem started before NAND in my case.
i have noticed that the reboots happen more frequent at night when the phone is charging (checking this by looking at the uptime).
solutions to this problem would be awesome!
MAGLDR 1.13
Radio 2.14.50.04
MDJ cyanogen 2.6
EU-HD2 (norway)

Didn't read this thread too carefully but I saw someone mentioning overclocking. It seems a very likely cause to me too, don't forget some (kernel) devs overclock by default. Download SetCPU (its free on xda) and limit your clockspeed to something like 900 MHz and check if that fixes it.

StephanV said:
Didn't read this thread too carefully but I saw someone mentioning overclocking. It seems a very likely cause to me too, don't forget some (kernel) devs overclock by default. Download SetCPU (its free on xda) and limit your clockspeed to something like 900 MHz and check if that fixes it.
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i dont know if MDJ overclocks, but when i downloaded SetCPU and clocked to 1267mhz and the speed difference is just astonishing !!! 7 hours uptime and counting.. i will update on next random reboot.

Overclocking is exactly what you don't want to do...

StephanV said:
Overclocking is exactly what you don't want to do...
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that might be, ill underclock next time the phone reboots and see if it makes any difference..

my hd2 = tried task29, tried ALL the nand roms, NEVER overcloced my phone...tried different radios etc.....still reboot reboot reboot.
matt

try this: Change your mobile network mode from WCDMA/GSM auto --> GSM. If this helps i think it's not software problem. this fault is also happens stock wm

@heitaas:
i tried your "workaround" and i'm happy to say that it helped. no reboots since 2 days for now (and i had a lot of them)!
maybe some of the dev's out there could use this information to fix this problem!
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sorry.... bad news.... i had a f...... reboot again

Well, I tried it to underclock my HD2 with SetCPU but i didnt helped - any new ideas?
Maybe an another Radio or whatever?

hd21337 said:
Well, I tried it to underclock my HD2 with SetCPU but i didnt helped - any new ideas?
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You could try switching off the automatic network selection. I had these same rebooting issues, but when I switched to manual network selection, I haven't had any more random reboots. It has worked for some of us.

[Q] What is a good ROM?

Hello,
I recently had my HD2 setup with MAGLDR 1.11 and a stock DHD ROM, however this froze constantly and seemed to get worse over time, as well as all together failing to boot sometimes.
So I updated MAGLDR to 1.13 found a nice rom "Typhoon CM7" I believe, downloaded the radio it sugested and flashed it, downloaded CWM and flashed it, and then flashed the ROM from SD using CWM.
Sadly however this has not fixed my freezes/failures to boot, im starting to think it might be hardware related.
So what I am asking is does somebody have a ROM that is working really well for them that they could sugest to me?
Thanks,
Alex.

everyone has different opinions, do you want a version with or without sense?
personally i like sense so am using imilkas ram hd version ,its fast and very stable

Well i usually tend to go for ROMs without sense, but i am pretty impartial to it.

alexhope21 said:
Well i usually tend to go for ROMs without sense, but i am pretty impartial to it.
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Which ROMs have you tried already, and what was wrong with them?

I have tried one of the many DHD stock ROMs and Typhoon CM7, as well as Raphroid and Ultradroid.
I frequently get a freeze at "GO GO GO" in MAGLDR 1.13, and then once the ROM does eventually succeed to boot, it often locks up.
Some ROMs seemed to do better then others overall however, Typhoon CM7, successfully booted most frequently.
In all cases I have used recommended radio's.
However the greatest hassle has been flashing them as I can only get CWM to boot 1 out of 20 times after multiple reflashings, it often gives me an error stating "FATALHIT 1".
Does everyone get behaviour like this?

Hmm.
That's Weird I Have Tried Lots of these roms and they all seem stable and fast on my hd2

crabtreebrandon29 said:
That's Weird I Have Tried Lots of these roms and they all seem stable and fast on my hd2
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Could you please give me some specific information of what version of MAGLDR, CWM you were using, as well as a link to the Radio and ROM?
Im starting to think my hardware might be bunged.
Thanks,
Alex.

i am too having a lot of problems when booting up from maglrd. It freezes or gets hit fatal error. Do anyone know a good stable rom that doesn't freeze when booting up,and has great battery life?

thi713 said:
i am too having a lot of problems when booting up from maglrd. It freezes or gets hit fatal error. Do anyone know a good stable rom that doesn't freeze when booting up,and has great battery life?
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All of them. End of story. This is due to user error. Not build related

alexhope21 said:
I have tried one of the many DHD stock ROMs and Typhoon CM7, as well as Raphroid and Ultradroid.
I frequently get a freeze at "GO GO GO" in MAGLDR 1.13, and then once the ROM does eventually succeed to boot, it often locks up.
Some ROMs seemed to do better then others overall however, Typhoon CM7, successfully booted most frequently.
In all cases I have used recommended radio's.
However the greatest hassle has been flashing them as I can only get CWM to boot 1 out of 20 times after multiple reflashings, it often gives me an error stating "FATALHIT 1".
Does everyone get behaviour like this?
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i assume you are changing the CWR partition each time you change from a dhd rom to a non sense/GB rom ?

Richy99 said:
i assume you are changing the CWR partition each time you change from a dhd rom to a non sense/GB rom ?
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Yeah, Im starting to think my hardware is damaged, I used to use the SD RAM rom that Dark Forces released, and I guess it did not benifit my device, as it would frequently get quite hot after 20min of straight use.

How does this ROM run with the 2.15.50.14 radio?
If it is also laggy and has bugs, then I think your phone might be broken.
For me all roms using SD-EXT are laggy as hell and i personally stopped testing those roms as I'm already used to the smoothness of Gingerbread... I'm searching almost everyday though these topics to find somebody who says "This is a really smooth Sense rom!". But never seen a comment like that.

Strange screen artifacts - Help please

Hi Guys, hoping somebody can help me here... I used to use an older ROM on my HTC HD2 (NAND) that worked fine, but wanted to reflash my phone and give it to my old man as I've just got a HTC EVO 3d.
Anyway, I've flashed a couple of new ROMS (Energy 10.3.2011) and HD2_CoreDroid...
They flash ok (Im using clockworkmod), but I seem to be getting some strange artifacts on the screen from time to time. Mostly around the buttons... I would describe them as horizontal lines across the buttons, and they seem to change (ie, looks like they are animated).
So, it might be something I'm doing wrong with the setup prior to flashing the rom (I get the same problem in both roms, and copilot doesn't work - ie, loads, but nothing happens).
Anyway, this is what I am doing.
Task29 via HTC Tools
Go to Recovery:
- Wipe data/factory reset
- Wipe cache partition
- Advanced -> Wipe dalvik cache
What I am not sure about is the HTC Tools MAGLDR re-partition details.
I tried:
Cache Size (left hand side) 5MB
Cache Size (right hand side) 5MB
Custom: Repartition - 180MB
What I don't understand is what size partition I should create on the SD card... I've tried 1024MB (I have a sandisk 16GB card).
I'm using MAGLDR 1.13, Clockworkmod v3.0.0.5
baseband version: 15.39.50.07U_2.10.50.26
Kernal: 2.6.32.15_HierOS_test_notbtfix (is this correct)
Just to clarify, the phone comes from Australia and was under win6.1 Telstra.
I'm happy to see if I can take a video and post that up it if helps (to show the screen jaggies).
Could I be using the wrong ROM and need to upgrade that? Maybe my screen is just stuffed ! (although it was fine before I started to put a new rom on it!)
Any help really appreciated.

These are graphic glitches that you will experience with Gingerbread Sense 3.0-3.5 roms. There is a file that you can flash to get rid of them usually at the price of performance. What the file does is it disables the hardware acceleration of the phone and tends to slow it down some. No harm is done if you leave it alone it just gets annoying to some people. Some roms seem to be worse than others. The rom in my signature is a Froyo Rom with Sense 2.0 and you don't get the gitches. It works great. Hope that helps explain it.

Egrier said:
These are graphic glitches that you will experience with Gingerbread Sense 3.0-3.5 roms. There is a file that you can flash to get rid of them usually at the price of performance. What the file does is it disables the hardware acceleration of the phone and tends to slow it down some. No harm is done if you leave it alone it just gets annoying to some people. Some roms seem to be worse than others. The rom in my signature is a Froyo Rom with Sense 2.0 and you don't get the gitches. It works great. Hope that helps explain it.
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Thanks mate... Yeah, have been reading quite a bit, but didn't notice this in any of the posts on the roms.... maybe it's been discussed for ages and I've mised it
I'll check out your rom...

jnrdavo said:
Thanks mate... Yeah, have been reading quite a bit, but didn't notice this in any of the posts on the roms.... maybe it's been discussed for ages and I've mised it
I'll check out your rom...
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It has.... most Sense3 Cookers state it... and those who don't are a bunch of liers.
Also... with all due respect to him, Haldric's Glitches fix is not a fix. It's a work around.
The only TRUE fix for the glitches, is the Desire 2.6.35 kernel... but that brings other problems.

[Q] problems with incoming calls

for some time, after restarting or turned on my leo, if I receive a call, the phone freezes and I have to restart it. but if after a reboot, I'm the first to make a call to someone else, I can talk quietly and the phone will not lock. this happens for all subsequent calls. I thought it would be a problem with the ROM I used, but also by changing the ROM problem occurs again.
What should I do?
my LEO:
HSPL 3.3 (I also tried 8.2 but I get the same problem)
radio 2.15.50.14
Bootloader CLK 1.5.0.3
ROM: Pixeldroid Jelly Bean AOPK 4.2.2 v 6.0 FINAL 20/05/2013 (with date and onext linuxswap)
thanks for your help
p.s . sorry for my english!

I was going to ask you to post your question here, in the ROM specific Q&A thread. But you said you changed the ROM and the problem is still there.
Try a fresh install, remove everything, install a new ROM and BEFORE restoring your apps or setting up the phone, try to reproduce the problem. It could be because of one of your apps, or one of the settings.

Marvlesz said:
I was going to ask you to post your question here, in the ROM specific Q&A thread. But you said you changed the ROM and the problem is still there.
Try a fresh install, remove everything, install a new ROM and BEFORE restoring your apps or setting up the phone, try to reproduce the problem. It could be because of one of your apps, or one of the settings.
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Unfortunately, even after a fresh install, my LEO crashes when I receive an incoming call.
Moreover , i have no badblock

Your problem is weird. I have just made a search, and found about two people with a similar problem, but with a dead end, i.e. not answered.
I see that you have SWAP enabled, try to remove its partition from the sd card and reinstall the ROM without swap.

I had only troubles with Swap/Odex checking while inatalling ROM, so yeah, worth trying.
Also, it still can be HARDWARE issue as nothing (which should) helps.
If unchecking swap wont help, i'd suggest doing hard reset and if WM has same problem, go to HTC or any GSM store, maybe big heads can help with that then.
I hope You will get it sorted out!
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ZathuraPL said:
I had only troubles with Swap/Odex checking while inatalling ROM, so yeah, worth trying.
Also, it still can be HARDWARE issue as nothing (which should) helps.
If unchecking swap wont help, i'd suggest doing hard reset and if WM has same problem, go to HTC or any GSM store, maybe big heads can help with that then.
I hope You will get it sorted out!
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I put WM 6.5, I saw that the phone does not freezes when I receive an incoming call. what do I do? I do not want to stay with WM, Android is much better!

marieto said:
I put WM 6.5, I saw that the phone does not freezes when I receive an incoming call. what do I do? I do not want to stay with WM, Android is much better!
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Long time ago had similar issue. Problem was in phone and second factor slowly dying sdcard.
I fix my problem by flashing back to wm6.5 then after did install back MAGLDR used newer Cwm (dont use old 3.x.x version). Ofc bought new sdcard.
My advice would be try now while you are on Wm 6.5 this rom, its SRAM version, meaning you will run from wm and it will be loaded in RAM so no messing with sdcard: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1868306
If it works, try to flash Magldr, don't use HSPL 3.3 instead use older 2.8, also don't use Cwm 3.x.x use instead 5.x.x version.
When you install android allways follow instructions especially how much system, data partition size must be and if you install JB version try NativeSd if your card is good one.
Hope it helps.
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This happened to my phone also difference being it didn't freeze all the time but literally half of the time whenever i got an incoming call. I did all the stuff being suggested here and tried multiple roms without success. Then i removed task killer after a fresh install of "CM9ight_leo_v1.1a_div2" rom and my phone hasn't freezed since, been two months now.