rooted mt4g, powerbutton doesnt work.. under warranty? - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My rooted mt4g's power button just stopped working. So i couldn't shut it off for some time. i would reboot by going to terminal emulator, su and reboot.
Today i rebooted my phone and it didnt reboot properly...was stuck on the black screen so i had no choice but to pull the battery out, so now i cant turn it back on.
I called tmobile and explain the problem and said its still under warranty so they will send me a replacement, i only have to pay for shipping.
my question is that since i cant turn on the phone to bring it back to original rom/unroot. Do u guys think there is going to be an issue when i return the phone to them rooted with cm7? i dont want to get charged however much they charge for returning phones that voilated the warranty thingy.

r0mmel said:
My rooted mt4g's power button just stopped working. So i couldn't shut it off for some time. i would reboot by going to terminal emulator, su and reboot.
Today i rebooted my phone and it didnt reboot properly...was stuck on the black screen so i had no choice but to pull the battery out, so now i cant turn it back on.
I called tmobile and explain the problem and said its still under warranty so they will send me a replacement, i only have to pay for shipping.
my question is that since i cant turn on the phone to bring it back to original rom/unroot. Do u guys think there is going to be an issue when i return the phone to them rooted with cm7? i dont want to get charged however much they charge for returning phones that voilated the warranty thingy.
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Hmmm I see... Do phone's detect ADB while it's off? If so then that's you're only hope I'm assuming.
If all else fails then maybe you can just pop the phone in the microwave for a quick 3 seconds so that the phone wont boot at all. Now that's raking it to extreme of course.
Chances are that T-Mobile wont even check. But I guess its a risk. Because then it'd suck if T-Mobile did turn it on then find a custom ROM.
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yea... adb doesnt detect a device thats turned off. hehe
microwave eh? ... maybe.. good idea though..

r0mmel said:
yea... adb doesnt detect a device thats turned off. hehe
microwave eh? ... maybe.. good idea though..
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Lol yeah, that's an extreme answer but it would be very unfortunate if they decide to try and turn it on then find out it's been modded. I think they end up charging your account like 350 or whatever.
But IMO I honestly don't think they'll even go that far to check. But that's just my opinion lol. Either way, good luck man.

Pull out the battery.
Connect the USB charging cable.
Insert the battery.
Repeat several times until your phone turns on.
Might work.

tried it maybe like 4 times.. its what the tmobile tech support asked me to do.
Jack_R1 said:
Pull out the battery.
Connect the USB charging cable.
Insert the battery.
Repeat several times until your phone turns on.
Might work.
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Seems to work for me - insert battery while it's plugged in, if it doesn't turn on, battery out, battery in.
As for a software reboot - download the app Easy Reboot.
For HBOOT, try holding down the volume down key while the charger is plugged in, and insert the battery as above.
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weird i just tried the battery on and off... still didnt work, the charge light just goes on and off as well... i do have an aftermarket charger, and im using the wall charger not the usb to computer... if that makes any difference..

Yeah I was using the wall charger too, but the one that came with the phone. The very first battery insert (followed by a 5 second pause) started the phone up. Strange. I have ENG HBOOT and ClockworkMod 5.x installed if that makes a difference.

i dont have eng hboot because my phone is already unlocked by tmobile, i didnt see a need for it. i have the latest cwm and latest cm7...
cmstlist said:
Yeah I was using the wall charger too, but the one that came with the phone. The very first battery insert (followed by a 5 second pause) started the phone up. Strange. I have ENG HBOOT and ClockworkMod 5.x installed if that makes a difference.
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Just on a whim - I don't suppose that running a RUU.exe will provide a way to force the phone to turn on? Doubtful but worth a try.

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MDA will not turn on!

I know i'm being a pain but now my MDA will not turn on, i was following the CID unlokcing thread, downgraded to Wizard Love ROM which went fine, the proceded to flash buttons 1.5 ROM and as usual it hung, went to do a reset to bootloader screen to reflash but it never got there , it doesn't turn on, battery was charged earlier can't have run out already can it?
Any ideas? i've tried to find info to help but can't seam to find any.
boomdiddly said:
I know i'm being a pain but now my MDA will not turn on, i was following the CID unlokcing thread, downgraded to Wizard Love ROM which went fine, the proceded to flash buttons 1.5 ROM and as usual it hung, went to do a reset to bootloader screen to reflash but it never got there , it doesn't turn on, battery was charged earlier can't have run out already can it?
Any ideas? i've tried to find info to help but can't seam to find any.
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I'm tempted to send it back to t-mobile as not even the barrery indector is showing, might try and get a battery charger for it and see it if is the battery thats died, i had no worning messages, any help i would be greatfully.
Thanks
Paul
boomdiddly said:
I'm tempted to send it back to t-mobile as not even the barrery indector is showing, might try and get a battery charger for it and see it if is the battery thats died, i had no worning messages, any help i would be greatfully.
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I know you've posted elsewhere, but it really helps if you tell us your phone model, if its G3/G4, what the IPL/SPL was before the problem started, etc...
Unfortunately, with the little info you've provided, I can't say for sure what has happened, but on first blush that sure sounds like a brick.
I would suggest you take the battery out of the phone, then press and hold the power button for 10 secs (this should discharge any remaining power) and leave the battery out for 30 minutes (might be excessive, but lets play safe). Don't plug it in and don't do anything else with the phone.
Now, after 30 mins pass, then put the battery back in and plug it into the wall (not your PC, but the wall). Again, don't do anything else. Don't press the power button or anything. If the phone acts like its trying to turn on, then turn it off. Let it sit plugged in to the wall for about 10 minutes. The charge light may or may not come on. If it does come on, then just leave it. If it doesn't come on, then try turning the phone on. If it comes on, then leave it on for 30 mins then turn it off to let it complete the charge.
If none of this works, I suspect you either have a dead battery, or your phone is a brick.
mfrazzz said:
I know you've posted elsewhere, but it really helps if you tell us your phone model, if its G3/G4, what the IPL/SPL was before the problem started, etc...
Unfortunately, with the little info you've provided, I can't say for sure what has happened, but on first blush that sure sounds like a brick.
I would suggest you take the battery out of the phone, then press and hold the power button for 10 secs (this should discharge any remaining power) and leave the battery out for 30 minutes (might be excessive, but lets play safe). Don't plug it in and don't do anything else with the phone.
Now, after 30 mins pass, then put the battery back in and plug it into the wall (not your PC, but the wall). Again, don't do anything else. Don't press the power button or anything. If the phone acts like its trying to turn on, then turn it off. Let it sit plugged in to the wall for about 10 minutes. The charge light may or may not come on. If it does come on, then just leave it. If it doesn't come on, then try turning the phone on. If it comes on, then leave it on for 30 mins then turn it off to let it complete the charge.
If none of this works, I suspect you either have a dead battery, or your phone is a brick.
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right phone is a G3 is was running the IPL/SPL of whatever buttons ROM has, as i said it hung like it's done a couple of times before when i tried buttons ROM but the other times i've just got into the boot loader menu and re-flashed and away i go, i'll try the battery thing in a fue mins, the battery was showing no signs of going bad was holding charge fine do the batteries just go like that? if it doesn't turn on would i be able to send it back to t-mobile as it's still in warrenty could they fined out it has a custom rom on it i.e is there away to say look at the rom on another peace of equipment to see if original or not, don't know if that makes sence.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr was going to stay with the wisard love rom i kinda liked it, wish i had now
thanks for the info
Just out of curiosity, but why did you go back to the Button ROM? Once you CID Unlocked, you are done with that process. You can flash official 2.x and custom roms to your heart's content and not have to go back to the Button ROM again. Only time you ahve to do CID unlock again is if you do go back to 1.xx IPL/SPL for some reason.
Good luck, I hope that works for you. As for warranty, but doing any custom stuff you void your warranty, but if the phone won't come on at all, then I don't see how they will know (not like they are going to pop a chip out and look to see what's on it).
And no, I wouldn't think the battery would just completely die under normal use. You usually start noticing it can't hold a charge first.
Could be this is a hardware issue, but really hard to say.
mfrazzz said:
Just out of curiosity, but why did you go back to the Button ROM? Once you CID Unlocked, you are done with that process. You can flash official 2.x and custom roms to your heart's content and not have to go back to the Button ROM again. Only time you ahve to do CID unlock again is if you do go back to 1.xx IPL/SPL for some reason.
Good luck, I hope that works for you. As for warranty, but doing any custom stuff you void your warranty, but if the phone won't come on at all, then I don't see how they will know (not like they are going to pop a chip out and look to see what's on it).
And no, I wouldn't think the battery would just completely die under normal use. You usually start noticing it can't hold a charge first.
Could be this is a hardware issue, but really hard to say.
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i wanted to go back to the button ROM so i could CID unlock my phone, i was having trouble with buttons rom hanging like it did this time and it was sugested that i downgrade to wizard love rom then to buttons rom. I know it voids my warrenty but as u say the phone won't come on at all, oh well i'm doing the battery thing now. think i'll get the battery charger to see if the battery needs charging you never know!
boomdiddly said:
i wanted to go back to the button ROM so i could CID unlock my phone, i was having trouble with buttons rom hanging like it did this time and it was sugested that i downgrade to wizard love rom then to buttons rom. I know it voids my warrenty but as u say the phone won't come on at all, oh well i'm doing the battery thing now. think i'll get the battery charger to see if the battery needs charging you never know!
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looks like i've bricked it lol
Sounds like it could be the battery, in some cases it will fully discharge (e.g. when shortcircuited) and then can no longer be charged in any regular way. You can try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1206238&postcount=9
SteRo said:
Sounds like it could be the battery, in some cases it will fully discharge (e.g. when shortcircuited) and then can no longer be charged in any regular way. You can try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1206238&postcount=9
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Thanks for the info, gonna get a desktop standalown charge for the battery, have my old K750i i can use while that turns up.
boomdiddly said:
Thanks for the info, gonna get a desktop standalown charge for the battery, have my old K750i i can use while that turns up.
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right desktop charger has turned up and i'm currently charging the battery lol now for the true !!
i'll let you know as soon as i put it back in the phone
boomdiddly said:
right desktop charger has turned up and i'm currently charging the battery lol now for the true !!
i'll let you know as soon as i put it back in the phone
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well it didn't work, so as it was in warrenty i returned it to t-mobile, who proptly replaced it with a brand new one, mmmmmmmm shiny new!! no more custom roms for me, but gonna do a bit of customisation on the standard t-mobile rom lol
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Sounds like it could be the battery, in some cases it will fully discharge (e.g. when shortcircuited) and then can no longer be charged in any regular way. You can try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1206238&postcount=9
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i have to same problem, but the batttery was fully charged when i was flashing. so it should still have more than 80% battery, so y it doesnt turn on any more?

Let Andriod die now have a paper wheight

ok here is the problem.
4 nights ago i forgot to plug in my hd2 while android was running and the battery died.
the next morning i went to turn it on and the screen no longer turns on but the phone does boot. the battery doesnt charge, status light doesnt either, end key doesnt work, when i answer calls no noise can be heard or made.
any hope?
Im guessing you cant run bootloader?
Maybe this is a warrenty jobby
If you know someone with another HD2, Try swapping the battery.
chrisizzle492 said:
ok here is the problem.
4 nights ago i forgot to plug in my hd2 while android was running and the battery died.
the next morning i went to turn it on and the screen no longer turns on but the phone does boot. the battery doesnt charge, status light doesnt either, end key doesnt work, when i answer calls no noise can be heard or made.
any hope?
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does it enter in bootloader mode?
retry flashing wm rom+radio
chrisizzle492 said:
i went to turn it on and the screen no longer turns on but the phone does boot. the battery doesnt charge, status light doesnt either, end key doesnt work, when i answer calls no noise can be heard or made.
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Hi Chris,
Please eleborate/clarify your OP, because I don't think anyone gets this... At least i don't! You say the screen doesn't turn on but the phone boots?! How do you figure that? Your device is actually on because you can receive/answer calls!?! :S
Sounds like your device has just BSOD (Black Screen of Death) which is discussed quite a lot here. Just press reset button or pull the battery (please tell me you have tried that before...).
If your device IS NOT powered on, please try this:
Does the device vibrate shortly when pressing the End-button? If so you should leave it connected to the charger for longer. If battery has drained too much it takes a while for the device to allow it to power itself up (prevention of overdrainage, which Lithium-batteries don't like very much).
Do you charge through USB, or with the supplied charger? I've had this before trying to charge it with a (different brand) microUSB charger. Turned out most chargers only give out 500mAh, whilst my normal charger (and car-charger) give out 1000mAh i believe. That might help.
You can order a cheap replacement battery from China (i got mine with dockingstation), which is already charged about 60% (for storage purposes).
BTW if your problem is fixed, please add the prefix [FIXED] or [SOLVED] to your topics title.
shufflez said:
Hi Chris,
Please eleborate/clarify your OP, because I don't think anyone gets this... At least i don't! You say the screen doesn't turn on but the phone boots?! How do you figure that? Your device is actually on because you can receive/answer calls!?! :S
Sounds like your device has just BSOD (Black Screen of Death) which is discussed quite a lot here. Just press reset button or pull the battery (please tell me you have tried that before...).
If your device IS NOT powered on, please try this:
Does the device vibrate shortly when pressing the End-button? If so you should leave it connected to the charger for longer. If battery has drained too much it takes a while for the device to allow it to power itself up (prevention of overdrainage, which Lithium-batteries don't like very much).
Do you charge through USB, or with the supplied charger? I've had this before trying to charge it with a (different brand) microUSB charger. Turned out most chargers only give out 500mAh, whilst my normal charger (and car-charger) give out 1000mAh i believe. That might help.
You can order a cheap replacement battery from China (i got mine with dockingstation), which is already charged about 60% (for storage purposes).
BTW if your problem is fixed, please add the prefix [FIXED] or [SOLVED] to your topics title.
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i have restarted many times.
i use the wall charger.
but why would the phone boot but not turn on the screen or have the mic work?
remove your sd card and the battery. you may have to hit the rest button on the back after you plug the battery back in as well, but as long as you have the sd card out it should come back on. try plugging the phone into a charger and then remove the battery as well sometimes it'll wake it up so to speak. it's just a matter of playing with it. mine did the exact same thing and i freaked out for a little bit.
now if after all this it doesn't work and you've played with it for a while then yeah, best of luck to you =\. but whatever you do in playing with the battery and the charger, keep the sd card out until you can boot into winmo.
EDIT: never mind, i thought the phone wasn't booting. i misunderstood, but i went back and reread the original post. try reflashing your rom if you're in winmo and experiencing those issues. or take the sd card out and reboot.
i would suggest making an backup, as your phone turns on you should be able to estaplish a remote-connection with some (3rd-party-)software and do a hardreset.
if this wont work i would recommend setting it back to factory default (revert hspl if you have one and install stock rom) and send it in for warranty.
seems to be some major problem...
All this steps should be possible without screen turning on (working touchscreen may be needed for backup, but flashing doent need screen input)
if drive-mode is default for your usb connection and holding you from flashing you can do a hardreset and afterwards active sync will be default again and you can establish an active sync connection and flash
check if any of the pins that contact the battery are bended or broken, try to avoid removing the battery when you have to reset your hd2 because the pins are fragile
similar thing happened to me just last night!
I tried the jmz dual boot last night and I was nearly out of battery. I didnt look at any instructions I just installed it and restarted the phone to check out the new toy. it finally got done loading I chose android right away and I was walking towards the bedroom. when I went to see if android had fully booted and plug in the phone I had nothing! It was off. I decided that the battery must have died so I tried to turn it on and all that happened was the tmobile flash screen came up for a second and then it went right off, I got so desperate that I was going to do a hard reset but that wouldnt even work! the boot loader screen would just shut right off. I was suggested to try another battery we had at the house and bang it fired right up I took a wiff of my other battery and I dont know what happened but I think I let the magic smoke out cuz it is fried!
chrisizzle492 said:
ok here is the problem.
4 nights ago i forgot to plug in my hd2 while android was running and the battery died.
the next morning i went to turn it on and the screen no longer turns on but the phone does boot. the battery doesnt charge, status light doesnt either, end key doesnt work, when i answer calls no noise can be heard or made.
any hope?
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hello friend...i have a problem similar to this. basically when my phone is in android which i use alot if it dies in android, when i reboot it it will turn on for about a second to see my splash screen then turn itself off (the battery is obviously flat). so i plug my charger in and it stays on now but doesnt indicate charging....i boot it into windows mobile and the batt just stays at 0% but its still working. however once i unplug it it will die.....its like the battery is not in the phone. luckily i have two batteries and a dock which charges batteries, so i replaced the battery and everything works fine. once the battery that died in android was fully charged i tried it again and it was fine.................im guesing the moral to this story is dont let your phone die in android mode
I do notice my HD2 runs hotter while in android than while it runs in Windows.
I am not sure if that's an issue to this, which is why I never mentioned about it being hotter. Although my HD2 is noticeable hotter, it never gets to a point that I think I should unplug the USB due to overheating concern...
Just a few inputs from passed experience
I use TMOUS Stock 2.13.531.1 WWE ROM
2.12.50.2_2 radio (not stock)
k going to tmobile today to see if they have any extra batteries i can try.
then ill update
i went to tmobile. and while i was there i noticed the screen was turning on but very dim without backlight (barely noticable). but the rep helping me did not notice and i let it stay that way because tmobile is sending me a new refurbished phone as long as i send the old one (and the rep was totally cool he uses xda also and said they wont check my software and if they do they wont ask for the phone back). he also let me get insurance in case this happens again, instead i will just say its lost. so i basically killed 2 birds with one stone

Bricked

Need some help hope i post this in the right place. i have gingerbread on my HTC HD2 and was converting back to windows to sell on ebay and i started it was almost done when i relised before i started i forgot to charge the battery and it ran out before it was done know the phone what turn on at all. i plug it in the wall charger nothing, plug it into the computer nothing tried everything nothing. do you think that the battery is that dead and it was in the proccess that the chargers dont work on it no more. would it work maybe if i had a charged battery to put in it. it mite come back on. any help would be great thanks.
lpartridge said:
Need some help hope i post this in the right place. i have gingerbread on my HTC HD2 and was converting back to windows to sell on ebay and i started it was almost done when i relised before i started i forgot to charge the battery and it ran out before it was done know the phone what turn on at all. i plug it in the wall charger nothing, plug it into the computer nothing tried everything nothing. do you think that the battery is that dead and it was in the proccess that the chargers dont work on it no more. would it work maybe if i had a charged battery to put in it. it mite come back on. any help would be great thanks.
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Just keep it plugged in for 1-2 hours and then try booting in to try color screen bootloader and go from there.....
If you have MAGLDR installed then you can not charge the battery when the phone is off.
You should try to charge the battery using an external charger.
Edit: If you have a friend with HD2 and windows Mobile 6.5 then you could use the phone to charge you battery.
Wrong, you can charge it while it's off.
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Wrong, you can charge it while it's off.
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really? are you sure? because there are a lot of references to the magldr bug that wont allow charging (or even powering on without pulling the battery) if you try to charge with the phone turned off.
well i tried to charge for the last 2 hours nothing tried to remove battery nothing. Iam going to try and find a charged battery to see if the phone mite turn on or something. ill post later to let yall know what happen tho. thanks for the help.
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really? are you sure? because there are a lot of references to the magldr bug that wont allow charging (or even powering on without pulling the battery) if you try to charge with the phone turned off.
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Just give it a try man and see for yourself whether it charges or not....
what are you guys fighting about man, they just updated the magldr v1.3 and yeah we can now charge the phone while its off
Sukuya said:
what are you guys fighting about man, they just updated the magldr v1.3 and yeah we can now charge the phone while its off
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Wrong x2.
1. No one is fighting.
2. With new magldr, phone turns itself on when plugged in. Charging when off is not possible. The battery requires management which is only implemented in software. It may hold a small charge if you have magldr installed, but it won't charge fully, or properly. Also, it's not likely he's got the new magldr if he's returning back to windows.
Lastly, for the OP, what method did you use to return to winmo? And which winmo rom did you use?
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Find a way to charge your battery and everything it's going to be just fine.Your phone it is going to work.
Changing the battery should work.
I'm new here so basically with new 1.13 or later phone can't be charging if it's not turned on?
Makić said:
I'm new here so basically with new 1.13 or later phone can't be charging if it's not turned on?
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Read? Phone turns itself on if you connect a charger. Phone has NEVER charged while off with nand. This way at least you don't have to pull the battery to turn the phone on.
Sent from my HD2 NANDroid using XDA App
Just in case: If you on same situation that described on first post try this:
Q: If you completely run down the battery, would you be able to charge it with the phone again?
A: If your battery is dead, press and hold Vol Down and plug in USB cable / charger at same time. Phone will boot into bootloader and charge there just fine. Leave for 20 mins, pull battery, reboot and charge normally. If phone has just run down, plugging in the charger will usually turn it on.
Its found on one NAND thread and goals goes to g.lewarne
Actually i was on same situation and this helped on first try.
check the connection between battery and phone , the metal things i mean.
Perhaps, it is off the subject, but...
Poster #1: why do you want to get rid of this beautiful phone?
Just curious...
ok i bought another phone and i took out the charged battery from it and put it in the bricked HTC and it does nothing. now i know it was almost reverted back and i think the battery ran down but Iam not completely sure but maybe it could have been in the reverting software i used and maybe it just like lock up or something cause at that point you couldnt see the battery indicator. now i guess ill just have to sell on ebay for parts but it would be cool to try and un-brick it or try and figure it out.

[Q] mt4g flashing LED no vibrate no screen

Hey guys, Im trying to fix this mt4g for a friend.. It wont boot, I cant get into hboot or recovery, all it does is flash the LED. I have read post saying its because I was unsuccessful at loading bootloader, however it doesn't vibrate like the others are saying. I left the battery out for a couple hours along with sd and sim, also tried charging through the night... I cannot figure this one out, also, the computer will not recognize any new hardware or drivers. Is this phone bricked beyond repair?
I put the battery on my battery charger and let the battery charge outside of the phone now when I put the battery in the phone and plug it in to the computer, the red LED comes on and stays on, along with a red glow on the trackpad... Anyone know what to do?
Blinking LED is either the battery is charging to at least one percent, or you didn't press the right button combo to boot into bootloader. Power + Volume Down is bootloader, Volume up will give you three vibrates and a flashing LED, where you will have to pull your battery.
Thanks, I cant get the phone to do anything... I plug it in with the battery in, without pushing any buttons and the LED comes on and the IR trackpad light comes on... It wont respond to anything, no drivers popup.. Is there anyway to recover a bricked mt4g? Im new to it, as I have an Evo and have never had anything like this occur with all the evos i've flashed and rooted... If someone knows anyway to fix this feel free to give input..
Thanks everyone!
ya .. mine is doing the samething.
I just try to turn it on and I get one vibrate ... nothing else
I hit down and power and I get one vibrate .. nothing else
I hit up and power I get 3 fast vibrates and a flashing orange led ... I try to plug the USB here and I get 3 fast beeps on the comp
I hit up and down vol and power I get 5 fast vibrates with a solid green led and noting else... usb again beeps 3 times on the comp
neither will recognize the usb and I have reinstalled the drivers .. and of course none will work with adb either.
I think we are screwed really ... but maybe someone knows something i dont on this here. Thanks for any help.
if you fix your phone. let me know
dragon_usa said:
if you fix your phone. let me know
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ya .. no luck so far ..I have tried a lot .. different drivers .. HTC sync .. etc.
I have tried different button pushes .. usb ports .. wont work in adb .. nothing is doing anything.
all I hear thru my speakers when I plug it in is that damn the fast 3 beeps .. ike a "hell no go F yourself you arent connecting it"
and there isnt a lot of info online bout this .. other than some others have the same LED blinking and stuff .. I still dont know what the different LED modes mean.
so IM screwed .. BUT I am getting an LG G2X as an alternate exchange thru T-Mobile warranty though. goodbye mytouch 4G Hello to G2X AND Galaxy S II(bought) .. fun times!
I found a thread somewhere, not sure where but it said that if you cant get anything and the infra-red on the touch sensor is lit the phone is completely bricked!
Its not bricked. Somethign is wacky with the phone, mine has done it and thats why im trying to find out what the hell is going on. My phone acts like its completely dead. This post migt end up being really long.
Ok, i notices this, i used my phone as a wifi hot spot. Turned it off. Left my phone alone, i then put it on charge and went to sleep. Woke up looked at the battery, no color other than the lighting bolt. Unplugged it then went off. Pluged charger back in and orange led flashes. Tried to get into recovery nothing. Tried to power it on, nothing, tried the volume down and power, three vibrations. Ok then i decided to take out the battery in and out, didnt work, tried leaving the battery out for a few minutes, then put it back in, same. Took out memory card, sim card. Then plugged in the charger. Let it sit for awhile then it works. I notice if you dont use the orginal charger that may also be the problem. I dont have my orginal but i used a walmart charger and seems like a super charger and some how charged my battery enough to be booted up, i daily use a charger that i found with the same connection x-( , that could be the problem. I dunno what makes this happen but it happened to me at least three times. I kinda figure the battery or the emmc chip is involved, could be the hotspot, could be anything, but we dont have enough evidence to figure it out, ill try to post what my battery usage on here. I use cm7 and it only happens when i use it. I tried all other roms but no repeats. That was my story.
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Strapt said:
ya .. mine is doing the samething.
I just try to turn it on and I get one vibrate ... nothing else
I hit down and power and I get one vibrate .. nothing else
I hit up and power I get 3 fast vibrates and a flashing orange led ... I try to plug the USB here and I get 3 fast beeps on the comp
I hit up and down vol and power I get 5 fast vibrates with a solid green led and noting else... usb again beeps 3 times on the comp
neither will recognize the usb and I have reinstalled the drivers .. and of course none will work with adb either.
I think we are screwed really ... but maybe someone knows something i dont on this here. Thanks for any help.
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I have done all these as well, and still unable to get past the black screen, or acheive bootloader as well. I have even left the battery out for a couple of hours, and still no different. Going to try recharging the battery once more, and some other things.
As for adb it is of no help as of now. I keep getting an error saying no device found. Has anyone found a way past this yet, to try rebooting through adb?
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After trying to replace files on the sdcard I was not able to get past this issue. Also spoke with tech support, and was not able to get anywhere with their help. After speaking with them, I have come to conclusion the is bricked. I still cannot figure out what caused the phone to do this I broke down and sending it out to be replaced. Thankfully I have the insurance so I don't have to pay anything for the replacement.
Apparently its not bricked cause I'm still using mine. Try a different charger probly a stronger one like walmarts. I think the battery has a fart and is messed up for a little when it doesn't have a good charge
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tnt8902 said:
Apparently its not bricked cause I'm still using mine. Try a different charger probly a stronger one like walmarts. I think the battery has a fart and is messed up for a little when it doesn't have a good charge
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I have done this, fully charged it twice, and no change for me. I am glad it worked out for you.
Its not bricked.
Download the stock rom, and put that .zip in the root of your SD card. Put it in, press Power + Volume DOWN and wait for the bootloader. Once it boots, it should recognize the .zip and ask if you want to update it, run the update and your phone will be at stock again. Then root again, install Clockwork, and hopefully you backed up your ROM. This won't effect S-OFF, but you will have to run VisionARY again to get root permissions to run clockwork.
Hope this Helps.
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I am too having this problem
just blink orange
can't access bootloader or any else....
I too had this problem not too long ago. My power button wouldn't work though... I just connected via USB to my computer with the battery out, put it back in while connected and it turned on. Maybe I'm just lucky but give it a try
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3 Vibrates and blinking LED?

So last night when I went to sleep, my phone was working fine. I had forgotten to plug it in though. When I woke up this morning to turn my alarm off, the volume kept turning itself back up. So I took the battery out, and put it back in, and the phone vibrated 3 times and the LED started blinking orange. I repeated this process and the same thing happened. I turned the phone on using Vol-Down+Power, and it vibrates 5 times and LED becomes green and holds green. I was looking around and I found out that the Qualcomm chip went in to download mode or something, and you had to take the battery out for 10-ish minutes to fix it. So I did that, put the battery back in, and the phone turned on just fine.
A few hours ago, my phone died. I plugged it in, let it charge for a little bit, and tried to turn it back on, and the vibration and LED blinking orange started to happen again. So I took the battery out for 10 minutes, didn't fix it this time. So I thought maybe the phone didn't get enough charge, so I let it charge for about an hour, repeated the process, nothing.
I've taken the battery out, SD Card, and SIM out for 10 minutes. Nothing. Currently the phone is sitting next to me, and I have it plugged in to the charger. The LED is orange (not blinking), so I believe that means it's receiving a charge, so hopefully not all is lost.
Since I have no idea what could be causing this, I'll give you guys everything I know about my phone:
I have the good eMMC chip
I have the bad screen
I have the engineering bootloader, S-OFF (through the perma-S-OFF method in the dev. section)
I am currently running [KANG] DARKSIDE CM7.2.0 rc0 [1.12.2012]
I have flashed the official CM7, MIUI, and most recently (besides what I'm currently running) Creamed Glacier 7.0
I have flashed TDJs ICS kernel v13 (or whatever one you need to have WiFi in ICS)
I'll keep trying to get this fixed, but if anyone has any ideas, please, let me know.
Thanks!
theholyfork said:
So last night when I went to sleep, my phone was working fine. I had forgotten to plug it in though. When I woke up this morning to turn my alarm off, the volume kept turning itself back up. So I took the battery out, and put it back in, and the phone vibrated 3 times and the LED started blinking orange. I repeated this process and the same thing happened. I turned the phone on using Vol-Down+Power, and it vibrates 5 times and LED becomes green and holds green. I was looking around and I found out that the Qualcomm chip went in to download mode or something, and you had to take the battery out for 10-ish minutes to fix it. So I did that, put the battery back in, and the phone turned on just fine.
A few hours ago, my phone died. I plugged it in, let it charge for a little bit, and tried to turn it back on, and the vibration and LED blinking orange started to happen again. So I took the battery out for 10 minutes, didn't fix it this time. So I thought maybe the phone didn't get enough charge, so I let it charge for about an hour, repeated the process, nothing.
I've taken the battery out, SD Card, and SIM out for 10 minutes. Nothing. Currently the phone is sitting next to me, and I have it plugged in to the charger. The LED is orange (not blinking), so I believe that means it's receiving a charge, so hopefully not all is lost.
Since I have no idea what could be causing this, I'll give you guys everything I know about my phone:
I have the good eMMC chip
I have the bad screen
I have the engineering bootloader, S-OFF (through the perma-S-OFF method in the dev. section)
I am currently running [KANG] DARKSIDE CM7.2.0 rc0 [1.12.2012]
I have flashed the official CM7, MIUI, and most recently (besides what I'm currently running) Creamed Glacier 7.0
I have flashed TDJs ICS kernel v13 (or whatever one you need to have WiFi in ICS)
I'll keep trying to get this fixed, but if anyone has any ideas, please, let me know.
Thanks!
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Is your vol rocker broken?
I2IEAILiiTY said:
Is your vol rocker broken?
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Before my phone shut off, I was able to turn the volume down and up without any problems, so I'll assume no, but I could be wrong
theholyfork said:
Before my phone shut off, I was able to turn the volume down and up without any problems, so I'll assume no, but I could be wrong
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You did say it turned up on it's own and in order for your phone to enter that mode (I forget what it's called), you hold up on the vol rocker and power it on.
I2IEAILiiTY said:
You did say it turned up on it's own and in order for your phone to enter that mode (I forget what it's called), you hold up on the vol rocker and power it on.
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Yeah, it turned up on its own. I thought you meant the rocker itself. I could turn volume up and down myself, but sometimes it'd turn up on its own. So that's probably what's causing the problem?
Edit: LED just turned green. I'm assuming this means it's fully charged, so I'm gonna try turning it on now.
Edit 2: 3 vibrates and blinking LED still :/
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Yeah, it turned up on its own. I thought you meant the rocker itself. I could turn volume up and down myself, but sometimes it'd turn up on its own. So that's probably what's causing the problem?
Edit: LED just turned green. I'm assuming this means it's fully charged, so I'm gonna try turning it on now.
Edit 2: 3 vibrates and blinking LED still :/
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try holding vol down when you power the phone on to go into hboot, go into recovery and then rebooting the phone or just rebooting the phone from there.
I2IEAILiiTY said:
try holding vol down when you power the phone on to go into hboot, go into recovery and then rebooting the phone or just rebooting the phone from there.
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Nope, that causes the LED to turn green and the phone vibrates 5 times. Nothing else happens. This happened earlier though, and my phone still was able to turn on, so I'm not sure if it's done yet.
Also IF I can't get this fixed, I can get a SquareTrade warranty for $33 which is (obviously) way cheaper than paying for a new phone (I don't have Tmobile's warranty), does anyone know if that warranty would cover this?
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Nope, that causes the LED to turn green and the phone vibrates 5 times. Nothing else happens. This happened earlier though, and my phone still was able to turn on, so I'm not sure if it's done yet.
Also IF I can't get this fixed, I can get a SquareTrade warranty for $33 which is (obviously) way cheaper than paying for a new phone (I don't have Tmobile's warranty), does anyone know if that warranty would cover this?
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No clue man. Sorry
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No clue man. Sorry
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Damn. Thanks anyway man. Ill try the squaretrade thing and hope for the best then
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You could try calling t-mo and see what they can do about it.
I bricked my mt4g several months ago and they sent me a replacement after what seemed like an hour of troubleshooting, even though I bought my mt4g through radioshack.
If they send you another one, it'll be refurbished, but hey it's better than a bricked phone.
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You could try calling t-mo and see what they can do about it.
I bricked my mt4g several months ago and they sent me a replacement after what seemed like an hour of troubleshooting, even though I bought my mt4g through radioshack.
If they send you another one, it'll be refurbished, but hey it's better than a bricked phone.
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Alright, I'll try that. Since you bought it through radioshack did you not have tmobiles warranty?
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Alright, I'll try that. Since you bought it through radioshack did you not have tmobiles warranty?
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I'm assuming I didn't. I'm not sure. The only thing I remember about a warranty is that I couldn't do anything through radioshack cause that one expired.
And I just now saw your kindle fire sig. lol
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I'm assuming I didn't. I'm not sure. The only thing I remember about a warranty is that I couldn't do anything through radioshack cause that one expired.
And I just now saw your kindle fire sig. lol
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Alright haha. Well I'll try anyway. The worst they can say is no haha.
And yeah, I just got off my computer, got class tomorrow morning haha
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So it just turned on. I'm scared to turn it off now. Do you know if I was to flash a new radio, if that would fix it?
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So it just turned on. I'm scared to turn it off now. Do you know if I was to flash a new radio, if that would fix it?
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I thought you were going to sleep dude? And in order to flash a new radio, you'd have to turn the phone off, lol.
I don't see what the radio has to do with your problem though.
I2IEAILiiTY said:
I thought you were going to sleep dude? And in order to flash a new radio, you'd have to turn the phone off, lol.
I don't see what the radio has to do with your problem though.
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Haha I was, but then I tried to turn it back on one more time and it did, so I had to come here and ask. And I thought I had read somewhere that flashing a radio might fix the issue.
i have a a mt4g that i got off craigslist and didn't do enough research when i tried to flash every thing so i have the same blinking light but i found i have to pull the battery for 4 hrs before it will give me a 50/50 chance with adb or to boot and i also have no access to any recoverys its android or nothin. i've been dying to find instructions on how to reflash the back ups through adb but lil to no luck

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