[ISSUE] HD2 keeps rebooting just before WinMo starts - HD2 General

My trusty old HD2 appears to be having an issue lately:
It refuses to boot into the OS. It will show the HTC splash screen (with the ROM versions etc.) and when it gets to the 'quietly brilliant' splash screen, it turns off and begins all over again. This happened when it was completely stock, with the latest official HTC ROM installed
I tried the following to fix it:
- bought a new battery
- re-adjusted the battery pins
- re-installed new stock ROM
- installed HSPL 3.03
- installed MAGLDR
- ran TASK29
The problem still persists. I can get into the coloured screen bij holding VOL-down and power, so I can install new ROMS. But whatever I install, it keeps rebooting when I try to start it. MAGLDR also refused to load after install. Holding down poer button at startup didn't bring up the MAGLDR options screen.
Does anyone have an idea of what the cause of the problem could be and how to solve it? Or is my phone simply bricked?
Thanks!

Hello there, I had similar problem last year with my phone. I sent my phone back to HTC. It turned out the mainboard for the phone is malfunctioning. Maybe you want to send the phone back to HTC if it is still under warranty?

I certainly hope that is not the issue here, because the device is out of warranty already for some time I'm affraid...
Did they tell you which part of the mainboard was potentially malfunctioning?

Try the fridge test: put HD2 in clear bag & seal it & leave in fridge for a 3-4hrs & then boot it & keep it in fridge as much as possible.
If it boots normally or further than before the fault would be CPU BGA failure which is quite common.
If problem persists even when cooled in fridge it could be memory error issue, perhaps a tast 21 & reflash could help & flashing OEM ROM complete with SPL & Radio to test further.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the CPU BGA? And if it has failed, how can I rescue it, if at all?
I already tried Task29, original ROM/Radio flash and new SPL, but that didn;t appear to solve the problem...

It is the soldering of the CPU (snapdragan) to mainboard).
They can be reworked but this is not always successful, mainboard replacement is best option unless you know someone skilled in reworking.
cold test and report outcome, good thing with cold test is sometimes you can get device to run well enough to make a SPB backup making it easy to restore as is on new or repaired device without data loss & painfull setup process.

you need hspl 2.08 for magldr to work properly

Remove your sim card. I have this issue from time to time on my HD2 running WP7. Always rebooting at the Quietly brilliant screen. I removed the SIM card and voila, it booted. Plug it in the USB wall charger, and remove the SIM card.

I tried removing the SIM and the SD cards but that didn't make any difference unfortunately... I'll try the fridge option tonight.

If fridge test still gets same reboot then flashing full & correct ROM for your device from SD card may be an idea.
As pointed out by others your HSPL & MAGLDR could be to blame.
Flashing full ROM with radio, SPL from SD results in everything getting overwriten, including HSPL & from test purposes perspective this is good.

most times, rebooting right at the start is a bent battery pin.

Like I said, I checked the battery pins and bought a new battery to no avail. I bent them further backwards and further forwards, both didn't help.
I tried the fridge test, and after 2 hours in the freezer the phone was 'well cooled' shall we say, however the problem persisted! It reboots at the exact same time as before. Might this indicate that it is NOT the dreaded BGA problem?

Fridge result would be good indication not heat related to BGA failure.
Only thing you can do is try a few different flashing procedures of WM6.5.
Try 2.08 HSPL & an Energy ROM & a radio & test. try original ROM flashed from SD & test.
try booting with charger connected, sim SD in/out ect, I know you done this all before but running through it again systematically & without MAGLDR/HSPL3.03 may yield a clue or resolve it.
If unlucky it is hardware such as bad memory

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Uh oh, HD2 might be bricked/broken?

Hi all,
Hoping someone can help!
OK, first of all I'll admit quite openly that my knowledge of flashing and so on isn't what you'd call strong so any accusations of being a n00b are warranted and accepted.
I got my HD2 in Jan and I'd flashed a few handsets before without issue so flashed the HD2 pretty much straight away and played with some ROM's and so on and settled on one (from memory Dutty ROM) and everything was fine, the phone was stable and everything was good.
Then 2 weeks the handset started acting oddly. I hadn't changed anything (as far as I'm aware) but the phone starting freezing, restarting and so on. I'd have to take the battery out to restart it (and sometimes leaving the battery out for a while before it'd boot up.) When it froze the area around the bottom of the battery would also warm up. I'd also notice that if I tried doing something on the handset it would restart - almost as if I was putting to much "strain" on the handset and it went *bang*.
I decided to hard reset the phone and it went back to original form. Now, I'll again admit this is probably down to my lack of knowledge, I assumed this put the handset back to a factory state but this is probably not the case (it certainly looked like it but some signs suggested it hadn't).
This seemed to improve things a little but the problems just came back. As I'd flashed it and put on the HSPL I thought the warranty was now invalid so thought I'd try and "fix" it myself.
Big mistake.
Or was it?
I think the phone has an issue with power or something like that as it freezes as I've said. And it did this while I was trying to flash a ROM. Panic then set in.
Basically my handset is now in a state where it'll boot into the bootloader (power and Vol down) three colour splash screen and it'll do the white HTC "normal" boot up screen but nothing else.
I can connect to the handset via RUU and I can run:
Task 29
however this doesn't run and finish gracefully most of the time. It'll stick on 99% or 100% or sometimes it'll moan about not being able to do this on this handset.
Any ROM I now try to flash on it using the exe's or RUU (I've not tried them all, granted!) starts and stick at a certain percentage. The Artemis ROM sticks at 12%, Official 1.43 WWE ROM sticks at 0% and Leon ROM sticks at 9%. Eventually they'll time out with an error. Unfortunately I left the handset at work so cannot state which error(s) I get when trying to flash a ROM.
So, after boring the hell out of you, is the handset terminally ill in your opinion? I really do think that there could be a faulty power button/general power issue with the handset (just a feeling I've got) but from my brief reading I'm not 100% sure.
Is there anything I could do? At the moment it's completely unusable so any suggestions on getting it into a working state? Ideally I'd like to get it into a state where I could return it to O2 UK and not have them flag the fact it's been flashed.
Any help gratefully received!
can you get into bootloader? if so, check the spl.
if it is 1.42.0000 or 1.66.0000 then the warranty is fine.
if the spl ends .hspl then connect to usb and run hspl 2.
choose whatever was your stock spl (one that ends 0000, 1.42.0000 most likely)
reboot to boot loader, and confirm the spl ends 0000 and you will be fine.
have same problem!
my hd2 freezed on startup screan, boot screan, sometime donot start - only black screan, after rom flash 99percent or 100percet once freezed when i return stock rom and spl,sometime dont want to boot with 1.42hspl, next time with 1.66, but my experinece is :
1.
-with 2.08hspl allways start
-uninstal your hd2 driver on your computer! restart your computer install after that, with windows update,
-same with bootloader mode, uninsta, driver on your computer,restart your comp, and install it
-turn off your antivirus protector when install any rom, and your run as administrator in windows 7,vista.
2. use other pc if this dont help
3. the problam can be with battery pins under cover.
some people write there with pins problem, they have screaved pins and hd2 dont want boot or start or have same problems
its my secondary problem
if u want u can use clasical gum ereaser and lightly clean pins and battery conectors...
its help for better contact
donot take the pins with wet hands!!
its can make litle corosi..
i belive its help to you
sorry for my english
lol its come to me on twitter
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=16952
samsamuel said:
can you get into bootloader? if so, check the spl.
if it is 1.42.0000 or 1.66.0000 then the warranty is fine.
if the spl ends .hspl then connect to usb and run hspl 2.
choose whatever was your stock spl (one that ends 0000, 1.42.0000 most likely)
reboot to boot loader, and confirm the spl ends 0000 and you will be fine.
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Samsamuel, you're an utter *star*.
Now back to 1.42.0000. I can blag O2 now if needs be in regards to the handset (tried upgrading to 1.72, USB cable came out, phones shagged, give me a new one, etc) without them getting funny about it if needs be.
Will try upgrading to 1.72 stock O2 ROM and see what happens.
Thanks again Samsamuel, I owe you a pint!
I have the exact same problem.
The screen freezes for a while, and then the device reboots.
Usually it's stuck on the white (with green "HTC") screen after that, the red text doesn't show up.
If I remove the battery and leave the device alone for a while (cool down?) it boots past the white screen (although it's highly likely that it crashes again when I enter my pin).
At first this was only happening when I was watching some video's with coreplayer, but now it's just happening all the time, even when it's in my pocket.
I just finished flashing a stock rom, but it's even worse now
9 out of 10 times it doesn't even make it to the pin screen, and I have spend about 2 minutes total actually in windows mobile.
Brood, it sounds like your issue is hardware related, I would contact htc too look into getting it repaired.
Just an update from OP.
Thanks for the link ilijan, very interesting.
I spoke to O2 business tech support yesterday and deliberately asked whether anyone else was complaining of this issue. They said no but I'm unsure whether I believe them and whether this was just the corporate line.
After setting my SPL back to 1.42.0000 I tried flashing to 1.72 stock and this did work. Every other ROM I tried wouldn't work. Even with the official ROM it's still freezing/restarting.
Getting a refurb today.
Thanks to all that responded/helped. Appreciated.

[Q] Er, Did I Successfully Brick My Phone?

OK - So I have been playing around with my HD2 by installing Android....finally, it stopped working and simply loads the "HTC Simply Brilliant Screen" over and over.
BUT it only attempts to load the screen with the phone is plugged in...it is a brick if it is not plugged in.
SO...what i decided to do was install another ROM, using TASK29 and then Kumar Leo Rom Series. It installed successfully.
Exact same problem...just a different splash screen (I now see Kumar Leo Rom Series splash).
HELP!!!!!!!
Good New: I can still change ROMs as the boot loader is accessible.
Bad News: When this phone is disconnected to the computer or power source it is a brick. And when it is plugged in, I can only get to the splash screen and it reloads...forever.
Any assistance which helps re-enable my phone is absolutely worth a PayPal credit to someone's account.
bent battery pins?
can you get to the boot loader using battery, if yes try flashing a stock ROM with all SPL,Radio,OS etc included from the storage card.
if not, one other thing is to access bootloader with it plugged in- by pressing volume down and the reset button at the back whilst usb plugged in
Have you tried removing and installing the battery again?
Yep - pins were the problem
YEP, that was the problem...the PINS were "misaligned" which caused my machine to go crazy....thanks for the help...I was up until 2am trying to figure out the problem and I just didn't get it...luckily the ordeal made me try some custom roms though...so I guess that is worth my headache...
Thanks again for the quick responses...this thread can be closed as SOLVED.

[Q] HD2 cannot shutdown (reboot again without charging)(NAND rom)

My HD2 has NAND flashed with Android rom 2.3.4 and I have a problem about the shutdown case. After I pressed "shutdown" to turn off the phone, it will automatically start again. But I don't charging the phone at that time. I have to take out the battery for turn off the phone. And after I put the battery back into the phone, it will also automatically turn on again (without press any button).
I know the problem with magldr that only cannot shutdown the phone when charging. But in my case is it cannot shutdown without charging.
(I also tried other roms before any this issue also happened)
(I used task29 for any new rom flash before)
Any one has suggestions or comments so that I can fix it Thanks.
Well you say you tried task 29, reinstalling MAGLDR, and it still doesn't help. I doubt flashing a new radio will help, but it's all or nothing. Maybe you could test if your phone works properly in winmo also, try a winmo rom, or the stock one. If it suffers from the same problem in android, then you know there's something wrong with the hardware I guess.

[Q] HTC HD2 T8585 freezing issues after flashing to any radio xx.50.xx

Hello, my friend brings me HTC HD2 T8585 yesterday. It seems like it's not T-mobile (white "call" and "end" buttons, no t-mobile label on the top). It freezes on "Energy star", just writes ROM and radio version on the bottom left and freezes. Now it has radio 2.09.51.xxx. If I try to update it to xx.50.xx it stops switching on, recognising by USB and charging at all. Totally bricked. But I have found strange way to reanimate it. I'm pulling battery out (for 5-10 minutes), reset HD2 few times by red button, insert it back, push reset few times again, plug USB cable inside, charging battery 5 minutes by external 5V adapter is also helps sometimes (now it has 3.85V), and sometimes it possible to switch it on (1 time on 10 tryings). When it switched on, it's possible to update radio back to xx.51.xx version and after that it switches on very distinctly, but freezes on Energy star again (it refuses to boot any flashed rom). It's possible to install android on this HTC with xx.50.xx radio. I did it and it works (but freezes then I'm trying to make a call). Of course to boot android on xx.50.xx I need to pull and insert battery, press reset and make special magic dance...
I have a loop here: to boot android I need new Radio Update.
To switch the phone on without magic spells I need old 2.09.51 Radio.
Sometimes it's possible to boot firmware on 2.09.51. I don't know how i got it, but after 5 minutes of freezing on "energy star" it booted up stock firmware i flashed before.
I don't know what to do. Is it hardware failure?
I'm not sure what you have, but there's no "energy star" on my device?!
any screenshots for the device/the screen that it freezes on?
Dr.Move said:
any screenshots?
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olegmjk said:
Hello, my friend brings me HTC HD2 T8585 yesterday. It seems like it's not T-mobile (white "call" and "end" buttons, no t-mobile label on the top). It freezes on "Energy star", just writes ROM and radio version on the bottom left and freezes. Now it has radio 2.09.51.xxx. If I try to update it to xx.50.xx it stops switching on, recognising by USB and charging at all. Totally bricked. But I have found strange way to reanimate it. I'm pulling battery out (for 5-10 minutes), reset HD2 few times by red button, insert it back, push reset few times again, plug USB cable inside, charging battery 5 minutes by external 5V adapter is also helps sometimes (now it has 3.85V), and sometimes it possible to switch it on (1 time on 10 tryings). When it switched on, it's possible to update radio back to xx.51.xx version and after that it switches on very distinctly, but freezes on Energy star again (it refuses to boot any flashed rom). It's possible to install android on this HTC with xx.50.xx radio. I did it and it works (but freezes then I'm trying to make a call). Of course to boot android on xx.50.xx I need to pull and insert battery, press reset and make special magic dance...
I have a loop here: to boot android I need new Radio Update.
To switch the phone on without magic spells I need old 2.09.51 Radio.
Sometimes it's possible to boot firmware on 2.09.51. I don't know how i got it, but after 5 minutes of freezing on "energy star" it booted up stock firmware i flashed before.
I don't know what to do. Is it hardware failure?
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by energy star, do you mean the energy rom boot screen? The energy rom WILL NOT boot with a ..51.. radio. It must have a ..50.. radio for it to work.
OR - have you been flashing custom boot screens? there is an 'energy star' bootscreen, made to look like a PC bios boot screen, is that what you mean?
flashing a radio without HSPL, , you are mistaken, that cannot be done.
we need more direct info to help, i'm afraid. Screen shots or at least full filenames of what you have flashed LAST would be great.
samsamuel said:
we need more direct info to help, i'm afraid. Screen shots or at least full filenames of what you have flashed LAST would be great.
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Okay I'll try to tell full story. This phone was previosly updated to custom W.M. 6.5 rom (by my friend's friend I don't know him directly). I don't know which rom he used. May be he changed splash screen (wow I found it! i always thought it's real boot time proccess for HTC HD2 ) . Yesterday my friend brought this phone to me with two problems: 1: slow and not stable booting (sometimes it freezed on splash screen 2: After (and if) it loads WM, it crashes in very short time to screen full of green colour. So I tryed to install Hyper Droid. First I downloaded HSPL4 and updated HSPL from 1.66.0000 to 2.08.HSPL . After that I tryed to install MAGLDR and phone showed only Energy Star splash screen. After short googling I decided to update radio. After updating it to 2.15.50 phone switched off and i was not able to switch it on (like described in this post). I disconnected battery and after few tryings it switched on and loads MAGLD, i prepared partition (150MB file) and update zipped rom from SD card. Between these steps I disconnected battery many times, because it was impossible to switch phone on after reboot. I spend about 2 hours and Android was installed but phone freezed after 2 minutes (charging animation stoped and it didn't respond on buttons). Also I got 100% freezing then I tryed to make a call.
I tryed different version of Radio (about 7) and found 2.x.51.x working more stable (phone switching on by pressing button or connecting usb cable) . 2.x.50.x all have same switching on issues ;( . Now I updated HSPL to 3.03.HSPL and found that it (?) resolved issue with charging LED (it stayed ON after usb cable disconnecting) . Now I'm downloading stock 1.66 region free firmware and will try to flash it..
newbies can't make link to photos
dl.dropbox.com/u/35619227/boot.jpg
dl.dropbox.com/u/35619227/volumepressed.jpg
I found LEO of my friend is from Singapoure (thanks this) ) s/n: SH0CLNW03xxx . I tryed my s\n on htc singapoure support site and now i'm downloading original firmware!
After further researching I decided this phone has battery/mainboard failure. It freezes and makes green screen of death randomly, especialy often under high power consuption or while disconnecting USB cable. I flashed Rom directly from SD card, because usb update didn't work for me. Now it has stock firmware with stock splash screen. 3.03.0000 SPL and 2.15.50 radio. I'm giving up. Thank you all, here are a lot of useful information.
Did you do a hard reset after flashing the stock ROM. if that didn't do the trick, you could send it to maintenance now that it has stock WinMo on it.
Yes i did hard reset, it didn't help, I think it's need a bit work with soldering dryer. May be CPU or other chip has bad connection to mainboard... I've found i can get 100% GSOD by shacking phone or knocking its back cover. I don't know why it has difference with 51 and 50 radio. Now if it's freezed i'm pulling out the battery for one minute, and it switches on with 95% warranty. With radio 51 it switches on without need of battery removing.

[Q] hd2 bricked? :(

hd2 T-Mobile
(I did my reading)
not booting
vibrates 7 times and stays at boot screen. I can flash. but just doesn't boot. tried re-installing hspl. tried task29, spl and stock rom. tried re-installing radio and everything already suggested. no love same thing happens. vibrates 7 times and stuck
anyone? anything??
thanks
edit: I have the correct radio. it was working fine. only in the morning I found it dead at magldr title menu.
you tried cooling phone in freezer (inside sealed bag,30to45 minutes) & then boot it & see if boots further.
If the cooling helps then you can assume cpu bga failure & needs reflow work or replacement mainboad.
Mister B said:
you tried cooling phone in freezer (inside sealed bag,30to45 minutes) & then boot it & see if boots further.
If the cooling helps then you can assume cpu bga failure & needs reflow work or replacement mainboad.
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I read somewhere about this suggestion but didn't take it seriously before. but now as a desperate attempt I did it but with no impact at all.. no change
thanks for the reply though.
just to update
checked with mtty
no nand bad blocks. its getting frustrating
I would assume likely hardware with cpu or nand controller, cpu most likely.
All you can do is run through all basics, check battery pins, remove sd card & sim should they be present & attempt a flash via USB of perhaps HSPL 2.08 followed by a custom WM6.5 ROM & then a Radio & attempt boot. could also try the reset button to reboot a couple times as has been known to bring device back to full boot.
If no joy probably would need a damaged screen or dead digi handset for donor mainboard.
Mister B said:
I would assume likely hardware with cpu or nand controller, cpu most likely.
All you can do is run through all basics, check battery pins, remove sd card & sim should they be present & attempt a flash via USB of perhaps HSPL 2.08 followed by a custom WM6.5 ROM & then a Radio & attempt boot. could also try the reset button to reboot a couple times as has been known to bring device back to full boot.
If no joy probably would need a damaged screen or dead digi handset for donor mainboard.
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I guess it's time I say goodbye to my hd2.. man I loved this phone so much.
You can buy the t-mobile US models (assume u have TMOUS model) with dead digi for around 20 to 30USD for decent looking one with void stickers still present.
Mainboard is easy to swap. You will have other spares such as original battery, LCD, ribbon board to use or sell on which would make repair very minimal & cost effective.
Could look at something newer but they have so many compromises these days ...

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