I bought two used MyTouch 4G's from a seller on Craigslist for very little money, the phones are cosmetically both a 9.5 out of 10 and only one of the two had issues so I thought I got a good deal. One phone was stuck at the Boot Screen and I had to flash the latest stock ROM in recovery to get it to even boot normally. I had no problems whatsoever with the other phone. I successfully downgraded both from 2.3.4 to 2.2.1 so I could root and flash Virtuous Unity 2.39.0 on them. I tried to temporarily root the "problem phone" with Visionary r14 which did not work right away, the phone kept freezing and rebooting. Eventually it worked and I used gfree to permanently root it. I have S-OFF and boot loader 0.86.0000. After attempting to flash VU 2.39.0 on the phone and some error messages about E: and logs, I tried to restore the PD15IMG.zip for 2.2.1 and I didn't get FAIL-PU error messages, it asked me if I wanted to update and it said "OK" after the steps. The phone worked for a minute or two and then shut itself off. It did it about 5 times.
Now the phone will not even turn on. It doesn't show the orange LED when it is plugged in. When I press Power and Volume down, NADA. The same when I press Power and Volume Up. Nothing. There is no vibration, no attempt to boot up at all. When I plug it into my laptop, it gives me some weird tones, not like when I plug in any other MyTouch 4G and adb doesn't recognize it either. I have tried two different chargers that I know are working and two different batteries that I know are fully charged. The phone is DEAD I think I think I might have bricked it
The working phone has the inferior screen and the bricked phone has the superior screen, I wish it was the other way around If this phone is truly bricked, I'm just going to swap out motherboards, I bought one for $ 25.50 with a broken power button on eBay the other day
Is there anything I can do to "revive" that phone? Any input is greatly appreciated !!
Looks to me u borked the motherboard , I've would sell it the same way you bought it
Flashing PD15IMG, if the phone screws up mid-flash while doing bootloader or radio, will leave your phone dead, as in completely dead, requiring primary (JTAG or other supported) boot to reload SW, at least bootloader and baseband. There are special tools for the task. But I'm not sure you can get a hand on these tools, you'd need to be working for HTC or Qualcomm for that. Never did it and never heard of anyone doing it, so I can't point you further.
Basically, when you power up the phone, your CPU doesn't have anything to load.
When I flashed PD15IMG.zip the last time, everything seemingly went well, all OK's instead of the dreaded "FAIL-PU" all the way up to "Update Complete, Power to Reboot". I believe that this phone has the bad eMMc chip in it, it started screwing up after the 2.3.4 OTA update according to the person who sold me the phones. It was stuck at the MyTouch 4G screen. As much as I really want to get this phone back to life, I believe that the motherboard is truly dead and that there is no way to get it back to life. Unless someone has a magic tool (or wand LOL) to revive it
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I bought two used MyTouch 4G's from a seller on Craigslist for very little money, the phones are cosmetically both a 9.5 out of 10 and only one of the two had issues so I thought I got a good deal. One phone was stuck at the Boot Screen and I had to flash the latest stock ROM in recovery to get it to even boot normally. I had no problems whatsoever with the other phone. I successfully downgraded both from 2.3.4 to 2.2.1 so I could root and flash Virtuous Unity 2.39.0 on them. I tried to temporarily root the "problem phone" with Visionary r14 which did not work right away, the phone kept freezing and rebooting. Eventually it worked and I used gfree to permanently root it. I have S-OFF and boot loader 0.86.0000. After attempting to flash VU 2.39.0 on the phone and some error messages about E: and logs, I tried to restore the PD15IMG.zip for 2.2.1 and I didn't get FAIL-PU error messages, it asked me if I wanted to update and it said "OK" after the steps. The phone worked for a minute or two and then shut itself off. It did it about 5 times.
Now the phone will not even turn on. It doesn't show the orange LED when it is plugged in. When I press Power and Volume down, NADA. The same when I press Power and Volume Up. Nothing. There is no vibration, no attempt to boot up at all. When I plug it into my laptop, it gives me some weird tones, not like when I plug in any other MyTouch 4G and adb doesn't recognize it either. I have tried two different chargers that I know are working and two different batteries that I know are fully charged. The phone is DEAD I think I think I might have bricked it
The working phone has the inferior screen and the bricked phone has the superior screen, I wish it was the other way around If this phone is truly bricked, I'm just going to swap out motherboards, I bought one for $ 25.50 with a broken power button on eBay the other day
Is there anything I can do to "revive" that phone? Any input is greatly appreciated !!
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i have the same problem but mine turn on the orange light when connected to charger also a little one in the action button. it happened after unlocking with xtc clip
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Hey guys,
I've done some searching on this issue, yet I can't find much besides battery problems, or people who have contacted T Mobile and got warranty replacements. I've had some issues with my G1. Over the past month or two, my G1 has been rebooting repetitively, and this week it's gotten BAD. I would open a SMS, and then BAM. Start dialer, and then BAM. Reboot. Hell, even in the middle of a reboot it would reboot. Cool huh?
Anyways I called T-mobile customer support and they said I'm out of warranty. Great. Well, it still turns on, and it still operates when it's happy, so maybe I can work with this for a little bit... I did some searching, and some people attributed it to a software glitch in the gyroscope... Most people called T-mobile and got a warranty replacement. I'm over the one-year
I'm not about to say this is because I had CyanogenMod on it, because I would wipe, and put it back to an older version and it would still reboot... even in the SPL, it would reboot. But regardless, I decided to follow this how-to to unroot my G1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350
After step 6 (6. Push Alt+S on your G1 to flash it with update.zip), it came up with an error about the splash... "Cant store hboot image."
Well anyways, before I could do anything about it, guess what happened?
Yeah, it rebooted.
It came up with the unboxing logo at first, I didn't know what to do. I had forgotten what this meant, so I heled the power button down ( I realize this may have been the misteak I made, however there was nothing visual indicating anything was being done).
It shut down, the screen went blank, the charge LED remained on....
I pressed power.... Nothing.
I unplugged the phone, took out the battery.... put the battery back in... Nothing. The screen stayed black. Now my phone will not power up, and there is no LED charging indicator.
Anyways, I'm lost. This is my second G1. I'm slightly pissed and I feel bad for the T-Mobile rep on the other end of the call I just had, but, really, I can't spend $1200 a year on a slow phone.
Do any of you guys have any suggestions?
Home+power does nothing.
Camera+power does nothing.
Putting in the cable lights up no LEDs...
It is literally a brick. An unresponsive brick.
Well, I ended up taking the mainboard out of my old phone and putting it in this G1.... Everything should be back to normal however I'm still looking for responses as to what might be happening.
Hello! Today suddenly the screen on my HTC Legend stopped working. More exactly it went black, with just a few pixels in different colors and some random striped... I've tried to remove the battery, plug it into my computer, remove the memory card, remove the sim-card etc.etc. nothing seems to bring it back to life... when i press the power button i can sense the phone vibrating and responding to touches on the screen. Seems the phone itself is working fine and that the screen is just broken in some way. Could it be possible that this has something to do with that the phone is rooted and flashed with different ROMs like thousands of times?
I'm considering returning it to the store, since I still have one year warranty left but I'm afraid I won't get a new one if they discover it is rooted
Anyone who's got any good ideas what to do to make the screen work again? Is it possible to factory reset it from the computer?
If you have s-off its easy peasy, otherwise you could downgrade using the goldcard method.In my experience HTC still repair even if it is rooted as they dotn really check, just plug it into there computers then reflash
So like the total noob I am I tried to root my MT4G using visionary v14 (I think, can't start my phone to check) without having all the appropriate files in place. This caused Visionary to crash when I rebooted my phone. I gave it some time and then being unable to restart using the power button I pulled the battery. After that the phone has been totally dead, I can't get it to turn on at all or even recognize that it is plugged in. I have tried starting plugged into my computer, unplugged, plugged into charger and all possible combinations of SIM card and SD card in/out. Nothing. I am very afraid I bricked the damn thing, but I'd appreciate any input... especially since the the replacement would come with Gingerbread and I really don't want to have to go through the whole downgrading crap.
Thanks.
Cheers,
RobotPenguin
Hello RobotPenguin,
I'm not a specialist (actually, I'm quite a newbie here) but most of bricked device can boot to the bootloader or at least display the splashscreen.
Are you sure the battery is alright and correctly installed ?
Regards
I assume so. It was fully charged when it crashed and the "tech" at the T-mobile Store swapped out the battery in my phone with the charged battery from her functional MT4G to no benefit.
Thanks.
I believe this may be my answer... damn.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231765
I swear I searched for hours... I guess wrong keywords. That's what I get for frantic sleep deprived searching...
Cheers,
RobotPenguin
Well, lets check to see if it is bricked
1: pull the battery out
2: put the battery back / put on the battery door.
3: hold the power button and the volume down rocker.
* the device should boot to a white Screen with three Android Skateboarders.
**If you get to that screen it's a good thing.
**if you don't then you are SOL.
4: try doing a factory reset from that white screen
5: reboot the phone.
If it still doesn't boot you need to load the PD15IMG.zip onto the root of the SD card and start over.
If the PD15IMG.zip doesn't load (given the MD5SUMs match), or give you any errors at all you are SOL.
neidlinger said:
Well, lets check to see if it is bricked
1: pull the battery out
2: put the battery back / put on the battery door.
3: hold the power button and the volume down rocker.
* the device should boot to a white Screen with three Android Skateboarders.
**If you get to that screen it's a good thing.
**if you don't then you are SOL.
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I got that far and no recovery screen... so I guess I'm SOL. I guess I'll just wait for the new one to come from T-mobile and do the whole downgrade bit so I can root the phone. Pain in the @$$, oh well.
Thanks for helping me out.
Cheers,
RobotPenguin
Most probably you've attempted to flash Engineering HBOOT ("root.sh" way of rooting) and failed, which left your phone without bootloader.
You can't recover from it.
if holding power and volume down does not get u into hboot then u r screwed. Hopefully u didn't cheap out and got the insurance for your fone. If u do have insurance on the phone then call asurion (the insurance company t mobile uses) and tell asurion that u lost your fone (say u left it on the bus).then pay your deductible and get another fone.
I have rooted 2 myt 4gs and they both crapped out for 3-10 days then magically started working. The whole time they were down all they would do is flash an orange light and vibrate 3 times when i powered on or vibrate 5 times and flash green when i tried bootloader. I pulled the battery out and left it out the first one was 3 days and the second time was close to 10 days then bam they came back up
+1
Thanks for the info guys
Help me, XDA Developers, you're my only hope. I've tried everything else, and no luck. It just keeps getting worse.
First off, my girlfriend and I recently purchased a used Motorola Defy to replace her broken G1. When the guy we bought it from showed it to us, it was working perfectly. We put her SIM card in, and it was fine. So we paid for it, brought it home, and everything was fine. We set up the phone, and quickly realize that the old owner's account was still registered, and the only way to unregister them was to reset to factory defaults. And this is where everything went to hell.
Shortly afterwards, the phone became very irratic. It would only turn on when it decided to. The LED light would SOMETIMES light up when it's plugged in, but not all the time. And when we managed to get it to turn on, it'd either get stuck at the Motorola logo, or go all the way in and then freeze up about two minutes later. I figured it might be the firmware. Maybe the original owner had installed a custom ROM without telling us, and resetting to factory default had messed up somehow. So I decided to (possibly re-)root the phone, and install Cyanogen. After 500 startup attempts, which was just enough to get it to turn on 3 times, and configure root setup and install the bootloader, I am now completely unable to get the phone past bootloader. What's worse is, even though I've got the Cyanogenmod install file on the microSD, Clockworkmod can't mount the card. At all. It is now taking even more attempts to turn on, and it refuses to get past the recovery console/clockworkmod.
TL;DR: It keeps getting worse. I'm half expecting it to turn into a pile of dust by the time I'm done trying to fix it, and everything I do that SHOULD make it better just makes it worse. Please help D:
Update: The phone will no longer even turn on... In order to get the LED to turn on, I have to remove the battery, unplug the phone from the USB, replace the battery, then replace the USB. I don't think that's helping...
See you have a full battery and try to flash stock froyo sbf.
The sbf: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537 (chose any froyo sbf form there fe CEE DEBLUR)
How: somewhere here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216982
After the flashing with RSlite go to stock recovery and wipe data(factory reset) from there. (see how in above threat)
It could well be that he had an outdated custom rom that wasn't able to do a good factory reset from settings. Tho I advice you to take a look at CM7 or a MIUI ROM cause it is really much better then the stock rom's. Everything takes less time and on the CM7.2.0 stable release there are less bugs than in the official rom.
Please report back
Still trying to get it to turn back on. But if I do, I will try that. thank you.
Try pressing Press power+Vol up. You should get into bootloader mode. If you don't get white tekst, your battery is to low. The easiest way to solve that is to find someone with a defy and loan it's battery for a day. Then do the Press power+Vol up and connect to rds lite... (read further is all-in-one defy beginners guide).
If you can't find someone with a defy, you can go McGyver (There is a link in the Wiki page or just google)
Well, I *was* getting the error on the bootloader saying battery too low. So I left it to charge for a bit, now I'm getting absolutely nothing. Not even lighting up anymore... -sigh- I don't think there's any hope for this thing...
UPDATE: Well, after leaving it for a few minutes, I managed to get it to light up. Right back to the "Battery Low Cannot Program" message. -_-
Another update: Won't charge. Still getting the same damn error.
MacGyver'd the **** out of it. Got to the bootmenu, successfully installed Nordic, now running beautifully. Thank you so much for your help, I was about ready to test this thing's physical durability. D:<
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Well, I *was* getting the error on the bootloader saying battery too low. So I left it to charge for a bit, now I'm getting absolutely nothing. Not even lighting up anymore... -sigh- I don't think there's any hope for this thing...
UPDATE: Well, after leaving it for a few minutes, I managed to get it to light up. Right back to the "Battery Low Cannot Program" message. -_-
Another update: Won't charge. Still getting the same damn error.
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You need to get a fully charged battery, i've heard of people cutting their wires or something to charge the battery, but once it has enough of a charge you can flash it with RSDlite like labsin said,
I had this problem too. RSDlite is the only thing that'll get it to boot up again, and then
"You need to do a data wipe. Press vol- and power. You will get an exclamation mark and android. It is the stock recovery. Next press both vol+ and vol- together. You will enter custom recovery. Do a data wipe from there.. That should help.. "
Good luck!
That's exactly what I did, actually, and it worked like a charm. Thank you, though. ^_^
A couple weeks ago I grabbed my phone in the morning and unlocked it with the fingerprint scanner with no problem. I could swipe between screens but couldn't open any apps like messages or facebook or anything. It just wouldn't respond. The phone worked fine the night before.
So I held the power button and clicked on reboot, no problem. The phone starts rebooting like normal.
Then it would only boot as far as the HTC splash screen and go into a boot loop.
I tried getting into recovery by holding volume down & power down, it gets to the black HTC splash screen then boot loops again.
Volume up & power for download mode? boot loop.
I can get to boot loader by holding both volume buttons, but anything I choose just boot loops.
I am unlocked and S-off, was running OMJs latest rom and newest TWRP. I've been rooting every phone i've had since the EVO days, so i'm not new to this. I can't get fastboot or adb to recognize the device so I can't push/pull/sideload anything.
I figured F*** it I'll get the new U12 when that comes out and use my M9 till then. Then i find out Sprint isnt getting the U12...
So has anyone had this happen to their M10? Was it fixable, or is my M10 totally dead? I did some searching and I found one person who said he just let the battery drain dead and recharged it to full, by some sorcery that's all he had to do and it worked. Other people just moved on to other phones. As soon as I plug mine in it tries to turn itself on and just bootloops... for hours. I let it sit over night just bootlooping in hopes that the magical rooted phone gnomes would come fix it, to no avail.
Since Sprint apparently doesn't even sell HTC phones anymore, I cant even get a U11.
Thoughts on what I should do? Advice on the M10 situation? Got a U11 in decent shape you wanna sell?
Thanks for reading. :good: