I was watching tv when i noticed my evo wasn charged(even though i plugged it in for like 1hr.) and i though it might be broken charger since its really old, but didnt know the wall port was malfunctioning
so i decided to wipe battery stats and charge it with pc, as im booting into recovery im cleaning my screen, wiping it with my shirt.I got distracted for bit(stupid TV) that when i look down to the phone , it had already booted and since i have touch recovery, lucky me had partitioned sd card accidently!!!!!!
at first i pressed back key then power button cus i had no idea what that meant, but it compleated . so i power on the phone when i found out what partinioned meant by lookin at my homescree , i went into file explorer and everything was gone, F*CKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. And i have no idea if i can ever get it back DAMNN
so have u guys done something stupid like thatwiht your phone???please share lol , cus i guess i dont want to feel like the only dumbass lol
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if somone has done something similar and got files back, HELP MEE
I bought one.
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Back when GB came out, I unrooted, S-ON'ed, and took the OTA like a lot of people did and lost root for months. In my defense though, this is my first Android phone and it was the first OTA since I had rooted and I didn't know the dangers of taking OTA's and patched bootloaders, etc. Lesson learned.
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I have made many mistakes, ive probably bricked my phone a dozen times. I ****ed up my charger port, due to always having it on the charger and then tripping over the cord so many times, so the port no longer works. And I broke all of the hard clips on the exoskeleton on my seideo case.
i kno i can prolly find the files on my pc, but im just tripping over the titaniumbackup folder cus ive used sd recover software but it finds folders with weird names
i still cant believe that out off all the options, i ended up pressing sd partition.
touch recovery doesnt sound so cool after this.. lol
My worst thing was opening this thread.
Lol just kidding. My worst thing was stressing over sprint giving me a refurb when my USB port got loose so I sent it to HTC and got one anyway. they were smart enough to keep my original housing though.
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i haven't really done anything terribly stupid with it. i almost dropped it in a puddle once... it slipped out of my hand while i was texting in the rain.. ok well, that's stupid. anyways, as it fell, i kicked it onto the sidewalk before it hit the water. thank god i didn't break the screen, i kicked it really ****ing hard. i was more worried about it getting wet than replacing the screen since thats cheaply fixable. anyways, this phone's been great. the build quality, though not fantastic, is a lot better than my previous smartphones. these things are still new, they're still working out all the kinks i'm sure.
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i haven't really done anything terribly stupid with it. i almost dropped it in a puddle once... it slipped out of my hand while i was texting in the rain.. ok well, that's stupid. anyways, as it fell, i kicked it onto the sidewalk before it hit the water. thank god i didn't break the screen, i kicked it really ****ing hard. i was more worried about it getting wet than replacing the screen since thats cheaply fixable. anyways, this phone's been great. the build quality, though not fantastic, is a lot better than my previous smartphones. these things are still new, they're still working out all the kinks i'm sure.
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I thanked you because the kicked really ****ing hard made me lol at the doctor and people just looked at me like I was stupid
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The worst mistakes I've done with my EVO is drop it a few times on accident. And I have a habit of trying to get up while the phone is charging. And accidently trip on the cord and the phone goes flying haha. The only damage to the phone is right next to the sprint logo is a babe scuff mark and the case is chipped a little. Oh and when turning on the phone it makes this clicking noise
Edit:1500th post too much free time! Lol
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I dropped mine in a toilet once because I was using it while taking a piss and then tried to zip up my fly with the hand that was holding it. Yeahhh not one of my best moments. Anyways, after a day in rice, it's worked fine ever since.
Worst thing I did with my evo4g is trade it+$60 for a evo3d with the 1.5 hboot. :banghead:
Wiped sd card on accident instead of format/system. Lost my restore points and ...everything else. Luckily i put my pics on the computer every once in a while.
Yea.....
Worse thing I did was, during an alcohol-fueled night out, try to plug my phone into the car charger. (I was in the passenger seat, not driving) This would have been perfectly fine, had the port I was trying to force my plug into not been the mHDMI out port. Now I no longer have HDMI Out as the little white thing on the inside is busted.
Glad I didn't drop my phone in my drink like my bud did that same night lol
Worst thing i did was keep my evo for 2 weeks after i got an et4g cuz i didnt wanna give it up now i dont even wanna touch it it feels so slow and the screen just looks dirty
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Worst thing i've done with my Evo(aside from the standard cycle of breaking/fixing software-wise) would be dropping it off my motorcycle at 40 mph. Thank God for Otterbox cases and riding in the right-hand lane!
Hey,
I got to college early one day and had to take a stop at the rest room, so I put my back pack down and there was this little soap tray on the sink and I put my phone on that. I am taking care of business and I hear my phone drop. I thought nothing of it I was like Il get it out of the sink later. But then I realized it the sink had an auto sensor! I honestly how no idea how on earth it didnt go off when my phone fell in, and I had no idea how the heck I was going to get it out. so I just did a ninja grab and pulled it out and luckily it didnt go off but gosh it scared the crap out of me lol
Stevo
flashed nv items, but you know that already. dont you?
Broke my 4G without a Wimax key backup
:/
All I can say is, be sure to secure your vids and pics before coming home from out of town work and letting your girlfriend mess with your phone.
Disclaimer- I am not a douche, I just play one on TV... Errrr mp4
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In the process of trying to help someone fix their device, looking for an ENG build I decided to download and install the Pre-Release ROM for the EVO. The thing had an HBOOT version of 0.68 (which I'd never even heard of before), and it was an nb0 file, not an img file. Me, of course, being completely fearless and looking forward to a challenge decided to try and flash the thing, and guess what? it flashed successfully. I figured that if it wasn't compatible, it would error out, so I was feeling pretty comfortable, until I tried rebooting my bootloader. The device turned on, but nothing. Just a backlit, blank screen. My splash screen was gone. My bootloader was gone. Though, the phone does boot up, and I hear a startup animation sound, and several notification-type sounds. However, the device is no longer recognized by a computer, and thus I can't access adb or fastboot.
So, I'm stuck with a bricked device, waiting & hoping that a refurb becomes available soon. In the meantime, my only device is my old AT&T Tilt 2, which, of course, has no service. I've been specding the last day try to find a way to make phone calls from it using Google Voice, and I've come pretty close actually.
You never realize how much you appreciate your device until you kill it. I just hope no one's been trying to call me . . . .
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So, today I dropped my dhd.... literally 3 feet, nothing crazy..... and it has a full body invisible shield and an otterbox case.... it did land on a corner, wood floor.... now, when I go to wake the phone up.... it turns on. It is randomly powering off since the very, gentle fall.....
It does not make a lot of sense, any thoughts or recommendations appreciated.
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try taking out your cards and battery, the drop may have un seated them
first thing I tried.... clips look good, battery looks good, phone looks great.... when I put in my second battery... it seemed to be running well, until 6 minutes ago, when I pressed the power button... silly phone was off again.
I powered down, ejected all 3 items, placed them all back in.... it was such a harmless fall, with a full protected phone....
sounds like something may have become loose, i sense a rma back to htc if a full wipe etc dosnt solve it
not 100% sure, but after pushing the sim card out and in again... has not happened since.... I hope as heck it is ok, such a simple drop, heh!
thx
I'ved dropped my phone like a thousand times but nothing like this has happend too me!
I think HTC will replace on you warranty for this... Ask them!
sim card not making connections properlly will cause the phone to reboot, as i found out when i first got my desire hd, my 15 year old simcard was too worn to make a clean connection. once i went down to the tmobile shop they descovered it was that at fault after i said the phone was knackard.
simcards will compress very slightly over its life causing poorer connections.
if the problem has now dissapeared it may be worth your while getting a new sim if it is of age.
Hi audiobookman
15 year old simcard
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Is that with the same Network Operator.
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Yep, t-mobile has always been good to me (actually the card was 121 printed on it).
Hello guys,
Funny thing, I gave my dad a DHD to play around with (hoping that he will finally get rid of his BB), just a few days ago in his office he mistakingly dropped it 7 floors down to the parking lot.
Amazing, just amazing, except a few bumps here and there, a cracked Sim cover and a bit broken battery cover, the DHD came back to working without and problem.
I am sure if it did not happen to me I would have been sceptic, but IT REALLY HAPPENED.
Thumbs up htc for a strong unit.
I dropped mine from my pocket and nothing happened, not even a scratch.
I'm gonna report an incident I've reported again in the forums.
When I first got my DHD,about one week if I remember well,I went for a drink with some friends.Before we went to the pub we usually go to,we wanted to eat something,so we went to this fast food.While we were waiting for our food,we were saying the usual bull**** we always say with the guys.Sometimes though we tend to pull the strings,and I told one of them off badly,so he decided to punch my leg.Unfortunately,with his full strength,his fist landed on my new,shiny and unprotected DHD,which was in my pocket.As soon as I realised it,my heart went at the kidney's place,the kidney went at my stomach's place and my stomach went all the way to my head out fear!
Next day?My DHD was like nothing happened and my pal's hand was almost broken.
Yep,thumbs up HTC!
yea, it was pretty weird and once in a while... I hit the power button and it is OFF again, not rebooting... off, hitting the wake button turns it back on.... might be software etc....
but on that day, it was happening every 2o minutes, lol
I love htcs design.
So my girlfriend drooped my phone and broke it on me. Oh my beloved atrix what ever will I do without you. Everything about the phone is working just fine so I am curious if its just the touch panel that ia broken. I touch the screen and nothing happens I have fully charged it and turned it on and off several times. Do you guys think if I replace the touch panel that there is a chance it will work again. I didn't get insurance on it because I was very careful with it and took care of it like it was my child lol.
First of all I would like to point out that it is ok to admit that you dropped it, and not your gf.
Secondly I would suggest tearing it down and checking the connections. I have seen where the digitizer connector will be loose and wont be responsive on other phones. I have never taken apart the atrix, so I dont know if that is a unlikely thing for it or not.
In the unlikely event that it really was your gf who dropped it, you could always guilt her in to getting you a new phone
Lol I swear it was her we were at the bar last night and she was trying to show somone the gi Joe psa's. Ill try and tear it down have to find a walk through I guess. The real kick in the teeth is I just bought a e book and it was really starting to get good . As far as guilting her, her parent were with us and gave me a kindle fire because they felt bad but the things useless until they get android running well enough on it.
there is a teardown site, i am too lazy to look it up, I am supposed to be studying business law right now ... dont tell my wife im on xda
I tried to replace my digitizer once and I wouldn't recommend trying to fix it yourself.
There are several youtube videos of the teardown and they are elaborate enough but some parts are really tricky and it's not as easy as it might look. Took me a few hours and the result was far from perfect...
Took the mobo out and checked all plugs everything seems fine. Replaced and still no response I will give the digitizer a try hopefully it works. Ordering it tonight and post my results when it comes in and i install it. I'm supprised you had problems putting it back together only problem i had was my God damn shaky hands lol. I am assuming it fell just right and damaged the chip on the digitizer itself. If it ends up working I know for sure that I will be buying a very buff case! The internals on these things are so fragile!
I'm seriously stuck here.
The only thing I can access is the Bootloader (30.04) and can't get to the recovery menu.
A small amount of water made its way to the phone. The screen was freaking out (like it does in the rain), so I restarted it. From then out it was stuck on the Motorola logo.
I've tried this (all versions) Linux distro package:
droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-sbf/23638-linux-solution-your-windows-rsd-lite-problems.html
I've tried to SBF using RSD with every SBF file I can find that's related to the Droid X and Verizion. From FroYo to Gingerbread. All of them say they complete.
I'm holding the home key and then pressing power, then release power, and the recovery menu isn't coming up, at this point it just stalls at the Motorola Screen.
I am at a complete loss here. Any ideas?
Thanks!
It sounds like your phone is fried.
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Not what I wanted to hear. But, that's what I expected I guess.
I'd like to believe it's software and broken but at this point it sounds like hardware failure?
If I push hard enough, is it at all possible to use an upgrade before my time is up with Verizion? or close an account avoiding early termination fee?
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If I push hard enough, is it at all possible to use an upgrade before my time is up with Verizion? or close an account avoiding early termination fee?
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Your best bet would be to call Verizon and see if they can help you in any way. On occasion I here they give some people early upgrades, so maybe you'll get lucky.
Until then, continue trying to SBF your device, maybe something will happen.
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Sounds like water related issues. They usually disappear after everything dries up. Unfortunately it can take 3-4 weeks with the battery out and the back cover off in a warm dry place to fully dry out a wet phone.
If you're on a multiple person plan, you can always use someone else's upgrade on your plan if there's one available. My old Devour die a while back and I used the upgrade from my mother, who didn't want one. She's content with her old flip phone and has no intention of ever getting anything else, 1.3mp camera and all (Which sucks when she takes pictures of the grandchildren. Looks like she drew it in crayon)
And at this point, if you're on a plan by yourself, you're throwing more money away than necessary. My parents, my wife and I are all on the same plan and it ends up far cheaper for all of us that way
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I'm seriously stuck here.
The only thing I can access is the Bootloader (30.04) and can't get to the recovery menu.
A small amount of water made its way to the phone. The screen was freaking out (like it does in the rain), so I restarted it. From then out it was stuck on the Motorola logo.
....
I am at a complete loss here. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Did you try the standard water damage thing? Pull the battery and pack it in dry rice for 24 hours? The rice sucks moisture out, but since rice takes a whole LOT of water to cook, you don't end up with sticky rice all over your phone. Then try powering back up
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If you're on a multiple person plan, you can always use someone else's upgrade on your plan if there's one available. My old Devour die a while back and I used the upgrade from my mother, who didn't want one.
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On a seperate note, how did you go about using another line's upgrade?
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Sounds like water related issues. They usually disappear after everything dries up. Unfortunately it can take 3-4 weeks with the battery out and the back cover off in a warm dry place to fully dry out a wet phone.
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I second this. I had an old laptop that whenever I spilled soda on it, the thing would shut off immediately and wouldn't even POST. Letting it air out always fixed the problem, and by the next day it would be up and running. I even dropped a phone in a bucket of water once, and letting it dry out did the trick.
Put the phone in rice. The rice will soak up any water/moisture
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I'm pretty much in the same position with a friend's phone. Had them put it in rice for a few days and now the phone will turn on but the screen remains black. However the touch screen still works and it will function but you can't see anything. I'm going to attempt to have them bleach the sticker and try to get it fixed.
Hi I just wanted to share my super awesome story here with everybody in the xda community. It's pretty crazy!
Recently I was up in the mountains of Utah ice fishing on a lake. I had my HTC Droid Incredible in my shirt pocket listening to some music. I got a bite on my fishing pole so I bent over to grab my pole (I guess I had forgotten to button up my shirt pocket, OOPS!) and plop there goes my phone into the water. I reached my arm down in the hole as fast as I could to grab it but no luck. At that point I thought, well there goes my $200 dollar phone I loved! I had accepted the fact that it was probably gone forever.
So while I was stewing there facing the fact that I had to buy a new phone, a great idea flashed through my mind. One of the guys I went fishing with happened to bring an underwater camera. I sat and thought, well the least we could do is drop it down and see if we could hook onto the phone somehow and get it back on the surface and at least salvage my SD card that was inserted in it.
We continued with dropping the camera down the hole and quickly located the phone, it was lying face down on the bottom of the lake. So we thought, heck lets throw a big hook on the end of the pole try our luck. After a few minutes of playing with the pole a little bit we managed to find our hook on the screen and placed it close to the phone. At this time we were noticing a lot of fish circling around where the phone was (I guess fish like HTC's too!). So for the next hour-and-a-half we continuously tried to hook onto the phone with no luck, although we did manage to catch two fish in the process. We finally caught a break, somehow we managed to hook on to the edge of the screen between the plastic and the glass and flipped the phone over face up, this got us excited and gave us whim of hope that maybe we would be able to retreive the phone. We continues trying for another fifteen minutes when voila, we hooked onto the phone again and this time for good because we pulled it up a little bit and could see it hovering above the lake floor.
We began to reel it up very slowly as to make sure that it didn't fall off the hook and be back at square one. We got the phone up to the surface of the water and I grabbed it as fast as I could. When I grabbed it I realized we had caught it in a place that almost seems impossible. We managed to hook it in the headphone jack and were able to reel it up all the way! The tiny 3.5mm headphone jack! When I grabbed the phone it was vibrating and had been doing so for the near two hours it spent on the bottom of the lake. I took the battery out as fast as I could and put it away.
At this point I was amazed at the fact that I even got the phone back.
So when I got back home, I sprayed out the phone with compressed air and then continued to take it apart all the way down to the mainboard and the lcd screen. I then sprayed it with air once again and proceeded to put all the pieces of the phone into a bag of uncooked rice.
24 hours later I took the phone out of the bag, and knew this was the moment of truth! I put the phone back together and popped the battery in. I pressed the power button and I kid you not the phone booted up and worked! I was truly amazed! The phone still continues to work to this day which Is almost a month later.
I think this speaks for how well HTC makes their phones and how rock solid they are, I know if I had the choice I would definitely buy one again. I thought everybody would appreciate this so I posted the story just for fun.
Best wet phone story ever... ice fishing... bottom of the lake... snagged it in the heaphone jack... all while catching fish.
Somebody beat that!
It was pretty awesome! I thought it'd be a good story to share.
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That's crazy that it still works. I would have gave up fishing for it about 5 minutes after I started.
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Epic story. Hardware wise, these things are indestructible.
I agree. It's built from stone.
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Yep I love this phone, I've been so reluctant to upgrade because of how durable it is and with all the mods and customizations that are available on it, it's just awesome.
great story
^^+1
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Thats a great story and even though i have a rezound now ... i will never forget how incredible that phone was.
How do you like the rezound compared to the incredible? I was looking at one as a possibility for upgrade, that or the gnex.
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I actually washed my HTC Droid Eris and continued to use it and eventually gave it to a friend who is still using it!
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That's amazing. HTC's are built so well, would have never expected my phone to still work after what it went through!
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So I just dropped my beloved vibrant ok the toilet and need reassurance, anyone whos done it before, will it live? So far its working ok, random color spasms and headphone port sounded distorted for a second but stopped when I paused music. It hasnt happened in about 15 minutes and the phone fell about an hour ago and dryed for about 30 minutes. I ran it over with a bike before on accident and it still worked and I love this phone so hopefully it will survive. Anyway worst damage to happen to your phone and it still worked?
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Turn off your phone, take out the battery and put it in a bag of rice. Good as new in about 2 hours.
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Before you put it in rice, might want to clean the ports and anything that you can access with distilled water. This will hopefully prevent corrosion from rusty, particle ridden toilet water.
I was at an Ace Hardware where they were selling, for five or ten bucks, a plastic bag with some dessicant for wet-phone rescue. Rice or any dessicant should work fine. I would make sure no rice dust gets into phone.
If you have any kind of blower or compressed air, blowing it out gently on no heat first might be a good idea. Also, I would first take phone somewhat apart, remove battery, sim, sdcard. Dry loose parts by hand, then blow out phone, especially all ports and contacts.
Some kind of tuner-cleaner might be an option if needed.
Thanks guys I took the whole phone apart yesterday and air dryed/ blew air in to dry it out and its working great. Only issue is the volume down rocker doesnt work 100% I have to press it a couple times to make it work. Any way to fix that?
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your phone has been through hell haha!
unfortunately there isnt much anyone here can tell you. there are certain things you can do to get as much water out as possible like the rice trick, swabbing all ports, etc. but in the long run, theres really no way of telling if any water got in deep enough to go unnoticed/uncleanable, and actually reached a point where it could cause damage <--- and if thats the case, like Woodrube said, you may experience issues somewhere down the road, even long enough to the point when youve totally forgotten about dropping it in the toilet, and youll say "how come this started happening all of a sudden?"
sucks man, gotta be careful...i went to the bathroom one night to relieve myself, after 1 or 2 drinks , and for some reason i thought that holding my phone in the same hand that was aiming wasnt the worst idea ever......yup, i ended up pissing on my blackberry
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Thanks guys I took the whole phone apart yesterday and air dryed/ blew air in to dry it out and its working great. Only issue is the volume down rocker doesnt work 100% I have to press it a couple times to make it work. Any way to fix that?
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If it was my phone, I'd get some tuner-cleaner and shoot it into the switch and hope.
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i went to the bathroom one night to relieve myself, after 1 or 2 drinks , and for some reason i thought that holding my phone in the same hand that was aiming wasnt the worst idea ever......yup, i ended up pissing on my blackberry
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Lol. No really I laughed out loud and these ladies sitting next to me turned and looked. Brings new life to the phrase "piss on blackberry".
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Lol. No really I laughed out loud and these ladies sitting next to me turned and looked. Brings new life to the phrase "piss on blackberry".
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100% true story...not my highest point haha, although it did ultimately lead to me getting my vibrant, so i guess it can be considered a win of sorts