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I have just got the HD2 and been using it for a few weeks. Downloaded a few apps (eg HTC rom, BSB tweeks) and all is good. Saw Max Manila and looked like a great idea - checked my manila version 2.5.19211619.0 and downloaded 2.7 SE (checked it's right for my manila) loaded onto phone and it crashed after soft reset. Took battery out and phone doesn't go past first screen (with the red writing bottom left) - Hard reset is the same and now I'm worried!
Any ideas???
sad to say yy sounds like hard reset time.
power off, hold volume up and volume down, tap power keeping volume up and down pressed til the screen comes on and follow the prompts.
it will reset your phone to factory defaults.
never used max manila so I cant help with what the problem might be, but if there is a developers thread for it you might be better asking there.
Thanks for replying samsamuel - I've tried the hard reset and it doesn't work!
Even when I do as you say, I get the white start screen with htc written on it and then several red lines at the bottom right starting R G and D and that's it! It just stay's like that - At this moment I'd pray for a hard reset!!
I'm going to try booting from the sd card but I'm not sure I can get the phone to go into the bootable mode. I've downloaded the HTC rom and extracted the nmh so we'll see.
if your phone is provider locked then that will not work.you need the rom that came on your phone. so if was from uk o2 then you need the o2 uk rom, otherwise it wont work.
No luck! Whilst I've got everything to sort the phone out it won't do anything but load the white first screen no matter which buttons I hold down.
Man this sucks!
Guess there's nothing for it except the bin unless anyone else has any other ideas??
can you get into boot loader?
press and hold vol down(not up this time, just down) tap and release power, keep vol down held. should boot to striped cultures colored screen.
if you can what does it say next to SPL?
Hi Samsamual
Thanks for helping but no, won't go into bootloader either - doesn't respond to any input (even when I conect the usb the charge led doesn't come on!) and just starts with the white screen with the HTC logo and then the red writting appears and it just hangs - left it for 5 mins just to be sure and no change
Looks like I've really messed it up although I have no idea what I did wrong - instal went just like the other things I installed.
Ahh shame. All i can suggest is the original rom sd card method. But it MUST be the propper rom that came on your phone, so if you got it from vodaphone, , , even if it is unlocked, you must use the voda rom.
Also, have a really good read through the pages in teh rom development section. If you can find someone with the exact same issue, you could be one step closer to fixing it.
Brotherskid said:
Thanks for replying samsamuel - I've tried the hard reset and it doesn't work!
Even when I do as you say, I get the white start screen with htc written on it and then several red lines at the bottom right starting R G and D and that's it! It just stay's like that - At this moment I'd pray for a hard reset!!
I'm going to try booting from the sd card but I'm not sure I can get the phone to go into the bootable mode. I've downloaded the HTC rom and extracted the nmh so we'll see.
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you must tab the power botton for a short time just tab it and leave it with keeping pressing on the volume up and down buttons don't leave them i think it must work with you tell me if it works
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...I'm going to try booting from the sd card b
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When you tried the SD card method did you use a 2GB SD card and was it formatted to FAT32?
WB
Have you tried a boot (all combinations!) without the sd card installed?
Hoss and WB - thanks for the comments
Hoss, I've held the volume buttons for over a minute after powering on - no change
WB, I can't get the phone to go into boot loader screen but thanks for the info for the future. Next time I'll see if I can copy the original rom just in case.
Resigned myself to having a new paper weight on my desk and looking for a new phone - Guess I won't be putting so many programs on my new one....
PA - Thanks for the advice - Yes tried with sd card in/out sim in/out bootloader, hard reset, soft reset and always the same.
In your posts you do not mention where you bought your HD2, and I do not know what country you are in.
From what I have read, it seems that you did not flash any ROMs, nor change your SPL, so if I were you, at this point, rather than accepting a bricked paperweight, why not explore your warranty possibilities?
Contact the place you bought the HD2 (the dealer) and explore your options. Since I do not know which country you are in I will not suggest an HTC service center, but if your country has such a center, at last resort, you might check out that possibility.
Since you apparently had no hardware problems before the manila incident, it would seem that it is a software glitch somehwere.
Good luck with all of this. It must be almost heartbreaking to have this happen with such beautiful hardware.
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In your posts you do not mention where you bought your HD2, and I do not know what country you are in.
From what I have read, it seems that you did not flash any ROMs, nor change your SPL, so if I were you, at this point, rather than accepting a bricked paperweight, why not explore your warranty possibilities?
Contact the place you bought the HD2 (the dealer) and explore your options. Since I do not know which country you are in I will not suggest an HTC service center, but if your country has such a center, at last resort, you might check out that possibility.
Since you apparently had no hardware problems before the manila incident, it would seem that it is a software glitch somehwere.
Good luck with all of this. It must be almost heartbreaking to have this happen with such beautiful hardware.
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What's most annoying is it wasn't as if I was doing anything crazy! Max manila is used by many people (from what I've seen in the threads) and I guess I downloaded the wrong one (although naturally I checked and it's the right one). Certainly will curb my using of 3rd party software! As for the warranty, you're right, I can try and see if it can be fixed (bizarrely, that hadn't occured to me - I thought that with no resets working HTC couldn't do anything). Thanks for the tip and I'll let you know how I get on.
Surely your warranty will cover this. Yes, let me (and us) know how all of this goes. You will get your phone back to what you deserve, for sure!
I had the same issue.
Sent mine to HTC and got it back with the comment "Cannot reproduce"
Probably it solved itself when the battery was removed for a couple of days in the mail.
It has now been working for two weeks again.
Fingers crossed.
watnuweer said:
I had the same issue.
Sent mine to HTC and got it back with the comment "Cannot reproduce"
Probably it solved itself when the battery was removed for a couple of days in the mail.
It has now been working for two weeks again.
Fingers crossed.
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Experential nut I may be, but just wondering if you had the problem after you installed the MAx manila? I wonder now what versions of OS may be causing this problem.
i had something like this with my HTC Diamond... It stopped responding completely when turned on, didn't respond to the usb cable being plugged in (the round ring used to illuminate when charging)
I took the battery out, for about 30 minutes... then left it charging for another 30 minutes - booted up straight away and never did anything like that again
Worth a shot just leaving it without power for awhile, and then just recharging it
Like watnuweer mentioned, "cannot reproduce" probably fixed itself by not having the battery left in for awhile
fakker said:
i had something like this with my HTC Diamond... It stopped responding completely when turned on, didn't respond to the usb cable being plugged in (the round ring used to illuminate when charging)
I took the battery out, for about 30 minutes... then left it charging for another 30 minutes - booted up straight away and never did anything like that again
Worth a shot just leaving it without power for awhile, and then just recharging it
Like watnuweer mentioned, "cannot reproduce" probably fixed itself by not having the battery left in for awhile
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This is getting more interesting, what do you suppose is the cure of taking out the battery, and then charging? I do not doubt your experience, I am just extremely curious if anyone can explain this phenomena.
So here goes my story (I just hope someone will have enough patience to read all this I have underlined the important bits, if you're not in the mood of reading all this stuff, but could help anyway)..
Bought an used HTC Magic (Vodafone branded) from eBay UK for £175 in absolutely mint condition, no signs, scratches, no nothing. Came unlocked from carrier and with full original package. And everything went perfect for about two weeks..
Then, for no obvious reasons (wasn't dropped, was not exposed to water or something like that - there was done absolutely nothing that could possibly harm the phone physically), phone started doing strange things randomly.. And in about 3 days after it started, those things started occurring so frequently, that they made the phone absolutely unusable.
First of all, phone specs (original), before I started rooting/modding/etc:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Jul 31 2009, 15:49:25
Firmware Version:
1.6
Baseband Version:
62.50S.20.17U_2.22.19.261
Kernel Version:
2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37
[email protected] #19
Build number:
DRC92
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The OS was 100% stock 1.6 Android, recovery image was also stock, which made me to believe that phone wasn't rooted/modded ever before.
So.. about the problem:
Action: Turning ON the phone, doesn't matter in which mode (normal (POWER), recovery (HOME+POWER) or fastboot (BACK+POWER), possible endings (occur randomly):
Blue LED of death: Screen does not react, no backlight, no vibration (which occurs when boot process starts), blue LED illuminates, nothing else happens. The only way to make it stop - disconnect the battery.
Sub-normal: Backlight turns on, vibrates as normal, but the carrier logo (Vodafone (same as green myTouch screen in MT3G)) is not displayed, as it should be. Randomly, about 3 out of 5 times - after some time OS booting animation appears and the phone boots up, but sometimes not, always stays in this frozen-back-lit screen state.
Boots as normal.
Action: Using the phone:
Touchsreen stops working randomly, but everything else works: I can select things with trackball, do everything, except my touch input isn't registered. To fix this, I have to push POWER button to put it into sleep and wake it up again, then touch input starts working again. (Not software issue, happens with Cyanogen 5, 6 as well as stock 1.5 and 1.6)
Phone freezes randomly, then after about 1-3 minutes reboots automatically, but reboots in one of two modes (see above for explanations):
Blue LED of death.
Sub-normal.
Sometimes works absolutely with no problems, but this has become very rare in the past few days.
Action: Waking the phone up from sleep state:
Hardware keys illuminate, screen does not react at all. Pushing the POWER button again would cause absolutely random things:
Sometimes, the screen turns on, while the key illumination turns off, but everything works as normal, even those keys;
Sometimes, just turns off the illumination on keys and the other time using POWER/MENU button - screen wakes-up just as it should;
Sometimes, after a few more unsuccessful tries to wake the screen, everything freezes and hardware key illumination starts doing a laser show: flashes rapidly and randomly, then stops and phones reboots.
Wakes-up as normal.
To cure this - tried everything from the software side: tried both, stock and custom ROMs, different SPLs, different recovery IMGs, everything - none of this helped.
Tried reaching for support from my local HTC dealer, they refused to fix the phone by warranty, but took it for a paid repair. The repair quote was about £260 (more than the phone itself, which I bought used from eBay) so I refused.
They said that the motherboard of the phone needs to be replaced, but didn't say why. I have my own reasons to believe that the board doesn't need to be replaced and could still be repaired in the worst case.
First of all, they didn't open the phone at all: "VOID" warranty sticker was intact and in same position (as I made some photos of the phone to compare it before and after the service ). Secondly, I gave them phone with non-stock SPL, so they could think that the mainboard was swapped or something, causing all this stuff.
HTC international instructed me to ship the phone back to UK for a warranty-covered service, so that's what I'm doing next, but before that I thought maybe someone had already faced this problem and knows the cause or even a fix for the problem.
Thanks in advance.
First of all wrong section. This should have been started in General.
Secondly, sounds like it is a problem with something on the hardware side. I would get it fixed under the warranty.
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App
DonJuan692006 said:
First of all wrong section. This should have been started in General.
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Sorry, my bad, maybe moderators could move the thread
DonJuan692006 said:
Secondly, sounds like it is a problem with something on the hardware side. I would get it fixed under the warranty.
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Well, yeah, sounds like hardware, but I have some hope, that someone would at least explain me what's exactly wrong, what's causing this, etc, if this is a common fault for this particular HTC Magic 32b Vodafone UK, and is known to this community.
Secondly, it would take at least 2 or 3 weeks to get the phone back, so I'm loosing almost nothing by first asking in the forums and not sending the phone back to UK (btw, I live in Lithuania), in the first place
I'll move to general tonight when I get home.
I think that is your trackball make the problem. Need to be cleaned. I had same problem.
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evilwolf said:
I think that is your trackball make the problem. Need to be cleaned. I had same problem.
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App
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Damn, I had the same thought today! How did you clean it? Pop-opened then case and cleaned trackball's socket with some special liquid?
When you are disassemble the phone and when you come to the trackball, you'll see what need you to clean . I have used medical rubbing alcohol. Sorry for my english
evilwolf said:
When you are disassemble the phone and when you come to the trackball, you'll see what need you to clean . I have used medical rubbing alcohol. Sorry for my english
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Thanks a lot! will try
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Today morning i was playing on my wildfire, playing the game teeter. I got the wildpuzzle rom v0.6. I played teeter for a good hour or so, not droppping the phone or dealing it any damage. All of a sudden the notification area of the screen became distorted, it had multi coloured lines going through it. I thought this is probably a one off so i just locked my phone and unlocked it. As i unlocked it the soft key buttons (home, back, menu, search) turned on but the screen didn't. I haven't dealt any damage to the screen. It was just off. If i pressed the softkey buttons it would vibrate like it did, but i could not see the screen at all. I thought taking out the battery and putting it back in what do the trick, that didn't work neither. As i switched it back on, no htc screen. I tried going to hboot but that didn't come on neither. I have HCDR's 768 kernel and have got setcpu to performance. As of now the phone is on, it acts as if it works (unlocks, locks) but its just the screen. About half an hour after it went faulty the screen poped up when i unlocked it, the original wildpuzzle lock screen wallpaper was on, this was strange as i had put on the orange wave. Since then it seems as it is just locked, if i press the power button the soft keys turn on but the screen is still off. I was wondering if this is the rom or something else, if i sent this to HTC for gurantee as it is barely 5 months old, but would they figure out i have broken the gurantee with root? What should i do, or is it just the screen? The screen should be good as i didn't drop it or hit the screen hard, just average use. Any help is desperately needed as i want my wildfire back. thanks for any help in advance.
I thought that it was just the screen so i wacked its side against my desk, magic, the screen came on but with the orginal wildpuzzle lock scree, as of now i'm backing up this rom and i am going to install a diff rom backup, can i install legit original rom (vodafone 2.1) again and try for gurantee?
Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.
***I have got the screen to work again but i am trying to go to recovery, it boots normally but when i keep hold of volume down and power button it goes to a blank screen. I take the battery out and then put it back in. Switch it on and it goes to HTC screen and boots normally into wildpuzzle...
Can you get into recovery mode? Before anything, can you charge your phone? If yes, charge it well.
If you her into recovery, take a nandroid backup. Then wipe the data and cache. You will lose all you data and apps you might have installed. Try rebooting after.
I doubt if your phone is bricked as you see the lights and buttons seem to work.
at the moment i am charging my phone, i'm going to wait till full charge. But just before i got it into recovery, made a bacup, wiped dalvik cache and wiped data/factory reset. Then i thought it should boot, tryed booting, shows htc boot screen, 2 mins later instead of going to the HTC Quetly Brilliant screen it stays at a black screen, i just took the battery out and it doesn't even go to hboot, tryed wacking it on the side again but no luck. Maybe screen? could i use gurantee and get a new one or repair?
Running the phone with a 50% overclock probably isn't doing yourself any favours. Especially when you don't have a GPU. I never run my phones with more than a 25%, and with that said I am running my Desire with a custom kernel (for BFS/HAVS etc) at the stock 998Mhz, 1.2Ghz just isn't necessary. I do realize that 768Mhz makes the phone less choppy but personally I wouldn't do it.
If you can't see the screen try looking here to flash via ADB, then you could send it back under warranty.
True. Just like overclocking thw cpu in your computer and not adding any extra fans.
I run overclocked at 595mhz. This is ample
Kalavere said:
Running the phone with a 50% overclock probably isn't doing yourself any favours. Especially when you don't have a GPU. I never run my phones with more than a 25%, and with that said I am running my Desire with a custom kernel (for BFS/HAVS etc) at the stock 998Mhz, 1.2Ghz just isn't necessary. I do realize that 768Mhz makes the phone less choppy but personally I wouldn't do it.
If you can't see the screen try looking here to flash via ADB, then you could send it back under warranty.
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Sent with love from f0xy while mobile!
I think here might be something wrong with the htc sense, but the thing is, that my hd2 touchscreen wont respond to my touch. When i'm at the unlock screen, i cant slide it to open up. This wont change after reboot either.
So eventually i set a hard-reset on the phone, but it didn't work after that either. I tried three times, no respond. Without the sim and with it in.
I cant recive calls or text messages, because i cant tap my PIN in, neither i could open or answer. I'm f***ed.
Okay, the next day i do my fourth hard-reset, and it starts working again, but after a time of use, it will start getting slow with the touch again, and then it will stop responding again. So I don't now what to do. There is now warranty time left, so i want to see what i can do my self before taking it to a repairing place and pay 100 € for it.
This is my everyday phone, and i would like to get it back to normal state as soon as possible, so many many many thanks to all who try to help me out of this
Cheers,
Nother
notherman10 said:
I think here might be something wrong with the htc sense, but the thing is, that my hd2 touchscreen wont respond to my touch. When i'm at the unlock screen, i cant slide it to open up. This wont change after reboot either.
So eventually i set a hard-reset on the phone, but it didn't work after that either. I tried three times, no respond. Without the sim and with it in.
I cant recive calls or text messages, because i cant tap my PIN in, neither i could open or answer. I'm f***ed.
Okay, the next day i do my fourth hard-reset, and it starts working again, but after a time of use, it will start getting slow with the touch again, and then it will stop responding again. So I don't now what to do. There is now warranty time left, so i want to see what i can do my self before taking it to a repairing place and pay 100 € for it.
This is my everyday phone, and i would like to get it back to normal state as soon as possible, so many many many thanks to all who try to help me out of this
Cheers,
Nother
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Have you flashed HSPL on it or this is all stock ROM?
honestly it looks like a hardware issue to me.
well i looked at the stats, and seems like i have HSPL on it, but it's not bought from a reseller, it was bought second-hand. it has worked perfectly until a few days ago, then the freezing started.
notherman10 said:
well i looked at the stats, and seems like i have HSPL on it, but it's not bought from a reseller, it was bought second-hand. it has worked perfectly until a few days ago, then the freezing started.
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ok if it has HSPL on there that means someone flashed something on there.
I would flash task29, then flash the ROM of your choice and see if it still does it.
If the ROM is the problem a hard-reset won't fix it, so let's try this and see what happens.
Okay thanks for the help
the only problem is that i'm running on a mac, and i cant find any software to flash the hd2 on a mac..? Do you now any?
and could you link me a thread or a tutorial to how to flash 'cause i'm quite new with this anyway.
Thanks!
notherman10 said:
Okay thanks for the help
the only problem is that i'm running on a mac, and i cant find any software to flash the hd2 on a mac..? Do you now any?
and could you link me a thread or a tutorial to how to flash 'cause i'm quite new with this anyway.
Thanks!
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There is no way to do this on a mac, find a PC.
ok, here's the quick version.
1) download the attached file from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5848003&postcount=19
2) turn your phone off, then turn it back on while holding the vol-down arrow, this will bring you to a tri color screen. Make sure you are plugged in via USB.
(you could do this via activesync, but I want to avoid the freeze so this gets you right into bootloader)
3) unzip the file and run it, follow the on-screen instructions, it will flash task 29, which is basically a good reformat.
4) if you are fast, hold the vol down arrow when it reaches 100% and don't let go till you're back at the tri-color screen. If it goes to the splash screen it will stay there forever (because there is nothing flashed on your phone now). You have to do a battery pull or press the reset button. In this case hold the vol-down arrow again and power on the device to get you into the tri-color screen again.
5) Download the ROM of your choice from this forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=534
They are all custom ROMs, my favorite is the this one currently:
http://hotfile.com/dl/117879873/9b01b43/Energy.Leo.29020.Sense2.5.Cookie.2.0.sencity.May.14.7z.html
It was taken from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591784
and is the awesome one with big finger friendly buttons as well as that awesome blackish theme (Sencity)
If you don't want a custom ROM then go to the HTC support site and find your stock ROM, download and flash that via SD card (I am assuming you have an international HD2 and not a TMOUS one).
If for some reason you have a TMOUS one DO NOT GO THRU HTC BUT USE TMOBILE'S SUPPORT SITE.
Let's get you rocking and rolling!
Thank you very much for your help, i'm very grateful
I'm going to run W7 virtually, just to be quick.
And I was thinking to flash straight to Android, is that possible? Like android 2.3 or something.
Cheers!
sorry if I made you unhappy, but my phone is now in a technic service due to same problem, it never fixed with a rom update, day by day your problem will appear more frequently, this is a hardware issue, maybe digitizer maybe hardware buttons block your touch screen.. I will see what will happen after my phone come to my hands again..
Okay thanks.
I will see what the reflashing will do. Then if it doesn't work, i will take it to repairing.
Thanks!
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Then if it doesn't work, i will take it to repairing
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definitely send to repairing and dont try any thing by you self ... you will end doing more damage - except Software solution...
anyway i wish all the best and i hope you fixit
best regards from me
Hello all. First let me state that I rather not make a thread to ask help on a problem that seems to have happened to a few owners, but my knowledge as to how I could resolve the issue is severely lacking..
At some point today my phone was ringing but the screen would not show. I thought about taking the battery out and turning it back on but there would be no HTC, Bootanimation, anything. It was Just a black-lit screen which responds due to tactile feedback and the four touchkeys light up as usual. At first there was an odd sound that would play after a few minutes so I decided to charge it but again there was nothing. Even tried to access bootloader with -Vol and Power still no screen.
I asked a friend of mine to call my phone to see if it would ring but they said it instantly goes to voicemail as if my phone was off. Note that I WAS SURE IT WAS ON.
Adb seems to work with it as it seems whatever I need to do I have to do it through there.
G2 rooted with gfree method
CM7.1 RC1
Clockwork Recovery
Again i am sorry if I bothered those with posting something others would think is "too common of a problem" as I have no experience in fixing this issue. Plus I would like to try any option available as I would not like to try and have my phone replaced (because of the risk of discovering root and obtaining a G2 with stock gingerbread which is currently not rootable)
Please help..
It sounds like you're suffering from some sort of hardware failure. You need to send your phone in for repair/replacement.
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Hello all. First let me state that I rather not make a thread to ask help on a problem that seems to have happened to a few owners, but my knowledge as to how I could resolve the issue is severely lacking..
At some point today my phone was ringing but the screen would not show. I thought about taking the battery out and turning it back on but there would be no HTC, Bootanimation, anything. It was Just a black-lit screen which responds due to tactile feedback and the four touchkeys light up as usual. At first there was an odd sound that would play after a few minutes so I decided to charge it but again there was nothing. Even tried to access bootloader with -Vol and Power still no screen.
I asked a friend of mine to call my phone to see if it would ring but they said it instantly goes to voicemail as if my phone was off. Note that I WAS SURE IT WAS ON.
Adb seems to work with it as it seems whatever I need to do I have to do it through there.
G2 rooted with gfree method
CM7.1 RC1
Clockwork Recovery
Again i am sorry if I bothered those with posting something others would think is "too common of a problem" as I have no experience in fixing this issue. Plus I would like to try any option available as I would not like to try and have my phone replaced (because of the risk of discovering root and obtaining a G2 with stock gingerbread which is currently not rootable)
Please help..
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A. They don't care if its rooted.
B. You can root stock Gingerbread.
Same issue here...
I'm facing the same issue, when i try to unlock the phone (power button or trackpad) the screen lights but stays black, and the buttons are also backlit. I have to lock again with power button and unlock again to get to the actual screen.
It first happened a few days ago, and since i didn't reboot/restart in weeks i tried to reboot but the same issue comes back.
then i shut it down, pulled the battery and then back, and restarted: the phone goes directly to that black backlit screen, i tried several times and tried recovery with no luck, so i thought my phone was messed up although i did have some haptic feedback, well in fact the phone was actually booting, but just not showing anything else than the backlit screen; i waited a minute or so to the booting completes (still shows nothing), then i lock/unlock the screen again and there it is, asking for the pin code.
I tried to go to the recovery again to try to wipe dalvik-cache, i know for sure it goes to recovery, but with a totally black screen, not even backlit this time; the trackpad is too sensitive in the recovery to just blindly navigate in the menu, so it is not useable at all.
Then i had the idea to go to Rom Manager, i reflashed the rom from my sd-card, and enabling wipe dalvik-cache, which worked (all through a black screen). After a few minutes i "felt" it rebooting (vibrating) but still back to that black backlit screen, and i locked/unlocked it again and back it was asking pin code...
I also tried to roll back recovery to 3.0.2.4, since i remember i updated it a few weeks ago, but still the same issue.
I don't know what else to do without accessing the recovery, i wanted to try another kernel, or remove the trackpad wake... is there a way to do it via a script? I guess it's what Rom manager does...
Next step will be a total wipe, but i need to make some room on my sdcard for backup purposes first...
If anyone has an idea to sort this out, i'm highly interested...
I'll try to get a logcat, maybe could give a hint
Edit: Virtuous sense 2.0.0 (used it with no issue since it came out, could it be a hw issue?)
Edit2 : attached logcat
Is the pin screen differant than the usual one ie white number keys? If it is that's the sim lock screen you need to call the carrier to get the code or find out the default. Or just get a new sim lol
nah it's the 4 digit pin code, i didn't lose it btw, it's still working and i can use the phone, but i have a black backlit screen whenever i want to wake the phone, and thus when i receive a phone call, i don't know who it is and i blindly press/swipe the screen to answer, because if i want to use the same trick of locking /unlocking, it doesnt work as the lock button is also used to reject a call...
Maybe rip and reinstall the phone app?
asim0 said:
I'm facing the same issue, when i try to unlock the phone (power button or trackpad) the screen lights but stays black, and the buttons are also backlit. I have to lock again with power button and unlock again to get to the actual screen.
It first happened a few days ago, and since i didn't reboot/restart in weeks i tried to reboot but the same issue comes back.
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I have the same exact problem as this EXCEPT, it's intermittent. Sometimes when I wake the phone I get an all black but backlight screen, and other times it's fine. I'm on CM7.1.
But a superwipe and reflash will probably fix it. Also don't restore system data on TB
I know i still can use wipe data + cache + dalvik through rom manager, and i always used to superwipe before switching roms, but how can i do that now when the recovery is all blacked out?
can anyone guide me to a script or something i could do while the phone is active, to tell him to reboot to recovery and flash that superwipe?
anyway i'll try the regular wipe and keep the thread updated
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SuperDave81 said:
EXCEPT, it's intermittent.
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On my side if i leave the phone locked more than 30 seconds, it happens 100% of the time; also I noticed that now the backlight blinks 2 or 3 times (1 second blinking) when locked, first a few minutes after locking, and then randomly, about 3 or 4 times per hour; I guess it's getting worse;
I've read on another thread that it could be video cable getting loose, but since mine is still under guarantee, i won't open it right now just to check, if i can't fix by wiping / superwiping (when i know how to), i'll use that guarantee, which is one month left (lucky me)
EDIT: one other thing that makes me think it's no hardware, when the black screen appears because of a phone call or a message, the ringtone and notification sound are both half as loud as they should be, this is all really strange
after backing up my data, i reflashed the rom via Rom Manager, and I wiped data and cache (which equals to factory reset) this time: the first screen that should show the pin code numpad was already a black (backlit) screen!!
Also, thinking about it, i realised that the "flash rom from sdcard" menu in Rom Manager is in fact "Flash ZIP from sdcard": the zip doesn't have to be a ROM!!
So I tried flashing a new kernel this way, also some framework modifications (extended settings, removed TP wake, etc...) they all install Ok, but still this black screen...
Also I was about to flash SuperWipeG2.zip this way, but if it doesn't fix my problem, I will be stuck with a blacked out recovery, as SuperWipe wipes everything including /system; so if anyone has an idea to tell Rom Manager to flash two zips (Superwipe then Rom) i'll be willing to try, or a script to do that;
Maybe i'll have a look of the scripts in Superwipe and in the rom, and put both zips together... don't know if it's possible?
Maybe I'll try the Superwipe alone if I can get a spare phone, just in case...
Other thing:I used the phone's gps for more than 5 hours with the screen lit, and it never flickered even once; so it's hard to believe it's a screen connection issue...
Just to keep this updated, everything i did, including superwipe didn't change this issue, so i sent it back to the technical support (under guarantee) and I got it back today; the report that came with it says the screen has been replaced; so it was hardware finally...
Hi, i have same problem.. Black screen in recovery and during the boot. When the system boots, screen is OK. Sometimes i have also blackscreen when I want to use HW keyboard. I tried 4ext, reflash older versions of CW but still the same. I can see a screen through Android Screen Monitor and I can cotrol it. But phone is blak, only backlight. Can somebody say, how to solve this issue?
So, for other, if you cant see screen, you can use Android Screen Monitor for Windows and connect phone through USB and see a screen.
G1ForFun said:
A. They don't care if its rooted.
B. You can root stock Gingerbread.
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WAIT one minute... they don't care? where was I when this meeting took place?
I had this issue as well on a spare G2 I had.
The screen was just black but you could tell it was lit, hardware keys were lit as well.
The phone was actually my brothers and it rooted w/ CM7.
I ended up selling the phone as is on Ebay but after some research it was a failure in the hardware for the screen and I found extensive instructions on how to replace it that I didn't wish to do.
I never attempted to get it replaced and kind of wish I did now if they don't care about the device being rooted.
I purchased my G2 before he had his, and it's never had the issue so not sure what to think of it.
Saintfyre said:
I ended up selling the phone as is on Ebay but after some research it was a failure in the hardware for the screen and I found extensive instructions on how to replace it that I didn't wish to do.
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I think I have similar issue, can you post where you found those instructions?
Thanks in advance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-dR8CHEGjY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I used the same tutorial to change the LCD but after I put the new its just the backlight but nothing else... I will give it another go maybe and have a look again at those ribbon cables! I guess...
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I found on ebay: HTC-Desire-Z-T-Mobile-G2-A7272-Slide-Flex-Cable-Ribbon
or I found also with the chassis for a bit more.
Thinking to buy this, it would be great if anyone could confirm that it would help "my condition" ?
THanks in advance!
In terms of cables, yes the flex cables are what you want.
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