So this A7 has been sitting around my house for while thanks to my brother in law. i decided to check it out. when i boot it up all that i get is a blank white screen. when hdmi is plugged in i see the screen but no touch controlls. i have searched the fourum, tried the restore and all that fun stuff but nothing has worked... any ideas?
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Hi,
I desperately need some help with my Shift.
When I tried to boot from a flash drive, it froze up. I removed and reinserted the battery, and now it won't start at all!!
The power-led lights up, and the fan starts spinning, but nothing else seems to happen when I turn on my Shift. The screen is blank, and none of the other leds light up. (Except for the battery-led when I'm charging).
I can switch to windows mobile, and everything is fine there, but I get the blank screen when I switch back.
I fear it is a problem with the BIOS. Do anybody know if it is possible to reset the BIOS?
Any feedback that can help me with this is greatly appreciated.
Your Shift is a gonner..
Beverface said:
Hi,
I desperately need some help with my Shift.
When I tried to boot from a flash drive, it froze up. I removed and reinserted the battery, and now it won't start at all!!
The power-led lights up, and the fan starts spinning, but nothing else seems to happen when I turn on my Shift. The screen is blank, and none of the other leds light up. (Except for the battery-led when I'm charging).
I can switch to windows mobile, and everything is fine there, but I get the blank screen when I switch back.
I fear it is a problem with the BIOS. Do anybody know if it is possible to reset the BIOS?
Any feedback that can help me with this is greatly appreciated.
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Had EXACTLY your symptoms...Shift got repaired under standard 2 year warranty with new motherboard and keyboard (as my keyboard sucked..)
Sorry to break the news mate.
lucid said:
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Had EXACTLY your symptoms...Shift got repaired under standard 2 year warranty with new motherboard and keyboard (as my keyboard sucked..)
Sorry to break the news mate.
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Thanks . I figured the motherboard was toast. I will e-mail HTC right away. Hope it doesn't take too long.
How long did yours take?
Repair full round trip was 16 days. I'm from the Netherlands, bought my shift at www.umpcshop.nl pretty good service they have.
EDIT : If you are mailing HTC, prepare for hibernation, and I mean you, not your device. They just don't give a f-you-c-k about their customers.
I have the 1.2 version of the mytouch with the jack on the top. Here is what happened.
I followed the unlockr's guide to root the phone properly. I made the gold card with the files and such. I was then able to boot into fastboot and hboot to flash the files over. In the middle of the flash my chair caught my usb cable and the phone fell to the floor and the battery came out in the middle of the flash.
I can plug it in and the amber light comes on to charge the battery apparently. I hold the volume key and power and i get a red flashing light on the led. I try to put any key combination and it just gives me the flashing red led with nothing on the screen.
Now here is the kicker, if i hold the power and trackball a blue led comes on the phone. I have searched everywhere and have no clue what this means. I think i might be up the creek without a paddle, but again this is THE COMMUNITY to get info from. Does anyone have any words of wisdom or do i have a nice touch screen paperweight on my hands.
I think what happened is i flashed the wrong radio to it and it possibly bricked it. Any help is appriciated even if it is bricked. thanks
sorry put it in the wrong thread. Started in general
tgrantjr said:
I have the 1.2 version of the mytouch with the jack on the top. Here is what happened.
I followed the unlockr's guide to root the phone properly. I made the gold card with the files and such. I was then able to boot into fastboot and hboot to flash the files over. In the middle of the flash my chair caught my usb cable and the phone fell to the floor and the battery came out in the middle of the flash.
I can plug it in and the amber light comes on to charge the battery apparently. I hold the volume key and power and i get a red flashing light on the led. I try to put any key combination and it just gives me the flashing red led with nothing on the screen.
Now here is the kicker, if i hold the power and trackball a blue led comes on the phone. I have searched everywhere and have no clue what this means. I think i might be up the creek without a paddle, but again this is THE COMMUNITY to get info from. Does anyone have any words of wisdom or do i have a nice touch screen paperweight on my hands.
I think what happened is i flashed the wrong radio to it and it possibly bricked it. Any help is appriciated even if it is bricked. thanks
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Sorry man.. But pulling the battery in the middle of a radio and SPL downgrade... Your phone is done. I suggest going in for a replacment telling them you left it in thr dcar in the heat, dropped it or something liek that. There is no fixing it if you can no longer get into fastboot. This is why I changed my tut to tell everyone that the ONE click Universal Androot program roots our phones minus that whole guide.
Sorry
Thanks for replying. I have been trying everything. Now i know its a brick and dont have to beat my head off the desk trying to figure it out. Ill see if i can get it replaced. I dont know if they would be able to tell i tried to root it if it will not even turn on.
Scenario: I was playing... air hockey...and you know how that game can get intense?! Well I was jumping up and down and somebody was calling me but I was too into it to check it. Then it stopped and someone (Maybe same person) called again so I paused the game and checked my phone, it was just a black screen. The lights on the capacitive buttons were working, buttons were working (because the phone was vibrating) and the actual phone was still working but just couldn't see anything. I pulled the battery, turned it back on, put it in my pocket and started playing again. At the end of the game (Yeah, I lost) I checked and it was still black. The screen wasn't off, it was just black LED's I guess. I could scroll to unlock and everything, and now its just stuck like that. Stuck as in I can't see anything...
Not really asking for help because I think the phone messed up, but I'm just saying that the phone might not be perfectly built, or atleast mine wasn't...
T-Mobiles closed right now so I'ma call tomorrow morning.
Wrong Forum, needs to be moved to General.
JoshHart said:
Wrong Forum, needs to be moved to General.
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Wrong Forum? But this situation is DEVELOPING as we speak...
It is an interesting DEVELOPMENT, to say the least.
Maybe he should take pictures and have them DEVELOPED so we have a better understanding!
I had a similar issue but when starting the phone, I would just get a black screen but with the capacitive buttons working but no widgets and no access to apps. Menu options works because I was able to access settings but that's about it. A guy from tmobile forum told me to do a factory reset as maybe it just a minor hiccup in the phone manufacturing so I did and ever since, I have not seen the black screen and I have done a few reboots just to check. Goodluck!
No I just can't see anything. It's like all the LED's are black, I can't factory reset it or anything. Unless someone can do it without looking at the screen....
same thing literally just happened to be about 20 minutes ago. i am extremely frustrated. the screen is just black but its like i can move around on the phone. does anyone know whats going on???
Hey guys,
After another freeze, I was able to actually connect via ADB. The shell was working fine.
Anyways, I did a logcat, and I saw the attached code looping.
http://pastebin.com/DV3uVYJg
It just keeps looping on these audio logs.
Any thoughts?
Anyone else get logcats similar or different than this?
-oldsk00lz
Hey
At first sorry for my bad english
I tried to root my kindle fire and i think i installed the wrong cyanogenmod recovery/bootloader. Now he will not start, the screen is black and the LED shows no reaction. I serched for someone with the same problem... i tried it with a self made factoy cable with connection from the 1st pin to the 4th, but no reaction... what can i do?
Ever grateful
Tungred
Could your battery be low? Mine does that when it needs to be charged and it does it without any warning. Sometimes when charging it takes a while, maybe 20 minutes for the orange light to come on.
ok i try it tonight but i think there will be no reaction
ok i tried, and i am right there is no reaction
anything else i can do?
sounds like a bricked kindle. I had one after i shorted a couple pads on the mobo by accident. contact amazon, and play dumb. xD
Tungred said:
ok i tried, and i am right there is no reaction
anything else i can do?
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I think i have the same problem as you. And I just got this kindle. So what happened to your kindle? what did u do?
So a searched everywhere and could not find a thread where a similar question has been asked, if so I apologize and please redirect.
My Nexus 10 screen will no longer power on. The tablet will vibrate if I attempt to power on and power off but the screen is unresponsive. I tried connecting it to my PC to see if it would register and sure enough it registers as a media device (that rules out dead battery). Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be going on with the tablet? How to fix or what to replace?
TIA
Hi,
If the screen isn't turning on, then I'll give you a wild guess that the problem is with the screen. Did Android boot? Did you see the Google screen popping up when turning on? Did your tablet fall in the floor recently? If the problem is really the screen then it can be that it either died (then you will need to replace) or some cable disconnected.
Try opening it and checking if all the cables are well insterted. There are plenty of videos of people doing that on the internet you just need to search .
Good luck,
~Lord
Tablet has never been dropped (no dents or cracks). The Google logo does not appear on boot. It is possible that the screen has just stopped working but just seems odd. The main reason I posted this was to see if anyone else has experienced something similar to this. I agree with your suggestion about opening up the tablet and checking all of the ribbons to make sure everything is properly seated and that nothing is loose, I just know that's a lot of work and wanted to see if anyone had positive results doing that before I get started..
Thanks
chicodelta said:
Tablet has never been dropped (no dents or cracks). The Google logo does not appear on boot. It is possible that the screen has just stopped working but just seems odd. The main reason I posted this was to see if anyone else has experienced something similar to this. I agree with your suggestion about opening up the tablet and checking all of the ribbons to make sure everything is properly seated and that nothing is loose, I just know that's a lot of work and wanted to see if anyone had positive results doing that before I get started..
Thanks
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Hi,
Check this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fooq_tLNmQ
Good luck,
~Lord