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Help my phone doesn't charge when its off and over heats when its on charging

Hey guys my g2 won't charge when plugged into an ac wall charger or dc car charger or usb. When the phone is on it wiil charge but will charge very slow and over heat over 50c and still stay on and charge. It takes around 10 hours to charge. Battery lasts 3-4.hours when lightly used. Tried a new battery so I know its not the battery. Help me please because htc won't
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Are you stock? rooted?
Why wont HTC help?

They said it was a demo phone
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Sounds like a hardware problem.
HTC will do non-warranty repairs, if you're willing to pay the price.

I asked they said they would not touch it because it was a demo. I'm am very frustrated
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Why do you have a demo unit phone?
Pretty sure if you were aware it was a demo phone you should be aware it probably won't come with an applicable warranty.
I sure hope you got a deal on it because demo units are abused like a tickle me elmo doll in a pre-school playroom.

I don't get why they won't take any HTC phone for non-warranty repair if you're willing to pay You contacted HTC, not T-Mobile, correct?
I guess perhaps they think a demo phone might need a total overhaul and not be worth the parts -- but I thought they usually just replace the entire motherboard anyway
Well at this point, you could take it apart and find someone who knows something about electronics to look at it and see if theres anything obvious.
Or list it on ebay for parts. When my old Mac laptop died, I was able to take apart and sell almost everything piecemeal -- I was up front and said that the motherboard was non-functional but I believed everything else worked.

Broken charger port!!!

This may be a stupid question but is there anything I can do about a broken charger port? Is it better to get it fixed or buy a new phone and if anyone knows, how much does it cost to get it fixed? Thanks in advance!
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When I broke my charger port I had sprint order me a new phone. When I went to pick it up I just asked the tech to swap cases so I could keep my orginal. Didn't wanna take the chances of getting a screwy hero. Don't know if this will work for you but a give it a try good luck.
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I called my carrier which is Cellular South. They said to + ere is nothing they can't do about utah ans my warranty does not cover fixing it or replacing it. I love Cellular South but hate their warranty policy! Oh I'm up for and upgrade next month so I guess I will get hubby to charge my battery in his phone for me to have it during the day til next month. I just can't use it too much cause I need to save the battery for phone calls. Thanks so much for your help!
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Opps sorry about the misspelled words. Lol!
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Thats messed up.. you can always buy an extra battery. I always keep two.
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You could try to compare it to a friend's maybe and fix it yourself.

This might Sound Stupid... But If you have Insurance and their Playing Dirty, Claiming there's Basically a Loophole they can use to Avoid Fixing you Phone, Just Break something else on you Phone That Is Covered by Insurance!
When they Fix that, Go to your Car and Come Back Telling them you just Plugged your Phone into your Car Charger and now that Wasn't Working!! They'll Think they Did it, and You'll Probably Walk Out a Little Richer and with a Smile! Lmao!!!
Good Luck!
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you can order a new shell for about $25. take it to sprint store and ask them to swap it for you and hopefully they dont check to see if you are with sprint lol.
if not, they are really easy to replace.

[Q] Is this Nexus 4 bricked?

Hi there,
I'm trying to buy a Nexus 4 online and saw one selling for a good price.
Yet, as the seller puts it, it charges but won't boot, and one can also see the charging signal on the screen.
Seller doesn't say if it is bricked or not. Is this normal behavior on a bricked phone? Any chance of unbricking it?
Thanks!

siniux said:
Hi there,
I'm trying to buy a Nexus 4 online and saw one selling for a good price.
Yet, as the seller puts it, it charges but won't boot, and one can also see the charging signal on the screen.
Seller doesn't say if it is bricked or not. Is this normal behavior on a bricked phone? Any chance of unbricking it?
Thanks!
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ask them if they can see if it says google when they try to turn it on. if so, hopefully they think its bricked and sell it dirt cheap, thats literally a 2 minute fix in fast boot.

siniux said:
Hi there,
I'm trying to buy a Nexus 4 online and saw one selling for a good price.
Yet, as the seller puts it, it charges but won't boot, and one can also see the charging signal on the screen.
Seller doesn't say if it is bricked or not. Is this normal behavior on a bricked phone? Any chance of unbricking it?
Thanks!
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If you have experience unbricking a phone than bite, if not then maybe this isn't the best deal for you. Honestly, buying electronics 2nd hand is a crapshoot....hell, sometimes buying direct from the source is a crapshoot lol....
Best of luck
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Repair or new {Update}

My tablet turned off earlier this month. No Bringing it back from the dead. Sent to Asus for repair. They want almost 200 for motherboard labor tax and shipping. They don't guarantee their own repairs. I can get a new one on amazon for 229. But should I down a little more and get a Samsung tablet. They way I've been lied to, (they told me 92 when I started the rma) I don't think they should have any more of my hard earned cash. Customer service means a lot to me, and the way I have been treated I feel they just don't care.
I do need a program to read my super notes, as I have over a years worth of server and network info that I can't access. I did back them up to a flash drive and my computer. Does anyone know how of a program that I can get to then with? I tried supernote pro but it crashes on my note3. Thank you for you help and listening to me vent.
Cheers, Bill
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billwinkle said:
My tablet turned off earlier this month. No Bringing it back from the dead. Sent to Asus for repair. They want almost 200 for motherboard labor tax and shipping. They don't guarantee their own repairs. I can get a new one on amazon for 229. But should I down a little more and get a Samsung tablet. They way I've been lied to, (they told me 92 when I started the rma) I don't think they should have any more of my hard earned cash. Customer service means a lot to me, and the way I have been treated I feel they just don't care.
I do need a program to read my super notes, as I have over a years worth of server and network info that I can't access. I did back them up to a flash drive and my computer. Does anyone know how of a program that I can get to then with? I tried supernote pro but it crashes on my note3. Thank you for you help and listening to me vent.
Cheers, Bill
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Hi billwinkle,
paying 200$? €? for the repair would be too much. You could sell your old one for parts and get a new one. Then you would have a new waranty period too. If your dock still works, you can keep using it and would only need to buy the tablet. On the other hand, the device is getting a bit old and it looks like Asus has stopped releasing updates for it. Which is, considering our wonderful developers and their quality Roms, not really a problem. If you don't mind voiding your (new) waranty, if you live outside of the EU.
There should be other Devices in the same price range. Off the top of my head I think the Nexus 7 is. My brother's got one and it really fits well in one hand... Ok a big hand. It's got a huge fan/modding community and gets updated really fast. But it's smaller than the tf300t and got no dock. If you're willing to spend (a lot) more money, you could get the Asus tf701, or a Note tablet from Samsung, or one of the many others. It really depends on what you plan to do with the tablet and how much you can/want to spend.
I haven't been following the tablet market closely and I'm pretty sure other people are more knowledgeable and can give you better advice.
Regarding Super notes: If there are no other apps to open the files and you can't borrow an asus tablet from a friend to open and export them, then you might consider an android emulator. Like Bluestacks or AndroVM (would have linked, but got no permission to do that yet *sigh*). If you can boot an Asus Rom with it, you should be able to install and start Super notes and access your files. But it will be slow and not something for daily work.
Best regards, NatherKross

Thank you for all that info. My tablet is on the way back unfixed. In waiting to get it back before I decide what to do. I can get a new one on amazon for 229. And since I have the dock 2 casesi might just do that. I'm hoping they fixed it anyway as it shows they tested it before shipping it out. May have been just a loose connector. Let's hope so.
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I went with new after all. 229 less 30 for signing up for an Amazon card. Same price as repairing old one. Both should be here on same day. Since I have so much invested in the Asus tablet I decided to stay with them.
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I received my new TF300T last night. All charged up and updated. I will get my old one back today from Asus. Its going to be interesting to see if it starts up or not. If not i will take it apart and see if it was the motherboard or just a connector that came loose.
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I just got my old tablet back from Asus. I put it on the charger and after an hour i turned it on. to my surprise it actually came on. When I sent it in not even the power light would come on. I tried every trick to bring it back to life. I even tried the factory reset, nothing. All of my apps are still installed. i find it interesting that if it was working all along then I would have lost all my apps and settings when I did the reset button trick. Asus wanted $200 to fix my non broken tablet. I have a feeling that a power cable came loose, and when they put it back together it solved my problem.
I'm thinking that people who are having the sleep of death issue could just have a loose cable as mine suffered from it for about 3 months before it failed to start at all.
I will test it out more closely after it has a full charge.
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Hard bricked. Feel terrible

Hey everyone, so today I was installing a rom on my friend's s3, and it turns out Verizon phones had a locked bootloader, so we managed to brick it. I've been trying to fix it for hours.
I finally found a way to fix it by using an external SD, so I was trying to format my external sd from my s4, in order to use for the bricked s3. I used an app called aparted.
Apparantly, aparted seemed to have deleted my phones partitions, not just the external sd card. Because now I cannot turn on my phone. It is completely unresposive. No odin, no cmw, no lights. I have managed to brick 2 phones in one day. I don't know what to do. Is this fixable with a jtag service? Are there any places that are trustworthy?
Thanks, and please give me some advice...

Check out mobiletechvideos.com
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Best buy MAY be able to fix it... Although I think u probably will need JTAG ?
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Hmm
I think I'm just gonna go for the JTAG. I went to a repair store where I live and he said the motherboard was broken.. I think he just had no idea what to do with it, since the charging light didn't go on.
I have seen some ebay sellers with good ratings, that say they provide JTAG service, for around 30 dollars.
These are cheaper than the 60 dollars from mobiletech. What do you guys recommend? Which one has less chance of scamming / more chance of unbricking?
thanks a lot!

mariano54 said:
I think I'm just gonna go for the JTAG. I went to a repair store where I live and he said the motherboard was broken.. I think he just had no idea what to do with it, since the charging light didn't go on.
I have seen some ebay sellers with good ratings, that say they provide JTAG service, for around 30 dollars.
These are cheaper than the 60 dollars from mobiletech. What do you guys recommend? Which one has less chance of scamming / more chance of unbricking?
thanks a lot!
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Mobiletechvideos has a good reputation. If they can't fix it they don't charge you
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^ This. They have fixed previous phones for me and they are a very reliable business.
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Mobiletech is the way to go for sure.
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