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unable to boot shift

Help needed.
I have been leaving my Shift in the drawers for sometime. Today, I took it out and charged the battery.
It boot up sucessfully after a full charge but went into sleep mode when I was loggin in. The it refused to boot up from then on.
The green light on both the "start" and "battery" light is on but that is all about it. No activity on the screen or the harddisk.
I tried the "F3" button as well but nothing happens.
I need help please! Was thinking of upgrading it to Windows 7.
Thanks.

So, you don't get any action on either WM or Windows side?

wovens said:
So, you don't get any action on either WM or Windows side?
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Hi wovens,
thanks for helping...finally.
I mange to get into the WM side but not on the Windows side.
Many thanks!

Just a suggestion, I am no expert did you power cycle it?

ESKO81 said:
Just a suggestion, I am no expert did you power cycle it?
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Sorry, I dont understand what "Power Cycle it"?
How does it work?

ywilson said:
Sorry, I dont understand what "Power Cycle it"?
How does it work?
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Disconnect any external power.
Shutdown windows.
Take the battery out.
Wait a minute or two.
Put the battery back in.
Power on.

I tried that as well but nothing happens. Only the Wm side is still working but the Vista side is totally silent.

After the battery has been removed, the WM side is off until the power switch is moved to turn the PC side on.
So something is happening on the PC side when you turn the power on for the first time following battery removal.
Do you get the option for BIOS? Pres Del at power up so see if you can get some diagnostics. It might tell you if some hardware is not working.
If you have an external monitor you could try connecting that to see if there is anything to see on the PC side.
I'm afraid I'm no expert on this.

Thanks Flanimal. Tried all that but still nothing.
I suspect the BIOS is corruptted. Is there anyway i can get my BIOS back?

You can download a bios update from HTC website (or at least I could sometime ago) but you will need to be able to boot first to update BIOS as far as I can remember.
So, let's recap, when you boot the Shift, you don't get anything on screen at all on the XP/Vista side? Not even booting options, like, press F2 to do this of F8 to do that? Nothing at all? I am at work right now and don't have my Shift with me to be able to be more clear about options.

internal battery?
Out of curiosity, I just did a google search to try to find out if the Shift has one of those 'penny' internal batteries inside, that might need replacing over time.
I coudn't find anything to confirm or deny this, but it did leave me wondering:
A. Is there a penny battery inside the Shift that will eventually die and need the Shift to be opened up for replacement?
and
B. What would be the behaviour of the Shift on the absense of the aforementioned possible battery?

Flanimal said:
Out of curiosity, I just did a google search to try to find out if the Shift has one of those 'penny' internal batteries inside, that might need replacing over time.
I coudn't find anything to confirm or deny this, but it did leave me wondering:
A. Is there a penny battery inside the Shift that will eventually die and need the Shift to be opened up for replacement?
and
B. What would be the behaviour of the Shift on the absense of the aforementioned possible battery?
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Looking at the dismantling guide (HTC Shift Dismanting Guide by facedemol PDF) published in this site it does not seem to have one.

wovens said:
Looking at the dismantling guide (HTC Shift Dismanting Guide by facedemol PDF) published in this site it does not seem to have one.
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I've been mulling this one over and it occurred to me that the Shift maintains the time and date even when the main bettery has been taken out.
I wonder how it might do this without a power source. Maybe there is a battery hidden in there somewhere...

[Q] Going back to stock.

Hi, been trying this for a long time now. I need, for warranty purposes, to return back to stock from nand android. Unfortunately i can't get to bootloader, the tri-color screen. My phone boots directly to Magldr. My phone on/off key is broken and i need it to get to the tri-color bootloader.
My question is, if there's any way i can get the stock winmo 6.5 rom flashed from magldr. USB Flasher, or by CWM, NAND Toolkit, or any other trick so that i can get it to repair?? PLEASE BEFORE ANSWERING NOTE THAT I CAN'T GET TO BOOTLOADER, I DON'T HAVE ON/OFF KEY AND THAT KEY IS NEEDED TO GET TO TRICOLOR SCREEN
My microphone is failling and the hard keys also... need them fixed.
Thanks.

You don't need the on/off keys to go into the bootloader, just the volume down rocker.
Press & hold it, then boot up the device.

Tried it a million times... it's a no go!!! It doesn't work, try it on your HD2, push the volume down and reboot the phone by taking the battery out and back in, or by pushing the reset button. That the only way i can reboot my phone. You need to shortly press the on/off button to get to bootloader.

Okay, try to install Android. After that, from within Android reboot your phone using "Reboot" option . And while it is rebooting, keep the volume down button held.
]P.S[ I just tried rebooting from within android, and then holding the volume down, WITHOUT EVEN TOUCHING THE POWER BUTTON and it went directly to the bootloader. Are you sure your volumes are working ?

You have MAGLDR installed. Power off your phone and connect charger with Vol. down button pressed. Your phone will start in bootloader.

I guess my volume keys must be down too... they work on magldr, they work on android but i can't seem to replicate what you guys are saying. But there's no way i can do this from usb flasher inside magldr?? or inside cwm?? or with nand toolkit?? without having to be in bootloader?

Those are some solutions I have been able to gather from various threads, with the same problem :
Solution #1 :
jonas2295 said:
Okay try this :
Remove battery,
With left hand press and hold volume down,
With the other hand you put the battery back in and press AND hold the power button, so power and volume pressed and hold, wait until you see the bootloader.
This will work (at least it worked on my phone 1min ago)
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Solution #2 :
Marvlesz said:
Some times, Bent Battery Pins can cause unpredictable issues (However, I have not seen one like this.).
You may want to check your battery pins, straighten them delicately if they are (even a little) bent.
You could try sd card flash method?
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mootmetal said:
this us happenin to me all the time ..so if i want to access boot loader i need to wait 2 mn after shuttind down the phone ...if i try befor 2 mn it gos to magldr and no bootloader ...
i read befor that someone had the same issue and he had to wait about 3 or 4 hours instead of 2 mn i wait
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Solution #4 : (This answers your question in the post above, + I think this is the solution that will solve your issue)
T-Macgnolia said:
No no no no no and NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is nothing in MAGLDR that can make your HD2 go into bootloader. The only this.g that can get you into the bootloader besides the external hardware buttons is the bootloader.exe that can be run from inside Windows Mobile. It can only be run from inside Windows Mobile. MAGLDR is a custom bootloader that runs after the HSPL bootloader and has no way of communicating with the HSPL bootloader.
At the OP, you may have a faulty volume button ribbon that is causing you not to be able to boot into the bootloader. Check out this thread you will see what I mean. Read post #10
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Solution #5 :
bambuchko said:
I had the same problem ...
I could not enter the bootmanager in android brief button press to end a call, we moved the menu to shut down, reset, etc, the same menu that appears when you hold down the button longer to stop calling ...
This defect appeared to me after I lay HD2 due to large changes in ambient temperature ...
After a few days of research, opening, drying I removed the defect, so I pulled out and cleaned the keys below the screen (Home, Menu, Back, red and green) and wipe the foil that these pressures are the same buttons ...
My HD2 has been working for 2 weeks with no errors
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If none of the above solved your problem, then .. I guess .. Houston, we have a problem.
Sources of the solutions :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326713
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1240295
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899628
P.S : Read through them, I may have missed something .. and I didn't read the last one thoroughly, read it yourself.
DISCLAIMER:
I do not own any of the previously mentioned solutions. All rights reserved to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.

It seems my phone has a little more problems than i tought. I got another HD2 with a broken digitizer,but i can reproduce what you are saying about the volume key down,no need of on/off button. I guess i have to get the courage to open up the beast.
Thanks for all your help guys.
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by the way, it's not possible either to flash radio also if i can't get to bootloader??
flashing with fastboot, and .img files and what not is just for android based devices right??

Correct.
If you can't get to the bootloader, you can't flash anything.
Fastboot is only for Android.

I understand that if you are getting the phone serviced directly by HTC, they won't have a problem with you having Android on it. Buy, if you are going through your service provider, that may be a problem.
good luck

I've been to HTC service. They didn't repaired the phone claiming that there was a non original software on the phone and there was water between the digitizer and the screen. Even though none of the stickers were showing red or pink or other color than white.
In fact there is something trapped inside but it may be alcohol. I had an accident with the phone on a boat. Got wet by a wave and it must have gotten to the phone too that was inside my "purse" (it's a man purse ok?!? those bags that we guys use to carry stuff!!). I didn't noticed and instead of taking the battery at once i tried to turn on the phone... all hell brake loose. I then toke the batt of, and let it rest for a couple of days. Then burried it in rice to absorb the moisture. Then read that alcohol could "push" the water out, and splashed some near the hard keys because they didn't work and i thought that may have been salt water, or salt crystals blocking my keys.
Concluding, the phones works with a few limitations. The only keys that work right is the call and the windows keys and volume keys. And my microphone doesn't work right too. People can only barely hear if i speak directly to it and shout, and still they hear me in the bottom of a well.
I've bought another HD2 on ebay, with a cracked digitizer. Was thinking of maybe taking it for parts, since mine is in mint condition. But i might replace it's digitizer and repair the two phones. I'm only affraid to open it up because it looks very, very difficult.
Thanks anyway for all your support.

Hello, i´m an electrician and i have an idea.
Important is to dry it completely before put the Battery in.
I have opened some "normal" earlier Cellphones (not Touchscreen Phones) and cleaned it with distilled water.
It seems to be impossible to get the functions of the Hardkeys back without open your Phone.
You may try to flush out the corner of the hardkeys with distilled water to remove possible contamination with crystals or minerals that could cause block the keys.
I remain this would be the last chance before opening the phone.
i can not say what happens when you do this, normaly the componets have no problem with water, only the microphone and the cable connection can hold the moisture for a long time.
I hope i could have helped you with this idea. Please be careful it will be a risk the Digitizer is also in the bottom right corner.
if you don´t want to take the risk bring your phone to a independent (not HTC or Service Provider) Phone doctor.
excuse my bad english
Olli

Need Help Please!!! Phone got wet!

Hi folks. I gave my HD2 to my wife "big mistake" and she got it wet with water I had it running Windows7.5. The only way it turns on is by plugging it in to wall charger or USB. Power button does not seem to work. I can get to magldr and boot to windows manually but it just reboots to magldr. Once I unplug the phone it shuts off. I am able to get into bootloader. I've done a task29 and flashed back to windows 6.5 but it just bootloops. I don't know if there is any hope for this phone but I'm not giving up that easy. I do have the latest radio and my hspl is 2.08. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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u should pull out the battery
do not start ur phone when it is still wet

jesseserna said:
I've done a task29 and flashed back to windows 6.5 but it just bootloops.
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Did you try doing the whole works, ie Stock ROM flash via an SD card? that will wipe the whole device, SPL, ROM and Radio, all included.
I do fear that its not going to make any differences though because......
Kenneth914 said:
u should pull out the battery
do not start ur phone when it is still wet
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His right, but I assume its a bit to late for that now!
One other thing you could try, and its a bit of a curve ball, try squashing the bottom of the phone around the keys (not on the keys them selves, but all around.
Typically the key issue and digitiser issue are linked to the panels separating, ive found that squashing it all together again can make the buttons and digitiser work again but I seriously doubt it will help in this casa but it costs nothing to try

Hopefull!
Got home from work took the battery out and i noticed the three little tabs from the power were bent. I fixed them up a bit and by a miracle somehow the phone works now! But theres something else wrong now. the touch screen does not work now! So I'm assuming I'll need a screen digitizer? Thanks for all the quick responses

Maybe, but try squashing it first, the cable is below the power button an has a habbit of falling out, squashing it together can work, its what's keeping my hd2 alive now, fixing the broken usb socket is somewhat more troublesum!
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Rule number one don't turn it on. Remove all parts you can easily remove (sim card etc.) and let it dry for atleast 1 day.
Because if you turn it on, and there's water, there could be electronic shocks which damages phone inside.
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So after all the tips and tricks. I still can't get the screen to be responsive. But at least it turns on now.
? The hardware buttons still work, so how do I know if I need to replace only the LCD screen and/or digitizer!?
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As mentioned already first call on a wet phone is cut all power.
second is stripping it & letting it dry out for several days in a warm environment or using trick such as rice in a bag with phone to draw moisture out.
Running the device & flashing it while wet/damp is not the way to go.
Give it some more time to dry out & if digi does not respond perhaps a new digi is worth a shot pending on whether you want take the gamble & feel up to the challenge ...

you should have waited for it to dry at least before turning on the power. Your device has more likely been "grounded"

[Q] HD2 Android will not boot

I have had ICS on my HD2 for about 3 months and working fine. Last night I plugged it into the computer USB to charge it up and it went into the tricolour screen with USB connection (may be I pressed something while plugging it in?). Unplugging it made no difference and the only way out was to remove the battery temporarily. I think I then tried rebooting and it seemed OK. This morning it will not boot up at all - it seems to start, goes past the short vibration and the screen is backlit but the Nand Rom does not boot. Can anyone suggest how to proceed or do I now own a brick?

Check the pins that connect your device with the batter and make sure they're straight. It also seems that you're out of juice, recharge the battery.

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Check the pins that connect your device with the batter and make sure they're straight. It also seems that you're out of juice, recharge the battery.
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Thanks - the pins are OK and I can charge the battery and the orange LED changes to green so I assume it is fully charged. Any other suggestions please?

First try leaving the battery out for a few minutes but...
could be a power button issue, the digitizer cable runs too close to it in the HD2!
If you are confident enough you could open it up and check?
Flicking the power button a few times might make it work but is not going to solve the problem...

shanman-2 said:
First try leaving the battery out for a few minutes but...
could be a power button issue, the digitizer cable runs too close to it in the HD2!
If you are confident enough you could open it up and check?
Flicking the power button a few times might make it work but is not going to solve the problem...
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Thanks for the reply. There might be a clue in what you have said here because I have noticed recently that sometimes I have had to press the power button one or two times to bring it out of sleep mode. So perhaps it is the digitizer cable which has a flaky connection. I don't mind delving inside but not having done it before I would like to see some guide on how to proceed first. Does the symptom support your suggestion?

Yes..
There are some good tutorials in the sticky roll-up thread
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Yes..
There are some good tutorials in the sticky roll-up thread
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Thanks, so I may not own a brick then! I need to get a T5 screwdriver and I notice that some LCD and digitizer suppliers offer the tools with them. Am I likely to need a new LCD and digitizer for this repair?

Don't know about that!!
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Don't know about that!!
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OK. I found a screwdriver, watched some videos, and took it apart. I could not find any connection problems or chaffing by the power button so I thought I would just try to put it back together. Got it back together and it powers up as before with short vibration and the screen is backlit but nothing is displayed so I have no knowledge as to whether the LCD/Digitizer is at fault or something else is preventing the bootup and not sending signals to the screen display OR has the bootup occurred but I cannot see tthe progress because the LCD/Digitizer is faulty. Has anybody any idea what is the likely cause of the problem so I can decide whether to buy a new LCD/Digitizer or not?

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OK. I found a screwdriver, watched some videos, and took it apart. I could not find any connection problems or chaffing by the power button so I thought I would just try to put it back together. Got it back together and it powers up as before with short vibration and the screen is backlit but nothing is displayed so I have no knowledge as to whether the LCD/Digitizer is at fault or something else is preventing the bootup and not sending signals to the screen display OR has the bootup occurred but I cannot see tthe progress because the LCD/Digitizer is faulty. Has anybody any idea what is the likely cause of the problem so I can decide whether to buy a new LCD/Digitizer or not?
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Hey very sorry for this but on reading your post again.....
Have you tried booting to recovery or bootloader again?
If so and you can view the screen again!!, Just re-install the ROM clearing cache and dalvic cache beforehand. :silly:

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Hey very sorry for this but on reading your post again.....
Have you tried booting to recovery or bootloader again?
If so and you can view the screen again!!, Just re-install the ROM clearing cache and dalvic cache beforehand. :silly:
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Hi again and thanks again I have tried to get to the Bootloader screen and also to the Magldr menu but I just get the screen backlit and no more. So before forking out on a new LCD/Digitizer the question in my mind is - is this the LCD/Digitizer or some other hardware/software problem which a screen replacement will not solve?

That's the burning question!
I could not possibly say for sure, if the power button was giving problems leading up to the display problem then it is "quite likely".
More than that i cannot say.
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shanman-2 said:
That's the burning question!
I could not possibly say for sure, if the power button was giving problems leading up to the display problem then it is "quite likely".
More than that i cannot say.
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OK, I have tried the screen and digitizer in another phone and it works fine. So this implies the phone hardware or software is not working correctly. I pressume that this implies it is a brick but I wonder if there are any tricks that can be used to ressucitate it? Any comments would be useful. Do I need to replace a specific board or component? Thanks for all the help so far.
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[Q] Nexus 4 Damage Help

So first some back-story, I'll get right into it. I recently dropped my phone in some water. As soon as possible I dried off the outside, and let it sit. That was the only thing I could do at the time, I had no rice, no tools to open up the phone, anything. I ended up with a solid red light, and everything unresponsive.
The next day I got some tools to open her up. There was pretty extensive corrosion to the motherboard, so using some alcohol I cleaned it all off, rinsed it, and let it dry. I also took apart everything else and cleaned any corrosion. The inside looks brand new. However, this isn't the point of the thread.
It appeared my cleaning helped quite a bit. Upon re-assembling and plugging in, I immediately got a charging sign on the phone. However, after trying to power on, I got no response. Additionally, The charging signal went out after about 20 seconds, and the whole phone became unresponsive again. I can do this process as many times as I want, but the same thing happens every time.
So I tried a different approach. First I hold down both volume rockers plus the power button, and plug it in while holding them down. This puts the phone into "download mode" However, once in download mode the phone is, again, unresponsive. After plugging into my laptop, my computer recognizes the phone, but not as "Nexus 4," but as "Full JellyBean on Mako."
Is there anything I can do about this? I've heard about drivers being able to be installed when in download mode, but I would not know what these are, where to get them, or how to install them. I really don't mind if my phone never works 100% again, I doubt it would. I just want to be able to get into the storage so I can recover some of the files I lost.
It's also probably worth mentioning I have not gotten a solid red light after the clean. Once in a while I will get a blinking red light after plugging it in, but after less than a minute it stops and goes through the charging/stop charging phase I'm so familiar with. Any help at all would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.

The charging block and/or battery could be wrecked, for safety reasons and because it will probably become faulty soon you should change the battery anyway. If the charging block is broken flashing your phone could fail. It's also possible the board was irreparably damaged, but it's probably worth a try as the parts aren't too expensive.

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The charging block and/or battery could be wrecked, for safety reasons and because it will probably become faulty soon you should change the battery anyway. If the charging block is broken flashing your phone could fail. It's also possible the board was irreparably damaged, but it's probably worth a try as the parts aren't too expensive.
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After trying to figure more things out, I kept it plugged in for a while. It appears my battery actually holds at least a pretty good charge, as the indicator is full when I plug it in now. However, I don't know what you mean when you say charging block.
Also, I seemed to determine my power button isn't working either. I always thought no response to pushing it meant there was something else going on, but I am able to put it into "download mode" by just holding down the volume rockers and plugging it in. Is there a way to turn on the phone another way besides the power button? Also if not, will buying another power button fix the problem? I don't want to buy one then later figure out the reason it wasn't turning on was just a board problem, and not a problem with the button itself.

You can short the power button with a screwdriver or something should turn the phone on., By charging block I mean the secondary board that the micro usb port is a part of, it can be replaced fairly easily if necessary.

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DrFredPhD said:
You can short the power button with a screwdriver or something should turn the phone on., By charging block I mean the secondary board that the micro usb port is a part of, it can be replaced fairly easily if necessary.
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With a screwdriver? Enlighten me, I'd have no idea how to do that. If I had a faulty charging block, then my phone wouldn't be able to charge correct? My phone was plugged in for a while in download mode, and it gained a full charge from a relatively low charge. I also took the block apart and cleaned any corrosion, so I think that's still functional.
Some more progress, upon further attempting to turn the phone on, I was able to get it into fastboot mode. When plugging into the computer it is recognized, but as just "Android." I will type out what information is displayed here, minus serial number, as a new member cannot submit links in posts apparently.
FASTBOOT MODE
PRODUCT_NAME - mako
VARIENT - mako 8GB
HW VERSION - rev_11
BOOTLOADER VERSION - MAK0230d
BASEBAND VERSION - M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.98
CARRIER INFO - None
SERIAL NUMBER -
SIGNING - production
SECURE BOOT - enabled
LOCK STATE - locked
Also, fastboot at the top (as far as I know) usually says "Start" or "Recovery Mode," but mine says "Restart bootloader." When I try switching with my volume buttons, nothing happens.

Another update, just in case anyone is still listening..
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Also, fastboot at the top (as far as I know) usually says "Start" or "Recovery Mode," but mine says "Restart bootloader." When I try switching with my volume buttons, nothing happens.
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This no longer applies, for some reason I am able to switch through all modes, incliding "Start, Power Off, Recovery Mode, and Restart bootloader."

Str1ngcheese said:
Another update, just in case anyone is still listening..
This no longer applies, for some reason I am able to switch through all modes, incliding "Start, Power Off, Recovery Mode, and Restart bootloader."
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Now that you're at this point, have you attempted to flash the phone with a stock image? I'd be weary of what the other poster said though and ensure your USB connection is holding steady because you don't want it dying half way through a flash because then you'll have a brick.

Monotoko said:
Now that you're at this point, have you attempted to flash the phone with a stock image? I'd be weary of what the other poster said though and ensure your USB connection is holding steady because you don't want it dying half way through a flash because then you'll have a brick.
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I have tried actually. I used the Nexus Root Toolkit v1.8.0 to try and flash it. At first it wouldn't find the device, but through device manager I manually installed the usb_driver onto the phone. After this, the toolkit was able to find the phone. I attempted to flash the image, but it ended up staying in fastboot mode. The program then suggested I try to enable "force flash," which I did, and this time it was never able to finish because the phone tried to restart, but went through that "charging to unresponsive" state I described in my first post.
Upon trying to flash it normally again, it looks like maybe the phone has to be unlocked to do this properly? I then tried to unlock with the same program, but in order to do that, I need the power button to confirm I actually want to unlock the phone. So yet again, I need that power button working.
Any ideas/suggestions/solutions would be amazing.

Jellybean on mako means that your phone is in lgnpst/qcpnst mode. Looks like something failed to start and made the bootloader trogger that mode
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opssemnik said:
Jellybean on mako means that your phone is in lgnpst/qcpnst mode. Looks like something failed to start and made the bootloader trogger that mode
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Soo, any suggestions?

Str1ngcheese said:
Soo, any suggestions?
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clean all the contacts with alcohol (not the normal one, the other that i dont remember the name).clean all the corrusion that you can find,let your phone charge for some hours and try again

opssemnik said:
clean all the contacts with alcohol (not the normal one, the other that i dont remember the name).clean all the corrusion that you can find,let your phone charge for some hours and try again
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I've already done that.
Str1ngcheese said:
The next day I got some tools to open her up. There was pretty extensive corrosion to the motherboard, so using some alcohol I cleaned it all off, rinsed it, and let it dry. I also took apart everything else and cleaned any corrosion. The inside looks brand new.
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Problem is the power button doesn't work, and the flashing fails. It looks like the flashing fails because the phone isn't unlocked. To unlock, I need the power button. Kinda stuck.

Str1ngcheese said:
I've already done that.
Problem is the power button doesn't work, and the flashing fails. It looks like the flashing fails because the phone isn't unlocked. To unlock, I need the power button. Kinda stuck.
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the golden contacts on the power button / mobo could be damaged, do a little short till phone turns on

opssemnik said:
the golden contacts on the power button / mobo could be damaged, do a little short till phone turns on
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How would I go about doing a short?

Str1ngcheese said:
How would I go about doing a short?
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touch in both pins, something that passes electric current(like a yarn,wires, copper wire, something that passes electrical current).its basicly what the power button does.