Hey guys, my Find 5 appears to be bricked. It was functioning normally until earlier tonight when I took it out to use it. Phone is completely unresponsive and capacitive buttons are not lit.
Thinking the battery is out (not likely) I plug it in, and a Yellow LED lights up on the device. I try all the button combinations to get it to boot but none are successful.
I get home and plug it in to my computer and I notice the device is recognized by Windows. It gives a MTP error 10 (This device cannot start. (Code 10) The process hosting the driver for this device has terminated.)
I'm stuck here, I can't seem to get the phone into fastboot to reboot it and after reinstalling the ADB drivers it goes from (doesn't recognize device) to (offline). Also the many device options in Windows regarding the drivers are grayed out.
Any help and/or direction would be greatly appreciated!
ROM: Omni 4.4 11/26 Nightly
Recovery: maxwen patched TWRP 2.6.3.0
UPDATE
The LED is now green, which tells me that the phone is fully charged and at least some part of the phone is functional.
UPDATE 2
I have decided to attempt to remove the battery. I am following this video to tear it down.
UPDATE 3
Phone rescued- popping the battery on and off forced the phone to reboot. Very curious as to what caused this- my phone seemed to have to gone into some super sleep of death. Will reach out to the devs to see if anything can be learned from this. Pictures of details to come.
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So here you see the phone with cover taken off. The back is quite easy to remove with a guitar pick or strong fingernails as it is held by clips. The rectangular black strip is the NFC. You'll have to remove it by taking off the middle left screw. The tape can be removed and thrown away (I think?)
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Here we see the tape and NFC removed. The screw I was referring to earlier is seen missing from the gold-colored socket to the left of the battery. The actual battery connector is the one with the silver wiring protruding. All I did was pop the connector off and back on again. I then replaced the NFC (make sure the gold contacts touch the NFC strip- you can see it right next to the battery connector) and then put the cover back on.
Held the power button for about 4 seconds and VIBRATE- VOILA
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Life again! Now the next step is to try to get this documented for our wonderful devs.
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Hello,
This is a message in a bottle : my phone has just decided to jump out of my pocket straight to the ground (nearly 80 cm), and now it simply refuses to start.
The screen itself is not broken, the device looks ok, but it does not start.
When I remove the battery and plug the power cord, the red light is on, but when I do the same with the battery inside, the red led remains off.
I have also tried to reset, hard reset, removed the SIM and plug the cord, etc, with no success.
If you have an idea, I'll welcome it.
I can't figure out what can be wrong : there is no mobile part in the phone right ?
Thanks for your support
Gaofi
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you probably cracked the Mother board or shook loose a solder joint. will it take a firmware or go into bootloader. could it just be your screen try to turn it on then wait and se if it will activesync this will tell you if your screen is broken
For the last week I've been forced to a life without my G1. This is the situation:
My phone wont boot. Not normally, not into safe mode (Menu+Power), not into Recovery Mode (Home+Power), not into the bootloader (Camera+Power). Whichever I try it just gives me a buzz and a black screen with backlight on. To power off I have to remove the battery.
Is there a way to bring this device back to life? Any hints are welcome!
Background:
My phone is bought from the US on Ebay (I live in Sweden, Europe) in November. It is not rooted (even if I have thought about rooting it for quite a while), but unlocked and set free from T-mo.
Trouble started when I inserted a new 8GB SD and the phone rang at the exact same time. After that, Android became extremely slow and a touch on the display took several seconds to process. Reboot didn't help, neither did safe mode. Tried with and without SD and/or SIM.
I managed to boot into recovery mode (Home+Power), but couldn't bring up any menu. I had to take out the battery to power off and after that I couldn't boot at all any more (yes, I did put the battery back...). What troubles me most is that I can't even start the bootloader.
Sounds like there is hardware failure, but I could be wrong. Also, can you check to see if the ribbon came lose for the screen? When you have the phone opened look from the bottom of the phone (where you charge) up towards the top and you will see a hole in the screen portion. There should be a ribbon connecting the screen inside this, see if you can make sure it is securely connected.
I'm with Neoobs... Sounds like the screen isn't turning on (you can't power it off without it plugged in).
If the ribbon cable is connected, somehow the screen has been trashed. How or why this occurred when swapping the cards is beyond me. Have you tried to ADB into the phone from your computer?
OPT took a blow to its back, now wont turn on w/o USB & Boot Loops when USB plugged
FML ... ok so my OnePlus Two (A2001) slipped out of my hand while I was using it and the area right under the camera took a hit (not too hard) to the side of a nearby table (Battery was at around 50% last time I checked). Now the bloody thing wont respond, UNLESS i have it plugged in.
While it is plugged in, It either boot loops, with the boot screen being off center (the Word Android is on the bottom left of the screen and the OnePlus logo is on the Center-Left of the Screen, OR it boot loops with the screen perfectly justified when +V and Power is pressed. I had the newest official oxygen 2.2.1 installed on it. At this point I can only get it into fastboot mode using +V and Power. When plugged in and left on it's own, it boot loops with occasional "Low Battery" (with charging light on) but then it reboots again (disabling charging light an charging)
I've had the original OnePlus usb drivers installed on my PC before but plugging it in does nothing. Ive tried the Qualicomm Driver + MSM8994 method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/general/oneplus-solution-hard-bricked-device-t3183449) with no avail. Installing the Drivers manually the OnePlus Two still shows up as "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)"
I've also taken it apart to see if there's anything loose/broken. I dont see anything wrong with it. Ive also pryed the battery from the back and detached the battery connector from the motherboard. Then plugged it back in, but it still does everything described above.
Fastboot commands to not work as it just looks for device. Fastboot Continue does not work.
Im running out of ideas..... =( Anyone have any new ones?
Seems like the OnePlus Two doesn't respond well to impact. Mine slid off my desk a few times onto a wood floor and now won't respond at all.
Unfortunately my 5 month old phone dropped into water and stopped working :crying:. After much research, I have successfully opened up the phone following this excellent demo without causing any damage to the screen and body.
As shown in the pictures below there are rust near the connection slot between screen and the mother board. Actually that is the only place I've notice any visual anomaly. After thoroughly dissemble everything from the mother board and clear all the rust with 99% alcohol then putting them back together, I'm still stuck on the following status:
- When disconnected from wall charger, and long press the power button, the LED lights had a very brief green flash, then went dark. After that when I touch the finger reader in the back, the machine vibrate as if it is trying to read the finger print, but the screen stay black (dead).
- When connected with the wall charger, the LED first show flashing red light for about one minute, then stay solid red for another few minutes, then turn off. Again, the finger print reader is responsive to touch, but the screen still stay dead.
- Finally, when connected with the 360 camera, the camera lights up and the internal fan also spin up, making me believe that the phone battery could be functional.
I tried pressing down power + volume down/up buttons simultaneously for 30 seconds to enter the bootloader, but the symptom stay the same, the screen remains dead.
I've also purchased a brand new screen replacement from a reliable vendor and tested it on the phone, still the same symptom. So I assume it is not the screen issue.
At this point, I would appreciate any help in:
1. Diagnostic. What does the 1-flash green light, flashing red light and solid red light means? Does the fact that finger print reader vibrate upon touch tell anything about what's working and what's not?
2. Other way to check the battery?
3. If I want to purchase a motherboard, given that I'm on AT&T, does the replacement need to come from another AT&T phone? I found one on Ebay where the seller mentioned the IMEI is clear but carrier is unverified. How does the comparability work?
Thank you for your help!
Hi! I would like to help you with this problem. First we would need a better picture of the motherboard, where the damage as been created. (Screen port)
Second, you could always give a call to Essential, I think they offer a replacement for 200$? Still cheaper than a new phone and don't worry about purchasing a phone that doesn't come from AT&T, I have the Telus model and it's the same as every other essential phone on the market.
Hello Devs, OP fans, lurkers alike
So I've had quite the quirky experience recently. Thought I had a brick in my hand for a while. Then strangeness.
Last week, I left my phone on top the car after gassing up. Half mile down the road, it slides off. My music from BT goes out. I return to find the screen smashed, display black and unresponsive.
Back inside the car, BT connects immediately and my song picks up right where it stopped. The capacitive hardware still works, vibrates when I tap or hold the BackHomeRecent, turns the "screen" off when I hold home.(or at least Android thinks its turning off).
So I decided to replace the screen and digitizer assembly with a new one. After transferring all the components as per a 50 step procedure found on ifixit, I go to power on. Nothing. No lights, motorcars, not a single luxury.
Maybe charging will help? AC USB yeilds nothing. But then my pc recognized it as USB Bulk 9008. At this point, I'm just about to give up and go buy another phone, figured its Bricked enough for me.
An hour later, my Android alarm clock for work goes off. Screen still black, but the led lit up. I had to pry it open and remove a screw to detach the battery connector to shut it up.
Obviously Android still works. Defective replacement screen, perhaps? Maybe I Fudded the reinstallation Elmer style? Is there hope to save my device?
PS. Dev Options were off during the accident, PC didn't even recognize anything while it had its cracked screen.