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Bell Vogue keeps rebooting

Hi everyone,
I have had some trouble with my Vogue. At first it simply would not turn on. I would get a red light when I plugged the phone in to charge it. I have been using my old phone for several months now. Today I went out to the nearest Bell store and it seems like anything new is going to cost in the $500 area because I still have 1 year left on my contract. So I have renewed my interest in getting my Vogue working again
The original thread describing my original problem (with the red light) is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=546674
I purchased a new battery and now when I plug it in on the USB I can turn it on (no lights, red, green, or otherwise) but it does turn on. It boots up just passed the blue “Bell” splash screen and then reboots. It does this over and over again.
I am able to get into the boot loader screen by holding down the power and camera buttons and pressing the reset button.
Any ideas on what I can do? Any suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
The Fish

Reflash your rom when you get to the bootloader screen.
If you are unlocked flash nfsfan or whatever, just rename the nbh file to 'VOGUIMG.nbh' and it will flash.
If you were on stock you'll need the nbh from the stock package.

OK, here is an update
I have tried a hard-reset (press Send and End buttons at the same time and press reset button). This worked but the phone still kept rebooting. Tried the original battery, phone booted a little further up before rebooting.
I got the phone into boot loader mode and left it plugged in on the USB cable for a few minutes. This time when I rebooted I became ecstatic. I got all the way to the “align your screen” stage before hearing the “phone is dying” sound and the phone turned off. So here is what I think may have happened:
I have long lost the home charger kit. So I have, for as long as I can remember, been charging it by plugging it into a PC via the USB. This is fine except that Windows will only power the USB for the device if there is a driver installed. The device/phone looks different to Windows when it is in boot loader mode then when it is fully booted up. If the device is so dead as to not even have a flicker of life I don't think Windows sees it.
I have been doing this tonight under Linux. Linux seems to either have the driver, a more generic driver or powers the USB all the time for any device. I noticed this same behavior when charging my Moto Razr the same way. Under Linux it just worked by plugging it in. Under Widows I had to install the driver. So maybe here is what happened.
The battery got SO dead that it was not able to boot the phone up far enough for Windows on the PC to see it, recognize it and begin powering the USB port. Perhaps leaving the phone in bootloader mode and plugged into a Linux box got the battery a little more charged till I got to the point of being able to align the screen.
Anyway, I am more then ever convinced that this is some kind of battery/power issue. The phone is now lying here powered up and charging (already at 20%). The carrier customizations ran, rebooted while I crossed my fingers, and came back up. I even called *BELL and got a message about activating my phone. Tomorrow if the phone is charged up and behaving normally I will get an ESN change done and be back in the world of decent smartphones. Man have I ever missed my Google Maps
The next step is to flash a more up-to-date ROM... if I dare mess with a good thing.
The Fish

[Q] Help! My Nook is dead?

Hi,
mi n2e only with 1 week and has got frozen in the middle of a book. It doesn't respond. Soft reset doesn't work. Battery was about 50%.
I have disassembled it and try a lot of things, remove battery, connect to supply without battery... but the screen is in the same page of the book. There is no way to turn off screen.
Now with the nook connected to supply the led indicator is off and my computer doesn't detect it. This morning I got the light turned red (charging perhaps???) In this situation when I pushed button to turn off, the red changed to green for 2-3 seconds and then turned red again. And my computer detected it.
But now the light indicator is off again.
This is a gift from a friend in Usa. I live in Spain, so there is no warranty and for this reason I've tried to repair myself.
Any help, please? I'm desperate with it. I can't understand it fails in only 1 week.
Thanks.

> Soft reset doesn't work.
What do you mean by "doesn't work". It happened to me that my touch screen stucked but when I pressed "power off" button for a long time (e.g. 15 s) my nook rebooted and then if was OK.
But in you case whole system is stucked (no menu after pressing "n"), right?

Right. Whole system is out. Anything works... Now when I plug to power, there is no light on (led is off).

Hi Esfinge
Did you find a solution?
Same thing happened to me, I'm in South Africa, so can't take it back to B&N.
Got it brand new, charged it, connected to wi-fi, registered, loaded a book via Caliber (on Mac), switched off wi-fi.
The next time I picked it up it had the message that the unit is switched off and that
you have to power it up by pressing the power button on the back.
Tried removing the battery, did not help at all, also holding power button for 20 sec.
If I plug it into power the light goes green and then orange after a couple of seconds, if I connect it to a computer I can access the files on the nook.

esfinge said:
I have disassembled it and try a lot of things, remove battery, connect to supply without battery... but the screen is in the same page of the book. There is no way to turn off screen.
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Dude, it's a e-ink screen..
When powered down it still retains its last image, it wont go blank unless told to do so.
JDRZA said:
Hi Esfinge
If I plug it into power the light goes green and then orange after a couple of seconds, if I connect it to a computer I can access the files on the nook.
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That doesn't make sense, a powered down N2 will not mount the sdcard on your pc when connected via usb.
So if you're able to access the Nook partition while the N2 is still showing its "powered down" screen, you're in some serious trouble, as that would indicate the N2 is powered on and running, but not communicating with the e-Ink screen

So if you're able to access the Nook partition while the N2 is still showing its "powered down" screen, you're in some serious trouble, as that would indicate the N2 is powered on and running, but not communicating with the e-Ink screen [/QUOTE]
This seems to be the case, worked perfectly and then suddenly not, I might be sitting with a 'Friday' model.... anyone know where I can get a new screen?

JDRZA said:
So if you're able to access the Nook partition while the N2 is still showing its "powered down" screen, you're in some serious trouble, as that would indicate the N2 is powered on and running, but not communicating with the e-Ink screen
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This seems to be the case, worked perfectly and then suddenly not, I might be sitting with a 'Friday' model.... anyone know where I can get a new screen?[/QUOTE]
Screen is black blank, hasnt came back since it first shut off after the first or second reboot on the first try restoring it to 1.4.3. The Screen was working fine before I used it everyday then i wanted to switch roms from phirmod 7.1 to NookieJoyOS it worked but the wifey didnt like it. She wanted her original nook color back. So I went back to original stock rom and then i started having problems. At first i though i had formatted something wrong in cw3.0.2.8. Above I was stating scenarios in threads i was reading on what possibly happened.

dbole said:
This seems to be the case, worked perfectly and then suddenly not, I might be sitting with a 'Friday' model.... anyone know where I can get a new screen?
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I recently got an NST screen/digitizer for ~$40US on eBay, it took 5minutes to replace it.

[Q] N7 Failure

Had my N7 for well over a year, rooted, unlocked bootloader, all of a sudden it wont turn on... If I plug it in I get a blue screen, unplugged nothing..
Any Idea's out there?

mojimmy said:
Had my N7 for well over a year, rooted, unlocked bootloader, all of a sudden it wont turn on... If I plug it in I get a blue screen, unplugged nothing..
Any Idea's out there?
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Try opening the back panel of your nexus and unplug and replug the battery.

Leonhan said:
Try opening the back panel of your nexus and unplug and replug the battery.
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That did it...I usually just thump it on the side and it works...N7 flaw, thanks for your help..

I was reimaging my device from 4.4 back to 4.3 (since Kit Kit broke flash videos). Stupid me, I told it NOT to wipe my user data (even though I backed everything up, including the internal storage device). When it rebooted, the X logo was there, but it never would boot up. I'm assuming because it was because I should have wiped data. Oh, and it was fully charged before I did the reimage to 4.3.
Well, I tried to reboot it (did the reset) to try and get into the bootloader which I did. I wipe the cache only and then rebooted and that was it. Blank screen and nothing else. I can't tell if it's turned on or off. Plugging the charger into the wall outlet doesn't elicit any type of response on the screen. Usually, the screen turns on if it's already on or else, if it's off, you get the battery icon. Neither one happens.
The screen is blank (even when I press and hold power+vol up+vol down. I've hooked it up to the PC to see if I could hear at least the sound when it powers down on the reset and it does indeed do that. Then, it connects and then I get a different sound and the PC says it cannot identify the USB device connected when before all of this happened, it was working just fine (had to since I JUST used the N7 tools to flash back to 4.3).
I've also left it hooked up to the original wall charger for over an hour and nothing. Screen is still blank and never comes on no matter what I do.
I've also opened the back up (hopefully they can't tell if I've done this or not) and unplugged the batter, waited and plugged it back in. Still nothing.
I've uninstalled all the drivers, rebooted and tried it again. After it installed the drivers, still the same issue. It worked for almost a year. Luckily, I purchased the N7 on January of 2013, so I'm still under warranty.
Here's the problem: I unlocked the bootloader. Will this void the warranty? Am I hosed if I try to RMA it? I cannot get connected back to to an fastboot oem lock on it. N7 toolkit is useless (well, NOW it is since I have a non-functioning device), so I cannot do anything there.
I'm just trying to see if there is anything else I can do or is the N7 fubar'd? If so, does this mean they won't be able to keep my data (which is fine by me)? I would hate for them to boot it up and see the unlocked icon on the screen and then come back at me for money.

[Q]Bootloop and Battery not charging

Hi, so my phone decided to stop working all of a sudden.
I was just doing things on my pc when I heard my phone rebooting, after I had recenly plugged it in.
It's running the latest stock ROM and not rooted. When I try switch it on it shows the Samsung Logo and on some occations some pixels create a fuzzy area underneath the logo text and at the bottom of the screen, it then switches off and after a while tries to boot again. When I try charge the phone it goes to the battery icon with the loading circle but nothing moves and yet again some of the pixles of the battery icon become distorted and then it switches off and tries again(also it vibrates twice before showing the battery icon). I can boot into Dowload mode and my PC recognises the phone(as well as odin) but I can't boot into recovery, or Safe Mode for that matter. I can remove the battery when in dowload mode and the phone remains on but I need the battery inserted to start up anything. I've only had my phone for two months now. Maybe I could be moisture from my shower earlier, I'll leave my phone in a bowl of rice overnight to see if that does anything.
Please try help me fix my problem. I've been looking for a solution all night.
Also due to me being overseas I can't format my phone as I'll lose my WhatsApp validation and all the pictures I've taken so far will be lost.
Thanks in advance.

It's not a software problem so you don't need to format.
My guess would be that you need a new battery.

Lennyz1988 said:
It's not a software problem so you don't need to format.
My guess would be that you need a new battery.
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The battery isn't even swollen though?
I just tried starting up the phone by turning it on, then plugging in the cable and hitting the battery out but it still didn't boot.
Unfortunately I'm far away from a big city so I can't get another battery to test it to be absolutely sure though.

Update:
I just tried booting it again and it got to the other Samsung screen where the LED is Blue and the Logo flashes blue behind it(Only got here once, hasn't gotten this far again yet). I left it for a bit but it just got stuck there and there was the same distorted pixels like in any other type of screen I get to also the logo stopped flashing when I tapped the screen and pressed the home button(this is when the distorted pictures started again).

Here is an attached Image of the flickering part of the screen. It gets stuck on this screen and flickers at the bottom and just underneath the Logo and eventually turns off.

No one know the problem?

BaD_RoBoTs said:
No one know the problem?
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It's a hardware failure. Let's hope it's your battery even though it's not swollen.

Lennyz1988 said:
It's a hardware failure. Let's hope it's your battery even though it's not swollen.
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I tried a new battery today and it had exactly the same problems

So by some miracle it booted all the way to the lock screen and then rebooted from there right back to the lock screen again and I unlocked it and the home screen was fine and the phone seemed to function for a few seconds then it restarted and then got stuck at the Samsung logo again, I did manage to see that there was 17% Battery left so It has enough power to boot it. So I dunno what the hell could be causing it. It's such a weird problem I have no idea of how to fix it(within the warranty that is). I forgot to mention that the screen has 3 stress fracture cracks on the screen so somehow I think it is bending in my pocket, so that might be a reason why it's acting so weirdly.

I also noticed that if I leave the battery out for a decent amount of time and try boot the phone up it boots up for about 20 seconds and then reboots again into a bootloop again. Also the battery percentage is at 0% apon boot, by this stage I've plugged it into my PC to try pull files off of it(Which I managed to get some files off).

Nook Simple Touch not responding

Hello everybody. I'm new here, I came seeking desperately for help.
This morning, my NST have fallen from the table. In the past 3 years, I have dropped it a couple of times before. But today, when I picked it up, the screen was frozen, but it was displaying a page in the left 2/3 of the screen, while the remaining 1/3 displayed a different page. The screen was frozen.
I turned the device off (with the upper back button) and the screen went white, but I couldn't turn it on again. I plugged it to charge the battery. The orange light was on, and then turned to green, but still couldn't get any response by pressing any of the 2 buttons. When I plug it to the computer, I can acces the micro sd and the Nook's memory.
I've readed similar posts in this forum and I'm afraid it's simply broken, but I wanted to ask anyway.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

*Ruska* said:
Hello everybody. I'm new here, I came seeking desperately for help.
This morning, my NST have fallen from the table. In the past 3 years, I have dropped it a couple of times before. But today, when I picked it up, the screen was frozen, but it was displaying a page in the left 2/3 of the screen, while the remaining 1/3 displayed a different page. The screen was frozen.
I turned the device off (with the upper back button) and the screen went white, but I couldn't turn it on again. I plugged it to charge the battery. The orange light was on, and then turned to green, but still couldn't get any response by pressing any of the 2 buttons. When I plug it to the computer, I can acces the micro sd and the Nook's memory.
I've readed similar posts in this forum and I'm afraid it's simply broken, but I wanted to ask anyway.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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Your first description makes it sound like something in the display is broken
You say you turned it off with the back button, but what you really mean, I guess, is that the screen cleared completely? In other words did you get the little window that asks whether you want to shut down, or did the screen just blank?
If it really is shut down, plugging in the power supply should cause it to boot. If you plug in the power supply and nothing happens (no window saying it's charging?) then it may be on already or the display is simply broken and there's no telling what's going on.
When you say you can access the Nook's memory, do you mean you can see the internal storage? So the "drive" is mounting when USB is connected? If you have ADB access you could try to reboot that way.
I'm at a lost and the only other thing I can think of is to open it up, disconnect the battery for a bit, and then reconnect. But dropping repeatedly is not a good practice.

Thank you very much for answering, nmyshkin.
Now that you mentioned it, the display never asked if I wanted to turn the system off. It just went blank when I pressed the button... It shows no message when charging neither.
I can access the internal storage. I have no idea what ADB is (I'm quite illiterate in this matter) but I could search in the forum.
I wanted to open it, but I don't have the screwdriver for that weird screw the Nook has. Maybe I'll try it later, if I can find the tools, but I'm afraid it's gone... u_u
I know it's just a $70 reader, but I cannot buy it in my country and it was also a gift, so I'm very found to it.
Thank you again.