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HD2 Bricked???

Alright, so I think I bricked my phone! I had put android on it. 2.2 bluetopia? and everything was running fine. My battery was low so I go to charge it, but before I do that a page I was loading from the net froze on me without realizing and the screen dident turn off. I left and did some things and come back to the phone, screen is still on, still frozen and EXTREMELY hot. I get really nervous and get my phone and its to the point where I cant even hold it for too long without it hurting my hands. I take out the battery and pray for the best. My praying sucks apparently because now it does not turn on. Ive tryed letting the phone cool down though the night and it does not turn on. Ive tryed taking out sim card and mem card and it does not turn on. Ive tryed taking out the battery and plugging the the charger it does not turn on. Ive tryed with the battery with the charger it does not turn on! phone gets warm when I put the battery back in. Light that indicates when its charging with the charger doesnt turn on. only slight good news is when I turn the power on I feel a slight vibration from the phone like if its trying to turn on but just cant. Hope someone could shed some light and let me know If I should just move on because this sucks!!!!
ps. I hope people learn from my mistake.
pss. What are the return polices from htc or tmobile? Im concerned because I bought the phone second hand.
thanks for reading/helping.

As far as any return/exchange, it's definitely a no on both HTC &T-Mobile... And if she won't even boot at all, it sounds like a classic but common overclocking mishap.
Sorry to say, but it may be time to move on.
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One question for my personal understanding: Android ROMS that are offered here on the board are not innatelly overclocking my HD2, are they?! Now I´m really anxious, due to the fact that i´m using biffmod and my HD2 gets much warmer during strong usage (e.g. gaming)

Try doing a hard reset
Hold Volume up and call end button, it will go to the multi color screen and do a factory reset, this will erase all your data.

If possible, can you try a different battery? If you killed the battery by overheating (which is often easier than killing the phone using the same method), it might not even get to the first screen without power. A sure sign to see if it's your battery, is check the feel of it. if it's in any way bulged or kinda squishy it's probably fried, and if it's just the battery that's a lot cheaper than the whole phone.
In fact, I've gotten quite a few nice phones for real cheap, since the original owner thought it was "broken", when all it needed was a new battery.

cavemaneca said:
If possible, can you try a different battery? If you killed the battery by overheating (which is often easier than killing the phone using the same method), it might not even get to the first screen without power. A sure sign to see if it's your battery, is check the feel of it. if it's in any way bulged or kinda squishy it's probably fried, and if it's just the battery that's a lot cheaper than the whole phone.
In fact, I've gotten quite a few nice phones for real cheap, since the original owner thought it was "broken", when all it needed was a new battery.
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+1 on this. I also had one phone like this before. Change the battery.

it ended up being the motherboard. i sent it in for repairs through htc and they fixwe it. i tryed your guys suggestions on trying a different battery but it still would not turn on. lesson learned, Im going to try to avoid Android on my phone from now on.

queefinout said:
it ended up being the motherboard. i sent it in for repairs through htc and they fixwe it. i tryed your guys suggestions on trying a different battery but it still would not turn on. lesson learned, Im going to try to avoid Android on my phone from now on.
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Hate to hear what happened, but staying away from Android doesn't really seem like a solution to me. The percentage of bricks due to Android is very small, so I'd say go out, have fun with your phone while it's still up to date (lets face it, hardware improves too quick) and don't be left behind with WinMo 6.5. That's just not worth it imo. If you stick to non-overclocked kernels you really are pretty safe.

probably go 2 the shop and try 2 get a battery tested into your HD2
if that works, buy the battery

StephanV said:
Hate to hear what happened, but staying away from Android doesn't really seem like a solution to me. The percentage of bricks due to Android is very small, so I'd say go out, have fun with your phone while it's still up to date (lets face it, hardware improves too quick) and don't be left behind with WinMo 6.5. That's just not worth it imo. If you stick to non-overclocked kernels you really are pretty safe.
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you know what, you make a lot of sense. i did enjoy android quite a bit and will continue to use it. funny thing is I bought the hd2 just for android and did that until my phone broke and now im kinda liking winmo a lot now.

Weird Issue!

My tab was sitting on my desk in sleep mode. I picked it up and tried to unlock it and it seemed frozen for a moment, then let me swipe. It seemed fine after that. A few hours later I picked it up again and it was very sluggish and the back was warm and my battery at 15%. (it was at about 50% a few hours earlier) I rebooted it and it's fine, but I am wondering what caused it to get so warm. I know that happens when it's being used a lot but it was just sitting on my desk. There were no apps running in the background. Any ideas what could have happened? I haven't installed anything new in the last few days.

Are you running stock?

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Are you running stock?
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And we assume ICS (apart from stock)? But there are quite a few threads on the increased power-consumption on ICS (Stock and other). So might be some run-away process or service. What is the highest battery-user according to the device info? And how much? Has ICS gotten rid of the dialer goof-up for non-3G tablets?
P.S. Like the off limits (slap on the wrist) of the better half's tablet, same here :laugh:

Yes assuming ICS...my bad lol. It was more of a "tell me everything you've done lately" type of question. I have noticed increased battery consumption myself but that's why I switched ROMs today. If I lose a couple extra ticks on the battery in exchange for the performance I've gotten I can live with that
And yes I will lose whatever part of my body touches the wife's tablet. She's heard enough profanity in the last month as I got my feet wet hahaha!

Yes, stock ICS. Sorry for omitting that!
The highest battery user is the screen. I'm thinking maybe the tablet froze and I didn't notice it. Having the screen on constantly for several hours is probably not battery friendly. I'm concerned because it's still warm between the Samsung logo and the camera on the back. It's not hot or anything, just noticeably warm, and it's just sitting there charging. I'm not using it.

I have (or you can do it yourself) to delve in other threads, where they dismantle the tablet. Is it a P7500, or just a plain P7510? I thought that the 3G radio-part was about there where it still is hot (residual heat probably by now), but I can be mistaken. If this is a P7510, then I do not know what would be there at that location. It certainly is not the battery, that is much lower...
I will try and find what is about there, but other solder-happy soldiers must be able to tell you exactly what is located there.
Anybody?

BretonGirl said:
Yes, stock ICS. Sorry for omitting that!
The highest battery user is the screen. I'm thinking maybe the tablet froze and I didn't notice it. Having the screen on constantly for several hours is probably not battery friendly. I'm concerned because it's still warm between the Samsung logo and the camera on the back. It's not hot or anything, just noticeably warm, and it's just sitting there charging. I'm not using it.
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A friend of mine had a similar problem with his galaxy s2 locking up and needing a long-press power reboot to get it working again on stock ICS 4.0.3. The culprit ended up being android os in battery stats, but the problem has not happened again yet. As for the warmth on the back of your tab, this is caused by the processor running at full speed for extended periods of time. If your screen is on, and you are interacting with it a lot, then you should expect the upper left back side of the tab to heat up and not cool down until you stop using it. This is normal... if it continues to stay hot for long periods of time after the screen is off, then you are probably not going into deep sleep mode because of a rogue app. If you are rooted, install better battery stats and CPU spy to do a little more digging. Good luck, I hope you figure it out and get your tab running the way you would like it to.

I figured out what it was. I'd seen the Ebook icon in my app tray and tapped it. It took me to the Samsung App store. I left immediately but that visit apparently installed "Samsung Push Service" which was taking 62% of my battery and causing 100% wake lock. What a POS! I uninstalled it and everything is normal again. Won't ever visit the Samsung App store again.

I froze that app. Ugly. Glad you worked it out!

Help me get out of APX mode it is really jammed up.

This is not another just my Nexus 7 won't turn on after running out of battery or regular SOD problem. I dirty flashed to the latest LeanRom from Smoothrom 4.3 and it was running well through out the day with the exception of SOD's during the day about 3 or 4 times. I used it until 23% battery and it shut off. I plugged it in and it was rather difficult to get it to boot through button pushes holds and combos. It booted up and I used it while it was charging untill it was around 70% battery and I went upstairs with my tablet and got in bed and used it for a while... It was around 60% and I plugged it in again and went to sleep. Keep in mind I left it overclocked as I always do with M-kernel b35 *1.7ghz default kernel voltage. and GPUat 766mhz 1295mhz voltage. Keep in mind I always manage my Temps. via apps and it never gets hot in my hand not even very warm. Only spot it would ever get even a little warm is lower left back where I think the CPU or GPU is located because that is where the Heatsink is located. I am not sure if it possibly overheated and fried it.. But as I said I have had a generous overclock on it for 3 months. Again it never became very hot ever! Anyways that morning I grabbed it and hoped in my dads car and as usual it had SOD'ed overnight. I began holding the power button for a few mins. A couple of times. It went too the Google logo with the unlocked bootloader and then i tried to turn it off and boot it again because the kernel has never been friendly with the 3.34 boot-loader. It has always had a weird time starting the os and me having to hold the power button untill it goes black and starts the Google logo and then shows my boot-loader and will start up and I release the power button. Well after that last Google logo I have not been able to power it on at ALL not even backlight glow I have charged it 15 hours and nothing. I have spent HOURS researching this and there are no links on Google that have helped. It is not the regular SOD or out of battery not starting issue. It also it not recognized by my computer and I can only see that it thinks it is called APX or something by my computer. I was hoping that some one could help. I even removed my battery and plugged it back in. I have tried all button pushing nothing... I have called ASUS but there warrenty BLOWS. Any help would be much loved =] I love my nexus =[
@@[email protected]@-- [email protected]@[email protected]@--Haha so guess what Asus fu ( ked me royaly after paying $30 dollars for shipping to Grapevine Texas and my tablet is still not turning on. It's not the charger or cord I have tried enough of those to know its not that. Is there any hope at all or am I sending it in again... also there "tech repair" people ****ed the **** out of my tablet under the hood the battery was lose yes I know I tried that too. The copper heat sink was ripped and sticking up. Stickers ripped apart. They had better send me a refurb back. To the guy before I was simply refuring too when I dirty flashed. Not that the def had anything at all to do with it. It was my dirty flash. I am rather mad about sending it in again. Any advice.. Thanks!!!

I now realize that it is APX mode WTF how in the world can I get out of it without a replacement is there anyway at all???

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1789135&page=2
Mabey ill button jam while in comp for a while and see =/
situation seems grim...

If it is in APX mode, it will take 15+ seconds of holding the power button continuously to get a restart.
IF that is the case, the black-and-white Google logo will come up - if you press Vol-Down precisely at that moment, the tablet will proceed to the fastboot screen. If you don't press Vol-Down, the tablet will attempt a normal boot.
Assuming that the hardware is not damaged and the battery has a decent charge, you can always get to the fastboot/bootloader
...it was running well through out the day with the exeption of SOD's during the day about 3 or 4 times...
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LOL. You seem unusually tolerant of non-determinism.
good luck

bftb0 said:
If it is in APX mode, it will take 15+ seconds of holding the power button continuously to get a restart.
IF that is the case, the black-and-white Google logo will come up - if you press Vol-Down precisely at that moment, the tablet will proceed to the fastboot screen. If you don't press Vol-Down, the tablet will attempt a normal boot.
Assuming that the hardware is not damaged and the battery has a decent charge, you can always get to the fastboot/bootloader
LOL. You seem unusually tolerant of non-determinism.
good luck
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Hey, thanks for responding to my thread. The issue is that my tablet will not respond to anything that I do. When/if I get a new one I may not overclock the GPU as high as that may be why my tablets *****ed*

bump..

It'd be awesome if someone could be of assistance on this issue because I think it could come in handy in the future for people.
Thanks.

[QUOTE=Nexus7
As far as apx mode no one knows how to fix it yet your tablets basically a paper weight.. Sorry dude, you can attempt to send it back and see if they will fix it but that's basically all you can do right now, or sell it for parts
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

OK so now i'm wondering if ASUS RMA will know I'm rooted and charge me.. The guy on the phone asked me if I wanted my os restored I said no but I'm a lil worried. Also in USA does ASUS RMA take forever and will they prob. send me a shiity refurb?

xfrancis14 said:
As far as apx mode no one knows how to fix it yet your tablets basically a paper weight.. Sorry dude, you can attempt to send it back and see if they will fix it but that's basically all you can do right now, or sell it for parts
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Uh, what? This is only the case if you borked the bootloader, which should still be intact in his case. Apx mode is basically a service mode that's even lower than the bootloader, it's just that we don't know how to use it.
I insist that you keep holding the power button or perhaps play with the charge more.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium

korockinout13 said:
Uh, what? This is only the case if you borked the bootloader, which should still be intact in his case. Apx mode is basically a service mode that's even lower than the bootloader, it's just that we don't know how to use it.
I insist that you keep holding the power button or perhaps play with the charge more.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium
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I have trust me it's not turning on at all. Thanks for replying any other suggestions are much loved and needed lol. I have until Monday when I mail it out to get it fixed.

Nexus7<3 said:
I have trust me it's not turning on at all. Thanks for replying any other suggestions are much loved. I have until Monday when I mail it out to get it fixed.
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EDIT_ I ducked taped my power button down and i'll see if maybe it comes out of APX death-mode. Also what are the possibilitys I fried a internal inside such as power supply. CPU or GPU? with the overclock...

Nexus7<3 said:
EDIT_ I ducked taped my power button down and i'll see if maybe it comes out of APX death-mode. Also what are the possibilitys I fried a internal inside such as power supply. CPU or GPU? with the overclock...
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Yepp deader than a door nail. Any ideas are helpful

Nexus7<3 said:
Yepp deader than a door nail. Any ideas are helpful
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Out of the 400 ish people who have viewed the thread there are 0 suggestions or hints?

[QUOTE=Nexus7
Sorry dude there's no hope, not trying to be mean but there's simply no hope
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

766mhz was a silly number to go to for a chip that doesn't even have air cooling. Sorry, but you were asking for that to happen, whether you felt it getting hot or not... It was trying to tell you something by not starting up and crashing overnight all those times...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

knuckles1978 said:
766mhz was a silly number to go to for a chip that doesn't even have air cooling. Sorry, but you were asking for that to happen, whether you felt it getting hot or not... It was trying to tell you something by not starting up and crashing overnight all those times...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
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I don't really think I fried it now tbh. I think the Rom did it

Nexus7<3 said:
I don't really think I fried it now tbh. I think the Rom did it
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I don't think so at all. I think YOU fried it. I don't mean to be harsh but you can't blame the dev's around here because you OC'd your tab way to high, and killed it.
As stated before, did you not think the SODs were trying to warn you of something.

Nexus7<3 said:
I now realize that it is APX mode WTF how in the world can I get out of it without a replacement is there anyway at all???
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If you got in APX mode then the bootloader is gone for good. The tablet is not able to boot any more.
It happened the same to me while flashing the 4.2.2 stock ROM: something went wrong right after the "fastboot erase xxx" commands and my tablet died.
I have searched the internet for any solutions but I failed miserably. I reverted to ship the tablet back to Asus for assistance.
Well, they picked up the package on Thurs 21 and I got my tablet back on Tue 26.
Repair was covered by warranty even though I had the bootloader unlocked (that's a mandatory step in order to flash a stock rom from Google).
They actually replaced the mainboard instead of reflashing the firmware.
That suited me fine.

slvrbllt said:
If you got in APX mode then the bootloader is gone for good.
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N7s that are operating correctly can enter and exit APX mode at will; by itself, APX mode does not necessarily indicate a problem. ( Failure to get the boot loader to appear obviously is a problem.)
For devices operating normally:
- From power off, Vol-Up+Pwr (3 seconds) puts the N7 into APX mode.
- From APX mode, holding power for 15+ secs loads the bootloader - which will attempt loading the (regular) boot partition. If the Vol-down button is pressed within about 1 second of the b&w Google logo appearing, this boot sequence is interrupted and the boot loader proceeds to fastboot mode.
Just a clarification that seeing APX mode does not necessarily equal disaster. As you were!

Blu Vivo Air 4G LTE in charging bootloop

I've seen a few threads about bootloops but so far not one like this - or one with a solution. In the past if my Vivo went dead when I'd try to charge it, like now, it would start to charge, power on to the white/black Blu Bold Like Us screen then power off for a few seconds and repeat. It's like it never gets enough charge to go any further than that. I've tried a few chargers where I am (traveling) and it seems none can get it enough juice to finally get past this and power on.
Any thoughts if that's the issue or not? Any way to stop it from trying to power on constantly automatically so it can build up some juice before doing so? If that's not the issue any thoughts on a way to fix?? I really love this phone but am gonna have to finally get something new if I can't correct this.
Thanks,
-Ross

Well once again on xda I'll answer my own question. I finally found a 2.1 Amp charger after using some others and bingo, it charged up just fine. So odd that such a small device needs such a strong charger...

Help: Bought used HTC 10, it started randomly reboot, now stuck in bootloop, stock sw

I guess Santa gave me a lump of coal this Xmas... I finally treated myself to an upgrade from my trusty One M7 and got an used S-offed HTC 10 from Swappa. Yeah I know... as a poor grad student, funding is pretty damn tight.
The phone is in good physical shape - no obvious signs of abuse. However, in the first week of use, I experienced a couple random reboots, and the phone itself was getting hot (>40 degrees C) while just texting and on wifi, with airplane mode on. Battery life with that usage pattern and load was maybe 1.5 hours screen on time. Deep down I knew something felt off, as that's WORSE battery life than my 4+ year old One M7. But I thought hey, it's a used phone. I was planning to flash TWRP and custom roms on there, maybe the debloated roms will help.
When I finally was able to flash TWRP and Santod's debloated stock rom, it was okay. Still some random reboots, but I loved the new phone so much, I was okay with it.
Until it got worse and worse. To the point where unlocking the phone will make it freeze, then reboot. At first, it was when the battery was low, like 40%. Then gradually it started freezing and rebooting at higher %, until it started doing it with a full battery.
Fast forward to just before Xmas - the phone is unusable. It will reboot show the white HTC boot screen, then black out, and start again. Bootloop forever. All while plugged in. I noticed the charge light isn't on even when plugged in, I guess during the initial seconds of booting up, it relies on battery power alone? Such a bad design if true
I've had to leave it overnight. I would wake up to a seemingly dead phone. I'll plug it in, and it would show the charge screen. If I turn it on then, it would go into bootloop. It won't even make it into recovery, stock or TWRP when I had it. If I let it charge until the charge light is green, it MIGHT boot into the welcome screen. It'll freeze up after a few taps, then back to bootloop.
My best guess is the previous owner abused the battery so bad that the cell is completely ****ed. I regret that I forgot to ask about the battery life before I made the purchase - I was just too excited about getting an upgrade from my M7 As of now, I am back to my trusty M7, which although slow and janky, it's 100% stable and still has usable battery life.
I paid $200 for the HTC 10, which might not be a lot of money to some, but it is to a struggling grad student like me. The phone is nothing but an expensive paper weight right now. And I never got to enjoy it Has anyone experienced similar problems with their 10? I am so angry and sad...

Roughly the same thing happened to a friend, we got our 10's at right around launch. We had similar battery usage, we both played a lot of Pokemon Go which is hard on the battery. Mine has been running custom ROM's as far back as when Sunshine was still mail in, his is purely stock S-on. His started doing the same thing as what you are describing a couple months ago, we even tried a RUU and while that helped for awhile he traded it in asap for a Pixel 2. There are a few reports of this going around, not sure if it had to do with a recent update from Verizon that borked something or if it's a hardware flaw, either way you are probably better off trying to get your money back or trading it in to HTC of Verizon for something newer