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Hermes bricked? Toasted? Need assistance urgently!

Before anyone jumps on me, I've been going through the Wiki and forums extensively, and found just one similar problem. Which wasn't solved...
My HTC TyTN/Hermes 200 won't boot up anymore. It is totally dead. I even can't get it into bootloader mode. Screen stays blank and the LED is off.
Put the (3 months old) battery in another Hermes to test it, and it's at 100% charge.
My Hermes shows a steady red LED when it's plugged into power without the battery in, and no LED at all when the battery is installed. The red LED turns off when the battery is installed while there's power going into the unit.
I've left the battery out for at least an hour, plugged it back in, same results. Like the other guy I tried the "pull power, pull battery, plug in power, plug in battery, reset" trick http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...6469&p=1077622 - to no avail.
Does anyone have any last resort ideas on how to get it to at least come back up to a boot loader screen ?

check the battery contact points on the phone. the hermes shows a red led when its plugged in but without a battery

... have you ever dismantled your hermes? your screen ribbon cable may have dead tracks or not be connected properly
just a test on the opposite side of the battery connectors with battery removed press firmly without putting pressure on the LCD, this worked for me when i had a white screen on power up.
if this fixes the problem you may need to actually dismantle the back and put some flame retardant electrical tape on the back over the existing tape to add an extra layer of pressure and retension

XtreMe_G said:
check the battery contact points on the phone. the hermes shows a red led when its plugged in but without a battery
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Yes, I have cleaned the contact too, nothing. And the battery is OK for sure, my colleague's TyTN runs on it without any problem.

Mattnokis said:
... have you ever dismantled your hermes? your screen ribbon cable may have dead tracks or not be connected
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In fact I have, I have totally dismantled and reassembled my TyTN yesterday afternoon, nothing.

the only other problem may be that when being dismantled you may have damaged some sensitive components, Electro Static Discharge will fry sensitive CMOS components, they do not like it at all, whenever dismantling you should wear an earth strap, any time i dismantled mine it was on a workbench with a static mat and i was earthed through the mat.
but this is one possibility, the only other idea is to swap main board and displays with another that works, finding someone willing to allow you to do this with a working hemes is the tough part.
thats as much all i can think of for now

R.I.P. my trustful Hermes 200
Thanks all for your assistance. I have come to the conclusion that my sweetheart is no longer among us. May she rest in peace.
I have obtained a (2d hand) replacement yesterday. May this one last longer.
I'll keep the old TyTN for replacement parts.
Oh well...

Hermes battery drains, Hermes won't charge, get brand new battery, still the same :O

Hello,
I'm sure my Hermes is not dead, I'm just having ridicious battery problems.
My battery completely drained out, I saw the screen fade out and kind of "die" as it happened. I then couldn't even charge the Hermes up, so it seems the battery just ran out of juice period. I googled around and it seemed the only way to revive the battery again is doing some complicated wiry thing with alkaline batteries.
But instead of that I just bought a new replacement battery. But it still won't charge! Does this mean my Hermes actually did die? The battery WAS extremely low so I'm certain that it was the battery. The phone can't just die like that.
Thank you so much for your help. N.B. the phone LED won't even give a red light when plugged in without battery in. I hope that's not a bad sign...

Hey there just a guess but I had a simular problem in the past and it seemed to be due to a defective camera part draining power. Only way I was able to fix it was to remove the camera part and then put it back together.

If the red LED doesn't come on when you connect to the power without the battery then your Hermes is dead, good only for parts.... If the LED does light up, connect the battery and see if it turns amber(orangey) that means its charging.
It could be the internal fuse blew. Might be replaceable but could be costly....

Yes, after reading that other people could usually still see a red LED without the battery, I gave up.
Sigh...well at least I got to see my Hermes die...the screen gradually fading away in front of me....sniff.... I will miss it dearly.
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But life moves on and hey hey hey I'm the proud owner of a new Blackstone! I just wasn't ready to upgrade yet...I wanted to wait until a capacitive screened successor to the Touch HD came out...sigh
But I suppose deaths of family and friends don't happen when you're ready for them
Goodbye my Hermes

eyupwolf said:
Hey there just a guess but I had a simular problem in the past and it seemed to be due to a defective camera part draining power. Only way I was able to fix it was to remove the camera part and then put it back together.
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Dear eyupwolf, I have similar problems.
Camera just works some times, but after that it can not be initialised again and drains my battery out. So I don't use it anyway (since 99% times tried it didn't work). If I do, I have to reset Hermes many times to set things up.
Can you describe the procedure how you fixed (removed) that problem?
Thank you,
F

battery wont charge
I got the same problems with the Hermes 200. I tired the 3 AAA battries in serial connection but it didn't help.
I even tried to cool the battery for 30 mins in the freezer (an old trick to squeeze the last little bit from the battery) the phone turned on for about 10 seconds but the os never loaded up. the phone shows red when connected to usb without a battery but led turns off when battery is insterted.
I ordered a battery on ebay, but until it arrives does anyone have any other suggestions?
thanks
Scuter
PS. It had Olipro 2.10 spl and recently installed the amazing golden globe v9 rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=458456
which is amazing.

wont charge,water indicators

Hello. first sorry for my english. i have 2 questions.
1. My touch HD was water damaged. but when he was off. i clean it. he is totally dry now. everything works fine but when i want chrge it, it shows that he is charging and small light at ON/OFF button lights up but it is not really chargeing the battery. whats wrong with my HD?
my solution is buy external battery charger but i wont know your solutions
and 2nd question- where are water indicators on HD? are there any on the top or only on the mother board ? thanks

Arkaz999 said:
Hello. first sorry for my english. i have 2 questions.
1. My touch HD was water damaged. but when he was off. i clean it. he is totally dry now. everything works fine but when i want chrge it, it shows that he is charging and small light at ON/OFF button lights up but it is not really chargeing the battery. whats wrong with my HD?
my solution is buy external battery charger but i wont know your solutions
and 2nd question- where are water indicators on HD? are there any on the top or only on the mother board ? thanks
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You may find that your battery was damaged when HD was in water. One way to test this is to tty it on another HD, or try different battery in your HD. Take phone to Orange or other supplier and test it. Also, a replacement battery is very cheap as well.

the two main water indicators on the hd are
on the battery along the same side asthe contacts are on and
in the battery slot on the phone there is a white panel behind the baterries contacts
the one on th battery should be white with red cris cross lines when ok the one on the phone should be white

thanks i found first on battery but secnod i cant find. he is hiddne under black plastic ? it is on MB ? thaks
and i try other battery. same problem. everything works. it shows like charge but really it is not chargeing the battery

ok the second pne is one the phone behind the batteries contacts its just a white panel
then it seems like the phone isnt dry inside and is crudded
youll need a new phone by the sounds of it

this phone was in service. my friend work in one mobile service. he clean ist with alcohol. everythings wotks. activesync mini USB works well. but it looks like that energy doesnt go to the battery. hmm crazy problem. but i bought this HD for 80 euros = 115 dollars with all accesories and box and warranty

Arkaz999 said:
but i bought this HD for 80 euros = 115 dollars with all accesories and box and warranty
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You bought your HD for 115 dollars!!!

broken battery?

hi all, my first post. Sorry I'm late. I have a pop up message on my hd2, 1 week old, thats says " your phone's battery is broken and cannot be recharged. Please replace". i have spent the last week troubleshooting. I have come up mt. Tried 2 new batteries, flashed 3 roms, nothing changed. Anyone see this message before?

Nope. I think you should get a replacement.

When the HD2 is put on charge, I show a solid orange LED for a couple of minutes, then a flashing orange and flashing green.
Is this normal?

I think mine just has a solid orange light. Have you contacted HTC customer support?

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When the HD2 is put on charge, I show a solid orange LED for a couple of minutes, then a flashing orange and flashing green.
Is this normal?
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Not normal. It should be solid orange when charging, solid green when full.

Thanks guys, that helps me out. I thought the flashing LED's were a good thing. Guess not. I keep wanting to blame WM operating system because that strange error message "battery is broken" had to have been programed into it right? I have looked into a sim problem, I checked the micro USB terminals, seem ok? Is it possible the orange and green LED's flashing back and forth represent a diagnostic code?
I appreciate any input. I will contact Htc tommorrow but I would really like to fix this myself.

I am looking into power differences as I am in Canada and this device came from the UK. Maybe theres a difference there giving me this strange error.

I had the same experience about flashing led while on AC charging, then it appeared some odd issues,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=606093
I still have this issue that charging on a AC power, therefor I have to charge the battery via USB to PC, and it is interesting that I am in Canada as well.So the Canadian voltage is not match HD2's ? thats funny.
I suggest you can release the energy to empty, as possible as you can,then recharge it via USB-PC.
I did contact to the HTC support, and seems they are extremely slow to response.
What a pain, a wonderful phone has so many bugs, at least mine is.

I had this message pop up the other night. Soft reboot wasn't working, but after taking the battery out and putting it back in again it started working fine.....

Just a note to put this thread to bed, i have talked to htc today in the UK and the USA and It is heading to the states for repair. Both countries said they had never seen the error message I was getting. "Your battery is broken and cannot be recharged. Please replace your battery."
If anyones interested I will let you know how this turns out.

I got a call from HTC HK yesterday, the HTC guy has never heared my problem as well, he didn't provide me any solution, I said I will contact them again after I get my new battery and this issue still exists.
I hope a battery replacement will solve my issue, otherwise, I have to send it to repair as yours.

Similar Problem
I had the same green LED, pause, orange LED, pause, etc. pattern and my battery would not charge; turned out to be the middle prong on my HT2 that connects to the battery; another person had posted the solution of bending that middle prong down slightly and it worked. Good luck.

i had the orange/green led a couple of days ago and after taking the battery off i noticed one of the contacts bent over after bending it back problem has gone

darryl22 said:
i had the orange/green led a couple of days ago and after taking the battery off i noticed one of the contacts bent over after bending it back problem has gone
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This LED flashing warns of a malfunction in the charge circuits.
There's is a hardware fault that needs warranty attention.
Or closer inspection of barry contracts.

darryl22 said:
i had the orange/green led a couple of days ago and after taking the battery off i noticed one of the contacts bent over after bending it back problem has gone
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Thank you darryl22... Had exactly the same problem with one of my HD2 and changing the battery didn't solve it... but bending the middle contact did!

i have not met this problem,
a new battery will help maybe

[SOLVED] Issues after display replacement [LG G2 d802] Red led blinks 8 times + more

I don't know if this is the right section, anyway because it isn't specifically hardware related I posted here... for admins feel free to move in the appropriate thread.
My G2 dropped on the floor and as result I got a complete broken display plus not working touch.
The device, touch apart, worked without issues so as 1st step I made a full backup of sd-like content (music, pictures, etc...) to my laptop.
note: even if touch didn't work I was able to access the device trough adb and a very useful utility (http://marian.schedenig.name/2014/07/03/remote-control-your-android-phone-through-adb/)
Next I ordered a replacement for the display, looked for instructions and changed by myself... and the phone didn't boot or even charge... nothing, the only signal of life was when attached to the wall charger the led blinking in red eight (8) times consecutively then no blink for a second and again blink for 8 times and so on in an infinite loop.
Of course I started to look for solution and tried every kind of combination but none worked.
I started to think that I missed up something during the display replacement or the battery fault or even I fried in some way the motherboard, anyway for what I read it supposed that could be that the battery gone under certain voltage or minimal charge so the motherboard circuit didn't recognize as "good or safe battery", it is simply bypassed by charge circuit.
note: I waited for the new display about 10 days and the device (fully charged) slept (turned off) in a drawer so I don't think it was totally discharged
I disassembled and reassembled again the device but nothing happened so while looking for a solution I saw a video on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwknmWCmOE) solving a issue similar to mine so as instructions I took an old charger (800ma), cut the charger connector and exposed the 2 internal wires (one red and the other gray/black).
Then I opened the device, disconnected the battery and attached directly into the battery connector the two charger wires (in this way mobile motherboard is bypassed).
I used a small piece of tape to stop and make touch laterally the 2 wires to the connector, something like: dark wire -> [ battery connector] <- red wire
Keep in mind that the connector is something very small like (0) where left parenthesis is for dark wire and right parenthesis for the red one.
note: you can't wrong with wires, because the positive (on the battery connector) has a small white triangle.
Of course I found a way to don't move/mess wires before connecting the wall charger... I put another piece of tape at 20cm on the table to keep the cable charger fixed near the phone, then I attached the wall charger...
remember: attach the charger to the wall ONLY when you have finished to place/fix the contacts!
Waited just 1 minute because exposed charger wires was very close and didn't want to fry something... but it was enough!!
Reconnected the battery and voilà the phone turned on!
The phone turned on with almost 80% of charge, all seemed to work... except that I found 2 issues... I suppose because the case didn't match perfectly anymore (I opened the device 4 times and disassembled-reassembled twice)
1st speaker didn't work, so I reopened the device and checked the speaker connector, I discovered that the speaker didn't touch very well so I put a small stripe of tape under the connector (the small vertical green stripe in the lower side of the phone) to lift it and making touch stronger with the speaker module (the black part the come out), here on Youtube for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2FPmFUrQQ
2nd GPS didn't work very well (discovered after a couple of days) so I reopened the device and applied this solution that worked perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfS4LpfcLfg
This is my story in the hope to help someone, if you have apparently a total dead phone and the only signal of life is a 8 times blinking red light... now you know what to do!
Regards,
Davide

Thank u for share your story

Congrats on fixing your problem!
suiller said:
The phone turned on with almost 80% of charge, all seemed to work... except that I found 2 issues... I suppose because the case didn't match perfectly anymore (I opened the device 4 times and disassembled-reassembled twice)
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You mentioned the alignment of the phone wasn't the same as before....
Did your battery swell or change shape at all during this process?
If so could be a sign its on its way out and needs replacement.
A dying G2 lithium ion battery changes physical shape and completely alters the internal alignment of your components.
May be worth an extra 10.00 to replace your battery at this point with a new one

tiguy99 said:
Congrats on fixing your problem!
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thank you, I was a bit frustrated because I thought to have broken the motherboard, even if it wasn't very easy I didn't surrend and I won!
tiguy99 said:
You mentioned the alignment of the phone wasn't the same as before....
Did your battery swell or change shape at all during this process?
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I understand what you mean but no I don't think so... it seemed the same size
anyway battery has less than 1 year of life and never showed symptoms or bad behavior, right now is running as before... I can pass easily 24h without recharge

suiller said:
thank you, I was a bit frustrated because I thought to have broken the motherboard, even if it wasn't very easy I didn't surrend and I won!
I understand what you mean but no I don't think so... it seemed the same size
anyway battery has less than 1 year of life and never showed symptoms or bad behavior, right now is running as before... I can pass easily 24h without recharge
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Sounds good!
Have you found the source of your alignment being off?

tiguy99 said:
Have you found the source of your alignment being off?
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I checked and found nothing in particular... just a bit near the sim "area", but it seems just a sort of plastic adaptation... as mentioned before I opened, disassembled, reassembled and then closed it 4-5 times (in just few days)