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[Q] mytouch 4g wont turn on

so my mytouch 4g wont turn on even with a different battery. i plug it it in and it gives me a flash on th screen but thats it. any suggestion without sending it in

Take it to a tmo store, they'll swap it.

I got it off of Craigslist I think it was previously tampered with
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so i was in the process of doing a custom splash screen last night. i went through all the instructions on how to push the custom splash through terminal. everything went how the instructions said, but once i reboot it my phone turned off and never came back on. it doesnt power on, boot into recovery, nothing! i put the phone to charge and the red light comes on on the top left but when i take it off the charger it stays on.
i been rooted for about a month now and i was running cm7 build 8 when this happened. i just want to see if anybody has any idea on what going on. i tired everything i can think of. taking out the battery and normally powering on and nothing. taking off the battery and volume down and power to boot into recovery and nothing. taking off the battery, sd card, sim, putting back the battery and doing both normal power on and to boot into recovery and nothing.

First of all you just hijacked the guys old dead thread and second it sound like you just bricked your phone. As there is boot animation and there is slash screen. Seems like you flashed wrong thing. If the screen don't even turn on its dead then.
Sent from my HTC Glacier

Don't flame the poor guy! He's got it bad enough as is! And he didn't flash the "wrong thing" there are several threads on flashing splash screens in this phone's forum. Cut the guy some slack. He knows it may be bricked, he's just hoping it's not. And he was hoping for someone to provide some possible help. Not be be given **** for not opening a new thread.

i thread jacked because the thread was old and didnt want to clutter by starting a new one when im having some what the same problem. but no i pushed the splash image. i had already flashed a boot animation a few day back. i had call of android running on my phone as a boot animation. i just want to know is theres other methods of reaching hboot or recovery.

First of all don't put words in my mouth as my post does not contain any flame, second when I said wrong thing I meant he may not have meet the requirement for the splash image if he did correctly then obviously he would have had it up and running. Best thing for him would be going back to the original thread where he downloaded the image and asking the OP and troubleshoot it but at this point its to late all he can do now is warn others.
But if his phone is not old lol he can social engineer and play the victim card and send it back to HTC but first would be trying TMo saying he didn't get the POST OTA as he had PRE OTA and when he try to install the OTA it went blank and act like he has no idea what is going on, as he simply just want the phone to work or he will cancel service and do acting best of his life.

i already know i probably super bricked it. becuase ive bricked it before but not like this. i was able to fix it very quickly before. its like if the phone just doesnt have a battery. im just going to wait to see if anybody else has any more input. if not ill head to the tmo store see what they can do.

BlackSHELF said:
But if his phone is not old lol he can social engineer and play the victim card and send it back to HTC but first would be trying TMo saying he didn't get the POST OTA as he had PRE OTA and when he try to install the OTA it went blank and act like he has no idea what is going on, as he simply just want the phone to work or he will cancel service and do acting best of his life.
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I do apologize for using the word flame. It was too strong. But I get fired up when people criticize instead of offering insight. If you had posted the above paragraph first, I wouldn't have had any issues. This is good and viable option. Albeit a last resort, but much better than criticizing for thread jacking. And I am the OP of the thread that he's using and am doing EVERYTHING I can to help him figure out a way to get this resolved.

coupetastic-droid said:
i already know i probably super bricked it. becuase ive bricked it before but not like this. i was able to fix it very quickly before. its like if the phone just doesnt have a battery. im just going to wait to see if anybody else has any more input. if not ill head to the tmo store see what they can do.
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ok, I just got caught up on your issue. I am going to do a little research and see if I can come up with anything to maybe help. Do you have adb set up? What recovery are you running?

Same thing happened to me, flashed a rom rebooted and the phone never turned on again.

thanx every one for trying to help. i tried everything i can think of and i could not get that phone to power on at all. it was completely dead. so i went to the tmo store by my pad and they gave me a brand new one. now i just need to gain s=off on this one which i cant do for some reason. i dont know why since it was fairly easy to gain s=off on my other mt4g. ill figure out though.

coupetastic-droid said:
thanx every one for trying to help. i tried everything i can think of and i could not get that phone to power on at all. it was completely dead. so i went to the tmo store by my pad and they gave me a brand new one. now i just need to gain s=off on this one which i cant do for some reason. i dont know why since it was fairly easy to gain s=off on my other mt4g. ill figure out though.
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Don't know if you used this guide yet or not but I will post it anyway http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996

toby4059 said:
Don't know if you used this guide yet or not but I will post it anyway http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
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I aready got s=off but thanx anyways.
Sent from my CM7 Glacier using XDA App

Hi.
I had the same problem on my htc glacier (mytouch 4g) which was turn it on, stuck on the htcwelcome screen, keep loading and then turn off automatically. My phone is rooted and cusome flashed to the new htc 3.0 sense when this happened, i did a back up and restore to the oem mytouch sense and now it is working just perfectly. So if your phone is rooted you might give it a shot and hope it will work again

i had same prob kinda
i flashed a rom was useing it for a week and today i went to use camera and while camera was loaded the screen shut off like not beining used it did the crt thing and all then it wouln't come out of it so i pulled battary after like 5 min of a lighted black screen and went to power phone back on and nothing like no batt.....
anyways what i was geting to is that i called tmoble and they said it sounded like a hardware problem if you can plug it in to wall or car charger and nothing.. when i plug it into a usb on pc i get
hsusbs or something so u all might want to look into that.

i have s mytouch 4g it wont boot
i rooted my mytouch 4g ussing gfree and then i installed sense 3.0 rom and it worked then force closed left me in bootloader then from there flasheed cm7 worked good for 15 days then said force closed again then never turned back on aghain now when i plug it back in it tells me cannot install drivver software and it recognizes it as qhsusb_dload any solutions or its a gonner contact me at [email protected]

[Q] Hard bricked i337? Please help.

Hey guys.
Tonight I rooted my phone with the hopes of everything going smooth, it didn't. It was a nightmare rooting the phone itself.
I was trying to install TWRP recovery through Goomanager but that didn't work so I did it through fast boot and terminal emulator with the commands.
After it was done I rebooted my phone and it just went to a black screen with the blue notification light. Then the phone turned off. I can't turn it on at all nor can I get it to go into download mode.
I recently just got this phone, one week ago to be exact, as an early Christmas present and I haven't really even been able to enjoy the phone because I've had the flu. I just now recovered from it and this happens.
I am in a insanely bad situation.
Is there anything at all I can do? Please help me...
:crying:

If the phone doesn't show any signs of life (not even a bootloop), you're probably boned. Try leaving it charging overnight, try 'jumpstarting' the phone with just the charger/minus the battery (in one of the SGS2 sections, user KingRat detailed a method like this, do an advanced search of his username & you might find the thread).
They're about the only things I can think of to try & they're both very much longshots. From there, it might be JTAG'able or it might be a motherboard replacement; you're only going to find that out if you take to someone who does JTAG's & they try it.

Go to the customer service and act like you don't know what happened to your phone, if you are lucky you can get it replaced..
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N7 wont Boot after failed OTA update

Ok guys, i need the experts here. I just received a N7 tablet today off Woot.com for my wife for Christmas, so i unboxed it and turned it on.
Booted no problem and then i put on the charger. I turned it on because i wanted to install her games she plays on her phone so come
christmas day when she unwraps it the thing is ready to go. Well i left on charger and came back a few hours later and was prompted to install
OS update. I said to my self cool, no big deal. tapped it and it asked to update so i confirmed. The N7 shut down and loaded up with our favorite
little android with his chest cavity open for the world to see while he made himself better. But after some time he fell over and said ERROR!! i
said aw crap, and left it alone because i have seen this happen on my old HTC evo before and the phone recovered no problem. So i left it on
that screen and after a while the device did restart i thought ok good. But then it just got stuck on the Nexus loading screen, stayed on that for
about an hour before i started to get worried and looking online for help. Seems others have had this issue but i have not seen it on these
forums, although i did not look very hard either. So after reading and reading some more i went into bootloader and factory reset which did not
work. just stuck on nexus logo. i tried to install the update though the ADB sideload but always got an error saying invalid signature verification
failed. after reading some more found out the bootloader is locked and wont accept anything not signed. So i tried googles offical updates off
their site.Still got that error. Now i have looked into unlocking/rooting but you have to turn on USB debugging and also you seem to have to know
what version of android was on the device to start with which i never got a chance to look at. The website says it comes with 4.1 upgradable to
4.3. I have spend around 4-5 hours trying to get this working and i hope with the help of the people on here i can get it working so it can be a
great gift. If only i had gotten it from a store i could return it and have another one ready to go by the 25th but i know woot wont be fast to
exchange or asus if i have to go through them. Any and all help would be appreciated and thanks in advance for it. I am sorry i wrote so much.
N7 - android version----- unknown. possibly 4.1
Gen 1 or 2012 model
32 gig
wifi only

Try downloading Wug Fresh Toolkit. I used to use it all the time when I'd soft brick my Nexus 7 2012. It's a really simple tool to use and takes a lot of the guess work out of the equation. Should restore your device to stock, and it'll download whatever version of Android you specify for it.
If it works, I recommend going back and taking another crack at using ADB commands in the future, so you have a better understanding of the program under the hood. But for right now just get it up and running and ready for your lady to open on Christmas... Or at very least get it sent back in and get another.
Sent from CAMACHO, my Verizon G2 (VS980) running PAC ROM.

well using that tool seemed to make the problem worse. Now the bootloader wont even load up. When tablet turns on it says boot failed in the top left hand corner and the google name is shown. in the top right corner it says start and i can use the volume keys to go up and down to select recovery mode, power off, start, and restart bootloader. but always come back to same screen with the google logo where it just says google in white. What else might i try?

Nvidia Shield TV Pro, a Nightmare !

I got this thinking I am buying the best machine available for streaming and from day once , have been plagued by problems.
First on opening the unit, the AC adapter was faulty. It turned out to be a piece of plastic stuck between the contacts.
Anyway I solved that problem on my own as shipper refused to entertain any claims outside the USA.
Then when it finally got going, I noticed most apps had loading circles going around, and were waiting to download. Tried everything possible and they would not move ahead . Finally cleared cache and data on the Google Play Store app and the app started downloading for precisely one application then it stopped and again same circling. I had to clear data on the Play store app every time to update each and every app on the machine.
Then i couldnt find my favorite apps in the app store. Turns out , Shield does not support. Ok, no problem, i said lets compromise and move on.
Downloaded MX Player Pro from the Play Store and sat down to watch a 1080p movie on the USB drive and again the loading circle popped up on the screen. Buffering on a 1080p file from a usb 3.0 flash drive !!! I copied the file onto the HDD and again the same problem. I had no idea how to watch this movie, BTW had watched it a night before perfectly on my Alphawise H96 Pro+.
Then one by one all the apps started crashing.
I decided to do a factory restore which lasted 2,5 hours. After restore, same problem, all apps crashing.
I do not have anything connected to the Shield , no usb drive. no air mouse, nothing. Both ports are empty.
The surprising thing is even Google play store crashes , also the Lean back Launcher and the system crashes.
I called up Nvida support and they say we do not support the Shield as you are not in the USA. Guys, even the chinese from Aliexpress support you and give a replacement if item is faulty. All they ask is a video showing the problem. In todays times, there are going to be non us customers buying from the Usa, you need to support them also.
Stuck with a Lemon.
Cannot even sell it off as whoever buys it from me will throw it back in my face. The dam thing is just a few days old.
Havent slept three nights, trying to solve the problem, got finally tired and have connected the Alphawise to the TV and Shield goes back into the box
There are lots of other people complaining about similar issues but no fixes from Nvidia ?
If someone can please suggest something which I can try, I will be highly obliged. Else I am stuck with a $300 paper weight.
I did a Full Reset (2.5 hours) once and a Fast reset , hoping it would solve the problem. But no luck.
Please help, someone, please.

Wow, that sounds like a whole lotta suck.
Sorry to hear you had such hardship.
My Pro model had the blurry Recommendations section, which was a symptom of the faulty harddisk, for ages (before I knew about the mass RMA they had) and, one day, the Shield stopped responding to input, even from the capacitive power button on the device itself.
So I pulled the plug but it wouldn't turn back on afterwards.
I applied for a replacement here:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/home
Where'd you get yours?
I'd purchased mine as soon as it was released through the US Amazon - I couldn't wait the extra month or so for it to be released in Europe
Despite this, they processed the replacement. I sent it off to the Netherlands, if I recall correctly, and they returned the refurbished unit shortly afterwards, which has been working fine ever since; all the useless recommendations load quickly and there's no slow down or stuttering like I'd experienced before. I also got a new controller in the box with it and an EU plug. :good:
Anyways, my point is that it shouldn't matter where it was purchased. Try that link and see if you can't get it sorted.
I wish you the best!

DreadfulDrummer said:
Wow, that sounds like a whole lotta suck.
Sorry to hear you had such hardship.
My Pro model had the blurry Recommendations section, which was a symptom of the faulty harddisk, for ages (before I knew about the mass RMA they had) and, one day, the Shield stopped responding to input, even from the capacitive power button on the device itself.
So I pulled the plug but it wouldn't turn back on afterwards.
I applied for a replacement here:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/home
Where'd you get yours?
I'd purchased mine as soon as it was released through the US Amazon - I couldn't wait the extra month or so for it to be released in Europe
Despite this, they processed the replacement. I sent it off to the Netherlands, if I recall correctly, and they returned the refurbished unit shortly afterwards, which has been working fine ever since; all the useless recommendations load quickly and there's no slow down or stuttering like I'd experienced before. I also got a new controller in the box with it and an EU plug. :good:
Anyways, my point is that it shouldn't matter where it was purchased. Try that link and see if you can't get it sorted.
I wish you the best!
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I have the 2017 shield pro. and all though I wouldn't say it has been a nightmare, it hasn't been without its problems; such as apps randomly not responding with a message saying close the app or wait...slow down of apps opening at all to include settings not opening...streaming apps to include Netflix not playing or simply force closing...even Leanback Launcher stopping with the message Leanback Launcher has stopped...close or wait....I finally bit the bullet after posting on this forum and getting no response and did a wipe of data and dalvic from TWRP and re-flashed the 6.1 or 6.2 firmware. It seems to be running smooth so far. Got my shield from amazon. wouldn't expect this many problems from a $300 device that claims to be the best on the market. When it works without problems it is a great device!
Hope you get it sorted out. If nothing else works, it may be worth it to fastboot boot TWRP if you have an unlocked bootloader...wipe data and dalvic and install the 6.1 firmware update.

Real sorry to here you had so many problems Mate. Hope they sort it for you ....But if they fail to deliver (which they really should not, Take no excuses from them ,Polite but firm)
You have the option to get a Donner clone from a thread based in these forums ,along with further help in the threads below.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/nvidia-shield-tv-ssd-t3402580
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/guide-migrate-to-ssd-hdd-size-satv-pro-t3440195
I would almost Guarantee that it is your Hard drive at fault ...as your descriptive clearly points to this as the culprit.
I have read a number of post and comments in them threads ,and it is invaluable ... I am Dam sure many will bend over backwards to help you out.
Real shame the same can not be said concerning NVIDIA ...Hopefully they see your Dilemmas and respond dutifully.
Good Luck!
Best Regards,

Kindle HD 8 - stuck in recovery mode , cannot charge, cannot reboot , PLEASE HELP

So, I think Its a lost cause but I'm going to try. I was given a Kindle Fire HD 8 last Christmas. NO issues with it until 2 days ago when it suddenly when into a recovery mode and will only loop back into it. I contacted Amazon. They tried troubleshooting, rebooting, data factory reset... nothing. Im not even sure if it is charging. My ONLY option is to get a new one at a 15% discount.
I haven't ever had this one a year, but it only has a 90 day warranty. Its my 3rd Kindle and I love them. I just hate to buy a new one.
I am open to ANY suggestions.
Not feeling the Fire in Florida....
GUYNFTL

guynftl said:
So, I think Its a lost cause but I'm going to try. I was given a Kindle Fire HD 8 last Christmas. NO issues with it until 2 days ago when it suddenly when into a recovery mode and will only loop back into it. I contacted Amazon. They tried troubleshooting, rebooting, data factory reset... nothing. Im not even sure if it is charging. My ONLY option is to get a new one at a 15% discount.
I haven't ever had this one a year, but it only has a 90 day warranty. Its my 3rd Kindle and I love them. I just hate to buy a new one.
I am open to ANY suggestions.
Not feeling the Fire in Florida....
GUYNFTL
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If it doesn't boot to recovery, or doesn't turn on, or respond when being plugged into a PC, its pretty much dead.

Fire stuck
It turns on and will only go to the recovery mode screen with the various options. Amazon support said its out of warranty..90 days.. I hate to junk it..its only 9 months old...any suggestions???

If you can select 'adb sideload' or 'apply update via adb' then select it and reflash the firmware your tablet is on now.

How???
How do i sideload adb???
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Or flash the firmware???? Any help would be grateful

I found this link to sideload adb, you can try it:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/howto-how-to-restore-frimware-device-t3238740
Firmware:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74987123&postcount=2
I hope it will help

Could be the case
I recently bought a new fire 8 tablet and it did this. Tech support from amazon called and asked if I recently put a case on it. Yes I had. Took it off and it started right up. The case fit but the buttons were off causing it to go into recovery.

Thank you!
Jeanniem53 said:
I recently bought a new fire 8 tablet and it did this. Tech support from amazon called and asked if I recently put a case on it. Yes I had. Took it off and it started right up. The case fit but the buttons were off causing it to go into recovery.
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Thanks for this information! It was driving me NUTS! Took the case off and VIOLA! Back in business. Thanks again!