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Help dead desire, please help me :'(

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gazbut

Newbie
Hi all,
desire died yesterday.
Turned it on but then for some strange reason decided to turn it off again straight away.

anyway it's completely dead now.
Nothing! screen dead! no battery light if I put on mains, absolutely dead!
the phone is standard except for me unlocking it.

any ideas?
if the battery had died would it start off the mains with no battery in?
please help me? should I order a new battery?
or there a magic sequence of buttons to press or something else?
cheers
gazbut
 
More details would be nice, for example, what were you doing? Did it get wet? Was it hot?
 
Hi,
no damage, no water, no heat, no cold, nothing:'(

It started up ok, checked a txt then I powered down. tried to turn back on 2 hours later.
nothing.

gazbut
 
If you plug it in with no battery, does a power light come on?
Though I'm not sure if it should now I think about it, and I no longer use a Desire so I can't check.


Quick Edit.

Anything happen if you try turn on while holding volume down?
 
gazbut said:
hi again,

no light with mains plugged in.

nothing with volume held down.

its like it just died !

gazbut
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Are you still under warranty (HTC give 2 years from when the phone is bought)? Sounds like a hardware issue to me and your best bet to get this fixed.
 
I wasn't surprised that mine wouldn't boot on mains with no battery in - my expectation was that the lead provides power to the charger circuit rather than the phone, so with no battery the device can't boot.

But it did do something interesting: with no battery the LED would flash alternately orange + green when connected to the mains. So if yours doesn't do that it probably means that it isn't the battery.

Unfortunately no LED when connected to mains is bad news indeed. If the phone is less than 2 years old I'd suggest contacting HTC.
 
Hadron said:
I wasn't surprised that mine wouldn't boot on mains with no battery in - my expectation was that the lead provides power to the charger circuit rather than the phone, so with no battery the device can't boot.

But it did do something interesting: with no battery the LED would flash alternately orange + green when connected to the mains. So if yours doesn't do that it probably means that it isn't the battery.

Unfortunately no LED when connected to mains is bad news indeed. If the phone is less than 2 years old I'd suggest contacting HTC.
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Ta for clearing that up, like I said I don't own a Desire no more.
 
Tyseyh said:
Ta for clearing that up, like I said I don't own a Desire no more.
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"Hit the road Tyseh, cause ya don't desire no more, no more, no more, no more...
Hit the road Tyseh, cause ya don't desire no more! What ya say?"
 
SUroot said:
"Hit the road Tyseh, cause ya don't desire no more, no more, no more, no more...
Hit the road Tyseh, cause ya don't desire no more! What ya say?"
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that's me buggered aswell then. just have to go by memory now, which at my age isn't easy. :(
 
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