Root Dying Phone?

[Katsu999]

Back in October I followed the procedure here, it worked perfectly (CM7 20120717) and I have been very happy for 6 months!

Tuesday morning it had a black screen, no lights and no buttons.
Would not soft boot.
Removed battery, rebooted - HTC came up for 20seconds, then black screen.

Booted to FASTBOOT, and cleared caches, no joy.
Cleared Dalvik cache, no joy.
Gave up and did Factory Reset, then cleared all caches, and reset Partition.

Reinstalled CM7, and all looked OK, but its running like a one-legged horse on Valium. Sicker than a runt street dog.

Example : Random soft reboots.
Example : I receive a text, but type to reply, and no text comes up onscreen.
Example : I can receive a phone call ok, but if I try to dial a number, the phone stops for 3 minutes, then either starts calling, or the phone app crashes.
Example : The Wifi fails to reconnect after waking up the screen, a reboot does not always help, or doing a 'Forget and Reconnect'.
There are many more issues, and everything is running very slowly and jerkily all the time.

Is there another step I should do before reinstalling CM7 that will clear things up,

...or...

Do you think a piece of hardware has failed? (RAM or a chip blown?)

Or any other ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Frisco]

Gave up and did Factory Reset, then cleared all caches, and reset Partition.

Did you run the device much after the FDR and prior to the partition reset? If so, how were things looking (before re-installing CM7)?

I'm wondering if an sd or sim card issue is what you're looking at. Sometimes fixable by simply removing and reinserting with the device shut down. Sometimes in need of replacement (either or both).

 

[Katsu999]

Thanks for the reply!

I did check the SD card in a PC and it was reading OK.
Put it back in and ran 'Fix Permission', but nothing changed.
After the partition wipe I don't think I ran it, just put CM-7 back on, so don't know what it ran like in no-ROM mode.

After a week unable to use it, I've given up and bought a Nexus 4 (for about half the price of an iPhone) - its huge, and I really liked the small WFS - but just having a raw Android phone, not clogged up by Sense and Orange apps (so no real NEED to install a new ROM, except preference) is fantastic.

Maybe someone will make a small but powerful phone one day, instead of thinking all power users want a humongous screen.

 

[goozkan]

it could be because of boot.img you can repair it ithink. or you can give it to someone else who needs.. have fun with your new nexus!