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Root PHone is bricked? :((

xploPR said:
If they send you the virgin mobile branded, that im assuming that's the one you will be receiving, just keep both back covers, like that you could put it in your replacement, cause the only thing branded on your replacement will be virgin mobile letters in the back cover, the front of the phone just says HTC in the top center of the screen.
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The representative already told me to keep everything except the phone itself without the back cover. So I'm assuming they're sending me a refurbished one, which I don't mine. Refurbished ones get to go through retests to make sure everything works properly before they get shipped out again.

I think it would be cool to get the sprint branded one, then i have sprint on the front, virgin on the back. I get the whole family. :P
 
LakersDroid said:
No, it doesn't do anything. tried adb and it says device not found.
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That's because adb is an interface that depends on the program being present on the phone (within the ROM) and on the computer. If your phone is off, adb can't do anything.

How long did you hold volume up and down?
 
remanifest said:
That's because adb is an interface that depends on the program being present on the phone (within the ROM) and on the computer. If your phone is off, adb can't do anything.

How long did you hold volume up and down?
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around 15 seconds.

I tried every trick I could think of with the buttons, tried holding pwer down and then slide battery in place, tried holding power, volume up and down and slide battery in place (it was damn hard to do but I did it)

I've come to the conclusion that my phone is nothing more than a 6 oz brick. :o

It's just odd how it dies. lol
 
They already submitted it. I'm surprised at the fast service. Does this mean they're sending me a NIB replacement since it's being shown as a Sales Order.

Hi THOMAS,

Your order# is VMU588777064

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Enjoy!


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No, they have in house sales orders because you just ordered a replacement phone from them, even a battery gets the same treatment. :D
OB
 
OverByter said:
No, they have in house sales orders because you just ordered a replacement phone from them, even a battery gets the same treatment. :D
OB
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Ah okay, lol Well it's being shipped through Fedex Overnight and it says I will get it by Monday.

I miss having the phone in my hands already lol
 
ramjet73 said:
How about that. ;)

ramjet73
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Thanks ramjet, your advice to leave it plugged into the charger for 8 hours works!

Any idea why my phone would just randomly hit the "deep sleep"?

Something hardware related or is it to do with software?

The replacement is on its way, I'm gonna still replace it because this already happened once for no apparent reason. Could happen again and it could be permanent.

I plan on running the RUU once the replacement arrives here Monday then gonna send it back to them. Do they care at all if the phone would still be showing as "Unlocked and S-off"?
 
One of my buddies hard-bricked his sprint evo 3d. I have been playing around with it but I think it's toast. Well, I think I will leave it on the charger and hope for a miracle :)
 
LakersDroid said:
Any idea why my phone would just randomly hit the "deep sleep"?

Something hardware related or is it to do with software?
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I'm not sure what causes it or if there is only one reason for it happening.

The OP of this thread seems to have had a similar problem that was attributed to the SD card so if it happens again turning it on without the SD card inserted is another thing to try.

I heard about the charging overnight as a possible fix first in the JuopunutBear IRC channel and again in the unbricking thread on the Evo 3D XDA forums.

Edit: Check this post in that thread. Does that fit your situation?

ramjet73
 
ramjet73 said:
I'm not sure what causes it or if there is only one reason for it happening.

The OP of this thread seems to have had a similar problem that was attributed to the SD card so if it happens again turning it on without the SD card inserted is another thing to try.

I heard about the charging overnight as a possible fix first in the JuopunutBear IRC channel and again in the unbricking thread on the Evo 3D XDA forums.

Edit: Check this post in that thread. Does that fit your situation?

ramjet73
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I don't think my problem is that. I powered down without charger plugged in. I tried turning on without SD card. Nothing would work. So I just left it plugged in all night last night, this morning I just hit the power button while it was still plugged in, and it turns on. Viper3d booted with that awesome viper bootanimation. And all is working fine now, I could get into bootloader/recovery. No problem at all.
 
LakersDroid said:
I did that, and after I did that my phone went dead for a whole day. kinda ironic.:rolleyes:
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I doubt that was related to the RUU and you haven't had any problems since you re-flashed it over Viper3D have you?

Just don't want users to get the impression that flashing the RUU can cause problems since the only way that might happen is if it gets interrupted in the middle of flashing the bootloader.

ramjet73
 
ramjet73 said:
I doubt that was related to the RUU and you haven't had any problems since you re-flashed it over Viper3D have you?

Just don't want users to get the impression that flashing the RUU can cause problems since the only way that might happen is if it gets interrupted in the middle of flashing the bootloader.

ramjet73
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No, no problems since flashed RUU again. Been running pure stock with no problems at all.

I don't think the RUU would cause any problem. Totally would recommend it for people experiencing bootloops and other problems when they're flashing roms, kernels etc that should be working with their configurations. I was just kinda joking with that.
 
Replacement phone is here and it's just exactly how I wanted! Got a Sprint Branded one. They sent it with the VM logo backcover :) So now I have an extra one.

Just booted it up after spent like 3 minutes swapping phones on VM site. Hands free activation went flawless. I'm up and running again. :)
 
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