I'm hoping that someone on these forums can tell me what happened.
I own an HTC Desire 816. I've only had it for six weeks, it's worked perfectly fine so far, but today it did something very weird.
I have a 16 GB SD card in the card slot and about 12 GB are free. I tried to download a show through the official Utorrent app, and I set the directory to where the show would download to my SD Card. Perfectly fine, right? The show was still in the queue and it hadn't begun downloading as far as I noticed. In case it's important to know, this is the first time I tried to torrent to the phone. I was looking through my apps and I decided to delete one I didn't use, Plant Nanny. I begun to drag Plant Nanny to the Uninstall option, but then my phone began to lag. I thought, "Forget it, I'll delete it another time," and I instead dragged Plant Nanny to cancel. My phone was still lagging, terribly. I was on my home screen and I couldn't flip between screens. So I hit the power button on the side to put the screen to sleep. I then hit the button again. My phone's screen was not turning on. I held the button down thinking I could just power it off and power it back up but no, the phone was completely unresponsive. I plugged the phone into the charger and the charging light wouldn't turn on, the phone gave no response to anything.
I looked up some ways to fix this, I tried a factory reset (holding down the down volume button and the power button) and that didn't work. I held those buttons down for about twenty seconds but the only thing my phone did was make the little HTC chime sound that the phone makes when you turn it on. The screen didn't turn on, and if I tried a factory reset again it wouldn't even make the noise. For a second there I thought my phone was going kaput.
In some sort of last resort idea, I removed my phone case and removed the SD card. After removing the SD card my phone booted up, almost as if it had previously been in some kind of safety mode protecting itself.
The phone is working perfectly fine, nothing is lost, it didn't do a factory reset or anything. I still haven't re-inserted the SD card, and I wonder if I should. At the least, I'm gonna put the SD card into my computer and remove the torrent files before inserting it back into my phone.
So what happened? Why did my phone do this? The torrent seemed pretty safe, it's from a trusted site, and the torrent had positive comments. Whatever it was, I doubt I'll try to torrent to my phone ever again. I'm also glad my new-ish phone isn't actually dead.
I own an HTC Desire 816. I've only had it for six weeks, it's worked perfectly fine so far, but today it did something very weird.
I have a 16 GB SD card in the card slot and about 12 GB are free. I tried to download a show through the official Utorrent app, and I set the directory to where the show would download to my SD Card. Perfectly fine, right? The show was still in the queue and it hadn't begun downloading as far as I noticed. In case it's important to know, this is the first time I tried to torrent to the phone. I was looking through my apps and I decided to delete one I didn't use, Plant Nanny. I begun to drag Plant Nanny to the Uninstall option, but then my phone began to lag. I thought, "Forget it, I'll delete it another time," and I instead dragged Plant Nanny to cancel. My phone was still lagging, terribly. I was on my home screen and I couldn't flip between screens. So I hit the power button on the side to put the screen to sleep. I then hit the button again. My phone's screen was not turning on. I held the button down thinking I could just power it off and power it back up but no, the phone was completely unresponsive. I plugged the phone into the charger and the charging light wouldn't turn on, the phone gave no response to anything.
I looked up some ways to fix this, I tried a factory reset (holding down the down volume button and the power button) and that didn't work. I held those buttons down for about twenty seconds but the only thing my phone did was make the little HTC chime sound that the phone makes when you turn it on. The screen didn't turn on, and if I tried a factory reset again it wouldn't even make the noise. For a second there I thought my phone was going kaput.
In some sort of last resort idea, I removed my phone case and removed the SD card. After removing the SD card my phone booted up, almost as if it had previously been in some kind of safety mode protecting itself.
The phone is working perfectly fine, nothing is lost, it didn't do a factory reset or anything. I still haven't re-inserted the SD card, and I wonder if I should. At the least, I'm gonna put the SD card into my computer and remove the torrent files before inserting it back into my phone.
So what happened? Why did my phone do this? The torrent seemed pretty safe, it's from a trusted site, and the torrent had positive comments. Whatever it was, I doubt I'll try to torrent to my phone ever again. I'm also glad my new-ish phone isn't actually dead.
