[Q]Devastating HTC Desire HD Problem[Q] - Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

After being on a few websites, I found a few people saying that this problem seemed to be hardware related, however I now know this is not true, as a hard-reset has managed to get functionality back again.
Anyway, I was taking pictures on my phone today, and I've only had it for two days. I took about 7 pictures with the flash on, and the saturation edited a little bit to give my pictures more colour, ect. Anyway on the 8th photo or however many it was my phone decided to turn off. This only happened if the flash was turned on, however if I went into the flashlight application the LED's worked fine... The only way to fix was by doing a hard-reset + the phone wouldn't turn on unless I removed the battery. As of now, my camera is working fine, but if this happens again, what should I do?

I heard of that. It seems to happen sometimes when the battery is low. Try charging your battery and see if this happens again
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Ah, thanks. At the time u was suffering from a low battery, and I was out on the country roads about 20 miles away from my house, that's a big help because if it happens again I know not to reset my phone. Thanks mate.
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OMW the drama of that title.
I was expecting a Bollywood script. Damn it, i want my money back

i had exatly the same problem on my desire hd with leedroid on.
i would take a photo, the first couple would be ok then bam the phone was off. to restart the battery would have to be removed. i cleared dalvik, etc and eventually reflashed with no change.
i gave up then all of a sudden i was getting sdcard unextpected eject on mp3 playback.....
this kept happening so i put the card into my pc and ran scan disk, no probs.....
i then decided to put my other 16gb card in and put that card into my archos a5a. when copying over i noticed the proccedure would freeze, then all of a sudden my open disk would show up. the card works fine when cool but as soon as fast moving data and lots of it (8mp pics for example) it would fail.
im currently waiting for a rma on that card as i have noticed it has a five year warrenty (pny) - could this be your problem?

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incredible restarting randomly

My incredible will restart itself randomly. There's no pattern to it, it runs fine when it's on or I don't see anything wrong with it. The only thing that may be different is that it hasn't been activated by verizon yet. Just wondering if anybody else is having this problem
Yes I do too.I have done two hard resets and it has not fixed the issue.
I plan on calling in for most likely a replacement this week. It's not the signal issue as I live in Ohio.
+1 random resets
1 Million Postings
<sigh> I feel like I should keep a text file on hand which addresses THIS issue, and one which answers "will the 2150mah battery need a new back" ...
Anyway, on THIS tried and true point, a google search shows:
http://community.vzw.com/t5/Android...DIBLE-HTC-Incredible-Reboot-Issue/td-p/191740
http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/05/03/htc-droid-incredible-reboot-problems/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/01/htc-incredible-suffering-random-reboots-for-tar-heel-fans-and-du/
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2010/05/02/htc-incredible-incredibly-reboots-persistently/
etc. In addition there are plenty of posts on this topic on PPCGeeks, Android Forum, and IncredibleForum
Hopefully a fix will come.
I've had my incredible for about a week now with absolutely zero random resets.. maybe the newer shipped phones got a fix?
mine randomly resets when in low service areas
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I believe mine resets randomly when the phone gets too hot (pocket, holder, etc).
Probably doesn't help much but two-three weeks ago my phone rebooted randomly 3-4 times over the course of about two days. It was always in an area with four bars of service and it wasn't overheating (to the touch).
Hasn't happened since then, though, so dunno.
I have had my phone for about a month and have not had a random reboot. I have had the HTC logo come up with a loading screen for a few seconds after shutting down progs with the Advanced Task Mgr.
I did not have any problems for the first few weeks but yesterday it rebooted on its own twice in two hours. Then it was fine the rest of the day. Nothing since then but I am watching it.
UgXvibe said:
I have had my phone for about a month and have not had a random reboot. I have had the HTC logo come up with a loading screen for a few seconds after shutting down progs with the Advanced Task Mgr.
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Ok, I take this statement back.. phone has rebooted 2 times in the past 2 days. I'm not sure whats doing it yet. Where I had the phone as I watched it restart is in a very low cell reception area.. I'm in the sticks so some spots in my house work better than others.
+1 for Random Rebooting , 2-3X a day
Once mine warms up it goes into an endless reboot cycle until i pull the battery. Make a call it reboots. Use the nav it reboots. I have perfect signal but the indicator jumps from 0 to 4 bars on all my phones like vzw has issues. Using my wm phone instead with no issues. Even not activated with a fresh rom flash it does it. What a pos.
I've had the phone for ~1 month and had ZERO random resets until I moved home from college. I always had full 3G service at school, but have 0-1 bars on 1X at home. I had two random resets today.
i got random restart until i pull out the battery.. finally i found the phone restart because of the sd card, i formatted the sd card then ok, but when moving the application to sd, the problem persist again, maybe it because some application cannot move to sd..
khaidir84 said:
i got random restart until i pull out the battery.. finally i found the phone restart because of the sd card, i formatted the sd card then ok, but when moving the application to sd, the problem persist again, maybe it because some application cannot move to sd..
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I've had this happen when putting apps on SD while using LPP. It apparently does not deal well when apps are on SD. Note: none of the apps I was using widgets and I read up on the LPP FC on reboot situation. But idk what the issue is for you but i've been able to reproduce a reboot when apps are on SD and I force a lot of CPU usage with LPP. Not an issue anymore though I just don't put apps on SD to be safe
after create partition on my sd using darktremor script for ext3.. my problem solve.. this is because the script in the ext3 informed to the system that the ext3 is phone storage..
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Random restarts, lag, etc
I've had my Incredible for about a year and a half, and it's been rooted all along. I kept getting the "low on space" warning, so I applied the "Convert2Ext4_no_data_limit_normal_dalvik.zip" fix from another thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488351)
But after applying this so-called "fix," my Incredible lags like crazy, randomly restarts, freezes, etc. For example, while typing this comment, it's trying to send a text to my wife, and going on about 5 minutes of the "please wait" screen while sending.
It's the standard incredible (ADR6300) running the stock ROM... :crying:

[Q] My desire making huge problems

I have a six months old desire (still under guaranty), not rooted, with froyo.
Lattely it it doing some weird things:
- randomly (once a day) the phone freezes, so i have to push home button after that happens and the phone goes to stand by, i cant wake it- the buttons lights up but the screen stays dark (i have to take out the battery to restsrt the phone)
-sometimes my phone isnt ringing when someone is calling
Can someone please help me, what should i do (should i root and try another ROM or sent it into repair?).
tank you
First try a normal factory reset. If the problem is gone you can root or keep using it unrooted. If the problem is still there just send it to repair.
I have already tried a factory reset and it is the same. Does that mean it is a hardware problem?
Would say so, if it's unrooted there is no other real reason for these problems. You can try to see if a custom rom fixes it but I wouldn't try to fix a phone still under warranty by breaking the warranty. Just send it back to HTC unless you can't miss your phone for a month.
Could it be possible that my sd card is causing the problems?
yesterday i have inserted another sd card and the phone seems working fine now.
I tried running the card i previous had in the phone on my computer ani it did not work ( didnt even find it).
So im wondering if the card was fault for the desire behaving weird? I gues i will have to wait for a couple of days and see what happens.
What do you guys think?
Sounds exactly the same as mine. I had to remove battery once a day due to freezing, missed so many calls.
Tried rom upgrades, factory resets, new SD card, still the same.
Finally sent it to HTC UK service who replaced the mainboard, all good now.
Phone was returned in less than a week, really happy with their service.
Same here sent it to repair got a new main board and all is good. HTC repair is better than most
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HTC DHD freezes up!

Hi all!
Since a couple of days my HTC DHD has been freezing up. Most of times it happens when i take it out of sleep mode. The bottom buttons (home, menu, back and search) do light up, but the phone doesn't respond at all. Sometimes this also happens when using the phone. The screen moves slowely, like a frame every couple of seconds before it freezes up completely. Only way to get it back on is taking out the battery and put it back in. I have installed Cyanogenmod 7.2 about a week and a half ago so i thought the problem might lie there but i switched back to Cyanogenmod 7.0 (which i have been using for the past 6 months or so without any problem at all) and the device still freezes up. This happens twice of more every day! I have wiped everything and updated all my apps and the problem still occurs. I'm really clueless on how to solve this problem.
I can provide a logcat but i have never used that before so i'm not sure on how to do this. Even then, how can i make a logcat when the device freezes up and i need to take out the battery?
Any help would be much much appreciated!!
Thanks!
Did you do a full wipe; all caches, Dalvik e.t.c
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The best way to get a logcat is using adb and perhaps a terminal emulator.
Try using the phone without the sd card to see if the problem persists.
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Thanks for your replies! Sorry for the late response but had to install SDK and get it up and running.
@ GuyInTheCorner, Yes did all that except for a full wipe. Don't want to loose all my data.
@ Teichopsia, Ok did what you said and i have Logcat running now. Just tested it and it seems to be working. It's huge tho with only a couple of seconds running! Now i have to wait for the device to freeze up again and i can get to my computer while it doing it. As soon as that happens i will make a logcat and post it here.
Thanks for you help so far!
You've changed roms without full wiping? Try it without the sd card to see if there is something in the sd card causing the problem. However, you will probably need to full wipe. If after the full wipe problem persists, check without the sd card, if so, wipe the sd card.
The logcat will help figure where the problem is, but I don't know how to read one.
@guyinthecorner: I beat you this time
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Teichopsia said:
You've changed roms without full wiping? Try it without the sd card to see if there is something in the sd card causing the problem. However, you will probably need to full wipe. If after the full wipe problem persists, check without the sd card, if so, wipe the sd card.
The logcat will help figure where the problem is, but I don't know how to read one.
@guyinthecorner: I beat you this time
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Meh, chalk one up for you
I agree with Teichopsia, do a FULL WIPE without SD Card to see what happens and take it from there
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Ok, so it took a while but my DHD finally froze up again while i had acces to a computer. So i did a logcat. Results are in the Logcat.txt file. I hope anyone out there can read it and figure out what the problem is. Many thanks in advance!!
I started a thread for a similar problem ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734707 ) but the behaviour you describe is identical to what was going on with my DHD.
Try disabling Wifi and see if it stalls up on you - Mine runs great so long as Wifi is turned off. With it turned on I get random freezes, and the screen not turning on with the backlit buttons lit. Removal of the battery is about the only way to get it to respond again.
I tried changing ROMs, kernels, recoveries, radios and bootloaders with varying results but nothing seemed to fix it.
I ALWAYS full wipe and clear any files relating to the previous ROM off the SD card when changing ROMs.
On 2.2 ROMs Wifi would just turn itself on and off, the phone would not freeze though. Wifi was mostly un-usable as data didn't seem to transfer 80% of the time that it was turned on.
On 2.3.x ROMs Wifi started out doing the same thing as on Froyo, but after about a week it started to freeze the phone and would not return from sleep.
On 4..0.x ROMs Wifi would generally cause a complete freeze of the phone almost as soon as it was turned on.
I hope you find a solution. Mine is the 24 month warranty.
@Max-E-Moose
Thanks a lot for your quick and thorough reply.
I get random freezes, and the screen not turning on with the backlit buttons lit. Removal of the battery is about the only way to get it to respond again.
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Sounds exactly like my problem. I see you have done way more research on this problem then me looking at the thread you started. So i guess the problem lies in the WIFI hardware then. If so, i could send it back for repairs. I also have 24 months warranty. Problem i have, my device fell into a bucket of water when i had it just 3 weeks (about 16 months ago) It never gave me any problems tho! Worked just fine until now. All my warranty labels turned red. I could pull them out and replace them of course. Or tell HTC that it got wet during rain and it was in my pocket. But that wouldn't be honest now would it. A friend of mine has a DHD as well but he tells me he never has this problem which makes me guess the problem only occurs with some builds of the device.
I have been using my WIFI a lot lately for tethering on my laptop. So i will try your solution of turning WIFI off first and just see what happens. Also i will go back to stock rom when ICS becomes available. See what happens ten.
For now thanks a lot Max-E-Moose for your help. I will update this thread if something occurs or i find a solution. :good:
Did u check for apps installed on sd. Try moving them on phone memory if u have space. That can help
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grigoriisi said:
Did u check for apps installed on sd. Try moving them on phone memory if u have space. That can help
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Nope didn't try that. I just ordered a new Samsung 32gb class 10 SD card. Should arrive tomorrow. Will try that first. Maybe it helps.
Thanks anyway.
Any luck ONeils? Updatey?
Due to where I am situated, I have not had the opportunity to bring my phone in yet so am still using mobile data almost all of the time.
I didn't mention before, because I forgot about it, but have you tried using WiFix Manager from the market? I read in another thread that this solved a similar problem for some people.
I think the process is: install WiFix, install the fix from the app, then restart the phone. It should be that simple, if it works - it does nothing for my poor DHD.
Currently using JellyTime Beta 7 and I have noticed that I can turn my WiFi on, and use it for a while, but if I forget to turn it off then the phone doesn't want to wake up once the screen turns off. Wifi hasn't froze the phone entirely on this ROM... Yet.

Desire broken for good in just a second?

Hello all,
BIG problem here.
A few hours I update the MildWild oxygen rom from 4.6 to 4.6.5. For a few hours everything went totally amazing. But a few minutes ago I turned on wi-fi, but he didn't connect. So I went to MySettings app, but he didn't response. Nothing worked anymore. Only screen of and on, but then I hadn't also the lockscreen. Then the screen turned off, and I couldn't get it on
Pulled the battery out, and put in back in, but my phone didn't restart. Now I plugged in the charger, even the light of charging isn't turning on.
What the hell is the problem with my Desire? He can't be broken in a second if everything worked super well a few seconds before that all?
Tried a different battery but also then he isn't doing a ****... This whole problem came just out of the blue, that's what makes it really awkward to me.
I hope you can help me, I don't want to leave my lovely Desire.
Greets Ramon.
After all sort of things trying, I thought... let's take the sd card out. And luckily he turned on, feels like heaven...
Sd card back in, phone worked also. Don't know what the problem could have been, but my Desire works again.
I hope this maybe could help some other people who had/have/ gonna have this problem!
Close thread please :good:
Hello,
This morning suddenly, the same problem happened... Turned the screen on, swiped to unlock, but during the swipe the phone hang.This time no fear, because I knew what I had to do: take out the SD card.
Too bad, this doesn't work this time. The problem is exactly the same as last time, but know even without the SD card, the phone don't boot, don't charge. Couldn't get into bootloader also. The day before yesterday I flashed Mildwild REDUX V1, but this worked good.
What could it be?
Thanks in advance!
Greets Ramon
Edit: The last time this happened, when the phone finally booted, I directly got a message called something like "android.....com stopped unexpectedly". So that was the reason the phone stopped. Now it would be the same problem I think, but I can't turn the phone on. I just called with HTC, and because I'm out of the warrenty period, I will have to pay the repair (if needed) I think it's not broken, it's probably the same problem as last time...
The phone 'works' again... But it's in a bootloop, and going to recovery results into a bootloop also so I can't access the recovery. So I flashed the recovery again using ADB, but still I get the bootloop! What should I do?

[Q] Spontaneous reboots on the ZL?

Has anyone experienced any spontaneous reboots on their ZL yet?
Mine has done it twice, both times while doing things related to Google apps or accounts. The first time my phone rebooted, I was actually adding my Google account after a reset to fix the notification LED issue. When I unchecked the option to backup and restore my Google account, my phone blinked the xperia logo, then rebooted (Sony logo, xperia logo, boot animation then done). It was a very quick reboot.
The next time, I was installing apps from the Play Store. A bunch of apps were queued up, downloading and installing over Wi-Fi. I hit the home button, then was about to open up a folder to check my Gmail app settings when again, the phone blinked the xperia logo and proceeded to reboot. When it was done, it continued to install my apps as queued from the Play Store, as if nothing happened. It hasn't done it since (of course, this was only a few hours ago).
My phone is not rooted & I have not messed with the bootloader unlocking or anything. It's 100% stock while I'm evaluating it against my SGS3 for a potential permanent switch. I've got the US C6506 model (black, on AT&T -- LTE is working fine).
I really, really like this phone so far, and I'm just hoping that these two reboots were a random oddity, not to be repeated.
Interestingly, I actually fully set up the phone yesterday evening, but when I discovered I had the notification issue, I reset it this morning and re-did all of it. The phone did NOT reboot at all yesterday in the 4 or 5 hours I spent playing with it, either. It sat in standby overnight without incident as well -- all prior to the reset today & the 2 subsequent reboots.
I guess from here it'll be a waiting game to see if it does it again, but in the meantime, I was curious if anyone else had seen anything like this with their ZL.
Yup, seen it twice myself. First time, I noticed that it had rebooted when I couldn't find any previously running apps. The second time I was in the Settings screen when it randomly rebooted. I was just about to click the Display setting when this happened.
I'm just running the stock ROM on the C6506 model. I'm keeping an eye out on it and will see if there is a pattern.
rajeshr said:
Yup, seen it twice myself. First time, I noticed that it had rebooted when I couldn't find any previously running apps. The second time I was in the Settings screen when it randomly rebooted. I was just about to click the Display setting when this happened.
I'm just running the stock ROM on the C6506 model. I'm keeping an eye out on it and will see if there is a pattern.
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Thanks ... in some ways it's good to know, and in others, it worries me. I hope it isn't a pattern, though. Thus far, I've used the phone since the two reboots without incident (music playing, bluetooth connections, and phone calls).
EDIT: A third reboot. This time I had just updated a few apps in the Play Store, returned to my home screen and was about to turn my Wi-Fi off when it rebooted. One common thread thus far is that my Wi-Fi has been on each time. I have no idea if that's related or not, though.
I have been using mine for 1 week and have not had any reboots. I am using the hspa version (c6502) and I am a heavy user
Seems to me that the random reboots are isolated to 6506 models. I haven't had one single reboot in the past week I have been extensively using mine (6502). However, while I was on CM10, my phone hung and rebooted like hell.
Yeah I'm c6502 aswell no random reboots.
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No reboots on C6502
Same here, have been using my ZL (C6502) for the past 22 days without a single reboot or freeze. Heavy usage for last week or so (wifi on all the time). I too think this and the low call volume issue might be specific to C6506 (LTE) version.
6502 here as well, no reboots so far and I'm rooted. Been about 2 weeks.
I'm starting to think this issue is unique to me and/or my phone -- at least my specific case. Actually, I'm glad for that, because I love this phone.
I realized I may in fact have memory card corruption. I'm going to explore that further, because I had some serious issues with my SGS3 corrupting microSD cards. I thought it hadn't done it on my current card, but I have discovered some corrupted sound files on it, so I think I'm going to do a format of my microSD and see what happens.
Thanks for all the input, folks!
I had some reboots in past one week
using since March 10th
today itself had 2-3 reboots
one more thing is had blank screen during a phone call also
we need Roms for this device I never understood
why there is so much delay in release of custom Roms
Once,
but not sure it was rebooting. Cuz the screen went blank. Then i had to press a tiny yellow button that says off near the sim slot. Then it came back to life. Plus my wake up button is kinda hard to press. Do you guys hv that problem?
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Once,
but not sure it was rebooting. Cuz the screen went blank. Then i had to press a tiny yellow button that says off near the sim slot. Then it came back to life. Plus my wake up button is kinda hard to press. Do you guys hv that problem?
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I wouldn't call that a reboot, at least not in the sense that I was seeing them. That's more like a freeze that would require a battery pull on a phone with a removable battery (I used to have this all the time on the Samsung Captivate).
My ZL was rebooting fully right in front of me (screen goes black, then the xperia logo, followed by the full normal boot sequence, just very rapid -- the boot animation is shorter than a cold boot).
Note -- I have not actually fixed my memory card yet, and I have not seen any more reboots. I'm nearly a full day on my current battery charge, too.
I have the C6506 also, and I get numerous random reboots also. I did get few logcats, but I have not seen any revelant info that causes the random reboots. I replaced my micro-sim, thinking it may caused modem panic reboots, but that wasn't root of the problem. However, I did notice that the reboots occurred less without micro SD card, but I haven't completely made that conclusion yet (I want to listent to my music!).
I also have a 6506 and have been experiencing some kind of reboot. Not a full reboot that the OP has been talking about, but one where my screen just turns off. At first I thought better battery stats was just having issues as my stats would end up all out of whack for no reason. Then today the screen shut off while in use. I only had to push the power button to get back to my lock screen. But again my stays were all out of whack. I'll have to pull the log later but I hope this is is just a software issue.
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I also have a 6506 and have been experiencing some kind of reboot. Not a full reboot that the OP has been talking about, but one where my screen just turns off. At first I thought better battery stats was just having issues as my stats would end up all out of whack for no reason. Then today the screen shut off while in use. I only had to push the power button to get back to my lock screen. But again my stays were all out of whack. I'll have to pull the log later but I hope this is is just a software issue.
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Interesting. I've replaced all my corrupted files on my microSD card as of now, and so far, aside from that first day, I have not had a single reboot of the kind I saw before. Actually, no reboots at all, and my current uptime shows it (111 hours).
What happened to me was I had had a bad microSD card in my SGS3 -- files would become corrupted with time on it. I finally replaced it with a new one, but apparently when I copied my data back to it, I inadvertently copied a few of the corrupted audio files (notification sounds, actually) but never noticed it. I realized this when I was resetting my notification sound for text messages and heard the signs of corruption in the file, and so I began to think my phone had been responsible for the corruption. I know now that that can't be true -- otherwise I'd have some corrupt photos as well, and I don't. Only a few select sound files were bad, and because I keep regular backups of the contents of my microSD cards, I just copied the wrong ones (d'oh!).
Of course, I've had random reboots on android devices before (Asus TF101), so I'm quite wary of them -- if I see anything further, I'll post about it.
I looked at the log and saw nothing conclusive that would be making my screen turn off. I also checked my up time and it hasn't reset, so I know it's not a true reboot. When I put my SD card in I just wiped it from the phone. The only thing I put back was music files. Thinking about that now it wasn't the clean start I usually give my phones. So I just wiped the card again and we will see today if anything happens
C6503 here and I've been getting a couple reboots a day since I bought it. 2 days ago I used PC Companion to solve another issue (random loss of network signal) by reinstalling the phone software and that seems to have fixed it. Unfortunately the random reboots are still present.
I don't use any SD card at the moment.
I've now been using my ZL for a month or so, and since that first day when I made this post, no spontaneous reboots at all. I have no idea how or why, they just stopped on their own.

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