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[HTC Sensation] aapman88:
My phone is starting to show the same symtons again. Overnight it also has shut down. So i guess the sd format did not get rid of the problem. But on my phone it definitively made it less frequent. As before the format i had it 5 times a day and now i have it once a 2 days. Probably will get worse overtime as the last time i had it.

Let me know if u succeed, i contacted HTC today and they told me to factory reset my phone. Not looking forward to that, do. Might do it next week.

forgot to ask, did HTC give u those out of warranty our did u buy them yourself?
[HTC Sensation] splayer7:
Let me ask you a question. Have any of you polished your covers to chrome? I have had the same issue of my phone turning off in my holster, but only when I have my polished case on it. When I put my spare one that has not been touched, the phone works flawlessly. Not sure if there is some weird static buildup that is shorting the phone. Also, to get it to turn back on, I have to pull the battery first.
[HTC Sensation] Hamsn:
I had the same problem on my Sensation, turning off randomly (not reboot). And the battery would display wrong reading once it is back on. Initially I thought this was due to bad rooting or a custom ROM issue, I restored back to stock and right there on the language selection screen on first start and without the SD card, it went off. That made me sure it was a problem something else. I thought then it would be due to bad charges in the battery, used different charger to charge, didn't work, then I replaced the battery, somehow the problem stopped and when I insert back my old battery the problem still didn't come back. I don't have an explanation to this behavior. It works fine now.
[HTC Sensation] aapman88:
That sounds weird, I didn't polish my back to chrome... And I also do not need to pull my battery to turn it back on. A few times I had that it turned of and it would directly turn of again after it was restarted (home screen loaded). The only way to get out of that was to hook it up to the charger.
[HTC Sensation] Hypercore:
It's really odd. I can't even use the phone any more.

When I turn it on, as long as the screen stays on it will not turn off.

Once I lock it and put it in my pocket, about 40 seconds later it shuts off. This isn't just powering down, it just instantaneously shuts down. I also can't turn the device back on no matter how many times I press power, I have to physically pull the battery and put it back in to turn it on.

One more thing to add: My girlfriend smacked my phone out of my hand once accidentally and the case doesn't click in. It stays in place but if you hold the case and attempt to take it off it falls off. I'm thinking it could possibly be a problem regarding the pins, but from what I know the pins only control the screen.

Edit: One last thing, when it's connected to my computer and being charged it never shuts down.
[HTC Sensation] anari101:
Read

I had this same problem two days ago. Left work and my phone just shut off while in my pocket. I was running sense-o-maniac Desense 3.5. It continued this behavior for the next day. Also my battery was showing random charge percentages. There were two issues"

1. I was had used the battery calibrator app from the market to erase my bat stats - problem - it kept erasing my battery stats.

2. I was using set CPU and after reading many dev forums about such issues, I realized that setting the idle below 384 mhz, it causes the phone to random reboot.

Once I conducted a complete wipe and flashed MIUI I was good. no issues.

My Suggestion: Try a complete wipe, then Android Rev HD wipe, then reflash, Wipe cache, Davlick Cache, Fix permissions, then reboot. Drain the battery, then recharge to 100% and wipe bat stats

TMO US Sensation 4g

Baseband:10.56.9035.00P_10.14.9035.01_m

Kernal: 2.6.35.14-Bricked-v1.5-ondmnd-1536-192.show-p1984

ROM: Sexy MIUI 1.12.9.01
[HTC Sensation] Noppe:
2nd factory reset and reformatting the microSD did not solve my problem...

@anari101: I'm a big fan of custom roms, but currently my sensation's still running a stock rom. I'd rather not void the guarantee at the moment by flashing it as the phone isn't functioning properly. If i can't fix this problem without flashing a custom rom, i can return it to HTC and hope for a repair or a new device/battery...

Anybody got any other ideas?
[HTC Sensation] aapman88:
i also dont want to root a phone that might have problems.

I did not do any factory reset yet, but the problem is comming back now i have once a day it just shuts down. The last time when i picked it up and pressed the power butten the screen was white for a split second. However if i look at my history of battery monitor widget it stopped recording an houre earlier. clueless to why this happens.
[HTC Sensation] Talon25:
If your phone is rooted, I agree with anari - use current widget and battery calibration to re-calibrate your battery. Let phone charge all the way and then some like another 2 hours. Use battery calibration to get rid of batterystats.bin. Let battery completely drain (Hopefully it doesnt shut off in the process). Definitely seems like something is wrong with your ROM's battery settings.

If you dont have your phone rooted. Have you received any updates lately? If a factory reset didnt help - go to your local Tmobile and just have them ship you a new phone. Not worth dealing with the issue and they can get you a new phone within a couple days.

EDIT: If you have NOT factory reset your phone. You can try to copy all data off your SD card, reformat it. Insert it, let the phone recognize and set it up then add everything back on. If that doesn't work, factory reset (after using Astro to backup all apps). If THAT doesnt work, go get a new phone.
[HTC Sensation] joseph.langr:
I am having this same problem. Mine always happens when I take my phone out of my pocket after it's been sitting for a while. It also seems that my battery is always around 30-40 percent. It will unlock then just turn off. I turn it back on and after about 30 seconds it turns back off. The only way I can get it to stay on is plugging it in to the charger for a couple of minutes after turning it on and it won't do it again for a while. I don't know what it is but I'm thinking battery or SD card.
[HTC Sensation] Noppe:
To rule out the SD card as cause i simply removed it from my phone today, to no avail... Phone still keeps turning off, going to the shop tomorrow.
[HTC Sensation] snah65:
HI,

I still got the same problem, they get worse while I am waiting for a answer from the shop, the battery i get was service from the shop, I did not pay for it...

Still got no answer on the question if its only with the normal sensation or does it happen also with th XL or XE wit beats?
[HTC Sensation] apex84:
I get the exact same symptoms. I made a post a few hours ago thinking it had something to do with switching between networks as it almost never crashes when I'm stationary/at home, and as someone mentioned, never when the phone is being charged either by USB or the wall charger. But if I move around in the city it crashes several times during the day. This started around the time I started using WCDMA in addition to GSM.
[HTC Sensation] joseph.langr:
I tried swapping my battery and clearing the battery stats. It didn't shut off once for over a week. It went on a spurt yesterday and wouldn't stay on for longer than five minutes. I tried taking the sd card out and when that didn't work I booted into recovery. It still shut off. The way I finally got it to stay on was plugging it in to the charger.
[HTC Sensation] Noppe:
Somehow my phone is cured. I ran it in safe mode for a couple of hours, it didn't turn off then, and ever since (5 days) it doesn't spontaneously turn off anymore. Hoping it will keep on going like this :)
[HTC Sensation] bobsie41:
I was having the problem reguarly until i tried the ics test RUU for a short time.

I have since flashed back a stock 2.3.4 rom and have been running it for several days without this issue. :)

Co-incidence?.......Perhaps
[HTC Sensation] tlloyd87:
I have this problem too, with a regular Sensation (not XL or XE). It seems to be split into two sub-problems: spontaneously turning off and reactively turning off.

The phone can either turn off spontaneously in my pocket, which I don't notice for an hour or two until I need the device for something, or it can turn off reactively when it displays the lockscreen. This usually (but not always) happens when turning the phone back on after a spontaneous shutdown.

I seem to have found a way to work around the reactive shutdown, besides putting it on charge. I grab the lockring as soon as the lockscreen appears, in the split second before the phone shuts down again. It seems that if you grab that ring and just hold it - without actually unlocking the phone - while everything loads, the reactive shutdown doesn't occur and you can use the device normally.

I have another interesting anecdote, which may or may not be meaningful. The other day I flashed a newer RUU, (RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.50.401.1_R_Radio_10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2_release_228602_signed), to see if the problem was fixed in newer software. I'd previously been on rooted stock, (1.45 I think), and then Virtuous Sensation, which I believe was based on 1.73. Virtuous made it much worse, possibly because it's from an XE RUU not quite suited to my device? I don't know.

Anyway, what I found was that in the day or two that I was using the 1.50 RUU the phone didn't turn itself off... until I switched to the "weather" lockscreen from the default "wallpaper" one. So now I've switched back to the default lockscreen, still on this (unrooted) RUU, and I'm waiting to see if the problem persists.

I'll report back with my findings, and in the interests of a fair experiment try to resist the urge for now to send in Revolutionary and get all my lovely root apps back :)

Also Hello XDA, long time reading first time posting and all that, hope I'm not too terribly noobish :)
[HTC Sensation] maverick0729:
To kinda shed some light on this situation here and several other postings about random reboots and such, try going into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache, then fix permissions. If that still doesn't help... next would be to do a process of elimination to find the culprit of the random reboot. And always, always do a superwipe prior to switching between roms. This process usually prevents any hiccups in the flashing process.

(use this template to give me an idea of where to troubleshoot next)

ROM:

RADIO:

RIL:

KERNEL:

MODS:
[HTC Sensation] johnsmith970:
I was having this same problem with the mytouch 4g. I spent 6 months trying to figure it out and returned EIGHT phones to T-Mobile that had the same issue. All of them bone stock and not rooted. I tried custom roms too to no avail. Eventually I figured that the mytouchs design was just faulty and I switched to the sensation. I really hope its not a general problem with HTC hardware. I don't want to move to Samsung :(
[HTC Sensation] apex84:
How do you enter safe mode?
[HTC Sensation] Levraimatt:
I am getting this as well now that I've upgraded to ICS/Sense 3.5. I'm going to try to find a workaround but it's a no-go for me, can't have a unreliable phone (at least to the point where it can't be trusted) unless a fix is found within the next few days...
[HTC Sensation] maverick0729:
try clearing cache, dalvik cache, and fix permissions. If that still doesn't cure it, let me know. Also what you can do, nandroid backup, then run the superwipe script, flash the updated RUU, then restore the rom you just backed up.
[HTC Sensation] Levraimatt:
Maverick,

replied to your other post, I reverted back to 3.6.9 but will another shot later on today. Quite frustrating really, as I really like ICS...
[HTC Sensation] tlloyd87:
Kernel:

2.6.35.13-g1e13373

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

SMP PREEMPT Mon Sep 5

Everything else is encoded in the RUU name I gave in my last post... Although this stock RUU doesn't seem to be misbehaving so much, maybe best just to wait and see.

Inside a RUU the RIL should be correctly matched, right?
[HTC Sensation] Noppe:
Turn your phone off, then turn it on and as soon as splash screen appears push the volume rocker down and hold it until the phone vibrates and you see safe mode at the bottom of the screen.

Btw, problem has returned but only like once every 2 days.
[HTC Sensation] yasinis:
same problem here, many times it turns off, when getting a call or making a call.

running miui 1.12.30.

with 1.12.23 it was gone away for a couple of weeks - but after updating to the newest version, it come back again :(
[HTC Sensation] tlloyd87:
I've traced it to a kernel panic due to a null pointer dereference, but I didn't see where that was. So pretty useless information really, I guess :p

When I get some time I'll see if I can pull the kernel log out and have a better look at it, on my pc this time. Anyone know how to do that in a non-rooted phone BTW?
[HTC Sensation] yasinis:
i don't really now, but i'd give it a try to setup the developer package and have a look at the log cat (my eclipse is showing me that, i can every time see the errors of kaiten-mail)
[HTC Sensation] tlloyd87:
Ok I'll try that, next week probably. Phone is staying really stable with the completely stock ROM btw, although that could just be because I'm playing with it less!
[HTC Sensation] PhailureDude:
reboots

if you are using ICS, it isn't fully stable yet and i have also encountered random reboot issues, as well as massive battery drain ( ~50% in 4 hours). If not, it is probably a radio issue , use the recommended radio version the rom developer suggests you use.
[HTC Sensation] Hypercore:
I know this is late but I forgot to mention it as I got a Galaxy Nexus.

The way I solved the problem was leaving something small running in the background at all times (music on mute, etc). It seems when the CPU is in use the phone will not shut off.

Hope that helps.
[HTC Sensation] Goldenrooster:
Now I have really tried everything and my Sensation keeps on rebooting and crashing on stock ROM. Nowhere on the Net I seem te be able to find a solution that works. Repaired models get back from HTC but deliver the same behavior within a week. Does anyone has a clue or a fix? Otherwise I am going to leavevthe phone until an.update becomes available.
[HTC Sensation] aapman88:
I did not have a shut down for about a month now, and the only thing I can think of that I changed is un checking the fast boot option.
[HTC Sensation] fr0zenblood75:
I have the same issue ,tons of reboots with really bad battery stats after flashing ICS firmware. Does flashing a stock RUU while s-off cause bricking ?
[HTC Sensation] tlloyd87:
No, S-OFF means that the phone doesn't check the signature of what you're flashing. That's why you need it to flash custom ROMs. Going back to S-ON could cause bricking though if your ROM is unsigned, (eg. all custom ROMs), because the signature check would fail.
[HTC Sensation] joshy508:
Fix

Well all you have to do is go to your phones keypad and type in *#*#4636#*#*. Then click on phone information, after that scroll down to where it says "Set preferred network type". Click on it and put WCDMA only. There it shouldnt turn off no more. Thhere is a problem with edge on this phone. It recieves it as an error and it turns off. :D
[HTC Sensation] eprio:
Joshy i tried u're suggestion and it seems to work, i did not have anymore shutdowns since yesterday but.. right now i got major signal loss from time to time due to WCDMA only. Any solution on this one?

I'm a vodafone member and last week i went to the shop and got myself a new SIM card. But still i got almost no signal (0 to 1 bar).
[HTC Sensation] apex84:
Have you been able to catch a crash while running logcat? I've been suspecting it has something to do with networks but I just can't get it to crash while connected to my PC. Maybe it would be good to send a log to HTC so they can fix this quite common problem if it's software related. And as you said I've also noticed that setting it to WCDMA only seems to keep it alive but as eprio said WCDMA coverage is not as wide as GSM so signal loss is a big problem.
[HTC Sensation] tlloyd87:
joshy: Very interesting information, can you cite a source for it?

Other: I've been running stock RUU (no root, nothing) for almost a month now and it's only turned off twice: Once after enabling the weather lockscreen (which I promptly turned off again) and once the other day as I was using it, just after turning on GPS I think.

I've now re-enabled the weather lockscreen and I'm going to run with that for a bit to see if it increases crashiness. Eventually I'll report back on that, too.

To ensure a fair experiment, I won't be running with WCDMA only. If someone does, can you tell us what you found after a few weeks' use?

tl;dr: For me, the only thing which has made any difference (and it's a big difference) is using a stock ROM. No root - no crashes.
[HTC Sensation] erkan79:
Sometimes I experience the same problem. Any solutions?
[HTC Sensation] yasinis:
i think also, that there is a problem with edge on this phone.

i just returned my old one and get a new from the actual produced one's.

using hyperSensation Rom, working perfectly. no more crashes!
[HTC Sensation] joseph.langr:
I think it might have something to do with the firmware. I updated to the new firmware for 4.0.3 and it hasn't turned off in two days. Before it was turning off about once every hour or two
[HTC Sensation] Eki-sensation:
I had the same problem. My battery was also sometimes verry hot.

After I have replaced the battery, all problems disappeared.

hopefully this information helps you.
[HTC Sensation] tlloyd87:
I think there are several potential issues with this phone, all resulting in the same symptom of turning off at inopportune times. Some phones don't suffer from any of them, some may suffer from one or several.

I just wish we had more information, so we could pin down what these various faults actually are. We've got reports of EDGE bugs and bad batteries - I think my problem may be related to location services though?
[HTC Sensation] tAheEr73:
i have same problem. mob got off randomly , sometime on higher percentage of battry and sometime at low, and it happenes usually when call or SMS ,

and after reboot and plug on charging it stays on.

battery percentage after ON keeps fluctuating .. screen shots are attachd

tired from this, needs ur advice
[HTC Sensation] kodelord:
fd
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajatsood:
I tried to flash the streakmod recovery but was unsuccesful. I tried it through fastboot mode. But when reboot into recovery the 340 recovery appears on the screen.

How can I flash streakmod recovery???

My streak is an US version. Probably an AT&T version. I m attaching a pic in case...
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
As you were told in the "Problems Rooting Dell Streak" thread you started two days ago, search the wiki for the correct procedure. We are not going to hold your hand and we are not going to spoonfeed you information. You have to know what the f**k you're doing or else you can cause yourself real difficulty. So take the time to read up and LEARN before you attempt to root, or else you will brick your phone and not know how to recover from it.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajatsood:
Dude I also dnt need spoonfeeding.. Nd I m ready to learn as much as I can.. I hav searched a lot of forums but cudnt find a solution. I have another streak which I rooted nd using a custom rom on it. But this US version streak is giving me problems..
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheManii:
You really need to chill with the attitude, while you are correct in that users need to learn what they're supposed to know, the way you present is isnt acceptable. It's not that much better then when they ask to be spoonfed.

I've given it a lot of leeway but I will start reporting it in the future, as the OP was reasonably polite this shouldnt happen. If he was being immature or dumb I'd see no problem at all *****ing him out, but this isnt the case.

tl;dr: i agree with the sentiment, but thinking and actually saying are two different things

On stock roms: if you flash a different recovery and let it fully boot. The first thing it does is overwrite any recoveries.

You must IMMEDIATELY load streakmod after flashing it on a stock rom or it will be wiped.

This fact might not be mentioned clearly, I'll add a guide/point to note if I dont find a reasonable guide.

Edit: this point is clearly stated at the bottom of the streakmod post, make sure you read the whole thing clearly if something goes wrong. 50% of the time it's this exact issue, other 50% is user flashed it incorrectly to begin with
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Asking essentially the same question twice in two different threads is not acceptable. If you want to babysit that's your choice, but the poster has snookered you into giving him the answer instead of searching for it. Something he is required to do.

I changed my signature because of this guy, so in the future I don't even have to bother with idiots who trash this site by begging for x, y and z without taking the time and effort to actually read up and learn things. So, whether you want to report me or not is your business. It won't affect me all that much, because in the grand scheme of things this is a dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small.

I wish you well.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajatsood:
I m really sori if I have bothered u nd disturbed u.. Wasnt intentional. Nd I m so sori dat coz of me u had to change ur signature.

But believe me I have searched a lot to find a solution to my problem. May be I m not searching properly nd dat is why not getting results. I shud have been patient. I ll try again harder.

I think we all need to chill.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordmorphous:
Read this: http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Dell_Streak_5/Flashing_Guide Twice!

Follow all the instructions to a T.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajatsood:
Done... Thanx a lot...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Magpir:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-fe...gb-tf-card-card-reader-kit-for-xtc-clip-82289
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Budniu:
Awesome:eek:

I give link in my tutorial: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1279905

THX
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Magpir:
yr tutorial doesnt apply here

i have 5.1 bootloader

i just like to know if the above equiment will work
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Budniu:
I made alone this cable. But if I knew where to buy it I think that I would bought it.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Magpir:
I just need to buy the cable , I believe though a USB thumb drive will work
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] andrew35133:
Maybe add this to member found deals? if something like this isn't already there.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Magpir:
so anyone has bought it and tried?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ttblondey:
i believe we still need a goldcard.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ttblondey:
This is the Y cable that I made the adapters bought from SLS.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] O_G:
As this info has been added to a existing thread, and its been posted as a question.

Thread Closed
[General Questions and Answers] trimmj1:
I have the T-Mobile Sensation 4G and I shattered my screen. I got a new one and I have to send the old one back. But I want to get all info and everything off of my phone. Can anyone tell me how to do so PLEASE. Oh and there is a lock on it. It is a "W" pattern but I can't see the dots to connect them. My phone comes on but all I see is different colored lights. The second question is there anyone I can pay to root my phone with the best stuff? I have tried but I REALLY suck at it. I don't know why but I just can't seem to understand any of it. I hope I didn't post this in the wrong room. Thank you all in advance for your help and sorry for the bother.

trimmj1

Joe Trimm