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[HTC Sensation] AngryB:
I ''had'' rooted Sensation Juopunutbear S-OFF,I filled the battery full...and install AOKP ROM Everything is working fine....After resetting the phone,

He did not respond...do not want to boot,does not want to even turn on,I tried everything from taking the battery to charge...no signs.....

when connecting phone to computer,sound is heard...and requires some drivers QHSUSB_DLOAD

removing battery sim sdcard and connect to power outlet and tried to switch it on-nothing...not react

is still under warranty....9 months old

I asked no one knows why it happened

I sent it to the service and I hope will not notice that he S-OFF and ROOTED :\

there are still a lot of people this problem here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1618683
[HTC Sensation] newr:
Hmmm..at least yours is detected on computer. Mine was completely unresponsive...nothing worked. Some had similar problem as mine when not even the computer detects it.

IT seems to be happening quite often..and I am not sure if it's a ROM problem....but it seems it's not only from a specifice ROM.
[HTC Sensation] mugetsu666:
I had one just like the op except it was stock with s-off, no custom rom yet. I turned it off and it never came back, so got a new one!
[HTC Sensation] usaff22:
From another similar thread:

Charge your phone for 20 minutes. If you're using a Sense ROM, disable fast boot in Settings>Power. Fastboot doesn't actually power off your device, just puts it into sleep, like in Windows. This means the battery drains, even while it's "off".
[HTC Sensation] sshede:
On this forum, we see it atleast once a week. Something was going totally fine, no biggy, then suddenly it won't turn on, seemingly won't charge, no LEDs, not recognized by PC, etc etc.

The odds are low that it'll happen to you, but more so than other phones.
[HTC Sensation] newr:
But is this related to hardware issue or a custom ROM / firmware problem? My question is....should I try to root and do the same thing again if my phone get replaced?

If it's related to custom ROM/firmware pb...maybe it needs to be looked at? Especially when everything is running fine like many people report...
[HTC Sensation] GROGG88:
Well it would be nice if ALL of these occurrences were logged into a single thread and each user listed their firmware, rom, and kernel (which I'm most interested in)...
[HTC Sensation] namila007:
well i got the same problem . while playing a game phone got stuck and automatically turned off with some sound . now its desnt turning on :( and cant charge it coz led doesnt working :(( what should i do?? going to use a another battery . if not :s idk :((
[HTC Sensation] barascus:
Experience Senseless

HTC sensation XE with beats audio

Unlocked -Revolutionary

Pyramid Pvt S-off

Hboot 1.27.0000

Radio 11.22.3504.07_m

CID 11111111

Hi to all,

I'm in a similar situation, yesterday I updated the 4ext recovery the beta (sorry dont know what version it is) and it worked fine on the phone.

Until I thought hmm, I try [ROM][04/26/12] Virtuous Inquisition v4.0.2 :: AOSP-Experience Senseless ICS (4.0.3). I was going through the software and I've done a format on the microSD card though virtuous, and done a REBOOT on the phone, no Reboot at all. By the way while running the OS lights for the Home, Menu, Back and Search weren't truned on.

Now my phone wont turn on (although I can hear the USB being connected to my windows7 X32 bit PC). When connected to Pc or power outlet there is no indication of my phone is charged or being recharged, no light indicator.

Ok, so what if I tried using ADB commands to see if my phone still beeing detected.

I used ADB under Administrator

adb devices

*daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

*daemon started successfully*

List of devices attached ( although i dont get the model number of the phone)

fastboot reboot

waiting for device

fastboot reboot-bootloader

waiting for device

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

waiting for device

Ok no luck. Now tried to do install with the RUU_PYRAMID_LE_ICS_35_S_HTC_Europe_3.32.401.105_R_Radio_11.69.3504.00U_11.22.3504.07_M_release_251961_signed.exe

Runed under Admin again, so still no luck, all I get was an Error[170] usb connection Error. So the utility rom still could not detect the phone.

By the way when the phone is off, then I press volume down and power button, my phone is AOSP-Experience Senseless indeed:D, can't switch nothing on.

All well see what happens.
[HTC Sensation] newr:
Yes..I think it's good to have a thread about this problem...maybe some more experienced DEVs can see why this is happening especially if this is occuring because of ROM/firmware or more hardware problems.

I am waiting for my phone to be sent to HTC and see what they say..hope they'll fix/replace one! :(
[HTC Sensation] barascus:
Battery, Brick or Senseless

By any chance, did anyone tried to use some friends or family they have the same phone, and use their battery. Maybe battery needs replacing?

Hopefully I can here someone says that I'm right, battery problem.

Also I'm looking at other websites to see whats the alternative to our situation.

Or maybe its just a brick, I will wait and see the Developers of this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1522351

[Release coming next week. With a surprise!] Sensation Unbricking Project

hopefully will have a solution I feel lost without my phone, AOSP-Experience Senseless these two days.

God bless them hope they can do it.
[HTC Sensation] newr:
For some it could be battery problems....but I think most of the ones reported it's not. As with mine..the battery was fully charged 100% when it happened...I think it was actually plugged in even.

The thread is for bricked phone that had this driver thing when it plugs into the computer...but if the phone is completely unresponsive...it's not goign to work!
[HTC Sensation] barascus:
I kept my phone charged for few hours, although my battery was full as well, the phone remained cold.
[HTC Sensation] purebeatz:
i had a similar problem last week on 04/19... battery was charging over night... at morning i turned the alarm off and after that the phone was dead... i sented it to support and now i have a new board inside and totaly new problems...locked bootloader and an unkown H-BOOT version (1.29.0000) :mad:

i also tried my battery in a other phone with no problems.

i had revolutionary 6.3. on it
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
Worked perfectly. Thank you for taking the time to do this.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Windows Instructions

- Power off your NT and remove sdcard

- Put your sdcard into a card reader (preferably)

- Format your sdcard with SDFormatter (recommended) or any other but not windows native.

- Download latest Win32DiskImage-binary.zip from https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download

- Unzip the file

- Run Win32DiskImage.exe - Right click "run as administrator"

- Click the folder button and navigate to select the .img file you just unzipped.

- Click on the disk drive letter label on the right, and choose the letter that corresponds to your SD card.

- Press Write. When it finishes, press Exit.

- Safely eject/remove your sdcard and put it back to your NT

- Plug your device to the a/c power or PC using the USB cable, let it power on by itself do not press any button.

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jshields1986:
what have you noticed working vs not working?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
It's very impressive. Anything said here about the rom running on 16gb NT applies.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sigmabeta:
I suppose; however, I'm still able to easily get to CWM from the same SD card I used to flash CM9, either by booting while holding the N key (I guess this doesn't work for everyone?) or shutting off the device and plugging it in. Either way seems to get CWM going from the SD card, though I suppose you could also do cyanoboot; my understanding is that that should work without any additional files as well.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
That's with working a link.

You can also skip step one and put these files onto an SD card.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AbbaSou:
So I've followed the directions precisely, but can't seem to boot into recovery. Plugging in while powered off just boots normal, and holding "n" and power just gives the factory reset options. I want to check one step in the OP's instructions:

sudo dd if=myrecovery.img of=WhateverTheMountPointofSDCardIs bs=1M

By mount point do you mean the /media/XXXXXX folder it mounts to, or the /dev/sdx? I tried both, but neither seemed to work.

Also, by SDcard, you do mean an external microsd card, yes? Or are you talking internal storage?

And finally, what's the output supposed to look like from the above line of code?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
I personally used the win32 method, but I suspect there would be no output unless an error occurred.

FYI, I updated to the latest build of CM9 by wiping in CWM and flashing it. No need for a *special* 512mb build.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sigmabeta:
On my desktop computer, the argument I used read "of=/dev/sdc". This will likely not work on your computer, as the mount point won't be /dev/sdc on yours, but that's the format you should follow.

Make sure all three arguments are there and it should work, after about 3-4 seconds you should see a message saying how long it took and how many bytes were copied.

And yes, what this step does is to copy on to an external microSD card; if you instead use the mount point of the user-accessible storage partition of your Nook's eMMC, it won't work.

If it doesn't work, double check that you are flashing the correct file, and perhaps redownload it (not sure if meghdoot made md5sums available or not but that may be worth a check.)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sigmabeta:
I guess I may be misunderstanding what you are looking to accomplish; are you trying to make it so you can get into recovery without plugging the tablet in? If so that can be accomplished without any extra steps, once CM9 is succesfully installed:

Power the tablet on while holding the home key (doesn't work on every NT apparently)

At Cyanoboot prompt, which should come up whenever you power the tablet on without holding the home key, you can THERE hold the home key and select "SD Card Normal" (not "SD Card Recovery")
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
RomBackup.Zip

In the O.P., your step 3 says...

"Save rombackup.zip, which contains files that are critical to the Stock OS"

Could you make a copy of that file available for download?

I was one of the early testers who tried to flash CWM & CM7a onto the internal EMMC memory. Of course, it bricked my NT8 and now I can ONLY boot from a (bootable) SDCard.

I am running CM7a from an SDCard now and it works fine. But, I would like to get my NT8 back to working (something) on the EMMC.

Perhaps, if I could push (or flash, or backup) the rombackup file to my device, it would restore the missing "critical" files? I can do ADB & CWM works from SDCard. I figure that it is worth a shot since I am pretty sure that I have tried every other "solution" on XDA - all failed.:(

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
This is the contents, however the values in some of the files are unique to each device. Maybe changing some of the values in the files would work for you.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
RomBackup.Zip

Thanks. I see what you mean about the unique values. I don't know how I could do much with this data however.

Interestingly, my s/n is still intact. When I do ADB, it displays properly. But SOMETHING is still missing and it will not boot internally.

Thanks again for the response.

Your article is well-written and would have been a great help to me BEFORE I bricked it. :rolleyes:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
Have you tried creating a Rombackup.zip as described? It sounds like you may still have all the files.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lumav:
After 3 weeks just been able to boot CM7 from sd I succesfully installed CM9 in EMMC on my NT8. I wasn't able to restore anything else into the EMMC after I bricked it trying to install CM7.

I'm very satisfied with CM9. Fo me is more responsive than running CM7 from sd.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
RomBackup.Zip

I was able to create the backup file... Rombackup.zip

Attached is a screen shot of the contents. Notice that it is down a few layers of directories: /rom/devconf/ Is that correct?

However, I have not had any success in getting CM9 (or any other ROM) to run on the EMMC.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
Yes, everything is correct. What method are you using to install CM9? Have you tried installing 0.03 using CWM?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lumav:
Be aware that after you install CM9 and reboot into Cyanoboot it will try to boot from the alternate partition by default so you'll get an error message. You need to force Cyanoboot menu by pressing the n while booting and then select boot from eMMC normal (where CM9 is located).

Later you can change default boot in /bootdata by following instructions from fattire about

Cyanoboot .

Sent from my NT8 with CM9.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
I have no such problem with NT8, Cyanoboot boots from eMMC automatically. But then I still have the nook partition and never tried to flash CWM internally.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lumav:
Sorry my reply was for rywaldo in case he got to the same point where i was stuck for some time thinking that cm9 had not installed properly.

I did try also unsuccesfully to install Cwm internally but that's not a problem as i can allways boot it from sdcard.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
Bricked NT8

Yes. Since I cannot get anything on the emmc to boot, the only options are adb and cwm. I have tried both.

CWM: Everything appears to go fine. No errors. But it still will not boot - black screen regardless of how I try (hold pwr for 30secs then release and pwr again for 10; or, pwr for 30secs, release & plug in USB, pwr & nook; etc). Always, the screen remains black.

ADB: I have tried to push & dd all the partitions but no change. I tried to push the CM9 zip file to the /sdcard and it will not mount. I pushed it to the root and it worked (I can see it in shell with the ls command). However, when I boot (w/ SD) into CWM and try to flash it, CWM will not read the file from the root.

Still works fine with CM7a on SDCard. Boots easily and quickly.

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Since I do not get to Cyanoboot, that is moot for me. Thanks anyway.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Keithn:
Working on my 8 GB great. Had to get adb to work then push and flash stock recovery since I had CWM on there and essentially bricked it trying to do some things. After that the method in the op worked well for me.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
Bricked nt8

D

Where did you push it? I cannot get the internal SDCard to mount so I can't push anything to it. Did you push to a partition or to a mt pnt and dd from there?

Also where did you find a stock recovery that worked?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Hmmm i think you only have 1 sdcard? if so you really need to get yourself 1 card reader and another sdcard, That way you can boot CWM from sdcard and swap sdcard at the moment of flash a rom. The card reader will make your life easier copying files over your sdcard(s).

You need to get @meghd00t's recovery and flash it to one sdcard by using "dd" on ubuntu/windows or use that softwate i think is win32diskimager to burn the recovery.img to your sdcard. One you have that set up, you are ready to troubleshoot. There is one thing you're missing and it might help you:

1. Boot into CWM off an SD card

2. Mount /bootdata via CWM

3. Log in from your computer using "adb shell"

4. mount -o rw,remount /bootdata

5. dd if=/dev/zero of=/bootdata/BootCnt bs=1 count=4

6. dd if=/dev/zero of=/bootdata/BCB bs=1 count=1088

7. Remove SD card

8. Reboot

Taken from this post. Read up

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Keithn:
You should be able to find everything from the unbrick thread that's where I started

Edit :: This Thread

It took me some time to do it too take a look through and see. I'll try to help later if you don't quite get it.

Also I dont remember exactly where I pushed it to, you may have to go through /mnt to get to the sd if I remember correctly. As long as you can push it somewhere i would think you can get it to work.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
NT8 will not boot except via SD

Yes, I have multiple sdcards. I have at least 4 that are dedicated to the Nook. ( also have two G-Tablets, a G2 phone, and two or three cameras that use uSDCards so I keep a fist full of 'em! :) )

My process (this time):

Followed the procedure above exactly (copy/paste commands). - No errors reported. (HOPEFUL!)

Tried to reboot. No Joy. Same black screen as before - regardless of how I try to power on.

Booted into CWM with SD

Removed SD & replaced it with a data SD that held the CM9 zip

Flashed CM9 - no errors. (HOPEFUL!)

Removed SDCard

Rebooted the NT8

Still no joy - regardless of the method I used to power it on.

Thanks so much for pointing me to the post about this. I have long believed that my boot data was fouled but I did not know how to correct it. Although the process did not fix my NT8, I am confident that it is critical to the ultimate fix.

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Thanks. I followed that guide and it did not help either.

My primary issues are: BootData corrupted (hopefully fixed with the last procedure). AND, I cannot mount the internal memory (emmc).

The emmc issue is my major obstacle at this time. I am beginning to wonder if I may have some hardware issues with that portion of memory.:confused:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Keithn:
You cant access the internal through adb while in cwm? Did you try accessing it from the root of the system, going through /mnt or both?

I'd say tinker around in adb shell and see if you can move into it either way and if you can you should be able to push to it. I'll look into mine when I get some free time and let you know where I went.

What exactly did you do to the emmc before it stopped booting?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
NT8 will not boot except via SD

It has been a few weeks since I bricked it so I am not absolutely certain what I did. I think it was when I flashed CM7aFinal to the emmc. Or, it could have been when I was trying to get CWM onto internal recovery. I am just not sure at this point. :confused:

I have been through a LOT of attempts to clear it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Keithn:
My guess then is that you used the wrong CWM for the 8gb and messed up the internal partition. I'd try getting it back to stock then before doing anything else. I didn't have quite the issue you did with mine. It will probably take you a lot of playing around to fix it, just keep at it playing around and doing the unbrick methods for the 8gb. It took me a couple of weeks to get mine sorted out.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
To avoid 'hot-swapping' the SDCard; use a partition manager to resize the CWM SD and regain the unused space on the card. Then you can put the CM9 zip on it. This needs to be done using a card reader.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] eggwardo:
I've been playing with this for a couple hours and it seems to work great. Listened to music, watched a movie, watched HBO go, facebook, Gmail. I don't know about battery life or anything long term.

The only "issue" I see is that I have to hold the n button at startup and then pick boot normally. Does everyone have to do this or did I screw up something in the install?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sigmabeta:
I dont know that you messed anything up, but it isn't that way for me.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
That has to do with cyanoboot, there are some ways to configure it to boot directly to emmc, check the respective thread for that or get nt hidden settings, that app does it for you. I haven't test it though and don't know if it will work the app while booted into CM9 but the options are there so give them a try.

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ChrisFSU:
What does not work on the 8GB NT with CM9?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
As far as I know, CM9 runs on both 8gb and 16gb NT the same. No hardware acceleration on either due to the kernel.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ChrisFSU:
Thanks for the reply. In your opinion, which rom do you recommend?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
Questions like this belong in Q & A.

CM9 if you can live without YouTube, otherwise CM7. Once the new kernel (3.0.21+) is released; definitely CM9.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Cubanluke88:
Youtube works on CM9, just not in HQ.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lumav:
After 3 weeks I'm happy with Cm9 in my nt8. For me is better than cm7 running fom sd card.

My problem now is battery life as i only get 24 hours on standby with nott more thn one hour of use. I have very few apps installed and can't identify what's draining so much battery.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] heavyhev:
Ready for Step #3, at least thought so

Can be deleted.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
New version (.04) of CM9 causes boot loop on NT8

Has anyone been able to get version .04 working on an 8GB Nook Tablet?

I have tried and all I get is a boot loop. I will search the other forums to see if I can find a solution. Otherwise, this thread seems to be doomed...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] eggwardo:
I was just browsing this post again in preparation for installing .04 (will update on how that went when i'm done) and i noticed that you have in your instructions to download a recovery file. But then there isn't any instruction or mention of installing it. (unless i missed it, which is entirely possible)

Thought i would point that out to help prevent future issues.

Now i just have to figure out how to upgrade to .04 without recovery. :o Shouldnt be too hard. I can always just go back to stock and start from there.

<edit> It turns out i can still add the recovery now. I just have to figure out how to use fastboot. It seemed straightforward but i'm not getting it just yet. Hopefully that will get added to the OP. :D I think for now i'm going to go enjoy the nice weather.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] atomicroach:
I've been messing with it for a few days with no luck, tried to generate a logcat, but my pc doesn't appear to recognize the ADB Device until the CM9 splash screen, which it doesn't get to before it resets. I'm trying flashing internally from 5.0.2(w/e) that Indirect's apk installs. Lost101 apparently got .04 running on a 8gig NT, but I don't know what recovery he used(I'm thinking TWRP). So, if someone wants to try installing a different recovery and giving it a go it might be worth a look. I don't really know why the 16gb wouldn't have a problem with certain recoveries if the 8gb does, but without logs to give to Dev's its, I suppose, worth a look.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] raywaldo:
recovery image

If you have ClockWorkMod recovery, then you do not need the linked recovery image. Just boot up CWM and then change the SDCard to one with the rom's ZIP file on it. Then use CWM's "Install zip from sdcard" function.

Here is a series of videos to help with the Nook: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL676779C4F7BE8FEB&feature=mh_lolz

This one is specifically about flashing CM9 to the Nook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NDweCWuTk&list=PL676779C4F7BE8FEB&index=5&feature=plpp_video

However, it appears that the .04 version has BROKE the NT8 install. :(

AFAIK, everyone with an 8GB Nook gets a boot loop when they try to flash the newer version. I had to go back to stock and then flash a different ROM since even my backup of .03 went into a boot loop after trying .04 (weird, I know). :confused:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] leapinlar:
It must have something to do with installing to emmc. Mine installed .04 fine to my succulent dual boot SD. (on an 8GB device). Of course succulent uses a modified ramdisk (altboot.img) to make it work on SD.