[HTC Sensation] wildcardspv:
Hi there,

I hope someone out there can help me fix my wife's sensation XE. We both have the same phone and generally the same ROM with no issues, but here's where we are now (apologies for length)

Background

A couple of months ago, she was running Viper 1.5.2. No issues, happy days :o

One day the screen just stopped responding while she was using either the official Facebook app or the stock browser (she can't remember which). She could wake the phone up but could not unlock it. The screen was perfectly responsive in recovery (4ext) so the problem was only apparent when the ROM was booted up.

I downloaded the latest version of Viper (as a more recent version had been released), fully wiped with superwipe.zip and flashed it.

Strangely, after flashing this, Aroma gave the option to reboot (as usual) and I selected yes, which then led to 'installation failed/installation aborted'. I then had to fully wipe again, flash the ROM again and say no to rebooting through Aroma, so I could manually reboot - which worked fine.

Unfortunately, the same problem with the screen was there right from the beginning as soon as the new version of Viper was booted up.

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I went back to recovery and manually wiped data/cache/dalvik, as well as formatted system and boot, flashed the ROM again and it was still the same!!

I then fully formatted her SD card using Gparted and reflashed Viper, but it was still the same!!

I then went back to recovery, fully wiped everything again and flashed a different ROM (Elegancia 3.6.0 - sense 3.6) which worked fine straight away once it was booted up.

This seemed to clearly show that something about Viper ROMs had led to this.

Since then, I have flashed some other ROMs for her:

Elegancia 3.7.0 - worked fine

Viper 1.6.0 - screen locked up from the outset

Hypernonsense - worked fine

NB - Every time I flash any ROM, if the reboot option is selected in Aroma, the installation still fails. I have never, ever had this happen on my XE and I flash new ROMs all the time, from sense 3.6 to sense 4.x to MIUI.

The current problem

The problem is that her phone, is generally laggy, seems to run out of battery quickly and freezes a lot until it either catches up after several minutes (but is still then a bit laggy) or she has to pull the battery, regardless of what ROM she has been running. Again, mine has never had this problem and this has only been happening to her phone since the day that it first froze.

Her usage had not/has not changed, and the phone was running well before then, so I don't believe she is causing the lag/freezing/battery issues which she now has - it must stem from whatever caused the initial freeze on Viper 1.5.2.

I feel like due to the fact that full wipes, and formatting her SD card have not helped, the card cannot be the problem, plus I feel the fact that Aroma is no longer able to get the phone to reboot may point to a problem with the phone itself.

Can anyone help me to establish if there is a problem with the actual phone and if so, advise me if there is a way I can reflash/reset the phone itself, or whatever may be needed to get it back to how it was before this happened?

Also if it's not the phone itself and anyone might know what actually has happened, please, please enlighten me!!!

Many thanks for reading this and thanks in advance for any replies.

wildcardspv