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[HD2 General] iwang:
mine is 100% standard...1.48 rom

same experience..not waking up..you can wait few minutes before it comes back on

takes a while to load the HTC SENSELESS

then its slows down ..can't even open emails..let alone sms..

device memory almost 200MB..

:confused::confused::confused:
[HD2 General] SimonGoldberger:
And another....

Have had my HD2 for about 3 weeks, was an ebay purchase but in perfect condition (even had the plastic packaging around the battery). has worked really well since making me forgive HTC for my Raphael experience and stop me missing my tilt.

Then Saturday night plugged it in to recharge. didnt realise till next morning that missus hadnt switched on the bedside extension power lead.

Plugged phone in to charge for a bit and had the charge light come on but wouldnt start, unplugging the phone the charge light remained until I dropped the battery out.

Trying to power up without plugging in to the wall, I get the initial HTC splash screen but it appears to lock before it even displays the SPL number etc.

eventually battery seemed to run down so wouldnt do this. Now on plugging the phone in to the charger, it automatically starts up each time but each time freezes on the splash screen with no SPL displayed.

Tried my spare battery and went through the same cycle as above.

I can however use the down volume to get into bootloader so guess tonight will try to re-apply the standard HTC rom.

Believe the phone was supplied for/by Orange (was an upgrade phone that the ebay seller couldnt live with) seemingly had the default HTC rom onboard, when I first fired the phone up I got a list of networks to choose from and chose.

Any ideas tips advice gratefully received.
[HD2 General] gadgetwizard:
Guys, Guys,

After my post on the 4th March i went out and bought an HTC Hero. Nice phone...but...guess what?

No really guess what??

Today i took it out of my pocket and the screen was blank, no amount of button pushing would wake it up.

Honest to god..i had to remove the battery it get it to boot up again. Battery life was full when i started using it this morning and still full when re booted.

The phone also uses a form of the sense interface all be it Android based.

Dunno what i'm gonna do now...maybe I'll try a Nokia instead!!
[HD2 General] donepate:
I have feeling that the same issue you had on Android was not due to the issue the WinMo devices are having. Though similar in the interface, they are very different from a deeper standpoint. I can comfirm four more cases of the same problem with four different users that did not make any major changes on their device, and only three days out of the box.
[HD2 General] SimonGoldberger:
Have managed, I think, possibly, hopefully, for now (whispers) fixed it...

well for now.

After pulling down the latest RUU from HTC and tried several times to load the firmware it seemingly changed its mind and took it..

This was after the "leave the battery out for 30 minutes". On each occasion the RUU installer looked at the phone and then displayed the existing build as a blank.Right up until the final go when it took the build applied succesfully but then dropped back to the phone not getting past HTC and a blank screen.

Finally did get to showing the SPL etc on the HTC screen and then dropping out...

Battery out for 20 minutes then onto a charger and it booted all the way in which suprised the hell out of me.

Got as far as the activesync page of the setup and it locked cold.

put it back on charge and got the cycle of HTC white screen then reboot and repeat

finally took the battery out a thrid time and well its now sat here showing "sense" and charging..... not sure how long itll last though thanks to all the previous posters on here and the other Dead HD2 threads for giving me hope that I wasnt alone with this... Unfortunately means my vote for best ever HTC phone still sits with my old Tilt... best of the 5 different HTC models I've had... for just getting on and doing its job (till I managed to shatter its screen :( )
[HD2 General] philakei:
guys

maybe here is the reason for the "sleep of death".

do as following steps:

1. when HD2 dies,remove the battery and put it back immediately.

2.press power key to start the phone.

3.the phone vibrate,but screen still remain black

4.put the phone at an angle,you can see the phone start up，if can't,go outside to have a look in the sunshine

5.after SENSE appears,look at the battery icon,battery only remain 1% ,and at the bottom of screen,you can see the battery warning message

6.remove battery again and put it back after a few miniutes,and then start the phone

7.the phone start up normally,the battery information is correct，no battery warning message

So,I think there is some wrong with the power circuit of HD2 which cause the "sleep of death".(when OS receive the message that battery only remain 1%,it close the screen,and the screen can't be waked up).It's a HD bug.

Can anyone do some test to prove this？

BTW:

I shut down the phone and remove the battery when I sleep in night，the phone can work normally all day time on next day,no freeze.
[HD2 General] SimonGoldberger:
Can Concur.

Phone just did it again, randomly locked up. on this occasion Sense worked fine but I couldnt access program menu or use the notification icon to get back into IM+ which had been running.

Dropped battery out and back in, got the boot to HTC splash screen and then reboot cycle.

Dropped battery for 5 minutes, on reboot battery showed red battery warning then flashed and showed 53% battery life.
[HD2 General] protts:
Hi, I've had an issue that my backlight goes off when the battery hits 70% and it gets more often when the battery goes lower. Strange is when i'm watching a video or when it's plugged to the mains it's ok. you can still see the screen working but like you said only at an angle or under strong light.

Sent it in for servicing twice and it just came back yesterday. First time they didn't find anything wrong and did a factory reflash. problem came back 2 weeks later. this time round according to the service sheet "Failure: MB leakage current failure / battery overheat. Repair Recommendation : Replace Main Board"

I've had my phone over a month and today I've had the best battery life ever. 8am unplugged from the mains, wifi and 3G on, e-mail set to retrieve every 1 hour, palringo on the whole day, surfed the web for about 30mins, installed some programs, took a couple of photos. At 8pm i had 70% power left......

So i'm still monitoring, it's been only a day..........
[HD2 General] ilker555:
Hi,

to get a clear picture i would propose that everyone who has similar problems writes which ROM and Radio version he used when the problem occured.

We could than find out, if the failure is ROM/Radio dependent.

I have done a lot of testing and my problems do start after installing opera10, could be an application incompatibility with Sense.

I think this is only luck but i wanted to mention this here.

Problem occured:

ROM: RTTiM1

Radio: 2.08.50.08_2

ROM: Artemis v8

Radio: 2.08.50.08_2
[HD2 General] Beards:
No it's not ROM/Radio linked.

Various others have reported the problem with differing settings.

Again my problem cleared up by having MemMaid running.

I've also started checking Task Manager and closing down Activesync as it's a battery eater and interfering with the system routines.

Out of curiosity those of you who have the problem ~ do you have any third-party keyboard installed?
[HD2 General] zhix:
Yap, using Swype .. best keyboard ever
[HD2 General] Beards:
Thanks zhix.

Is there anyone else out there who has the problem but DOES NOT have any third-party keyboard installed?
[HD2 General] cozzykim:
Maybe not immediately helpful but I for one DO have swype installed :eek: making your question even more pertinent
[HD2 General] compact_bijou:
Yes, but the issue only occurred twice, both in the same location when I was out of range of a signal.

Hasn't happened since.
[HD2 General] Beards:
Thanks Kim,

Extremely helpful... It's a pattern I am trying to build up.

Thank you compact_bijou.

I think the point here is that although you do not have a third-party keyboard but still have had issues the issues have not been often and consistent, thus helping the pattern.

~~~~~

To All,

The reason I am asking these questions is as follows:-

When I first started having the problem I now remember at that particular time I had a third-party keyboard installed.

After I installed and ran MemMaid (which I felt eradicated the problem) I remember at the time I also uninstalled said third-party keyboard (not associated with what I was doing, it was merely surplus to my requirements at that time).

Since then, apart from an isolated case a few weeks back I've not had any issues.

However, on Monday 22 March I needed this third-party keyboard again and reinstalled.

The following morning the phone locked up.

Since that date up until 30 March (when I then once again uninstalled the keyboard) the phone has been playing up, often freezing with the battery removal being the only course of action.

It was not until a day or two after the 30 March when I had uninstalled the third-party keyboard that I noticed the lock ups/freezes had again vanished.

This now brings me to a 'possible theory' in the third-party keyboard having something to do with my particular problem.

Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to again install and uninstall every few days to see if my pattern lays true.

If anyone else wishes to try a similar practice or comment, we would welcome all feedback.

Thanks.

Beards :)
[HD2 General] cozzykim:
@Beards,

there are other threads discussing the problems with having a PIN set when installing swype (sorry I can't find the one I was reading the other day).

The phone won't get past the PIN entry screen even though the correct PIN has been entered.

Hmmm?? Which "3rd party keyboard" are you referring to?

I'm lucky (touch wood) mine hasn't frozen for a while.
[HD2 General] Beards:
Hi Kim,

It was Zoomboard that caused problems every time.

I also tried Resco Keyboard which I did not like. However, I only used it for a limited time but clearly remember it being installed when I was having issues. :)
[HD2 General] gadgetwizard:
I had the problem with a plain jane HD2, no software installed, no third keyboard no nothing.
[HD2 General] Beards:
Thanks gadgetwizard.

Like all theories, there's initial excitement followed by encouragement then puzzlement.

I'm more than likely barking up the wrong tree here. It may be that my phone is just fine and the keyboard is simply a factor in my setup that causes instability.

However, I would not forgive myself if I did not pass on any theory even if it were probably of erroneous matter or spurious content. :)
[HD2 General] yzf750:
My US Tmobile hd2 did the same thing last week. Everythings stock on it. Answered a call, hung up and the next time I took the phone out it was dead. Scared me when the reset button wouldnt bring it to life. I had to remove the battery and then it did reboot. Only happened once in 10 days owning the phone now.
[HD2 General] ariadne_aus:
Same problem today. Installed swype, fell in love. Phone a brick 30 mins later. No pin so that's not my explanation.
[HD2 General] john_springs:
Loooong standby death?

Hey guys,

having the same problem over here. More than a week ago I put my Leo on standby by pressing the off key. Ever since, I haven't been able to switch it on. I took the battery on and off countless times, tried a friend's battery which was indeed charged, connected it to a power source...nothing.

Yesterday I tried to connect it to my laptop and Heureka...but it wouldn't go pass the welcoming "HTC" screen. Just tried a hard-reset via buttons while connected to the laptop (only way to get it to do something) and the problem remains the same.

Any ideas?

BTW: I've never installed swype nor Resco. :confused:
[HD2 General] malajam:
i have same problem , is there a fix?
[HD2 General] jonbaker76:
I had that, had to exchange the phone. My new one is much better but i still get the blank death every now and again and i'm running memaid which goes every night.
[HD2 General] Beards:
Yes, it's MemMaid running every day at mid day which has sorted out my problem.

I had a different issue recently but that was a third-party keyboard. Since removing it I'm now back to a good working machine.
[HD2 General] jonbaker76:
Perhaps without memmaid i would be getting more 'deaths' but it certainly hasn't made the problem non existant. I also get get random freezes, i'm frequently removing the battery and it's all reminding me of my N96 in its early days :rolleyes: :mad:

Still love the phone, just some major issues need sorting and it will be perfect, like the audio sync delay in videos.. but that is in another thread :p
[HD2 General] donepate:
I was just curoius if anyone had an issue with the 16gig memory card that came with the phone losing its image. I work for a place that sells HD2s and I keep seeing people come in for two things, the phone won't wake up, or the memory card just went blank. Could be a bad batch from Sandisk. Maybe an isolated incedent also.
[HD2 General] Beards:
16GB, that was not given with my UK purchased HD2.
[HD2 General] donepate:
Sorry, I should have been more specific. The T-Mobile USA version comes with a 16gig card. As far as the sleep of death, same issue as the UK version. Next time I will remove my head from my back side and have another cup of cofee before I post.
[HD2 General] zhix:
ok, i happen to be in US for business trip for more then a week now, during this time, my phone is on airplane mode (no radio receiption, since i don't have auto roaming).

During this time, i had ZERO .. ZERO issues with the screen not turning on and the KEYPAD lights ON.
[HD2 General] pakure:
4 months now, no freezing/ SOD after the two times in the first week..i still think what worked for me were the sms hotfix and installing klaxon for alarm
[HD2 General] jeewadj:
Memaid

hey i tried using memaid bu in the tools menu it dosent say clean schedule ?? :confused: :confused:

can some one help ??

and also random freezes only the keypad light turn on nothing else have to pull out the battery to restart phone ??
[HD2 General] :
Sounds like the freezing problem might be radio related, just guessing because it does not happen with the radio off, might try a diff compatible radio rom ...

would be interesting if the majority of the people having this problem were on the same series of radios ....
[HD2 General] MadSci:
This may help some of you - it fixed it for me!

Here's my story.

Telstra HD2 on AT&T in the States.

HTC Stock WWE ROM (1.66.405.2) Radio 2.06.51.07, Manilla 2.5.19211619.0

My problems began when I installed a CAB for Swype, which instantly trashed my phone, screwing up allmy emails, logins, and settings, and of course - producing th e"Sleep Of Death"!

I used Sprite BackUp to resore my system to a point about 10 days before, but it was still having the "Sleep Of Death" to the point that 4 days later, I was even considering ordering an iPhone4 :eek:

I tried a dozen suggestions on this thread - none helped :(

Then I found another thread that blamed the same sort of problem on Sprite BackUp. No-way I thought, I've been using it since my old MPx days and it's always saved my bacon!

But further down, someone explained that the issue wasn't a flaw in Sprite, just that the Restore Settings had to be set correctly. Specifically, under: OPTIONS - RESTORE - GENERAL under "Systems Settings Restore" it defaults to "Merge". Unfortunately this means that restoration will result in some of the settings from the current setup being retained. To prevent this, it needs to be set to "Replace" so that ONLY the previous Settings will be on the device after the Restore takes place.

Well I did this, and 5 minutes later my HD2 is whole and healthy again!

So if you have tried to restore your device using Sprite and it failed to correct the problem, try doing as described above, and then please report if you are sucessful. Please be sure to restore to a time well BEFORE the "Sleep Of Death" started on your device

This tells us a few things:

The problem CAN be induced by some combination of inappropreate system settings and software running on the device.

The phone CAN be restored to functionality by restoring the SETTINGS to their correct values

The problem CAN be induced when running a stock HTC ROM

Now this doesn't explain all the instances that have been described in this Thread, but it suggests that for those running stock ROMs at least, the issue may well be a setting somewhere. If so, a full restoration or a Hard Reset should do the trick. But there could be many different causes of this problem, that all lead to the same effect, so this isn't the end of the story.

But at elast it closes my chapter! Hopefully it will help some of you as well!:)

Best of Luck - and please - report your outcome for everyone else to learn from.

Cheers!

MadSci
[HD2 General] zhix:
Okay .. assuming i am correct and this is a reception issue, i think that the metal cover might be hampering the reception strenght to some extend, i am going to try going without the metal cover for 2 days and see what happens.
[HD2 General] zzyzx80:
ok my story goes:-

i owned my HD2 since mid Apr and had no problem with it only until 1.5 months later that i experienced intermittent lockscreen delay. sometimes the slider just stuck at the edge of the screen. most of the times i just need another push to make things work again. the irritatating part comes when at times this does not work and the screen just stop responding with the stucked slider. the screen will just turn itself off as if no input from lockscreen and blank to standby mode. the next unlock will always be back to normal again.

however today, i experienced my first standby of death when i press the power button to wake up my device, it doesn't respond at all. i tried press and hold the power button but nothing. I had to resort to a battery pull. do note that i did not wait x seconds to see if it just wakes up. after the battery pull, all was fine.

just when i reached home 3 hours ago, i did exactly what 2 posts up said, did a hard reset and restore my phone with sprite backup but before i did so, i had the settings changed to delete the filesystem before restore and also replace the files instead of merge.

all was fine as with previously and am monitoring until the next unlock delay / slider stuck or standby of death occurs. from my experience, it is extremely hard to narrow down the cause of this problem. i do have cleanRAM V2.2 running at level 3 every morning since day 1 i got the phone.

I will be more than willing to assist anyone here if needed to. although it was intermittent, it is enough to piss me.

Thanks for the attention. =)
[HD2 General] zzyzx80:
With regards to the "problem" which i had posted, i could have found a possible "fix" for it and it is to restart the device every morning. I am trying to make it a habit and it's my fifth day with no problem at all.

hope this helps.
[HD2 General] dracd:
I have a problem thats worst my HD2 will not charge/turn on, removing the battery and replacing it does nothing. it is still running stock rom any help please T_T
[HD2 General] stalkerrus:
Somekind of solution to the problem

I had the same problem after flashing the HSPL 2.08. HD2 did not wake up after nearly every message, so the device died about 5 times a day. Yesterday i reflashed HSPL 1.66, and it seems that problem disappeared. I sent about 20 messages to this phone and it seems to work quite stable. Gonna test it for some more days, but i think this could be a possible solution.
[HD2 General] macom1:
i flash the rom and the phone went dead. No bootloader no power, no red light when connected to cahrger. No activesync posible and keep asking for qualcomm drivers. Try all buttons combinations, soft reset button and still nothing. any help? .
[HD2 General] zzyzx80:
If one would had followed my post, i can confirm that even resetting the device everyday could not solve my problem as i just exerienced another stuck slider yesterday evening.

it is as if the device is at 100% CPU usage that it could not respond properly to the unlock slider. I had since concluded that running the phone fresh everyday isn't going to help much. The next thing which i am experimenting is the following:-

HKLM\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS, EnableCache = 0 (original = 1)

HKLM/System/StorageManager/FATFS/EnableCache = 0 (original = 1)

HKLM/System/StorageManager/Profiles/HDProfile/FATFS/EnableCacheWarm = 0 (original = 1)

My rational is the device could be running busy to cache some files.
[HD2 General] lamensterms:
i have this problem quite frequently (every couple of days) and it is very frustrating because it seems to be caused by incoming text messages... and the message that caused the freeze cannot be retrieved (even after a soft reset). so i could be missing important texts.

i have no issue turning my phone back on, but i do have to remove and re-insert the battery to get it started again.

anyone found the cause and a possible solution to this?

i dont have time to read the full thread tonight, but i will do so tomorrow.

any help is greatly appreciated.

cheers.
[HD2 General] stalkerrus:
I had a very similar issue. Situation is similar, but i didn't lose any info. The problem was solved by rolling back from 2.08 HSPL to 1.66 HSPL. And the problem is gone.
[HD2 General] iroczinoz:
I have the same issue with the phone locking up. 5 times in the last 2 weeks.

This is starting to become ridiculous.

I have read mixed responses in using memaid so it does not look like a permanent fix.

Has there been any update on this?

I notice that the HTC site has various updates but some are only limited to ROM versions. So for example if you install the camera fix it is only for ROM 1.6. Then they have a new ROM version higher then 1.6, so does that mean that you can't install the Camera fix when you have their updated ROM?

Sounds sill but is that the way it works you can have one of the 2 but not both.
[HD2 General] Moschino02:
Sleep of death

this totally freaked me out:eek:happened to me twice in 10 days thought the battery died - tried charging it no amber light - took the battery out restarted device over 50% battery life remaining both occasions . bizarre as im running stock 1.72 could there be any sleep of death infected apps?
[HD2 General] joseh_1991:
HD2 problems: is this a version issue??

I was wondering about all these problems with the HD2 and maybe this has to be with if the HD2 is either an European or an American version, or maybe if its T-Mobile or just an unlocked one from HTC. Remember that T-Mobile's HD2 is a bit different from HTC's HD2. Im really confused at this point because im planning on buying a HD2, but after seeing all these problems maybe im going with a Legend or a Desire.