Tilt wont turn on or charge. Shows red light when plugged

drokkon · Dec 31, 2007

Okay, well I'm glad some of you have experienced this, but what's the deal with it happening to SO MANY people on the same night?!?

I got mine on the Thursday before the Friday that the Tilt was released in early October - is it the amount of days it's been running, or the fact that it's near the new year? Hm...

drokkon · Dec 31, 2007

rzanology said:
okay lets try this...remove batt....let phone sit for a few minutes. plug into power source without batt. unplg again....then plug again. while plugged into power source...put batt in...then remove...then in again. then hit the reset button. ofcorse this has nothing to do with anything. but if it was me i would try anything lol....lets see what happens.

rzanology said:
lol also...does the phone come on with just the power cable plugged in and no batt? im curious to know about that. the latest version of kaiser tweak has a bunch of power settings. if the phone does come one...load up kaiser tweak and get in there to see if you can mess with the settings to fix this issue.

Thanks for the suggestions. No luck. Won't turn on no matter what combination of things I try, nor does it turn on when plugged in without a battery.

What was that about hard-resetting it? Can you hard reset it if it won't turn on?

lifesaflaw123 · Dec 31, 2007

drokkon said:
I got mine on the Thursday before the Friday that the Tilt was released in early October - is it the amount of days it's been running, or the fact that it's near the new year? Hm...

good point! I didn't even think about this. My first thought in response to your post was that att sent out an update or something to catch people flashing their phones but its happening to people who didn't. I'm afraid my local att is going to give me a hassle about replacing my phone. last time i did it with my 8525 they made me pay for it and then receive a rebate on my plan to make sure it wasn't "owner caused error"

lifesaflaw123 · Dec 31, 2007

xconradx said:
This happened to me as well. I'm glad there is a thread to address the problem!

The one thing I noticed that is different about this new kaiser I have is that the battery is made by DynaPack, the battery in the kaiser that has this issues was a Samsung battery.

May this be the culprit?

my phone = dead = samsung battery.

jbenach · Dec 31, 2007

I tried all that stuff with the battery, and plugging in without the battery and every which way from Sunday. No go, which is why I took it to an AT&T store and got it replaced today!!

On the other freaky stuff being mentioned in this thread: cue audio of The Twighlight Zone theme

omega_ · Dec 31, 2007

Anyone tried set 14 0 via mtty?

tyeo098 · Dec 31, 2007

Its not the battery, I went to an ATT store last night where the lady had some tilts in stock.

Che popped my battery into another tilt and it booted right up, she also tried a new battery in my =dead= tilt and nothing.

Its a hardware issue from the phone, not the battery.

mutantblack · Jan 1, 2008

No the battery doesn't do anything with this issue. My phone just went dead like this and I am on the phone with AT&T warranty dept. My gf tilt has samsung battery and I have dynapack. Doesn't make any difference.

Boopman · Jan 2, 2008

Same issue. Bought on the 23 of Dec. That night it was fully charged. In the morning it would not turn on. Plugged it in and a red light. Let it sit for over an hour to no avail. Returned for a new one. Same programs and more loaded now and no probs.

It did prompt me to get the Sprite $10.00 upgrade to 6.1. Great Program and allows direct back-up to my TabletPC. 48meg backup in a little over 2 min. (Also got the GPS Tracer - Terminator)

Here is the link if you need it.

http://www.spritesoftware.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=203

Quick Silver · Jan 2, 2008

there's not a solution for this yet?

I'm now in fear that the same will happen to my phone

obie1018 · Jan 2, 2008

^^^ Same that is freaky. Just when I thought I am going to add dutty's rom I look this thread up. I brought my phone new wit no contract ext. so I am assed out of $400+ So I am taking very serious measures,

beret9987 · Jan 2, 2008

obie1018 said:
^^^ Same that is freaky. Just when I thought I am going to add dutty's rom I look this thread up. I brought my phone new wit no contract ext. so I am assed out of $400+ So I am taking very serious measures,

Yea I'm a little freaked out too! My phone seems to be fine and I've had it for a few days but I'm afraid it wont turn on one of these days...

spooki37 · Jan 2, 2008

I had this a couple of weeks ago, Just get a red light when charging and cannot turn phone on, mine was running original HTC rom, I returned phone to HTC service centre and they identified it as a faulty system board and replaced it.

mutantblack · Jan 2, 2008

well, if you just bought the phone, then you have 1 year warranty no matter what of coz for AT&T I am talking about since that's the phone I have. I sent back my first one after used of 2 months due to dead pixels issue. Now the second one after having for a week and it won't turn on at all. So waiting for the replacement and have to send this one back too. I just complained to AT&T about this but they can't do anything about it. My first one had dutty rom on it but I revert it back to AT&T rom. But this second one is stock AT&T rom. I didn't change anything at all.

dfresh305 · Jan 2, 2008

Getting Crazier

Well, a quick update on my situation. I still had my 8525 with me, since I had planned to transfer old data off and the such. So, I moved my sim over to my 8525, and decided to work on the 8925. While working on the brick, I found absolutely no solution. I went to the store here in texass (my box and other items are still in Florida), and the hottie at the counter put a new battery in, BRICKED! Nada, zip, zero, zelch.

Phone is fried. So, no big deal, when I get back to Florida, I'll take the box to the nearest ATT and get it swapped out. Problem...... I'm cruisin over to see some old friends, using my 8525 now, all is well. Go to use the phone less than 30 minutes later, DEAD! I go home and put it on the charger, NOTHING! BRICKED!!!! WTF!?!?!?!?! I baby these phones. These guys are in pristine condition. What could be going on?!??! Maybe I AM radioactive!

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

dfresh305 · Jan 2, 2008

set 14 0

Set 14 0 (as described somewhere in the wiki), would require us to enter bootloader mode. If I could enter bootloader mode, I wouldn't be having this problem at all. Thanks for the ideas tho.

austinsnyc · Jan 2, 2008

Just so you all know having the battery out of your Kasier/Tild and pluging in the charger will not allow it to charge or turn on. you will just get a red light with out the bettery in period. the reason for this is "take your battery out and you see the 4 copper contact points under where the battery goes? those complete the circut for the power supply system" so if your battery is out your Kiaser/tild will not get the proper juice needed to run. for all of you with this issue try to bend the copper tabs up to make sure they are coming in contact with the bottom of the battery. To me it sounds like HTC messed up a batch of phones on the line and you all are paying the price. You should all list your build info and build date it can be found under the cover on the back right under the GPS connection in white letters mine is
36H00564-OOM
DATE:061107(TB02)EU

which means mine was built November 6th 2007 and released for the EURO market. I am however in NYC

dfresh305 · Jan 2, 2008

Build Info

Austinsync- your a genius.

Build Info
36H00563-OOM
Date
181007(RC01)/US

Charger
S/N
EP9A37ASZ00843
P/N
79H00055-01M

drokkon · Jan 2, 2008

austinsnyc said:
You should all list your build info and build date it can be found under the cover on the back right under the GPS connection in white letters

36H00563-OOM
DATE:061107(TB02)/US

austinsync - are you sure you don't mean 6th of November? Because it looks like it's day/month/year according to dfresh305's info. If so, that CAN'T be a manufacturing day, because I got mine way back in October.

In other news, I'm e-mailing my genius AT&T rep right now - he's on these forums too, so I'm sure he'll tell me what to do.

austinsnyc · Jan 2, 2008

Ya it is day/month/year sorry bout that!

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