[Q] Possbily bricked phone I got from a friend

[Quza]

A friend gave me his Desire S to have a look at it, maybe to fix it.
It doesn't respond to the buttons anymore, from time to time an orange LED blinks when it's plugged in and shortly after. He said it just stopped working sometime and wouldn't start again.
When I connect it to my PC it is recognized as HTC Android device.
Is this something I can fix or is it a hardware error?

 

[c.m.b]

Charge it for maybe 20-30 minutes and it should boot.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

 

[Quza]

Charge it for maybe 20-30 minutes and it should boot.

It was plugged in for the last 2 hours. The LED is not on while connected to the charger. Pressing the power button results in nothing :|

 

[jugg1es]

It was plugged in for the last 2 hours. The LED is not on while connected to the charger. Pressing the power button results in nothing :|

Does adb recognise it

“Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.”
(Jeff Pesis)*

 

[Quza]

\ADB>adb devices
List of devices attached

nothing

the only thing every (i guess) 30 seconds, the orange LED goes on for 3 seconds

 

[Skanob]

Bricked or HTC repair, as adb unrecognizable.

Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda app-developers app

 

[Aquous]

Sounds like the bootloader isn't working properly. If that's indeed what the problem is, you can either send it to htc or buy yourself a replacement emmc that has hboot preinstalled (yes, they exist) and try to replace the emmc yourself (which is not easy).