Weird failure to start by EVO 4G

[MikeBinOK]

Earlier this evening, I downloaded the Twit.Tv application. I sat down to watch a lengthy video blog streaming through wifi (I recommend Dr. Kiki's Science Hour, if you are a science geek-type!). About halfway through the blog, the video froze, and after a moment, a message popped up that they were unable to stream the video, and I'd be better off downloading it. I noticed that I had a decent amount of battery left (don't remember exact, but I believe it was showing about 1/3 of battery remaining). I just looked at the titles of some other twit.tv blogs before turning off my EVO and setting it aside. After a few minutes, I picked up the EVO to do something else with it and it was stone cold dead. No response to the power switch, touching the screen, or anything else. I thought perhaps the battery had been lower than I thought, or lower than the indicator showed (I just have the stock battery level indicator), so I took it and plugged it in to charge.

I was a bit antsy, so after about ten minutes I tried to power it up while still plugged in. No life whatsoever. I decided I must have really drained the battery hard, so left it alone to charge for an hour. Still no response after an hour.

I took out the battery to do a "hard reset". A moment after reinstalling, I saw the screen light up and the EVO begin to boot. After a short wait, the EVO was up and running. The battery showed almost but not quite a full charge. Things seem to be normal a few hours later.

Anyone have any explanations, ideas, or anything I missed or should do now? I'm not in a tizzy, but I"m a bit perturbed at the sudden failure.

 

[phatfield]

Funny....same thing on mine last night, too. First time I've had a problem. I powered off to reboot since I was showing something like 96M of available memory in Task Manager. Couldn't get it to power back on without removing and replacing the battery. Strange.....

 

[2CupsWithString]

Earlier this evening, I downloaded the Twit.Tv application. I sat down to watch a lengthy video blog streaming through wifi (I recommend Dr. Kiki's Science Hour, if you are a science geek-type!). About halfway through the blog, the video froze, and after a moment, a message popped up that they were unable to stream the video, and I'd be better off downloading it. I noticed that I had a decent amount of battery left (don't remember exact, but I believe it was showing about 1/3 of battery remaining). I just looked at the titles of some other twit.tv blogs before turning off my EVO and setting it aside. After a few minutes, I picked up the EVO to do something else with it and it was stone cold dead. No response to the power switch, touching the screen, or anything else. I thought perhaps the battery had been lower than I thought, or lower than the indicator showed (I just have the stock battery level indicator), so I took it and plugged it in to charge.

I was a bit antsy, so after about ten minutes I tried to power it up while still plugged in. No life whatsoever. I decided I must have really drained the battery hard, so left it alone to charge for an hour. Still no response after an hour.

I took out the battery to do a "hard reset". A moment after reinstalling, I saw the screen light up and the EVO begin to boot. After a short wait, the EVO was up and running. The battery showed almost but not quite a full charge. Things seem to be normal a few hours later.

Anyone have any explanations, ideas, or anything I missed or should do now? I'm not in a tizzy, but I"m a bit perturbed at the sudden failure.

It crashed, this used to happen to me, since I've done a factory reset and installed the apps I wanted one by one and it hasn't happened since. I'm not saying this is the same reason for your crash, but to me it appears software related.

 

[forceOnature]

It seems your phone locked up after the screen turned off. That would explain why it didn't respond again until you pulled the battery.

 

[Deleted member 5726]

Just an FYI, a hard reset is a factory reset... it will erase everything on the phone.

How to hard reset the HTC EVO 4G - Know Your Cell

 

[dpg]

same thing started happening to me on friday. then all of a sudden the phone would just start restarting by itself. i would hear the start up ringtone and was puzzled. after the phone restarted itself for the 5th time in the hour i just did a factory reset and reloaded everything. seems to be fine now

 

[partsguy74]

Happened to me, also. Also while streaming video. I thought I bricked it. Pulling the battery fixed it, but it scared the crap out of me.