Hey all,
So I've been working on this for quite some hours now for two nights, but I'm done for and hope someone can give me clarity:
HTC One m9, running stock, latest update VDF Germany, Android 6.0.
Problem occured last week. I was using the phone quite extensively (yeah, tbh I was playing Pokemon Go... like a lot). With it being constantly on wifi/4g/GPS and all, charging it all the time, the battery also became quite warm.... And then while walking about it crashed and rebooted. I never had such a crash before tbh. After Reboot HTC Error Report even popped up and I also sent it. Then I found that the Bluetooth and Wifi Connections were off, which I usually both have activated all the time. And now I cannot turn them on anymore. No matter which shortcut is used. Wifi displays "error" after some minutes, while BT is just greyed out after triggering. Wifi Mac is showing with a 02:00:00:00:00 now as well.
So I did my research and performed quite some things, trying to get it fixed, because I am still not sure wether this is a Hardware or Software issue. A lot of people reported the issue at least for the wifi part. Less people reported it for both, wifi and BT, but I would guess that not too many people use BT regularly anyway. I found one person mentioning, that if both is not working it is most probably a hardware related issue. Which was my first thought exactly, thinking it overheated, something had gone loose internally and now the antenna is killed or at least not connected anymore.
As for the physical methods, I only tried the "whacking the back part of the device"-technique, which did not do anything. I haven't gone through "freezer" or "hair dryer" yet....
Some people were able to fix it via draining the battery and then restarting and draining again and what not.. but that all sounded weird to me.
I am still hoping it is software related so I went:
- Wifi Fix and Rescue App
- Unlock
- TWRP
- Root
- Reflashing stock
- numerous factory and network settings resets
Because I read about the /persist partition or folder and that it should contain wifi or mac address related info. Some guy had simply deleted those files and they were recreated upon reboot. But those files are not existing in my /persist folder (checked via Root Explorer - got the paid version) and I have Root - as stated above. Still that folder only lists:
\data
\display
\hlos_rfs
\lost+found
\rfs
\tee
I found a thread in google's cache of someone on how to recreate or fix that folder and contents, based on a nexus 5 however and that is probably not working on the HTC one m9 I was presuming.
So, what do you guys think?
Is there any way to get the wifi back to work? Would you say it even might be software related, looking at the persist partition/folder contents? Or am I totally wrong and the fact that BT AND Wifi are not working, rules everything else out and only leaves a Hardware Issue?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
Thanks in advance!
- Arne
