Problem with old HTC Android phone

[Second Summer]

Yesterday my HTC Wildfire smartphone was complaining that it was running out of storage space. "That's only to be expected" I thought to myself as I had been shooting pictures and video, and never really deleted anything much of it. Anyway, I didn't have the time to look into it then. Early this morning it was still working, but by the time I left for work it had started to loudly play the start-up sound while ironically displaying the "HTC quietly brilliant" logo. Over and over again. And it won't do anything else. The only way to make it stop is to remove the battery. And I can't access it from my computer either.

Any ideas for how to fix it?

 

[ledboots]

I've had to hard reset an android phones. You lose all the apps and all the changes you have made, but it saves the phone.

This guy has directions if you go that route.
http://www.thefullsignal.com/htc/ht...86641/how_to_hard_reset_the_htc_wildfire.html

 

[Second Summer]

Thanks! So that is an option ... Though I'll have to think about it, as I'm not sure if there's anything on there (pictures, videos) that I want to try and rescue.

 

[ledboots]

My son was talking about an application he put on his phone to enable him to move apps to the sd card that normally the phone would store on internal memory. He said your Wildfire is probably on 2 point something, where they want everything on the internal drive, but it might still work. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leinardi.setinstalllocation&hl=en

Or root the phone, of course he recommends. (I won't let him touch mine!)

 

[Second Summer]

Thank ledboots. I ended up doing a factory reset since I couldn't access it from my computer or anything, and it doesn't erase anything from the SD card, just the internal memory. Seems to be working again now, but I'll have to reinstall my apps etc.