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Pretty Much Bricked (please Help!!!)

Hey guys. I really , really , really, (can't emphasize that enough), need your help. I flashed my Vogue about a week ago with the 19588 ROM using PPC Geeks Kitchen.
I ended up having to do a warranty exchange because my volume button came a little loose. Well, I went to Flash back to the Stock Alltel ROM, the one that is on the HTC site, thats linked on this page, the one I always use, and now I'm screwed.
It makes it to 43 percent and says theres a communication error. The really weird thing is, I can flash any other ROM to the phone, just not the Alltel ROM. Below , I've listed what I've tried, so you get an Idea. I'm beggin you to help me out here.
*I started out with CokeMan 2.31 , and the 19588 Cooked PPCGeeks Kitchen ROM.
*After the first 5 failed attempt to flash the Alltel ROM, I flashed CokeMan v0.41, and then flashed Mustangs Clean ROM w/o GPS. (this is when I figured out other ROM's will work)
*I re-downloaded the Alltel ROM from HTC's website 6 times, and have tried it on three separate computers and no luck.
*I tried almost ten different ROM's , and each time tried flashing the Alltel ROM afterwords.
*I extracted the Alltel ROM to a folder. Downloaded a blank RUU folder. Copied all of the files from the alltel folder to the RUU folder. (All of the files that were in the Alltel Folder, and not in the RUU folder.) It actually flashed all the way thru, but is now stuck at the HTC screen, and says NO RADIO at the bottom. I just stopped trying, and now am turning to the PPC Gods, you guys. SO PLEASE HELP ME OUT. I have to sent the thing back by monday, or they charge me.
I've always been able to flash to the Alltel ROM from and ROM i've ever used, and never had this trouble before in my PPC life. It always just relocks the phone.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!

flash using the sd card

Sounds like you've flashed the f*** out of that phone, suprised it didn't overheat ! Anyways, try the SD method. Also, what radios have you been adding on, or originated with on the ROM you had when you first started.
Also, I'll be quite honest, if I had to return the phone for any reason and couldn't flash back, I'd probably break it to pieces and say it was run over!

how to use SD anyone? please? ive never tried

does it really matter what ROM is on there ...if your having a button problem? You obviously didn't cause the issue because of the ROM.

faroreefer said:
does it really matter what ROM is on there ...if your having a button problem? You obviously didn't cause the issue because of the ROM.
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Whoa! Never seen this before! If you change the ROM you completely void your warranty.

TweakMan said:
how to use SD anyone? please? ive never tried
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1. Format your MicroSD card to FAT32 (YES - FAT 32 32 32!! not just plain old FAT) (again, this is not required if your card is already fat32; it is ok to have other data on the card). I have read that the card needs to be 2gb or smaller, though I'm not sure how much truth, if any, there is to that...
2. Extract the .NBH you desire to flash from the exe or zip or w/e put it on the microsd card rename it from RUU_signed.nbh to VOGUIMG.NBH
3.Put the MicroSD card in your phone and Get To the BOOTLOADER screen (camer+power+reset) it should then start updating with the .NBH on the SD card and the procedure should begin automatically.
quoted from here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=17473
and also, like the champ said, what radios have you flashed?
EDIT: and, which alltel rom are you trying to flash? if you were reverting back to a non-gps/lower radio rom, you did make sure to downgrade the spl properly using these instructions here correct?
* http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=24906
or here:
* http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=24979
good luck man!!

If you can't flash it, make sure to make it so it can't even start up... you need to completely brick it so it can't get to the bootloader, just not even turn on. Then you can blame HTC and get a new one

derekwilkinson said:
If you can't flash it, make sure to make it so it can't even start up... you need to completely brick it so it can't get to the bootloader, just not even turn on. Then you can blame HTC and get a new one
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You can't be serious with this, right? The idea here is to fix it, not blame HTC, because I'm sure that would go over real smooth with the carrier.

TheChampJT said:
You can't be serious with this, right? The idea here is to fix it, not blame HTC, because I'm sure that would go over real smooth with the carrier.
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lol agreed

What's the update?

If it's bricked and you have insurance, wrap your Touch in a damp cloth, put it in the microwave on high for 2 seconds, and voila!

piscesjoey said:
If it's bricked and you have insurance, wrap your Touch in a damp cloth, put it in the microwave on high for 2 seconds, and voila!
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OH! Another one! After the voila, you call your carrier and say what exactly?

TheChampJT said:
OH! Another one! After the voila, you call your carrier and say what exactly?
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You say it doesn't work anymore. From VZW, you get one in 1-2 days and you are done. Been there. Done that.

etexter said:
You say it doesn't work anymore. From VZW, you get one in 1-2 days and you are done. Been there. Done that.
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Well that sounds like a horrible idea! Lol I mean if it has to be done then yeah just go to a GPS ROM and then flash back and it will brick and you can send it in if you have TEP from Sprint or something.. But first I think he wants to FIX the phone not destroy it and start over

My touch is also bricked. It boots to the Sprint logo and stops there.

What do you mean a button problem.
My Touch's green and red buttons stopped working before updating. But the phone still worked. After updating the ROM, even the phone stop working.
Could you please elaborate on this?
faroreefer said:
does it really matter what ROM is on there ...if your having a button problem? You obviously didn't cause the issue because of the ROM.
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dongdongdog said:
What do you mean a button problem.
My Touch's green and red buttons stopped working before updating. But the phone still worked. After updating the ROM, even the phone stop working.
Could you please elaborate on this?
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The first post dealt with a broken button.

question about a bricked hero

Hy, i found a guy who has a bricked hero ( stucked at bootloop ) he is seling it preaty cheap and i'm wondering if maybe it can be revived. He said that u push the power buton, it starts up stays like that for like 5 seconds, than it shuts down. he also said that the problem started when he tried to upgrade it from 1.6 to 2.1 and also he mentioned that the phone was rooted before, but now wont enter in cyanogen ( havent got the time yet to read what cyanogen is).
here is a youtube video ( not his phone ) but where the phone is stuck, u can look at the second 26, there his phone reboots. what u say? can it be somehow revived? what do u sugest me? curently i own a diamond and i would love and android phone. cheers

littlej said:
Hy, i found a guy who has a bricked hero ( stucked at bootloop ) he is seling it preaty cheap and i'm wondering if maybe it can be revived. He said that u push the power buton, it starts up stays like that for like 5 seconds, than it shuts down. he also said that the problem started when he tried to upgrade it from 1.6 to 2.1 and also he mentioned that the phone was rooted before, but now wont enter in cyanogen ( havent got the time yet to read what cyanogen is).
here is a youtube video ( not his phone ) but where the phone is stuck, u can look at the second 26, there his phone reboots. what u say? can it be somehow revived? what do u sugest me? curently i own a diamond and i would love and android phone. cheers
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I don't think that's bricked mate. A bricked Hero, typically, won't turn on at all.
Can he enter Fastboot?
I think it's Home+Back+Power...

as i said i dont have the phone but i could buy it for about 140euros if i have any chance to revive it. cheers

littlej said:
as i said i dont have the phone but i could buy it for about 140euros if i have any chance to revive it. cheers
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i think i would take it.

Or you could be generous and point him here, so he can fix it himself?
You know, be nice?

Branwen said:
Or you could be generous and point him here, so he can fix it himself?
You know, be nice?
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+1
(10 char)

he is seling it especialy becouse he does not have the time to get it to service or read some forums on the internet... the idea is, can it be fixed? should i buy it or not ?

littlej said:
he is seling it especialy becouse he does not have the time to get it to service or read some forums on the internet... the idea is, can it be fixed? should i buy it or not ?
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The chances are, it can be fixed.

Story seems a bit strange to me
But yeah sounds like it can be fixed.

Offer 100 for it. Say you might be able to fix it and you are taking on all the risk!

This happened to me too. But it isn't bricked, at least it wasn't for me. I don't know if it's rooted, but mine was. I took out the sdcard, booted in to recovery (the one where you flash new ROM's, dunno if it's the right name). And then I wiped, and installed a new ROM.
Hope this helps

hy, thx for information, can u be a little mor specific? if somehow it aint rooted is it anyproblems entering into recovery mode? this hapend to you also while upgrading from 1:6 to 2:1 ? sry for mistypes, posted from diamond cheers

littlej said:
hy, thx for information, can u be a little mor specific? if somehow it aint rooted is it anyproblems entering into recovery mode? this hapend to you also while upgrading from 1:6 to 2:1 ? sry for mistypes, posted from diamond cheers
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There is no 1.6 or 2.1 on Hero.
Also, Cynaogen mod hasn't been released for Hero but for the G1.
I would make sure that you are getting what you're paying for. Buy it off ebay and make him write that he'll accept returns.

If you see the network operator logo or the HTC logo, I reckon it's not bricked. Bricked usually equals nothing, or just an error triangle or something like that (even the error triangle may indicate hope).
I reckon it may be worth a shot (can't see any youtube link to see for myself).
Back+Power is to enter fastboot FWIW. Maybe you could ask him to plug it in and see if the charging LED comes on??? That sometimes indicates it's still working.
I'll vote 'boot-loop', which isn't critical. Should be fixable by goldcard and RUU downgrade, then installation of custom ROM.

screwhead89 said:
There is no 1.6 or 2.1 on Hero.
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there is one leaked 2.1 rom, from which several 2.1 roms have been built. all can be found here and on modaco's. also there is one 1.6 rom, which hasn't been updated since 30. october 2009.
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Also, Cynaogen mod hasn't been released for Hero but for the G1.
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jnwhiteh released a build cyanogen's 2.1 sources for the hero.

kendong2 said:
jnwhiteh released a build cyanogen's 2.1 sources for the hero.
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The owner of the phone presumably said that he "can't get into Cyanogen anymore". I think he meant Cyanogen's recovery image v1.4, which preceded Amon's
One should try loading a fresh recovery image - running the "Fastboot" part of the code at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124
If the recovery image is corrupted, there could be issues of "access-denied" running certain "fastboot" commands, depending on method of past rooting. Even with a Goldcard. I was there.

[Q] bricked

hate to ask for help bc u can usually find the answer somwhere....if my phone IS really bricked would love someone to tell me that so i can move on. seemed to have read that if it comes on then its not bricked..idk. ive rooted, flashed new roms and flashed it back completely stock.
i bricked it by attemting to flash it to boost...wrote nv items and zero'd out the meid. was looking for the esn so i could do the same, got a few of em.....phone fell battery flew..now i cant get past the first white htc screen...now this is where things get funky. a step of the guide i was following required root so i did n i saw cwm.. wen i got the bootloop i wasnt really worried at first bc i kne i could try a few things. well that didnt last long. booted into hboot n it said s-on..? then it wouldnt let me in recovery, just rebooted to the bootloop. i tried runnig unrevoked agn even tho i couldnt boot...couldnt read the phone. put the pb13img on sd card and it went thru its updating process n asked to reboot. reboots in same bootloop. next i tried runnig RUU..it runs and reboots my phone to the same bootloop...is there anyway to restore the ORIGINAL nv items and meid/esn...since these are the only things other than running unrevoked that ive changed i think thats where my problem lies. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Which radio is currently flashed on your phone? I had this issue once, I had to flash back to the 7.28 radio to get my phone to boot.

damn when i saw this post, i thought it was my post! i did almost the exact same thing and its acting almost the same as your phone. i did the ruu and it worked on the one posted in my thread, ran through and all but nothing. how would i done grade the radio?

i never flashed a radio...hboot says 2.15.00.07.28..
lol waxworks i saw ur post also... started reading and we pretty much did the same thing on pretty much the same step of flashing to boost...mad as hell too stuck with this incognito for awhile smh..
is there anyway to flash a nandroid without being able to get into cwm? idk man jus not looking good.

Reading your post not sure if you used the stock image and tried to update using the hboot menu.There is a thread 5 vibe fix that may help you get a rom image back to your phone

Vernox701 said:
Reading your post not sure if you used the stock image and tried to update using the hboot menu.There is a thread 5 vibe fix that may help you get a rom image back to your phone
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Do you happen to have link? I'm on tapatalk and there no search

waxworkz said:
Do you happen to have link? I'm on tapatalk and there no search
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I believe this is what you're looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110865

no fix for this?...anyway to get s-off only being able to use fastboot?

strive53 said:
no fix for this?...anyway to get s-off only being able to use fastboot?
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I think we have bricks! I tried to do some other method that involved running a script and cmd prompts. Didn't do anything as I am also "S" on. I think all the fixes are for "S" off.

Need help unbricking/restoring phone

i have the droid incredible 2 and i bricked it
i can turn it on and the white screen with the green htc lettering comes up and then it just plays the cyanogenmod 7 load screen in a loop, please help me out, if you can provide dumbed down instructions that would be great
edit: UNBRICKED IT WOOT
edit 2: however now when i try to activate it i cant enter the 4 digit pass code because there are no dial keys while making a call, so i still need help :/

You should be able to long press the settings key and that normally brings it up.

yea i got it activated thanks, i was wondering, is it possible to get it back to htc sense, also i dont know how to get the google app store onto my phone

simple29 said:
yea i got it activated thanks, i was wondering, is it possible to get it back to htc sense, also i cant download apps from google it says they are installed but they arent
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If you backed up before you flashed cm7, then you can just restore your backup. Otherwise, you'd have to flash an ruu and lose stuff... Or there's always andyBONESTOCK.
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tylerlawhon said:
If you backed up before you flashed cm7, then you can just restore your backup. Otherwise, you'd have to flash an ruu and lose stuff... Or there's always andyBONESTOCK.
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That's what I would suggest. Also I have only seen one true brick in my experience, and I've rooted close to a dozen different android phones between my own and friends.
After I rooted my friends galaxy s, I told him to wait before he installs any roms since there were multiple carriers with that phone. He installed a rom later that night that was for another carrier. Obviously the phone would not work properly. So I gave him the instructions on how to fix it (go back to completely stock since he didn't make a backup). while flash through Odin (I think that's what it was, well whatever correct program is called) the usb cord came unplugged half way through the flash.
He had a true brick. After that it wouldn't even power up. It was nothing more than a paperweight, or in this case, a brick.
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i really need help! My HTC one M8 has been completely wiped, no OS installed. Not I can only use TWRP and i can't boot up!

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I was installing some roms on my vzw varient of the HTC One M8 can the install failed and so i recovered to nandroid backup and finally get data back but only have 3G any way or thing that you know that might help?

Iconic Bullet said:
I was installing some roms on my vzw varient of the HTC One M8 can the install failed and so i recovered to nandroid backup and finally get data back but only have 3G any way or thing that you know that might help?
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Try a simple sim pull if you haven't already. Often times if you are stuck on 3g, a sim pull will enable LTE when you reboot the phone. on Verizon.

I tried that i am still having a problem can i try at revert to stock and fix it if so can you please help me...

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So I have the att varient and I tried to flash the Venom rom 1.2 version from stock rooted S-On and after flashing I am now stuck at the splash screen and cannot access the bootloader, any suggestions?
EDIT: I have figured out the problem and solved it please disregard this post.
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Hey Matt, I wonder if you can help me out. I flashed the GPE rom, it was working fine until i decided to edit the build prop. I changed the density value from 480 to 320. It worked but it was too tiny. Then i would readjust the value to 400 but upon restart the value wouldnt change. So i tried changing it back to 480 and saved it and directly went to reboot, not my phone refuses to load up. When i hold power and volume up the HTC logo screen comes up and then it turns back off, I cannot get into bootloader by pressing volume down and power. I am stumped. If you can assist me, id be sure to tip you some BTC your way.
Thank you in advance
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yas1987 said:
Hey Matt, I wonder if you can help me out. I flashed the GPE rom, it was working fine until i decided to edit the build prop. I changed the density value from 480 to 320. It worked but it was too tiny. Then i would readjust the value to 400 but upon restart the value wouldnt change. So i tried changing it back to 480 and saved it and directly went to reboot, not my phone refuses to load up. When i hold power and volume up the HTC logo screen comes up and then it turns back off, I cannot get into bootloader by pressing volume down and power. I am stumped. If you can assist me, id be sure to tip you some BTC your way.
Thank you in advance
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Never mind Matt, It eventually Loaded, Sigh what a relief. Il be sure to keep you in mind!

Hi @Matt !Got an m8 with that whelp message on firewater, u said above u can s off?

Prompt 24 hour service.....haven't seen Matt here since the 15th. Hmmm :sly:

th3lawmak3r76 said:
So I have the att varient and I tried to flash the Venom rom 1.2 version from stock rooted S-On and after flashing I am now stuck at the splash screen and cannot access the bootloader, any suggestions?
EDIT: I have figured out the problem and solved it please disregard this post.
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I have an issue similar to this.
Phone gets to the HTC powered by android screen and then dies. I cannot access bootloader using vol down and power. It won't respond.
S-Off, unlocked boot loader.
Phone also periodically turns on by itself, then procedes to shut down after it gets to the HTC Powered by android splash screen.
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Managed to get into recovery using the advice in this post:
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When you plug it into the computer does the computer make a ding sound that it's connected? If so, then press power and volume up until the disconnect ding sound which indicates it's rebooting and then immediately press volume down and see if you can get into fastboot. The timing is tricky so I've found using audio cues from computer can help if the phone is messed up.
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Leaving this here in case anyone else has the same issue. Mods delete if you see fit.

Prompt 24 hour service? but how?

SimplyNando said:
i really need help! My HTC one M8 has been completely wiped, no OS installed. Not I can only use TWRP and i can't boot up!
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copy your custom ROM into a flashdisk. then use USB OTG, search on youtube about the tutorial.

Mr Hofs said:
Prompt 24 hour service.....haven't seen Matt here since the 15th. Hmmm :sly:
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It usually is, I've just got back from holiday and ran up a large phone bill so been trying to sort that out.
People should private message me so that I get the notification email as I thought I was subscribed to this thread yet when I checked just now, there's loads that I hadn't seen.
Sorry!

Matt said:
It usually is, I've just got back from holiday and ran up a large phone bill so been trying to sort that out.
People should private message me so that I get the notification email as I thought I was subscribed to this thread yet when I checked just now, there's loads that I hadn't seen.
Sorry!
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That's no problem and could happen to all of us. But some pointers from my point of view :
When i look at your O.P you give the tendency to look like a non profit company/organization which indeed offers a free service, that's all fine but please give the users the hint when it will be "offline" when you are on holiday or at least "offline" without a reason to stop the reactions users like me posted before. It looks like a 24 hour service promise which is not there.
I have been a helpful member on the hox section of xda the last 2 years and never had the need of such a thread/service. I think it won't make that major difference because users will always make new threads with their problems anyway.
This is not ment in a bad way, just my personal opinion !
Cheers.

SimplyNando said:
i really need help! My HTC one M8 has been completely wiped, no OS installed. Not I can only use TWRP and i can't boot up!
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kinda ran into the same problem. problem is i dont have an usb otg cable. i tried installing viper rom from but it would fail towards the end. would really like to have my phone back up and running.

exocetdj said:
Hi @Matt !Got an m8 with that whelp message on firewater, u said above u can s off?
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He can help with this? Matt, you can help with this? hahah

Hi @Matt, i read that you can help with s-off?
I'm using a european WWE m8 (CID htc__e11) and i can't seem to get it working, you would be my personal hero if you could help me out with this one.
Greetings,
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Hi @Matt, i read that you can help with s-off?
I'm using a european WWE m8 (CID htc__e11) and i can't seem to get it working, you would be my personal hero if you could help me out with this one.
Greetings,
Incapable
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If firewater isn't working for your device, then this service nor any other can help you gain S-Off, like it's been started in many threads already. You'll have to wait until firewater suports your phone.