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Did I Brick My Phone?

Ok I've flashed close to a dozen times using various great ROMS everyone has provided and never had a problem. Today I realized that ATT/HTC released their official ROM yesterday and I thought I would give it a try. I followed their instructions but it did not work.
My phone looked as though it was updating and it got stuck at 11%. Followed the instructions to recover and it still did not work. Now my phone is stuck at the Triple Color Bar screen and I cannot do anything.
Did I brick my phone?
Can I use some of the options to try to unbrick in the xda wiki?
Thank you in advance.
- Monty

Have you tried flashing a different rom or using a different pc to flash with?

i managed to revive mine from that state the key is getting the usb to let you update again dont plug in the cable until after the ruu is looking for the connection might take a couple tries but that worked for me.

Hi
Try this:
1) Turn your phone off completely
2) Hold the side OK button and the power button, at the same time push the reset button at the bottom with your stylus.
3) this should get you into the bootloader (the three colour screen)(dont be lazy and just let it load into the bootloader, actually run the key sequence ive just mentioned!)
4) on your PC run the update, i would reccomend the latest official update for your handset, BUT, do the following:
a) Make sure you have WinRAR installed
b) Right click on the update file you have just downloaded
c) 'Extract' the update file to the folder it makes
d) within that folder should be ANOTHER executable file that has the same icon as the original update
e) Extract this file again
f) open the folder it makes and within that there should be a RUUSIGNED.NBH and also the RUU utility itself
5) Run the update utility in the second folder
6) once the utility has loaded, plug your phone in (the text will change from 'SERIAL' to 'USB')
7) proceed with the update and see what happens
hope that helps
good luck.

MontyV77 said:
Ok I've flashed close to a dozen times using various great ROMS everyone has provided and never had a problem. Today I realized that ATT/HTC released their official ROM yesterday and I thought I would give it a try. I followed their instructions but it did not work.
My phone looked as though it was updating and it got stuck at 11%. Followed the instructions to recover and it still did not work. Now my phone is stuck at the Triple Color Bar screen and I cannot do anything.
Did I brick my phone?
Can I use some of the options to try to unbrick in the xda wiki?
Thank you in advance.
- Monty
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You should not update using the Oficial ROM release Update because you put in the boot loader from here (Hard-SPL-V7) and it will try over righting the entire rom if you do and is probably what messed up your update attempt. Use Dutty's NBH tool and just decompile the NBH of the official rom, then recompile the windows, splash screens and radio into a new NBH then flash using the RUUwrapper from this site to flash the phone.

TooSharp said:
Have you tried flashing a different rom or using a different pc to flash with?
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Yes I've tried two different Official ATT ROMs and on different computers but same problem. Actually the only one that will attempt to start loading are the ATT ROMs and none of the cooked ROMs here are loading. Maybe that has something to do with the way they are packaged.
Jefem24 said:
i managed to revive mine from that state the key is getting the usb to let you update again dont plug in the cable until after the ruu is looking for the connection might take a couple tries but that worked for me.
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Yeah I've done this now over a dozen times since yesterday and still no luck.
duke_stix said:
Hi
Try this:
1) Turn your phone off completely
2) Hold the side OK button and the power button, at the same time push the reset button at the bottom with your stylus.
3) this should get you into the bootloader (the three colour screen)(dont be lazy and just let it load into the bootloader, actually run the key sequence ive just mentioned!)
4) on your PC run the update, i would reccomend the latest official update for your handset, BUT, do the following:
a) Make sure you have WinRAR installed
b) Right click on the update file you have just downloaded
c) 'Extract' the update file to the folder it makes
d) within that folder should be ANOTHER executable file that has the same icon as the original update
e) Extract this file again
f) open the folder it makes and within that there should be a RUUSIGNED.NBH and also the RUU utility itself
5) Run the update utility in the second folder
6) once the utility has loaded, plug your phone in (the text will change from 'SERIAL' to 'USB')
7) proceed with the update and see what happens
hope that helps
good luck.
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This looked the most promising maybe because it felt like I was doing something and I was using the ATT ROM again to update, and it actually started updating again. But it stopped at 11% again and gave me the 262 error.
Below pulled from readme.txt file.
"ERROR [262, 276, 284, 302] : UPDATE ERROR
This error occurs during the CE ROM code upgrade process.
Solution: If this happens, you can just soft-reset the device and run RUU again. The update process will then continue.
Note: At this stage, the Wince is destroyed; instead, it is in upgrade mode."
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Tried to soft-reset and reinstall but same problem.

Scrambler001 said:
You should not update using the Oficial ROM release Update because you put in the boot loader from here (Hard-SPL-V7) and it will try over righting the entire rom if you do and is probably what messed up your update attempt. Use Dutty's NBH tool and just decompile the NBH of the official rom, then recompile the windows, splash screens and radio into a new NBH then flash using the RUUwrapper from this site to flash the phone.
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Haven't yet tried this because I am having a hard time getting details on this. I've been searching looking for "duttythroy nbh tool", "nbh tool", "dutty nbh tool", and "dutty's nbh tool" and I can't find it.
If this helps anyone this is what I have on my tri-color screen:
HERM100
IPL - 1.04
HERM100
SPL - 2.03
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You can also try to flash from the SD card:
- format a SD card with FAT32
- extract the .NBH file from the rom image you like (for your device of course)
- rename the .NBH to HERMIMG.NBH and copy it to your SD card
- put SD card in phone and start it in bootloader (hold OK button on left side and POWER button at same time and stick with stylus in RESET on bottom)
- confirm flashing on screen
- flashing might hang after some time but this is normal. Just wait. Complete flash takes about 30 minutes.
This also works for normal (non preproduction) devices but keep in mind that if the CID does not match the flashing might not work. - this was taken from one old thread
- notes - you should backup everything on your SD card to your PC (because except for HERMIMG.NBH it should be blank)
- you can not get USB related error because it loads from a card
- if you flash official ROM you flash it with everything - radio ROM, Windows and bootloader
I am not really sure about bootloader you should have but for official upgrade official bootloader should be ok (it is first thing to be flashed - so I think you have bootloader from ATT ROM already.
Hope it can help somehow...

hey, what is your spl version?

it should say on your bootloader mode
and then read this http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Unbrick
that really helps a lot, it has the solution and stuff. hope you unbrick your phone! all i did was download the update and it reloaded to wm5 update on my 8525 then after that, i went for olipro's 2.10 so i dont unbrick it anymore =) then flash all you want!

oh yea the factory update for my 8525 that unbricked my phone was this http://www.htcamerica.net/support/8525/software-downloads.html
try loading that in your phone =)

Ok that was the oddest thing but it worked. I've been trying to possibly unzip some of the packages by way of what duke_stix instructed. My last ROM was Schaps most recent 4.0. I unzipped what he had and ran the RUU file. What was funny though is that it started updating up to 3% then gave me the 260 error but this time my phone restarted and booted back up. I don't know what happen but it works now. If this is suppose to go in as a fix I don't know what happen.
Thank you everyone for all your help. I want to reflash my ROM but I will wait until I see this working for a while.
- Monty

asianr0cker said:
...i went for olipro's 2.10 so i dont unbrick it anymore =) then flash all you want!
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How do I change my SPL to 2.10 now?

Here is nice tutorial how to flash HardSPL v7 (a.k.a. bootloader 2.10 Olipro). Glad to see you are out of brickland

KarhU said:
Here is nice tutorial how to flash HardSPL v7 (a.k.a. bootloader 2.10 Olipro). Glad to see you are out of brickland
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Thank you just finished flashing it. Thanks again to all that helped.

MontyV77 said:
How do I change my SPL to 2.10 now?
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See mrvanx.org
... Edit: That's what you get for waiting 10 minutes before posting. Doh!

Thank You So Much !
I did all pricedures and it worked perfectly. You are the best dude!
duke_stix said:
Hi
Try this:
1) Turn your phone off completely
2) Hold the side OK button and the power button, at the same time push the reset button at the bottom with your stylus.
3) this should get you into the bootloader (the three colour screen)(dont be lazy and just let it load into the bootloader, actually run the key sequence ive just mentioned!)
4) on your PC run the update, i would reccomend the latest official update for your handset, BUT, do the following:
a) Make sure you have WinRAR installed
b) Right click on the update file you have just downloaded
c) 'Extract' the update file to the folder it makes
d) within that folder should be ANOTHER executable file that has the same icon as the original update
e) Extract this file again
f) open the folder it makes and within that there should be a RUUSIGNED.NBH and also the RUU utility itself
5) Run the update utility in the second folder
6) once the utility has loaded, plug your phone in (the text will change from 'SERIAL' to 'USB')
7) proceed with the update and see what happens
hope that helps
good luck.
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if its an official rom you may need to hard sol it first as i had the same problem updating to original after a chefs special

blowfeld said:
if its an official rom you may need to hard sol it first as i had the same problem updating to original after a chefs special
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what is a hard sol and how do I do it? I wanna go back to the OEM Official ROM to see if it fixes my no service phone problems.

Ok, I've tried everything that was posted in this thread and nothing worked so far.
My last setup before trying to reinstall the Radio is:
AT&T 8525 (location - Hawaii)
Black Majik's WM6
Herm Radio 1.43.00.00
Hard SPL-V7
The OS has been working great until this previous Monday. Also just in case if this is any relevant, Hawaii has just recently upgraded and turned on it's 3G network just a couple of weeks ago. They are still tweaking the whole thing to make sure all is well. Unfortunately it seems that something they did this past Monday seemed to really screw up the 8525's.
The reason I'm trying to reinstall my radio is because I happened to go to the phone settings, and saw that there was no Radio version on the screen. Thought this might also add to the problem.
Well where I'm at now is that I'm stuck at the Tri-Color loader screen. I've read the Wiki regarding fixing a bricked phone. Doesn't seem to help.
So I'm now stuck and need expertise of more knowledgeable members who might have been in the same situation as me.
Please, really need help as this is a company phone and I've got to get it working cause I don't wanna have to pay for it.

HTC Diamond bricked?

i have flashed my diamond with the official htc rom
im on 1.40 olinex, now i can only access boot mode.
sometimes if i leave the phone without a battery for like 2 hours, when i turn it on i see the "touch diamond" logo, if i leave the battery for a whole day i see the windows mobile loading screen, but then suddenly the phone turns off
plz if you have any idea about this problem help me

If you can acces bootloader, then your diamond isn't bricked.
Try the unsigned version of olinex' hard-SPL and flash the ROM again.
Good luck!

hey ElCondor, im on 1.40 olinex, i cant flash it because it is protected
how can i flash the unsigned 1.40 olinex one?

Here is a link to the unsigned hard-spl.
Make sure you download "Unsigned-Hard-SPL-Diamond-OliNex.zip".
Follow the instructions:
1) Download, extract to an empty folder.
2) Run RomUpdateUtility.exe, Have Phone Synced with PC (go into bootloader, connect your cable, then the word "serial" in bootloader will change into "USB".
3) follow steps, check device for prompts after PC shows loading bar. it should go to black screen now.
4) SPL flashes, device automatically reboots, job done.
5) to confirm you got it installed, go into bootloader mode (volume down + reset, i.e. press volume down button and reset then keep holding the volume down key until you see tricolour screen) and verify the screen shows 1.40.OliNex.
note: you will not see the SPL version during normal boot, that is the OS version, not SPL!
Installing this will hard-reset your device.
Best Regards,
ElCondor

when i flashed the unsigned 1.40 olinex, the device rebooted
windows mobile is preparing your phone for first use
htc logo
phone went off :S
will try flashing rom again

flashed ROM again, now it wont boot up no htc diamond logo no nothing
i can access boot mode (1.40 olinex unsigned now i guess)
is there no way i can boot the rom? what seems to be my problem?

mzaouar said:
flashed ROM again, now it wont boot up no htc diamond logo no nothing
i can access boot mode (1.40 olinex unsigned now i guess)
is there no way i can boot the rom? what seems to be my problem?
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Hi
If you can access the bootloader then your device is not bricked. Therefore download a rom of your choice then connect to the usb when on the bootloader then use a Diamond custom RUU (normally come with the rom) follow the steps. After rom updated make a hard reset. I hope it will run ok.
Looks your symtons are showing like your rom corrupted.
Good luck

i am flashing this ROM
RUU_Diamond_HTC_Europe_1.93.401.2_Radio_Signed_Diamond_52.29.25.12_1.00.25.05_Ship
the newest one i downloaded from htc. com is giving me rom update error
would you recommend a good rom for my phone?

after flashing and reflashing and hard resetting with the ROM showed above
still cant boot in ROM mode, only in boot mode
el condor sabes, anything ???
should i flash with a new rom, and if yes with which?
(diam100 olinex 1.40 unsigned)

Perhaps try a custom rom?
I found when flashing to an official rom from a different provider (my phones telstra and was flashing 3) I had issues with the rom booting and had to follow a post on here somewhere to get it working, however When I had this problem I could still flash any custom rom with no issues.
Unless its for warrenty purposes then its probably not worth flashing the "original" perhaps flash A.Z.T.O.R. = Alpha Zero Tweaked Official Roms which are close to the original but with benifits of being modded for faster speed etc.
Anyways Im no pro but I know what you are going through and I am trying to find the link to the fix to your problem as I also had the problem. But recommend trying a custom rom to confirm the problem is the same as mine.
For the record now I do not use official roms anymore, with WM6.5 running well for the most part on the diamond its a great step backwards when you revisited 6.1

flashed to SwiftBL-WWE-Diamond-v7.5-Full-16MbPP
still same problem can only go to boot mode
i am feeling there is no solution to my problem ?
is the phone bricked? :S

If you haven't done yet, flash the hard-spl I posted. Just do it, re-instal the hard-spl! Then, flash another ROM, maybe (as said before) your rom is corrupted.
The problem here is, that you first installed the unsigned hard-spl, and then flashed a corrupt rom. In that way, the hard-spl can be damaged too, so flash the hard-spl again and flash another rom should work.
Good luck!

I did :S but to no avail, I will do it again fingers crossed :S !
update: weird, everytime after i flash the hardspl unsigned, it boots up, i can see the "touch diamond" logo
windows mobile booted.. preparing your device..
update 2: windows mobile booted, installing everything
omgomg it looks it might work this time, fingers still crossed !!
el condor !! haha fingers crossed
update 3 :S : windows mobile installed properly, phone rebooted, went again and opened it, then i heard a sound from the speaker and the phone turned off :S
it must work what could the problem be now? last step !

Okay try a hard-reset, maybe that works.
If not, then flash hard-spl again, then hard-reset, then flash another ROM. Then hard reset. Then try again if it boots.
Is your battery enough charged? That could also be a reason.

did not work, wont even boot up
when i said if i leave battery out and such, I thought it might be hardware/heat related
http://www.htcwiki.com/thread/2069847/HTC+Diamond+-+Severe+Crashing+Problem,+maybe+heat+related
could this be it? will i have to send my phone for repairs?
because maybe when WinMo was loaded, the phone started to heat up and it shut down
so basically my solution is not a software fix??

If none of the tips worked, and you have the same problems as described in the site you linked, then you probably have to send it back.
One thing you could do: Try if the other hard-spls (1.37 and 1.93 unsigned) are working for you.
I'm sorry for you, maybe someone more skilled than me (like cmonex or olipro) knows how to solve your problem.

it's alright :S i thank you for all the help you have offered !
( it is customizing right now) but i expect it to reboot anytime now

worked, 5 minutes into winmo it restarts

mzaouar said:
worked, 5 minutes into winmo it restarts
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oh,does it worked?how can you get it work?Please tell me....my diamond could only get in the bootloader yet....

mzaouar said:
worked, 5 minutes into winmo it restarts
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OK good to hear that, if you have any more questions in future, just ask!
Glad to be of some help
msvb007 said:
oh,does it worked?how can you get it work?Please tell me....my diamond could only get in the bootloader yet....
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Ive sent you a pm, there's no need to use this thread for your questions because the problem in this thread is solved.
So take a look at your pm!

Solved. Thanks. =)

hi, i've seen this question last time but now i couldnt get it everywhere so i open up this thread seeking for help.
something happened when i copied the diamning.nbh to my diamond. and i do mtty.
then i think soemthing is wrong with the .nbh file and it makes me couldnt flash ROM through internal storage method.
i still can enter bootloader and now, what should i do to flash rom through the bootloader?
thanks for helping ya...
regards,
billy.
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solved! looks like my XP is having problem, so i used my sis's and everything is alright to flash through RUU.
thanks guys!

vol- boot to tricolor, use CustomRuu.exe to flash your rom.

billy_overheat said:
hi, i've seen this question last time but now i couldnt get it everywhere so i open up this thread seeking for help.
something happened when i copied the diamning.nbh to my diamond. and i do mtty.
then i think soemthing is wrong with the .nbh file and it makes me couldnt flash ROM through internal storage method.
i still can enter bootloader and now, what should i do to flash rom through the bootloader?
thanks for helping ya...
regards,
billy.
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Looks like you did everything right but your renamed DIAMIMG wrong,
and/or
You placed the file in the wrong part of the internal memory
and/or
You didn't press Vol. Down after "task 8" in mtty and you missed the opportunity to flash.
So yeah, as chchia said, but device into bootloader and begin flashing ROM via RUU_exe.

billy_overheat said:
something happened when i copied the diamning.nbh to my diamond. and i do mtty.
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diamning? DIAMIMG
Use ruu to flash another rom

I sort of had the same problem as I could only flash it in bootloader. I downloaded the ROM of my choice to my desktop and extracted all the files to the same directory. I soft reset my phone and then put it striaght back into bootloader and then plug in the USB. Then run the RUU.
You should do this after the MTTY method. Worked for me.

plzzzzzz help me out guys

hi guys,
i have a problem with my touch diamond. recently i flashed a rom with had dual boot in it. and i started facing the following problem.
some software in my phone hangs up and whenever restart, it doesnt boot. that is , doesent go beyon the screen that says "Touch Diamond" after doing the hard reset it becomes stable for a while. but after sometime it again does the same thing.
i would highly appreciate if anyone could help me with this issue.

aali-01 said:
hi guys,
i have a problem with my touch diamond. recently i flashed a rom with had dual boot in it. and i started facing the following problem.
some software in my phone hangs up and whenever restart, it doesnt boot. that is , doesent go beyon the screen that says "Touch Diamond" after doing the hard reset it becomes stable for a while. but after sometime it again does the same thing.
i would highly appreciate if anyone could help me with this issue.
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You must flash the rom using MTTY
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540290

Thanks mate.
i am also facing the signal problem. and the device info says "1.20 olinex" in the radio version.
kindly suggest a gud radio as well.

aali-01 said:
Thanks mate.
i am also facing the signal problem. and the device info says "1.20 olinex" in the radio version.
kindly suggest a gud radio as well.
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There is not a perfect radio.You must flash some radios from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470306
and check which is the best.
As for 1.20 olinex i think you must upgrade to 1.93

where would i find that radio? what radio would u recomend ? kindly share the link.
thanks

aali-01 said:
where would i find that radio? what radio would u recomend ? kindly share the link.
thanks
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i have 1.17 official diamond radio.But in every rom you flash there is a radio that chef recommend.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=580490&highlight=RADIO

brother i have downloaded the x86 driver from that link that you mentioned earlier. i have connected my device through USB in the bootloader mode. when i try to update the driver, my computer says that there is no need to do that !!. i am running windows xp. kindly help

aali-01 said:
brother i have downloaded the x86 driver from that link that you mentioned earlier. i have connected my device through USB in the bootloader mode. when i try to update the driver, my computer says that there is no need to do that !!. i am running windows xp. kindly help
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fQE0P3diKg
This a tutorial from awran5.
Search and the first link "the definite mtty thread"

brother i have tried everything but still not able to get USB in the combobox

brother this time everything was done. i entered all the commands and on the last command "task 8" it got restarted itself and didnt load any operating system. i also put my rom in the internal storage root.
kindly help me man !!!

aali-01 said:
brother this time everything was done. i entered all the commands and on the last command "task 8" it got restarted itself and didnt load any operating system. i also put my rom in the internal storage root.
kindly help me man !!!
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Happy that all gone well.
Thanks to xda

You have to download the official rom from the htc web site... then flash it and after that flash first the recomended radio and then the rom that you chose...
I dont know if you already know but.... rename any rom that you want to flash with this name...DIAMIMG...and then copy it to the internal storage....after that restart....and press backwards and volume down keys together and install the new ROM....by pressing the power key...

think this will help
try this will definitely work cause i have same problem too!!
read carefully and try it if u have this problem u have to use mitty everytime u flash(i think cause for me is every time i flash new ROM)
xxxx://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540290
replace xxxx with http

Thanks to all man. my problem is solved.

[Solve] Flashing Formatted Diamond

i have problem... i trying to flash my diamond friends, and i use mtty(test29), but i don't know his diamond is not already had HSPL, and its too late... the phone already formatted, and stuck @ Touch diamond... but still can access bootleader.
i solve this with trying to flash with original ROM,
1. enter bootloader, connect to PC. and the PC will detect it as Qualcomm Device/HTC Device or else.
2. run the original RUU, then its flash even though the activesync not GRENN
3. after flashing, do the basic setting, connect your phone again via activesync
4. run HSPL
thanks... hope its can help for any one who do mtty before HSPL the device

hi, glad to know ur problem has been solved.
if it wudnt be much can you share the solution to others and rename the title "help" to SOLVED

ayyu3m said:
hi, glad to know ur problem has been solved.
if it wudnt be much can you share the solution to others and rename the title "help" to SOLVED
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yeah.. just get panic at first time then i not thinking to flash with signed ROM. thanks