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[Q] Htc Desire Bricked

Hello,
Sorry for my bad English.
Yesterday I got a bricked HTC Desire from a friend. He did a software update to Android 2.2 Froyo, and then the Desire didn't turn on (no sound, no display). I created a goldcard using my Windows Mobile Device and I followed the instructions from "Desire SLCD Brick Fix" but there wasn't a reaction of the phone (no vibration after Step 4).
If I charge the device a orange (or green when fully charged) LED appears, so I don't think it's a Hardware failure.
I'm sure you can help me
Regards

Can you get to fastboot (hold back + power)
Can you get to hboot (vol down + power)
If the answer is yes to either then you are not bricked.

ive goyt same problem and been advised by XDA member and a phone shop ....i need to find some onme with a riff box to j,tag it to reinstall hboot and firmware ......as its second hand and htc wont help
hope it helps

@St0kes: i can't get into Hboot or fastboot.
@leegreggs: Did this solve your problem?
Thanks for the answers.

dont know mate cajnt find a shop in derby to do it , but an XDA memder says he can do it , just sent him PM'D him and waiting for a relpy
i have found out that with my phone dying in me in process off s-off just died halfway through... that it corruptted the hboot and htc wont help cause of it being second hand ...spoke to a few people and they all comfirm that riff box and jtag will bring it back to life ......
when i recive a message back i will pm you with the member name

schorschex said:
Hello,
Sorry for my bad English.
Yesterday I got a bricked HTC Desire from a friend. He did a software update to Android 2.2 Froyo, and then the Desire didn't turn on (no sound, no display). I created a goldcard using my Windows Mobile Device and I followed the instructions from "Desire SLCD Brick Fix" but there wasn't a reaction of the phone (no vibration after Step 4).
If I charge the device a orange (or green when fully charged) LED appears, so I don't think it's a Hardware failure.
I'm sure you can help me
Regards
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Just check, when you switched the phone on, did the phone vibrate?

0semaj0 said:
Just check, when you switched the phone on, did the phone vibrate?
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No it didn't. I think i've to find someone with a riff box..

Are you in the UK ?
Sent from my spectrum zx

schorschex said:
No it didn't. I think i've to find someone with a riff box..
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I think that is fairly bricked then.
There were some issues where there was a particular method of "unbranding" and "rooting" which caused SLCD Desire screens to go completely black however, the phone itself was still "functional" which happened to myself and thought I bricked mine but wasnt. I believe there are methods out there that will allow you to "unbrick" the phone but would be considered fairly complicated.

tidy said:
Are you in the UK ?
Sent from my spectrum zx
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Nope, I'm in Germany but the Desire has a T-Mobile UK Branding.

BRICKED DHD by my own :(

Hello, guys
I've successfully bricked my desire hd about 20 minutes ago by following:
via adb on pc:
adb push boot.img /data/local
via terminal on phone:
su
dd if=/data/local/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
Now, I'm going to tell you why i did it - of course, it wasn't intentional..
I wanted to use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835449 boot image, but I had opened this: http://www.dkszone.net/install-hboot-htc-desire-hd-engineering tutorial too and the commands i used were from this instead of the first one
If you guys can tell me how I can repair my HBOOT bricked device ...you will probably save my life... i'm very sad now and I believe that any xda member will try to help me, that's why I don't panic for now
once more.. thanks for anything, for any answers

Nice one, mate.. That is almost the one and only command that can brick a DHD.
If you have not rebooted, use my ENG S-OFF tool. It will repair your hboot. Tick the "I have radio s-off" -box.
You have to send your phone to HTC, they will repair it. It will probably cost something.

jkoljo said:
Nice one, mate.. That is almost the one and only command that can brick a DHD.
If you have not rebooted, use my ENG S-OFF tool. It will repair your hboot. Tick the "I have radio s-off" -box.
You have to send your phone to HTC, they will repair it. It will probably cost something.
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hm I think that they wont bother to check what's wrong if it's already impossible now to turn on the device. They will replace mobo and that's all I think

And in English, Mike means that the device will be under warranty. Then the repair process would be free

ehheh, yes i have warranty, but how can i fix it now with your ENG S-OFF tool ?
ahh.. you say if i not rebooted i see... i understand.. omg i am stupid
but when i can brick the phone, how can i unbrick it.. can i open dhd and do it manually or how ?
btw i need the phone to the tomorrows test lol

You cannot repair it easily yourself, brick is a brick, beyond repair. Only HTC can revive your phone now.

blueeyeblue said:
ehheh, yes i have warranty, but how can i fix it now with your ENG S-OFF tool ?
ahh.. you say if i not rebooted i see... i understand.. omg i am stupid
but when i can brick the phone, how can i unbrick it.. can i open dhd and do it manually or how ?
btw i need the phone to the tomorrows test lol
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i'm assuming if you got to the point of flashing an engineering hboot, that you ran gfree and your phone is radio s-off
this being the case, it is actually fixable.
the trick is i don't know exactly how to do it yet. better off just warrantying it.
but if you boot it up with volume-up i believe, it should vibrate 3 times, give you a black screen and enumerate as a qualcomm device to your computer.
scotty2

Sorry this is of no help, but why use that really outdated Kendon thing, when most kernels now support what it does?

because i was too curious what it can do

can you tell me how htc repair this without opening the phone ? i think as mike said.. they will just give me new or am i wrong ?
and when they give me new, will i have to buy xtc clip to downgrade to 1.32, i mean to make it s-off, or is goldcard enough ? please don't smile to this.. because i'm flashing fan xD

I read somewhere, that there are two types of BOOT, but maybe i'm wrong..
there should be initial boot loader and secondary boot loader or something, i hope the initial is unflashable so I have successfully flashed only the secondary one, I hope there must be way to fix it.. even htc wouldn't disassemble it ..i hope

jkoljo said:
You cannot repair it easily yourself, brick is a brick, beyond repair. Only HTC can revive your phone now.
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KK, thanks last question to you is what I should tell them when I will go tomorrow to the HTC.

If you feel like it, you can say that the device just stopped working, and you do not know what could possibly be wrong with it. "It just does not turn on anymore".
Then the other option is to tell the truth, that you messed up and now it does not work. Then it will cost you to get it repaired.

jkoljo said:
If you feel like it, you can say that the device just stopped working, and you do not know what could possibly be wrong with it. "It just does not turn on anymore".
Then the other option is to tell the truth, that you messed up and now it does not work. Then it will cost you to get it repaired.
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I still think that they can't repair it without disassembling, do you ?
So if I tell them truth I will have to pay like almost for new phone, because they will have to replace NAND chip. I think I will say, that I changed the SIM card and my device just stopped working and I will try to pretend like a n00bzor (as I am) xD
I really don't know how I could did it, I thought it's related with it.. the dev folder under system, but when I went there over ROOT explorer or QtADB it has 0kBs..
So once more.. thank you very much guys, and jkoljo I already used the tool.. I already use your tool, it's good, but.. mmh I am stupid

Hi, guys
by the way I forgot to ask you why it got brick
is and difference between this:
su
dd if=/data/local/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
and this:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
commands ?
is boot different from HBOOT ?
I found on this forum android flasher 1.5.5 and there is option to flash HBOOT ?
what is initial boot loader - is it boot or HBOOT, please tell me, cuz I'm little confused :/ thanks

I think boot.img us the kernel as far as I am aware
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okay, thanks

Yep, you replaced your device's bootloader with kernel, which obviously results in a mess.
It is like replacing your PC's bios with scrap data.

So, is this officially the first truly bricked DHD on XDA?

Yep, that is right.

[Q] [SOLVED] Desire CDMA ADR6275 Bricked ! (GSM Radio Brick)

I was trying to Hboot different table and some radio and I accidently brick my phone.
When I try to turn it on it just vibrates for a second and nothing shows up just blank black screen. Help ME Please !
I have managed to show the info in the fastboot commander. I can flash radio h-boot spl and recovery here. I can shut down phone from this software and it shows charging light as well.
But still blank on boot. Can any body help me to make it usable

Sorry to say, but I think you bricked it. You can't flash GSM radios and partition tables to the CDMA Desire.

Is there any way that I can unbrick it ?

Shabihbhai said:
Is there any way that I can unbrick it ?
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Hmm... i dont know when its CDMA.but i think this may fix it. Okay you need to download fastboot commander from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915
then you need to download official htc desire RUU it may work for CDMA too (i think) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915 download the "HTC Desire Android 2.3 Upgrade"
Allright now you got the downloads. You also need Java and the HTC driver if you dont got that. Pull battery out of your phone and set it back again. Connect your phone to your pc (dont turn it on you shold just hear that sound when windows found your device) open fastboot commander program on your pc and go to the tab "boot, sys and userdata" mark all the stuff you can and press remove or something like that
Your phone is only a black screen when you turn it on, dont worry. Open the RUU program now and follow the instructions to revert to android 2.3. I hope that helpe if not let me know what didnt worked and i may help you a little more.

Shabihbhai said:
Is there any way that I can unbrick it ?
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Not if its really bricked, such as a radio brick, which you more than likely have.
You can try flashign a CDMA RUU like suggested above, but keep your fingers crossed.

I'm pretty sure even flashing a different SPL from alpharev would've done a great job of bricking it...

Yes it probably would
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Before doing anything that u guyz have suggested would this thing help that i got? This is RUU_Bravo_C_Froyo_USCC_WWE_2.11.573.5_Radio_2.15.00.11.16_release_168495_signed.exe which is sized 171mb. I dounloaded it. What is this thing anyway. Could anyone explain ?
I got it from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947961

its an RUU (Rom Upgrade Utility) to upgrade the rom.

What was a guy who doesnt know what an RUU is, doing flashing Hboots?

will u tell me if it has to do anything to make my phone work ?

Like we said earlier, you can try. We can't tell you if it will work o not as your phone may be bricked. However, it should give you failure codes, which may give us more information.
Theres no harm in trying. It probably is bricked anyway.

Good thing about Alpharev hboot is that they lock it so that one doesnt accidentally flash a wrong hboot.. See if you can get into hboot mode (Vol- Power)...If it's still black, use the PB99IMG.zip method of flashing RUUs.. I wont elaborate. They are a dozen threads on it do/
Don't flash an ruu now.

I'm not sure how to fix your problem but I don't believe it's bricked. It is sooo hard to brick these things. I have thought a million times that mine was bricked, just be patient search forums (not just xda) and read a lot. That's the beautiful thing about the internet. You are bound to find many people that have gone through what you are and have fixed it. I will look a little for you but i'm not on that much so I don't know how much help that can be. If your search doesn't provide useful information try changing your keywords. I'll post again later tonight with what I have found if you haven't figured it out already. Good luck.

This RUU is giving me error 110 Cant open file when it is on 60-70 %. I downloaded it forn HTC support the other time and againg the same error. Then I tried to do another RUU from alltel but this gave me error that this was not supported. Help !

Did you flash RUU via computer or via SD card?
SwiftKeyed from dGB with Transparent XDA App

Was your HBOOT previous S-OFF?

MatDrOiD said:
Did you flash RUU via computer or via SD card?
SwiftKeyed from dGB with Transparent XDA App
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Through PC

heavymetalmage said:
Was your HBOOT previous S-OFF?
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1.06 it was S-OFF

jclare85 said:
I'm not sure how to fix your problem but I don't believe it's bricked. It is sooo hard to brick these things.
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Unfortunately the OP has done 2 things which are both known to definitely brick his phone....
OP, I'm not holding out much hope for you...

cant install any ruu to htc desire cdma

I dont know if someone here has posted something similar but i got a huge problem with my damn htc desire, it is cdma ive tried to install the ruu froyo but it wont let me it says model id error or cid incorrect i have made the damn goldcard and it doesn't work, this phone is pissing the hell out of me. i cant do nothing with it. could someone here tell me plz some way to install an compatible ruu. the phone only boots to fastboot, i can change it to hboot but from there nothing. plz can someone here help me i;m losing my mind.

give us some details then we MAY be able to help you.. we're not friggin' magicians here..
Firstly, the RUU's didn't work because my best bet is that you were using RUU for Bravo and not BravoC (your model) - Hence modelID error.
Secondly, if you're rooted, then you're more than likely S-OFF too so you can probably just fix it, look on my guide. (DO NOT FLASH ANY HBOOTS)

to stop us working double on this, please choose either this thread, or http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/475726-cant-install-any-ruu-htc-desire-cdma.html
It gets annoying trying to help people in several different places.
My suggestion is to stay on XDA as Bortak knows his stuff and will probably be able to help. On AF you may get stuck with me and I just havent the time.

Oooh rootSu sorry didnt knew that androis forums where from here too, my apologies for that. Ummm ok the problem. I got this htc desire bravo_c it was rooted but my brother told me that the phone started on bootloop. Then I exactly didnt knew what he did but then he said the phone was with black screen. Ok I tried some guides from here, the only problem was that it happened like some guy said here, I tried to do an ruu rom but when it started doing the progress when It was at 20% it stopped and now the phone boots only in fastboot. After the ruu now I can see whats happening with the phone but like I said it only boots on fast boot. Oh other thing now the phone is S-on and the hboot is 0.98. Let me know if u need some more details. Ill let u kno,. And sorry again for the other forum.
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There aren't that many resources for the bravoC so you've got limited options. As far as I know there is one BravoC RUU on shipped-roms.Com, but if it's not for your network provider I don't know whether it wouldn't just break your phone..
If it is the right RUU for your network then great, use it and hope for the best. If it isn't then stay away from it and contact HTC.
you should root and s-off your phone (when/if you fix it/get it back from repair), so that these sort of problems can be sorted out easily without any hiccups.

bortak said:
There aren't that many resources for the bravoC so you've got limited options. As far as I know there is one BravoC RUU on shipped-roms.Com, but if it's not for your network provider I don't know whether it wouldn't just break your phone..
If it is the right RUU for your network then great, use it and hope for the best. If it isn't then stay away from it and contact HTC.
you should root and s-off your phone (when/if you fix it/get it back from repair), so that these sort of problems can be sorted out easily without any hiccups.
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well this sucks umm if i contact htc they will probably say to send the phone right? man i was hoping i could fix it with the guides here i really have bad luck.
So the best thing to do now is just to contact htc and wait for what they have to say. thanks for the help, sorry for posting this thread like that, it wasn't my intention to make anyone mad or anything, its just that i was so desperate that i wanted someone to help me.

Sorry I'm not mad and it IS a different forum. But sometimes I end up helping on AF and someone else helps here and we end up either
a) both duplicating each others work
b) taking different approaches.
The risk then is you take some advise from here, some advise from there, put it all together and end up bricking your phone.

I understand thanks for the help. I called htc they told me that i have to call tomorrow because Im from Puerto Rico and their offices are close today so I gotta check tomorrow to see if they are open.

dude i have a htc cdma i rooted. installed cm7 on there..took me like 10 minutes

freshkid87 said:
dude i have a htc cdma i rooted. installed cm7 on there..took me like 10 minutes
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Yes, well done, congratulations.. your point is? Have you read the thread? No? You just decided to post something totally irrelevant? Really? Awesome.

Bortak thanks for the help man, but my brother got an galaxy s2 so I wont b trying to fix the desire anymore.
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Oh and btw dont care, the desire was rooted and it had cm too the problem was that... Whatever wont waste time on u.
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bortak said:
Yes, well done, congratulations.. your point is? Have you read the thread? No? You just decided to post something totally irrelevant? Really? Awesome.
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shut your london ass up

Hardbricked

Hi all,
I have a big problem
I think that my HTC Wildfire got hardbricked, My friend was trying to install custom rom but it went wrong
My wildfire doesnt turn on and my battery is working I tried my battery with a other wildfire so its not the battery..
Is there a way to unbrick my wildfire ??

Wildfire64 said:
Hi all,
I have a big problem
I think that my HTC Wildfire got hardbricked, My friend was trying to install custom rom but it went wrong
My wildfire doesnt turn on and my battery is working I tried my battery with a other wildfire so its not the battery..
Is there a way to unbrick my wildfire ??
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OK let's figure this out. Gonna need specific information from you.
Is the phone s-on or s-off? If s-off how was this done?
What procedure was used to flash the ROM?
What state is the phone in now? Won't turn on at all, or sits on the HTC screen, or only vibrates?
And has your friend done this before?
Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk

heavy_metal_man said:
OK let's figure this out. Gonna need specific information from you.
Is the phone s-on or s-off? If s-off how was this done?
What procedure was used to flash the ROM?
What state is the phone in now? Won't turn on at all, or sits on the HTC screen, or only vibrates?
And has your friend done this before?
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I think the phone was s-on
the phone doesnt turn on , no vibrate , no led by charging just nothing..
my friend has flashed many roms but this time it went wrong and he tryed to fix it but i think he hardbricked it now..

Wildfire64 said:
I think the phone was s-on
the phone doesnt turn on , no vibrate , no led by charging just nothing..
my friend has flashed many roms but this time it went wrong and he tryed to fix it but i think he hardbricked it now..
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Hmmmm. If it was s-on then HTC safeguards would have prevented a hard brick. Is it possible the hardware has been damaged?
Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk

Try hard reset through youtube
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My advice is to flash an RUU and revert back to stock.
This is only because it's hard bricked, plus it happened to me before. I thought to give it a go, and it worked.
After that I just re root my phone, and install CWM recovery, and then flash a new ROM. It's simple
Just follow my leads and it'll work.
P.S Your hardware hasn't damaged at all. Why do users say these things?
1. Download an RUU from the buzz forums
2. Install and revert back to stock with RUU
3. After the process is done, enable adb in settings [Applications]
4. re root your device, and install CWM
5. Flash any custom ROM and follow the instructions 'fully'.
I had to rush this, I hope you understand what i'm saying.
Users if you think i'm wrong then correct me as you wish.
But this all managed to work for me, when my device was hard bricked xD

Stone. Cold said:
My advice is to flash an RUU and revert back to stock.
This is only because it's hard bricked, plus it happened to me before. I thought to give it a go, and it worked.
After that I just re root my phone, and install CWM recovery, and then flash a new ROM. It's simple
Just follow my leads and it'll work.
P.S Your hardware hasn't damaged at all. Why do users say these things?
1. Download an RUU from the buzz forums
2. Install and revert back to stock with RUU
3. After the process is done, enable adb in settings [Applications]
4. re root your device, and install CWM
5. Flash any custom ROM and follow the instructions 'fully'.
I had to rush this, I hope you understand what i'm saying.
Users if you think i'm wrong then correct me as you wish.
But this all managed to work for me, when my device was hard bricked xD
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Hey @Stone Cold, the confusion people are having here is between hard bricked and soft bricked. A "hard brick" can only occur in 2 situations which are
1: the bootloader is corrupted/damaged/deleted and the device cannot boot. This can Only be fixed by using a JTAG. A ruu will not work as the ruu is flashed by the hboot(bootloader) and if it won't function then its dead.
2: that hardware has been damaged so much that the device cannot physically boot.
Depending on the damage this can sometimes be fixed.
All other forms of "bricking" are "soft bricks" or software bricks. These include bootlooping, trapped at the splash screen etc. These can be fixed as the bootloader and or custom recovery still function. If either of these still function you are not hard bricked. If a ruu worked then you were soft bricked.
Now this user states that his device was s-on so bootloader corruption is massively unlikely as nand protection is still active. This coupled with the owner stating that the device will not boot and shows no signs of life a hardware failure is the most likely option.
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heavy_metal_man said:
Hey @Stone Cold, the confusion people are having here is between hard bricked and soft bricked. A "hard brick" can only occur in 2 situations which are
1: the bootloader is corrupted/damaged/deleted and the device cannot boot. This can Only be fixed by using a JTAG. A ruu will not work as the ruu is flashed by the hboot(bootloader) and if it won't function then its dead.
2: that hardware has been damaged so much that the device cannot physically boot.
Depending on the damage this can sometimes be fixed.
All other forms of "bricking" are "soft bricks" or software bricks. These include bootlooping, trapped at the splash screen etc. These can be fixed as the bootloader and or custom recovery still function. If either of these still function you are not hard bricked. If a ruu worked then you were soft bricked.
Now this user states that his device was s-on so bootloader corruption is massively unlikely as nand protection is still active. This coupled with the owner stating that the device will not boot and shows no signs of life a hardware failure is the most likely option.
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Oh, so I was wrong.
Thought it was that way though, anyway thanks. This makes more sense now
Cheers

Stone. Cold said:
Oh, so I was wrong.
Thought it was that way though, anyway thanks. This makes more sense now
Cheers
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That's no problem pal it's good to keep these terms clear, so many people have misinterpreted them in the past. That being said thank you for reminding me of the black screen hboot issue. It's been ages since I've heard of that happening. Its good to keep notes
But back on topic, OP do you or your friend have a working fastboot path? If so try to boot into hboot with volume down and power, wait 30 seconds then push power. Then on the PC issue the command
Fastboot devices
If nothing happens its toast :/
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