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PLEASE HELP! Possible Brick?

Hey guys I have an Evo but my buddy has an Dinc and we rooted it and flashed CM6 and its never had a problem. Lately it started randomly rebooting and now it wont get past the splash screen; he cant even boot into recovery he said and an RUU doesnt even recognize the phone.
any help is greatly appreciated guys, thanks.

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mic.mayorga said:
Hey guys I have an Evo but my buddy has an Dinc and we rooted it and flashed CM6 and its never had a problem. Lately it started randomly rebooting and now it wont get past the splash screen; he cant even boot into recovery he said and an RUU doesnt even recognize the phone.
any help is greatly appreciated guys, thanks.
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mic, what is the model number of the device? There are 3 for the Incredible, the ADR6300, 6300VW2 and VW3. Also, how early (after the phone hit the market) is the phone?

I couldn't tell you exactly. He bought like the first one, the one that came with the OLED screen.
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I see. I had one of the original ones as well, and began to have an issue similar to this. What happened was some of early models had defective hardware radio chips. To find out if this is the issue with your friend's phone, have the phone deactivated from service, and then shut off the phone for 20 minutes. If you turn it back on and it powers on with no problems, you may have a device that needs replacement. If so, at least it will make you able to unroot and flash back to stock so you can get replaced with verizon/htc.
If this doesn't change anything, let us know, we'll get to the bottom of this.

well i tried calling him and i got his google voice thing when he didnt answer. idk if that means hes back on the Dinc or not. he had to go back to the enV 3 for a working phone lol. the only problem is that if he asked Verizon for a replacement but he bought it contractless on ebay...

They'd probably just tell him no.
mic.mayorga said:
well i tried calling him and i got his google voice thing when he didnt answer. idk if that means hes back on the Dinc or not. he had to go back to the enV 3 for a working phone lol. the only problem is that if he asked Verizon for a replacement but he bought it contractless on ebay...
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mic.mayorga said:
well i tried calling him and i got his google voice thing when he didnt answer. idk if that means hes back on the Dinc or not. he had to go back to the enV 3 for a working phone lol. the only problem is that if he asked Verizon for a replacement but he bought it contractless on ebay...
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Might be able to make a claim with HTC, but the warranty claims are made through a third party. I had some luck with calling HTC, getting them to say that they'll do something about it, and when the third party tried to charge me money, I just flipped **** and gave them the loyal customer speech. Worth a shot. If you can't get it for free, ***** and see if that helps

haha okay ill let him know to look into that. also ill ask him about the whole 20 minutes thing. thanks a lot for the help

Wonky SD Card?
CM 'interactively' uses elements of the SD card, I believe.
That said, have you tried a different SD card?
Meaning, d/l another ROM onto the 'other' SD card, put it in the device w/ power off (after unmounting SD, powering down, and removing 'first' SD card)
Load/flash new ROM from recovery off of 'other' SD after wiping everything, and see if it boots.

[Q] Reboots, not able to boot, 5 vibrates.

Background: Very familiar with the Eris, rooted it, flash ROMs frequently, never had an issue.
So I bought the phone on eBay, only issue was the phone was a bit beat up and the screen had been replaced. No big deal. Turned it on everything was fine, worked for about a day, then I decided to flash another ROM. Flashed the ROM and the phone would reboot every time I got to the lock screen UNLESS I had signal, then it would work. This issue happens to EVERY ROM I flash. I wiped cache,dvlik-orwhatever, full wipe, everything each time I would flash a ROM, and none of them have been stable. After flashing the first ROM I also ran into the turn off and vibrate 5 times with a flashing green light problem. I have gotten out of this twice with the USB pull method. I have researched these issues, I have tried flashing quite a few ROMs, and nothing seems to work flawlessly. Is the DI just a terrible phone or do I just have a bad unit? The main issue seems to be with signal, such as if I go from airplane mode on to off it will reboot and then get stuck in a boot cycle and the issue with flashing the phone and having to have signal before I can unlock the phone.
I am currently about to flash the PB31IMG to see if it will resolve the issues and then attempt to re-root. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as nothing has seemed to work so far. I would key you into what I have tried but I don't remember. Basically all the things to fix the 5 vibrate issue and general flashing woes.
Update:
Still no good. Flashed the PB31IMG via vol. down and power and it still did a reboot. Unlocked, got to the white HTC screen, and restarted. Booted the second time, got to the lockscreen, and rebooted before I could even slide down the unlock. Third reboot, got to activation this time, then it rebooted. Fourth reboot, go to activation, then rebooted. Fifth reboot, got to lockscreen, then rebooted before I could slide down.
So yeah. basically you can see what I am dealing with. And it is not fun. I have tried SD card in, SD card out. Just did its 6th reboot, didnt even get to the unlock screen before rebooting.
UPDATE 5/3:
Link to the video of whats happening. Nothing special and I recorded it with my Eris, but you'll at least see the timing of the reboots and what not. And ignore the breathing. lol. Just turn off the sound. Right after the video ended it did a 5 vibe. Pulled the battery and now it's just doing bootloops.

I have never had the random reboots before, at least not at the rate and consistency you have been. To me it sounds like something went wrong in the rooting process and I would recommend unrooting and rerooting.
As for the flashing green light and 5 vibrates, I have so insight on this. It can happen if you press power and Vol+. I think it puts it in a safety mode and the only way to get out of it is a battery pull. So if you ever get stuck in a situation like this wait 10 minutes and try to turn it back on normally. If this doesn't work try booting into hboot (power + vol down) if this doesn't work power + vol up has worked for some people too.
There are cases however, where battery pulls don't help either. And no matter what the person tries the phone won't turn back on. This is a hardware problem and the only way to fix this is getting a new phone.

Dhessler5 said:
I have never had the random reboots before, at least not at the rate and consistency you have been. To me it sounds like something went wrong in the rooting process and I would recommend unrooting and rerooting.
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Would flashing the PB13IMG in Hboot unroot it or would I need to follow the guide? Just curious as I have never unrooted before, but I do know there is a guide for it.
The 5 vibrate thing is under control, it just has happened so I wanted to make it known.
And thanks for the info.

I would follow the guide for it, it would be the easiest and safest way and if you run into any problems they would be able to help you out and know exactly what to tell you. I have yet to unroot too so I don't want to tell you something without being 100% sure so I recommend the guide.

Alright, so it turns out flashing the image I flashed via Hboot is a way to unroot. :/ And that is when I got all the reboots in the beginning (the ones specifically posted, its not the first time). I am going to flash again once more to see if I can get a flawless start.
Still no good, flashed it again via Hboot and it restarted again. This timeat the white HTC screen after unlocking but before activation. :? Hm. Better than nothing, after the first reboot it fully loaded and everything is fine so far. Lets just home it doesn't slowly begin to degrade like last time.
A while ago while running the peanut stock ROM, every time my phone would reboot some apps would loose information (such as log in) and I was eventually unable to access the EPST settings.

If you rerooted your phone you could try to go into hboot and then recovery and "fix permissions." I am not sure if this will do any good but it couldn't hurt.
Also if it is unrooted you could try to bring it in to Verizon and see if they will give you a new phone or a restored one.

Make sure you have the stock Rom if you bring it back to Verizon also
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sorry to hear this happened on an ebay phone... I've had it happen to 3 of mine... warranty took care of it since I'm still within my date. but after one year what do I do? luckily I bought my bros early upgrade meaning the Inc2 will suffice until april 2012

ohh yea my point sorry: I had an Eris before the Inc. //////had many problems after 5 they gave me the Inc if I agreed to drop my current one year contract and get a new two year paying the two year price PLUS got credited $199 for the Eris, and got to keep it, so I thought I made out until I realized this phone isn't gunna last two years. ANYWAY. I bought the Eris off Ebay, they gave me warranty after warranty no problem, best of luck

I have had my Inc for a year and have not had any issues. I would say you bought a bad model from someone on eBay. The 5vibration green light is indicative of a hardware failure and I have not seen anyone have a fix for it.

Sorry to say but I have seen no one, NO ONE recovery from the 5 vibs of death. From what I have gathered it is some sort of qualcomm download mode and I know of no way out. I have a feeling it is caused by pressing the vol + and vol - and power while trying to get into hboot.
This is just an uneducated guess. If your willing to part with the device I would love to get my hands on a 5 vibs phone.

Since it happens when the phone loses the signal, I'm wondering if it might be a radio issue. Which radio version is installed? It could be incompatible for your area/ROM/whatever.
Another thought: you said the screen was changed out. It is very possible that the kernal installed won't work for an lcd screen.
Anyway, more things to check and to test. Good luck!

mine always happened when i accidently pushed the vol + instead of vol -
twice it happened

ACD168 said:
mine always happened when i accidently pushed the vol + instead of vol -
twice it happened
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That should be 3 vibs, not the 5.

they both won't work after wards thought as far as my testing.. had to get warranty replacements

I remember reading Chingy fixed 5 vib. It's not the end. I've seen other people fix it with ruu.

I couldnt fix mine when I got the 5 vibrations and I tried everything. My theory is that it has something to do with a messed up kernel flash since the baseband and kernel are apparently linked and I saw somewhere that flashing the same baseband 2x will cause this. It happened to me when I tried to flash a kernel twice (the first time it failed), some people could be getting this when flashing roms since they install new kernels also.

You can flash radios and kernals twice. There was one leaked radio in the past that caused problems from being flashed twice, but it isn't typical
Edit: I think chingy said something about trying a hundred different things, but eventually he got it to work by connecting to PC with battery removed. I could be wrong though because I read that post months ago. I know he got it working again by wiping system and starting fresh

I had the 5 vibs on mine a few weeks ago. It was an unfortunate event. I had the phone for almost a year, bought it new too. I had probably flashed at least a hundred times (thank you nighties for feeding my ROM flashing addiction) but I digress.
I was at work when it happened. If I remember right I believe I was re-installing a pandora apk when my phone did the vibs and led. As an fyi it is the same apk I am using now and it works fine. I initially thought oh well I'll fix it when I get home, surely someone has the answer...sadly not. I spent quite a while searching threads and google to no avail.
I was able to get it unrooted through hboot tho. I was also able to get it to boot when usb was connected to my PC, but as soon as I unplugged it would do the vibs again.
I don't like to admit defeat, but I had clearly lost. I called and got a replacement device sent (and an extended battery because the guy thought it could have been a battery issue, lucky me)
All I can do now is hope it doesn't happen again, but if it does hello warranty man. If someone does find a fix I would love to know about it for future reference.
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Trifurcated said:
I had the 5 vibs on mine a few weeks ago. It was an unfortunate event. I had the phone for almost a year, bought it new too. I had probably flashed at least a hundred times (thank you nighties for feeding my ROM flashing addiction) but I digress.
I was at work when it happened. If I remember right I believe I was re-installing a pandora apk when my phone did the vibs and led. As an fyi it is the same apk I am using now and it works fine. I initially thought oh well I'll fix it when I get home, surely someone has the answer...sadly not. I spent quite a while searching threads and google to no avail.
I was able to get it unrooted through hboot tho. I was also able to get it to boot when usb was connected to my PC, but as soon as I unplugged it would do the vibs again.
I don't like to admit defeat, but I had clearly lost. I called and got a replacement device sent (and an extended battery because the guy thought it could have been a battery issue, lucky me)
All I can do now is hope it doesn't happen again, but if it does hello warranty man. If someone does find a fix I would love to know about it for future reference.
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I think the 3, vibrate and 5 vibrate are connected because both times I had the 3 vib I had the same problems, would turn on when connected to usb then 3 vib and green flashing light... weird.

[Q] Bricked Dinc 2

I believe my Dinc 2 is actually bricked. I get no response at all. It wont power up normally or in to recovery nor will it charge. I have searched for anything that sounds like my problem but no success. It is rooted (s-off) running stock froyo. I believe the Verizon push of gingerbread put it in a boot loop. So i deleted the data and tried to restore back to an earlier backup. I got around 5 error messages and the screen went black and now nothing. If there isn't anyway to recover can i get some advice on getting Verizon to exchange for a new one.
Thanks

Try this:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...8-605-4-same-as-the-official-gingerbread-ota/

I can't, my phone has no response. no boot no recovery no charging

Dumb question maybe, but your battery is charged right?

With phone off, holding down volume down and holding the power button until your phone goes into the bootloader. If your just holding down volume down and tapping power it wont work, power button needs to be held down. Try that. If that works boot into recovery and try to restore a backup. If you dont have a backup and you were able to get into bootloader, then download a pc32img. or whatever there called for the inc2, place it on your sd card. You can do that by removing your sd card, putting it in a micro sd adapter then placing file on main part of sd card. Then place sd card back in phone, and boot back into bootloader if above method worked.

battery is charged. and yes boot loader doesn't work

Are you able to get the device to power on at all? If you so might be able to RUU it.

i can't get it to do anything i have held vol down and power for at least a min with nothing.

wow man that sucks if youve tried everything that others have posted and no luck, you are the first dinc2 brick in know. dumb question i kinda had the same ish problem with my friends dinc2, but not exactly. have you taken out the battery? it probably wont do anything for you but its worth a shot.

Pull the battery and pull the SIM card. Put the battery back in and then push volume down and AFTER YOU PUSH VOLUME DOWN hit power. Hold both for about 10 seconds it should kick you into the bootloader. When it does hit factory reset.

yes i have done the battery pulls, short ones and i saw a forum for another phone that said pull it for 2 hours so i did that as well. never tried the sim card but unfortunately it made no difference. I think I really am the first poor bastard to really brick the Inc 2...

I believe this justifies a warranty claim. They won't know if you rooted it. They will flash it when it arrives. Just keep your memory card. It holds all your secrets.
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zax10 said:
I believe this justifies a warranty claim. They won't know if you rooted it. They will flash it when it arrives. Just keep your memory card. It holds all your secrets.
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Agreed. Just play dumb to Verizon.

Just to make it clear, it does not power on at all? No lights or the screen turn on or anything?

correct it does nothing

I guess going to Verizon will be your only option now. And as others have mentioned, just play dumb. I have personally bricked my very old LG flip dumb phone and even my old GPS device, both because I accessed the root of their software and accidently messed with some important file.
In both cases I just played dumb and acted completely clueless. Basically say "I have no idea what happened" and mention no technical details. Do not say anything that an average person wouldn't say.
Just say, "I do not know what happened", "it just stopped working!". Do not say anything about operating systems, root, etc.
And in both cases they were somewhat serious bricks. The phone's operating system got wiped, yes on a dumb phone, lol. With the GPS unit I simply accessed its operating system, a version of Windows CE and made some silly errors on important files, so that bricked the device.
So if someone like me, who manages to brick stuff like a GPS and a dumb phone, is fine in terms of getting a replacement, your case should be fine...lol

Or instead of making up some stupid elaborate story, he could simply go with what actually happened. But leave out the root part. He installed the ota, and it was causing a boot loop. So he went to try a factory reset, it errored and then the phone wouldn't turn on.
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Or instead of making up some stupid elaborate story, he could simply go with what actually happened. But leave out the root part. He installed the ota, and it was causing a boot loop. So he went to try a factory reset, it errored and then the phone wouldn't turn on.
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That's not how paranoia works!!!

Have you tried another battery? Or charging your current battery VIA an external charger. I read a post like this not to long back and come to find out battery was just fried.
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I haven't tried another battery, and I don't have another way to charge it. But I know it was fully charged when it went in to the boot loop.
thanks everyone for your thoughts and help. It is off to Verizon for me.

HELP! My phone gets hot and restarts! Please look for more info inside!

Hello dear friends!
HTC let me down Kind of stupid phones indeed at least desire...
I have my phone for quite a time now, it is rooted with unrewoked, clockwork recovery and s-on. I flashed many different roms in the past and everything was brilliant. In a pas half-a-year or so I stayed with only one ROM - MIUI-Au. I kept updating it to the newer versions and so on and on. Never had any random reboot or something. At least maybe it was because of some strange app or something else. But now it started to reboot randomly and constantly!
Phone gets hot abit and it just reboots, and never comes to android homescreen again, until I put out the battery, hold it for few minutes, pop it back and then it boots. But as soon as start to play music, or run a game the phone gets hot abit and reboots again. and so on and on. I thought maybe it was a miui issue. So I tried to flash different roms, but guess what? None of the even boot! The main screen shows and with the same second it bootloops again and forever!... (
Even from recovery it sometimes reboots randomly. So i managed somehow to flash my miui back and it at least boots. But it is very unstable now, I barely can use my phone now
PLEASE WHO CAN HELP ME????
My warranty probably out of date, and my phone is rooted, I dont think HTC would accept it...
any thoughts? friends?

What have you set the CPU max to?
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Thank you for response! Appreciate, really!! I didn't set it, I left everything by default I think! Because as i said, i even tried flashing different roms, not only miui.
What else could be? By the way, with stock froyo rom If I remember correctly, sometimes it became extremely hot, but I didnt get any reboots from that. But now, it gets just a little bit hot and it seems that this causes the reboot...

Now what I just noticed, I get reboots even when the phone is idle. And it is not even warm!

If its not getting hot then I'm confused lol. It sounds like a actual hardware fault. Sorry I can't help with this one
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My warranty probably out of date, and my phone is rooted, I dont think HTC would accept it...
any thoughts? friends?
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try and get it taken back to stock if you dare.
The phone hasn't been out 2 years yet, which is how long the warranty is.

Thank you! But is there any possibility to fix it without HTC involvement? Maybe it is not hardware issue ? Can it be because phone is rooted and I flashed many roms to it ? I didnt try AOSP roms since reboots started, I will try to pop in Cyanogenmod or other and see if I will get reboots.
Would rerooting my phone and updating my recovery fix the problem?
and Note: yesterday I tried to S-OFF my phone, but I can't even do that with my unstable MIUI. It rebooted in the middle of the process..

I had a similar problem, apparently it's not uncommon on the early revisions. I sent mine to HTC and they replaced the mainboard.

Thank you for answer! But what if my phone is bought through a contractor?
Can just call HTC and ask the for repair? Or should I contact my contractor first ?

Just give them a call and they will try to help you out. I had a very good customer service experience with them when my desire had some issues.
They will require a proof of purchase though. If you managed to get the receipt from your "contractor" (I am unsure what you mean by a contractor), then there should be no problem.

Sorry for misleading word, I meant T-Mobile. I bought my phone under contract. I think I have a receipt. I even have whole box and stuff of the phone somewhere in my drawer.(just sayin ). So how is customer service of HTC? Poor, good ? I heard you need to tell them that you did a factory reset and that didn't help. Is that true. Also if I will unroot my phone, will they know it was rooted anyhow?
Ahhh....this overheating issue seems common. How they can release faulty phones?? No clue.
thanks for answers mates!

In Singapore, HTC service is really good. Phone was still under warranty.
It took me just one (real) call to confirm a repair order. The first call I was just checking to see what options were available to me.
The second call was an actual repair request. And the third call was me pestering them for a pickup date. heehee
In Singapore, repairs were done via courier. They picked it up and 1 working day later, they sent it back.
Naturally, you will probably need to impress upon them that you tried everything to fix your phone (which I hope you did which includes proving to yourself that it's not the ROMs fault).
You will definitely need to reset everything back to zero. In my case, I downloaded an RUU to totally reset everything back to STOCK, which included removing clockworkmod recovery. You WILL need to create a goldcard for this though so bear in mind that it's not exactly a case of a simple flashing procedure. At least not if you don't already have a goldcard.

Sorry if I overread it at some point, but you speculated at the beginning there could be some faulty app causing this, but you never meantioned performing a full wipe. Have you full wiped yet? Just to make sure it is indeed no software problem.
greets

Thank you for your answers. At the moment I have SuperNova classic ROM. ( 2.3.3 + Sense 2.1) But my phone crashes again and again, it is so annoying and causes me so much trouble.
I never tried a reset or unroot and return to original rom. Im just wondering now, would this help to remove or at least remove those reboots?
Today I was in my work and i was keeping my phone in my jeans pocket. it got hot as u would expect when keeping in pocket and suddenly it rebooten, then it went into a bootloop and started to bootloop 7 times in a row quickly. then again and again. It became very hot at that time.
For the interest, what exact hardware faults causes these reboots and why phone gets even hotter if you keep it on boot loop. If I keep phone cold, the rom usualy stays normal, without reboots. but as soon as I start using my phone, texting or calling for at least 5minutes of using it just reboots.
as I said- really annoying thing :S
I remember my happy times with miui, apps and no reboots Was fun!
cheers for helping!

I would give full wipe / factory reset a chance, and maybe RUU.
At least try it before sending phone to htc.

It is hardware problem, search forum. Fresh ROM without SD card, enabled WIFI and GPS, running G navigation, back of the phone is warm - restart after few minutes.
Maybe someone know how to read info form the phone right before reset? We could understand why the phone is reseting and hopefully add some patch.

Reboot-loop experience
Hey,
i had the same problem over the last few months: In the beginning my phone restarted only when it got hot, but it got worse over the last few weeks, in the end i was not able to use two apps at the same time (music and mytracks) or even to surf the internet longer than a few minutes. The problem did noticeably decrease when the phone was cool - tested by putting it on a fan or in the fridge. Yet, Skype was regularly killing it. As i really love my phone (and especially the AMOLED-Screen!) i did not want to resign. The battery cover contains some metal which is supposed to enhance heat dissipation - so i attached a little thermal pad to the hotter bottom of the phone to improve contact with the head spreader. Unfortunately it did not entirely fix the problem. Yes, it improved the situation a little, but it got even worse after a week or two - in the end i had to turn it in.
So i decided to take it to the Telekom-Shop. They were very kind and told me they would call the other day to confirm that the replacement would have been shipped. It took a few days longer, but i got a phone with the AMOLED-Screen! The employee said it was a used mainboard in a new case, completely refurbished. They only replaced the main unit, i kept the battery, sd-card, charger and so on. Now i have a working Desire again!
Terminator

Similar?
Hi i on the other hand have similar problem, qiute anoying one, my desire, cm7 hboot, s-off, insert coin cm7 rom, have phone freezing in diferent situations, sometimes its working sometimes just freezez and i need to get battery out and turn it one and sometimes several times in row to get it working again???? RUU and go to give phone in service? plaese advice?

@cp6ija Sandisk SD card? If yes, smash it.

nvm
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[Q] DI2 Bricked. Possibly no fix unless hardware changes made

Hey what's up guys
I have here my DI2 of two years that I had S-Off, rooted, on MIUI ROM(was looking into changing it, but couldn't for reasons explained in a bit). About four months ago, it stopped reading any SD cards that it did recognize was insterted, but yeah, no reading. And yeah, of course, the USB port had to stop working too, of course. I bought an external batt charger for it and switched batts when needed. Perhaps I should've looked into fixing those problems before the phone bricked.
Anyway, I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary. Just checking up basketball scores and my phone just freezes at the home screen. So all I could do was take out the batt and put it in again. When I did that, it freezes on the HTC screen. Does it with both batts I have. And yeah it's a freeze as it's been stuck for running on 2 hours now. Occasionally, it will load up the Fastboot/Bootloader screen, but NONE of the options do anything, except Reboot and Power down. Can't get to any Recovery menu and it won't be able to read any SD if it did anyway. It has become a paperweight, a brick.
What can I do? Is my phone totally screwed? I'm pretty good at messing and fixing things through hardware. So if that's my only option, I can do it. Thanks in advance

Well if u have s-off theres really no way to get completely bricked unless it messes up ur bootloader. But if u can still get into bootloader with the two finger method power+volume down u can just flash the stock Ruu's via flashboot and u should be set. I believe there's also a brick tool floating around on here. Hope this helps. Thanks is greatly appreciated.

bryanoid said:
Hey what's up guys
I have here my DI2 of two years that I had S-Off, rooted, on MIUI ROM(was looking into changing it, but couldn't for reasons explained in a bit). About four months ago, it stopped reading any SD cards that it did recognize was insterted, but yeah, no reading. And yeah, of course, the USB port had to stop working too, of course. I bought an external batt charger for it and switched batts when needed. Perhaps I should've looked into fixing those problems before the phone bricked.
Anyway, I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary. Just checking up basketball scores and my phone just freezes at the home screen. So all I could do was take out the batt and put it in again. When I did that, it freezes on the HTC screen. Does it with both batts I have. And yeah it's a freeze as it's been stuck for running on 2 hours now. Occasionally, it will load up the Fastboot/Bootloader screen, but NONE of the options do anything, except Reboot and Power down. Can't get to any Recovery menu and it won't be able to read any SD if it did anyway. It has become a paperweight, a brick.
What can I do? Is my phone totally screwed? I'm pretty good at messing and fixing things through hardware. So if that's my only option, I can do it. Thanks in advance
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I've encountered this issue with many INC2, sounds like one of your IC chips are going bad. To be honest, if that is the case you're better of replacing the phone. That level of repair is very difficult. If it was just the charging port, I'd say go for it, but even replacing the SD Card slot is very difficult, the solder is underneath the the SD Card slot. I personally know how and have replaced the SD Card slot, but the IC chips are even very difficult for me. Try the charging port if you want, you can buy the part for about $5 and its a flex cable. As long as you can open it properly, you should be fine.