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bricked device(totaly)

well my friends i did it too. it was all normal(rooted and stuff), and then i turned off device and it wouldn't turn on. my stock hboot was 0.80 and current is 0.83.
the thing is i can charge the mobile but when i press power button red light goes away and nothing happens. device just stays there with no sign of life. tried to pull battery out for whole day but nothing happens when i plug it in, tried to boot without sim and sd card and still nothing. i cant even get into bootloader. Is there some advice or stuff i can try or should i send it back for warranty??
since i ****ed it up completely i recon they wont even trie to repair it and maybe i get another new desire. i loved my amoled screen but if that is the only way then **** it. any help is appreciated

This sounds like an SLCD brick. What did you do to cause this problem? Flash a recovery?

TheLastOne said:
This sounds like an SLCD brick. What did you do to cause this problem? Flash a recovery?
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i don't have slcd 100% i flashed unrevoked and all was good for 2 days then suddenly booted with 4 vibrations and dead. mobile has no life at all except red and green light when charged

Is there any life when you turn it on? Vibration? Boot sound?

absolutely nothing.

Try the SLCD fix (or rooting method) with a RUU for Amoled Desire if this not work pull battery out press the Power Button and wait 5 minutes and try to control your device with some Java Based Android.. Android device controller if this work your screen seems to be bricked if it not work your device shall be bricked anyway your carrier should repair it sry dir My englisch

[Q] Bricked Wildfire

Help! I think my phone is bricked! I can't get into the hboot menu (vol down and power button). Nothing happens when I did it. Also, when I press the power button (after re-inserting the battery), it vibrates, and then nothing happens too.
Before this happened, I was trying to install one of the custom roms, then clockworkmod started to become screwy (display seems to look weird). After that i managed to get into the hboot menu but i could not navigate. The SD checking didn't even happen.
Now, when i connect my phone to my PC, the LED turns red and nothing happens. If i connect it to the wall socket, the LED does not light up.
Do you have any solutions? Your help would be greatly appreciated!

what version of cwm you use? did you try pluging the phone to the pc then try to enter hboot

Uhh is there any way to check what version of clockwork mod I have? cos my phone totally cannot be started up... And i tried going into hboot by connecting to my PC.. it doesn't work..

I'm not sure if it matters but when I go to the hboot menu, I cannot navigate the menu straight away unless I hold the vol down button for a few seconds. Then it let's me select menu items.
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thanks, but right now i can't even get into the hboot menu...

First of all try to take out the sd card. Change it with another one. Take out the battery.
Put it in after a minute. Try to get into hboot. What happens when you try to boot up into the system?

Happened to me some what the same, when i tried mtd partition wrongly, recovered with ruu flashing, then start every thing from beginning
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Download the RUU on your pc, connect your phone and flash it with ruu and ull get back your phone. But ull hv to start all over, coz ruu gets u to the stock sense rom.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium

@ZooMas well it doesn't boot to hboot... i tried to take the SD card and insert another one and waited for a minute then booted it but nothing happened...
@showlyshah & Nakulkhanna its okay if i start all over.. I'll try it later..

Uhhh i tried using the RUU.. But everytime it says "waiting for bootloader" then the install failed and it says connection error.. and on my phone nothing happens. So do i need to reflash the bootloader or something? i still cannot load to the bootloader..

Maybe your phone is really bricked... is your phone older than a year ? I mean is it still in warranty or not?
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sadly its over a year.. i need to pay 80SGD to repair... oh well.. I wasn't playing with the radio or anything.. hmm i wonder why it was rooted. Anyway it does charge up when I switch it on... I just can't enter the bootloader..

Hmmm... as u said that your phonr still taking charging and it vibrates too when u insert battery and hit power button.. so maybe it means that your phone is still working or at least it has some life left but its the screen which is not working... probably coz it doesn't have any driver too turn it on...
Ok so try this now...
reinsert the battery and press power button, if it still gives that vibration then connect it to your pc... and see if your pc detects anything and gives a positive usb connect sound confirmation like we get when connect any usb things... pen drive n stuff.
And if it gives that sound, then run the RUU and see if then it can install the stock rom.
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@Nakulkhanna
Yeah it does detect something, but its the transclucent drive icon and when you click it it says "please insert a drive to drive (G". Also I tried to install the RUU after I inserted my phone switched on, but it just get to "Waiting for bootloader...(number)......" and after the number turns to 100 it just get into an error 171 "USB connection error". My phone doesn't restart when it is in the stage "Rebooting into bootloader." Nothing just happens.. So what do I do now?

Sorry for late reply.... been busy last few days...
Seems like your problem is too big for me to solve... but there is a memeber here '3xeno' he is a mastermind guy... try asking him, maybe he could help u out... you can find him easily.
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[Q] Possible brick after downgrade.

A friend of mine had a pretty messed up HTC Incredible. He asked me to take a look at fixing and unrooting it (rooted via Unrevoked 3). I factory reset and got the phone to boot, which it hadn't been able to do. Found the unroot method for unrevoked, downloaded the PB31IMG.zip copied to SD card, proceeded to HBOOT and updated. Then volume up to reboot the phone. After this, the phone shut off and didn't boot. I didn't think anything of it and attempted to turn the phone on. After a few seconds a single vibrate and nothing on screen. I removed the battery and attempted to HBOOT, no screen response. After pulling the battery and plugging the phone in the charge LED will light but other than that, no response from the screen or the lighted home screen buttons.
I saw some similar situations and plugged the phone into my computer only to find that the Qualcomm CDMA drivers were not found.
Is this fixable or is it hard bricked?
Thanks for any help or direction in advance.

Shenaniganry said:
A friend of mine had a pretty messed up HTC Incredible. He asked me to take a look at fixing and unrooting it (rooted via Unrevoked 3). I factory reset and got the phone to boot, which it hadn't been able to do. Found the unroot method for unrevoked, downloaded the PB31IMG.zip copied to SD card, proceeded to HBOOT and updated. Then volume up to reboot the phone. After this, the phone shut off and didn't boot. I didn't think anything of it and attempted to turn the phone on. After a few seconds a single vibrate and nothing on screen. I removed the battery and attempted to HBOOT, no screen response. After pulling the battery and plugging the phone in the charge LED will light but other than that, no response from the screen or the lighted home screen buttons.
I saw some similar situations and plugged the phone into my computer only to find that the Qualcomm CDMA drivers were not found.
Is this fixable or is it hard bricked?
Thanks for any help or direction in advance.
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Are you sure your pressing vol down and power and not vol up and power to get to hboot? Your pc shouldn't be looking for the qualcomm drivers unless you put your phone into diagnostic mode. There are 2 ways to do this, by hitting vol up and power while the phone is off, or by dialing ##diag on the phone pad from within a rom.

I'm sure I was hitting vol down, I used HBOOT to factory reset the phone before attempting to unroot.
So, if the phone is in diagnostic mode is there any way to take it out of it? I've heard this is a death sentence for Incredibles.

Shenaniganry said:
I'm sure I was hitting vol down, I used HBOOT to factory reset the phone before attempting to unroot.
So, if the phone is in diagnostic mode is there any way to take it out of it? I've heard this is a death sentence for Incredibles.
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Pulling the battery should dissable diag mode. But obviously its not. Not sure mabey someone else will chime in.

cmlusco said:
Pulling the battery should dissable diag mode. But obviously its not. Not sure mabey someone else will chime in.
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Yeah, I've pulled the battery multiple times. Can't get the screen to respond to anything. Hopefully someone will, thanks for your help!

Solved.
I used another phone to format the SD card and then blind flashed a ginger bread image via HBOOT. Thanks for everyone's help and XDA in general being awesome. Thanks!
EDIT: Special thanks cmlusco. Turns out another of his posts from a few weeks ago ended up solving my problem.

Shenaniganry said:
I used another phone to format the SD card and then blind flashed a ginger bread image via HBOOT. Thanks for everyone's help and XDA in general being awesome. Thanks!
EDIT: Special thanks cmlusco. Turns out another of his posts from a few weeks ago ended up solving my problem.
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How can you do that?

[Q] messed up DHD :(

Hello Guys....
i have a really bad situation and i think it might get worse, i got my phone few weeks ago and it was running 2.3.3 later i got the OTA update to 2.3.5
then i wanted to root and found that the best tool is AAHK i downloaded and ran it and it asked for downgrade since my version is 3.13.415 and i agreed.. at the end of the process where it should update and i should hit "power to restart" didn't come up, thought there was nothing working and the menu just was still, so i tried to restart it from the menu. so i got the htc logo and it just froze there i tried to restart over and over again, yet no luck and i noticed the s-on thing and googled alot and found that i should flash a stock rom to get it running so i went to site called shipped roms and got one and tried to install it, but the installer said the rom isn't compatible or somethin....and i remmebered getting one from another rooting guied so i tried flashing it and it worked, but it took about 15 minutes for the device to boot up and the first vibe took about 10 minutes to finish but eventually it worked and the version i got on the phone was 2.2 but without arabic language "something i want" but it was okay, now i was a bit curios about the AAHK menu so i started it and it just started working :$ :S that's something i didn't want to happen but i was scared to pull the cable and it restarted to the "black screen with htc logo" and the tool saying "INFOsignature checking"...
sooooo is there any ideas about what can and should i do, how can i make everything back to normal or anythin
please make it fast, i really can't wait any longer
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After about 20 minutes of waiting i had no nerve left for waiting so now i took the usb cable and took the battery out and re installed it and hit power and while i'm writing the update it's viberating and it just stopped and waiting for the "quitly briliant" hope it works
it did (sorry if i nag to much and keep updating with every second)
now guys i really don't want to root or s-off or anythin... i just want to get my DHD fully up and ruunin
will the OTA update fix everything (the boot-up thing ?) and i want to get arabic language installed-how to do that
please help me
thx

hello guys...
since no one replied to my post, and i'm not that patient (not blaming anyone thought)
i do want to help others and i just can't keep asking.. so i'm trying it my self and in the mean time i've hit update and the phone shut off and took it's time to start up, as usual and now i'm looking at the update screen(black background with update loge and progress bar) and now it just finished and the screen went fully black-waiting and it is taking its time-... i'll update as soon as i get anythin
wish me good

SpiritStealer said:
hello guys...
since no one replied to my post, and i'm not that patient (not blaming anyone thought)
i do want to help others and i just can't keep asking.. so i'm trying it my self and in the mean time i've hit update and the phone shut off and took it's time to start up, as usual and now i'm looking at the update screen(black background with update loge and progress bar) and now it just finished and the screen went fully black-waiting and it is taking its time-... i'll update as soon as i get anythin
wish me good
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Doing a software update on a rooted phone will only revert the ROM to stock one. Key is patience. There is NO WAY at all that AAHK would mess something up on its own. I know this for a fact since I have used it to root 8 other DHD's so far without any issues. If you are not sure how it works then read more. You probably pulled the usb out before AAHK finished proper the first time.
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djolebih said:
Doing a software update on a rooted phone will only revert the ROM to stock one. Key is patience. There is NO WAY at all that AAHK would mess something up on its own. I know this for a fact since I have used it to root 8 other DHD's so far without any issues. If you are not sure how it works then read more. You probably pulled the usb out before AAHK finished proper the first time.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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thx for ur reply
and about the AAHK actually it's not my thing in the mean time, now i just want my default DHD back (stock rom, arabic, normal boot-up)
as i said i was applying the update and now i'm stock at the updating screen (black background htc update logo with a phone under it)
i mentioned the progress bar before but it was (i think) about moving the update to the sd card
now after about hour or so i'm still stuck at the same update state, even when i removed the battery and restarted the phone i'm still back to the same screen with nothing more..... hope u can help me with anything that can make my phone boot-up again ( no matter what's the version-in the mean time-)
thx in advanced
sry for my english..

SpiritStealer said:
thx for ur reply
and about the AAHK actually it's not my thing in the mean time, now i just want my default DHD back (stock rom, arabic, normal boot-up)
as i said i was applying the update and now i'm stock at the updating screen (black background htc update logo with a phone under it)
i mentioned the progress bar before but it was (i think) about moving the update to the sd card
now after about hour or so i'm still stuck at the same update state, even when i removed the battery and restarted the phone i'm still back to the same screen with nothing more..... hope u can help me with anything that can make my phone boot-up again ( no matter what's the version-in the mean time-)
thx in advanced
sry for my english..
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Looks to me like you bricked your phone. Remove the battery for a few minutes and put it back in. Do NOT turn the phone on but instead hold down Volume down + Power and see if you can boot into Hboot. It should lead you to a white screen with skateboarding androids. Post here everything it says there.
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djolebih said:
Looks to me like you bricked your phone. Remove the battery for a few minutes and put it back in. Do NOT turn the phone on but instead hold down Volume down + Power and see if you can boot into Hboot. It should lead you to a white screen with skateboarding androids. Post here everything it says there.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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i'll try to get in there, but if i have a bricked phone... is there anyway to fix it(just give me a -yes/no- answer) for now.... i'll rebort as soon as i get into the hboot screen(hopefully)
btw i removed my sd card an out it in a card reader, and i couldn't access it, do u think it got anythin to do with it ??

If you are unable to enter hboot then sadly there is no return and your phone is gone. Hold down power + vol down for as long as it takes until it hopefully takes you into hboot.
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mmmmmmmm, for the SD card i was able to get back in
and i tried to enter the hboot(but my finger slipet for split second) and i'll try againg
but on the other hand... don't u think that since i'm getting to the update screen that there might be a slice of hope for me ??

mmmmmmmm, for the SD card i was able to get back in
and i tried to enter the hboot(but my finger slipet for split second) and i'll try againg
but on the other hand... don't u think that since i'm getting to the update screen that there might be a slice of hope for me ??

Not if its constantly stuck on the update screen without any progress. Do as I said, boot into hboot holding power + vol down keys until it boots. Write what it says there. If you can't get into hboot... Game over.
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hmmmmmmmm
i dont really think that i'm able to get into hboot anymore, i'll keep trying thought
do u recommend (sd card in/out- cable in/out) or anything u can think of
and please give me some hope anythin would be great in the mean time.... really disprate

SpiritStealer said:
hmmmmmmmm
i dont really think that i'm able to get into hboot anymore, i'll keep trying thought
do u recommend (sd card in/out- cable in/out) or anything u can think of
and please give me some hope anythin would be great in the mean time.... really disprate
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As I said before, if you can't boot into hboot then sorry but I don't know of any other solution. Maybe someone else can provide better explanation, but as far as I know, if you are constantly stuck on update screen and if you can't get into hboot at all then nothing else can be done.

djolebih said:
As I said before, if you can't boot into hboot then sorry but I don't know of any other solution. Maybe someone else can provide better explanation, but as far as I know, if you are constantly stuck on update screen and if you can't get into hboot at all then nothing else can be done.
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i found something called hard reset -i'll give it a try- do u think that it might help ? (hope it does)
this is how i found it's done.....
1) Firstly you have to turn off your device and after that hold the volume + and volume – button together.
2) Continue pressing both the buttons and after sometime hold the power button for some time.
3) Once you have pressed the three buttons you will get the message about the change in the factory settings and also to keep a backup of the data.
4) After the message is displayed leave all the buttons then press the volume + button to start with the hard reset operation.
5) After doing this the reset operation will be carried out and all the data will be permanently removed.
do u have any info about it ???

SpiritStealer said:
i found something called hard reset -i'll give it a try- do u think that it might help ? (hope it does)
this is how i found it's done.....
1) Firstly you have to turn off your device and after that hold the volume + and volume – button together.
2) Continue pressing both the buttons and after sometime hold the power button for some time.
3) Once you have pressed the three buttons you will get the message about the change in the factory settings and also to keep a backup of the data.
4) After the message is displayed leave all the buttons then press the volume + button to start with the hard reset operation.
5) After doing this the reset operation will be carried out and all the data will be permanently removed.
do u have any info about it ???
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The only option of Factory Reset I know of is through hboot. And if you cant boot there then I really can't help you.
Are you sure you did it properly? Turn the phone off, remove battery for a few minutes, put it back in. Then Press POWER + VOLUME DOWN and hold for about 10-15 seconds. That should take you into hboot and from there you can see if your phone is S-OFF and do a factory reset.

I think that you are to nervous now
just pull out the battery, put it back in..
hold VOL - (minus, down) and press the power for about 3-4 sec, than release only power button.
if that don't get you to white hboot screen than nicely take the phone to your dealer and ask for waranty.. tell them that it got stuck on OTA update

Thanx Lord.

djolebih said:
The only option of Factory Reset I know of is through hboot. And if you cant boot there then I really can't help you.
Are you sure you did it properly? Turn the phone off, remove battery for a few minutes, put it back in. Then Press POWER + VOLUME DOWN and hold for about 10-15 seconds. That should take you into hboot and from there you can see if your phone is S-OFF and do a factory reset.
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the main problem that stopping me the most is the long time that the phone takes to boot up, i mean that if i try to start the phone it will take about 10 minutes to get to the update screen where it stops there
so holding them for 15 seconds is somethin that i think will do me no good result or actually no result at all ..... do u recommend pluging the usb in/out or anythin like that..... i know that i'm asking to much from you, but please bear with me and should i move the thread to another section in this case so i can get more help.....
please stick with me a little
really thx for your help

no use of plugging/unplugging the phone...
just do what I've posted above

SpiritStealer said:
the main problem that stopping me the most is the long time that the phone takes to boot up, i mean that if i try to start the phone it will take about 10 minutes to get to the update screen where it stops there
so holding them for 15 seconds is somethin that i think will do me no good result or actually no result at all ..... do u recommend pluging the usb in/out or anythin like that..... i know that i'm asking to much from you, but please bear with me and should i move the thread to another section in this case so i can get more help.....
please stick with me a little
really thx for your help
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There is no point in connecting usb or anything else to the phone. Do as both Lord and I have said and write down what it says in the hboot once you get in. Booting into hboot is not the same as normal boot. Don't try to act smarter then people that are trying to help you.
Edit: Don't move the thread.

ok guys, trying it and really thx...i'll report as soon as i get anything

[Q] Desire not turning on at all!

Hey!
I have a PVT1 Desire, running Stock 2.2.2. I was just browsing xda, and put it on my desk. Then, 10 minutes later, i tried to turn it on, and nothing happens! I naturally put it on the charger, nothing happens, no orange light! So i try the battery in another phone, and that phone boots fine! So i try another battery in my desire, and it is not turning on. Can not boot to hboot or anything. Isn't recognized by pc. Anyone have a solution?

here u go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632

2012katas said:
here u go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632
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The point is, my desire is not just soft-brick. It is a hard-brick. I don't see any mention of hard bricks there.

You have something in my signature (how it works) just go there and see it yourself.

nlooooo said:
You have something in my signature (how it works) just go there and see it yourself.
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So magically my radio or hboot bricked itself?

Hello friends,
my Desire X was acting very strange, the screen suddenly changed the colors and went on and off for 3 seconds, and after that everything was ok. I decided to turn it off and I did, but now I can't turn it on ... I tried a factory reset. i.e. remove and replace the battery, hold down the volume button and then press the power button, but didn't work. Still when I plug it in my computer, the led turns on but I can't access the phone using the computer since it doesn't turn on. I don't think the power button is broken because it was working just fine before this. I had to send the phone to 3 different gsm services and they all said they can't do it because the model it's to recent and they can't find the software. Does anybody know what's the solution for my problem ? Thanks!