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Potential fix for SLCD Bricked Incredibles

So after what seemed to be the art of bricking my Incredible over the weekend (dead, black screen), I think we have found a fix for it.
This is what we did to bring the phone back to life:
** Please note: Make SURE you have the correct drivers installed. I used the modified Android ones.
1.) Download the Android SDK, and then fire up a command shell in the Tools directory
2.) Boot the Incredible into Recovery:
* Pull battery, then put back in
* Hold Power and Vol Down for 5 seconds
* Wait 20 seconds
* Hit Vol Down once
* Hit Power
* Wait 20 seconds
3.) Check to make sure that ADB can see it by typing adb devices into the command shell you opened earlier
4.) Type adb reboot oem-78 into the command shell. I let the phone sit for a few minutes.
5.) Run the RUU from Shipped-Roms, located here: shipped-roms.com/download.php?category=android&model=Incredible&file=RUU_Incredible_C_Froyo_VERIZON_WWE_3.21.605.1_Radio_2.15.00.07.28_2k4k_NV_1.50_PRL58006_release_143351_signed.exe
Once the RUU finished running, my phone rebooted and my screen is alive!

Downloadding now I hope this works. I already called verizon and the replacement Phone should be here Wed.

let me know if this works for you, i worked with aracheon all last night and then was able to finally break it down and get it working this afternoon, if you need help let me know

Credit to be given where credit is due - I wouldn't have figured this out without Jobehonda's help.

I would not say "bricked" inc, just screen was dead because there were no drivers installed for SLCD. My phone was "OK", when i called my own number, it rings, vibrates etc, just i was not able to see anything.
What i did was just got the stock 2.2 PB31IMG.zip from somewhere around here, and using "timing" in my mind, i just repeated flashing process as usually. The only difference was that i did not see what i was doing. For the first time it failed, but i got lucky after second time, and my phone (scree that is) is back to life.
Now, i just have to root it again using caution this time....

Windows XP doesn't like RUU_Incredible_C_Froyo_VERIZON_WWE_3.21.605.1_Radio_2.15.00.07.28_2k4k_NV_1.50_PRL58006_release_143351_signed.exe file name must rename to anything(.exe) shorter I used RUU.exe

fuzio1963 said:
I would not say "bricked" inc, just screen was dead because there were no drivers installed for SLCD. My phone was "OK", when i called my own number, it rings, vibrates etc, just i was not able to see anything.
What i did was just got the stock 2.2 PB31IMG.zip from somewhere around here, and using "timing" in my mind, i just repeated flashing process as usually. The only difference was that i did not see what i was doing. For the first time it failed, but i got lucky after second time, and my phone (scree that is) is back to life.
Now, i just have to root it again using caution this time....
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Well, right. But the phone is effectively useless with the screen problem. The big guns are calling it an "SLCD Brick," sooo...
tjamscad said:
Windows XP doesn't like RUU_Incredible_C_Froyo_VERIZON_WWE_3.21.605.1_Radio_2.15.00.07.28_2k4k_NV_1.50_PRL58006_release_143351_signed.exe file name must rename to anything(.exe) shorter I used RUU.exe
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Depends on where you put it. You should be able to get away with dropping that on the root of your C drive and still keep the long filename.

Fixed It works it really works, Thank you Jobehonda and arache0n

tjamscad said:
Fixed It works it really works, Thank you Jobehonda and arache0n
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Glad to hear it.

Awesome! Glad it worked for more than just one person!

arache0n said:
Well, right. But the phone is effectively useless with the screen problem. The big guns are calling it an "SLCD Brick," sooo...
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What's your point here?? You said "bricking my Incredible ", soooo......?
FYI, i just rooted my Dinc with unrev....3, got black screen with two white lines, (again). Flashed recovery fix, and all is goooood, this time.
G-night all.
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the problem aracheon had is we accidently flashed the wrong image file to upgrade back to stock recovery when trying to load the correct flash file it was not working...not sure why. Either way, both seem to fix the problem.

Jobehonda,
I'm stuck with my Black screen SLCD Dinc as well, doing the same mentioned above, and when I tried following your instructions it hasn't worked out for me so far. I can't get past the "adb devices" thing. It tells me "devices not attached" or someting to that effect after running the command. I may be doing something incorrectly... Could you be of assistance? I also posted a comment to your "Droid Incredible is a Pile" post on your site. Looking forward to you helping me bring my Droid back to life...
Thanks!

Nevermind... I fixed my "SLCD Brick"!! I will post details later of how I did it...

tjamscad said:
Downloadding now I hope this works. I already called verizon and the replacement Phone should be here Wed.
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Well, for what it's worth your replacement phone might be an AMOLED.
A week or two ago I got a replacement for the 3G issue and recieved another AMOLED.

OK, this is, what fixed mine:
-pull battery, then put back in
-hold power + vol down for 5 seconds, nothing happened...
-then hold power down for 5 seconds, got 1 vibration...
-then hold vol up + power for 5 seconds, and to my surprise, screen turned on and only had 1 option: Hboot
-then left the screen up and took my SDcard out (the battery cover was off already) and I went to the following thread (how-to-update-your-droid-incredible-to-leaked-android-2-2); and downloaded the "PB31IMG.zip" file from step 1 and copied it over to my SDcard. Please "google" the thread title above... I'm not allowed to post full links because I'm a new user.
-then I put the SDcard back in, pull the battery, then put back in
-hold power + vol down for 5 seconds
-Boots into hboot and select Bootloader
-PB31IMG.zip will start to install.
**Note** Your phone might reboot to either hboot or recovery after trying to install PB31IMG.ZIP, just get back to hboot and install again, when you get back to hboot you should notice its version .92 and S-OFF is still on, just install PB31IMG.ZIP again and all should be good. I believe at one point after it updates hboot it has to reboot to finish the install, so this might be what you are seeing.
-Finally it will reboot and you should see HTC Screen, Droid voice/Red eye will load, and you will have a fresh new 2.2 Dinc un-rooted. You then can try re-rooting at your own risk!!
I basically used part of jobehonda's instructions, and part of the thread's instructions, combined with my own messing around with my phone to fix my "bricked SLCD" Dinc... I hope this can help others as well as it helped me! ; )
Just one more option to try... What the heck, your droid is already screwed, it can't get worse. Just try this!
BTW, a buddy of mine with a rooted Droid X, also helped me with getting this far for the last 3 days!! He helped me with searching all the droid forums out there and random sites to get answers... Thanks CLIFF!

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I am glad you figured it out, basically for the device to be recognized in adb you need to make sure your definately in recovery, if you follow the steps and count, one one thousand, two one thousand, etc etc you should be able to get it into recovery and recognized by adb.
the other thing is you need to make sure you have the HTC drivers installed prior, otherwise it wont recognize.

Then I shall edit it.

3 Mobile UK RUU Bricked. Help needed.

Hi guys, Well after trawling through the wealth of information on this site and reading till my eyes bleed I honestly cant seem to fix this.
I was hoping and preying some amazingly talented expert here could maybe point me in the right direction.
Ok so heres whats going on. Got my HTC Desire, Told me there was a system update. So I chose to install ofcourse. Then BAM! for no reason half way through installation the phone dies. Vibrates 7 times and black screen (Searched this too) - nothing.
So pulled battery, waited for a few minutes and put in, power on. Phone gets to HTC (white screen) the freezes. Or even sometimes just switches off and vibrates 7 times again!
So I found An RUU for 3 mobile - RUU_Bravo_H3G_UK_1.22.771.1_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_127568_signed
Tried running it with the phone in fastboot usb
All was going well then reached about 80% and gave me an error code 110. Telling me to download a complete RUU for my device.
Now when I power on the screen is just black, however I know it still has some functionality as I can hear the sound for device connection in Windows when I Power on holding down Vol-
now I thought I would be clever and seeing as whilst my phone was working it downloaded the "correct" update. So checked the sd card and found it in the Downloads folder. Renamed it to PB99IMG and tried booting the phone holding down the back key. But still nothing.
By the way the phone isnt rooted and is very very very new. On 3 mobile UK network.
Can anybody please give me some pointers on how I may be able to go about fixing this? Im sure there has to be some way as it still has "some functionalty" (I think lol)
Also tried the adb method of connecting or re-flashing but device is not found.
Cheers all

Sounds like the RUU is corrupt - what is the file size?
Also, is that the one your Desire came with? If not, that won't work anyway
Also, an OTA shouldn't be named PB99IMG as that's only for RUU files - you rename an OTA update.zip and flash it in recovery. Looks like you've not read enough

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.
The RUU I tried installing that failed was from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
RUU_Bravo_H3G_UK_1.22.771.1_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_127568_signed.exe
Filesize is 153mb. It matched the version number that my htc shipped with and even says when running the RUU that both versions are the same. But as it failed I tried the Update from my network provider that I found on the SD card by renaming to PB99IMG.zip and holding Back and Power down.
Looks like Im buggered I suppose. Im still trying to get my phones CID as Im guessing then I can install any RUU for my phone?
I just cant access anything to get the CID

The PB99IMG can ONLY be used when extracting it from an RUU
The one you got OTA (Over The Air) isn't a full ROM - it's just a 30MB-odd update
Download the RUU from here:
http://www.4shared.com/get/t2SsuYNF...sionid=2D4E782FB44E2CF020622A15F76C1A5A.dc278
(Shipped-ROMs.com can lead to corrupt downloads)
And then follow the guide I attached to this post - it's how to extract the PB99IMG from an RUU:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10509780&postcount=102

Thank you so much! Will try now and let you know how it goes.
Thanks again

Still no good. Its tricky as I cant see the screen to select the options. But Ive followed the guide allowing it enough time to load before choosing yes etc and still no joy. Im not even sure the PBIMG99.zip is loading.
I've even tried running the RUU again from the PC after Holding vol - and Power down and waiting for the sound in windows that its connected. But gives me error code 110 again saying it cannot read files.
Loos like Im going to have to send it back to my supplier. Although Im sure they will blame me for everything and refuse me a new handset! lol

Once you have the correct PB99IMG file, you copy it onto the root of the SD card (not in any folders) and then turn the phone on holding volume down. You don't have to do anything else as it'll find the file and ask if you want to use it
To try the RUU turn the phone on holding the BACK button to get into FASTBOOT, connect to the PC and when it says FASTBOOT USB on the screen of the phone run the RUU
Out of interest, when you boot into HBOOT when info do you see at the top of screen?

Thats the problem. My screen is blank. I used to be able to get into Hboot and fastboot and see the screen. Now I dont see anything. But Im sure its still going into hboot etc as I hear the connection sound windows makes when holding vol and power.
Hope that makes sense?
Edit. I do know that before all went wrong I had hboot 93 or something like that.

Right, sounds like you've flashed a ROM for an AMOLED Desire onto an SLCD one...

Oh! poooooooh. Well thanks for trying. I never even got to use the stupid thing! lol

There is a thread on here to try and use to sort it out - look through the Q&A section

have u fixed it please ?? I got the same problems now......
thx
SK
vyeshaun said:
Hi guys, Well after trawling through the wealth of information on this site and reading till my eyes bleed I honestly cant seem to fix this.
I was hoping and preying some amazingly talented expert here could maybe point me in the right direction.
Ok so heres whats going on. Got my HTC Desire, Told me there was a system update. So I chose to install ofcourse. Then BAM! for no reason half way through installation the phone dies. Vibrates 7 times and black screen (Searched this too) - nothing.
So pulled battery, waited for a few minutes and put in, power on. Phone gets to HTC (white screen) the freezes. Or even sometimes just switches off and vibrates 7 times again!
So I found An RUU for 3 mobile - RUU_Bravo_H3G_UK_1.22.771.1_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_127568_signed
Tried running it with the phone in fastboot usb
All was going well then reached about 80% and gave me an error code 110. Telling me to download a complete RUU for my device.
Now when I power on the screen is just black, however I know it still has some functionality as I can hear the sound for device connection in Windows when I Power on holding down Vol-
now I thought I would be clever and seeing as whilst my phone was working it downloaded the "correct" update. So checked the sd card and found it in the Downloads folder. Renamed it to PB99IMG and tried booting the phone holding down the back key. But still nothing.
By the way the phone isnt rooted and is very very very new. On 3 mobile UK network.
Can anybody please give me some pointers on how I may be able to go about fixing this? Im sure there has to be some way as it still has "some functionalty" (I think lol)
Also tried the adb method of connecting or re-flashing but device is not found.
Cheers all
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The thread Eddy referred to, was probably this..You should be able to do it even if blindfolded

Need help repairing frozen HTC Incredible

I need help repairing my dinc. First, let me apologize for the long post, but I wanted to provide as much detail as possible.
My cousin dropped his phone in water and tried to dry it off. I don't know if he tried to turn it on after drying it off. Also, I don't know what attempts he has made to bring the phone back to life, but he has given up and handed the phone over to me. He figured since I am an IT guy and also do hardware repairs I would figure it out.
This is new to me because I've never owned a Smartphone before. He turned off his service on the dinc and used another Verizon phone he had lying around.
I've research different forums for a fix for the past few days, but nothing has worked. I’ve seen posts with similar symptoms, but in all cases they were able to get more functionality from their phone than mine. Also, my issue is related to water and not from a bad ROM upgrade. Here's a summary of things I've already tried:
Dried the phone out with the rice in Ziploc bag trick for 3 days (phone is completely dried)
Reformatted the micro sd card to fat32
Did a system update
Placed PB31IMG.zip into the root of the sd card
md5 checksum: 31bb1611a0fa8197d447c0438426717e​
When I remove or rename the PB31IMG.zip file and hold the down button+power, here is the outcome for the following:
Fastboot: Gives me the following options Bootloader, Reboot, Reboot Bootloader, & Power Dwn
Bootloader takes me back to the main HBoot screen.
Reboot would get me stuck on a continuous loop (stuck on the "HTC Incredible" white screen) and freeze
Reboot Bootloader just takes me back to the Fastboot menu
Power Dwn would do the same thing as the Reboot​
Recovery: does the same thing as Reboot; it would freeze at the white "HTC Incredible" screen
Clear Storage: does the same thing as above
Factory Reset: does the same thing as above
Each time it gets stuck at the white HTC Incredible boot up screen, I would have to pull the battery. Hitting/holding the power button doesn't seem to do anything.
From what I've been reading, I don't think the phone is bricked, since it still turns on, has limited functions, & I can get to the HBoot screen. The only thing I haven’t tried is reinstalling the OS (not sure if the OS is included in the PB31IMG.zip file)? Also, I was going to try to reformat the hard drive (just in case the partition is damaged).
The phone has never been rooted and I am not trying to root/unroot the phone... just trying to repair the phone. The phone has the S-ON.
I have uploaded a 10 min. YouTube video so you can see what I'm dealing with. Any help would be much appreciated. If there is anything you want me to try or anything you want to know that I may have left out, please don't hesitate to ask. At this point, I'm willing to try anything.
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=gHXDJl6G2X4
Sorry, I can't post a link to my video so just replace the (dot) with a "."

You need to do an ruu with a PB31IMG.zip.
You can get the ruu here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22
If you ever want to be able to root you need to use the froyo one as gingerbread cant be rooted if your s-on. Just download, rename exactly PB31IMG.zip, place on your sdcard in no folders, make sure its not connected to a computer, then pull battery and replace then boot into hboot (vol down + power) it should automaticly find the file after a couple secs and then prompt you to press vol up to install. Once its done you will be promptet to reboot , do so and if all is as expected you should boot up normally. Note that the first boot will take a long time so be patient, it may seem like it freezes at the boot animation but give it time.

cmlusco said:
You need to do an ruu with a PB31IMG.zip.
You can get the ruu here pvillecomp(dot)com/?page_id=22
If you ever want to be able to root you need to use the froyo one as gingerbread cant be rooted if your s-on. Just download, rename exactly PB31IMG.zip, place on your sdcard in no folders, make sure its not connected to a computer, then pull battery and replace then boot into hboot (vol down + power) it should automaticly find the file after a couple secs and then prompt you to press vol up to install. Once its done you will be promptet to reboot , do so and if all is as expected you should boot up normally. Note that the first boot will take a long time so be patient, it may seem like it freezes at the boot animation but give it time.
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I ran the RUU program, which took about 10 min to complete. When it finished the update process, it rebooted the dinc, but I'm now stuck on the white htc incredible screen as demonstrated in my video. How long I'm I suppose to wait as this white screen? It seems as if it's frozen, but I'm not sure. Am I missing something?
Should I rerun it or try to run the PB31IMG.zip file? BTW, I grabbed the PB31IMG.zip file from the same site from your link.

HiJacK69 said:
I ran the RUU program, which took about 10 min to complete. When it finished the update process, it rebooted the dinc, but I'm now stuck on the white htc incredible screen as demonstrated in my video. How long I'm I suppose to wait as this white screen? It seems as if it's frozen, but I'm not sure. Am I missing something?
Should I rerun it or try to run the PB31IMG.zip file? BTW, I grabbed the PB31IMG.zip file from the same site from your link.
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Have you done a logcat?

HiJacK69 said:
I ran the RUU program, which took about 10 min to complete. When it finished the update process, it rebooted the dinc, but I'm now stuck on the white htc incredible screen as demonstrated in my video. How long I'm I suppose to wait as this white screen? It seems as if it's frozen, but I'm not sure. Am I missing something?
Should I rerun it or try to run the PB31IMG.zip file? BTW, I grabbed the PB31IMG.zip file from the same site from your link.
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So your saying you did the ruu exe with your pc and it compleeded sucessfully?

dmeadows013 said:
Have you done a logcat?
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No, I haven't. Can you please explain what this is and how it's done? I'm assuming this will pull up the syslog on the phone?

cmlusco said:
So your saying you did the ruu exe with your pc and it compleeded sucessfully?
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Yes, but let me explain. When I first turned on my phone it would freeze at the white htc incredible screen. The pc would not recognize the device. The HTC Sync program would also not recognize the device.
I pulled the battery and did pushed the down button+power to get the HBoot. Then I would plug in the usb cable and the device is still not recognized. I would have to select the fastboot option, then bootloader a few times before the ruu program can detect my phone. HTC Sync would still not detect my phone.
After the phone is recognized by ruu I ran the program. I can see a black screen on my phone with big white HTC letters. Then I would see a green scan bar running. The ruu program completed and the phone rebooted. I hit the "finished" button on the ruu program and exit.
The phone rebooted and got stuck on the white htc incredible screen. I waited for 15 mins and it's still stuck on the same screen. If you watch my video, you can see exactly what I'm talking about. I've tried re-running the PB31IMG.zip file, but it's not working.
Any other ideas? You think the partition is damaged or the phone is bricked?

Ok I watched the video. My only other sugestion would be to try and root it with unrevoked so you can get the custom recovery, wipe everything from in recovery, and then try flashing a custom rom such as jermains rooted gingerbread+ rom. If that dosent work i would say there is some type of hardware failure.

cmlusco said:
Ok I watched the video. My only other sugestion would be to try and root it with unrevoked so you can get the custom recovery, wipe everything from in recovery, and then try flashing a custom rom such as jermains rooted gingerbread+ rom. If that dosent work i would say there is some type of hardware failure.
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When I root it with Unrevoked, can I use the online method where I log on to their site or does matter?
Can I still root the phone even though HTC Sync does not recognize my phone? Yeah, someone from another forum suggested it might be a hardware issue from the water. If my cousin turned the phone on while it was still wet, he could have shorted out some circuits on the motherboard. I told him what he should do if it ever happened to him next time.
Thanks for helping me out!

HiJacK69 said:
When I root it with Unrevoked, can I use the online method where I log on to their site or does matter?
Can I still root the phone even though HTC Sync does not recognize my phone? Yeah, someone from another forum suggested it might be a hardware issue from the water. If my cousin turned the phone on while it was still wet, he could have shorted out some circuits on the motherboard. I told him what he should do if it ever happened to him next time.
Thanks for helping me out!
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I wasnt aware there was an online method. I'm not sure if unrevoked will work or not but i know you have to uninstall htc sync before you use the downloadable method. Its a pretty simple process and worth a shot. Hardware failure is verry possible though, especially if it was turned on wile still wet. Even if it wasnt turned on wet it probably got droped in the water wile on possibly causing a short right away.

cmlusco said:
I wasnt aware there was an online method. I'm not sure if unrevoked will work or not but i know you have to uninstall htc sync before you use the downloadable method. Its a pretty simple process and worth a shot. Hardware failure is verry possible though, especially if it was turned on wile still wet. Even if it wasnt turned on wet it probably got droped in the water wile on possibly causing a short right away.
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That's my bad; it's like 2am now and I was thinking about something else. I had to download the unrevoked3 program and run it. You're right, I had to uninstall htc sync. I was unable to use the program because it wanted me to enable usb debugging mode, which I am not able to do with my phone in its current state. It could not detect my device.
Someone from another forum stated that after watching my video, he noticed that the image I flashed contained a VZ radio. He said he's heard of cases where users were waiting up to 2 hours in the htc incredible screen before the update is complete. This seems like a very long time, but I'm willing to try.
He wanted me to make sure my phone is fully charged. Then he wants me to run the update in the bootloader and just let it sit. He says it may take up to 2 hours. He said if it doesn't work then it's a hardware related issue caused by the board getting shorted out.
Thanks for all your help!

HiJacK69 said:
No, I haven't. Can you please explain what this is and how it's done? I'm assuming this will pull up the syslog on the phone?
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You need to have adb installed. If you don't, google how and there are many in depth tutorials. Then, once adb is installed, cd to your adb directory in terminal/command prompt and type ./adb logcat.

[Q] **BRICKED**

HI. Okay, so a couple weeks ago, I received a notification from HTC that said there was a new update available. Since I had S-Off and an unlocked bootloader (don't ask why, I just ****ing do.) I could not update, as it would give me errors, and cancel the update. So, earlier today I was fed-up with how slow my phone was being, and I wanted to fix it by updating. So I scoured XDA and found a thread about how to update by updating the HBoot or whatever. I followed those instructions and everything was fine, until I got to the initial part of installing the new **** through RUU. It was running fine, and then all of a sudden, the phone disconnected and ****ed the installation up. My battery was fully charged, and still has a charge as I am writing this. I digress. Whenever I would try to power my phone on, I would feel THREE (3) vibrations, and nothing would happen after. I tried booting into the stock recovery (fastboot, recovery, etc) and would still get THREE (3) vibrations. Bricked. So, I looked through a few threads on XDA, and found a few ways to fix it. Something about a Blind HBoot, or a Qualcomm Diagnostic Mode being stuck or something. Figured it was my best shot to try these. I tried them all. I put the PG76IMG.zip into my SD card, and booted up when holding Volume down, and only got THREE (3) vibrations. The tutorial said I was supposed to get FIVE (5) vibrations. So, I thought maybe it was something strange, and kept going through the tutorial. After five minutes, I'm supposed to press VOL UP, and should feel THREE (3) vibrations. Nothing happened. I waited and waited and tried again, and still, nothing. My phone is still lying here as a paperweight, and I want to get this working, so I can sell it because this phone is too much of a ****ing hassle for me. NOTHING HAS WORKED. ROMS, KERNELS, NOTHING. HAS. WORKED. I'M TIRED OF IT. I'm not a noob, I've been working with Android phones for a long time, and have never quite used an HTC device before. I had a Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate (CDMA) and it lost it's flash after I had moved to a different state. (The state I'm in does not have any towers for that carrier here.) SO. Can ANYONE give me a HIGHLY DETAILED tutorial, STEP BY STEP, to fix my phone?
HTC Wildfire S *Relocked* bootloader S-OFF CDMA METRO PCS.
I have tried everything I can find, and I have reached my wits end, man. Please, for the love of GOD, help me. I would really appreciate it.

I had 1000 rom flashes
3 Updates through RUU
Never had a brick
I hope someone can help you.
This is same as this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522235

m1ndh4x8r said:
I had 1000 rom flashes
3 Updates through RUU
Never had a brick
I hope someone can help you.
This is same as this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522235
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I don't see how this helps me.

Help in the sense u have sent it to HTC for repair

Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432425
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kyleisah said:
HI. Okay, so a couple weeks ago, I received a notification from HTC that said there was a new update available. Since I had S-Off and an unlocked bootloader (don't ask why, I just ****ing do.) I could not update, as it would give me errors, and cancel the update. So, earlier today I was fed-up with how slow my phone was being, and I wanted to fix it by updating. So I scoured XDA and found a thread about how to update by updating the HBoot or whatever. I followed those instructions and everything was fine, until I got to the initial part of installing the new **** through RUU. It was running fine, and then all of a sudden, the phone disconnected and ****ed the installation up. My battery was fully charged, and still has a charge as I am writing this. I digress. Whenever I would try to power my phone on, I would feel THREE (3) vibrations, and nothing would happen after. I tried booting into the stock recovery (fastboot, recovery, etc) and would still get THREE (3) vibrations. Bricked. So, I looked through a few threads on XDA, and found a few ways to fix it. Something about a Blind HBoot, or a Qualcomm Diagnostic Mode being stuck or something. Figured it was my best shot to try these. I tried them all. I put the PG76IMG.zip into my SD card, and booted up when holding Volume down, and only got THREE (3) vibrations. The tutorial said I was supposed to get FIVE (5) vibrations. So, I thought maybe it was something strange, and kept going through the tutorial. After five minutes, I'm supposed to press VOL UP, and should feel THREE (3) vibrations. Nothing happened. I waited and waited and tried again, and still, nothing. My phone is still lying here as a paperweight, and I want to get this working, so I can sell it because this phone is too much of a ****ing hassle for me. NOTHING HAS WORKED. ROMS, KERNELS, NOTHING. HAS. WORKED. I'M TIRED OF IT. I'm not a noob, I've been working with Android phones for a long time, and have never quite used an HTC device before. I had a Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate (CDMA) and it lost it's flash after I had moved to a different state. (The state I'm in does not have any towers for that carrier here.) SO. Can ANYONE give me a HIGHLY DETAILED tutorial, STEP BY STEP, to fix my phone?
HTC Wildfire S *Relocked* bootloader S-OFF CDMA METRO PCS.
I have tried everything I can find, and I have reached my wits end, man. Please, for the love of GOD, help me. I would really appreciate it.
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ok, im not saying i can get it going again but i`ll do my best to help. lets start from the beginning, what actually works atm? you say when you try boot up the phone in any way it just vibrates 3 times.
does it do anything else, does the screen light up?
does it even stay on?
when you connect it to the charger does the led still light up?
have you tried to connect it to the pc? have you tried to connect it too the pc with volume down first?
all seem very basic stuff obviously but if the pc can register it in hboot we might be able to get a ruu running on it.

Found this on a different thread...
Nevermind. Just realized you were still getting three vibrates. Sorry man. I'll keep an eye out if I see anything else that might help.

what is your hboot version? i was see 1.09.099 like in forum maybe you can start with update hboot.
you can use adb for all of this works. download a ruu and run it. after some steps you can find rom.zip in windows/temp extract it to a folder like c:\android\rom and use adb for install all *.img files. maybe it can fix that problem

hypercode said:
what is your hboot version? i was see 1.09.099 like in forum maybe you can start with update hboot.
you can use adb for all of this works. download a ruu and run it. after some steps you can find rom.zip in windows/temp extract it to a folder like c:\android\rom and use adb for install all *.img files. maybe it can fix that problem
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seriously , adb can install img files ?!

Alright, well, I called htc and told them about my problem, and I might have to just send it in. BUT. I had my phone rooted, and had CM Recovery on it. So, since nothing is booting up at all, only the three vibrates when trying to enter either boot mode, will they be able to see that I had it rooted or anything? They said they'll charge 35$ just to ship it back in the same condition if it is. Can't really afford anything like that right now.
tl;dr I had my phone rooted, but nothing on my phone comes up, will they see my root or anything?

if you are rooted you are probably s-off or at least have unlocked bootloader. and both they will find out very easily.

Sorry for my bad it was fastboot.exe you can install .img files with fastboot.exe i was installed stock recovery with that
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Help With Wildfire s 3 vibrations brick

I have tried several thread tutorials but have still not solved my problem. I know what my problem is, It is in Diagnostic mode/Download mode because I F***** up the radio trying to revert to stock via RUU_Gsm_virginmobileusa.exe(Not the exact name but you get my point) It was apparently the UK version of the RUU which makes me f****** wonder why it has USA in the name.Back to my point, when I hold power it vibrates 3 times with no orange/green L.E.D. It is a VIRGINMOBILE USA CDMA phone and was previously rooted and loaded with CM9 but the user did not like it so wanted it reverted to stock. It has Clockwork mod and all that stuff so anything I can do to fix it would be great. Help would be greatly appreciated.

crumfret said:
I have tried several thread tutorials but have still not solved my problem. I know what my problem is, It is in Diagnostic mode/Download mode because I F***** up the radio trying to revert to stock via RUU_Gsm_virginmobileusa.exe(Not the exact name but you get my point) It was apparently the UK version of the RUU which makes me f****** wonder why it has USA in the name.Back to my point, when I hold power it vibrates 3 times with no orange/green L.E.D. It is a VIRGINMOBILE USA CDMA phone and was previously rooted and loaded with CM9 but the user did not like it so wanted it reverted to stock. It has Clockwork mod and all that stuff so anything I can do to fix it would be great. Help would be greatly appreciated.
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OK so have you tried to blind boot the phone with a ruu-rom.zip on a sdcard? If this has not worked you may be out of luck. Jtag is always an option but you would need to find someone who has one/knows how to use it. The HTC sensation forums has a unbricking process that helps with people that do a wrong s-on and get stuck in download mode. You may be able to ask them for help or use some of there ideas to make solution. Giving credit where its due ofc
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heavy_metal_man said:
OK so have you tried to blind boot the phone with a ruu-rom.zip on a sdcard? If this has not worked you may be out of luck. Jtag is always an option but you would need to find someone who has one/knows how to use it. The HTC sensation forums has a unbricking process that helps with people that do a wrong s-on and get stuck in download mode. You may be able to ask them for help or use some of there ideas to make solution. Giving credit where its due ofc
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I am pretty sure thats what I did. Its where you load the PG176IMG onto the phone and try the volume up,wait,volume up thing?
I tried it, but could not find a CLEAR way to do it. All sites gave me different things. If someone could write CLEAR instructions I would probably have better luck.

If you are getting vibrates when trying to boot your phone. do the following:
Download
earlier build with old hboot ver flashable from sd card.
google, you will find it.
backup your SD card, format it fat 32 and place this file on the root of your card. Be sure to rename it PG76IMG.zip
Once it is on your sd card, verify the MD5 to ensure the file was not corrupted during the download or during the transfer.
Hold Vol down + power. you will feel 5 vibrations
wait for a god 2 to 3 min. if everything is going correctly, your phone is verifying the IMG file and this takes a bit.
after 2 to 3 min. wait one more min
now, press vol up. this tells the phone to update.
wait 2 to 3 min for the update to happen then wait one more.
press vol up again. you should feel the phone single vibrate and then presto.. working phone again
next time be more careful

EdikNeznanov said:
If you are getting vibrates when trying to boot your phone. do the following:
Download
earlier build with old hboot ver flashable from sd card.
google, you will find it.
backup your SD card, format it fat 32 and place this file on the root of your card. Be sure to rename it PG76IMG.zip
Once it is on your sd card, verify the MD5 to ensure the file was not corrupted during the download or during the transfer.
Hold Vol down + power. you will feel 5 vibrations
wait for a god 2 to 3 min. if everything is going correctly, your phone is verifying the IMG file and this takes a bit.
after 2 to 3 min. wait one more min
now, press vol up. this tells the phone to update.
wait 2 to 3 min for the update to happen then wait one more.
press vol up again. you should feel the phone single vibrate and then presto.. working phone again
next time be more careful
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Hboot ver flashable from sd card?

tried to follow the instruction given and I cant get the 5 vibrations to signify hboot has started.